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Seminario Cristina di Girolami a Milano-Bicocca
by federica.masiero＠unimib.it 09 Feb '15

09 Feb '15

Il giorno 6 Febbraio, alle ore 15, presso il Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni dell'Università di Milano-Bicocca, via Cozzi, 55, Edificio U5, stanza 3014 (terzo piano), la Dott.ssa Cristina di Girolami, Università G. D'Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara, terrà un seminario dal titolo "Stochastic calculus in Banach spaces, an infinite dimensional PDE and stability results" Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Cordiali saluti, Federica Masiero

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Fwd: Summer school and workshop on random interacting systems, Bath UK
by Cristian Giardina 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alexandre Stauffer <a.stauffer(a)bath.ac.uk> Date: Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 6:49 PM Subject: Summer school and workshop on random interacting systems, Bath UK To: cristian.giardina(a)unimore.it Cc: a.stauffer(a)bath.ac.uk Dear Cristian, Could you please forward this announcement to your interested colleagues and friends? (apologies for multiple posting) School and Workshop on Random Interacting Systems 23-27 June 2014, in Bath, U.K. Registration is open until 30th April at http://people.bath.ac.uk/ados20/workshop14/ MINI-COURSES ============ Hugo Duminil-Copin (Universite de Geneve) Geometric representations of low-dimensional spin systems Christophe Garban (ENS Lyon) Lectures around Liouville quantum gravity and multiplicative chaos theory INVITED SPEAKERS ================ Kenneth Alexander* (University of Southern California) Gerard Ben-Arous* (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences) Nathanael Berestycki* (University of Cambridge) Ivan Corwin* (MIT) David Croydon (University of Warwick) Nadine Guillotin-Plantard (Universite Lyon 1) Ori Gurel-Gurevich* (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Frank den Hollander (Universiteit Leiden) Neil O'Connell (University of Warwick) Ron Peled (Tel Aviv University) Alejandro Ramirez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) Perla Sousi (University of Cambridge) Rongfeng Sun (National University of Singapore) Pierre Tarres (University of Oxford) Augusto Teixeira (IMPA) Yvan Velenik (Université de Genève) * = to be confirmed. The workshop will focus on recent developments on random interacting systems, including (but not restricted to) interacting and self-interacting particle systems, random walks and other stochastic processes in random environments, random and evolving graphs, the Gaussian free field, random interlacements, random polymers, percolation and spin systems. There will be slots for a small number of contributed talks (with preference to Ph.D. students and post-docs). If you are interested, send title and abstract during registration at http://people.bath.ac.uk/ados20/workshop14/ We look forward to seeing you in Bath. Vladas Sidoravicius and Alexandre Stauffer

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Processi stocastici su grafi - venerdi 4 aprile
by Marco Isopi 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

PROCESSI STOCASTICI SU GRAFI Una giornata dedicata al confronto tra studiosi che lavorano in campi diversi. Venerdi 4 aprile - Dipartimento di Matematica- Aula di Consiglio 10-30-11.15 Fabio Fagnani: Apprendimento distribuito in giochi potenziali su rati grandi. caffè 11.30-12 Alessandro Epasto: Ordinamento per similarità in grafi bipartiti grandi. 12.12.30 Elena Agliari: Assorbimento e collisioni su strutture ramificate. 12.30-13 Emanuele Natale: Dinamiche maggioritarie e sistemi distribuiti sincroni. 13-14 Discussione, problemi aperti (con spuntino durante la discussione) 14-14.30 Andrea Gabrielli: Ricostruzione di reti economico-finanziarie da informazioni parziali nello schema dei "modelli di fitness". 14.30-15 Flavio Chierichetti: Votare con informazione incompleta e molte scelte. http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~isopi/processi_su_grafi.html

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Avviso di mini-corso :: C.V.D.@DSS (Scienze Statistiche, Sapienza)
by Pierpaolo Brutti 31 Mar '14

31 Mar '14

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A v v i s o d i M i n i - C o r s o ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venerdì 04 Aprile, ore 10:00-13:00 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aula VI (quarto piano) Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche Sapienza Università di Roma C.LAUDIO DURASTANTI V.ALENTINA CAMMAROTA D.OMENICO MARINUCCI (Dip. di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata) terranno un mini-corso dal titolo STEIN-MALLIAVIN APPROXIMATIONS IN STATISTICS & PROBABILITY tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maggiori informazioni sui seminari presso il DSS sono consultabili a quest'indirizzo: http://goo.gl/Y6OQYm Saluti Pierpaolo Brutti - Fulvio De Santis --- P R O G R A M Part I: The Geometry of Needlets Excursion Sets Domenico Marinucci In this talk, we shall be concerned with geometric functionals and excursion probabilities for some nonlinear transforms evaluated on wavelet/needlet components of spherical random fields. For such fields, we consider smoothed polynomial transforms, such as those arising from local estimates of angular power spectra and bispectra; we focus on the geometry of their excursion sets, and we study their asymptotic behaviour, in the high-frequency sense. Our main technical tools are recent results on Malliavin calculus and Total Variation bounds for Gaussian subordinated fields by Nourdin and Peccati, and the Gaussian Kinematic Formula by Adler and Taylor, which we shall review briefly in the talk. We put particular emphasis on the analysis of Euler-Poincaré characteristics, which can be exploited to derive extremely accurate estimates for excursion probabilities. The present analysis is motivated by the statistical investigation of asymmetries and anisotropies in Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB) data. Based on joint work with Sreekar Vadlamani Part II: Stein-Malliavin Approximations for Needlets Polyspectra Valentina Cammarota We provide quantitative Central Limit Theorems, in the high frequency limit, for nonlinear transforms of spherical wavelets/needlets random fields, which are of immediate interest for spherical data analysis. In particular, we focus on so-called needlets polyspectra, which are popular tools for nonGaussianity analysis in the cosmological community, and on the area of excursion sets. Our results are based on Stein-Maliavin approximations for nonlinear transforms of Gaussian fields, and on an explicit derivation on the high-frequency limit of the fields' variances, which may have some independent interest. Based on joint work with Domenico Marinucci Part III: Normal Approximations for Linear and U-Statistics on Spherical Poisson Fields Claudio Durastanti We review a recent stream of research on Normal approximations for linear and U-statistics of wavelets/needlets coefficients evaluated on a homogeneous spherical Poisson fi...eld. We show how exploting results from Peccati and Zheng (2011), based on Malliavin calculus and Stein''s methods, it is possible to assess the rate of convergence to Gaussianity for a triangular array of statistics with growing dimensions. These results can be exploited in a number of statistical applications, such as spherical density estimations, searching for point sources, estimation of variance and the spherical two-sample problem. Based on joint work with Solesne Bourguin, Domenico Marinucci and Giovanni Peccati.

