WEBINARS IN STATISTICS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO
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Venerdi 26 Febbraio 2021, alle ore 17:00, si terrà il seguente webinar:
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Speaker: *Yun Wei (*Samsi and Duke University, USA)
Title: *Obtaining faster convergence rates in finite mixture models by
taking repeated measures*
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89954920036?pwd=dndsQnZqQ2crZzVlRW1pM0Q2RGo1Zz09
Meeting ID: 899 5492 0036
Passcode: 418668
Abstract:
It is known that some finite mixture models suffer from slow rates for
estimating the component parameters. Examples are mixtures of the weakly
identifiable families in the sense of [Ho and Nguyen 2016]. To obtain
faster parameter convergence rates, we propose to collect more samples from
each mixture component, hence each data is a vector of samples from the
same mixture component. Such a model is known in the literature as a finite
mixture model of repeated measures, which has been applied in psychological
study and topic modeling. This model also belongs to the mixture of product
distributions, with the special structure that the product distributions in
each mixture component are also identical. In this setup, each data
consists of conditionally independent and identically distributed samples
and thus is an exchangeable sequence.
We show that by taking repeated measures (collecting more samples from each
mixture component), a finite mixture model that is not originally
identifiable becomes identifiable. Moreover, the posterior contraction
rates for the parameter estimation are also obtained, demonstrating that
repeated measures are beneficial for estimating the component parameters.
Our results hold for general probability families including all regular
exponential families and can also be applied to hierarchical models. The
key tool to develop the results is by establishing an inverse inequality to
upper bound a suitable distance between mixing measures by the total
variational distance between the corresponding mixture densities.
Based on joint work with Xuanlong Nguyen (University of Michigan).
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Il webinar è organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative
www.carloalberto.org/stats
in collaborazione con il Collegio Carlo Alberto e rientra nel Complex Data
Modeling Research Network
midas.mat.uc.cl/network
Cordiali saluti,
Pierpaolo De Blasi
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University of Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto
carloalberto.org/pdeblasi
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Buongiorno,
inoltro l'annuncio del OWPS di domani.
Saluti
Alessandra
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Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com>
Date: mer 17 feb 2021 alle ore 10:50
Subject: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday February 18, 2021
To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk>
Tomorrow's speaker in the One World Probability Seminar is
(Note: all times are in UTC. *Due to time changes, you should check what
that translates to in your location*)
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(14:00-16:00 UTC) Speaker: Richard Kenyon (Yale)
Title: The multi-tiling model
Abstract: Given a graph G and collection of connected subgraphs T (called
tiles), we consider covering G with copies of tiles in T so that each
vertex of G is covered with a predetermined multiplicity. The multitiling
model is a natural probability measure on such configurations.
In the limit of large multiplicities we compute the asymptotic growth rate
of the number of multitilings: the free energy of the multitiling model. We
will show that the individual tile densities tend to a Gaussian field with
respect to an associated discrete Laplacian. We also find an exact discrete
Coulomb gas limit when we vary the multiplicities.
This is joint work with Andrei Pohoata (Yale).
Please note: Richard Kenyon will be giving both talks in the session.
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The zoom link will appear the day before on the OWPS website:
https://www.owprobability.org/one-world-probability-seminar
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It can also be directly accessed through the link below:
https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/83228198137?pwd=QUxhM1NXdlFTOGxvc09IUGIvenBxUT09
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Meeting-ID: 832 2819 8137
Passcode: 029896
Please feel free to circulate this email.
We hope to see you all tomorrow!
One World Probability Team
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Prof. Alessandra Faggionato
http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/
Department of Mathematics
University "La Sapienza"
Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5
00185 - Rome
Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252
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On behalf of the Scientific and Organising Committees we are pleased to
inform you that
the Twelth Workshop on
“*Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes (BISP12)*”
will be held *online* on *27-28 May 2021* (afternoons, Central European
Summer Time).
Attendance is free of charge but registration is required (and limited
to 150 people).
As in the past, the workshop will provide an opportunity to review,
discuss and
explore directions of development of Bayesian Inference in Stochastic
Processes.
Ten presentations by young scientists have been scheduled this year,
followed by an
in-depth discussion by senior scholars in the field.
The workshop is organised by CNR-IMATI (Milano), www.imati.cnr.it.
Information on programme, website and registration will be available in
early Spring.
Elisa Varini and Fabrizio Ruggeri
Chairs, Organising and Scientific Committees
Dear colleagues,
I would like to invite you to the following online seminar organized by the Probability group of the University of Pisa. The talk will be accessible under the link
Click here to join the meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3A17115d7f6ef44c5e91974362906c…>
Best regards,
Giacomo
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 16:00
Speaker: Renaud Raquépas (McGill University Montréal and Université Grenoble Alpes)
Title: Entropy production in nondegenerate diffusions: the large-time and small-noise limits
Abstract: Entropy production (EP) is a key quantity originating from thermodynamics and statistical physics which quantifies the irreversibility of the time evolution of physical systems. I will start with a general introduction to the different approaches to defining EP. Then, I will focus on the context of nondegenerate diffusions and I will describe the large-deviation properties of EP as time goes to infinity. Finally, I will discuss the behaviour of the corresponding rate function as the intensity of the noise goes to zero.
