Dear all,
we are happy to announce the workshop titled “Through the threshold: first
passage times and beyond”, which will take place at the University of
Torino on June 9 and 10, 2025.
This event will also provide an opportunity to celebrate the career of
Laura Sacerdote on the occasion of her retirement.
List of speakers:
- Madalina Deaconu (Inria & Institut Élie Cartan de Lorraine)
- Priscilla (Cindy) Greenwood (University of British Columbia)
- Sonja Grün (Jülich Research Centre - RWTH Aachen University)
- Samuel Herrmann (Université de Bourgogne)
- Lubomir Kostal (Czech Academy of Sciences)
- Isaac Meilijson (Tel Aviv University)
- Goran Peskir (The University of Manchester)
- Shigeru Shinomoto (ATR Institute International)
- Tatyana Turova (Lund University)
For more information, please visit the webpage
https://sites.google.com/view/fpt-torino
Registration is free and welcome, but mandatory.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Turin!
Best regards,
The organizers
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Federico Polito
Professor of Probability
Coordinator of M.Sc. in Stochastics and Data Science
*Department of MathematicsUniversity of Torino*
Via Carlo Alberto, 10
10123, Torino, Italy
Email: federico.polito(a)unito.it
Tel: +39 011 6702862
Web: www.federicopolito.it
Dear colleagues,
Would you be so kind as to forward to the potential interested contact or mailing list in your institution the following call for applications and scholarships ? It is aimed at students who may wish to enroll in our Master of Mathematics in Paris PSL
(M1-M2) program.
The Graduate Program in Mathematics and Applications of PSL University offers scholarships
for students willing to enroll in the PSL Master of Mathematics Master (M1 or M2) for 2025-2026.
(It is also possible to join MAPPA, a French-Italian double Master degree program offered by PSL and the University of Padova. The M1 year is in Padova & the M2 year in Paris) .
The teaching language is English and the program is based on the research team in mathematics at CEREMADE (Paris Dauphine-PSL), at DMA (Ecole Normale Supérieure - PSL), at Ecole des Mines Paris-PSL, at Paris Observatory-PSL, at the EHESS, and Collège de France.
The scholarships are open to national and international students. The selection of candidates is based on academic excellence criteria.
Call opening date : February 28th, 2025 - Closing date: May 26h, 2025.
More details on the financial support and on how to apply may be found here
https://psl.eu/en/graduate-programs/mathematics-and-applications
Look for the link “Excellence grants for master students 2025-26”
For more information on the double master degree MAPPA see https://mappa.math.unipd.it/
Best regards
Cristina Toninelli
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Cristina Toninelli
Postal Address: Ceremade
Univ.Paris Dauphine
Place du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny
75775 Paris Cedex 16 - France
Office: P207bis
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Dear Colleagues,
We would like to remind you that the Workshop ‘Mean Field Games, Mean Field Control and Applications to Economics and Finance’ will be held in Pavia from 9 to 11 April (conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/workshop-mmef ).
If you are interested in participating online, this is the link to the conference:
https://unipv-it.zoom.us/j/94558116065?pwd=4habA3k14lxf3ZzUoUXAsjJLFEULtb.1
Best,
The organizers,
Marta Leocata, Daria Ghilli, Giulia Livieri, Daniela Tonon
Apologies for cross-posting*.*
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Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends,
the early bird registration deadline of the *6th International Workshop on
Functional and Operatorial Statistics (IWFOS 2025) *is approaching. The
conference will take place from *June 25 – 27, 2025 in Novara, Italy*.
*Visit our new website at iwfos2025.uniupo.it
<https://iwfos2025.uniupo.it/> for more details!*
*INVITED SPEAKERS:*
- Anne van Delft, Columbia University NY, USA
- Holger Dette, RUHR-University Bochum, Germany
- Wenceslao Gonzalez Manteiga, University of Santiago de Compostela,
Spain
- Karel Hron, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Ioannis Kalogridis, Katolieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- Alessandra Menafoglio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Pavlo Mozharovskyi, Telecom Paris, France
- Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University, USA
- Shahin Tavakoli, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Simone Vantini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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*Workshop Format:* The workshop will feature no parallel sessions, with
approximately 30 Oral communications spread over 5 half days. Oral
presentations will be selected among the accepted short papers, Poster
sessions will accommodate additional contributions not selected for oral
presentation.