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A Workshop to Celebrate the Statistical Contributions of A. Philip Dawid: Causal Inference, Graphical Models and Prediction, University of Cambridge, UK (30 April 2014)
by Julia Mortera 30 Mar '14

30 Mar '14

Dear Colleague, Many thanks to those who have already registered and who have emailed us their unavailability for the workshop. *** Gentle reminder please *** *Workshop:* The Statistical Contributions of A. Philip Dawid: Causal Inference, Graphical Models and Prediction *Venue:*** Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK *Date:* 30th April 2014 *Dinner Date:* 29 April 2014 *Registration deadline:* 15 April 2014 * Registration and ***more information*: * https://sites.google.com/site/workshopdawid2014/ *Dinner only option:* If you wish to join us only for dinner, please let us know by emailing Hui Guo at hg283(a)cam.ac.uk by 15 April. You will be able to make payments for the dinner in the restaurant on the day. *Confirmed speakers:* Carlo Berzuini (University of Manchester) Simon Byrne (UCL) Panayiota Constantinou (University of Bristol) Vanessa Didelez (University of Bristol) Sara Geneletti (LSE) Peter Grünwald (CWI and Leiden University) Hui Guo* *(University of Cambridge) Steffen Lauritzen (University of Oxford) Monica Musio(University of Cagliari) Julia Mortera (Umiversity of Rome) David Spiegelhalter (University of Cambridge) Volodya Vovk (Royal Holloway University of London) Thanks for Your attention. We would be very happy if you could attend the meeting. Kind Regards, Luisa Bernardinelli Carlo Berzuini Panayiota Constantinou Vanessa Didelez Hui Guo Nuala Sheehan -- Prof.ssa Julia Mortera Dipartimento di Economia Università Roma Tre Via Silvio D'Amico 77 00145 Roma Tel: +39 06 57335732 Fax: +39 06 57335771 http://dipeco.uniroma3.it/docenti.asp?id=123# --- Questa e-mail è priva di virus e malware perché è attiva la protezione avast! Antivirus. http://www.avast.com

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Seminario di Guido Montorsi (Roma - 11 aprile)
by Marco Isopi 29 Mar '14

29 Mar '14

Seminari MoMA www.mat.uniroma1.it/ricerca/seminari/moma Venerdi’ 11 aprile, ore 12-14, aula Consiglio Guido Montorsi Analog Digital Belief Propagation and its application to channel decoders Sunto As required by information theory, channel codes with long code words are necessary building blocks in a transmission system to achieve reliable communications with minimal power and maximal throughputs over noisy physical channels. Nowadays capacity-achieving large random binary codes are actually adopted in most telecommunication standards. The breakthrough that allowed their practical use has been to substitute the optimal maximum likelihood decoding techniques at the receiver with suboptimal iterative techniques based on “belief” propagation. Belief propagation is a powerful inference technique working on graphs used in many different applications. Graph nodes are associated to factors or constraints of the model while graph edges are associated to random variables. Belief propagation algorithm proceeds by iteratively updating messages associated to the random variables, according to the constraints imposed by nodes. In the framework of channel decoding the graph nodes represent the deterministic, usually linear, code constraints. They are either associated to a (binary) parity check sum, or to a repetition of the variable. Belief propagation is initialized with a set of messages obtained from the noisy channel observations of the transmitted bits and proceeds iteratively, updating the messages according to the code constraints until convergence is reached. Most practically used codes are linear and binary codes, so that messages propagated in the graph are binary messages usually represented with a single scalar (the Log-Likelihood Ratio). In order to increase the throughput of communication systems, the use of non binary codes is an attractive solution as each symbol can carry more information bits. Non binary codes can be constructed over groups, rings, or fields and there is a vast literature on the design of capacity achieving non binary codes. The extension of the application of belief propagation to the non binary codes however poses several complexity problems as both message representation and message updating at check node grows at least linearly with the cardinality of the non binary alphabet and consequently exponentially with the increase of required throughput. In this talk I will start by recalling the fundamental ideas and terminology beyond binary channel coding constructions and corresponding iterative decoding with belief propagation and other iterative techniques. I will then extend the concepts to non binary codes and summarize the main algorithms and complexity problems related with them. I will then introduce a new algorithm, named Analog Digital Belief Propagation (ADBP) which solves the complexity problems of belief propagation for non binary codes. I will discuss the main properties of the algorithm, its possible extensions and code design problems related to the adoption of this algorithm.

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Seminario Lucian Maticiuc [ Dipartimento Informatica UniVr ]
by Luca di persio 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Il giorno Mercoledì 9 Aprile, alle ore 17 [ rinfresco ore 16:45 ] presso il Dipartimento di Informatica Università degli studi di Verona , strada le Grazie 15, Verona Lucian Maticiuc "G. Asachi" Technical University, Romania terrà un seminario dal titolo Stochastic Differential Delay Systems and Optimal Control Problems *Abstract* We show the existence and the uniqueness of the solution for some multivalued stochastic differential equation with delay (the multivalued term is of subdifferential type). Afterwards we consider optimal control problems where the state X is a solution of a controlled delay stochastic system as above. We establish the dynamic programming principle for the value function and finally we prove that the value function is a viscosity solution for a suitable Hamilton- Jacobi-Bellman type equation. __ Luca Di Persio - PhD assistant professor of Probability and Mathematical Finance Dept. Informatics University of Verona strada le Grazie 15 - 37134 Verona - Italy Tel : +39 045 802 7968 Dept. Math University of Trento V. Sommarive, 14 - 38123 Povo - Italy Tel : +39 0461 281686

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seminario di Daniele Marazzina presso Prometeia - Bologna
by Giacomo Scandolo 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Il giorno Giovedì 3 Aprile 2014, alle ore 14:30 presso la sede di Prometeia (sala grande, primo piano) via G.Marconi 43, Bologna Daniele MARAZZINA (Politecnico di Milano) terrà un seminario dal titolo "Fast pricing of discretely monitored exotic options by a numerical Wiener-Hopf procedure" Abstract We present a fast and accurate pricing techniques based on the Spitzer identity and the Wiener-Hopf factorization. We apply it to barrier and lookback options when the monitoring is discrete and the underlying evolves according to an exponential Lévy process. The numerical implementation exploits the fast Fourier transform and the Euler summation. The computational cost is independent of the number of monitoring dates; the error decays exponentially with the number of grid points.

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Seminario Lucian Maticiuc [ UniTn ]
by Luca di persio 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

*Giovedì 3 aprile **ore 10.00* *------------------------------ * *Aula Seminari - Dipartimento di Matematica* *------------------------------ * *"Backward S**tochastic Variational Inequalities with* *Time Delayed Generators"* *Lucian Maticiuc* *(**"Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University and "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University, Iasi, Romania)* *ABSTRACT*: We show the existence and the uniqueness of the solution for the following multivalued backward stochastic differential equation withtime-delayed generators: Where is the subdifferential operator of a proper convex lower semicontinuous function *Referente*: *Luca Di Persio* -- __ Luca Di Persio - PhD assistant professor of Probability and Mathematical Finance Dept. Informatics University of Verona strada le Grazie 15 - 37134 Verona - Italy Tel : +39 045 802 7968 Dept. Math University of Trento V. Sommarive, 14 - 38123 Povo - Italy Tel : +39 0461 281686

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Seminario ROUSSEAU
by Matteo Ruggiero 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

