dear all
I am writing to announce the following Colloquium at the Mathematics
department, Pisa University.
*MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN MODERN MACHINE LEARNING**
*/Andrea Montanari (Stanford University)/
April 15, 2020, 4pm
Abstract: The last fifteen years have witnessed dramatic advances in
machine learning. This progress was mainly driven by engineering
advances: greater computing power, and larger availability of training
data. Not only the collection of methods that emerged from this
revolution are not well understood mathematically, but they actually
appear to defy traditional mathematical theories of machine learning.
I will argue that future developments and applications will require to
understand better the underlying mathematical principles.
I will describe two recent examples of mathematical progress in this
area that are connected to areas of modern mathematics:
1. Gradient flows in Wasserstein spaces;
2. Random matrix theory.
[Based on joint work with: Song Mei, Phan-Minh Nguyen, Behrooz Ghorbani,
Theodor Misiakiewicz]
In order to follow the exposition the audience can join the live
streaming at the URL:
https://stream.meet.google.com/stream/ea5a4a6c-6b34-428a-b45c-b0d625ee5610
Dear Colleague,
I would be grateful if you could bring to the attention of your best
students the new edition 2020-2021 of the PhD Program in Economics
offered by the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
The PhD Program in Economics aims at training selected students for a
career as economists in academic institutions or in research departments
of national and international organizations, public institutions,
private corporations, central banks, financial institutions. Our recent
PhDs first placement include positions both in Italian and foreign
Universities such as Università Libera di Bolzano, Università degli
Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Luiss Guido Carli, Università degli
studi di Padova, King’s College London, Boston University, Aberdeen
Univeristy, University of Addis Abeba and Zhongnan University of
Economics and Law. Some PhDs were employed by private companies such as
Morgan Stanley-London, Microsoft and public and private research
centers: Banca d’Italia, Bundesbank, Banque Centrale du Luxembourg,
European Central Bank, Ecuador Ministry of Education.
The considerable diversification of research areas covered by the
members of Department of Economics and their international reputation
provide an excellent environment where students of most fields in
economics can find research ideas and tight guidance for their doctoral
studies.
The PhD program has a duration of four years.
For the academic year 2020-2021, 6 positions are available. Five of them
come with a scholarship (around 15,300 € per year), one is reserved for
non-Italian applicants who can prove to have their own scholarship
covering four years.
Deadline for application is *April 21st 2020*, 13h00 (Italian time).
Information and application procedure can be found at
http://www.unive.it/phdapplication
Information on the PhD in Economics can be found at
http://www.unive.it/phdeconomics
Any questions on the program may be addressed to the PhD Secretariat at:
sse(a)unive.it <mailto:sse@unive.it>
Thank you for your cooperation
Best regards
Antonella Basso
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Caro Collega,
Ti scrivo per segnalarti l’apertura del bando per il programma di
dottorato in Economics offerto dal dipartimento di Economia
dell’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. Quest’anno sono disponibili 5
posti con borsa quadriennale (circa 15.300€ annui per l’intera durata
del dottorato), più un posto per studenti stranieri in possesso di borsa
di studio propria. Il bando si chiude il *21 aprile 2020 alle
13.00,* ora italiana.
Il dottorato ambisce a preparare un gruppo selezionato di studenti per
la carriera accademica, ma anche per ricoprire posizioni in research
departments di organizzazioni internazionali, istituzioni pubbliche,
imprese private banche centrali e istituzioni finanziarie. I primi
placement dei nostri più recenti dottori di ricerca includono contratti
o assegni di ricerca presso atenei, italiani o stranieri, (Università
Libera di Bolzano, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia,
Luiss Guido Carli, Università Ca’ Foscari e Università degli studi di
Padova). Alcuni dottori hanno invece intrapreso la carriera
universitaria come ricercatori presso atenei stranieri: King’s College
London, Boston University, Univeristy of Aberdeen, University of Addis
Ababa, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. Altri invece hanno
trovato la loro prima occupazione presso enti o aziende privati
(Euromonitor International a Vilnius, Morgan Stanley-London, Microsoft)
e enti di ricerca pubblici o istituzioni pubbliche (Banca d'Italia,
Bundesbank, Banque Centrale du Luxembourg, Banca Centrale Europea,
Tertiary Education Commission e Ecuador Ministry of Education).
