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Seminar Panaretos @Bocconi
by Giacomo Zanella 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

We announce the following DEC Statistics seminar: Thursday, October 3 12:30 Meeting room 3-e4-sr03, Bocconi University, Via Roentgen 1, 3rd floor Victor Panaretos (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Title: Fréchet Means and Procrustes Analysis in Wasserstein Space Abstract: Given a collection of diffuse random measures in R^d, we consider the problems of: constructing their optimal multicoupling in a mean square sense (a.k.a. Procrustes analysis); and of determining their Fréchet mean with respect to the Wasserstein metric. Though these problems admit explicit solutions when d=1, they are considerably more challenging when d>1. To attack them, we exploit the geometry of Wasserstein space, and specifically the relation between its tangent bundle and the class of optimal coupling maps. This allows us to determine the gradient of the Fréchet functional and show that the two problems at hand represent two sides of the same coin: gradient descent for the Fréchet mean reduces to a Procrustes algorithm, requiring only successive solution of pairwise coupling problems, thus being practically feasible; and the optimal maps obtained as a bye-product can be used to explicitly construct the optimal multi-coupling. We show how these results can be used in order to consistently solve the problem of registration of warped spatio-temporal point processes in an entirely nonparametric fashion, by means of appropriate regularisation. Kind regards, Giacomo Zanella The DEC statistics seminars schedule is available at http://www.unibocconi.eu/statseminar Please note: if you are a guest and you do not have a Bocconi ID Card to access to the Bocconi Buildings, please communicate your participation by sending an email to arianna.colombo(a)unibocconi.it

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seminario Fabio Antonelli a Roma Tor Vergata
by Anna Vidotto 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

Dear all, I would like to announce the following talk that will be held on Friday, October 4th 2019, at 4:30 PM, in Aula Dal Passo of the Department of Mathematics, University of Rome Tor Vergata. Speaker: Fabio Antonelli Title: CVA and vulnerable options in stochastic volatility model Abstract: CVA adjustment in order to evaluate correctly derivatives subject to default risk has become more and more important in the past decade, especially when Wrong Way Risk, that is an increase in the product's price when deterioration of credit occurs. Considering the most common stochastic volatility models, we express WWR in terms of the correlation between asset's price and default event, that is described exploiting the so called intensity approach. When intensity follows an affine process, we are able to parametrize this correlation and, applying accurately Ito's formula, to suggest a Taylor polynomial approximation of CVA. Some numerical results showing the efficiency of the method are provided. Kind regards --------- Anna Vidotto PostDoc Researcher Dipartimento di Matematica Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata https://sites.google.com/view/annavidotto

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Postdoc Position in Luxembourg
by Giovanni Peccati 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Dear Colleagues, please find below an announcement for a post-doc position in Probability Theory at Luxembourg University. Best Regards, Giovanni ----------------------------- *Postdoc position in Luxembourg for March 2020 (deadline for submission of application: December 15th)* University of Luxembourg, campus Belval (Funded by the FNR project APOGee) Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship in the field of stochastic analysis at the University of Luxembourg. The postdoc is funded by the FNR project APOGee. The project is about Malliavin calculus, Stein's method, and related topics, in a broad sense. Areas of interest include stochastic analysis and its interplay with other fields of mathematics (in particular, but not exclusively, functional analysis and geometry). The position is for 2 years (24 months), with a competitive salary and travel allowances. The starting date is March 1st, 2020. Applications, including a CV, a list of publications and a research statement must be sent to Ivan Nourdin (ivan.nourdin(a)uni.lu) Applicants should also arrange for two letters of recommendation to be sent to the same address. Applications will be evaluated first after *December 15th*, and then on a rolling basis until the position is filled. Requests for further information about the position should be also sent to the same address. -------------- -- Prof. Giovanni Peccati ------------------------------------------ UR en Mathématiques Faculté des Sciences, de la Technologie et de la Communication ------------------------------------------ Université du Luxembourg ----------------------------------------- homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/giovannipeccati/Home E-mail: giovanni.peccati(a)gmail.com

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Third Haifa Probability School, 24-28 Feb 2020
by Marco Romito 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: *Leonid Mytnik*<leonid(a)ie.technion.ac.il <mailto:leonid@ie.technion.ac.il>> Date: mer 25 set 2019 alle ore 13:44 Subject: Third Haifa Probability School, 24-28 Feb 2020 On behalf of the organizers, I would like to advertise *the third Haifa probability school (HPS3)*, which will be held during *24/2/2020 – 28/2/2020 *in *the Technion*, *Haifa, Israel.* The school aims at introducing current trends in probability theory to young scholars (mainly PhD students and postdocs). As usual, the school will consist of three mini-courses, which are given this year by: *Ivan Corwin (Columbia University)* *Grégory Miermont (ENS Lyon)* *Ron Rosenthal (Technion, Haifa)* In addition, several talks on related subjects will be given by: *Guillaume Barraquand (ENS Paris, France),* *Christina Goldschmidt (Oxford, UK),* *Kostya Khanin (U. of Toronto, Canada),* *Sayan Mukherjee (Duke, US),* *Omer Bobrowski (Technion, Israel).* We have limited financial support, which can be used towards covering the cost of accommodation in Haifa (and in some cases also travel). Preference will be given to those who register early. For further information, visit our (continuously updated) website: https://hps3.net.technion.ac.il/ Participation in the school is free, but requires filling out the *online registration form*, which is accessible from the website. *_Please also help us spread the word, by for warding this email to anyone who may be interested, including your students and postdocs, or through your university probability mailing list._* Best wishes, Leonid Mytnik. (On behalf of the organizers: Omer Bobrowski, Dima Ioffe, Oren Louidor, Ron Rosenthal and Lorenzo Zambotti.) --------------------------------------- Prof. Leonid Mytnik Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion --- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel

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Workshop at UCL on growth and division in mathematics and medicine
by Enrico Scalas 25 Sep '19