**************************************************************** STATISTICS SEMINARS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO **************************************************************** Venerdi' 4 Aprile 2014 alle ore 12:00, presso la sala rossa del Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri (TO), si terra' il seguente seminario: Judith ROUSSEAU (Université Paris Dauphine) BEHAVIOUR OF THE POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTION IN HMM MODELS WHEN THE NUMBER OF STATES IS MISSPECIFIED Abstract: In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of the posterior distribution for parametric HMM models with finite number of components. We concentrate in particular on the case where the number of states of the hidden Markov chain in the model is larger than the true number of states. In such cases the parameter is not identifiable. We study the impact of the prior on the transition matrix on the asymptotic behaviour of the posterior distribution. In particular that if some independent Dirichlet priors are considered on each row of the transition matrix we can identify different types of behaviour of the asymptotic posterior distribution depending on the choice of the parameter of the Dirichlet distributions. A link is made with static mixture models and some numerical study is conducted to illustrate the results and investigate the behaviour of the posterior in cases where no theoretical results are provided. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Il seminario e' organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative (http://www.carloalberto.org/stats) in collaborazione con il Collegio Carlo Alberto. Cordiali saluti, Matteo Ruggiero --------- Matteo Ruggiero University of Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto http://web.econ.unito.it/ruggiero

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seminario di Pablo Ferrari a Roma Tre
by pietro caputo 28 Mar '14

28 Mar '14

Martedi 1 Aprile, alle ore 14:30 in aula 311 del Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica dell'Universita' di Roma Tre, il Prof. Pablo Ferrari (Buenos Aires) terra' un seminario su: "Yaglom limits via Holley inequality" Abstract: We consider Markov chains on a countable partially ordered state space with an absorbing state. Assume that the absorbed chain has a quasi stationary distribution. We give sufficient conditions on the transition probabilities to guarantee that the law of the chain at time n conditioned to non absorption is monotone non decreasing in n. As a consequence the Yaglom limit (the limit of the conditioned chain starting from a minimal state, as n goes to infinity) converges to a quasi stationary distribution; the limit is minimal for the stochastic order of measues. The approach uses a dynamics on the space of trajectories and Holley inequality. Joint work with Leonardo Rolla.

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Mercati Energetici e Metodi Quantitativi - edizione 2014
by Tiziano Vargiolu 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

(chiedendo scusa in anticipo per eventuali ripetizioni) Buongiorno, volevamo ricordare che la scadenza per presentare contributi al workshop "Mercati Energetici e Metodi Quantitativi: un Ponte tra Universit? e Aziende" e' MARTEDI' 1. APRILE. Tutte le informazioni sul sito web http://www.unponte2014.stat.unipd.it/ dove si possono anche trovare gli interventi gia' accettati: http://www.unponte2014.stat.unipd.it/programma.htm Inoltre ricordiamo che quest'anno abbiamo deciso di estendere l'iniziativa organizzando, nei due giorni precedenti la conferenza, quattro tutorial sui seguenti argomenti: - Introduzione ai mercati dell'energia e del gas - Rischio di credito e di controparte nei mercati energetici - Strumenti di analisi e di previsione per i mercati energetici. - Tecniche di gestione di portafoglio e di ottimizzazione: i contratti strutturati nei mercati dell'energia. Tutte le informazioni sui tutorial si trovano alla pagina http://events.math.unipd.it/memq2014/ In attesa di rincontrarci a Padova, porgiamo i nostri pi? Cordiali Saluti, gli Organizzatori Giorgia Callegaro Enrico Edoli Francesco Lisi Tiziano Vargiolu

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Avviso di seminario :: Liseo@DSS (Scienze Statistiche, Sapienza)
by Pierpaolo Brutti 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A v v i s o d i S e m i n a r i o ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venerdì 28 Marzo, ore 11am ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stanza 34 Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche Sapienza Università di Roma BRUNERO LISEO (Dip. di metodi e modelli per il territorio, l'economia e la finanza, Sapienza Università di Roma) terrà un seminario dal titolo APPROXIMATE BAYESIAN INFERENCE FOR COPULA MODELS tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maggiori informazioni sui seminari presso il DSS sono consultabili a quest'indirizzo: http://goo.gl/Y6OQYm Saluti Pierpaolo Brutti - Fulvio De Santis --- Summary Si propone un metodo per la stima di un funzionale di interesse relativo ad un modello multivariato. Il metodo è basato su una rappresentazione in termini di copula e sfrutta alcuni recenti sviluppi delle tecniche computazionali bayesiane approssimate che utilizzano metodi di verosimiglianza empririca. Il termine "approximate" nel titolo è dovuto a due fattori: i) il processo di elicitazione è limitato al solo funzionale di interesse e alle distribuzioni marginali. ii) Non si utilizza la "vera" funzione di verosimiglianza, bensì una sua approssimazione empirica (Owen, 2010).

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call for associate professor
by Fausto Gozzi 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

LUISS Guido Carli, Rome Department of Economics and Finance Position Title Associate Professor in Microeconomics Associate Professor in Macroeconomics Associate Professor in Mathematical Finance (Call for Interest) Data di pubblicazione 20/03/2014 Type of position: Full time - Tenured Discipline Economics / Math finance description: The Department of Economics and Finance at LUISS Guido Carli (Rome) is seeking to fill tenured positions at Associate Professor level in Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Mathematical finance. Teaching needs are at all levels: Undergraduate, Masters and Ph.D, in English (and possibly Italian). Candidates will hold a Ph.D. from a recognized Research University, an established teaching experience and an appropriate record of publications in respected and highly ranked international journals. Candidates will also have either an associate professor status in a University or have recently obtained the appropriate national qualification (ASN) of the Italian University System (SECS P01 SECS S06). CVs may be sent only via email to: Giorgio Di Giorgio, Dean, Economics and Finance, def(a)luiss.it Application Deadline for expressing interest: 15/04/2014 Fausto Gozzi Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza LUISS - Guido Carli Viale Romania, 32 00197 Roma Italy tel 06.85225723 (office) FAX 06.86506513 e-mail: fgozzi(a)luiss.it webpage: http://docenti.luiss.it/gozzi/ old addresses: Fausto Gozzi Dipartimento di Matematica per le Decisioni Economiche Finanziarie e Assicurative Facolta' di Economia Universita' di Roma La Sapienza via del Castro Laurenziano 9 00161 Roma Italy tel 06/49766275 (office) FAX 06/49766765 and also Fausto Gozzi Dipartimento di Matematica Universita' di Pisa via Filippo Buonarroti n. 2 56127 Pisa Italy tel 050/2213270 FAX 050/2213224 e-mail: GOZZI(a)DM.UNIPI.IT --- Questa e-mail è priva di virus e malware perché è attiva la protezione avast! Antivirus. http://www.avast.com

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Post-doc position in Tor Vergata
by Domenico Marinucci 24 Mar '14

