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No Free Lunch Seminar by Dr. Joao da Gama Batista, Fri April 10 1:00 PM Aula Bianchi @ SNS
by Giacomo Bormetti 31 Mar '15

31 Mar '15

Fri April 10 2015, 1:00 PM in Aula Bianchi, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa Joao da Gama Batista Laboratoire de mathématiques appliquées aux systèmes École Centrale de Paris will deliver the seminar "Sudden trust collapse in networked societies" Abstract: Trust is a collective, self-fulfilling phenomenon that suggests analogies with phase transitions. We introduce a stylized model for the build-up and collapse of trust in networks, which generically displays a first order transition. The basic assumption of our model is that whereas trustworthiness begets trustworthiness, panic also begets panic, in the sense that a small decrease in trustworthiness may be amplified and ultimately lead to a sudden and catastrophic drop of collective trust. We show, using both numerical simulations and mean-field analytic arguments, that there are extended regions of the parameter space where two equilibrium states coexist: a well-connected network where global confidence is high, and a poorly connected network where global confidence is low. In these coexistence regions, spontaneous jumps from the well-connected state to the poorly connected state can occur, corresponding to a sudden collapse of trust that is not caused by any major external catastrophe. In large systems, spontaneous crises are replaced by history dependence: whether the system is found in one state or in the other essentially depends on initial conditions. All interested people are kindly invited. Best, Giacomo -- Giacomo Bormetti Assistant Professor of Financial Mathematics -------------------------- Faculty of Sciences Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7 56126 Pisa - Italy email: giacomo.bormetti(a)sns.it http://mathfinance.sns.it/index.php/people/41-group-members/51-giacomo-borm… phone: +39 050 509248

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missDATA2015 : Last call for early bird registration
by Pierre-Yves Louis 29 Mar '15

29 Mar '15

from Vincent Audigier, *AUDIGIER Vincent,* Applied Mathematic Department, Agrocampus Ouest 65 rue de Saint-Brieuc, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France Tel: (+33)2 23 48 54 76 Website: http://vincentaudigier.weebly.com/ Dear colleagues, The statistic department of Agrocampus and the data mining group of the french statistical society organize the international conference on missing values and matrix completion MissData in Rennes (France) from 18 to 19 June 2015 at Agrocampus Ouest. The conference website is: http://missdata2015.agrocampus-ouest.fr The objective of this conference is to spotlight the latest research in missing values and matrix completion. We aim to bring together theoretical and applied researchers from different fields of application such as in social-science, genetics, medical analysis, survey, collaborative filtering, image reconstruction, etc. The program comprises R tutorials, invited lectures, a lightning talk session and a lively poster session during the reception. Awards will be given to up to three posters. The invited speakers are some of the main contributors on the topic from different fields:*Mouna Akacha* (Novartis, Switzerland), *Christophe Biernaki* (University Lille 1, France),*Stefan van Buuren* (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands),*John W. Graham* (Pennsylvania State University, US),*David Haziza*, (Montreal University, Canada),*Olga Klopp* (Paris Ouest University, France),*Roderick Little* (University of Michigan, US),*Joseph L. Schaefer* (Census Bureau, Washignton, US),*Shaun Seaman* (Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, UK),*Pierre Vandergheynst* (EPFL, Switzerland),*Recai Yucel* (University Albany, US). We would be glad to have you as a participant or even better as a contributor Important date: *Early bird registration and poster/lightning talk submission deadline : April 1, 2015* contact email:missdata2015@agrocampus-ouest.fr Vincent Audigier from the committee.

