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Seminario di Probabilità - Padova
by Paolo Dai Pra 16 Feb '18

16 Feb '18

Ho il piacere di invitarvi al seguente seminario, che si terrà Martedì 20 Febbraio 2018 alle 14:15 in Aula 2BC30 della Torre Archimede presso il Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università degli Studi di Padova. SPEAKER: Jacopo Borga AFFILIATION: Institut für Mathematik, Universität Zürich TITLE: Convergenza locale per permutazioni ABSTRACT: Per grandi strutture combinatorie, possono essere definite due principali nozioni di convergenza: gli ”scaling limits” e i limiti locali. In particolare per i grafi, entrambe le nozioni sono state studiate e sono ad oggi ben comprese. Per le permutazioni solo una nozione corrispondente agli ”scaling limits”, chiamati permutoni, è stata recentemente introdotta. La convergenza per permutoni è stata caratterizzata in termini di frequenze di occorrenze di pattern. Costruiremo una nuova nozione di convergenza locale per permutazioni e dimostreremo una caratterizzazione in termini delle frequenze di occorrenze consecutive di pattern. Saremo in grado di caratterizzare gli oggetti limite aleatori introducendo una proprietà di ”shift-invarianza” (corrispondente alla celebre nozione di unimodularità per grafi aleatori). Infine mostreremo due applicazioni nell’ambito delle permutazioni pattern-evitanti, calcolando il limite locale per permutazioni π-evitanti aleatorie, per |π| = 3. Per quest’ultimo risultato utilizzeremo delle biiezioni tra permutazioni pattern-evitanti e alberi ordinati radicati, un risultato sui limiti locali per alberi di Galton-Watson e analisi delle singolarità. Paolo Dai Pra Dipartimento di Matematica Via Trieste, 63 35121 Padova Tel. +39 0498271361 Fax +39 0498271428 daipra(a)math.unipd.it

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Quantitative Finance Seminar @ SNS - L. Campi (LSE)
by Elisa Letizia 15 Feb '18

15 Feb '18

The video of today seminar by Prof. Luciano Campi (LSE) is available at: http://mathfinance.sns.it/index.php/luciano-campi-nonzero-sum-stochastic-di… <https://youtu.be/mJ1p1DbmzUE> *Title:* Nonzero-sum stochastic differential games with impulse controls: a verification theorem with applications *Abstract: * We consider a general nonzero-sum impulse game with two players. The main mathematical contribution of the paper is a verification theorem which provides, under some regularity conditions, a suitable system of quasi-variational inequalities for the value functions and the optimal strategies of the two players. As an application, we study an impulse game with a one-dimensional state variable, following a real-valued scaled Brownian motion, and two players with linear and symmetric running payoffs. We fully characterize a Nash equilibrium and provide explicit expressions for the optimal strategies and the value functions. We also prove some asymptotic results with respect to the intervention costs. Finally, we consider two further non-symmetric examples where a Nash equilibrium is found numerically. -- *Elisa Letizia* PhD student in Financial Mathematics Scuola Normale Superiore Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7 Pisa ph. +39 050 509092

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Politecnico di Milano - Bando RtdA
by Daniele Marazzina 15 Feb '18

15 Feb '18

Con preghiera di diffusione Segnaliamo il bando per una posizione RtDA presso il Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Matematica, per il settore concorsuale 13/D4. Scadenza 15 Marzo 2018. Dettagli qui di seguito. Daniele Marazzina Professore Associato Dipartimento di Matematica - Politecnico di Milano Selezione pubblica per l'assunzione di 1 Ricercatore a tempo determinato (Junior) ai sensi dell'art. 24, comma 3, lettera a) Legge 30.12.2010, n. 240, Tempo pieno - Settore Concorsuale 13/D4 - METODI MATEMATICI DELL’ECONOMIA E DELLE SCIENZE ATTUARIALI E FINANZIARIE, bandita con Decreto Direttoriale n. 355 del 18/01/2018, pubblicato sulla G.U. del 13/02/2018, n.13 (Codice procedura: 2018/RTDA_MAT27). https://www.polimi.it/index.php?id=6196&tx_wfqbe_pi1[ID]=364

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Bando RTDA SECS-S/06 presso la Luiss. Scadenza 19 febbraio 2018
by Fausto Gozzi 14 Feb '18