25 Sep '19

Dear Colleagues, Your co-workers or yourself might be interested in this workshop that will take place at UCL in November. Best wishes, Enrico -- Subject: Event: Growth and division in mathematics and medicine, 4-6 Nov 2019 Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2019 14:23:36 +0100 From: Alex Watson <alexander.watson(a)ucl.ac.uk> To: APPLIEDPROB(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Dear all, I'm pleased to announce the following workshop: % Growth and division in mathematics and medicine 4-6 November 2019 University College London On 4-6 November 2019, the Department of Statistical Science will host a collaborative workshop, designed to bring together people with different perspectives on processes of growth and division - from mathematics, statistics, science and medicine - and get us talking. The incubator workshop will kick off with talks outlining questions around growth and division from a range of areas. The participants will work together in groups to develop the questions into well-defined problems and discuss ideas for solutions. Funding is available for travel, accommodation and caring costs of participants. Speakers: - Rob Jack (Cambridge) - Aline Marguet (Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes) - Juraj Szavits-Nossan (Edinburgh) - Minmin Wang (Sussex) - Sarah Woolner (Manchester) - Wei-Feng Xue (Kent) Website: https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucakwat/gd.html Registration deadline: 21 October (if requesting funding) or 28 October (otherwise) % I look forward to seeing you there! Best wishes, Alex Watson

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Seminario di Lorenzo Taggi a Roma 1
by Faggionato, Alessandra 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

Buongiorno il Dr. Lorenzo Taggi (WIAS - Berlino) terrà il seguente seminario Martedi' 1 Ottobre alle ore 14 in Aula di Consiglio del Dipartimento di Matematica alla Sapienza: *Title:* Absorbing-state phase transition in Activated Random Walk and Oil and Water. *Abstract:* We consider two interacting particle systems, Activated Random Walk and Oil and Water, which belong to the so-called class of Abelian networks. In these systems particles of two different types are present and the dynamics conserves the number of particles. This conservation law introduces hard-core constraints and long-range correlations which make the rigorous mathematical analysis particularly challenging. Activated Random Walk undergoes an absorbing-state phase transition, namely if the particle density is small enough, the activity dies out with time, while if the particle density is large enough, the activity is sustained. In recent years significant effort has been made to provide a rigorous proof of the occurrence of such a phase transition and a non-trivial characterisation of the critical particle density. Oil and Water shows a substantially different behaviour from Activated Random Walks and other Abelian networks: the activity dies out with time at *all *densities for *any *graph which is vertex-transitive. This talk reviews the main questions, results and conjectures about these models and presents joint works with E. Candellero and A. Stauffer. saluti alessandra ************************************************* 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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seminario Samuel Cohen in Bicocca
by Emanuela Rosazza 24 Sep '19

24 Sep '19

Si avvisa che il giorno martedì 1 ottobre alle ore 16 presso l’Università di Milano- Bicocca (via degli Arcimboldi 8 - edificio U7, quarto piano- aula 4026) si terrà il seguente seminario: Speaker: Samuel Cohen (University of Oxford) Titolo: “Learning and filtering in an uncertain setting” Abstract: Optimal filtering is a classical method for inferring the distribution of a hidden process from data. As an input it requires a probability model, which needs to be separately estimated. In this talk, we will look at what happens when we include the uncertainty of this estimation into our filtering problem, using a nonlinear expectation approach. A key difficulty is that one obtains a pathwise optimal control problem, which requires some care in analysis. We will see how we can ensure this problem remains well posed, and demonstrate the gains in performance from using this approach. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Un saluto cordiale, Emanuela ******************************************************************************************* Emanuela Rosazza Gianin Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi Quantitativi Università di Milano-Bicocca Edificio U7 – 4° Piano Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8 20126 Milano Tel. 02 64483208 e-mail: emanuela.rosazza1(a)unimib.it *******************************************************************************************

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Reminder: TOFFEe workshop @IMT, Lucca, 24-25 October
by Irene Crimaldi 23 Sep '19

23 Sep '19

Dear friends and colleagues, this is a reminder for the 1st TOFFEe workshop on* October 24th and 25th*, 2019 in Lucca, Italy. You can find all infos at https://toffee.imtlucca.it/workshops/toffee-workshop-1. We remind you that *the registration to the workshop is free!* Just fill the form at https://toffee.imtlucca.it/workshops/toffee-workshop-1. For organizational reasons, we kindly ask you to register before the* 9th of October*. The registration comprehends two coffee breaks and one lunch. We would be delighted if you could contribute to the workshop with a seminar presenting your latest results. The slot for the contributions last nearly 15 minutes, plus some time for questions. You can send us a *2 pages abstract* at the present email address. The deadline for sending the abstract is on the *25th of September*. We will return our decision on the *2nd of October*. Looking forward to meeting you in Lucca, we send you our best regards, Rocco De Nicola (project coordinator) Guido Caldarelli Irene Crimaldi Marinella Petrocchi Fabio Saracco

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Postdoc positions at LUISS
by Giovanni Alessandro Zanco 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

The Department of Economics and Finance at LUISS has some openings for postdocs https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/research/research-grants-0 in particular I recall the following: Scientific Area Mathematics Mathematical models for the time-space evolution of economic variables Proff. Sara Biagini / Fausto Gozzi / Giovanni Alessandro Zanco A notice of competition by way of comparative evaluation is hereby issued for the awarding of 1 research grant at the Department of Economics and Finance of Luiss Guido Carli in the scientific area of Mathematics. Deadline: October 2, 2019 - 2 p.m. - Central European Summer Time (CET), UTC +2 Giovanni A. Zanco Department of Economics and Finance Luiss Guido Carli Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma gzanco(a)luiss.it

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Reminder: A``LATE-SUMMER'' DAY IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS - 27 September 2019 (Picco e Pires da Silva Castro)
by Gianmarco Bet 22 Sep '19