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Second call for papers: CIBB 2015, Naples, September 10-12, 2015
by Paola Rancoita 27 Mar '15

27 Mar '15

============================================================================================================================================== *SECOND 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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Seminario di Bernardo Nipoti a Pavia
by Carbone Raffaella 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

Cari colleghi, vi annuncio che martedì 31 marzo, alle ore 14 precise, nell'aula Beltrami del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Universita' di Pavia, Bernardo Nipoti (Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica - Università di Torino) terrà un seminario dal titolo Rediscovery of Good-Turing estimators via Bayesian Nonparametrics Sunto: The problem of estimating discovery probabilities originated in the context of statistical ecology, and in recent years it has become popular due to its frequent appearance in challenging applications arising from biology, bioinformatics, genetics, linguistics, etc. A full range of statistical approaches, parametric and nonparametric as well as frequentist and Bayesian, have been proposed for estimating discovery probabilities. We investigate the relationship between the celebrated Good-Turing approach, which is a frequentist nonparametric approach developed in the 1940s, and the Bayesian nonparametric approach recently introduced in the literature. Specifically, under the assumption of a two parameter Poisson-Dirichlet prior, we show that Bayesian nonparametric estimators of discovery probabilities are asymptotically equivalent to suitably smoothed Good-Turing estimators. As a by-product of this result, we present and discuss a methodology for deriving asymptotic credible intervals to be associated to the Bayesian nonparametric estimators of discovery probabilities. Cordiali saluti, Raffaella Carbone -- Raffaella Carbone, PhD Ricercatore di Probabilità e Statistica Matematica Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia

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Master of Science in Industrial and Applied Mathematics (MSIAM)
by Ester Mariucci 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

Buongiorno, volevo comunicare la creazione del nuovo Master of Science in Industrial and Applied Mathematics (equivalente ad una Laurea Magistrale) a Grenoble: http://msiam.imag.fr/doku.php Per gli studenti interessati, sono disponibili delle borse di studio finanziate dal labex Persyval: https://persyval-lab.org/en/education/call/master-scholarship-academic-year… Cordiali saluti, Ester Mariucci

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Seminario P. Brutti a Tor Vergata - lunedì 30 Marzo
by Claudio Durastanti 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

Ciclo di Seminari - Progetto ERC grant PASCAL (Probabilistic and Statistical Techniques for Cosmological Applications) Lunedì 30 marzo ore 14 - Aula Belpasso - Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma Tor Vergata Speaker: Pierpaolo Brutti, Università "La Sapienza" - Roma Title: Estimating the Intrinsic Dimension: The Bayesian way Abstract: In this talk I will first review some of the methods proposed for making inference on the intrinsic dimension of point cloud data sampled from a low-dimensional structure embedded in a high–dimensional ambient space, and then I will describe a Bayesian solution based on a composite likelihood built under working independence assumptions suggested by MacKay and Ghahramani. In order to get a posterior with approximately correct asymptotic behavior and curvature, I will consider some options to calibrate this pseudolikelihood and then compare in simulated and real examples a standard MCMC method against a variation of the default Bayesian framework of Ventura et al. (2013) (joint work with Alessandro Lanteri). Cordiali saluti Claudio Durastanti

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seminario all'IMATI-Milano
by Antonella Bodini 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

Mercoledi' 1 aprile alle ore 14 presso la sede di Milano dell'IMATI, via Bassini 15, Sala Pentagonale al secondo piano, Valérie Bélanger dell'Universita' HEC Montréal terra' un seminario dal titolo Analysis and development of real-time ambulance fleet management strategies di cui segue il sunto. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. ____________________________ Sunto: Emergency medical services (EMS) evolve in highly random and dynamic contexts. Indeed, the arrival of emergency calls is uncertain and varies throughout the day, forcing decision makers to adapt their decisions in response to observed changes. Two types of decisions are generally considered in real-time: dispatching and relocation. Dispatching decisions consider the selection of which ambulance to send to an emergency call. Relocation decisions consist in relocating available ambulances throughout the day in response to changes in the system state. Given the situation faced by EMS, the analysis and development of real-time management strategies to ensure a good service to the population is clearly of interest. In a first study, several ambulance relocation strategies are compared, and extensive simulation experiments are reported allowing to analyze the performance of these strategies when they face different level of system workload. Results of this study confirm the relevance of simulation methods to support decision-making in EMS stochastic environment. More importantly, they provide researchers and decisions makers with valuable insights on the use of relocation strategies, including the tradeoff between service level and personnel well-being. In a subsequent study, an innovative real-time ambulance fleet management strategy is proposed. New mathematical models and solution approaches are then developed to deal with both relocation and pre-assignment decisions. Preliminary results show that considering explicitly pre-assignment decisions, which are directly related to dispatching decisions, impact location decisions and can help better predict system performances. Cordiali saluti. -- Dott. Antonella Bodini CNR-Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche Via Bassini 15, 20133 Milano (Italy) tel +39 02 23699524 fax +39 02 23699538 http://www.mi.imati.cnr.it/~anto/