*PUBLICATIONS:*
- A *Special Issue* of the *Journal of Multivariate Analysis* will be
initiated from this workshop, open to both workshop presentations and other
innovative contributions in the field.
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Stay tuned for more updates on our website <https://iwfos2025.uniupo.it/>.
Thank you for your attention, and we look forward to seeing you in Novara!
Best regards,
Germán Aneiros, Enea Bongiorno, Aldo Goia, Marie Hušková
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Enea G. Bongiorno,
Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale - Amedeo Avogadro
Via Perrone 18, 28100, Novara, Italia
Phone: +390321375317
enea.bongiorno(a)uniupo.it
upobook.uniupo.it/enea.bongiorno
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IWFOS 2025
6th International Workshop on Functional and Operatorial Statistics -
iwfos2025.uniupo.it <https://iwfos2025.uniupo.it/home>
Math-Stat Seminars at UPO
seminari-ms.uniupo.it/home-page
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Buongiorno,
ricordiamo che oggi lunedì 7 aprile dalle 16 alle 17:15 si svolgerà il
periodico seminario on-line del gruppo UMI - PRISMA (
http://www.umi-prisma.polito.it/)
I seminari PRISMA hanno un formato di "colloquium" per creare un'occasione
di scambio e discussione con tutta la comunità dei probabilisti e
statistici italiani. Ogni giornata comprende due relatori che tengono due
seminari di 30 minuti strettamente connessi, per presentare alla comunità
una prospettiva sul proprio ambito di ricerca. Da quest'anno le
registrazioni dei seminari vengono pubblicate sul canale YouTube dell'UMI:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmySpc-jrtAMq84VH71evyqPc1hl6eEQb
I relatori di oggi saranno Stefano Favaro (Università di Torino) e Mario
Beraha (Università di Milano Bicocca) che parleranno di:
Il modello di Ewens-Pitman per partizioni aleatorie e la sua (naturale)
estensione alle allocazioni aleatorie
con il seguente orario:
16:00 Primo seminario
16:30 Pausa e discussione
16:45 Secondo seminario
17:15 Conclusione e discussione
Trovate di seguito il riassunto. I seminari verranno trasmessi via Zoom al
seguente link:
https://unitn.zoom.us/j/87150580430
ID riunione: 871 5058 0430
Codice d’accesso: 591823
Vi aspettiamo numerosi!
Alberto Chiarini e Sonia Mazzucchi
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RELATORI: Stefano Favaro (Università di Torino) e Mario Beraha (Università
di Milano Bicocca)
TITOLO: Il modello di Ewens-Pitman per partizioni aleatorie e la sua
(naturale) estensione alle allocazioni aleatorie
RIASSUNTO: Nella prima parte del seminario verrà introdotto il modello di
Ewens-Pitman per partizioni aleatorie, presentandone una caratterizzazione
in termini di sufficienza predittiva nell’ambito della classe dei modelli
di campionamento di specie. Successivamente, verrà offerta una panoramica
sui principali teoremi limite relativi al numero di blocchi e blocchi con
molteplicità della partizione di Ewens-Pitman, con particolare attenzione
alle fluttuazioni quasi-certe, ai principi di grandi deviazioni e alle
fluttuazioni Gaussiane. Infine, si illustrerà un’applicazione del modello
di Ewens-Pitman alla soluzione Bayesiana del problema della stima della
“missing mass”, noto come problema di Good-Turing, e della stima del
“unseen”, o problema di Fisher-Efron.
Nella seconda parte del seminario si parlerà di allocazioni aleatorie;
un’allocazione di N oggetti è un multi-insieme di sottoinsiemi non vuoti
degli N oggetti che, al contrario di una partizione, possono non essere
mutuamente esclusivi o esaustivi. Partendo dal modello Indian buffet di
Ghahramani e Griffiths, che costituisce il naturale analogo del modello di
Ewens nel caso di allocazioni, verranno presentati alcuni risultati
sull’analisi Bayesiana di allocazioni aleatorie. In particolare, verranno
discusse caratterizzazioni di sufficienza predittiva per allocazioni
aleatorie, che generalizzano i corrispondenti risultati sui modelli di
campionamento di specie. Due illustrazioni relative al problema delle
“missing features” verranno descritte.
