Dear Colleagues,
an *Associate Professor* position (with promotion track) is open at
the *Department
of Mathematics of Luxembourg University (DMATH)*, in the area of
*Statistics and Machine Learning*
The deadline for applications is *March 30, 2020*. All relevant information
can be found here
http://emea3.mrted.ly/2f9vz
Please, do not hesitate to forward this message to any potential candidate.
With my best regards, Giovanni Peccati
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Prof. Giovanni Peccati
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Head of the Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Science,
Technology and Medicine
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University of Luxembourg
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homepage:
http://sites.google.com/site/giovannipeccati/Home
E-mail: giovanni.peccati(a)gmail.com
Dear colleagues,
on Tuesday, 25 February 2020, at 12:00, Prof. Giorgio Ferrari (Bielefeld University) will give a talk
"On The Free Boundaries of Two Multi-dimensional Singular Stochastic Control Problems with Interconnected Dynamics"
at LUISS "G. Carli" University, Department of Economics and Finance, viale Romania 32, room 304b.
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Abstract:
We present two continuous-time stochastic control problems involving controls of bounded-variation. Those problems are motivated by questions arising in macroeconomic theory - as the optimal control of inflation via interest rates - and in operations research - as the optimal management of an inventory having impact on the demand of a good - and their characteristic is that the drift of a diffusive component of the two-dimensional state variable is an affine function of a purely controlled process. The objective is to minimize an expected cost functional involving a running cost function and proportional costs of control.
By relying on a combination of techniques from viscosity theory and free-boundary analysis, we provide the structure of the value function and we show that it satisfies a so-called second-order smooth-fit principle. Such a regularity is then exploited in order to determine a system of functional equations solved by the two monotone continuous curves (free boundaries) that split the control problem's state space in three connected regions. In one of the two considered problems, the free boundaries are even shown to be classical solutions to a system of first-order nonlinear ODEs.
This is based on joint works with Salvatore Federico (University of Siena) and Patrick Schuhmann (University of Bielefeld).
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All interested people are kindly invited to participate.
Best regards,
Alessandro Calvia
Alessandro Calvia
Assistant Professor
Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza
Luiss
Libera Università Internazionale
degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli
Viale Romania, 32 - 00197 Roma
T +39 0685225907
acalvia(a)luiss.it<mailto:acalvia@luiss.it> www.luiss.it<http://www.luiss.it>
Dear colleagues,
on Tuesday, 25 February 2020, at 12:00, Prof. Giorgio Ferrari (Bielefeld University) will give a talk
"On The Free Boundaries of Two Multi-dimensional Singular Stochastic Control Problems with Interconnected Dynamics"
at LUISS "G. Carli" University, Department of Economics and Finance, viale Romania 32, room 304b.
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Abstract:
We present two continuous-time stochastic control problems involving controls of bounded-variation. Those problems are motivated by questions arising in macroeconomic theory - as the optimal control of inflation via interest rates - and in operations research - as the optimal management of an inventory having impact on the demand of a good - and their characteristic is that the drift of a diffusive component of the two-dimensional state variable is an affine function of a purely controlled process. The objective is to minimize an expected cost functional involving a running cost function and proportional costs of control.
By relying on a combination of techniques from viscosity theory and free-boundary analysis, we provide the structure of the value function and we show that it satisfies a so-called second-order smooth-fit principle. Such a regularity is then exploited in order to determine a system of functional equations solved by the two monotone continuous curves (free boundaries) that split the control problem's state space in three connected regions. In one of the two considered problems, the free boundaries are even shown to be classical solutions to a system of first-order nonlinear ODEs.
This is based on joint works with Salvatore Federico (University of Siena) and Patrick Schuhmann (University of Bielefeld).
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All interested people are kindly invited to participate.
Best regards,
Alessandro Calvia
Alessandro Calvia
Assistant Professor
Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza
Luiss
Libera Università Internazionale
degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli
Viale Romania, 32 - 00197 Roma
T +39 0685225907
acalvia(a)luiss.it<mailto:acalvia@luiss.it> www.luiss.it<http://www.luiss.it>
Dear colleagues,
we would like to draw your attention to the third workshop for
Junior female researchers in probability in Berlin, June 17-19, 2020.
The aim of this workshop is to promote early career female researchers by giving them an opportunity to present their own work and to hear distinguished mathematicians who can inspire them to pursue a fulfilling career in probability.
Keynote speakers:
Martina Hofmanova (Bielefeld)
Nina Gantert (TU München)
Invited speakers:
Sigrid Källblad (Stockholm)
Annika Lang (Göteborg)
Elena Pulvirenti (Bonn)
Maite Wilke Berenguer (Bochum)
Female participants are invited to submit abstracts for contributed talks and/or may apply for financial support for travel and accommodation expenses.. Please notice that there are special travel grants for female master students interested in gaining some insight into research and in getting in touch with researchers.