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No Free Lunch Seminar by Dott. Tommaso Colozza, Wed April 1 1:00 PM Aula Mancini @ SNS
by Giacomo Bormetti 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

Wed April 1 2015, 1:00 PM in Aula Mancini, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa Tommaso Colozza Dipartimento di Statistica e Matematica Applicata all'Economia - Università di Pisa will deliver the seminar "Supply of public debt and demand for risk premia: a Minskian approach to credit risk" Abstract: Financial stability of EMU countries is managed by policy makers through several key macroeconomic indicators; the market instead monitors creditworthiness with credit risk premia embedded in sovereign yields. A demand-supply approach solves this duality: in a Minskian framework, positive inelastic shifts in debt-to-GDP ratio due to widespread macro-financial distress may lower risk appetites of lenders and increase risk premia, up to default. Time-variating risk appetites justify statistical relevance of debt-to-gdp variation on yields levels; if conveniently decomposed, debt velocity allows also to imply a default probability measure comparable to standard CDS-implied measures. All interested people are kindly invited. Best, Giacomo -- Giacomo Bormetti Assistant Professor of Financial Mathematics -------------------------- Faculty of Sciences Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7 56126 Pisa - Italy email: giacomo.bormetti(a)sns.it http://mathfinance.sns.it/index.php/people/41-group-members/51-giacomo-borm… phone: +39 050 509248

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Summer School in Computational Econometrics
by Marco LI CALZI 26 Mar '15

26 Mar '15

-------------------------------------------------------------------- Summer School in Computational Econometrics - Programming in MatLab ===================================================================== The XII edition of the Summer School in "Computational Macroeconometrics - Programming in MatLab" will be held at the "Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Economia" of the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy) from July 27 to July 31, 2015. The main aim of this 30 hours course is to provide an introduction to applied macroeconomics and macroeconometrics with MATLAB. Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Woitek, Department of Economics, University of Zurich. (deadline for application: 30 June 2015) For details visit: http://www.seec.unisalento.it ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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StaTalk on Biostatistics - final remind
by Francesca Ieva 25 Mar '15

25 Mar '15

Dear all, this is the last call for registrations to the first StaTalk promoted by the young section of Italian Statistical Society (y-SIS), to be held in **Milan (Italy) on April 24th, 2015** *STATALK ON BIOSTATISTICS* https://sites.google.com/site/youngsocietaitalianastatistica/events/statalk… Department of Mathematics "F. Enriques", Università degli Studi di Milano, via Saldini 50, Milano (Italy) All the information, including the program and the sign-up link for the conference, can be found on the conference website. Statalks are a series of one-day workshop aimed at early career statisticians, i.e., master degree students, people carrying out a PhD, post-docs and young researchers. StaTalks are a fantastic opportunity to share knowledge on advanced topics of statistics. The hosting research group will propose tutorials, seminars and interactive round tables on the main fields of research and application it is concerned. Participants can contribute bringing their own experience through presentations, ideas, poster and material to be shared in the debate. Registrations to the first StaTalk are still opened. *No conference fees are due, but registration is mandatory, by April 10th*, using the form available on the website. For further information or any doubt and question, please visit the website https://sites.google.com/site/youngsocietaitalianastatistica/home Best Regards Francesca Ieva -- Francesca Ieva Department of Mathematics Università degli Studi di Milano, via Saldini 50, 20133 Milano web: https://sites.google.com/site/mypagefi mail to: francesca.ieva(a)unimi.it