22 Sep '19

Carissimi, Vi ricordiamo che la settimana prossima si terrà la ottava giornata di seminari: A ``LATE-SUMMER'' DAY IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS University of Florence Friday 27 September 2019 Lecturers: Pierre Picco (Marseille) and Rui Pires da Silva Castro (Eindhoven) Location: Aula Tricerri Viale Morgagni 67, Firenze Informazioni su come arrivare alla pagina: https://www.dimai.unifi.it/vp-285-come-arrivare-how-to-get.html <https://www.dimai.unifi.it/vp-285-come-arrivare-how-to-get.html> Note pratiche: Stiamo prenotando un catering con cibi vegerariani e non, percio` abbiamo bisogno del numero di persone che vogliono mangiare insieme. A coloro che fossero interessati (per una migliore organizzazione) chiediamo di mandare un email a francescaromana.nardi(a)unifi.it <mailto:francescaromana.nardi@unifi.it>; gianmarco.bet(a)unifi.it <mailto:gianmarco.bet@unifi.it>; angela.caporicci(a)unifi.it <mailto:angela.caporicci@unifi.it> con l'intenzione di partecipare al seminario, al coffe break e al pranzo. PROGRAMMA Prof. Pierre Picco (CNRS Marseille) Title: One-dimentional Ising model with long range interactions. A review of results Abstract: In the first talk I will make a quick historical survey of the rigorous results on the one-dimensional Ising model with long-range interactions. A first part will be dedicated to uniqueness of the Gibbs states (Ruelle (1968); Dobrushin (1968); Bricmont, Lebowitz & Pfister (1986)) and the regularity of the free energy when the decay of the potential is fast enough (Dobrushin (1973) Cassandro & Olivieri (1981) and its extensions in particular Capocaccia, Campanino & Olivieri (1983). A second part will be dedicated to the existence of phase transition starting from the Kac-Thompson conjecture (1968) the Dyson results (1969), the Frohlich \& Spencer result (1982), the Imbrie result (1982) the Aizenmann, Chayes, Chayes & Newman result on the Thouless effect (1988), Imbrie & Newman result on the Berezinsky, Kosterlitz & Thouless transition (1988). A third part will be dedicated to present results in the phase transition regime that started with Frohlich & Spencer (1981), Cassandro, Ferrari, Merola & Presutti (2001) and its extensions in particular by Cassandro, Merola, Picco & Rosikov (2014) on the definition of an interface and its fluctuations, and on a Minlos & Sinai theorem on the phase separation problem by Cassandro, Merola & Picco (2017). In the second talk I will review heuristic arguments that were invoked to conjecture the existence of a phase transition at low temperature in particular the Landau argument. I will present toy models where the fluctuation of interfaces and localisation of the droplet in the Minlos & Sinai theory will be explained. I will give an algorithmic definition of one-dimensional contours of Cassandro, Ferrari, Merola & Presutti. Prof. Rui Pires da Silva Castro (Eindhoven University of Technology) Title: Testing for the presence of communities in inhomogeneous random graphs Abstract: Many complex systems can be viewed as a network/graph consisting of vertices (e.g., individuals) connected by edges (e.g., a friendship relation). Often one believes there is some sort of community structure, where some vertices are naturally grouped together (e.g., more densely connected between themselves than to the rest of the network). Much of the community detection literature is concentrated around methods that extract communities from a given network. Our goal in this work is different, and we attempt to understand how difficult is it to determine if a network has real communities. Furthermore, we are primarily interested in the case of small or very small communities, for which many existing results and methods are not applicable. We cast this problem as a binary hypothesis test, where the null model corresponds to a graph without community structure, and the alternative model almost the same, but it also includes a planted community - that is, a small subset of the vertices has higher connection probability than under the null. The main question is to determine the minimal size and “strength” of the planted community that will allow detection. The seminal work of Arias-Castro and Verzelen tackled this problem when the null model is a homogeneous random graph. In our work, however, we consider the case where the null model is inhomogeneous, as this is somewhat closer to realistic scenarios. In particular, we present a scan test and provide conditions under which it is able to detect the presence of a small community. These results are valid for a wide variety of parameter choices. Furthermore, we show that for some parameters choices the scan test is optimal, and no other test can perform better (e.g, detect smaller or weaker planted communities). Finally, we extend this scan test to adapt to many parameters of the model when the null is a rank-1 generalized random graph. In the first part of the talk I will describe the above formulation and ensuing results, with illustrative examples and briefly touching upon the analytical methodology. In addition, I will discuss the related problem of characterizing cliques in rank-1 random graphs, which provides some insights on the role of inhomogeneity. The second part of the talk will go deeper into more technical aspects and ensuing insights. This presentation is based on joint work with Kay Bogerd and Remco van der Hofstad (https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01688 <https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01688> and ongoing work). Program: 11.00-11.45 Introductory lecture: Picco 11.45-12.00 Break 12.00-12.45 Seminar: Picco 13.00-14.30 Lunch 14.30-15.15 Introductory lecture: Pires da Silva Castro 15.15-15.30 Break 15.30-16.30 Seminar: Pires da Silva Castro Organizers: G. Bet, F. Caravenna, N. Cancrini, E.N.M. Cirillo, P. Dai Pra, A. De Masi, D. Fanelli, F. Flandoli, C. Giardina`, R. Livi, F. Martinelli, I.G. Minelli, F.R. Nardi, E. Presutti, B. Scoppola, E. Scoppola. Ricordo che ciascun oratore fara` una lezione introduttiva e divulgativa di 45 minuti pensata proprio per i non esperti, seguita da altri 45 minuti di tipo seminario (vedi programma). Maggiori informazioni e aggiornamenti sono reperibili alle pagine web http://web.math.unifi.it/users/fnardi/seminari/ <http://web.math.unifi.it/users/fnardi/seminari/> o http://silicio.math.unifi.it/wordpress/probability/days-in-probability-and-… <http://silicio.math.unifi.it/wordpress/probability/days-in-probability-and-…> Vi aspettiamo numerosi Gianmarco Bet e Francesca R. Nardi Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università degli Studi di Firenze Viale Morgagni 67, Firenze, Italy

