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Workshop on Optimal Stopping and Applications
by Cristina Zucca 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

Dear Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to the Workshop on "Optimal Stopping and Applications" Department of Mathematics "G. Peano", University of Torino May 22, 2015 The workshop aims at bringing together experts on Optimal Stopping and related problems, as the Quickest Detection and Optimal Prediction, with people motivated by applications. Participation is free. All people interested to participate are invited to register, sending an e-mail to cristina.zucca(a)unito.it by March 31, 2015. For more information, please visit https://sites.google.com/site/workshopoptimalstopping/ Best regards, Cristina -- Dr. Cristina Zucca Department of Mathematics University of Torino Via Carlo Alberto 10 10123 Torino, Italy tel: +39-011-6702850 fax: +39-011-6702878

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Ciclo Seminari Probabilita` e Statistica - PASCAL - 4 marzo 2015
by Valentina Cammarota 27 Feb '15

27 Feb '15

Ciclo di Seminari - Progetto ERC grant PASCAL (Probabilistic and Statistical Techniques for Cosmological Applications) Mercoledì 4 Marzo - ore 15.00 Aula D'Antoni 1101 Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma Tor Vergata Speaker: Claudio Durastanti - Università di Tor Vergata Title: Spherical wavelets: an overview and some applications. Abstract: Our aim is to describe the construction of wavelets over the q-dimensional sphere featuring strong concentration properties in the spatial domain, introduced in literature as needlets by Narcowich, Petrushev, Ward (2006 a,b). We will also discuss some of their statistical applications: the study of quantitative central limit theorems for some linear and nonlinear statistics built from wavelet coefficients evaluated on spherical Poisson processes of arbitrary dimension. This purpose is attained by merging the Stein-Malliavin approach (introduced in the seminal paper by Peccati, Sanz-Solè, Taqqu and Utzet (2011)) and the properties of the needlets. We will also discuss some examples: the thresholding and the study of variance in nonparametric density estimation framework and the so-called Sobolev tests for uniformity. This is a joint work with Solesne Bourguin, Domenico Marinucci and Giovanni Peccati. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Valentina Cammarota ................................................................................ Valentina Cammarota, Postdoc Department of Mathematics Universita` degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata https://sites.google.com/site/valentinacammarota/ ................................................................................ -- Open WebMail Project (http://openwebmail.org)

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Seminari a Roma 1
by Faggionato, Alessandra 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

Mercoledì 4 marzo, nell'Aula di Consiglio del Dipartimento di Matematica "G. Castelnuovo" si svolgeranno i seguenti seminari 15:30-16:20 Stella Brassesco (Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas) The winding number of planar Brownian motion 16:20-17:10 Stefano Olla (CEREMADE, Paris-Dauphine) Diffusione e superdiffusione dell’energia in catene di oscillatori. Tutti gli interessati sono benvenuti. -- Prof. Alessandra Faggionato Department of Mathematics University La Sapienza Piazzale A. Moro, 2 00186 Rome - Italy

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ABS15 Summer school
by Raffaele Argiento 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

We would like to inform you that it is now possible to register for ABS15, the Applied Bayesian Statistics summer school organised in Italy since 2004. Programme and information on accommodation are now available as well. The theme of the 2015 school is MODERN BAYESIAN METHODS AND COMPUTING FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES and the location will be the magnificent Villa del Grumello, Como (Italy), on the Lake Como shore. The dates are June, 8th - 12th, 2015, with deadlines on April, 1st for early registration and April, 27th for hotel booking. The lecturer will be Jeff Gill, Washington University, St. Louis, USA, with the help of Giacomo Zanella (University of Warwick, UK) for the practical sessions. The school web-page is www.mi.imati.cnr.it/conferences/abs15.html The ABS15 Secretariat can be contacted at abs15(a)mi.imati.cnr.it Best regards Guido Consonni and Fabrizio Ruggeri ABS15 Directors Raffaele Argiento ABS15 Executive Director -- Dr Raffaele Argiento CNR IMATI -- Milano Tel. +39 02 23699.529 Web www.mi.imati.cnr.it/raffaele

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New Perspectives in Analysis and Probability
by Enrico Scalas 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

Car* collegh*, se vi trovate nell'area di Londra la settimana prossima, puo' interessarvi questo workshop che si tiene all'Universita' del Sussex: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/maths/research/intensive2015 Cordiali saluti, Enrico Scalas