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Giovedì 10 aprile alle ore 16.30, Charles Bordenave (CNRS - Marseille)
terrà il seminario
Title: Cutoff for geodesic paths on hyperbolic manifolds
Abstract: This is a joint work with Joffrey Mathien. We establish new
instances of the cutoff phenomenon for geodesic paths and for the Brownian
motion on compact hyperbolic manifolds. We prove that for any fixed compact
hyperbolic manifold, the geodesic path started on a spatially localized
initial condition exhibits cutoff. Our work also extends results obtained
by Golubev and Kamber on hyperbolic surfaces of large volume to any
dimension. More generally, we will discuss ongoing works on the cutoff
phenomenon in mixing dynamical systems.
Il seminario si svolgerà presso il Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica di
Roma Tre, Lungotevere Dante 376 - aula M1.
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Pietro Caputo
Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica
via della vasca navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy.
www.mat.uniroma3.it/users/caputo
Please circulate among all the potential interested people.
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INdAM (Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica) invites applications for a
two-years postdoctoral position in probability and applications
(MATH-03/B). The successful candidate is expected to integrate the group
of probability and mathematical finance of the Department of Mathematics
of the University of Padova. The call (in Italian) is available here:
https://www.altamatematica.it/progetti-pnrr/
Research topics of the group include:
- Statistical mechanics: interacting particle systems, disordered systems,
random matrices and graphs, percolation, Gaussian models of statistical
mechanics (Gaussian free fields, spin glasses), models for life sciences.
- Markov chains: ergodic behavior of Markov chains, cut-off phenomena,
queueing theory and stochastic networks.
- Stochastic control theory and mean-field games: Chaos propagation,
infinite-dimensional Hamilton Jacobi equations, Nash equilibria,
controlled McKean-Vlasov dynamics, filtering problems, Schrödinger
bridges.
- Stochastic algorithms and machine learning: Sinkhorn algorithm
for entropic transport, score-based generative models, flow matching
algorithms.
- Finance: Volterra, fractional and Hawkes processes. Control problems and
stochastic games in finance. Numerical probability. Applications: (rough)
volatility models, interest rate models, models for energy markets and for
the optimal management of renewable sources, cybersecurity, insurance
problems.
Please note the short deadline for applications (April 15).
The gross yearly salary is 40.000 euros. Interested candidates can contact
the members of the probability and math finance team in Padova:
https://www.math.unipd.it/en/research/research-areas/mathematics/probabilit…
Tiziano
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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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Dear all,
registrations are now open for the 4th BioInference conference (https://bioinference.github.io/2025/), which is taking place in Bardonecchia, a town in the Alps near Turin, Italy, on the 28th-30th May 2025.
Launched in 2022, BioInference aims to bring together researchers from across statistics and mathematical modelling who work with (broadly defined/intended) biological systems, to foster discussions and prompt collaborations between the two communities at all career stages.
If you would like to attend the conference, please sign up by the 14th April (tickets are limited and on a first come first served basis) at https://bioinference.github.io/registration<https://bioinference.github.io/registration/>
Note that the registration is considered completed and successful only after having paid the €185 registration fee (covering three lunches, all coffee breaks and one dinner) and the accommodation fee (which is highly recommended, but not mandatory). May is the low season in Bardonecchia, so most of the hotels are closed. However, we secured single and double rooms in two partner hotels, Hotel Rivè<https://www.hotelrive.it/> and Hotel Cà Fiore<https://www.cafiore.it/>, 100m apart, to favour further networking among participants, at a discounted price of
• 108€ per night (with breakfast, single occupancy)
* 160€ per night (with breakfast, double occupancy).
These rooms need to be booked at the time of the registration, paying the cost in advance, by specifying the number of nights you need the booking for. If you wish to look for alternative accommodation (possible but not recommended), you can then select the option "Registration only" on the registration page, being aware of the low availability.
