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he mini-symposium “Advances in Stochastics” is devoted to the advancements in the probability theory, statistical inference, branching processes, stochastic processes, probabilistic and statistical analysis of discrete data, robust and nonparametric statistics, extreme value modeling, time series analysis, asymptotic methods in stochastics and their applications in many areas of mathematics, epidemiology, biology, ecology and others. The works presented honor the substantial contributions of Professor Nikolay Yanev especially in areas of branching processes theory, statistical inferences in branching processes and applications.