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seminario Prof. Freddy Delbaen in Bicocca
by Emanuela Rosazza 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

Cari tutti, in allegato vi spedisco la locandina del seminario del Prof. Freddy Delbaen (ETH Zurigo) dal titolo “A result on metrisability of the mackey topology inspired by properties of risk measures” che si terrà in Bicocca (edificio U7- aula seminari – stanza 4026) giovedì 19 marzo alle ore 15.30. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Un saluto e a presto, Emanuela ******************************************************************************************* Emanuela Rosazza Gianin Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi Quantitativi 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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post-doc fellowship in Cork (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:58:43 +0000 From: Angelica Gianfreda <agianfreda(a)london.edu> Subject: post-doc fellowship in Cork *************************************************************************** ***************************************** Looking to hire a (Post-Doc) Research Fellow with research experience and ideally knows about climate change. One of the conditions of the funding is that the Fellow is based in Cork. The position is for 18 months with an annual salary of Euro 51,760. Project Overview The goal of the project is to identify and critique international best practice on the use of financial incentives to attract capital to targeted sectors. Specifically, a proposal for a funding instrument to attract capital to the resource efficient economy in Ireland will be developed. This will incorporate international best practice on financial incentives for financing the transition to the resource efficient economy as well as examining the effectiveness of existing financial incentives. The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS and formerly the Business Expansion Scheme (BES)) have been successful in attracting funding for the development of wind farms in Ireland IWEA /Deloitte (2009). The success of the EIS/BES scheme in pricing these harmful externalities can equally be applied to other resource efficient sectors where investment might not otherwise be forthcoming. Also the proposed funding instrument will be socially-inclusive as it will be fiscally-incentivised and targeted at ordinary individuals so that investment is ?citizen led? rather than ?developer led?. Job Description College Business and Law School/Research Centre Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems Post Title Research Fellow Project Title Financial Incentives to Promote a Resource Efficient Irish Economy Name of Principal Investigator Dr. Celine McInerney Position Summary A position is available for a Research Fellow to work in the Department of Accounting, Finance and Information Systems at University College Cork. The successful applicant will manage a project under the direction of the Principal Investigator to design a socially-inclusive financial instrument to attract investment capital to resource efficient assets. The project is funded by the Environmental Protection Agency. The Research Fellow will be responsible for: ? Researching and preparing a synthesis report on the use of financial incentives to attract capital in targeted sectors with a view to making a recommendation on the type of proposal that could be most effective within the context of Irish financial and taxation systems. ? Identify international best practice in relation to financial incentives for investment in resource efficient sectors using case studies including: (1) the Canadian Ontario FIT programme, (2) in the UK, DECC?s Community Energy Strategy, (3) Denmark?s co-operative and equity participations schemes and (4) Germany?s Energiewende (Energy Transition). (5) Examine shortcomings of UK Solar support scheme vis-?-vis value for money for tax payers. ? Examine the effectiveness of crowdfunding in attracting capital for resource efficient asset investments. ? Examine and measure the effectiveness of existing Irish financial incentives in the resource efficient economy, including but not limited to the Business Expansion Scheme, Employment Incentive and Investment Scheme, various building retrofitting initiatives. ? Develop a database of resource efficient projects which have received support under various policy initiatives in consultation with various stakeholders / policy makers. ? Present a proposal for socially inclusive financial investment which may be a specific tax-based investment framework for individuals using evidence-based international best practice. ? The role will involve meeting and engaging with various stakeholders as well as meeting and reporting to a Steering group and EPA committee. ? Engage in dissemination activities in relation to socially inclusive tax-based investment incentives in the resource efficient economy. ? The post is a fixed term contract and will involve some travel to meetings and conferences. Expected Skill Set ? A PhD qualification and significant relevant research experiences. ? A track record of peer reviewed publications. ? An enthusiastic, motivated person with a high level of initiative, capable of working independently and within a team. ? The candidate should have fluent English and excellent communication, organization, planning and interpersonal skills. ? Ideally, the candidate will have experience in financial services, taxation or energy policy modelling. ? Previous experience in design and implementation or cost benefit analysis of financial support schemes such as Feed-in-Tariffs, tax reliefs or capital allowances for renewables or other resource efficient or low carbon investment assets would be desirable. Salary: IUA Research Fellow Salary Scale ?51,716 - ?56,442. Post Duration: 18 months To Apply: Please submit a short cover letter and C.V. to Celine McInerney, PhD, c.mcinerney(a)ucc.ie, 021 4902839, on or before the closing date March 13th. Dr. Celine McInerney Finance Lecturer University College Cork T + 353 21 4902839 E c.mcinerney(a)ucc.ie http://publish.ucc.ie/profiles/B003/cmcinerney George Boole (1815-2015) - celebrating the forefather of the Information Age and the first Professor of Mathematics at University College Cork, Ireland. www.georgeboole.com