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[Simai-soci] Fwd: Urgent: Open Letter to reinstate Research and Education as EC areas of focus
by c.costantini＠unich.it 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

Inolto questo messaggio della SIMAI. Un saluto, Cristina Costantini Cari Soci, ho ricevuto dalla presidente dell'ICIAM questo messaggio riguardante l'attuale composizione della Commissione Europea, dove non e` piu` presente un Commissario con un mandato specifico alla Ricerca, e alla Formazione, ma solo un generico "Commissioner for innovation and youth". Alcuni colleghi hanno preparato una lettera aperta per la Presidente della Commissione per sollecitare una migliore precisazione delle deleghe in "Education, Research, Innovation and Youth", per ribadire il ruolo fondamentale e specifico della formazione e ricerca. Se condividete la posizione firmate la petizione all'indirizzo indicato nel messaggio allegato (e fate circolare la lettera tra i colleghi). Un saluto, Luca ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Maria J. ESTEBAN <esteban(a)ceremade.dauphine.fr> Date: Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 2:05 PM Subject: Fwd: Urgent: Open Letter to reinstate Research and Education as EC areas of focus To: Wil Schilders <w.h.a.schilders(a)tue.nl>, Ari Laptev < laptev(a)mittag-leffler.se>, Helge Holden <secretary(a)mathunion.org>, Volker Mehrmann <Mehrmann(a)math.tu-berlin.de>, Alfio Quarteroni < alfio.quarteroni(a)epfl.ch>, luca formaggia <luca.formaggia(a)polimi.it>, Ball, John M <john.ball(a)hw.ac.uk> Dear friends, urgent action is required in the direction of Bruxelles, not only because there is no longer a commissioner for research (see below), but also because there is the looming threat of a substantial cut of the Horizon Europe Budget. If you resonate with what is written below could you please sign on the web site www.futureofresearch.eu and invite fellow scientists to do the same, i.e. widely distribute the email to all scientists? It is important to have also very visible people who sign, recipient of prizes or directors of big institutes, if you get them to sign, please signal to us so that it can be mentioned on the main webpage. It is urgent as the hearing is on 30.09.2019. At least 10000 signatures are needed in the next few days in order to be able to address the parliament.. thanks so much and all the best Maria ********************* Dear Colleague, We are writing you for the following reason: the candidates for the new EU commissioners were presented last week. In the new commission the areas of education and research are not explicitly represented anymore and instead are subsumed under the "innovation and youth" title. This emphasizes economic exploitability (i.e. "innovation") over its foundation, which is education and research, and it reduces “education” to “youth” while being essential to all ages. We, as members of the scientific community of Europe, wish to address this situation early on and emphasize both to the general public, as well as to relevant politicians on the national and European Union level, that without dedication to education and research there will neither exist a sound basis for innovation in Europe, nor can we fulfill the promise of a high standard of living for the citizens of Europe in a fierce global competition. President von der Leyen, in her mission letter to commissioner Gabriel (Web link to Mandate Letter: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/mission-letter-ma riya-gabriel-2019_en.pdf <https://ec.europa.eu/commission/sites/beta-political/files/mission-letter-m…>), has emphasized that “education, research and innovation will be key to our competitiveness”. We have prepared an open letter at www.futureofresearch.eu to demand that the EU commission revises the title for commissioner Gabriel to “Education, Research, Innovation and Youth” reflecting Europe’s dedication to all of these crucial areas. We also call upon the European Parliament to request this change in name before confirming the nominees for commissioner. Please support this letter by going to www.futureofresearch.eu and signing up as supporter on line. With best regards, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Bethke (MPI for Physics) Prof. Dr. Nora Brambilla (TU-München) Prof. Dr. Aldo Deandrea (U-Lyon 1) Prof. Dr. Carlo Guaraldo (INFN Frascati) Prof. Dr. Luciano Maiani (U-Roma La Sapienza) Prof. Dr. Antonio Pich (U-València) Prof. Dr. Alexander Rothkopf (U-Stavanger) Prof. Dr. Johanna Stachel (U-Heidelberg) -- ============================================ Multidisciplinary topmaster program in Nanoscience: http://www.rug.nl/research/zernike/education/topmasternanoscience/ ============================================ Prof. Dr. Petra Rudolf Head of the Surfaces and Thin Films group Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen visiting address: Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands postal address: P.O. Box 221, 9700 AE Groningen, The Netherlands phone: +(31)50-363 4736 e-mail: P.Rudolf(a)rug.nl web page: http://www.rug.nl/research/zernike/surfaces-and-thin-films/ secretary: Hilda Riemens phone: +(31)50-363 4973 fax: +(31)50-363 7208 e-mail: H.T.Riemens(a)rug.nl _______________________________________________ Simai-soci mailing list Simai-soci(a)lists.math.unifi.it https://lists.math.unifi.it/mailman/listinfo/simai-soci To unsubscribe, send an email to simai-soci-unsubscribe(a)lists.math.unifi.it and follow the instructions

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ERC funded postdoctoral position at Università di Torino
by Stefano Favaro 18 Sep '19