24 Mar '14

APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING ONE POST-DOCTORAL POSITION IN ROME – TOR VERGATA Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position at the Department of Mathematics- University of Rome Tor Vergata. TITLE PASCAL: PROBABILISTIC AND STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES FOR COSMOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS – Fourth Level QUALIFICATIONS AND ASSESSMENT GROUNDS FOR APPOINTMENT The candidates should have completed, or should be expecting to complete soon, a PhD in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or related fields. JOB DESCRIPTION The postdoctoral positions are part of the ERC project PASCAL, (Principal Investigator: Domenico Marinucci, http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~marinucc/) The successful applicant is expected to work on the themes of the project which include, but are not restricted to: Random fields on the sphere, spectral representations, characterizations of isotropy and Gaussianity, geometry of Gaussian fields, angular power spectra and polyspectra, spherical wavelets/needlets, statistical estimation for spin random fields, Poisson processes and adaptive estimation of density functions on the sphere, with applications and motivations from the analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background radiation data, Cosmic Rays, Weak Gravitational Lensing experiments. SALARY Salary is fixed at 34,000 euros per year (e.g., 2580 Euros net per month approximately), plus pension benefits. Financial support will be available for travels. The position is for two years. HOW TO APPLY Candidates must apply by email to the address: Pascal_4th_level_2014(a)applications.uniroma2.it specifying in the subject “PASCAL - fourth level grant” and including the following: a) a contact email address; b) curriculum vitae; c) date and title of their undergraduate or Master’s degree; d) date and title of their PhD degree (or expected completion date); e) a list of relevant publications; f) any other document deemed useful for the present selection procedure. The candidate should ask for at least two recommendation letters to be sent directly to the same email address as for the application. The subject of the email messages should indicate the applicant’s name. For the purposes of the completion of the admission application the only languages permitted are Italian and English. The application and all the other documents must be received by April 30, 2014. INFORMATION For further information please contact Domenico Marinucci at marinucc(a)mat.uniroma2.it @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Domenico Marinucci Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma Tor Vergata http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~marinucc/ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

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PhD positions in Oslo (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 12:54:29 +0100 From: Giulia Di Nunno <giulian(a)math.uio.no> To: Emanuela Rosazza Gianin <emanuela.rosazza1(a)unimib.it>, vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it Cc: Giulia Di Nunno <giulian(a)math.uio.no> Subject: PhD positions in Oslo Dear Tiziano and Emanuela, could you please spread information among your contacts on two PhD grants that are opened at the department of Mathematics at the University of Oslo. One open to all Mathematical Sciences: pure and applied (including probability, statistics, mathematical finance) http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1149345/64285?iso=no The other restricted to stochastic analysis, probability, statistics, mathematical finance. http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1149365/64285?iso=no Candidates interested in those areas should then apply to both. Other openings in mathematics and (bio)statistics are available at: http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/ Also the contracts are of 3 years, but if the candidate has some knowledge of one of the scandinavian languages, then the contract is extended to 4 years with teaching duties (25%) included. All this is detailed in the calls. Thank you for your help and best wishes Giulia ************************ Giulia Di Nunno Professor Centre of Mathematics for Application Department of Mathematics University of Oslo

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Fwd: bandon 2-2014 Cat. B tip. I
by Gustavo Posta 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

Begin forwarded message: > From: Linda De Riggi <linda.deriggi(a)uniroma1.it> > Subject: bandon 2-2014 Cat. B tip. I > Date: 21 marzo 2014 10:57:49 GMT+01:00 > > Vi informo che è stato pubblicato sul sito web del Dipartimento il > seguente bando per assegno di ricerca: > > > n.2/2014 per il conferimento di n. 1 assegno di ricerca annuale di > categoria B tip. I > > http://www.mat.uniroma1.it/dipartimento/bandi/assegni-e-contratti-di-ricerca > > SSD: MAT/05, MAT/06 > > > scadenza: 30 aprile 2014 > > > responsabile scientifico: A. Pisante > > > ******************************************* > Dr.ssa Linda De Riggi > > Segreteria Amministrativa > Dipartimento di Matematica "G. Castelnuovo" > Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" > Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 > 00185 Roma > Tel.e fax: 0649913271 > e-mail: linda.deriggi(a)uniroma1.it

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Fw: SEFE - Stoachastics in Environmental Finance and Economics
by Emanuela Rosazza Gianin 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

Cari tutti, inoltro questo avviso di convegno che mi è stato inviato da Giulia Di Nunno. Cordiali saluti, Emanuela ---- Stochastics of Environmental and Financial Economics The conference will bring together leading researchers in the fields of stochastic analysis and finance to discuss recent developments and challenges with an edge towards energy, environmental and financial markets. The conference is organized by the Center of Advanced Studies (CAS), Stochastics of Environmental and Financial Economics. Scientific organizers: Fred Espen Benth and Giulia Di Nunno (UiO) Time and place: September 15-19, 2014. The Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/groups/stochastic-analysis/event… ************************ Giulia Di Nunno Professor Centre of Mathematics for Application Department of Mathematics University of Oslo

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Seminario di Probabilita' - Universita' di Padova
by alessandra bianchi 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Ho il piacere di invitarvi al seguente seminario che si terra' mercoledi' 26 marzo alle ore 15 nell'aula 1BC45 presso il Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Universita' degli Studi di Padova. Speaker: Giada Basile Affiliation: Dip. di Matematica - Università la Sapienza Title: Large deviations for degenerate jump processes Abstract: We prove the joint large deviation principle for the empirical measure and flow for a class of continuous time Markov chains that admit an absorbing state. Due to the lack of uniform ergodicity, the zero level set of the rate function is not a singleton. As a corollary, we deduce the Donsker-Varadhan large deviation principle for the empirical measure. We discuss in detail an example given by a linear phonon Boltzmann equation. (joint work with Lorenzo Bertini) -- Alessandra Bianchi Dip. di Matematica Pura e Applicata Università di Padova Via Trieste, 63 - 35121 Padova, Italy phone: +39 049 827 14 06 fax: +39 049 827 14 28 e-mail: bianchi(a)math.unipd.it http://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/

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Mini corso "Credit Risk Modelling", SNS Pisa
by Giacomo Bormetti 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Il giorno venerdì 28 Marzo presso la Scuola Normale Superiore, Andrea Pallavicini (Banca IMI, Imperial College) terrà un mini-corso dal titolo " Credit Risk Modelling Before and After the Crisis". Segue il programma: Aula Bianchi, 10:00 – 12:00 Credit Derivatives Pre-Crisis Pricing: multi-name credit products Aula Mancini, 14:00 – 16:00 Post-Crisis Pricing: credit, collateral and funding Pricing Derivatives under CSA or CCP Clearing Maggiori informazioni sono disponibili all'indirizzo mathfinance.sns.it Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Saluti, Giacomo

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Fwd: One-day colloquium on switching problems and related topics in Le Mans
by Giorgio Ferrari 18 Mar '14

18 Mar '14

Buongiorno, inoltro la seguente comunicazione. Buona giornata, Giorgio Ferrari Dear Giorgio, Next May 22, 2014 we will organize in Le Mans (France) a one-day colloquium on switching problems and related topics. Below is the link to the website of this mini-colloquium. http://lmm.univ-lemans.fr/spip.php?rubrique26 So could you please transfert this e-mail to researchers (students or academics) who could be interested in this scientific event. Thanks a lot in advance. Best regards, S.Hamadène. -- Giorgio Ferrari Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW) Bielefeld University office: W10-100 office phone: +49 521 106 5642 Postfach 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany email: giorgio.ferrari(a)uni-bielefeld.de giorgio.ferrari(a)uniroma1.it web-page: https://sites.google.com/site/giorgioferrariswebsite/

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Seminari GOLDSCHMIDT e SPANO'
by Matteo Ruggiero 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