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2 Seminari a Pavia: Jorge Bolanos e Tomasz Tylec
by Carbone Raffaella 25 Feb '15

25 Feb '15

Cari colleghi, vi annuncio che mercoledì 4 marzo, alle ore 14 precise, nell'aula Beltrami del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Universita' di Pavia, vi saranno due seminari (entrambi nell'ambito del progetto FIRB 2010 "*Quantum Markov Semigroups and their empirical estimation*"), tenuti da Jorge Bolanos-Servin e Tomasz Tylec Seguono titoli e sunti. Distinti saluti, Raffaella Carbone ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Primo Seminario, ore 14:00 precise: Jorge Bolanos-Servin (Università UAM, Città del Messico) "Some spectral properties of Circulant Quantum Markov Semigroups" Abstract. Many symetries of $\mathbb Z_p$ are inherited by Circulant matrices , therefore widely used in many areas of mathematics. The class of Circulant QMS although described in a simple way provide examples to better understand more general ideas. In this talk i will review the relationship between the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a Circulant matrix and a Circulant QMS GKSL generator. This will lead to prove that the spectral gap is strictly positive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Secondo Seminario, ore 15 precise: Tomasz Tylec (Istituto di Fisica Teorica, Varsavia) "Generalised probability, quantum logics and non-signalling theories" Abstract: Since 1990s some physicist working on quantum information theory become interested in the so-called no-signalling theories. These are very intuitive, in some sense minimal, models of compound systems. It seemed that such theories are more general than quantum mechanics. Unfortunately, they suffer from the lack of precise mathematical framework within its properties can be rigorously studied. Our aim was to find such framework and study the basic properties of most widely discussed example of non-signalling system. The most natural choice led us to the so called quantum logics. The idea stems from the works of Birkhoff and von Neumann and after many years of development it evolved into sophisticated theory of partially ordered sets. What is important such structures can be interpreted as models of a generalised probability. This allows rigorous review of previously obtained results about non-signalling theories. -- Raffaella Carbone, PhD Ricercatore di Probabilità e Statistica Matematica Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia

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[Fwd: 10 PhD Positions at GSSI]
by davide gabrielli 23 Feb '15

23 Feb '15

*DO NOT REPLY TO THIS ADDRESS* *For informations *please contact info(a)gssi.infn.it *PLEASE DIFFUSE BETWEEN INTERESTED PEOPLE* *WE APOLOGIZE FOR MULTIPLE E-MAILS* *Information and details on* *http://www.gssi.infn.it/phd/ <http://www.gssi.infn.it/phd/>* The GSSI in L'Aquila http://www.gssi.infn.it has open a call for 10 positions for the PhD program *DEADLINE April 15, 2015 - 6pm* APPLICATIONS ON LINE ONLY DO NO SEND ANYTHING IN DIFFERENT WAYS, IT WILL NOT GET ANY CONSIDERATION PROGRAM TITLE: Mathematics in Natural, Social and Life Sciences The yearly amount of the scholarship is of EURO 16.159,91 gross Official language of the PhD Programs: English Duration: 3 years Activities start on November 1st 2015 TOPICS: Stochastic Analysis, PDEs, Mathematical Modeling, Numerical Methods Applicant are required to upload also a file containing a synthetic report of the core courses followed on the following topics: 1. 1- Partial Differential Equations 2. 2- Probability/stochastic processes 3. 3- Functional Analysis 4. 4- Numerical Analysis 5. 5- Physics/continuum mechanics/fluid dynamics For each course in this area, students should provide a short syllabus (no more than 10 lines) main textbooks, name of the instructors and possibly the link to the course home page. Facilities and benefits - All PhD students will have tuition fees waived; - A ll PhD students will have free accommodation on GSSI facilities - A ll PhD students will have free luncheon vouchers - A ll PhD students will be covered by insurance against any accident and/or injury that may occur while carrying out their PhD activities. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Seminario di Probabilita' - Universita' di Padova
by alessandra bianchi 23 Feb '15