Deadline for financial support and/or abstract submission: March 15, 2020.
Of course participation by men is very welcome, but presentations and financial support are reserved for women.
Please pass this information on to interested master students, PhD students and postdocs as well as your colleagues!
More details can be found on our website: https://www.wias-berlin.de/workshops/JFRP20/ <https://www.wias-berlin.de/workshops/JFRP20/>
Best regards,
Luisa Andreis, Peter Bank, Dörte Kreher and Noemi Kurt
IRTG 2544 Stochastic Analysis in Interaction, Berlin-Oxford
Dear all,
please allow me to bring to your attention the 2020 LTI@UniTO Call for
Fellowships, which you can find here
https://www.carloalberto.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/LTI-CALL-March-2020…
Long-Term Investors@UniTo (LTI@UniTO) is pleased to announce the
availability of 8 Research Fellowships for the year 2020.
LTI@UniTO is a think tank established as a joint initiative of the
Università di Torino and of the major Italian market players in long
term financing. Through the Fellowship program, LTI@UniTO aims to foster
research in long-term investing and to assess its features,
perspectives, contribution to growth and stability. The think tank
supports independent research and informs the debate between long-term
investors and policymakers. Candidates must send their application (CV +
research program, approximately 2 pages) to
lti_applications(a)carloalberto.org before midnight, ECT, March 22nd,
2020. Up to 4 senior and 4 junior fellowships can be awarded. For more
information visit
https://www.carloalberto.org/research/lti
Senior Fellowships are targeted at applicants with a publication history
in top Finance/Econ academic journals. Receivers of the fellowships will
conduct their own research for a period of two months at UNITO. Total
remuneration (for the entire period – gross and including all expenses):
€ 18000.
Junior Fellowships are targeted at either PhD candidates or scholars
with a PhD in Finance, Economics or a related field. Receivers of the
fellowships will conduct research under the supervision of a Senior
Fellow or a UNITO/Collegio’s Finance faculty for a period of two months
at UNITO. Remuneration (for the entire period – gross and including all
expenses): € 6000.
The research programs should be related to one of the themes in the
Strategic List below and must be included in the Application.
STRATEGIC LIST
• Interaction between financial markets and the real economy including
start-up funding, impact finance, infrastructure, SME financing;
• Role of LTIs in traditional financial markets (systemic risk,
stability, pro or countercyclicality, liquidity and impact on
prices...), as well as on private markets;
• Risk and return of private markets (private equity, private debt,
private placements);
• Asset Management or ALM of LTIs, including past experiences, models,
benchmarking, constraints on expenditures and liabilities;
• Mandates, delegation and effectiveness of monitoring (short term
accountability versus long-term strategies);
• Optimal contracts in delegated portfolio management: what is the
effectiveness of using benchmarking and bonus/target incentive schemes;
• The collective costs of short-horizon investment and their control
(regulatory constraints);
• Fintech for LTIs (e.g., robo-advice): opportunities and risks;
• Benefits and costs of financial regulation and macro prudential
policies that matter to LTIs;
• Real estate and real estate funds: risk, return and their role in the
ALM of LTIs;
• LTIs, sustainable finance and Green Financing.
Best regards,
Luca Regis
Executive Director LTI@UniTO
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Luca Regis
Associate Professor
Department of Economics and Statistics (ESOMAS)
University of Torino
sites.google.com/view/lucaregis
Office: +39 011 670 6065
www.carloalberto.org/lti
Dear Colleague,
On behalf of the Program Director, Prof. Rocco Ciciretti
I would be grateful if you could bring the Tor Vergata MSc. Finance and
Banking to the attention of your best undergraduate students.
MSc. Finance and Banking at Tor Vergata University of Rome is a 2-year
full-time program designed for highly qualified and motivated students who
wish to study mathematical and statistical techniques applied to financial
markets.
The deadline for the Application is June 10, 2020 for non-EU applicants and
July 22, 2020 for EU applicants.
This quantitative program is organized in courses, seminars and guest
lectures. Moreover, students have the option to choose from a wide range of
electives.
Dedicated mentorship and support are offered to students throughout their
time at Tor Vergata.
Please find the 2020/21 official call at
https://economia.uniroma2.it/master-science/financeandbanking/admission-app…
.
For more information about the program, please feel free to contact our
Program Office at *msc_finance(a)economia.uniroma2.it
<msc_finance(a)economia.uniroma2.it>*, or visit our website
https://economia.uniroma2.it/master-science/financeandbanking.
Sincerely,
Davide Pirino
Graduate program coordinator
https://economia.uniroma2.it/master-science/financeandbanking
Our conference https://www.qfinatwork.com/
Cari tutti,
segnalo questa ottima opportunita per una posizione tenure track in
Svezia, versione html qui:
https://www.europeanwomeninmaths.org/offer/search-for-potential-candidates-…
Soci di "European Women In Mathematics" possono anche farsi segnalare
tutti annunci via email, basta impostarlo sul vosto profilo.