14 Feb '18

Si segnala il bando seguente in scadenza tra pochi giorni e si invitano tutti gli interessati a presentare domanda. 13/D4 - Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e finanziarie Pubblicato sulla Gazzetta Ufficiale in data 5 gennaio 2018 Settore scientifico-disciplinare SECS-S/06 - Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e finanziarie presso il Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza della LUISS Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli. Ricercatore art. 24, comma 3, lett. a) Codice concorso DEF-RIC-03/2018 Scadenza: 19 febbraio 2018 * <http://www.luiss.it/sites/www.luiss.it/files/BANDO_DEF-RIC-03-2018.pdf>Bando DEF-RIC-03/2018 Fausto Gozzi Posto da ricercatore di tipo A. Scadenza: 19 febbraio 2018 13/D4 - Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e finanziarie Pubblicato sulla Gazzetta Ufficiale in data 5 gennaio 2018 Settore scientifico-disciplinare SECS-S/06 - Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e finanziarie presso il Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza della LUISS Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli. Ricercatore art. 24, comma 3, lett. a) Codice concorso DEF-RIC-03/2018 Scadenza: 19 febbraio 2018 * <http://www.luiss.it/sites/www.luiss.it/files/BANDO_DEF-RIC-03-2018.pdf>Bando DEF-RIC-03/2018 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 address, sometimes still used: Fausto Gozzi Dipartimento di Matematica Universita' di Pisa Largo Bruno Pontecorvo n.5 56127 Pisa Italy tel 050/2213270 e-mail: gozzi(a)dm.unipi.it

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Assegno di ricerca SECS-S/01 -- Università di Torino
by Raffaele Argiento 14 Feb '18

14 Feb '18

Con preghiera di diffusione a tutti gli interessati. Si segnala l'uscita di un bando per un assegno di ricerca di un anno per il settore scientifico disciplinare SECS-S/01 - Statistica. Si riporta, in calce alla mail, una breve descrizione del progetto di ricerca (in inglese). Le domande di ammissione alla selezione devono essere presentate utilizzando esclusivamente l'apposita procedura online al link https://pica.cineca.it/unito/assegni-di-ricerca-unito-2018-I/ dove è anche possibile scaricare il testo completo del bando. La presentazione delle domande di partecipazione dovrà essere perfezionata e conclusa improrogabilmente entro le ore 13.00 (ora di Roma) del 05/03/2018. Un saluto, Raffaele Argiento ########## PROJECT DESCRIPTION ####### TITLE: Dependent nonparametric priors for microbiome studies ABSTRACT: Microbiology is experiencing a revolution brought on by recent developments in sequencing technology. The unprecedented volume of microbiome data being generated poses significant challenges that are highly stimulating the research in the applied statistical field. In this project, we aim at assessing the effect of the Mediterranean diet on the gut microbioma. To take into account heterogeneity in the population under study, the research fellow will set up a Bayesian dependent nonparametric model. The study has an applied profile but it will also deals with methodological issues, focusing on the computational issues arising under the Bayesian nonparametric approach when dealing with complex data. RESEARCH SCIENTIFIC SUPERVISOR: Dott. Raffaele Argiento -- Dr. Raffaele Argiento University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto www.raffaeleargiento.it

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MSP 2018 - ERRATA CORRIGE
by gianluca cassese 14 Feb '18

14 Feb '18

*SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS* *The Mathematics of Subjective Probability - MSP 2018* The MSP 2018 Workshop will be held in September 3-5, at the University of Milan Bicocca. https://sites.google.com/view/MSP-2018. The workshop will host as keynote speakers - Ehud Kalai; - Rajeeva Karandikar; - Massimo Marinacci, - Eugenio Regazzini; - William D. Sudderth; MSP 2018 is open to contributions from all fields in which the subjective approach to probability is relevant, from Statistics to Economics and Game Theory. The list of potential topics includes (*but is not limited to*): - Ambiguity; - Bayesian statistics; - Coherence; - Conditioning; - Decision models under risk and uncertainty; - Equivalent martingale measures; - Finitely additive probabilities; - Gambling; - Game Theory; - Limit theorems; - Mass transportation; - Merging of opinions; - Multiple priors; - Partial knowledge. The Springer Journal "Decisions in Economics and Finance" plans to devote a special issue to the workshop *Important dates* - *Paper submission -- March 31st* - *Notification of acceptance -- April 30th* - *Conference subscription -- June 30th* The organizing committee, -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gianluca Cassese (Università Milano-Bicocca) Pietro Rigo (Università di Pavia) Barbara Vantaggi (Università Roma - La Sapienza) --------------------------------------------------------------------

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MSP 2018 - Second CALL
by gianluca cassese 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

*SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS* *The Mathematics of Subjective Probability - MSP 2018* The MSP 2018 Workshop will be held in September 3-5, at the University of Milan Bicocca Piazza della Scienza 4, 20126 Milan. The workshop will host as keynote speakers - Ehud Kalai; - Rajeeva Karandikar; - Massimo Marinacci, - Eugenio Regazzini; - William D. Sudderth; MSP 2018 is open to contributions from all fields in which the subjective approach to probability is relevant, from Statistics to Economics and Game Theory. The list of potential topics includes (*but is not limited to*): - Ambiguity; - Bayesian statistics; - Coherence; - Conditioning; - Decision models under risk and uncertainty; - Equivalent martingale measures; - Finitely additive probabilities; - Gambling; - Game Theory; - Limit theorems; - Mass transportation; - Merging of opinions; - Multiple priors; - Partial knowledge. The Springer Journal "Decisions in Economics and Finance" plans to devote a special issue to the workshop *Important dates* - *Paper submission -- March 31st* - *Notification of acceptance -- April 30th* - *Conference subscription -- June 30th* The organizing committee, --------------------------- Gianluca Cassese Pietro Rigo Barbara Vantaggi --------------------------

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Workshop in honour of Maurizio Pratelli
by Marco Romito 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

*Workshop in honour of Maurizio Pratell**i* We are delighted to announce a Workshop in honour of Maurizio Pratelli, which will be held on June 29, 2018, in the Aula Magna of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Pisa. Invited speakers are Paolo Baldi, Freddy Delbaen, Hans Foellmer, Marco Frittelli, Paolo Guasoni, Huyen Pham, Wolfgang Runggaldier, see http://people.dm.unipi.it/spass/workshop/20180629/ There is no registration fee, but participants are kindly requested to register sending an email to pratelline(a)gmail.com <mailto:pratelline@gmail.com> Since there is limited space available, admission will be on a first come, first served basis. The Organisation Committee Anna Battauz Francesca Biagini Sara Biagini Marzia de Donno Sabrina Mulinacci Dario Trevisan Franco Flandoli Marco Romito

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seminario MACCI
by Elena Villa 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Con preghiera di diffusione tra tutti i possibili interessati, scusandomi per invii multipli. ******************************************* A v v i s o d i S e m i n a r i o ******************************************* *Mercoledì 21 Febbraio 2018, ore 11* Sala Rappresentanza, Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' degli Studi di Milano via C. Saldini 50, Milano il Professor *CLAUDIO MACCI*(Università di Roma Tor Vergata) terrà un seminario dal titolo *Asymptotic behavior of some hitting probabilities for sums of IID Gaussian random sets* ABSTRACT: In this article, we consider sequences of partial sums of iid Gaussian random sets (with respect to the Minkowski sum) and we study the asymptotic behavior of some hitting probabilities (of suitable sets of $R^d$) for these partial sums. We also illustrate the use of the importance sampling for the estimation of these hitting probabilities by Monte Carlo simulations. We obtain the analog of well-known results for level crossing probabilities of random walks, and we refer to a version of the classical Cramér's Theorem in large deviations for random compact sets existing in the literature. Joint work with Barbara Pacchiarotti. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Saluti Elena Villa -- ******************************************* Elena Villa Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' degli Studi di Milano via C.Saldini 50, 20133 Milano, Italy Phone: +39 0250316132 - Fax: +39 0250316090 Web-page:http://users.mat.unimi.it/~villa

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Seminar at Scuola Normale Superiore, 16 February 2018, Paolo dai Pra
by Giulia 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

Dear all, On Friday, 16 February 2018 — from 11:30 to 13:00 — at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Room: Fermi) Prof. Paolo dai Pra (University of Padova, department of Mathematics) will hold the following Seminar: Title : Rhythmic behavior in complex stochastic dynamics Abstract: Interacting particle systems may exhibit, in the thermodynamic limit, a time-periodic behavior in the evolution of their law. We have made an attempt to understand which factors may produce this phenomenon, in particular those related to the time-symmetry breaking of the dynamics: dissipation, delay, asymmetry in the interaction. We will first review some examples of mean field dynamics for which the thermodynamic limit can be explicitly computed and analyzed. Later we will focus on some partial results concerning the first, to our knowledge, example of rhythmic behavior for a system with local interaction: the Ising model with dissipation. Fill free to forward this announcement to your colleagues. Fill free to forward this announcement to your colleagues. Best Giulia Livieri Assegnista di ricerca Scuola Normale Superiore Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7, 56126 Pisa PI room 65

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Advanced School on complexity and emergence: first announcement
by elisa mastrogiacomo 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