23 Feb '15

Ho il piacere di invitarvi al seguente seminario, che si terrà venerdì 27 Febbraio alle ore 14:30, nell'aula 2BC30 del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Universita' degli Studi di Padova. SPEAKER: Elisabetta Scoppola (Dip. di Matematica - Università di Roma Tre) TITLE: Conditioned, quasi-stationary, restricted measures and escape from metastable states ABSTRACT: Metastability and first hitting are discussed in a quite general case including top in at random shuffle. (Joint work with R.Fernandez, F.Manzo, F.R.Nardi, J.Sohier) -- 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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Workshop “Control Theory and Related Topics” .
by Fulvia Confortola 23 Feb '15

23 Feb '15

? Si segnala che il 13 e 14 aprile 2015 ci sarà presso il Dipartimento di Matematica Politecnico di Milano il convegno “Control Theory and Related Topics”, su controllo deterministico e stocastico ed equazioni di evoluzione. La registrazione è libera ma obbligatoria. E' possibile registrarsi su https://www.eko.polimi.it/index.php/CTRT/CTRT/schedConf/registration Ulteriori informazioni sono disponibili alla pagina web della conferenza https://www.eko.polimi.it/index.php/CTRT/CTRT Gli organizzatori locali Fulvia Confortola, Monica Conti, Elsa Marchini e Giuseppina Guatteri?

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seminario Macci in Bicocca cancellato
by Fabio Bellini 23 Feb '15

23 Feb '15

Il seminario di Claudio Macci previsto per mercoledì 25 febbraio in Bicocca è rimandato per influenza. Seguirà un nuovo annuncio. Saluti Prof. Fabio Bellini Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods University of Milano-Bicocca Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, 20126 Milano 0039-2-64483119 http://www.economia.unimib.it/bellini http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=P61L8P4AAAAJ&hl=it

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corso di dottorato di Fabio Toninelli a Roma Tre
by Pietro Caputo 20 Feb '15

20 Feb '15

Il prof. Fabio Toninelli (Univ. Lyon 1, France) terra' un corso di dottorato di 12 ore circa presso il dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica di Roma Tre. Title: Dimer models: thermodynamics, fluctuations and Glauber dynamics Dates: March 9, 11, 16, 18, 23, 25, 30 and April 1st, 2015 Time:11.00-12.45 Location: Room 311 (third floor, palazzina C) Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Roma Tre, L.go Murialdo 1 - 00146 Roma Course description: We will discuss several aspects of the mathematical theory of models of lattice dimers. These classical, two- dimensional statistical mechanics models are in certain sense “exactly solvable” (Kasteleyn, 1961). Recently there is a revival of interest in dimer models among probabilists and mathematical physiciscs, due to their properties of conformal invariance and of “Gaussian Free Field”-type fluctuations. Another aspect of great interest (in probability and theoretical computer science) is the study of the associated Markov dynamics (Glauber dynamics). In particular, a natural question concerns the speed of convergence of the dynamics to its invariant measure. Contents: – Kasteleyn theory (computation of the partition function) – dimer-dimer correlations, determinantal representation – dimer models as “lattice free fermions” – height function and its convergence to the “Gaussian Free Field” – thermodynamic limit: translation-invariant Gibbs states and limit shape – Glauber dynamics for dimer models. Connection with the zero-temperature – The problem of the speed of convergence

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Conferma Seminario Prof. L. Goldstein a RM1
by Fabio Spizzichino 20 Feb '15