Cordiali saluti,
Carina
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The department of mathematics at Lund University
<https://europeanwomeninmaths.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca40359a7fa…>
is looking for *potential candidates of under-represented gender* (women
or non-binary) for an assistant senior lectureship position in
mathematics (equivalent to *assistant professor with tenure track* in
the US system). The department will be competing with the other
departments in the engineering faculty for funding, and therefore we
would like to get in contact with potential candidates at an early
stage, in order to write a competitive proposal. If funding for the
position is granted, the position(s) will be advertised in the autumn of
2020, and a likely starting date will be in Autumn 2021. Prospective
candidates in mathematics (including mathematical statistics and
computer vision), with a research interest that matches research done at
the Centre for Mathematical Sciences
<https://europeanwomeninmaths.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca40359a7fa…>
(see http://www.maths.lu.se/english/research/research-groups/
<https://europeanwomeninmaths.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca40359a7fa…>)
are welcome to contact Sara Maad Sasane (sara_at_maths.lth.se), with a
cv and a short expression of how you see yourself interacting with
people in the centre. I will contact you with further information and
instructions if we want to proceed and apply for funding for a position
in this area. Ideally, the candidates should have some postdoc
experience, but even if you don't have this yet, you are welcome to send
in your cv, since we may consider you for next year instead or for other
positions.
Dear all,
The ABC in ... workshop series continues in Grenoble, France, on March
19-20 2020. We are still accepting contributions for oral presentations
and posters, the deadline for submissions is on Feb. 21.
The workshop is free but registration is mandatory, and the call for presentation
is open until the end of the week. Register on the website:
https://sites.google.com/view/abc-in-grenoble/
Confirmed speakers and sessions (more to come) are:
Misspecified models
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Guillaume Dehaene (EPFL, Switzerland) TBA
Gael Martin (Monash University, Australia) Focused Bayesian Prediction
(joint with Ruben Loaiza-Maya, David T. Frazier)
Tommaso Rigon (Duke University, USA) A generalized Bayes framework for
probabilistic clustering (joint with Amy Herring and David Dunson)
Neural network related techniques
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Flora Jay (Université Paris-Saclay, France) Deep learning for population
size history inference: design, comparison and combination with
approximate Bayesian computation
Pierre-Alexandre Mattei (Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, France)
Partially Exchangeable Networks and Architectures for Learning Summary
Statistics in Approximate Bayesian Computation (joint with Samuel
Wiqvist, Umberto Picchini, Jes Frellsen)
Advanced computational techniques
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Umberto Picchini (Chalmers University of Technology and University of
Gothenburg, Sweden) Stratified sampling and bootstrapping for
approximate Bayesian computation (joint with Richard G. Everitt)
Dennis Prangle (Newcastle University, UK) Distilling importance sampling
Hien D. Nguyen (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
ABC via the Energy Statistic (joint with Julyan Arbel, Hongliang Lü, Florence Forbes)
Grenoble is the largest city in the French Alps, and easily accessible
by train from Paris, Lyon, Geneva or Milan.
Best regards,
Julyan Arbel, Simon Barthelmé, Florences Forbes
Julyan Arbel
http://www.julyanarbel.com/
@JulyanArbel
Dear Colleagues,
we would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar that
will take place at the Department of Mathematics of Padova, on February 27.
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Speaker: Alberto Chiarini (TU Eindhoven)
Title: Entropic repulsion for the occupation-time field of random
interlacements by disconnection.
27 FEBRUARY (Thursday) , 11:30, ROOM 430, Dip. di Matematica “Tullio
Levi-Civita”, Via Trieste 63, Padova
Abstract: The model of random interlacements was introduced in 2007 by
A.-S. Sznitman, motivated by questions about the disconnection of discrete
cylinders or tori by the trace of simple random walk. Since then, it has
gained popularity among probabilists due to its percolative properties and
also because of its connections to the free field. Random interlacements on
transient graphs can be constructed as a Poisson point process of doubly
infinite trajectories. After reviewing this model, we will focus on the
rare event that these trajectories disconnect a macroscopic body from
infinity, in the strongly percolative regime. We will ask the following
question: What is the most efficient way for random interlacements to
enforce such disconnection? In other words, how do the trajectories of
random interlacements look like conditionally on disconnection?
All of you are very welcome.
Best regards,
Alessandra Bianchi
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Alessandra Bianchi
Dip. di Matematica
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/
Cari colleghi,
giovedì 20 alle 13,40 in aula Buzano, DISMA Politecnico di Torino
Linard Hoessly (Università di Copenhagen)
terrà un seminario su
Stationary distributions via decomposition of stochastic reaction networks
https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02871
Cordiali saluti,
Enrico Bibbona
Associate Professor of Statistics
Probability, Statistics and Optimization group
Department of Mathematical Sciences "G. L Lagrange"
Politecnico di Torino