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Seminario ANTONIETTI (RGS & Matematica Applicata)
by Giacomo Aletti 24 Mar '15

24 Mar '15

Con preghiera di diffusione tra tutti i possibili interessati, scusandomi per invii multipli. Cordialmente, Giacomo Aletti -------------- Nell'ambito dei Reading Group Seminars e del Seminario di Matematica Applicata, il giorno lunedì 19 Gennaio 2015, alle ore 14.30, nell'Aula C del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Via C. Saldini, 50, Milano, "Testing spiking neural network cerebellar model in closed-loop: three neurorobotic paradigms" Alberto ANTONIETTI Neuroengineering and medical robotics lab., Politecnico di Milano, ABSTRACT: The cerebellum is involved in a large number of different neural processes, especially in associative learning and in fine motor control. To develop a comprehensive theory of sensorimotor learning and control, it is crucial to determine the neural basis of coding and plasticity embedded into the cerebellar neural circuit and how they are translated into behavioral outcomes in learning paradigms. Learning has to be inferred from the interaction of an embodied system with its real environment, and the same cerebellar principles derived from cell physiology have to be able to drive a variety of tasks of different nature, calling for complex timing and movement patterns. We have coupled a realistic cerebellar spiking neural network with a real robot and challenged it in multiple diverse sensorimotor tasks. Adaptive motor control protocols with acquisition and extinction phases have been designed and tested, including an associative Pavlovian task (Eye blinking classical conditioning), a vestibulo-ocular task and a perturbed arm reaching task operating in closed-loop. A bidirectional long-term plasticity rule implemented at parallel fibers-Purkinje cell synapses modulated the output activity in the deep cerebellar nuclei. In all tasks, the neurorobot learned to adjust timing and gain of the motor responses by tuning its output discharge. It succeeded in reproducing how human biological systems acquire, extinguish and express knowledge of a noisy and changing world. ================= Reading Group Seminars: The Reading Group Seminars (RGS) are organized within an open community of researchers interested in applying up to date mathematical modeling and data analysis approaches to the study of biological systems. The RGS take place at the Math. Department in Milan (via Saldini). Initiatives and updates are published on the website: http://rgs.mat.unimi.it/. -- ------------------------------- Giacomo Aletti, Associate Professor ADAMSS Centre (ex MIRIAM) Advanced Applied Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Department of Mathematics (www.matematica.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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4th Stochastic Geometry Days in Poitiers, August 26-28, 2015 + Introd. Lectures August 24-26, 2015
by Pierre-Yves Louis 22 Mar '15

22 Mar '15

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce that the 4th Stochastic Geometry Days organized by the French research group GeoSto will take place in Poitiers from August 26th to August 28th, 2015. The conference will be preceded by two introductory lectures for PhD and post-doc students from August 24th to August 26th. Registration is open until May 31st. For more information, you can visit the website http://www-math.sp2mi.univ-poitiers.fr/GeoSto2015/

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Schwartzman & Cheng - 25 MARZO - TOR VERGATA - CICLO SEMINARI PASCAL
by Valentina Cammarota 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