20 Feb '15

*Si conferma l'orario del seminario indicato qui di seguito* Grazie per l'attenzione Fabio Spizzichino =========== *V**enerdì 20 febbraio 2015* Ore 14:00, Aula di Consiglio Seminario di Probabilità Larry Goldstein (University of Southern California) *Normal approximation for recovery of structured unknowns in high dimension: Steining the Steiner formula* Intrinsic volumes of convex sets are natural geometric quantities that also play important roles in applications. In particular, the discrete probability distribution L(VC) given by the sequence v{0},...,v{d} of conic intrinsic volumes of a closed convex cone C in Rd summarizes key information about the success of convex programs used to solve for sparse vectors, and other structured unknowns such as low rank matrices, in high dimensional regularized inverse problems. The concentration of VC implies the existence of phase transitions for the probability of recovery of the unknown in the number of observations. Additional information about the probability of recovery success is provided by a normal approximation for VC. Such central limit theorems can be shown by first considering the squared length GC of the projection of a Gaussian vector on the cone C. Applying a second order Poincar´e inequality, proved using Stein’s method, then produces a non-asymptotic total variation bound to the normal for L(GC). A conic version of the classical Steiner formula in convex geometry translates finite sample bounds and a normal limit for GC to that for VC. Joint with Ivan Nourdin and Giovanni Peccati

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Fwd: Fwd: postdoc opening - FMC2 (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 19 Feb '15

19 Feb '15

-------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Oggetto: Fwd: postdoc opening - FMC2 Data: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:29:09 +0000 Mittente: Cathal Brugha <cathal.brugha(a)UCD.IE> Rispondi-a: Cathal Brugha <cathal.brugha(a)UCD.IE> A: ORNET(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK There is an opening for a postdoctoral researcher as part of the Financial Mathematics Computation Cluster (FMC2) collaboration between Industry, University College Dublin, Dublin City University and NUI Maynooth.http://www.isin.ie/go/case_studies/collaboration/financial-mathematics-comp utation-cluster-fmc2--604 Applications (through UCD HR Job Ref 007175 - http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies) are due by 2 March. -- Prof Michael O'Neill Director UCD Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory (CASL) ICON Chair of Business Analytics School of Business University College Dublin http://casl.ucd.ie http://ncra.ucd.ie

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Seminario di F. Hubalek a Milano-Bicocca (03.03.2015)
by Francesco Caravenna 19 Feb '15

19 Feb '15

Martedì 3 marzo 2015 alle ore 15:30, nell'aula 3014 del Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni dell'Università di Milano-Bicocca (edificio U5, via Cozzi 55, Milano), Friedrich Hubalek (TU Wien) terrà un seminario dal titolo Brownian excursion limits for the avalanche length in a binomial limit order book model Trovate il sommario di seguito. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Francesco Caravenna %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Abstract: We briefly describe the mechanics of a stylized limit order book model for an electronic exchange, which is based on the simple symmetric random walk. While the order volume is a spacial process, we take up the study of the avalanche length of trades, that was begun by Thorsten Rheinlaender and his students in a Brownian motion model. By more or less elementary limit calculations we connect to Ito's theory of Brownian excursions. In doing so we briefly, but inevitably meet the error, gamma, zeta, xi, theta, Bessel, and the Gauss hypergeometric function. We derive the generating function for the simplified and full avalanche length, their Brownian limits, and study the distribution of the simplified avalanche length in some detail. This is joint work with Thorsten Rheinlaender and Sabine Sporer. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- _________________________________________ Francesco Caravenna Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Via Cozzi 55, 20125 Milano, Italy http://www.matapp.unimib.it/~fcaraven/ _________________________________________

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Seminario Giovanni Valente al Politecnico di Milano
by Matteo Probo Siro Francesco Gregoratti 19 Feb '15

19 Feb '15

Si avvisa che in data 11-3-2015, alle ore 15:00 , presso Aula Consiglio VII piano, Dipartimento di Matematica, ed. 14, Campus Leonardo, nell'ambito delle iniziative del Dipartimento di Matematica del Politecnico di Milano, si svolgerà il seguente seminario: Titolo: Relativistic Causality and Local Disentanglement in Quantum Field Theory Relatore: Giovanni Valente, University of Pittsbur Abstract: La nozione di entanglement fra sistemi quantistici separati pone due problemi fondamentali in filosofia della meccanica quantistica. Primo, le correlazioni non-locali che ne derivano sembrano determinare un conflitto con la condizione di causalità relativistica, che implica che processi causali non possano propagarsi ad una velocità superiore a quella della luce, sollevando cosí una questione di incompatibilità con la teoria della relatività speciale di Einstein. Secondo, la presenza dell'entanglement sembra pregiudicare la possibilità di ottenere una suddivisione del mondo microscopico in sistemi fisici indipendenti. In questo seminario, si discuteranno tali problemi nel contesto della formulazione algebrica della teoria quantistica dei campi. Si inizierà mostrando come si possa derivare un teorema sull'impossibilità di inviare messaggi superluminali sulla base di operazioni locali. Successivamente, si dimostrerà l'esistenza di operazioni locali che hanno l'effetto di distruggere l'entanglement fra campi quantistici separati, soddisfacendo in tal modo ad una condizione necessaria per la loro indipendenza reciproca. Matteo Gregoratti

