Photos from the workshop

More photos from the workshop can be downloaded here.

Programme

Download the workshop programme here.

Travel

Direct flights are available from most large European cities as well as from Atlanta, New York, Singapore and Sydney. Emirates and Qatar also fly to Johannesburg and Cape Town. From Johannesburg there is a direct flight to the Kruger Park (Skukuza Airport) where we will pick attendees up and take them to the lodge (about 3 km away).  If you choose not to fly to the Kruger Park we can arrange to have one of the members of the LOC who are already driving to the Kruger Park to pick you up and drive with them; it is about a 6 hour drive. Once in the Kruger Park, mini busses will be available for travel and sightseeing.

The organisers will cover the cost of accommodation for four nights in Kruger Park (Skukuza Lodge) which includes 3 meals per day as well as tea time snacks. It will also include an early morning organised game drive as well as an evening game drive which end with a bush “braai” (barbecue). Furthermore, cars and mini busses will be available to go for game drives before the start of the programme each day (or whenever delegates want to go out exploring).

Venue

The Skukuza Lodge is located in the Skukuza Rest Camp which is next to a large river where many animals (including elephants, buffalo etc.) often come to drink water. Fantastic views of the river, and the animals that frequent it, are available from the comfort of the lodge area, including the main restaurant which also overlooks the river.

Speakers

Ayanendranath Basu (ISI-Kolkata)    

Giuseppe Cavaliere (University of Bologna)

Valentina Corradi (University of Surrey)

Richard Davis (Columbia University)      

Aurore Delaigle (University of Melbourne)    

Miguel Delgado (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)  

Bruno Ebner (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)  

John Einmahl (Tilburg University)  

Juan Carlos Escanciano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) 

Christian Francq (University of Lille)   

Lajos Horvath (University of Utah)    

María Dolores Jiménez-Gamero (Universidad de Sevilla)   

Estate Khmaladze (Victoria University of Wellington)   

Claudia Kirch (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg)    

Wenceslao González Manteiga (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) 

María Dolores Martínez-Miranda (University of Granada)

Simos Meintanis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and North-West University)

Bojana Milosevic (University of Belgrade) 

Joseph Ngatchou-Wandji (University of Lorraine)                 

Juan Carlos Pardo-Fernández (University of Vigo )  

Valentin Patilea (ENSAI, France)     

Eduardo García Portugués (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) 

Jeffrey Racine (McMaster University)

Richard Samworth (University of Cambridge)

Gilles Stupfler (University of Angers)

Yves-Caoimhin (Yvik) Swan (Université libre de Bruxelles)  

Ingrid Van Keilegom (KU Leuven)    

Noël Veraverbeke (UHasselt)     

Yi Yu (University of Warwick)    

Scientific Programme Committee (SPC)

Ingrid Van Keilegom (KU Leuven)

Natalie Neumeyer (University of Hamburg)

Valentin Patilea (ENSAI, France)

María Dolores Jiménez-Gamero (Universidad de Sevilla)

Liaison between SPC and OC

Simos Meintanis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and North-West University) 

Organizing Committee (OC) 

James Allison (North-West University)

Jaco Visagie (North-West University)

Leonard Santana (North-West University)

Gerrit Grobler (North-West University)

Marius Smuts (North-West University)

Elzanie Bothma (North-West University)

Lethani Ndwandwe (North-West University)

Thobeka Nombebe (North-West University)

Bruno Ebner (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)