18 Sep '19

The Department of “Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico Statistiche" at Università di Torino, invites applications for a postdoctoral position in Statistics within the European Research Council (ERC) project “Nonparametric Bayes and empirical Bayes for species sampling problems: classical questions, new directions are related issues”. Details of the postdoctoral position are available at the bottom of this letter. Deadline for applications: 8 OCTOBER 2019 at 1pm (Italian time). Information for applicants are available (only in Italian) at the Call for Applications https://pica.cineca.it/unito/assegni-di-ricerca-unito-2019-iv/file/BANDO.pdf <https://pica.cineca.it/unito/assegni-di-ricerca-unito-2019-iv/file/BANDO.pdf>. Within the Call for Applications, the postdoctoral position appears at page 23 under the section “Dipartimento di Scienze Economico-Sociali e Matematico-Statistiche”: Postdoctoral position: “Statistica Bayesiana nonparametrica e Bayesiana nonparametrica empirica per problemi di stima di funzionali discreti” Reference code: ESOMAS.2019.07 Supervisor: Stefano Favaro Applications are made only online - https://pica.cineca.it/unito/ <https://pica.cineca.it/unito/> - by selecting “Your Applications” in the box “Bando Assegni di ricerca - Tornata IV 2019”, and then registering to the system. The application procedure is available in Italian/English, and it requires a CV, two reference letters and a research statement. Prospective candidates may contact directly Stefano Favaro - stefano.favaro(a)unito.it <mailto:stefano.favaro@unito.it> - for information on the postdoctoral position and any assistance in the application procedure. Best wishes Stefano Favaro **** Prospective candidates are expected to have experience on nonparametric statistics, within the classical (frequentist) and/or Bayesian paradigm, and they should preferably be holding a Ph.D. or being close to receiving one. The research shall be carried out in English. The duration of the contract is 24 months. Expected starting date in January 2020, but a different date may be arranged. The salary amounts to 46,000 Euros per year, including taxes and social charges, and considerable financial support to attend conferences and workshops will be granted. There are no teaching duties associated to the position. Abstract. Object of research are species sampling problems, whose importance has grown considerably in recent years driven by numerous applications in the broad area of biosciences, and also in machine learning, theoretical computer science and information theory. Within the broad field of species sampling problems, the research will be focussed on two research themes: i) the study of nonparametric Bayes and nonparametric empirical Bayes methodologies for classical species sampling problems, generalized species sampling problems emerging in biological and physical sciences, and question thereof in the context of optimal design of species inventories; ii) the use of recent mathematical tools from the theory of differential privacy to study the fundamental tradeoff between privacy protection of information, which requires to release partial data, and Bayesian learning in species sampling problems, which requires accurate data to make inference. **** Stefano Favaro University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto http://sites.carloalberto.org/favaro/

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3-year posdoc in Edinburgh
by Tiziano De Angelis 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

Dear All, Please find below the advert for a 3-year postdoc at the University of Edinburgh. Best wishes Tiziano %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Announcement: 3-year PostDoc at the University of Edinburgh in Stochastic Analysis for Energy Systems in collaboration with ENSAE ParisTech and FiMe-Lab-Paris A 3-year PostDoctoral position in Edinburgh (Scotland/UK) for a joint collaborative project with Prof P. Tankov (ENSAE ParisTech) and Dr. C. Alasseur (head of Finance of Energy Market Research Centre (EDF-FiMe-Lab)). If you are interested contact us as soon as possible. The overall objective of this 3-year project is to develop novel game-theoretical models and strategies to optimize short term trading and storage in electricity markets, understand the impacts of the large-scale low-cost storage on prices and market structure and help translate the research outcomes to practical industrial solutions. Core scientific requirements: The models that the research team will develop will broadly use existing work optimal control, games, mean-field games, stochastic analysis, mathematical finance. The fellow should have prior knowledge (ideally including having made significant advances) in at least one of the above fields. Core eligibility requirements (all are strict without exception): (a) At the date 31/Oct/2019 the candidate must *not* have resided or carried out their main work activity (including studying) in the UK for more than 12 months in the past 3 years (not counting holidays or short stays). (b) Applicants must, at the date of the application deadline (31 Oct 2019), be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least four years full-time equivalent research experience. (c) A (5 page) research proposal must be submitted -- If you are interested please contact us as soon as possible (G.dosReis(a)ed.ac.uk). Start date: The start date is negotiable up to the 1/June/2020. Start dates after this timepoint are possible but will reflect a shorter contract duration. Benefits of the position: - salary scale (£33,199 - £39,609/year) - you will receive payments into a pension scheme and other benefits of employment. - Each year, you will be able to use funds up to £2500 to support attendance at conferences and meetings and £6000 to support other research costs. - support available for relocation costs Contact person: Goncalo dos Reis Email: G.dosReis(a)ed.ac.uk Webpage: https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~gdosrei %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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Minicourse on Clearing in financial systems by prof Kabanov, LUISS
by Sara 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

Professor Yuri Kabanov, University of Besancon, will give three lectures on Clearing in financial systems on the next three Thursdays: September 19, 26 and October 3. The seminars will take place at 17:30 in Room 106a, LUISS viale Romania 32, Roma, and last approximately 2 hours. The program is attached below. Best, Sara Biagini -- Sara Biagini, Professor of Mathematical Finance Department of Economics and Finance LUISS Guido Carli Address: viale Romania, 32 - 00197 Roma Web: http://sites.google.com/site/sarabiagini/

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Posto RTDB mat/06 alla Sapienza
by Faggionato, Alessandra 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Buongiorno, segnalo che e` uscito il bando per un posto da Ricercatore di Tipo B Mat/06 presso il Dipartimento di Matematica all'Universita' La Sapienza: https://web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/dettaglio_bando/145453 Vi pregherei di diffondere la notizia tra i possibili interessati. Grazie Saluti, Alessandra -- ************************************************* 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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Job offer - PhD / PostDoc in Probability in Hildesheim (Germany)
by Sebastian Mentemeier 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Dear colleagues, there is a new group in Probability at the University of Hildesheim (Germany) looking for PhD students and/or Post-Docs with research interests preferably in the field of branching processes, time series analysis or spatial stochastics. Up to two positions (100 %, TV-L 13) can be filled. The position is with teaching obligations. Applicants should be able to teach math in German after their first year. Applicants who finish their Master thesis during this winter term are also welcome. Please contact me for further information. The detailed job offer can be found here (deadline will be extended until October, 7th): https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/stellenmarkt/stellenanzeige/artikel/2019166-w… With best regards, Sebastian Mentemeier -- Prof. Dr. Sebastian Mentemeier Institut für Mathematik Fachbereich 10, Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Universitaet Kassel Heinrich-Plett-Str. 40, D-34132 Kassel Tel: +49 561 804-4587 E-mail: mentemeier(a)mathematik.uni-kassel.de

