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Families in times of accelerated societal and demographic changes workshop - 11-14 January
by Sara Pillan 01 Dec '22

01 Dec '22

Buongiorno, segnaliamo, con preghiera di diffusione, l'opportunità di partecipare al workshop "*Families in times of accelerated societal and demographic changes*" dall'11 al 14 gennaio 2023. Il workshop si terrà nel complesso dell'antico monastero Terme San Marco a Monteortone, Abano Terme (Pd, Italy). News: https://www.unipd.it/news/families-times-accelerated-societal-and-demograph… ******** Organised jointly by the University of Lausanne and Padova, the workshop “Families in times of accelerated societal and demographic changes” will take place on January 11-14 2023 in Monteortone, Abano Terme (Italy). This workshop aims to allow early career scholars and senior researchers to discuss in both formal and informal ways cutting-edge papers, suggesting new hypothesis, specific case studies and comparative studies around the themes of family changes in challenging times. *CALLS FOR PARTICIPATION:* Open to: • Up to 28 PhD students, postdocs and early career scholars • coming from either European and not European University • having an interest in family studies • willing to present a paper in this field • the call is open to researchers with different backgrounds: e.g. Sociologists, Demographers, Psychologists, Statisticians, Economists… • a good command of English as a working language is also required.

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8 PhD positions in Berlin-Oxford IRTG
by Tiziano De Angelis 01 Dec '22

01 Dec '22

The Berlin-Oxford International Research Training Group (IRTG) 2544 “Stochastic Analysis in Interaction” offers 8 PhD positions (75% TVL E 13, about 1900 EUR p.m. after taxes, social security...) for 3 years starting April 1st, 2023, or soon thereafter. Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the IRTG is a joint research initiative of the stochastic analysis group of FU, HU, TU and WIAS Berlin with its counterpart at the University of Oxford. The advertised positions will be based in Berlin and will offer ample opportunities to interact also with members of the Oxford team, most notably in a 6-months exchange. Embedded in a truly international environment, the IRTG students will get excellent research training in a structured programme focussing on challenges at the mathematical foundations of Stochastic Analysis as well as on challenges arising from its various applications, e.g., in physics, biology, finance or data science. The combined expertise from the Berlin and Oxford groups will provide a significant breadth in depth and fertile ground for our students' ambitious research ideas. Successful candidates will have an MSc degree (or equivalent) in Mathematics (or a closely related field), strong knowledge of stochastic analysis, and feel eager to engage in the exchange of ideas with the teams in both Berlin and Oxford. Deadline for applications is December 9, 2022. Please see https://stellenticket.de/157323/TUB/?lang=en for the official job ad and for instructions on how to apply. Our IRTG webpage www.math.tu-berlin.de/irtg offers more information on the Berlin-Oxford IRTG 2544.

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Seminario Sapienza - Alberto Chiarini - Martedì 6 Dicembre
by Lorenzo Taggi 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

Titolo: On the cost of covering a fraction of a macroscopic body by a simple random walk. Abstract: In this talk we aim at establishing large deviation estimates for the probability that a simple random walk on the Euclidean lattice (d>2) covers a substantial fraction of a macroscopic body. It turns out that, when such rare event happens, the random walk is locally well approximated by random interlacements with a specific intensity, which can be used as a pivotal tool to obtain precise exponential rates. Random interlacements have been introduced by Sznitman in 2007 in order to describe the local picture left by the trace of a random walk on a large discrete torus when it runs up to times proportional to the volume of the torus, and has been since a popular object of study. In the first part of the talk we introduce random interlacements and give a brief account of some results surrounding this object. In the second part of the talk we study the event that random interlacements cover a substantial fraction of a macroscopic body. This allows to obtain an upper bound on the probability of the corresponding event for the random walk. Finally, by constructing a near-optimal strategy for the random walk to cover a macroscopic body, we discuss a matching large deviation lower bound. The talk is based on ongoing work with M. Nitzschner (NYU Courant). Martedì 6 Dicembre, ore 14:00 Dipartimento di Matematica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Sala di Consiglio Speaker: Alberto Chiarini, Università di Padova

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Avviso chiamate dirette - Call for Professorship positions
by Michele Gianfelice 29 Nov '22

29 Nov '22

Salve, ricevo e inoltro. Cordialmente, m.gianfelice Call for Manifestation of interest to fill Professorship positions, Full or Associate Professor and Tenure-Track Assistant Professor art. 24, (3) (b), law 240/2010, at the University of Calabria, through the institution of "direct call" pursuant to art. 1, c. 9 of law no. 230 of 4 November 2005. Avviso a manifestare l'interesse a ricoprire la posizione di professore di ruolo di prima o di seconda fascia e ricercatore a tempo determinato art. 24, comma 3, lett. b, legge 240/2010 presso l'Università della Calabria mediante l'istituto della "chiamata diretta" ai sensi dell'art. 1, c. 9 della legge 4 novembre 2005, n. 230.