This is the *first announcement* of the upcoming *Advanced School on complexity and emergence: ideas, methods, with a special attention to economics and finance (CEIM)* The School will be held in the magnificent Villa del Grumello, Como (Italy) along the Lake Como shore on July 22-27, 2018. The main courses will be given by L. Boi (EHESS – Paris), I. Capelli (Università dell’Insubria), I. Ekeland (Ceremade - Universitè Paris-Dauphine), F. Guerra (Sapienza Università di Roma), J. Jost (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences - Leipzig), Florent McIsaac, (Agence Française pour le Développement), F. Patras (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis), F. Riedel (Center for Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University), F. Semboloni (Università degli studi di Firenze), R. Seri (Università dell’Insubria). The potential participants of the School are primarily master and doctorate students of mathematics, information sciences, theoretical physics, and economics, as well as research workers in those areas, who want to enlarge their spectrum of knowledge towards the area of complexity. The aim of the School is to provide these researchers useful instruments from the theory of complex systems, both on the theoretical level and the methodological ones, bridging the present disciplinary gap, and profiting from knowledge and insights from both communities. The School may have some (limited number of) financial supports. Details about the registration, the application for financial support and the website will come soon in a follow-up message. We would be grateful if you could circulate this announcement among your PhD students, postdocs and colleagues. With our best regards, Sergio Albeverio Elisa Mastrogiacomo Fabio Minazzi Emanuela Rosazza Gianin Stefania Ugolini

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INdAM-DP-COFUND Call 2 is open
by davide gabrielli 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

lIstituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Francesco Severi (INdAM), Ente Nazionale di Ricerca vigilato dal Ministero dellIstruzione, Università e Ricerca, ha bandito il secondo concorso per 10 borse di dottorato del programma INdAM Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and/or Applications Cofunded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, cofinanziato dalla UE nellambito di Horizon 2020. Il programma offre a ricercatori da tutto il mondo lopportunità di accedere a uno dei più di 20 dottorati italiani in Matematica e/o applicazioni che partecipano al Programma. La scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è il 31 maggio 2018. La scadenza per la presentazione del titolo di accesso al dottorato prescelto è il 30 settembre 2018 per i cittadini europei, il 31 maggio 2018 per i cittadini extra-europei Il sito per la presentazione delle domande è https://cofund.altamatematica.it The Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica Francesco Severi (INdAM) has published the second call for 10 PhD fellowships of the programme INdAM Doctoral Programme in Mathematics and/or Applications Cofunded by Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, in the framework of the European Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Co-funding of Regional, National and International Programmes. These fellowships offer to researchers from all over the world the opportunity to enter a PhD School in Matehematics and/or applications in Italy. The deadline for submission of the application is 31 May 2018; the deadline for submission of the degree/diploma which allows to embark in a doctorate in Italy : EU citizens 30 September 2018, non EU citizens 31 May 2018. For further information, please visit the following link: Application website: https://cofund.altamatematica.it where the complete Call announcement and a Guide for applicants can be downloaded

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Annuncio Seminario
by gianmario tessitore 08 Feb '18

08 Feb '18

Mercoledì 7 Febbraio 2018 alle ore 14:30 nell'aula 3014 del Dipartimento di Matematica dell' Università di Milano-Bicocca il dottor James Ting Feng Yang (University of Sydney) terrà un seminario dal titolo: Titolo: "A Survey into Singularly Perturbed Linear-Quadratic Stochastic Differential Games" Abstract: The purpose of this survey is to gain a clear understanding to open questions with regards to linear-quadratic (LQ) stochastic differential games whereby the dynamics of the two players evolve at different speeds. Some interesting questions include the existence and uniqueness of Nash equilibrium and the formulation and convergence of the limiting system as the speed of the two players diverge. To do so, we examine recent literature in LQ stochastic differential game theory and singularly perturbed LQ optimal control theory. As the array of literature is rather small in these fields, we will also talk about some achievements in their non-linear counterparts. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare cordiali saluti Gianmario Tessitore Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

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First announcement Summer School on "Information Theory: Inequalities, Distances and Analysis", Paris, June 25-29 2018 (fwd)
by Michele Gianfelice 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