**************************************************************** STATISTICS SEMINARS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO **************************************************************** Venerdi' 21 Marzo 2014, presso la sala rossa del Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri (TO), si terranno i seguenti seminari: h. 11.00 Christina GOLDSCHMIDT (University of Oxford) THE SCALING LIMIT OF THE MINIMUM SPANNING TREE OF THE COMPLETE GRAPH h. 12.00 Dario SPANO' (University of Warwick) ON THE ANCESTRAL PROCESS OF LONG-RANGE SEED BANK MODELS Gli abstracts delle presentazioni possono essere consultati alla pagina http://www.carloalberto.org/events/seminars/statistics/ Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Il seminario e' organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative (http://www.carloalberto.org/stats) in collaborazione con il Collegio Carlo Alberto. Cordiali saluti, Matteo Ruggiero --------- Matteo Ruggiero University of Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto http://web.econ.unito.it/ruggiero

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post Doc fellowships - Probability and Statistics
by Giacomo Aletti 13 Mar '14

13 Mar '14

The University of Milan has launched a competition by qualifications and interview to award 4 two years fellowships, possibly renewable, at the Department of Mathematics, Via Saldini 50, Milano, for a collaboration to research activities restricted to doctorate graduates. The yearly gross amount is 21.000 EURO. One collaboration will be assigned to a fellowship in Probability and Statistics or Numerical Analysis: the evaluation of the projects will determine the research area. The title for the statistics and probability project is STATISTICAL INFERENCE FOR POINT PROCESSES The main page for further details is http://www.unimi.it/ricerca/assegni_ricerca/1260.htm The deadline is 31/03/2014, see ITA http://www.unimi.it/cataloghi/ass_collaborazione_ricerca/BANDO_tipo_A_2013_… EN http://www.unimi.it/cataloghi/ass_collaborazione_ricerca/BANDO_tipo_A_2013_… Application form online at http://surplus-unimi.cineca.it/rm/public/postDocFellowship.htm Feel free to forward this announcement to whom it may be interested. Regards, Giacomo Aletti -- ------------------------------- Giacomo Aletti, Associate Professor ADAMSS Centre (ex MIRIAM) Advanced Applied Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Department of Mathematics (www.mat.unimi.it) Via Saldini, 50 20133 Milano, Italy Tel: +39-02-503.16158 Fax:+39-02-503.16090 Cell: +39-340-9739142

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Fwd: Remind: CIdE - Summer Courses in Econometrics
by mariaelvira.mancino＠unifi.it 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

----- Messaggio inoltrato da calzolar(a)disia.unifi.it ----- Data: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:05:13 +0100 Da: Giorgio Calzolari <calzolar(a)disia.unifi.it> Rispondi-A:Giorgio Calzolari <calzolar(a)disia.unifi.it> Oggetto: Remind: CIdE - Summer Courses in Econometrics A: "Recipient list suppressed"@ CIdE - Interuniversity Center for Econometrics - Courses in Econometrics for PhD students 2014. Registration is open from today till April 30: http://virgo.unive.it/cide/?page_id=625 Non academic participants (banks, insurance and financial companies, economic research offices, etc.), master's students and new graduates who wish to continue in their studies are also eligible to our courses. ----- Fine del messaggio inoltrato -----

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de Finetti risk seminar - marzo 2014
by Emanuela Rosazza Gianin 12 Mar '14

12 Mar '14

On behalf of the Scientific Committee of The de Finetti Risk Seminars - on the Mathematical Theory of Economics and Finance in Milano, we are glad to invite you to participate at the "de Finetti Risk Seminar" on March 19, 2014 at 18.00 with the Lecture A continuous auction model with insiders GIULIA DI NUNNO University of Oslo ABSTRACT In a unified framework we study equilibrium in the presence of an insider having information on the signal of a firm value, which is naturally connected to the fundamental price of the firm related asset. The fundamental value itself is announced at some future random stopping time. We consider the two cases in which this release time of information is known and not known to the insider. We study the structure of the optimal insider's strategies in equilibrium and we discuss market efficiency in the two cases of insider's information. Some examples of explicit insider's strategy will be provided. This is joint work with Jose Manuel Corcuera, Gergely Farkas, and Bernt Øksendal. LOCATION: The seminar will be held on Wedsnesday, March 19, at 18.00 at Aula Chisini, Department of Mathematics, Milano University, Via Saldini 50, Milano. A refreshment will be offered at 17.30. Scientific Committee: Prof. Marco Frittelli (Univ. degli Studi di Milano) Prof. Fabio Maccheroni (Univ. Bocconi) Prof. Massimo Marinacci (Univ. Bocconi) Prof. Emanuela Rosazza Gianin (Univ. Milano-Bicocca) Dott. Simone Cerreia-Voglio (Univ. Bocconi) Dott. Marco Maggis (Univ. degli Studi di Milano) ******************************************************************************************* Emanuela Rosazza Gianin Dipartimento di Metodi Quantitativi per le Scienze Economiche ed Aziendali Università di Milano Bicocca Edificio U7 - 4° Piano Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8 20126 Milano Tel. 02 64483208 Fax. 02 64483105 e-mail: emanuela.rosazza1(a)unimib.it *******************************************************************************************

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PhD position - Politecnico di Milano Dept. of Mathematics
by Simone Vantini 11 Mar '14

11 Mar '14

*Position:*PhD position in "Statistical Methods for Geosciences" in Mathematical Models and Methods in Engineering. *Institution:*Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. *Duration:*3 years, beginning May 1, 2014. *Monthly net income:*1.200 euro. *Deadline for applications: *14:00 (GMT+1:00), March 18, 2014. *Details for applications: *please click here <http://www.ricerca.polimi.it/fileadmin/files/dottorato/concorso29/bandi_agg…> to download the official call. *Motivations and objectives of the research in this field:*Problems characterized by high-dimensional and complex data have become more and more common in engineering. Due to their complexity, in many situations these data contain redundant information since their underlying structure may involve only a reduced number of relevant features. This research aims at developing new methods for the detection of suitable subspaces where data (possibly spatially-dependent) can be represented, interpreted and analyzed. The interest extends also to the identification of suitable basis, which should capture the relevant geophysical features of the phenomenon under study and allow for computationally efficient statistical analysis. *Methods and techniques that will be developed and used to carry out the research:* The PhD program aims at training young researchers by providing them with a strong mathematical background and with ability to apply their knowledge to the solution of real-world problems in the areas of Statistics and Scientific Computing. *Educational objectives:*The PhD students carry their research both in the development of new mathematical methods and in the implementation and improvement of advanced techniques in connection with specific contexts and applications. Further information can be obtained by consulting the dedicated website http://www.mate.polimi.it/dottorato *Job opportunities:* Job opportunities are in companies and research agencies which are leaders in their respective fields. *Further Details:* please click here <http://www.ricerca.polimi.it/fileadmin/files/dottorato/concorso29/bandi_agg…>for further details. -- Simone Vantini MOX Laboratory for Modeling and Scientific Computing Dept. of Mathematics "F. Brioschi" - Politecnico di Milano Address: Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, 20133, Milan, Italy Phone: (+39) 02 2399 4554 Email: simone.vantini(a)polimi.it Website: http://mox.polimi.it/~vantini/