Il programma di dottorato ha una durata quadriennale. Il primo anno i
dottorandi seguono un intenso programma di corsi avanzati. Gli studenti
ammessi al secondo anno si concentrano sul lavoro di tesi e partecipano
attivamente alla vita del dipartimento. L'ampio spettro di interessi di
ricerca e la reputazione internazionale della faculty di area economica
e quantitativa di Ca’ Foscari, così come il ricco programma di seminari
e workshop di livello internazionale organizzati in dipartimento
permettono agli studenti di lavorare in un ambiente stimolante per tutta
la durata del corso di dottorato. Gli studenti più meritevoli ricevono
l’adeguato supporto, anche economico, per partecipare a conferenze e
workshop internazionali e per poter competere sul job market internazionale.
Puoi trovare maggiori dettagli riguardo il bando a questo link:
http://www.unive.it/phdapplication
Informazioni dettagliate sul PhD in Economics a Ca’ Foscari:
http://www.unive.it/phdeconomics
Qualsiasi richiesta di informazioni riguardo il programma può essere
rivolta alla Segreteria del dottorato all'indirizzo: sse(a)unive.it
<mailto:sse@unive.it>
Cordiali saluti
Antonella Basso
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Antonella Basso
Prorettore alla Programmazione e Valutazione - Prorector at Planning and Valuation
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
Fondamenta S. Giobbe - Cannaregio 873
30121 Venezia - Italy
Tel. +39-041-2346914
E-mail address:basso@unive.it
Web page:http://www.unive.it/data/persone/5591751
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Oggetto: Call for abstracts OICA online conference, deadline April
13th, 2020
Data: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 22:11:30 +0000
Mittente: LOISEL STEPHANE <stephane.loisel(a)univ-lyon1.fr>
A: LOISEL STEPHANE <stephane.loisel(a)univ-lyon1.fr>
Dear RIANA colleagues and friends,
Can you please forward this announcement to your network and encourage
your colleagues and PhD students to submit abstracts and/or attend ?
Thanks,
Best,
Stephane
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We organise at the end of the month (April 28-29, 2020) an _online_
conference in actuarial science, data science and finance.
Abstract submission deadline : April 13th, 2020.
Scientific committee : Hansjoerg Albrecher (Lausanne), Katrien Antonio
(Leuven), Benjamin Avanzi (Melbourne), Pauline Barrieu (LSE), Mercè
Claramunt (Barcelona), Nicole El Karoui (Paris), Romuald Elie
(Berkeley), Stéphane Loisel (ISFA, chair), Mogens Steffensen
(Copenhagen), Ruodu Wang (Waterloo), Hailiang Yang (Hong-Kong U.)
We hope that’ll be able to submit an abstract :
http://oica.univ-lyon1.fr <http://oica.univ-lyon1.fr>
Details about the purpose of the conference are below. Parallel session
talks are 15mins long.
Take care and stay safe,
Stéphane Loisel
PS Registration is free but compulsory.
**
*About OICA Conference*
/(Online International Conference in Actuarial science, data science and
finance)/
Covid19 is going to change the financial markets and the
insurance-reinsurance network.
As actuarial science, data science and finance researchers, we cannot
easily help for the current phase as we are not medical doctors or
epidemiologists.
But we can help to mitigate/manage the financial/risk management
consequences by carrying out relevant research in 2020-2021.
For this we need to learn NOW from experts and decision makers what the
research challenges are.
Therefore we are organising an online conference on April 28-29, 2020
with two goals :
* Enabling researchers and young researchers to present actuarial /
data science / financial research that was done before covid19
(therefore NOT related to covid19)
* Having 1 or 2 roundtables that describe covid19 implications on the
economy, and which help us to know which research topics we could
investigate in the future if we want to help (WACA roundtables :
What Actuaries Could Accomplish researchwise in 2020-21).