Please make sure to have your Italian “Codice Fiscale” (VAT number) or your passport number at the time of registration.
The conference will consist of contributed talks and poster sessions, with more than 20 talks and 30 poster presentations. The three day schedule and the full list of poster presentations can be found at https://bioinference.github.io/2025/, while a list of confirmed talks include:
* Jennifer Asimit (University of Cambridge MRC Biostatistics Unit) - TBC
* Veronica Biancacci (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) - Physics-Informed model-based reinforcement learning for pandemic mitigation
* Margherita Bruno (CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Saclay) - Inferring the acquisition age of JAK2-V617F mutation in MPN patients from phylogenetic data and an ABC-SMC model selection procedure
* Alberto Cassese (University of Florence) - Bison - Bi-clustering of spatial omics data with feature selection
* Andrea Corbetta (Human Technopole) - Genetics helps determine differences in response to statin treatment: analysis on short and long-term low-density lipoprotein cholesterol trajectories
* Diego di Bernardo (Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine) - TBC
* Andrew Golightly (Durham University) - Accelerating Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic models using incidence data
* Henrik Häggström (Chalmers University) - Simulation-based inference for stochastic nonlinear mixed-effects models with applications in systems biology
* Ferdinando Insalata (Imperial College London) - Mutational signatures of deterministic and noise-induced evolutionary mechanisms
* Hetvi Jethwani (Imperial College London) - The role of rare somatic mtDNA mutations in proliferative tissue aging
* Zhana Kuncheva (Bioxcelerate AI) - TBC
* Anastasia Mantziou (University of Warwick) - Bayesian model-based clustering for populations of network data
* Antonietta Mira (Universita’ della Svizzera Italiana) - TBC
* Yoav Ram (Tel Aviv University) - Quantifying Cultural Evolution Using Population Genetic Methods
* Hélène Ruffieux (University of Cambridge) - A Bayesian functional factor model for high-dimensional molecular curves
* Davide Risso (University of Padova) - TBC
* Jaromir Sant (University of Turin) - Inference of genome-wide genealogical relationships between ancient and modern individuals
* Florian Schunck (Osnabrück University) - Modeling the Bigger Picture: Hierarchical Approaches for Integrating Diverse Toxicological Data in Mechanistic Models
* Nicholas Steyn (University of Oxford) - SMC methods for epidemic renewal models
* Ben Swallow (University of St Andrew's) - TBC
* Jonasz Słomka (ETH Zurich) - TBC
* Simone Tiberi (University of Bologna) - IsoBayes: a Bayesian approach for single-isoform proteomics inference
More information, e.g. travel funding for early career researchers, practical information on how to get to Bardonecchia, etc. is available on the conference webpage https://bioinference.github.io/2025/
We are looking forward to seeing you at BioInference2025 in Bardonecchia.
Enrico Bibbona
Associate Professor of Statistics
Probability, Statistics and Optimization group
Department of Mathematical Sciences "G. L Lagrange"
Politecnico di Torino
[Immagine che contiene testo, Carattere, schermata, logo Descrizione generata automaticamente]
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Dear all,
From the 7th until the 11th of April, RoMaDS <https://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~rds/events.php> will host <https://jschmidthieber.personalweb.utwente.nl/> <https://jschmidthieber.personalweb.utwente.nl/>Johannes Schmidt-Hieber <https://jschmidthieber.personalweb.utwente.nl/> (University of Twente) with the mini-course
Statistical theory of deep learning
The schedule is as follows: Mon 14:00-16:30, Wed 14:00-16:30, Fri 14:00-16:30. All lectures will be held in Aula Dal Passo in the Math Department of university of Rome, Tor Vergata.