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[Fwd: Corso al GSSI]
by davide gabrielli 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Il Prof. *Pablo Ferrari* (Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Buenos Aires) terrà un corso presso il GSSI (Gran Sasso Science Insittute L'Aquila) dal titolo *Graphical constructions for Markov processes and interacting particles processes. * Il corso inizierà il giorno mercoledi 19 Marzo alle ore 9 e proseguirà per 4 settimane col seguente orario: mercoledi, giovedi e venerdi 9-11. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[Fwd: seminario Gssi]
by davide gabrielli 10 Mar '14

10 Mar '14

Il giorno Giovedi 13 Marzo alle ore 16 presso il GSSI (Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila) la Prof. *Inés Armendariz *del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università di Buenos Airesterrà il seguente seminario: *Title*: Scaling limit of the condensate dynamics in the zero-range process *Abstract*: We consider the zero-range process on the one dimensional torus with L sites and N particles, in the supercritical regime when N=L exceeds the critical density. It is known that in the stationary state, as L goes to infinity, the excess particles accumulate at a randomly chosen position, forming the condensate. We now show that, at the right scale, this condensates moves according to a Lévy process on the rescaled torus, with rates determined by the jump distribution of the original zero range process. For instance, for nearest neighbour probabilities, the limiting Lévy process will have rates inversely proportional to the jump length. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Internationalization programme at the University of Verona - Master degree in Mathematics
by Luca di persio 08 Mar '14

08 Mar '14

Dear, this is an invitation to foreign teachers, coming from a European University or non-European, to share didactical projects with the professors in charge of a particular course given within the Master degree in Mathematics at the University of Verona. Such opportunity, funded by the Unviersity of Verona, has been also thought to start a *scientific collaboration with professors afferent to the Master degree in Mathematics*: http://www.di.univr.it/?ent=cs&id=418&lang=en The minimum lenght of stay is *1 week to which corresponds a reimbursement of 2k euros*. Additional 600 euros will be payed for any additional week *and up to 3.5K euros for one month and 11k euro for three months*. The teaching load is fixed at 6 hours per week. *Collaborations in the field of stochastic processes, SPDEs theory and their applications to Mathematical Finance are particularly welcome.* Please, spread the present message to anyone you think that could be interested in the project. For any further details, feel free to contact me: luca.dipersio(a)univr.it dipersioluca(a)gmail.com or the Internationalization Office of Verona University: relazioni.internazionali(a)ateneo.univr.it Hope to hear from you soon, Luca Di Persio - PhD assistant professor of Probability and Mathematical Finance Dept. Informatics University of Verona strada le Grazie 15 - 37134 Verona - Italy Tel : +39 045 802 7968 Dept. Math University of Trento V. Sommarive, 14 - 38123 Povo - Italy Tel : +39 0461 281686

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Young Finance Scholars' Conference and Quant Finance Workshop
by Enrico Scalas 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Car* collegh*, vi segnalo un'iniziativa dell'Università del Sussex con preghiera di diffusione. Nel caso i link sottostanti non funzionassero si puo' usare: www.sussex.ac.uk/bmec/qfin <http://UrlBlockedError.aspx/> Cordiali saluti Enrico Scalas Professor of Statistics and Probability University of Sussex Young Finance Scholars' Conference and Quant Finance Workshop<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/bmec/qfin/> The Finance group at the University of Sussex is pleased to announce a conference that is specially designed for junior scholars in Finance, followed by a (separately bookable) Quantitative Finance Workshop. Both events are hosted by the Department of Business and Management<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/bam/> in the School of Business, Management and Economics<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/bmec/> . Young Finance Scholars' Conference<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/bmec/qfin/conference> Quantitative Finance Workshop<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/bmec/qfin/workshop> *Thursday, 8th May 2014* *Friday, 9th May 2014* The conference provides an opportunity for junior scholars that have little (or no) experience with publishing in academic journals to share their research, debate their methodology and results, network with their peers from other institutions and - primarily - to receive expert comment and advice on publication from leading finance academics, including: - Professor Carol Alexander - University of Sussex - Professor Ben Hambly - University of Oxford - Professor Mike Lipkin - Columbia University, New York - Professor Brian Lucey - Trinity College, Dublin - Dr. Norman Seeger - VU University, Amsterdam The workshop is given by *Mike Lipkin,* a renowned specialist on Event-Driven Finance and co-author (with Marco Avallaneda) of the paper winning the Risk Magazine Quant-of-the-year award 2010. Designed to appeal to both practitioners and academics, Mike will describe his path-breaking work on trading attendant to market events, such as earnings announcements or crashes. Places are limited and workshop participation is allocated on a first come first served basis. Please visit our website www.sussex.ac.uk/bmec/qfin<http://UrlBlockedError.aspx>for more details on the conference and workshop and to register.

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Fwd: [stoch-ned-l] Announcement workshop Population Dynamics and Statistical Physics in Synergie
by Cristian Giardina 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Koorn, P.M. <Koorn(a)eurandom.tue.nl> Date: Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:55 PM Subject: [stoch-ned-l] Announcement workshop Population Dynamics and Statistical Physics in Synergie To: "stoch-ned-l(a)science.uu.nl" <stoch-ned-l(a)science.uu.nl> We would like to announce the upcoming workshop on Population Dynamics and Statistical Physics in Synergy To be held at Eurandom, Eindhoven, the Netherlands Date: August 25-29, 2014 Organizers: C. Giardina, A. Greven, F. den Hollander Mini courses by: J. Kurchan, C. Richard Talks by 20 other researchers. More information on http://www.eurandom.nl/events/workshops/2014/Population_Dynamics/Population… On behald of the organizers, Kind regards, Patty Koorn Eurandom P.O.Box 513 (MF 4.081) 5600 MB EINDHOVEN The Netherlands tel. +31 40 247 81 00 e-mail koorn(a)eurandom.tue.nl www.eurandom.tue.nl

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Fwd: (fwd)
by Lucia Caramellino 06 Mar '14

06 Mar '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 09:19:49 +0100 From: Maria Chiarolla <maria.chiarolla(a)uniroma1.it> To: Lucia Caramellino <caramell(a)axp.mat.uniroma2.it> Subject: Fwd: ---------------------------------------- vi informo che sul sito della Facolt�, nell'apposita sezione http://www.economia.uniroma1.it/node/5559/affidamenti-e-contratti, � stato pubblicato un bando per n. 7 posti per contratti di collaborazione coordinata e continuativa, per lo svolgimento di corsi di recupero e sostegno per i seguenti insegnamenti: Economia Aziendale, Economia e Gestione delle Imprese, Finanza Aziendale, Istituzioni di Diritto Pubblico, *Matematica corso base*, Politica Economica, Statistica corso base. *La scadenza prevista per la presentazione delle domande � il giorno 11 marzo 2014.* Vi invito a darne la massima diffusione. Grazie, MCh

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[amases-soci] Fwd: Second Call e web site 38mo Convegno AMASES 2014 (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 05 Mar '14