Salve, ricevo ed inoltro p.c. scusandomi con chi l'ha già ricevuto. Cordialmente, m.gianfelice ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 10:51:13 +0100 From: Cyril ROBERTO <cyril.roberto(a)math.cnrs.fr> Reply-To: Cyril Roberto <summerschoolihp2018(a)gmail.com> Cc: Vincent Beffara <vbeffara(a)ens-lyon.fr>, hugo.duminil(a)gmail.com, izc202(a)nyu.edu, eyal(a)microsoft.com, Gerard Ben Arous <gba1(a)nyu.edu>, J. v.d. Berg <J.van.den.Berg(a)cwi.nl>, Amir Dembo <adembo(a)stat.stanford.edu>, r.w.v.d.hofstad(a)tue.nl, albertogandolfi(a)gmail.com, Fabio Martinelli <martin(a)mat.uniroma3.it>, Charles Newman <newman(a)courant.nyu.edu>, Vladas Sidoravicius <sidoravi(a)courant.nyu.edu>, richth(a)mathematik.uni-muenchen.de, bhamidi(a)email.unc.edu, colomo(a)fi.infn.it, toninelli.fabio(a)gmail.com, hochberg(a)macs.biu.ac.il, daniel(a)ueltschi.org, Demeter Kiss <D.Kiss(a)cwi.nl>, lorebaglio(a)hotmail.it, blondel(a)clipper.ens.fr, orenshtein.tal(a)gmail.com, Vetõ Bálint <vetob(a)math.bme.hu>, Quentin Berger <quentin.berger(a)ens-lyon.fr>, Balázs Ráth <rathb(a)math.ethz.ch>, Peter Windridge <pete(a)windridge.org.uk>, mfathi(a)clipper.ens.fr, artem.sapozhnikov(a)math.ethz.ch, luigi.bianchi(a)sns.it, m.t.joosten(a)vu.nl, t.vande.brug(a)vu.nl, Loren.Coquille(a)unige.ch, alessandra.cipriani(a)math.uzh.ch, Luca Avena <luca.avena(a)math.uzh.ch>, a.klymovskiy(a)tue.nl, alessandra7791(a)googlemail.com, Vladislav.Vysotsky(a)asu.edu, david.belius(a)math.ethz.ch, gagnebin.m(a)gmail.com, philipp.thomann(a)math.uzh.ch, renato(a)math.leidenuniv.nl, Owen.Daniel(a)warwick.ac.uk, sava(a)tugraz.at, bnblima(a)mat.ufmg.br, marcelo(a)impa.br, kim.dang(a)math.uzh.ch, laurent.tournier(a)normalesup.org, huss(a)mathematik.uni-siegen.de, vincent.tassion(a)ens-lyon.fr, markus(a)math.leidenuniv.nl, ptrapman(a)math.su.se, gianfelice(a)mat.unical.it, christophe.garban(a)gmail.com, caputo(a)mat.uniroma3.it, serban.nacu(a)gmail.com, "Olga Paseka, Moscow, MSU" <paseka(a)physics.msu.ru>, Prasad Tetali <tetali(a)math.gatech.edu>, Nicoletta Cancrini <Nicoletta.Cancrini(a)roma1.infn.it>, Alessandra Faggionato <faggiona(a)gmail.com>, Nathael Gozlan <nathael.gozlan(a)univ-mlv.fr>, SAMSON Paul-Marie <Paul-Marie.Samson(a)univ-mlv.fr>, Pascal Romon <pascal.romon(a)univ-mlv.fr> Subject: First announcement Summer School on "Information Theory: Inequalities, Distances and Analysis", Paris, June 25-29 2018 Dear Colleague, You are cordially invited to participate in the Summer School at the Henri Poincaré Institute, Paris, June 25-29, 2018. We are pleased to inform you that Sergey Bobkov (University of Minneapolis) and Mokshay Madiman (Delaware University) will give 10 hours lectures (each) on "Information theory: Inequalities, distances and analysis". To get more information about this Summer School, please go to the following web page: http://sites.math.u-pem.fr/summerschool.2018/index.php/Main_Page Registration is free but mandatory. In order to register, go to the "registration" link. 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. Looking very much forward to seeing you in Paris, With all best wishes, The organizers (Nathael Gozlan, Cyril Roberto and Paul-Marie Samson) P.S.: Please bring this Summer School to the attention of graduate students, postdocs and colleagues who may be interested. P.P.S.: Sorry for the multiple instances of the same message.

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PhD position in Bern
by fabio bellini 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

A message from Prof. Ilya Molchanov: UNIVERSITY OF BERN (INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS AND ACTUARIAL SCIENCE) PhD POSITION in PROBABILITY THEORY Funding from the SNF (Swiss National Science Foundation) is available for a PhD student (3 years) to work on the project `Poisson approximation and extreme values in stochastic geometry' awarded by SNF to Prof. Ilya Molchanov and Dr. Matthias Schulte. The whole project funds two PhD positions and one PostDoc and focuses on topics such as the Malliavin-Chen-Stein method, extreme values in stochastic geometry, random simplicial complexes and metric measure spaces. The advertised PhD position will be supervised by Ilya Molchanov. The research topics concern properties of point processes in metric measure spaces, related extreme values, and some generalisations of convex hulls involving marked point processes. Interactions with other members of the team will be encouraged. It is anticipated that the prospective PhD student has a background in mathematics with emphasis on probability theory. The salary will be at the level foreseen by the SNF, see http://www.snf.ch/SiteCollectionDocuments/allg_doktorierende_d.pdf. There is a possibility to complement the salary by taking up teaching and statistical consulting duties in the department. The starting date is September 2018 or as can be arranged by a mutual agreement. Applications (cover letter, CV, transcripts from the studies, and e-mail address of an academic referee) should be e-mailed as a single pdf file to Prof. Ilya Molchanov ilya.molchanov(a)stat.unibe.ch Deadline: 25/February 2018. E-mail enquiries are welcome.