Here is the program for the three lectures:
Lecture 1. Intro and theory for shallow networks
Perceptron convergence theorem
Universal approximation theorem
Approximation rates for shallow neural networks
Barron spaces
Lecture 2. Theory for deep networks
Advantages of additional hidden layers
Deep ReLU networks
Misclassification error for image deformation models
Lecture 3. Theory of gradient descent in machine learning
Optimization in machine learning
Weight balancing phenomenon
Analysis of dropout
Benign overfitting
Grokking
We encourage in-person partecipation. Should you be unable to come, here is the link to the Teams streaming:
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3arfsL73KX-fw86y1YnXq2nk5VnZFw…"Tid"%3a"24c5be2a-d764-40c5-9975-82d08ae47d0e"%2c"Oid"%3a"650fc4a8-4cec-4bd2-87bc-90d134074fe6"} <https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3arfsL73KX-fw86y1YnXq2nk5VnZFw…>
The seminars are part of the Excellence Project MatMod@TOV.
[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP]
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Special Session on High Performance Computing for AI-driven Genomics
@ CIBB 2025
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Call for Papers
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September 10 - 12, 2025, Milan, Italy
Conference Website: https://www.bioinformatics.polimi.it/CIBB2025/#special-tracks
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Aims and Scope:
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The growing availability of genomic data represents both a vast resource and a
significant computational challenge. This enormous volume of data provides
valuable insights into the DNA structure of organisms. However, processing a
massive amount of genomic sequences demands substantial computational power.
High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures have become pivotal for
efficiently exploring, analyzing, and interpreting large genomic collections,
enhancing advancements across all fields of computational genomics. Moreover,
GPU-accelerated computing enables highly parallelized operations, significantly
improving the efficiency of deep learning models, large-scale sequence
alignments, and genomic simulations.
This special session aims to bring together researchers working at the
intersection of deep learning, High-Performance Computing (HPC), including
GPU-accelerated computing, alongside genomic data modeling and analysis. By
focusing on the integration of advanced computational techniques with genomic
research, the session fosters collaboration and innovation in developing new
methodologies for tackling the challenges posed by large-scale genomic datasets.
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Topics of Interest:
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- Deep Learning for Genomic Data Modeling
- Generative Models for Synthetic Genomes Generation
- Computer Vision Integration in Computational Genomics
- Modeling Genome and Pangenome Large-Scale Graphs with Graph Neural Networks
- Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) in Genomic Data Science
- Explainable AI in Genomics: Methods and Applications
- High-Performance Computing for Scalable Genomic Workflows
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Special Session Organizers:
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Ilaria Billato, University of Padova, Italy
Riccardo Ceccaroni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Emanuel Di Nardo, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
Lorenzo Di Rocco, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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Important Dates:
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- Short paper submission: April 30, 2025
- Acceptance/rejection notification: June 23-30, 2025
- Camera-ready short paper submission: July 6, 2025
- Conference: September 10 - 12, 2025
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Proceedings:
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Submitted contributions will be peer-reviewed, and all accepted papers presented
at the conference will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in
the Springer Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI) or a selected top
bioinformatics journal.
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Lorenzo Di Rocco
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Statistical Sciences
La Sapienza - University of Rome
P.le Aldo Moro, 5
00185 - Rome, Italy
e-mail: lorenzo.dirocco(a)uniroma1.it
This is the final announcement for the Workshop
STOCHASTIC EQUATIONS AND PARTICLE SYSTEMS
7–9 April 2025, Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica “Francesco Severi”
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Monday, April 7
09:00 Registration
09:45 Xue-Mei Li – TBA
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Neill O’Connell – Discrete Whittaker processes
11:45 Max-Konstantin von Renesse – TBA
12:30 Lunch break
14:15 Federico Cornalba – Numerical aspects for stochastic PDEs of Fluctuating Hydrodynamics
14:45 Francesco Grotto – Stochastic transport models of turbulence
15:15 Vlad Mărgărint – A bridge between Random Matrix Theory and Schramm-Loewner Evolutions Theory
Tuesday, April 8
09:00 Nils Berglund – Renormalisation and sharp asymptotics for metatable transition times
in stochastic Allen-Cahn equations
09:45 Benjamin Gess – Gradient flow structures and large deviations for porous media equations
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Lorenzo Zambotti – Reflected, Skew or Bessel SPDEs and stochastic sewing
11:45 Patrícia Gonçalves – TBA
12:30 Lunch break
14:15 Kirone Mallick – An exact solution of the macroscopic fluctuation theory for symmetric exclusion
15:00 Karl-Theodor Sturm – Conformally invariant random geometry in dimensions n>2
Wednesday, April 9
09:00 Benoit Dagallier – Uniqueness of the invariant measure of the phi42 dynamics in infinite volume
09:45 Marco Romito – TBA
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Davide Gabrielli – Solvable Stationary Non Equilibrium States
11:45 Arnaud Debussche – From correlated to white transport noise in fluid models
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Please visit the site
https://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/people/bertini/seps/
for further information.