Ciclo di Seminari - Progetto ERC grant PASCAL (Probabilistic and Statistical Techniques for Cosmological Applications) Mercoledi` 25 marzo ore 14 - 16 Aula D'Antoni 1101 Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma Tor Vergata Speakers: Armin Schwartzman & Dang Cheng Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University Title: Distribution of the Height of Local Maxima of Gaussian Random Fields Abstract: Let {f(t): t \in T} be a smooth Gaussian random field over a parameter space T, where T may be a subset of Euclidean space or, more generally, a Riemannian manifold. We provide a general formula for the distribution of the height of a local maximum P { f(t_0)>u | t_0 is a local maximum of f(t) } when f is non-stationary. Moreover, we establish asymptotic approximations for the overshoot distribution of a local maximum P { f(t_0)>u+v | t_0 is a local maximum of f(t) and f(t_0)>v } as v \to \infty. Assuming further that f is isotropic, we apply techniques from random matrices theory related to the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble to compute such conditional probabilities explicitly when T is Euclidean or a sphere of arbitrary dimension. Such calculations are motivated by the statistical problem of detecting peaks in the presence of smooth Gaussian noise. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. ................................................................................ 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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Second Juelich-Torino Workshop on Computational Neuroscience
by Roberta Sirovich 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

The second *Juelich-Torino* Workshop on *Computational Neuroscience* will be held on *April 17, 2015 * *at the Department of Mathematics "G. Peano", Torino University * For more information please visit: http://www.dipmatematica.unito.it/unitoWAR/page/dipartimenti1/D005/D005_jul… Participation is free. All people interested to participate are invited to register, sending an e-mail to laura.sacerdote(a)unito.it Best regards, Roberta Sirovich -- --------------------------------------------------- Roberta Sirovich Department of Mathematics G. Peano University of Torino Via Carlo Alberto 10 10123 Torino (Italy) +390116702937 www.robertasirovich.it <http://www.personalweb.unito.it/roberta.sirovich/EN/Home.html> ---------------------------------------------------

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Secondo seminario di Elena Kosygina
by Mariani, Mauro 19 Mar '15

19 Mar '15

In aggiungta al seminario gia' segnalato di Mercoledi' 25, il giorno Venerdi' 27 Marzo 2015 alloe ore 15:00, nell'Aula INdAM del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Universita' di Roma La Sapienza Elena Kosygina (Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center) effettuera' un seminario dal titolo: *On the connection between homogenization of some stochastic Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations and large deviations of diffusions with random drift in a random potential* Sunto del seminario: The connection mentioned in the title is well-known (see, for example, A.-S. Sznitman, Brownian motion in a Poissonian potential, 1993, PTRF). The goal of the talk is to review some necessary facts from large deviations theory and explain that this connection is actually an equivalence. Un saluto Mauro Mariani

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1st announcement - 39th AMASES Meeting
by Tiziano Vargiolu 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

39th AMASES Padova, March 18, 2015 PADOVA Dear colleagues, we are pleased to announce the 39th Annual Meeting of the Italian Association for Mathematics Applied to Economic and Social Sciences (AMASES). The meeting will take place at the University of Padova, Italy, on September 10-12, 2015. As in the AMASES established tradition, the Meeting objective is to keep open a discussion forum among scholars and practitioners from Italy and all around the world, working on different aspects of Mathematics applied to Economic and Social Sciences. The three day scientific program will consist of plenary talks and presentations of contributed papers on Financial Mathematics, Decision Theory, Mathematics for Economics, Actuarial Mathematics, Game Theory, Optimization and Economics. The invited plenary speakers are Jean-Marc Bonnisseau (Paris 1, Sorbonne), Mich?le Breton (HEC Montr?al), Juan Enrique Martinez-Legaz (Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona), Kiminori Matsuyama (Northwestern University), Wolfgang Runggaldier (Universit? degli Studi di Padova, Emerito). The web-site of the meeting will be available soon with further information, in particular on abstract submission, registration and deadline s. I look forward to your participation in the 39th AMASES Meeting in Padova. On behalf of the Organising Committee, Bruno Viscolani -- Prof. Bruno Viscolani Dipartimento di Matematica Universit? degli Studi di Padova via Trieste, 63 35121 Padova - Italy tel. +39 049 827 1397 e-mail: viscolani(a)math.unipd.it 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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Econophysics Colloquium 2015
by Enrico Scalas 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