We also planned (classical) plenary talks on topics that could be useful
for post-covid research, as well as a quite different talk by José
Blanchet about a social platform startup that he created in response to
covid19 in US and Mexico and the associated data science future challenges.
INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS
*Beatrice ACCIAIO */(LSE, London, United Kingdom)/**
*José BLANCHET */(Stanford University, CA, USA)/
*Caroline HILLAIRET */(ENSAE, Paris, France)/
*Nora PANKRATZ */(UCLA, CA, USA)/
*Jae Kyung WOO */(UNSW, Sydney, Australia)/
**
To be clear, this event is NOT about presenting super-fast,
opportunistic research on epidemiology produced by actuaries. It is
about presenting classical actuarial/data science/finance research works
that have been done before, and reflecting about how we can contribute
researchwise for the future.
As almost everyone is at home at that time, we think that the timing is
possible. We’ll have sessions in the morning, lunch time and up to
evening to accomodate participants in different locations. The
roundtables will be held between 11am and 4pm French time to maximize
audience (including Asia-Pacific and America).
We hope that you’ll join us to this OICA-WACA conference and
roundtable (please use French accent to sound like Shakira’s song) !
Dear all,
I hope you are keeping safe and well.
Inspired by the One World Probability Seminar, we decided to run The ABC World Seminar, a weekly/fortnightly series of seminars that will take place on Blackboard collaborate on Thursdays at 9am [UK time]. The idea is to gather members and disseminate results and innovation during these weeks and months under lockdown.
The first speaker will be Dennis Prangle on "Distilling importance sampling" on 9th April. Please sign up to the mailing list
https://listserv.csv.warwick.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/abc_world_seminar to be able to join the talk.
Full details are available on the webpage
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/news/upcoming-seminars/abcworldsem…
Please share this email to anyone who may be interested.
Best wishes,
Massimiliano Tamborrino, on behalf of the ABC World Seminar Organisers.
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Dr. Massimiliano Tamborrino
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
University of Warwick
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/tamborrino
Dear Colleague,
our Financial Computing and Analytics Group has advertised a lecturer position with application deadline on 27 April 2020:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BZQ100/lecturer-in-financial-computing
The job description is attached. This position has been held by Simone Righi, who at the end of June 2020 will leave for the Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Kind regards
Guido Germano
Dr Guido Germano, Associate Professor, UCL Department of Computer Science
Programme Director and Admissions Tutor, UCL MSc Computational Finance
Research Associate, Systemic Risk Centre, London School of Economics
Associate Editor, Advances in Complex Systems www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/g.germano
Dear Colleague,
on behalf of the organising committee, it is a pleasure to
announce that the 10th AMaMeF Conference will take place in Padova on June
22-25, *2021*.
The conference will feature plenary lectures, invited sessions and
contributed sessions covering the forefront areas of research in
theoretical and quantitative finance, risk, insurance.
Abstract submission for contributed talks and posters will be
announced in due time.
Follow the development at the website (in continuous development):
https://events.math.unipd.it/AMAMEF2021/
Please help to distribute this announcement among your all
contacts.
Welcome to Padova in June 2021!
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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Segnalo un'altra iniziativa di seminari online, gestita dal gruppo di
Oxford. Il primo seminario è oggi pomeriggio (Rob Morris, IMPA) alle 15:00.
Cari saluti,
Vittoria
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Vittoria Silvestri
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
University "La Sapienza"
Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5
00185 - Rome
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Begin forwarded message:
*From:* Christina Goldschmidt <goldschm(a)stats.ox.ac.uk>
*Date:* 27 March 2020 at 16:40:54 GMT
*To:* "APPLIEDPROB(a)jiscmail.ac.uk" <APPLIEDPROB(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
*Subject:* *New online Oxford Discrete Mathematics and Probability seminar*
*Reply-To:* Christina Goldschmidt <goldschm(a)STATS.OX.AC.UK>
Dear colleagues,
We hope that you are all well, and finding a way to adjust to our new
circumstances.