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Fwd: FW: Research Associate post
by Elisabetta Candellero 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

---------- Forwarded message ---------- ________________________________________ From: Prof W.S.Kendall [w.s.kendall(a)warwick.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 2:08 PM To: Candellero, Elisabetta Subject: RA post Dear Elisabetta The ad for my RA, to follow up on my work with Bedard and Zanella on Dirichlet forms for MCMC, has just gone out. I'd be very grateful if you forwarded this to anyone you know who might be interested. Anyone who is interested could of course watch one of the movies at the following links (though of course they would also be very welcome to send enquiries to me): youtube.com/watch?v=_GJVwmaeH9U<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GJVwmaeH9U> maths.dur.ac.uk/lms/106/movies/1341kend.mp4<http:// www.maths.dur.ac.uk/lms/106/movies/1341kend.mp4> Best W ------------------------------------------------------- The Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick invites applications for a 3-year EPSRC-funded Research Associate post, to work with Professor Wilfrid Kendall on recent advances in the applications of Dirichlet form theory to Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). Candidates with a background either in probability / stochastic analysis, or in the development of statistical methodology relating to MCMC, and interested in working on novel interactions of these two sub-disciplines, are encouraged to apply. The detailed job advertisement and a link for online application can be found at https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner= 5062452&ownertype=fair&jcode=1713098 (note that the person spec mistakenly refers to "(a) Application Form, (b) Test/Exercise, (c) Interview, (d) Presentation" where it should read "(a) Application Form, (b) Interview, (c) Presentation": this is being corrected!) The post is funded for 36 months, starting 1 July, 2018 (or by agreement). Application deadline is 4 March 2018: note that applicants should arrange for 3 referees to email references to Paula.Matthews(a)warwick.ac.uk<mailto: Paula.Matthews(a)warwick.ac.uk> (Departmental Administrator, Statistics, University of Warwick) by the closing date.. Informal enquiries may be made to Prof Wilfrid Kendall (email w.s.kendall(a)warwick.ac.uk<mailto:w.s.kendall@warwick.ac.uk>) ------------------------------------------------------- -- Wilfrid S Kendall Phone: +44 (0)24 7652 3082 Department of Statistics<http://www.warwick.ac.uk/stats> Fax: +44 (0)24 7652 4532 University of Warwick<http://www.warwick.ac.uk> WWW: warwick.ac.uk/wsk<http://www.warwick.ac.uk/wsk> Coventry CV4 7AL, UK<http://tinyurl.com/2sxlbm> Email: w.s.kendall(a)warwick.ac.uk<mailto:w.s.kendall@warwick.ac.uk> My linkedIn profile<http://www.linkedin.com/in/wilfridkendall> Twitter: @WilfridKendall<http://twitter.com/WilfridKendall> My sporadic blog, "Random Curiosities"<http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/ randomcuriosities/> Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability<http://www. bernoulli-society.org> Academy for PhD Training in Statistics (APTS)<http://www.apts.ac.uk>, training Statistics PhDs from across the UK and beyond.

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CIMPA School Buenos Aires. First Announcement
by davide gabrielli 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

Dear friends, This is the first announcement of the School Geometry and scaling of random structures at Buenos Aires July 16 to 27, 2018. This is a CIMPA School, the X Escuela Santaló and an ICM Rio Satellite workshop, There will be 4-hour courses by Amine Asselah, Christophe Garban, Milton Jara, Claudio Landim, Jason Miller and Perla Sousi and around 35 40-minute talks. More information and registration: http://mate.dm.uba.ar/~probab/cimpaBA2018/ Deadline for applying for support: March 11, 2018. Thank you in advance for passing this announcement forward to your Phd students, post-docs and colleagues. Best regards, Amine Asselah and Pablo Ferrari

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ISBA 2018: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
by Matteo Ruggiero 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