Call for Abstracts: Econophysics Colloquium 2015 Dear Colleague, We warmly invite you to participate in the 11th Econophysics Colloquium (EC2015) which is held at the Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic between 14-16 September 2015. To submit your abstract and for additional information, please visit http://www.ec2015.org. CONFERENCE TOPICS Conference topics traditionally cover the applications of methods and modeling paradigms from physics and natural sciences to socio-economic problems. The topics include but are not limited to: Agent-based models in economics and finance Complex systems and complex networks Computational experimental finance Derivatives pricing and hedging Evolutionary game theory Financial engineering Fractal and multifractal analysis and modeling Market dynamics, macroscopic models and prediction Market microstructure Risk management & portfolio analysis Statistical and probabilistic methods in economics and finance Social physics and Sociophysics Stylized facts INVITED SPEAKERS Tomaso Aste (University College London, UK) Jozef Barunik (Charles University in Prague & Czech Academy of Sciences) Siew Ann Cheong (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Tiziana Di Matteo (King's College London, UK) Dariusz Grech (University of Wroclaw, Poland) Giulia Iori (City University, London, UK) Woo Sung Jung (POSTECH, Pohang, South Korea) Janos Kertesz (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) Ladislav Kristoufek (Charles University in Prague & Czech Academy of Sciences) Reimer Kuehn (King's College London, UK) Sai-Ping Li (Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan) Suzy Moat (University of Warwick, UK) Luciano Pietronero (University of Rome, Italy) Tobias Preis (University of Warwick, UK) Enrico Scalas (University of Sussex, UK) Frank Schweitzer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) H. Eugene Stanley (Boston University, USA) Hideki Takayasu (Sony CSL & Meiji University, Japan) Misako Takayasu (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Stefan Thurner (Medical University of Vienna, Austria) Wei-Xing Zhou (East China University of Science and Technology, China) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission opens: 16th March 2015 Abstract submission closes: 15th May 2015 Decision: 31st May 2015 Deadline for early-bird registration: 15th June 2015 Deadline for regular registration: 15th July 2015 We look forward to meeting you in Prague. With warm wishes, EC2015 organizers

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Cancellazione seminario Puccetti@DSS
by Pierpaolo Brutti 18 Mar '15

18 Mar '15

Brevissimo msg solo per comunicare che il seminario di Giovanni Puccetti previsto per venerdì 20 marzo in Sapienza è *annullato* per motivi di salute dello speaker. Cordialmente --P

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Seminario Lorenzo Peccati a Macerata il 25 marzo 2015
by Roy Cerqueti 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Cari colleghi, mercoledì 25 marzo 2015 ore 11, presso lUniversità di Macerata, in aula verde (Polo Pantaleoni, Via della Pescheria Vecchia) Lorenzo Peccati dell'Università Bocconi di Milano terrà un seminario dal titolo: Diritto e matematica: due mondi disgiunti? Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare.

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Seminario Elena Kosygina
by Mariani, Mauro 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Il giorno Mercoledi' 25 marzo 2015, alle ore 14:00, nell'Aula G del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Universita' la Sapienza di Roma Elena Kosygina (Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center) effettuera' un seminario di circa un'ora: TITOLO: Excited random walks in Markovian cookie environments on Z SUNTO: We consider a nearest-neighbor random walk on Z whose probability ω(x, n) to jump to the right from site x depends not only on x but also on the number of prior visits n to x. The collection (ω(x, n)) is sometimes called the “cookie environment” due to the following informal interpretation. Upon each visit to a site the walker eats a cookie from the cookie stack at that site and chooses the probability to jump to the right according to the “flavour” of the cookie eaten. Assume that the cookie stacks are i.i.d. and that only the first M cookies in each stack may have “flavour”. All other cookies are assumed to be “plain”, i.e. after their consumption the walker makes unbiased steps to one of its neighbours. The “flavours” of the first M cookies within the stack can be different and dependent. We discuss recurrence/transience, ballisticity, and limit theorems for such walks. The talk is based on joint works with Dolgopyat (University of Mary-land), Mountford, Zerner. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare Un saluto Mauro Mariani