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Corso STATISTICAL LEARNING AND BIG DATA
by Andrea Ongaro 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

University of Milano-Bicocca Department of Economics, Management and Statistics Phd Programme in Economics and Statistics ***************************************************************************** Si comunica che il Prof. Saharon Rosset, della Tel Aviv University, terrà, nell'ambito delle attività del Dottorato di Ricerca in Economia e Statistica dell'Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, un corso dal titolo: STATISTICAL LEARNING AND BIG DATA http://www.tau.ac.il/~saharon/StatLearn-Milan.html DOCENTE: Saharon Rosset è Professore di Statistica all'Università di Tel Aviv. I suoi interessi di ricerca riguardano statistical learning, data mining e statistical genetics. Prima del suo incarico a Tel Aviv, ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca presso la Stanford University nel 2003 sotto la supervisione dei Professori Jerome Friedman e Trevor Hastie. I suoi lavori sono stati pubblicati nelle più prestigiose riviste di statistica e machine learning e ha vinto la KDD cup, una delle più prestigiose competizioni di data mining, 4 volte. https://m.tau.ac.il/~saharon/ PERIODO: 7-18 Ottobre 2019 Il corso ha la durata di 28 ore. Le lezioni avranno inizio lunedì 7 ottobre 2019 e proseguiranno fino a venerdì 18, con il seguente orario: - lunedì-venerdì ore 14:30-17:00 - venerdì ore 17:00-18:30 ISCRIZIONE AL CORSO: dal 16 al 23 Settembre 2019 (vedi allegato) *Per maggiori dettagli (docente, programma, prerequisiti, iscrizione), si veda la locandina in allegato. * Un cordiale saluto, Andrea Ongaro

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Seminar Dunson @BIDSA, Bocconi
by Giacomo Zanella 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

We kindly invite you to the following BIDSA seminar: “Learning and exploiting low-dimensional structure in high-dimensional data” David Dunson (Duke University) September 19, 2019 | 12:30 | Room AS03 Bocconi University, Via Roentgen 1, underground floor Abstract: This talk will focus on the problem of learning low-dimensional geometric structure in high-dimensional data. We allow the lower-dimensional subspace to be non-linear. There are a variety of algorithms available for "manifold learning" and non-linear dimensionality reduction, mostly relying on locally linear approximations and not providing a likelihood-based approach for inferences. We propose a new class of simple geometric dictionaries for characterizing the subspace, along with a simple optimization algorithm and a model-based approach to inference. We provide strong theory support, in term of tight bounds on covering numbers, showing advantages of our approach relative to local linear dictionaries. These advantages are shown to carry over to practical performance in a variety of settings including manifold learning, manifold de-noising, data visualization (providing a competitor to the popular tSNE), classification (providing a competitor to deep neural networks that requires fewer training examples), and geodesic distance estimation. We additionally provide a Bayesian nonparametric methodology for inference, using a new class of kernels, which is shown to outperform current methods, such as mixtures of multivariate Gaussians. Speaker: David Dunson is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Statistical Science and Mathematics at Duke University. He is known for his broad spanning contributions to statistical methodology, with a particular focus on novel modeling frameworks and Bayesian approaches that are motivated by complex and high-dimensional data collected in the sciences. This includes latent factor, dimensionality reduction, nonparametric and machine learning methodology. Primary areas of application include neurosciences and brain network modeling, environmental health, ecology, and human fertility among others. He is a fellow of the ASA, IMS and ISBA and has won numerous awards, including most notably the 2010 COPSS President’s Award. His work is very widely cited and he has an H-index over 70 on Google Scholar. Best regards, Giacomo Zanella

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VERA workshop: MACHINE LEARNING FOR FINANCE in Venice
by Marco Corazza 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

kind All, on *October 3*, *2019* the following *VERA workshop* will be held: *MACHINE LEARNING FOR FINANCE*. the workshop will be in *Meeting Room 1* of the *Department of Economics* of the *Ca' Foscari University of Venice* (San Giobbe, Cannaregio 873 - 30121 Venezia, Italy). a tentative program is on *https://www.unive.it/data/agenda/3/32112 <https://www.unive.it/data/agenda/3/32112>*. the attendance is free, but for organizational and space reasons, it is necessary to communicate the participation to: *corazza(a)unive.it <corazza(a)unive.it>*. best regards, Marco Corazza -- Nota automatica aggiunta dal sistema di posta.

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Due assegni di ricerca biennali nell'area 01
by Elvira Di Nardo 14 Sep '19

14 Sep '19

Con preghiera di diffusione a tutti gli interessati. *Bando per il conferimento di Assegni di ricerca - XXII Tornata.* Si segnala l'uscita di un bando per due assegni di ricerca biennali nell'area 01. La ricerca si propone lo studio di nuove problematiche attuali della Matematica (applicata e pura), con particolare riferimento a quelle elencate nel progetto scientifico del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università di Torino: http://www.dipmatematica.unito.it/do/home.pl/View?doc=dip_prog_scien.html I settori scientifico-disciplinari interessati sono tutti quelli dell'Area 01. Le tematiche di ricerca attive per il SSD MAT/06 sono reperibili http://www.dipmatematica.unito.it/do/gruppi.pl/Show?_id=2oge Le domande di ammissione alla selezione di cui al bando (n. di rep. 3465 del 10/09/2019 ) pubblicato sul sito dell’Università di Torino all’Albo ufficiale di Ateneo https://webapps.unito.it/albo_ateneo/ devono essere presentate ESCLUSIVAMENTE utilizzando la procedura on line: https://pica.cineca.it/unito/ La presentazione delle domande di partecipazione dovrà essere perfezionata e conclusa improrogabilmente entro le ore *13.00 (ora di Roma) del 1° Ottobre 2019.* Cordiali saluti -- %------------------------------------------------------- Elvira Di Nardo Dept. Mathematics "G. Peano" University of Torino Via Carlo Alberto 10 10123 Torino, Italia tel. +39 0116702862 fax +39 0116702878 http://www.elviradinardo.it %-------------------------------------------------------