Participation is free, due to the limited space of the lecture room
registration is however mandatory.
The organizers,
L. Bertini
L. Dello Schiavo
G. Di Gesu'
G. Jona-Lasinio
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Gustavo Posta
Dipartimento di Matematica
Università di Roma "la Sapienza"
P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma
Italy
web: http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~posta
e-mail: gustavo.posta(a)uniroma1.it
phone: +39-06-4991-4969
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Dear Colleagues,
I forward the following advertisement with pleasure.
Best wishes,
Giorgio Ferrari
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A postdoctoral position is available in Project B3 (Numerical
Approximation of Stochastic PDEs and Stochastic Games) within the
Collaborative Research Center 1283
(https://www.sfb1283.uni-bielefeld.de/) at Bielefeld University. We seek
a candidate with a PhD in Mathematics and expertise in numerics, theory,
or control of nonlinear (stochastic) partial differential equations. The
project covers a range of research topics, making the position suitable
for candidates with expertise in one or more of these areas. The initial
contract will run until January 2026, with the possibility of extension
for up to four years total.
For further details, please contact Prof. Dr. Lubomir Banas,
banas(a)math.uni-bielefeld.de
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to share with you the advert below for PhD positions.
With kind regards,
Chiara Amorino
Fully-funded PhD positions to start in October 2025 are available at the
University of Warwick. Successful applicants would work with Dr. Tom
Berrett on ERC-funded project HeDiStat: Statistical theory and methodology
for the combination of heterogeneous and distributed data. Please see the
advert (
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DME519/phd-studentship-in-statistical-theory-and…)
for more details.
There is also a separate possibility of a fully-funded PhD position joint
between Warwick and Cergy, Paris, working with Dr. Tom Berrett (Warwick)
and Prof. Olga Klopp (ESSEC, Paris). Successful applicants would split
their time between the two institutions and benefit from increased
international connections. The topic of this project is methodology and
theory for causal inference and missing data problems. The application
deadline is at the end of the month so please get in touch with
tom.berrett(a)warwick.ac.uk or olga.klopp(a)math.cnrs.fr as soon possible for
more details.
Dear all,
We are glad to announce the 5TH SPRING COLLOQUIUM ON PROBABILITY AND
FINANCE, held at the Department of Mathematics "Tullio Levi-Civita" of
the University of Padova, on APRIL 19TH, 2024.
The Colloquium will bring together researchers in stochastic analysis
and mathematical finance. The workshop will start at 10am and end at
5pm. Attendance is free but registration is required (on the
conference website). Please note that, due to the small capacity of
the conference room, we will be able to host only a limited number of
attendees.
WEBSITE: https://events.math.unipd.it/SpringColloquium5
INVITED SPEAKERS:
- Eduardo ABI JABER (École Polytechnique, FR)
- Huy Ngoc CHAU (University of Manchester, UK)
- Giulia DI NUNNO (University of Oslo, NR)
- Roxana DUMITRESCU (King's College London, UK)
- David SKOVMAND (University of Copenhagen, DK)
- Luca TASCHINI (University of Edinburgh, UK)
We hope to see you in Padova! Best wishes,
Giorgia Callegaro and Claudio Fontana
Dear colleagues,
this is a gentle reminder of today One World Probability Seminar, details below. Please note the unsual time: the seminar will be held at 17:00 (italian time).
You can find the calendar for the upcoming seminars at this link<https://www.owprobability.org/one-world-probability-seminar/future-seminars>.
We hope to see many of you online!