Cari colleghi, inoltro una comunicazione su richiesta degli organizzatori. > *ISBA 2018: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS* > > The call for abstracts for ISBA 2018---the World Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis---is now live! > > https://bayesian.org/isba2018 <https://bayesian.org/isba2018> > > The meeting will take place in June 24-29, 2018 <x-apple-data-detectors://8>, in Edinburgh, a beautiful and historical location intimately associated with Thomas Bayes, who studied logic and theology at the University of Edinburgh as an undergraduate (circa 1719-1722). > > ISBA 2018 is the continuation of the traditional Valencia/ISBA Meetings regularly held since 1979. They represent a unique event where the Bayesian community gathers together to discuss recent advances and the future of the profession. > > Deadline for abstract submission: 1 March, 2018 <x-apple-data-detectors://10> > ISBA 2018; 24-29 June 2018 <x-apple-data-detectors://11>, Edinburgh UK > https://bayesian.org/isba2018 <https://bayesian.org/isba2018> --- Matteo Ruggiero University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto www.matteoruggiero.it

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Avviso seminario_Delio Mugnolo_giovedì 8 febbraio_ore 11:00
by Stefano Bonaccorsi 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

Avviso di seminario, Università di Trento Parabolic theory of bi-Laplacians giovedì 8 febbraio 2018 *Luogo: *Dipartimento di Matematica, via Sommarive, 14 - Povo (TN) - Aula Seminari "-1" *Ore*: 11.00 Relatore: - Delio Mugnolo (Università di Hagen - Germania) Abstract: The integral kernel of the semigroup generated by the bi-Laplacian on $\mathbb R^d$ has been studied in several papers by E.B. Davies, while other authors have successively studied positivity issues. Most of these properties strongly depend on the fact that the bi-Laplacian acts on functions in $H^4(\mathbb R)$ as the square of the Laplacian; this is not true anymore if functions on bounded domains with generic boundary conditions are considered. We are going to show how the properties of the semigroup generated by bi-Laplacians on intervals and, more generally, network-like spaces strongly depend on the boundary conditions. Our most surprising finding is that, upon allowing the system enough time to reach diffusive regime, the parabolic equations driven by certain realizations of the bi-Laplacian on networks display Markovian features: analogous results seem to be unknown even in the classical case of domains. This is joint work with Federica Gregorio. *Referente: *Stefano Bonaccorsi

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bando per ricercatore di tipo a in SECS-S/06
by emanuela rosazza gianin 04 Feb '18

04 Feb '18

Si avvisa che è stato bandito un posto da ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipo A nel settore SECS-S/06 presso il Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi Quantitativi dell'Università di Milano Bicocca. Scadenza del bando: 4 marzo 2018 Bando ed informazioni: https://www.unimib.it/ateneo/gare-e-concorsi/rtda-dr-n-16385-del-1012018 Vi prego di diffondere questa e-mail e di inoltrarla a tutti i possibili interessati. Un saluto cordiale, 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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Fwd: 4th Barcelona Summer School on Stochastic Analysis
by Marco Romito 04 Feb '18

04 Feb '18

ricevo e inoltro m. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: 4th Barcelona Summer School on Stochastic Analysis Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 09:29:13 +0100 From: Bústia CRM Difusions <crmdifusions(a)crm.cat> We are pleased to announce the upcoming *4th Barcelona Summer School on Stochastic Analysis* which will be held at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica <http://www.crm.cat/en/About/General/Pages/LocationDirections.aspx>in Bellaterra (Barcelona) from *July 9 to July 13, 2018*. The school is addressed to PhD students and young researchers mainly in stochastic analysis. The courses will be the following: * /Some stochastic models in eco-evolution/, by *Sylvie Méléard*(École Polytechnique, France) * /Topology of zero sets of smooth random Gaussian functions, by**/*Mikhail Sodin*(Tel Aviv University, Israel) -Registration deadline: *June 1^st , 2018. * ** The period for submissions of proposals for poster presentations and contributed talks is currently open. The deadline to apply is *May 1^st , 2018*. ** *Financial support:* The CRM announces a call for full grants (registration+lodging) for those participants interested in taking part in this activity. Accommodation for granted participants will be in a shared apartment on campus from July 8^th to 14^th , 2018. ** -Deadline to apply for financial support: *April 1^st , 2018*. We invite you to visit the homepage of the school www.crm.cat/2018/StochasticAnalysisBCN <http://www.crm.cat/2018/StochasticAnalysisBCN>to keep posted with the progress of and news about the organization. *Organizing Committee* Xavier Bardina (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Lluís Quer-Sardanyons (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) Marta Sanz-Solé (Universitat de Barcelona) Josep Vives (Universitat de Barcelona) *___________________________________________* *cid:part3.74A55CC1.61BE51D0@mat.uab.cat* *Centre de Recerca Matemàtica* *Campus de Bellaterra, Edifici C* *08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona)* *Tel.: + 34 93 581 10 81* *Fax: + 34 93 581 22 02* *www.crm.cat* <http://www.crm.cat/> *@CRMatematica* <https://twitter.com/CRMatematica>