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Concorso RTD.B - UPO (scadenza 22/09/2019)
by enea giuseppe bongiorno 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

*Concorso RTDB 13/D1 - SECS-S/01 (Statistica)* *Scadenza: 22 settembre 2019* *Università del Piemonte Orientale* Cari colleghi, con la presente si ricorda che è in scadenza il bando per un posto di ricercatore a tempo determinato, lettera B, per il settore concorsuale 13/D1 (Statistica), settore scientifico disciplinare SECS-S/01 (Statistica) presso il Dipartimento di Studi per l'Economia e l'Impresa (DiSEI) dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale. Il bando è disponibile alla pagina: https://www.uniupo.it/alta-formazione-aziende-lavoro/concorsi/concorsi-il-p… Si prega di diffondere la comunicazione tra i potenziali interessati. Cordiali saluti, -- ------ Enea Bongiorno, PhD Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Via Perrone 18, 28100, Novara, Italia Tel: +390321375317 <0321%20375317> e-mail: enea.bongiorno(a)uniupo.it

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seminario di Barbara Martinucci
by Enrica Pirozzi 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

AVVISO di SEMINARIO Alcuni risultati sul processo del telegrafo in presenza di barriere elastiche Dr. Barbara Martinucci Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Salerno (Abstract in allegato) Il seminario si terrà il giorno 10 Settembre 2019 ore 12:00 nell?Aula D al primo livello del Dipartimento Matematica e Applicazioni, Università di Napoli FEDERICO II, Complesso di Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cintia, Napoli. -- Enrica Pirozzi Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Universita' di Napoli FEDERICO II Via Cintia, Monte S.Angelo, 80126, NAPOLI, ITALY Tel. 081 675634 https://www.docenti.unina.it/ENRICA.PIROZZI

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Seminar Guindani @Bocconi
by Giacomo Zanella 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

We are glad to announce the first DEC Statistics Seminar of the Fall 2019 series: Thursday, September 12 12:30 Meeting room 3-e4-sr03, Bocconi University, Via Roentgen 1, 3rd floor Michele Guindani (University of California, Irvine) Title: Bayesian Approaches to Dynamic Model Selection Abstract: In many applications, investigators monitor processes that vary in space and time, with the goal of identifying temporally persistent and spatially localized departures from a baseline or ``normal" behavior. In this talk, I will first discuss a principled Bayesian approach for estimating time-varying functional connectivity networks from brain fMRI data. Dynamic functional connectivity, i.e., the study of how interactions among brain regions change dynamically over the course of an fMRI experiment, has recently received wide interest in the neuroimaging literature. Our method utilizes a hidden Markov model for classification of latent neurological states, achieving an estimation of the connectivity networks in an integrated framework that borrows strength over the entire time course of the experiment. Furthermore, we assume that the graph structures, which define the connectivity states at each time point, are related within a super-graph, to encourage the selection of the same edges among related graphs. Then, I will propose a Bayesian nonparametric model selection approach with an application to the monitoring of pneumonia and influenza (P&I) mortality, to detect influenza outbreaks in the continental United States. More specifically, we introduce a zero-inflated conditionally identically distributed species sampling prior which allows borrowing information across time and to assign data to clusters associated to either a null or an alternate process. Spatial dependences are accounted for by means of a Markov random field prior, which allows informing the selection based on inferences conducted at nearby locations. We show how the proposed modeling framework performs in an application to the P&I mortality data and in a simulation study and compare with common threshold methods for detecting outbreaks over time, with more recent Markov switching based models, and with other Bayesian nonparametric priors that do not take into account spatio-temporal dependence. Kind regards, Giacomo Zanella The DEC statistics seminars schedule is available at http://www.unibocconi.eu/statseminar Please note: if you are a guest and you do not have a Bocconi ID Card to access to the Bocconi Buildings, please communicate your participation by sending an email to arianna.colombo(a)unibocconi.it *************************************************** Giacomo Zanella Assistant Professor - Statistics DEC - Department of Decision Sciences Bocconi University

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Fwd: TOFFEe workshop @IMT, Lucca, 24-25 October
by Irene Crimaldi 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

Dear all, we kindly ask you to advertise the 1st TOFFEe workshop and contribute with your latest results on methodologies for fighting disinformation. TOFFEe - https://toffee.imtlucca.it/ - is an interdisciplinary research project funded by IMT School For Advanced Studies Lucca. The project ambition is to overcome some of the limitations of existing social platforms, which often dedicate little attention to trustworthy interactions among peers and to reliability of information. The aim of the project is to increase people's confidence on the data they get and who they follow, while minimising the risk of exposure to fake information and malicious actions. As part of the dissemination activities of the project, on * October 24th and 25th*, 2019, we organise an International Workshop where different approaches for fighting fakes will be exposed. You can find all infos at https://toffee.imtlucca.it/. We would be delighted if you could join us. The registration to the workshop is free, just fill the form at https://toffee.imtlucca.it/. We kindly ask you to register before the * 9th of October*. The registration comprehends two coffee breaks and one lunch. Analogously, we would be delighted if you could contribute to the workshop with your latest results. The slot for the contributions last nearly 15 minutes, plus some time for questions. You can send us a 2 pages abstract at the present email address. The deadline for sending the abstract is on the *25th of September*. We will return our decision on the *2nd of October*. Looking forward to meeting you in Lucca in October, we send you our best regards, Rocco De Nicola (project coordinator) Guido Caldarelli Irene Crimaldi Marinella Petrocchi Fabio Saracco