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Giacomo Di Gesù
Dipartimento di Matematica
Università di Pisa
Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 5
56127 - Pisa, Italy
giacomo.digesu(a)unipi.it<mailto:giacomo.digesu@unipi.it>
https://sites.google.com/site/giacomodigesu/
Dear Colleagues,
On Monday 22nd February at 11am UK time,
Minmin Wang (Department of Mathematics, University of Sussex) will present
a seminar on
k-cut model for the Brownian Continuum Random Tree
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11080
If you are interested in joining the seminar, please contact Dr Wang at:
minmin.wang(a)sussex.ac.uk.
Best regards,
Enrico Scalas
Dear colleagues,
Applications are open for PhD scholarships in Maths & Stats at University College Dublin — see announcement below. Possible projects in probability will be supervised by Neil O’Connell.
Cheers,
Elia Bisi
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Elia Bisi
Assistant Professor (non-TT)
Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien)
Research Unit Mathematical Stochastics
https://eliabisi.com
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From: Neil O'Connell <neil.oconnell(a)ucd.ie>
Date: 12 Feb 2021, 16:46 +0100
To: Neil O'Connell <neil.oconnell(a)ucd.ie>
Subject: Funded PhD positions at University College Dublin
Dear colleagues,
I would be grateful if you could forward the announcement below to any suitable mailing lists or students who might be interested:
Applications are invited for the UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics Research Demonstratorship scholarship scheme. These scholarships fund up to 4 years full-time PhD research, beginning on 1st September 2021. The closing date for applications is March 9th 2021 with results anticipated by early April 2021. Details on the scholarships and the application process are available at www.ucd.ie/mathstat/study/researchdegrees/rd2021<http://www.ucd.ie/mathstat/study/researchdegrees/rd2021>.
Best regards,
Neil O'Connell
Università degli Studi di Milano: PhD program
Stochastic quantization of the Euclidean quantum field theory
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Gubinelli
The goal of Euclidean quantum field theory is to build probability
measures on the space of distributions satisfying properties such as
Euclidean invariance, reflection positivity and non-triviality, that
allows to recover an interacting relativistic quantum field satisfying
Wightman axioms.
Stochastic quantization, first proposed by Parisi–Wu and Nelson,
is a method of construction of such measures via stationary solutions
of a stochastic partial differential equations driven by additive
Gaussian white noise.
In this course we will learn about the stochastic quantization of the
Euclidean quantum field theory of a scalar boson with quartic
interaction and its main properties. We introduce the Φ43 measure
as the limit of the invariant measure of a finite dimensional system
of stochastic differential equations.
The proof proposed uses several analytic and probabilistic techniques,
such as white noise analysis, weighted Besov spaces on lattice and
paraproducts, which also find applications in other problems arising
in the study of deterministic and stochastic singular differential
equations.
All these tools and ideas will be gradually introduced and
explained during the lectures. The course is as much as possible
self-contained and requires as a prerequisite only basic knowledge of
stochastic and functional analysis.
Scheduling: February 15, 16, 18, 22, 25 from 10:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 16:00
Topic: Lectures on Stochastic Quantisation
Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet anytime
Join Zoom Meeting
https://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/abteilung-gubinelli/sq-lectures-milan-ws2021(ht…" target="_blank">https://uni-bonn.zoom.us/j/94642762037?pwd=MG80cW92T29PMWw3dDQ3aEdsY2lsdz09
Meeting ID: 946 4276 2037
Passcode: 954150
The link is available also at the following page:
Course page:
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Dear All,
On behalf of the guest editor - Prof. Dr. Maria Longobardi, I would
like to invite you to submit a paper to the Special Issue titled
"Measures of Information" for Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300, IF 2.494).
Special Issue Homepage:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/meas_inf
Submission deadline: 14 May 2021
Entropy is an open access journal which maintains a rigorous and fast
peer-review system and accepted papers are immediately published
online. Because it is an online and open access journal, papers
published in Entropy will receive high publicity. It is fully covered
by the leading indexing and abstracting services, including Google
Scholar, MathSciNet, Scopus and Science Citation Index Expanded (Web
of Science). The Impact Factor for Entropy is 2.494 (2019). An Article
Processing Charge (APC) of CHF 1800 currently applies to all accepted
papers.
If the idea can retain your attention, please do not hesitate to
contact Vincent Shang for further information. We are looking forward
to hearing from you.
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Best regards,
Francesco Buono