Luisa and Roger
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Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com>
Inviato: mercoledì 2 aprile 2025 14:41
A: Luisa Andreis <luisa.andreis(a)polimi.it>
Oggetto: Fwd: Next OWPS
The next OWPS will be on Wednesday, April 2, from 15:00 to 17:00 UTC time. Note that the UTC time is shifted by one hour (to add to the confusion of those of you in countries that have changed the clock recently).
Title, abstract and the zoom link are below the signature and can be found on the website https://www.owprobability.org/one-world-probability-seminar<https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/-zGkCWqjZFlpkVlsnEyR_?domain=eur01.safeli…>.
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Spherical integrals in probability and beyond
Colin McSwiggen (Academia Sinica)
This mostly expository talk will introduce a number of types of integrals over compact Lie groups that show up constantly in probability and mathematical physics. The analysis of these so-called spherical integrals, in particular their high-dimensional ("large-N") asymptotics, has played a central role in random matrix theory and related subjects over the last 25 years. I'll outline the history of these special functions and describe a number of applications in which they arise, including some original research results with various coauthors. Finally, as a segue to the second lecture by Jon Novak, I'll discuss approaches to large-N analysis.
Hypergeometric functions of huge (random) matrices
Jonathan Novak (UC San Diego)
Hypergeometric functions of matrix arguments are multivariate generalizations of classical hypergeometric functions, and approximating hypergeometric functions of huge matrices is one of the most exciting open problems in high-dimensional analysis. Over the course of the past decade, it has gradually become clear that hypergeometric functions of matrices are discrete analogues of random matrix partition functions. This analogy is clearest for complex matrices, where hypergeometric functions are discrete counterparts of the partition function of the Hermitian one-matrix model with an arbitrary potential, with Schur measure taking on the role of the Gaussian background. Once this is understood, a striking conjecture explicitly describing the asymptotics of all hypergeometric functions emerges. I will explain this conjecture, and outline recent progress towards its solution.
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> We invite applications for a fully-funded PhD position on "Resilience of Dynamic Flow Networks" within applied probability at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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Call for expressions of interest: PhD positions in Verona
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Courses are coordinated by Giuseppe Buccheri, Alessandro Gnoatto, Cecilia Mancini, Athena Picarelli, Francesca Rossi, Catia Scricciolo, Sara Svaluto Ferro under the supervision of Athena Picarelli (director of the PhD program).
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*Ph.D. program in ECONOMICS and FINANCE @ Tor Vergata*
*Call For Interest 2025*
The Department of Economics and Finance of the University of Rome Tor
Vergata is advertising a *Call for Interest* for PhD positions for the next
academic year with a full grant, which amounts to €16,243 per year (about
€1,200 per month net of taxes, increased by 50% during the periods – up to
one year - spent abroad for study and research).
A prerequisite for participating in the program is a M.Sc. university
degree in Economics or equivalent. All admissions are conditional on
obtaining the MSc degree before the beginning of the program.
The selection is based on the evaluation of the candidate’s profile from
the documentation provided, and a personal interview.
Interested candidates are kindly invited to express their interest by
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Davide Pirino
Call Talent@Unipd - ERC Scouting at the University of Padua
Dear Colleagues,
The University of Padua (Unipd) is looking for outstanding researchers of any
age and nationality to leverage successful applications for the 2026 ERC
Starting Grant call, funded by the European Commission within the Horizon
Europe Framework Programme.
ERC Starting Grants are open to candidates who have successfully defended
their first PhD thesis within a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 7 years prior
to 1st January 2026, have an outstanding scientific track-record, as well as
an excellent research proposal.
Through the Talent@Unipd Starting Grants scouting initiative, Unipd aims at
identifying promising candidates for the forthcoming ERC Starting Grant 2026
call, whose possible deadline is in October/November 2025
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writing by highly qualified research support staff at Unipd.
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and submit it by 30 April 2025, at 1 p.m. (Italian time zone), attaching the
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· CV and track-record (use of a dedicated template is mandatory)
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Gruppo di studio: Dottorato in Probabilità e Statistica e Industria (“PhD
Students in Probability and Statistics meet Companies”)
Il gruppo UMI-PRISMA, il Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche "G.L.