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Fwd: AMS - Mathemical Research Community 2015 in Financial Mathematics
by Marco Romito 18 Feb '15

18 Feb '15

------------------------------- Messaggio originale -------------------------------- Oggetto: AMS - Mathemical Research Community 2015 in Financial Mathematics Da: "Birgit Rudloff" <brudloff(a)Princeton.EDU> Data: Mer, 18 Febbraio 2015 22:22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear colleagues, This is a first announcement about the upcoming Mathematical Research community (MRC) in Financial Mathematics organized by the American Mathematical Society. The MRC is - in AMS own words- "a program of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), nurtures early-career mathematicians-those who are close to finishing their doctorates or have recently finished-and provides them with opportunities to build social and collaborative networks to inspire and sustain each other in their work. The structured program is designed to engage and guide all participants as they start their careers. For each topic, the program includes a one-week summer conference, a Special Session at the national meeting, a discussion network, ongoing mentoring, and a longitudinal study of early career mathematicians." The MRC in Financial Mathematics consists of a conference June 14 – 20, 2015 in Snowbird, Utah, a session at the Joint Mathematics Meeting, January 6-9, 2016 in Seattle, Washington. Around 40 peridoctoral mathematicians (advanced PhD students and early PostDocs) will work together on topics in high frequency trading, optimal investment under transaction costs, and systemic risk. More information at http://www.ams.org/programs/research-communities/mrc-15. Deadline for applications will be March 1, 2015. Please make your graduate students and Post-Docs aware of this possibility. Note that while American and US-based mathematicians are prioritized, the MRC is open for everybody. Travel support for the Snowbird conference will be available up to USD 700,-. All the best, Maxim Bichuch Michael Carlisle Olympia Hadjiliadis Birgit Rudloff Stephan Sturm

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1 posto di Maitre de Conferences e 1 posto di Professore in Statistica/Probabilita' a Lyon 1
by Fabio Toninelli 18 Feb '15

18 Feb '15

Gentili colleghi all'Universita' Lyon 1 e' aperto un concorso per un posto di Maitre de Conferences in probabilità e per un posto di Professore in Statistica o Probabilita' (inizio: 1 settembre 2015). Entrambe le posizioni sono permanenti. Il profilo scientifico e' descritto qui: cf. http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/recrutements/profils_15/PR-Statistique-Probabilit… e http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/recrutements/profils_15/MCF-Probabilites.pdf I temi di ricerca del gruppo di probabilità' di Lyon 1 sono descritti qui: http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/icj/?option=theme&th=5 I candidati interessati devono spedire elettronicamente il loro dossier ENTRO IL 12 MARZO 2015, tramite il sito https://galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/antares/can/index.jsp Qualche consiglio su come comporre il dossier di candidatura si trova qui: http://postes.smai.emath.fr/2014/OUTILS/conseils/index.php#it2 Attenzione: Il concorso e' aperto ai i candidati che hanno gia' passato la procedura di "Qualification" nazionale francese, oppure che hanno attualmente all'estero una posizione di livello equivalente a quelle di Maitre de Conferences o di Professore. Per ulteriori informazioni non esitate a contattarmi. Cordiali saluti -- Fabio Toninelli Institut Camille Jordan, Universite' Lyon 1 43 bd du 11 novembre 1918 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France Office 105, tel: +33 (0) 4 26 23 44 41

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Fwd: LUISS Seminar - February 18th
by Marco Scarsini 18 Feb '15