05 Mar '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:34:21 +0100 From: Antonella Basso <basso(a)unive.it> To: Soci AMASES <amases-soci(a)listserv.unive.it> Subject: [amases-soci] Fwd: Second Call e web site 38mo Convegno AMASES 2014 Cari Soci AMASES, vi inoltro la seconda call del Convegno AMASES 2014 e il link al sito web. Cordiali saluti Antonella Basso -------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: Second Call e web site 38mo Convegno AMASES 2014 Data: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 13:10:56 +0100 Mittente: Massimiliano Ferrara <massimiliano.ferrara(a)unirc.it> A: Antonella Basso <basso(a)unive.it> CC: basile(a)unina.it, Weinrich Gerd <gerd.weinrich(a)unicatt.it> Cara Antonella, Ti chiedo cortesemente di comunicare ai Consoci che il sito del prossimo Convegno Amases e' da questa mattina on line al seguente indirizzo: www.amases2014.unirc.it Un abbraccio Massimiliano Ferrara -- Antonella Basso Dipartimento di Economia Universita Ca' Foscari Venezia Fondamenta S. Giobbe - Cannaregio 873 30121 Venezia - Italy Tel. +39-041-2346914 - Fax +39-041-2347444 E-mail address: basso(a)unive.it Web page: http://www.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=415&persona=000893

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Assegno di ricerca post-dottorale, presso CNR IMATI-MI
by Antonio Pievatolo 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Segnalo la pubblicazione di un bando per un assegno di ricerca post-dottorale su "Analisi statistica dei dati", con scadenza il prossimo 24 marzo. I dettagli si trovano nella seguente pagina web: http://bandi.miur.it/bandi.php/public/fellowship/id_fellow/72788 Cordiali saluti Antonio Pievatolo -- Dr Antonio (Marco) Pievatolo CNR IMATI Tel. +39 02 23699.521 (direct: 520) Web www.mi.imati.cnr.it/marco

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Two seminars and presentation of Ph.D. theses - date
by Tiziano Vargiolu 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

We have the pleasure to announce the following two seminars and the defenses of two PhD thesis for the day Friday, March 7th: University of Padova, Italy Department of Mathematics, via Trieste 63 room 1BC/45, 1st floor 9.00 Tomas BJORK: "Time inconsistent control" (joint with Agatha Murgoci) ABSTRACT: We develop a theory for stochastic control problems which, in various ways, are time inconsistent in the sense that they do not admit a Bellman optimality principle. We attach these problems by viewing them within a game theoretic framework, and we look for Nash subgame perfect equilibrium points. For a general controlled Markov process and a fairly general objective functional we derive an extension of the standard Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, in the form of a system of non-linear equations, for the determination for the equilibrium strategy as well as the equilibrium value function. Most known examples of time inconsistency in the literature are easily seen to be special cases of the present theory. We also prove that for every time inconsistent problem, there exists an associated time consistent problem such that the optimal control and the optimal value function for the consistent problem coincides with the equilibrium control and value function respectively for the time inconsistent problem. We also study some concrete examples. 10.00 Thorsten SCHMIDT: "Bond markets and absence of arbitrage beyond the existence of a bank account" (joint with Irene Klein and Josef Teichmann) ABSTRACT: We investigate default-free bond markets where the standard relationship between a possibly existing bank account process and the term structure of bond prices is broken, i.e. the bank account process is not a valid numeraire. We argue that this feature is not the exception but rather the rule in bond markets when starting with, e.g., terminal bonds as numeraires. Our setting are general cad lag processes as bond prices, where we employ directly methods from large financial markets. Moreover, we do not restrict price process to be semimartingales, which allows for example to consider markets driven by fractional Brownian motion. In the core of the article we relate the appropriate no arbitrage assumptions (NAFL), i.e. no asymptotic free lunch, to the existence of an equivalent local martingale measure with respect to the terminal bond as numeraire, and no arbitrage opportunities of the first kind (NAA1) to the existence of a supermartingale deflator, respectively. In all settings we obtain existence of a generalized bank account as a limit of convex combinations of roll-over bonds. Additionally we provide an alternative definition of the concept of a numeraire, leading to a possibly interesting connection to bubbles. If we can construct a bank account process through roll-overs, we can relate the impossibility of taking the bank account as numeraire to liquidity effects. Here we enter endogenously the arena of multiple yield curves. After the two seminars, the defenses of two PhD thesis will take place: 11.00 Juan Miguel MONTES: "Aspects of affine models in the pricing of exotic options and in credit risk" (supervisor: Wolfgang J. Runggaldier) 11.45 Stefano PAGLIARANI: "Portfolio optimization and option pricing under defaultable Levy driven models" (supervisor: Tiziano Vargiolu) Tiziano -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tiziano Vargiolu Dipartimento di Matematica Phone: +39 049 8271383 Universita' di Padova Fax: +39 049 8271428 Via Trieste, 63 E-mail: vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it I-35121 Padova (Italy) WWW: http://www.math.unipd.it/~vargiolu --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Two seminars and presentation of Ph.D. theses
by Tiziano Vargiolu 03 Mar '14

03 Mar '14

We have the pleasure to announce the following two seminars, in University of Padova, Italy Department of Mathematics, via Trieste 63 room 1BC/45, 1st floor 9.00 Tomas BJORK: "Time inconsistent control" (joint with Agatha Murgoci) ABSTRACT: We develop a theory for stochastic control problems which, in various ways, are time inconsistent in the sense that they do not admit a Bellman optimality principle. We attach these problems by viewing them within a game theoretic framework, and we look for Nash subgame perfect equilibrium points. For a general controlled Markov process and a fairly general objective functional we derive an extension of the standard Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, in the form of a system of non-linear equations, for the determination for the equilibrium strategy as well as the equilibrium value function. Most known examples of time inconsistency in the literature are easily seen to be special cases of the present theory. We also prove that for every time inconsistent problem, there exists an associated time consistent problem such that the optimal control and the optimal value function for the consistent problem coincides with the equilibrium control and value function respectively for the time inconsistent problem. We also study some concrete examples. 10.00 Thorsten SCHMIDT: "Bond markets and absence of arbitrage beyond the existence of a bank account" (joint with Irene Klein and Josef Teichmann) ABSTRACT: We investigate default-free bond markets where the standard relationship between a possibly existing bank account process and the term structure of bond prices is broken, i.e. the bank account process is not a valid numeraire. We argue that this feature is not the exception but rather the rule in bond markets when starting with, e.g., terminal bonds as numeraires. Our setting are general cad lag processes as bond prices, where we employ directly methods from large financial markets. Moreover, we do not restrict price process to be semimartingales, which allows for example to consider markets driven by fractional Brownian motion. In the core of the article we relate the appropriate no arbitrage assumptions (NAFL), i.e. no asymptotic free lunch, to the existence of an equivalent local martingale measure with respect to the terminal bond as numeraire, and no arbitrage opportunities of the first kind (NAA1) to the existence of a supermartingale deflator, respectively. In all settings we obtain existence of a generalized bank account as a limit of convex combinations of roll-over bonds. Additionally we provide an alternative definition of the concept of a numeraire, leading to a possibly interesting connection to bubbles. If we can construct a bank account process through roll-overs, we can relate the impossibility of taking the bank account as numeraire to liquidity effects. Here we enter endogenously the arena of multiple yield curves. After the two seminars, the defenses of two PhD thesis will take place: 11.00 Juan Miguel MONTES: "Aspects of affine models in the pricing of exotic options and in credit risk" (supervisor: Wolfgang J. Runggaldier) 11.45 Stefano PAGLIARANI: "Portfolio optimization and option pricing under defaultable Levy driven models" (supervisor: Tiziano Vargiolu) Tiziano -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tiziano Vargiolu Dipartimento di Matematica Phone: +39 049 8271383 Universita' di Padova Fax: +39 049 8271428 Via Trieste, 63 E-mail: vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it I-35121 Padova (Italy) WWW: http://www.math.unipd.it/~vargiolu --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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CSAMA 2014: Computational Statistics for Genome Biology - June 22-27, 2014
by stefano iacus 02 Mar '14

