Dear Colleagues,
the SMPS 2026 conference (Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics) will take place on September 15-18, 2026, in Lecce, Italy. 

As is customary for the SMPS series, we expect between 80 and 120 participants, creating an environment conducive to stimulating 

scientific dialogue and a warm, friendly atmosphere. Our objective is to keep the fees including lunches, conference dinner, social events 

and Springer book of proceedings as low as possible. In the conference website, you may find the expected fees (the precise amounts 

will be determined in the spring, once the exact number of participants is known).

Confirmed plenary speakers are:

• Bernard De Baets (Ghent University, BE) 

• Irene Gijbels (KU Leuven, BE)

• Beatriz Sinova Fernández (Oviedo University, ES)

The SMPS conference series has the tradition to collect short papers of 6-8 pages of all participants giving a talk. These papers 

will undergo a quick peer-review and should either contain novel results or provide a survey over recently established material. 

All accepted contributions will be published in a forthcoming Springer conference proceedings book. 

Submission of short papers will be possible starting January 1st, 2026.

For more information about the event, please check in the following days 

the official conference website: http://smps2026.unisalento.it

the Linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smps-lecce-7419b0398

Looking forward to welcoming you in Lecce
Fabrizio Durante (for the Local Organizing Committee)

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Fabrizio Durante
Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica “Ennio De Giorgi”
Università del Salento
via per Arnesano, I-73100 Lecce (Italy)
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/fbdurante/