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Conference "Recent Advances in Random Processes" in honor of Paolo Baldi's 70th birthday - first announcement
by Rossi Maurizia 03 Feb '18

03 Feb '18

Dear colleagues, we are glad to announce the conference "Recent Advances in Random Processes" in honor of Paolo Baldi's 70th birthday taking place in Rome on September 10-11, 2018, at Citta` dellAltra Economia, in (the picturesque) Rione Testaccio. The conference focuses on random processes and their recent use to several fields, for example finance, mathematical physics, statistics or cosmology, and wishes to celebrate Paolo Baldi's scientific contributions to probability and academic life. The meeting is supported by Gnampa-INdAM funds and the ERC Grant PASCAL n. 277742. For more details (e.g. invited speakers, registration and venue) please visit the (preliminary) conference website http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~ricerca/probab/rarp/home.html For any other information do not hesitate to contact us at rarp(a)mat.uniroma2.it We are looking forward to welcoming you in Rome! Lucia Caramellino Claudio Macci Domenico Marinucci Barbara Pacchiarotti Maurizia Rossi Giulia Terenzi --- Maurizia Rossi FSMP Postdoctoral Fellow Laboratoire MAP5, Université Paris Descartes 45, Rue des Saints Pères 75006 Paris (France)

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Prof. Macci a Pisa
by RITA GIULIANO 02 Feb '18

02 Feb '18

Il Prof. Claudio Macci sara' ospite del Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Pisa, nei giorni 15, 16 e 17 febbraio prossimi. Terra' un seminario il 15 febbraio alle ore 15 in Aula Seminari. TITOLO Asymptotic behavior of some hitting probabilities for sums of IID Gaussian random sets ABSTRACT In this article, we consider sequences of partial sums of iid Gaussian random sets (with respect to the Minkowski sum) and we study the asymptotic behavior of some hitting probabilities (of suitable sets of $R^d$) for these partial sums. We also illustrate the use of the importance sampling for the estimation of these hitting probabilities by Monte Carlo simulations. We obtain the analog of well-known results for level crossing probabilities of random walks, and we refer to a version of the classical Cramér’s Theorem in large deviations for random compact sets existing in the literature. Joint work with Barbara Pacchiarotti. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati Rita Giuliano

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annuncio seminario - dott.ssa L.Altieri
by Serena Arima 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Dipartimento di Metodi e Modelli per l'Economia, il Territorio e la Finanza Facoltà di Economia, Sapienza Università di Roma Giovedì 15 febbraio Ore 14.00, auletta A, IV piano *A new approach to spatial entropy measures* L. Altieri, D. Cocchi, G. Roli Entropy is widely employed in many applied sciences to measure the heterogeneity of observations. Recently, many attempts have been made to build entropy measures for spatial data, in order to capture the influence of space over the variable outcomes. The main limit of these developments is that all indices are computed conditional on a single distance and do not cover the whole spatial configuration of the phenomenon under study. Moreover, most of them do not satisfy the desirable additivity property between local and global spatial measures. We compare some recent developments in this field to a new approach which achieves substantial innovations. Firstly, Shannon’s entropy may be decomposed into two terms: spatial mutual information, accounting for the role of space in determining the variable outcome, and spatial global residual entropy, summarizing the remaining heterogeneity carried by the variable itself. Secondly, both terms satisfy the additivity property, being sums of partial entropies measuring what happens at different distance classes. The new entropy measures are shown to be more informative and to answer a wider set of questions than the current proposals of the literature. A case study is presented with categorical lattice data, concerning the spatial heterogeneity of land use over the Emilia Romagna region.

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Annuncio seminario al CNR di Milano
by Sara Pasquali 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

A tutti gli interessati. SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT ON BIG DATA, OPTIMIZATION AND LEARNING /Prof. Andrea Lodi //(Department of Mathematical and Industrial Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada; Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Science for Real-Time Decision-Making) / In this talk I review a couple of applications on Big Data that I personally like and I try to explain my point of view as a Mathematical Optimizer – especially concerned with discrete (integer) decisions – on the subject. I advocate a tight integration of Machine Learning and Mathematical Optimization (among others) to deal with the challenges of decision-making in Data Science. For such an integration I try to answer three questions: 1) what can optimization do for machine learning? 2) what can machine learning do for optimization? 3) which new applications can be solved by the combination of machine learning and optimization? Monday, February 5, 2018; 11:00 CNR Via Corti 12, 20133 Milan Room EXPO ORGANISERS Ettore Lanzarone ettore.lanzarone(a)cnr.it Silvia Zuffi silvia(a)mi.imati.cnr.it ᐧ

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