18 Feb '15

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dipartimento Economia e Finanza LUISS Guido Carli <economiaefinanza(a)luiss.it> Date: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 11:29 AM Subject: LUISS Seminar - February 18th To: Dipartimento Economia e Finanza LUISS Guido Carli <economiaefinanza(a)luiss.it> The next Research Seminar of Economics and Finance Department is scheduled for next Wednesday, February 18th, from 2.30 p.m. to 4.00 p.m., room 305/b (viale Romania). Our guest speaker will be Prof. Larry Goldstein (University of Southern California), who will present his recent work: “Normal approximation for recovery of structured unknowns: Steining the Steiner formula”. Best regards, Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Viale Romania, 32 - 00197 Roma economiaefinanza(a)luiss.it t +39 06 85225550 f +39 06 85225985

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corso interdottorato: scambiabilita' e sue applicazioni
by Rigo Pietro 18 Feb '15

18 Feb '15

Si segnala che, nell'ambito dei corsi interdottorato offerti dalle Universita' di Pavia e Milano (Bicocca, Politecnico e Statale), Eugenio Regazzini e Pietro Rigo terranno il corso Scambiabilita' e sue applicazioni. La durata del corso e' di 30 ore (circa). La partecipazione e' aperta a tutti. La prima parte del corso, tenuta da Pietro Rigo, vertera' sul teorema di rappresentazione di de Finetti e su alcune sue conseguenze. La seconda parte, tenuta da Eugenio Regazzini, riguardera' alcune applicazioni della scambiabilita' al'inferenza bayesiana non parametrica. Le prime due lezioni (di due ore circa) saranno tenute Lunedi' 2/3/2015 e lunedi' 9/3/2015, alle ore 14, al Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Universita' di Pavia (via Ferrata 1) Le date delle successive lezioni verranno stabilite di volta in volta, sulla base delle esigenze degli studenti e dei docenti. Eugenio Regazzini e Pietro Rigo

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PhD in Financial Mathematics at the Scuola Normale di Pisa
by Fabrizio Lillo 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

The CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR ADMISSION TO the PhD PROGRAM in Financial Mathematics at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa is open (see http://phd.sns.it/en/ <http://www.sns.it/en/scuola/ammissione/corsodiperfezionamento/scienze/>). This year five scholarships are awarded, two of them funded by Unicredit. The deadline for the application to the Spring session is February 28, 2015. Request of information can be addressed to me. Sincerely, Fabrizio Lillo -- ---------------------------------------- Fabrizio Lillo Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa & Santa Fe Institute, U.S.A. Piazza dei Cavalieri 7 56126 Pisa ITALY phone: +39 050509159

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Call for papers: CIBB 2015, Naples, September 10-12, 2015
by Paola Rancoita 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