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reminder seminario Prof. Freddy Delbaen in Bicocca e spostamento di orario
by Emanuela Rosazza 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Cari tutti, vi ricordo che (oltre al seminario de Finetti che si terrà al Dipartimento di Matematica – Università di Milano – mercoledì 18 marzo alle ore 18) il Prof. Freddy Delbaen (ETH Zurigo) terrà anche un seminario in Bicocca (edificio U7- aula seminari – stanza 4026) giovedì 19 marzo alle ore 16 dal titolo “A result on metrisability of the mackey topology inspired by properties of risk measures”. 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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Master of Science (MSc) Scholarship in Statistics
by elisa＠mi.imati.cnr.it 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

Alla cortese attenzione dei possibili interessati. *Master of Science (MSc) Scholarship * *Project:* Developing Inversion Methods for Non-stationary Thinning of Point Processes An MSc scholarship is available to support a student for full-time study towards a research Master's degree in the project specified above in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Otago in Dunedin. Details are as follows: *Award offered: University of Otago Master program -- MARSDEN FUNDED* *Length of Tenure: 12 months or until thesis is submitted (whichever is earlier)* *Emolument per annum: NZ$16,000 plus domestic tuition fee waiver** *Additional funding is available for travel* *Start date: The earliest start date is May 2015 (can be negotiated)* *Part-time study: Part-time study is not permitted* ** *For international applicants who need to pay international tuition fees, the scholarship contributes a fee maximum of domestic tuition and the successful candidate needs to meet the remainder of the international tuition fees http://www.otago.ac.nz/international/otago002190.html** This scholarship is funded by a Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fast-start grant awarded to Dr Ting Wang (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago). The regulations governing the award are the same as those for University of Otago Scholarships: http://www.otago.ac.nz/study/scholarships/otago013798.pdf This project aims to develop analytical and numerical methods to inverse point processes with non-stationary missing probabilities, where the probability of missing an event depends on time and event size. The successful applicant will learn point process theory; carry out part of the simulation study and some data analysis using the statistical software R under the supervision of Dr Ting Wang. As the Associate Investigators (AIs) Associate Professor Jiancang Zhuang (Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo) and Dr Koji Kiyosugi (University of Tokyo) are both based in Japan, a visit to Japan is likely to be funded by this project for the student to receive informal mentoring from the AIs. *Eligibility* Applicants should hold a BSc (Hons) or equivalent four year degree in Statistics or a related discipline with a strong research interest. For an exceptional graduate student who has only completed a BSc degree without Honours year, additional scholarship may be awarded for the year of course studies. *Applying for this scholarship* Please contact Dr Ting Wang (twang(a)maths.otago.ac.nz <mailto:twang@maths.otago.ac.nz>, http://www.stats.otago.ac.nz/?People =ting_wang) and provide a covering letter explaining your interest in this project, a CV, a copy of your full academic transcript, and details of two academic referees. For information on the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Otago, please go to http://www.stats.otago.ac.nz/ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Elisa Varini CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche IMATI - Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche via Bassini 15 - 20133 Milano (Italy) Tel +39 02 23699 527 Fax +39 02 23699 538 Email elisa(a)mi.imati.cnr.it -------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: First announcement: Spring School on discrete Ricci curvature, Paris, Paris, IHP, May 18-22 2015
by Gustavo Posta 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