Lagrange” del Politecnico di Torino e il Dipartimento di Matematica “G.
Peano” dell’Università di Torino organizzano a Torino una tre giorni dal 16
al 18 settembre 2025 usando il formato ridotto dello "Study Group
Mathematics with Industry": il mattino del 16 settembre, le aziende
partecipanti presentano i problemi di loro interesse. Successivamente si
formano gruppi di dottorandi supportati da tutor accademici, che lavorano
su tali problemi e le soluzioni proposte sono discusse nel pomeriggio del
18 settembre.
Al momento hanno già accettato di partecipare le seguenti società:
Novartis (https://www.novartis.com/it-it/)
ToolsGroup (https://www.toolsgroup.com/)
La partecipazione al gruppo di studio è gratuita per dottorandi e
dottorande che stanno svolgendo una tesi di probabilità e/o statistica
matematica. Inoltre sarà disponibile un piccolo supporto finanziario su
richiesta. Il supporto sarà erogato con un criterio di priorità per ordine
di arrivo delle richieste. Infine, sarà rilasciato un certificato di
partecipazione.
In questa fase chiediamo una dichiarazione di interesse a partecipare. La
si può inviare a: laura.sacerdote(a)unito.it prima possibile e comunque entro
il 30 maggio 2025.
Il comitato organizzatore: Gianluca Guadagni, Franco Pellerey, Laura Lea
Sacerdote, Enrico Scalas, Serena Spina, Barbara Trivellato e Cristina Zucca
Dear all,
The Department of Economics and Finance at Luiss University in Rome (https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/>) is pleased to announce the following seminar:
Speaker: Alexandra Holzinger, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Title: Fluctuations around the mean-field limit for attractive Riesz interaction kernels in the moderate regime
When: April 3, 14:30
Where: Viale Romania, 32 00197 Rome
Meeting room: 405
Abstract: In this talk I will give a short introduction to moderately interacting particle systems and the general notion of fluctuations around the mean-field limit.
We will see how a central limit theorem can be shown for moderately interacting particles on the whole space for certain types of interaction potentials. The interaction potential approximates singular attractive potentials of sub-Coulomb type and we can show that the fluctuations become asymptotically Gaussians. The methodology is inspired by the classical work of Oelschläger in the 1980s on fluctuations for the porous-medium equation. To allow for attractive potentials we use a new approach of quantitative mean-field convergence in probability in order to include aggregation effects.
Should you be interested, please kindly send me an e-mail.
Best wishes,
Marta Leocata
Dear Colleagues,
We are glad to announce the summer school Mathematical methods for
high-dimensional data
<https://sites.google.com/view/math-high-dimensional-data/home>, which will
take place on September 8-12, 2025, at the Mathematics Department of
Sapienza University of Rome.
Lecturers of the school are
Jean Barbier (International Centre for Theoretical Physics)
Marylou Gabrié (École Normale Supérieure)
Alessandro Ingrosso (Radboud University)
Silvia Villa (University of Genova)
The school will also include poster sessions for PhD students and early
postdocs.
To register, please complete the form available on the website (here the
link
<https://sites.google.com/view/math-high-dimensional-data/registration?authu…>).
Participation is free, but registration is mandatory.
The school will launch the Eccellenza Scientific Program dedicated to Data
Science, running through January 2026. This program features workshops,
doctoral courses, and seminar series, focusing on the mathematical methods
underpinning data science. Participants will engage with cutting-edge
methodologies in statistical physics, statistical inference, optimization,
and control, alongside advanced techniques in numerical simulations and
scientific computing for machine learning. By integrating these
disciplines, the program provides an overview of rigorous foundations and
tools for tackling real-world challenges through data-driven approaches.
More about the program will be found on this page
<https://sites.google.com/view/math-high-dimensional-data/home>.
For additional information, do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards,
The organisers of the school
Elena Agliari
Emanuele Caglioti
Alberto Fachechi
Lorenzo Taggi
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Alberto Fachechi, PhD
Researcher (RTD-A)
Dipartimento di Matematica G. Castelnuovo
Sapienza Università di Roma