02 Mar '14

CSAMA 2014: Computational Statistics for Genome Biology (12th edition) Bressanone-Brixen, Italy (South Tyrol Alps - half way between Verona and Munich) June 23-27, 2014 *** Registration for CSAMA 2014 is now open *** http://www-huber.embl.de/csama This one-week intensive course teaches current approaches in the statistical and computational analysis of large-scale experiments in biology. The course focuses on the methods for downstream analysis of high-throughput sequencing experiments including RNA sequencing (differential expression) and DNA sequencing (variant calling), as well as QTL analysis and high-throughput screening. Lectures also cover essentials including statistical testing, linear models, machine learning, visualisation and bioinformatic metadata integration. Topics • Introduction to R and Bioconductor • Elements of statistics: hypothesis testing, multiple testing, regression, regularisation, clustering and classification (machine learning), visualisation • Computing with sequences and genomic intervals • RNA-Seq data analysis and differential expression • DNA Variant calling • Working with annotation -- genes, genomic features and variants • Gene set enrichment analysis • High-throughput screens The course consists of • morning lectures: 20 x 45 minutes: Monday to Friday 8:30am - 12:00am • 4 practical computer tutorials in the afternoons (2pm - 5pm) on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday ----------------------------------- Stefano M. Iacus Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods University of Milan Via Conservatorio, 7 I-20123 Milan - Italy Ph.: +39 02 50321 461 Fax: +39 02 50321 505 Twitter: @iacus http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JBs9tJ4AAAAJ&hl=en Have a look at the new Master Degree in Finance ! http://www.fin.unimi.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments if not absolutely necessary. See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Fwd: Deadline abstract submission ICFIS2014 extended to March 13!
by Julia Mortera 02 Mar '14

02 Mar '14

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Deadline abstract submission ICFIS2014 extended to March 13! Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 21:45:58 +0100 From: ICFIS2014 <icfis2014(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: <info(a)icfis2014.org> To: <info(a)icfis2014.org> *The deadline for abstract submission for ICFIS2014 <http://icfis2014.org> has been extended to March 13.* * *KOG We have already received 75 abstracts, but we want to give even more people the opportunity to submit an abstract. The *9th International Conference on Forensic Inference and Statistics* <http://icfis2014.org/> will take place from *19 to 22 August 2014* at Leiden University <http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6795661/ICFIS2014/venue.html>, the Netherlands. Leiden is a beautiful city with a large number of monuments and canals, and has a 15 minutes train link to Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport, one of the main gates of Europe. This international conference - in short *ICFIS2014* <http://icfis2014.org/> - unites lawyers, statisticians and forensic scientists in their interest in optimal reasoning concerning forensic evidence. Technical developments in biological, physical, chemical and digital forensic disciplines are fast and have an increasing impact on law enforcement and the justice system. Examples are DNA profiling, fingerprint and illicit drug analysis, and analysis of large digital data-sets for intelligence purposes. Whatever the type of evidence, it can only be of value when it is properly gathered, analyzed, evaluated, and communicated by the scientist. Moreover, it should be understood by the legal decision maker. This requires sound statistical and logical methods, and good communication between lawyers and scientists. The conference promotes the interaction between providers and users of forensic evidence. It focuses on probabilistic methods for the evaluation of forensic evidence, and their use in law and law enforcement. The conference will provide a forum for oral presentations and posters. Furthermore, the first day of the conference will consist of workshops. Selection by the scientific committee of the contributions for the final program is based on abstracts. If you haven't done so already, please submit your abstract by digitally filling out the form you can download from the website <http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6795661/ICFIS2014/abstracts.html>, and sending it to abstracts(a)icfis2014.org <mailto:abstracts@icfis2014.org>. *The final deadline for abstract submission is March 13, 2014. * The website lists the themes <http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6795661/ICFIS2014/index.html#themes> for the conference. See you at ICFIS2014! Charles Berger and Marjan Sjerps, on behalf of the organizing and scientific committee <http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/6795661/ICFIS2014/organization.html>. ___________________________________ If you want to unsubscribe from this mailing list, just reply with 'unsubscribe' in the subject.

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Cooperint call at University of Verona
by Luca di persio 02 Mar '14

02 Mar '14

Dear all, this a call for potentially interested people to join the Cooperint internationalization program of the University of Verona (see details below) in order to build a scientific collaboration in particular within the fields of: *Probability, Statistics, Stochastic Processes and their applications in Mathematical Finance*. Please feel free to contact me at: luca.dipersio(a)univr.it . *CooperInt Program - 2014 edition* *Deadline: April 7* The *University of Verona* has launched its own internationalization program called *CooperInt*, providing funding to promote research interactions with international scientists according with the following call typologies *Action A.1* (*Junior Visitor Program*) is intended to invite young researchers with no more than 7 years of academic experience after their PhD. Such positions are intended mainly for research activity/exchanges, but can also forecast teaching activities (e.g. seminars, short courses) *Action A.2* (*Senior Visitor Program*), is intended to invite world renowned Visiting Professors and scientists. During their stay in Verona the invited professors will be required to do teaching activities within a Master or a PhD Program for a minimum workload of two hours per week (eight hours per month). *Reimbursement* *A1 Funding *(max.amount) *A2 Funding *(max.amount) EU Home Institution Non-EU Home Inst. EU Home Institution Non-EU Home Inst. *2000 EURO/month NET* *2500 EURO/ month NET* *2500 EURO/ month NET* *3000 EURO/ month NET* For bureaucratic assistance refer to the International Relations Office: relazioni.internazionali(a)ateneo.univr.it Please note that the deadline is fixed at 07/04/2014, but, due to administrative duties, it is much better to have most of the required documents filled by the end of March. __ Luca Di Persio - PhD assistant professor of Probability and Mathematical Finance Dept. Informatics University of Verona strada le Grazie 15 - 37134 Verona - Italy Tel : +39 045 802 7968 Dept. Math University of Trento V. Sommarive, 14 - 38123 Povo - Italy Tel : +39 0461 281686

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bando assegno di ricerca SECS-S/06 a Firenze
by mariaelvira.mancino＠unifi.it 01 Mar '14

01 Mar '14

Il Dipartimento di Economics and Management dell'Universita' di Firenze bandisce un assegno di ricerca della durata di un anno per il settore SECS-S/06. Il bando si trova all'indirizzo: http://bandi.miur.it/bandi.php/public/fellowship/id_fellow/72982 Mavira Mancino

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