We are writing to announce the new Oxford Discrete Mathematics and
Probability Seminar, which will take place on Tuesdays, on Zoom, starting
on 31st March, and will feature talks in both Combinatorics and
Probability. For the first week we will have a single seminar at 2pm (UK
time); in most future weeks we will also have a second seminar at 3.30pm.
The talks are open to everybody: please feel free to forward this
announcement to anyone you think might be interested.
The first two talks will be:
31st March, 2pm: Rob Morris (IMPA), Erdős covering systems
7th April, 2pm: Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill), Hipster random walks.
More details can be found at http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/scott/dmp.htm .
This will be something of an experiment while we get to grips with the
technology, but we're excited about the possibilities this format might
bring! We are aware of several other excellent such initiatives going on,
and will be keen to share our experiences and learn what works.
We have set up a mailing list for seminar announcements,
discmathprob(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk. In order to subscribe, please send an email
to sympa(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk with subject “subscribe discmathprob Firstname
Lastname” (replace “Firstname” and “Lastname” appropriately); leave the
message body blank. You should receive a message to let you know that your
subscription has been successful.
Our intention (of course with the agreement of the speakers) is to record
the seminars and put them on YouTube for an indefinite period of time, to
act as a resource for the community. This has consequences from the
perspective of data protection since, by default, if you participate,
personal data consisting of your username, audio and video may be recorded.
If you wish to participate but do not want your personal data recorded, you
should please make sure to turn off your video and mute your microphone.
All best wishes,
Christina Goldschmidt and Alex Scott.
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Christina Goldschmidt | http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~goldschm | she/her
Department of Statistics and Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
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Dear Colleagues,
The *Department of Mathematics* of the *Faculty of Science, Technology, and
Medicine* (FSTM) of the *University of Luxembourg* (UL) has an opening for
an *Associate Professor in Mathematics (promotion track) – Area of
Statistics and Machine Learning*.
- Ref: *F1-50011779* (to be mentioned in all correspondence)
- Full-time position (40 hrs/week)
- Earliest starting date: September 2020
- Permanent position, with promotion track (after 5 years there is the
possibility of being promoted to full professor after an evaluation). In
case of an excellent more senior candidate, appointment at the level of
full professor can be considered
Deadline: *May 31, 2020* (NB: the previous deadline for this position was
March 31, 2020 - we decided to postpone it by two months, mainly because of
the current international crisis).
All details can be found at the address:
http://emea3.mrted.ly/2f9vz
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,
please find below the announcement of a Datathon (real-time forecasting
competition) on Covid-19 just started.
Feel free to distribute to all interested parties.
Best regards,
Fabrizio Lillo
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Announcement and call for participation at Real-time Epidemic Datathon
https://www.epidemicdatathon.com
Real-time Epidemic Datathon is a collective open-source real-time
forecasting challenge aimed at joining forces to push modeling limits
further for real-time epidemic forecasting at large scale. Organized by ETH
Zürich, UCLA, EU SoBigData++ project, NYU COURANT, and other partner
organizations. The goal of this project is to bring together researchers
and students from different disciplines (e.g., computer science,
epidemiology, physics, statistics, applied math, ...) and advance real-time
epidemic modeling frameworks. We provide a platform for scientific exchange
and discussion. Participating teams can submit predictions of COVID-19 case
evolutions in different countries and evaluate/compare their modeling
approaches.
Who can join? Everyone can join and contribute in various ways: (i)
register as a developer (individual or with a team) of a real-time epidemic
forecasting model, (ii) register and monitor scientific developments (see
our disclaimer section), or (iii) share the news about this event and help
us to reach more contributors.
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Fabrizio Lillo
Dipartimento di Matematica
Università di Bologna
ITALY
Personal website: fabriziolillo.wordpress.com
University website: www.unibo.it/sitoweb/fabrizio.lillo
<http://fabriziolillo.wordpress.com/>
phone: +39 050509159
Dear All,
maybe you already know
https://www.wim.uni-mannheim.de/doering/one-world/
All the best.
Enrico
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Enrico Priola
Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pavia
Via Adolfo Ferrata 5, 27100 Pavia
tel +39 0382 985639