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Seminario del Prof. Consiglio - 6 dicembre 16.00
by Enea Bongiorno 29 Nov '22

29 Nov '22

Buongiorno, con piacere segnalo il seguente seminario: -------------------------------- 6 dicembre ore 16.00 - aula 101, campus Perrone, via Perrone, 18, Novara. Università del Piemonte Orientale. - on-line: meet.google.com/yvq-ccbt-pzt Prof. Andrea Consiglio Università di Palermo Title: Simulation and Optimization Models to Assess Sovereign Debt Sustainability Abstract: We model sovereign debt sustainability with optimal financing decisions under macroeconomic, financial, and fiscal uncertainty, with endogenous risk and term premia. Using a coherent risk measure we trade off debt stock and flow risks subject to sustainability constraints. We optimize static and dynamic financing strategies and demonstrate economically significant savings from optimal financing compared with simple rules and consols, and find that optimizing the trade-offs can be critical for sustainability. ----------------------------------- Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Cordiali saluti, Enea -- Enea Bongiorno,PhD Associate Professor of Statistics Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Via Perrone 18, 28100, Novara, Italia Phone: +390321375317 enea.bongiorno(a)uniupo.it upobook.uniupo.it/enea.bongiorno

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[PRISMA] seminari di Antonio Lijoi e Federico Camerlenghi
by Domenico Marinucci 28 Nov '22

28 Nov '22

Care colleghe e colleghi il prossimo incontro del ciclo di seminari del gruppo UMI-Prisma si svolgerà come al solito il primo lunedì del mese, quindi il 5 dicembre dalle 16 alle 18 su piattaforma Teams (link alla fine del messaggio). Parleranno Antonio Lijoi e Federico Camerlenghi (cf. http://www.umi-prisma.polito.it/webinars.html) titoli ed abstract qui sotto: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Antonio Lijoi, Università Bocconi TITLE: Discrete random structures and Bayesian nonparametric modeling ABSTRACT: Discrete random structures, such as random partitions and discrete random measures, have emerged as effective tools for Bayesian modeling and have fueled exciting advances in density estimation, clustering, prediction, feature allocation and survival analysis. The Dirichlet process (DP) has undoubtedly emerged as a reference model, mostly due to its analytical tractability. Nonetheless, the DP shares also some well-known limitations that have spurred a very lively area of research aiming at the proposal and the investigation of more general and flexible discrete nonparametric priors. The talk will provide a broad overview of such classes of priors and will specifically focus on those obtained as normalization of completely random measures. Characterizations of the induced random partitions and predictive rules will be illustrated and their role in designing computational algorithms for the approximation of Bayesian inferences of interest will be highlighted, both in exchangeable and non-exchangeable settings. Federico Camerlenghi, Milano Bicocca TITLE: Normalized random measures with atoms' interaction ABSTRACT: The seminal work of Ferguson (1973), who introduced the Dirichlet process, has spurred the definition and investigation of more general classes of Bayesian nonparametric priors, with the aim at increasing flexibility while maintaining analytical tractability. Among the numerous generalizations, a fundamental class of random probability measures has been introduced by Regazzini et al. (2003): this is the class of normalized random measures with independent increments (NRMIs). NRMIs are random probability measures with almost surely discrete realizations, defined through the specifications of two ingredients: i) a sequence of unnormalized weights, which are the jumps of a Levy process on the positive real line; ii) a sequence of i.i.d. random atoms from a common base measure. The proposed construction is appealing from a mathematical standpoint, because analytical tractability is preserved, however NRMIs do not allow interaction among atoms, which are supposed to be independent and identically distributed. In some applied frameworks, the i.i.d. assumption could be too restrictive, for instance, in model-based clustering, when they are used as mixing measures in mixture models. To overcome this limitation, we propose a new class of normalized random measures with atoms' interaction. In our construction the atoms come from a finite point process, which is marked with i.i.d. positive weights. Thus, a new class of random probability measures is obtained by normalization. The desired interaction among atoms is then induced by a suitable choice of the law of the point process, which can create a repulsive or attractive behaviour. By means of Palm calculus, we are able to characterize marginal, predictive and posterior distributions for the proposed model. We specialize all our results for several choices of the finite point process, i.e., in the Determinantal, Gibbs and Shot-Noise Cox case. (Based on a joint work with Raffaele Argiento, Mario Beraha and Alessandra Guglielmi.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grazie per l'attenzione, Domenico Marinucci Link per il collegamento: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a667d2414be564c5d8fba30acffeb… -- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Domenico Marinucci Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma Tor Vergata https://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~marinucc/ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

