Session 1 (09:00–10:15), Chair: John Kent
Kanti V. Mardia – The projected normal signal-to-noise ratio distribution with applications to biomedical signal analysis.
Thomas Hamelryck – AlphaFold’s roots in directional statistics and probability kinematics.
Christophe Ley – A versatile trivariate wrapped Cauchy copula with applications to toroidal and cylindrical data.

Session 2 (10:45–12:00), Chair: Francesco Lagona
Toshihiro Abe – Expectation-Maximization for circular Cauchy distributions: a compact representation.
Sophia Loizidou – Optimal symmetry test on the torus.
Yolanda Larriba – FMM-Based modeling of peak width and wave duration in oscillatory signals over the circular domain.

Session 3 (13:30–14:20), Chair: Arthur Pewsey
Andrew Wood – Robust spherical regression in an extrinsic semiparametric framework.
Hang Liu – Quantiles and Quantile Regression on Riemannian Manifolds: a measure-transportation-based approach.

Poster flash presentations (14:20–15:30), Chair: Andrea Meilan Vila
Poster presentations: 2-minute flash presentations

1. Marco Mingione – Copula-based hidden semi-Markov models for cylindrical time series
2. Chiara Passamonti – Bias reduced kernel estimator with contaminated angles
3. Dario Palumbo – The Dynamic Torus: with an application to wind and wave direction in the Adriatic
4. Yoichi Miyata – A Hidden Markov Model with the Weibull-Extended Sine-Skewed von Mises Distributions as Emission Densities
5. Priyanka Nagar – Regularized directional regression models: An environmental data application
6. Diego Bolon Rodriguez – A likelihood ratio test for circular multimodality
7. Najmeh Nakhaei Rad – Model-based clustering using a new mixture of circular regressions
8. Yasuhito Tsuruta – Bias correction for kernel density estimation with spherical data
9. Alberto Fernandez de Marcos – Testing uniformity on the sphere: from pairs to m-tuples
10. Delene van Wyk – Insights into the construction of an alternative bivariate cardioid distribution
11. Xiangyu Wu – Asymmetry Analysis of Bilateral Shapes
12. Houyem Demni – Robust measures of circular dispersion with an outlier detection rule
13. Adelaide Figueiredo – Estimation and classification for a folded directional distribution
14. José E. Chacón – Unconstrained kernel density estimation on the sphere
15. Nicolas Conanec – Nonparametric estimation for censored circular data
16. Adrian Fischer – Stein’s method of moments on the sphere
17. Alfred Kume – Rolled Gaussian process models for curves on manifolds
18. Peter Jupp (online presence) - Testing uniformity of orbits of binary stars

Session 4 (16:00–16:50), Chair: Christophe Ley
Davy Paindaveine – Spherical Oja means.
Thomas Verdebout – Hypothesis testing around the uniform distribution on spheres.

Session 5 (09:00–10:15), Chair: Shogo Kato
Francesco Lagona – Wrapped Cauchy copulas for bivariate directional densities.
Arthur Pewsey – On Jeffreys’s cardioid distribution.
Tomoaki Imoto – Method for constructing tractable distributions on the cylinder and its application to time series modelling.

Session 6 (10:45–11:35), Chair: Toshihiro Abe
Thanh Mai Pham Ngoc – Adaptive estimation for nonparametric circular regression with errors in variables.
John Kent – Extreme behavior in the frequency modulated Möbius periodic regression model.

Session 7 (12:00–12:50), Chair: José Ameijeiras-Alonso
Andrea Meilan Vila – Nonparametric density estimation for polyspherical data.
Maria Alonso-Peña – Parametrically guided kernel density estimation on the sphere.

Session 8 (09:00–10:15), Chair: Giovanna Jona Lasinio
Claudia Redenbach – Mathematical Morphology on directional data.
Stephan Huckemann – Non-Euclidean Statistics for Learning Structural Biology.
Florian Pfaff – Recursive Bayesian Estimation on Cartesian Products of Periodic and Euclidean Domains.

Session 9 (10:45–12:00), Chair: Gaspard Bernard
Giovanni Peccati – Functional convergence of geometric functionals of Gaussian fields.
Alessia Caponera – Reproducing Kernel approach to low-dose tomographic data.
Eduardo Garcia Portugues – Diffusions on the torus with exact likelihood inference.

Session 10 (13:30–14:45), Chair: Sophia Loizidou
Shogo Kato – Regression for spherical responses with linear and spherical covariates using a scaled link function.
Andriette Bekker – Regularized directional regression models: A simulation study.
José Ameijeiras-Alonso – A Semiparametric framework for circular regression with application to bird orientation.

Session 11 (15:15–16:30), Chair: Davy Paindaveine
Marco Geraci – Generalized Laplace regression for cylindrical responses with an application to road traffic accidents.
Stefania Fensore – Reducing boundary bias on curved support via domain transformation.
Ashis Sengupta – High volatility flexible families of probability distributions for directional data.