Begin forwarded message: > FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT > Spring School > IHP, Paris > Monday – Friday, May 18-22, 2015 > > > Dear Colleague, > > You are cordially invited to participate in the Spring School at the Henri Poincaré Institute, Paris, May 18-22, 2015. > > We are pleased to inform you that Jürgen Jost (Max Plank Institute, Leipzig) and Christian Leonard (Paris Ouest University) will give 10 hours lectures (each) > on Discrete Ricci curvature. The aim is to bring researchers from different communities (Geometry, Probability, Analysis) on the common topic of the Ricci curvature and its consequences. > > To get more information about this Spring School, please go to the following web page (in construction): > > http://wiki-math.univ-mlv.fr/gemecod/doku.php/springschool2015 > > Registration is free but mandatory. In order to register, fill the form on the bottom of the aforementioned web page. > > Note that the school may have some (limited number of) financial supports for young people (PhD, postdocs). In case you ask for a support, please > indicate it during the registration. Financial support is up to approximately 500 euros. Please read the conditions on the bottom of the school web page. > > Looking very much forward to seeing you in Paris, > > With all best wishes, > The organizers (N. Gozlan, C. Roberto, P. Romon and P.M. Samson)

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Seminario di A. Cipriani a Milano-Bicocca (30.03.2015)
by Francesco Caravenna 16 Mar '15

16 Mar '15

Lunedì 30 marzo 2015 alle ore 14:30, nell'aula 3014 del Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni dell'Università di Milano-Bicocca (edificio U5, via Cozzi 55, Milano), Alessandra Cipriani (WIAS Berlin) terrà un seminario dal titolo "Rates of convergence for extremes of geometric random variables and marked point processes" Trovate il sommario di seguito. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Francesco Caravenna %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Abstract: We study the problem of extremes for univariate and bivariate geometric laws. We determine the rate of convergence of the maximum of \iid geometric random variables and bivariate vectors following the Marshall-Olkin geometric distribution to a Gumbel distribution, and propose a new discretised version as limit. We introduce marked point processes of exceedances (MPPE's) whose \iid marks are bivariate Marshall-Olkin geometric variables. We use the Stein-Chen method for Poisson process approximation to determine bounds on the error of the approximation of the law of the MPPE by that of a Poisson process. (jww Anne Feidt) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% _________________________________________ 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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Stats Under The Stars!
by stefano iacus 13 Mar '15

13 Mar '15

Ricevo e inoltro con piacere La notte tra l'8 ed il 9 Settembre 2015 si svolgerà presso la sala Rossini del Caffè Pedrocchi di Padoval'evento Stats Under The Stars. L'evento ha l'obiettivo di stimolare il dinamismo che lega la Statistica al mondo dei giovani tramite una sfida che vedrà le squadre partecipanti confrontarsi nell'analisi di un dataset nel corso di un'intera nottata. Uno scontro che in realtà vuole essere un'occasione per sottolineare l'utilità della Statistica come strumento chiave in ottica decisionale e favorire l'incontro ed il confronto tra giovani laureandi e neo-laureati in Statistica, studenti di dottorato, giovani statistici già inseriti nel mondo lavorativo e ragazzi provenienti da altri tipi di formazione come l'informatica, matematica e l'economia. Stats Under The Stars è un "satellite" della Conferenza scientifica della Società Italiana di Statistica Statistics and Demography: the Legacy of Corrado Gini ed è supportato dalla sezione giovani della Società Italiana di Statistica. L'evento si accoppia inoltre con il convegno Statistica e data science per il business che si svolge martedì 8 settembre nel Palazzo del Bo a Padova. La partecipazione all'evento è gratuita ma, per motivi organizzativi, chiediamo a tutti gli interessati di iscriversi alla pagina di iscrizione del sito. Per maggiori informazioni sul programma, iscrizione, regolamenti e premio: consultare il sito http://sus.stat.unipd.it/ ----------------------------------- Stefano M. Iacus Director of MEF - Master in Economics & Finance http://www.mef.unimi.it 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 Master in Economics & Finance http://www.mef.unimi.it Twitter: @mefunimi Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mefunimi Email and further informations at: mef(a)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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