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Working Group on Model-Based Clustering Summer Session: Nice, July 21-25, 2025

The 32nd Summer Working Group on Model-Based Clustering will be held at Université Côte d’Azur, Nice (France), from July 21 to July 25, 2025.

The scientific committee consists this year of Luca Scrucca, Charles Bouveyron, Gilles Celeux, Bettina Grün, Brendan Murphy, Rebecca Nugent, Adrian Raftery, Cinzia Viroli, Pierre-Alexandre Mattei, Marco Corneli, and Vincent Vandewalle.

Venue, Accommodations, and Social activities

The WGMBC will be hosted at the Inria Centre at Université Côte d’Azur (Sophia Antipolis, France). Sophia Antipolis is a large tech park located in a forest in the French Riviera, near the cities of Nice, Antibes, and Cannes. For details on how to reach the Inria campus, see here

Program

Working Group Sessions: Monday-Friday, July 21-25, 2025
Day Time Speaker Title
Monday
(C. Bouveyron)
09:00-10:20 Elena Erosheva
University of Washington
Bayesian rank-clustering
10:40-12:00 Andrea Cappozzo
Università Cattolica Milano
Lifetime data, frailties, and random covariates: model-based clustering for COVID-19 heart failure patients
Tuesday
(A. Raftery)
09:00-10:20 Florence Forbes
INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes
Incremental inference of high dimensional elliptical mixtures from large data volumes: Application to magnetic resonance fingerprinting
10:40-12:00 Poster Flash Session
14:00-16:00 Poster session
Wednesday
(B. Grün)
9:00-10:20 Cinzia Viroli
Università di Bologna
Some contributions to microclustering: a frequentist perspective
10:40-10:55 Claire Gormley
University College Dublin
Integrated differential analysis of multi-omics data using a joint mixture model: idiffomix
11:00-11:15 Bettina Grun
WU Vienna University
Model-based clustering of spherical data
11:20-11:35 Brendan Murphy
University College Dublin
Model-based clustering and variable selection for multivariate count data
11:40-11:55 Marco Corneli
Université Côte d’Azur
A deep dynamic latent block model for co-clustering of zero-inflated data matrices
14:00-16:00 Software session
Thursday
(C. Viroli)
09:00-10:20 Vincent Vandewalle
Université Côte d’Azur
Multiple partition clustering
10:40-10:55 Adrian Raftery
University of Washington
John H. Wolfe (1933-2024): the inventor of model-based clustering
11:00-11:15 Michael Fop
University College Dublin
Latent space co-clustering for multiplex networks
11:20-11:35 Christian Hennig
Università di Bologna
The role of visualisation in cluster analysis
11:40-11:55 Charles Bouveyron
Université Côte d’Azur
Scaling optimal transport to high-dimensional Gaussian distributions, with application to semi-supervised domain adaptation
Friday
(B. Murphy)
09:00-10:20 Luca Scrucca
Università di Bologna
A model-based clustering approach for bounded data and its applications
10:40-10:55 Pierre Mattei
INRIA - Université Côte d’Azur
Establishing a new asteroid taxonomy using model-based clustering
11:00-11:15 Dimitris Karlis
Athens University of Economics
and Business
Model Based clustering for discrete valued time series: some new results
11:20-11:35 Daniel Sewell
University of Iowa
Camouflaged connections: Noise clusters in network community detection
11:40-11:55 Riccardo Rastelli
University College Dublin
A zero-inflated Poisson latent position cluster model


Last updated: July 23, 2025