update people and events

Author: gbertagnolli

news/2024-05-14-sis-genova/index.qmd

@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
 ---
-title: "Statistics for innovation: Intermidiate conference of the Italian Statistical Society"
+title: "Statistics for innovation: Intermediate conference of the Italian Statistical Society"
 date: 2024-05-15
 categories:
   - conference 
 ---
 
-We are glad to host the 2025 Intermidiate conference of [SIS - the Società Italiana di Statistica](https://www.sis-statistica.it/).
+We are glad to host the 2025 Intermediate conference of the [Italian Statistical Society (SIS)](https://www.sis-statistica.it/).
 
 ## Main conference
 
 **When:** June, 16--18 2025\
 **Where:** Genoa\
-**What:**
+**What:** Details will be available soon.
 
 ### Satellite
 
 **When:** June, 19 2025\
 **Where:** Pavia\
-**What:**
+**What:** Details will be available soon.
 

news/trees4cat.qmd

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+---
+title: "Trees4cat Workshop"
+date: 2024-11-21
+categories:
+  - workshop
+---
+
+The [trees4cat Workshop (Trees for Categorical Data)](https://stagedtrees.github.io/events/workshop2024.html) aims at bringing together researchers working on the analysis of categorical data with complex, asymmetric dependence and sample space structures. This meeting builds up on two past meetings on the topic: The 1st UK Conference on Chain Event Graphs organized in 2019 at the University of Glasgow and the Conference on Reasoning with Asymmetric and Context-Specific Graphs organized in 2021 by Baylor University and held online.
+
+**When:** 21-23 October 2024\
+**Where:** University of Genova
+
+Confirmed Speakers:
+
+* [Eliana Duarte](https://emduart2.github.io/)
+* [Manuele Leonelli](https://manueleleonelli.github.io/)
+* [Jim Smith](https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/smith/)
+* [Liam Solus](https://people.kth.se/~solus)
+
+See the [workshop website](https://stagedtrees.github.io/events/workshop2024.html) for more details.
+

people.qmd

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ People working in this area
 <!-- [bertagnolli at dima.unige.it](mailto:bertagnolli%20at%20dima.unige.it) -->
 Muhammad Shoaib (PhD student)\
 [Jack Storror Carter](https://jackstorrorcarter.github.io/) (post-doc)\
-Giacomo Lancia (post-doc)\
 Orlando Marigliano (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow)\
 
 ## Former
@@ -34,6 +33,7 @@ Eleonora Saggini (currently math teacher at Gastaldi-Abba)\
 Virginia Pirino (currently senior analytics specialist in Costa Crociere)\
 [Piotr Zwiernik](https://pzwiernik.github.io/) (currently associate professor in Toronto University)\
 Gherardo Varando\
+[Giacomo Lancia](https://www.sbai.uniroma1.it/users/lancia-giacomo) (post-doc at Università La Sapienzqa, Roma)\