============================================================================================================================================== *FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS * *CIBB 2015* *12th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics* *CNR Research Area “Napoli 1”, Naples, Italy** **September 10-12, 2015** * *http://bioinfo.na.iac.cnr.it/cibb2015/** **cibb2015(a)gmail.com* ============================================================================================================================================== *Scope of CIBB 2015* CIBB (Computational Intelligence methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics) is a meeting with more than 10-year history. Its main goal is to provide a forum open to researchers from different disciplines to present problems concerning computational techniques in bioinformatics, systems biology and medical informatics, to discuss cutting edge methodologies and accelerate life science discoveries. Following this tradition and roots, this year's meeting will bring together researchers from the international scientific community interested in this field to discuss the advancements and the future perspectives in bioinformatics and biostatistics. Applied biologists are also invited to participate in order to propose novel challenges aimed to have high impact for molecular biology and translational medicine. *Technical areas addressed by CIBB 2015 include, but are not limited to:* High dimensional statistical analysis of omic data; Next generation sequencing bioinformatics; Multi-omic data integration; Methods for supervised and unsupervised learning; Prediction of protein structures; Methods for comparative genomics; Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis; Mathematical modelling and simulation of biological systems; Systems and synthetic biology; Bio-molecular databases and data mining; Bio-medical text mining and imaging; Statistical methods for the analysis of clinical data; Methods for the visualization of high dimensional complex omic data; Software tools for bioinformatics. *CIBB 2015 is jointly organized by:* • INNS International Neural Network Society SIG Bioinformatics • INNS International Neural Network Society SIG Bio-pattern • IEEE-CIS-BBCT Task forces on Neural Networks and Evolutionary Computation • Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, “M. Picone”, CNR Napoli The scientific programs of CIBB 2015 will include Keynote Speakers, contributed papers, tutorial and special sessions. The contributed papers will be presented in plenary oral sessions, special sessions, or poster sessions. *Publications* Accepted papers will be published on a flash drive with a specific ISBN number for the conference proceedings. A selection of papers presented at CIBB 2015 will appear in a post-conference monograph. We are in contact with Springer to have them published in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI) as usual for CIBB. Moreover, we are planning to publish the best papers in an extended form in a special issue of an international scientific journal. *Important Dates * Tutorial and Special Session Proposal: April 3, 2015 Paper submission deadline: April 10, 2015 Notification of acceptance: June 12, 2015 Final paper due: July 10, 2015 Conference: September 10-12, 2015 *Tutorials and Special Sessions* *Tutorial proposals* to CIBB, including title, one page long abstract, and short CV of presenters, are due by April 3, 2015. Please send proposals to cibb2015(a)gmail.com. *Special Session proposals* to CIBB, including the session's title and scope, short CV of sessions chairs, preliminary list of at least 4 potential authors are due by April 3, 2015. Proposals of special sessions will be evaluated as soon as they are submitted. A special session must have at least 4 accepted papers. Please send proposals to cibb2015(a)gmail.com *Paper Submission* Papers must be prepared following the guidelines illustrated on the CIBB web site and should be long between 4 and 6 pages. Papers should be submitted in PDF format on the Easy Chair conference system. *Organizing Committee* /General Chairs/ - Claudia Angelini, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, Italy - Adriano Decarli, University of Milan, Italy - Erik Bongcam-Rudloff, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden. /Biostatistics Technical Chair/ - Paola MV Rancoita, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Italy /Bioinformatics Technical Chair/ - Stefano Rovetta, University of Genova, Italy /Special Session and Tutorial Chairs/ To be communicated /Local Organizing Committee/ Valerio Costa, Institute of Genetics and Biophysics, Italy Italia De Feis, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo, Italy Angelo Facchiano, Istituto di Scienze dell'Alimentazione, Italy /Publicity Chair/ Francesco Masulli, University of Genova, Italy & Temple University, USA /Publication Chair/ Riccardo Rizzo, Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni, Italy /Steering Committee/ Pierre Baldi, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Elia Biganzoli, University of Milan, Italy Alexandru Floares, Oncological Institute Cluj-Napoca, Romania Jon Garibaldi, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Francesco Masulli, University of Genova, Italy & Temple University, USA Leif Peterson, TMHRI, Houston, Texas, USA Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno, Italy

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ANNUNCIO SEMINARIO YIMIN XIAO - TOR VERGATA - 25 Febbraio
by Claudio Durastanti 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

Ciclo di Seminari - Progetto ERC PASCAL (Probabilistic and Statistical Techniques for Cosmological Applications) Mercoledì 25 Febbraio ore 16 - Aula Conferenze "Claudio D'Antoni" - Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Tor Vergata - Roma Titolo: Fine Properties of Gaussian Random Fields Speaker: Yimin Xiao - Michigan State University ABSTRACT: In this talk, we show that various properties of strong local nondeterminism can be applied for studying fine properties (e.g. exact moduli of continuity, exact Hausdorff measure functions, regularity of local times and intersection local times) of Gaussian random fields defined on R^N taking values in R^d. Examples of such Gaussian random fields include fractional Brownian motion and solution to certain stochastic heat equations with space-time Gaussian noise. We also show that the method can also be applied to some Gaussian fields on the sphere.

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seminario Claudio Macci in Bicocca
by Fabio Bellini 17 Feb '15

17 Feb '15

Il giorno mercoledì 25 febbraio alle ore 16.30 presso l'aula seminari del DISMEQ, al IV piano dell'edificio U7 in piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, il prof. Claudio Macci del Dipartimento di Matematica della Università di Roma Tor Vergata terrà un seminario su SOME RECENT LARGE DEVIATION RESULTS IN STATISTICS ABSTRACT We consider a family of statistical models with positive unknown parameter (which includes some well-known models for censored exponential data) and some statistical models for samples from stationary Gaussian processes. We prove large deviation results for posterior distributions and, in some cases, also for maximum likelihood estimators. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Prof. Fabio Bellini Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods University of Milano-Bicocca Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, 20126 Milano 0039-2-64483119 http://www.economia.unimib.it/bellini http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=P61L8P4AAAAJ&hl=it

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