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Fw: postdoc position at CEREMADE (Paris-Dauphine)
by Cristina TONINELLI 28 Nov '22

28 Nov '22

Ricevo e inoltro --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cristina Toninelli Postal Address: Ceremade Univ.Paris Dauphine Place du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny 75775 Paris Cedex 16 - France Office: P207bis -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________ From: Alessandra IACOBUCCI <iacob(a)ceremade.dauphine.fr> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022 2:02 PM To: Cristina TONINELLI <toninelli(a)ceremade.dauphine.fr> Subject: postdoc position at CEREMADE (Paris-Dauphine) Dear collegues, A two-year postdoc position is open at CEREMADE, Paris-Dauphine University. The position is funded by the ANR project SINEQ and focusses on stochastic processes for energy transport. The full advert can be found at the this link<https://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/~iacob/PDFs/postdocANR.pdf>. I would be very grateful if you could pass this message on to any potential applicants you might know. Best wishes, Alessandra Alessandra Iacobucci CEREMADE-CNRS Université Paris-Dauphine France

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SPASS seminar: Angelo Lucia - THU 01.12 at 14:00
by Andrea Agazzi 28 Nov '22

28 Nov '22

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to the following SPASS <https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/spass> seminar, jointly organized by UniPi, SNS, UniFi and UniSi: *Thermalization of 2D Quantum Memories* by Angelo Lucia (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) The seminar will take place in person on *THU, 01.12.2022 at 14:00* in Aula Seminari, Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa and streamed online here <https://meet.google.com/gji-phwo-vbg>. The organizers, A. Agazzi, G. Bet, A. Caraceni, F. Grotto, G. Zanco https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/spass -------------------------------------------- *Title: Thermalization of 2D Quantum Memories* *Abstract: **The aim of a quantum memory is to protect an encoded quantum state against errors for long periods of time. Quantum double models are a class of 2D quantum memories proposed by Kitaev, in which the protection from noise is due to the topological properties of the ground state degeneracy.* *Heuristic arguments have long pointed to a weakness of these models against thermal noise processes. In this talk I will present a rigorous estimate on the lifetime of these memories under a noise process modeled by Davies generators which confirms these findings. This estimate is obtained by proving that the spectral gap of the generator is lower bounded by a positive constant uniformly in the system size.*

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One year post-doc in Pisa
by Marco Romito 28 Nov '22

28 Nov '22

dear all I am writing to announce the the call for a one-year post-doctoral position at the Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa, about the general topic of ``Analytical, probabilistic and statistical models with application in natural and physical sciences'', funded by Università di Pisa. This is a unique possibility to work with the Pisa probability community: https://www.dm.unipi.it/research/probability-and-mathematical-statistics/ The call for proposals is available at https://bandi.unipi.it/public/Bandi/Detail/ed4975e8-cda2-46bf-ba28-e2b78b1d… the deadline is on Dec. 22 at 1 p.m. The interested readers can contact the writer for further information thank you m.

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Padova Seminars in Probability and Finance - Giacomo Greco (Eindhoven University of Technology)
by Alberto Chiarini 27 Nov '22

27 Nov '22

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to the following seminar that will take place on December 2nd at 11.00 in Padova. The seminar will be held in person and online via the Zoom platform. _____________________________________________________ Speaker: Giacomo Greco (Eindhoven University of Technology) Title: Entropic turnpike estimates for the kinetic Schrödinger problem Date and time: Friday, DECEMBER 2nd at 11.00 Place: room 2BC30 at the Department of Mathematics, University of Padova Zoom link: https://unipd.zoom.us/j/86210155315 available also on the webpage https://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/seminari/ Abstract: The kinetic Schrödinger problem consists in finding the most likely evolution of a system of i.i.d. particles driven by the underdamped Langevin dynamics, conditionally on their initial and final spatial configurations. In this model each particle is described both by its position and velocity, but there is no a priori knowledge of the velocities at the initial and final time. We will investigate the long-time behaviour of this kinetic system, proving that its most likely evolution is exactly the one that spends most of the time exponentially close to the equilibrium configuration (this property is commonly known in stochastic control theory as the turnpike property). This short talk is based on a joint work with A. Chiarini, G. Conforti, Z. Ren. With best regards, Alberto Chiarini Department of Mathematics Tullio Levi-Civita Via Trieste 63 35121 Padova Italy

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