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Autumn School in Financial Mathematics in Verona
by Alessandro Gnoatto 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

It is a pleasure to announce the Autumn School in Financial Mathematics 2019 October 7-8, 2019 University of Verona Department of Economics A two-day autumn school in financial mathematics will be held in Verona on October 7-8 2019 The school is open to both professionals, students and academics and provides two intense courses: - A Pricing Framework for Valuation Adjustments - Algorithmic Differentiation for Monte-Carlo Simulations and Applications in Mathematical Finance (MVA, Portfolio Risk, Hedging). Interest Rate Models and the Hedging of Interest Rate Derivatives The lectures will be given by - Christian Fries (LMU München and DZ Bank) - Andrea Pallavicini (Banca IMI and Imperial College London) For further information and registration, please visit http://dse.univr.it/asfm/ (Apologies for cross posting) Best Regards, -- Prof Alessandro Gnoatto, PhD Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Università degli Studi di Verona Via Cantarane 24 37129, Verona, Italy Room 1.05 Tel: +39 045 802 8537 Homepage: www.alessandrognoatto.com<http://www.alessandrognoatto.com> E-mail: alessandro.gnoatto(a)univr.it<mailto:alessandro.gnoatto@univr.it> -------------------------------------------------- View my research on my SSRN Author page: http://ssrn.com/author=1615989 --------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: Postdoc position in Cambridge
by Antonio DI CRESCENZO 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

---------- Messaggio inoltrato --------- Da: Sebastian Andres <sa836(a)cam.ac.uk> Data: mer 4 set 2019 alle 10:21 Dear all, We invite applications for a postdoc position in probability and statistical mechanics at the University of Cambridge, starting in Spring 2020. For further details please see http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/22585/ We would be grateful if you would forward the link to potential candidates. Many thanks in advance and best wishes, Sebastian Andres -- ============================================= Antonio Di Crescenzo Dipartimento di Matematica Università degli Studi di Salerno Via Giovanni Paolo II, n. 132 <https://maps.google.com/?q=Via+Giovanni+Paolo+II,+n.+132+%0D%0A84084+Fiscia…> 84084 Fisciano (SA) Italy Tel. +39-089-963349 Fax: +39-089-963303 E-mail(1): adicrescenzo(a)unisa.it E-mail(2): adicresc(a)gmail.com Web: http://www.unisa.it/docenti/antoniodicrescenzo/index =============================================

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Fwd: Ph.D. position in “Big data techniques for maintenance decision making under uncertainty” at TU/e
by Antonio DI CRESCENZO 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

---------- Messaggio inoltrato --------- Da: Kapodistria, S. <S.Kapodistria(a)tue.nl> Data: mar 3 set 2019 alle 13:36 Oggetto: Ph.D. position in “Big data techniques for maintenance decision making under uncertainty” at TU/e A: CC: Kapodistria, S. <S.Kapodistria(a)tue.nl> Dear colleagues, can you please distribute to your network the following PhD position advertisement? Thank you very much in advance. Best regards, Stella ———————————————————————————— Stella Kapodistria Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology Postal address: P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands A PhD position in “Big data techniques for maintenance decision making under uncertainty” is available at Eindhoven University of Technology. For more information, see below. In the framework of the national NWA-ORC project “PrimaVera: Predictive maintenance for Very effective asset management <https://www.tue.nl/en/news/news-overview/primavera-predictive-maintenance-f…>”, there is a PhD position available in the Stochastics Section within the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in Eindhoven University of Technology, in The Netherlands. The PrimaVera consortium, led by Twente University, consists of several Dutch higher education institutes and companies. Just-in-time maintenance requires a very accurate, enhanced physically based data-driven assessment of the system’s health and its future evolution guaranteeing the reliability, availability and affordability of the system through accurate monitoring, prognostics and diagnostics. This is organized around the following key game changers: • *Development of a big data health index*. Intelligent systems are equipped with sensors collecting data real-time. Analyzing the collected data can guarantee the reliability, availability and affordability of the system through accurate monitoring, prognostics and diagnostics. However, when dealing with especially large and complex systems, a key challenge for engineers is how to assess the present condition. By measuring the dynamics of the asset/network, modelling the dynamic behavior and by combining the real-time information, we aim to assess the present condition in the form of a health index and predict the remaining useful life (based on an assumed usage profile) using big data analytic techniques stemming from machine learning and artificial intelligence. • *Causal discovery of failures and root cause analysis.* A key step in failure prevention is to understand why systems fail. Data-driven techniques are good at finding correlations between failure modes, but finding causal relations is challenging. Combinations with physical models and domain knowledge will create crucial actionable insight and condition assessment. These associations will be incorporated in a dynamic estimation and inference paradigm framework for extracting causal graph dynamics, which can be efficiently queried to find the root causes of specific failures. • *Model-enhanced big data techniques for decision making under uncertainty*. To cope with the complex reality, we need hybrid approaches leveraging the advantages of statistical methods (guaranteed performance and uncertainty bounds), data mining approaches (superior in situations where rules are not yet known), and physics of failure models (causality). We propose to combine big data analytic techniques stemming from machine learning and artificial intelligence with the more classical decision-making approaches (stochastic dynamic programming, Markov decision models). This combination goes in two directions: (i) on the one hand, we propose to use big data analytics to automatically learn the health index model and other relevant failure models with the objective of optimally fitting the decision objective instead of the classical data fitting objective. (ii) On the other hand, we propose to use decision-making approaches to improve the data analytic techniques, e.g., by incorporating an exploration vs exploitation approach in the maintenance decision making to cope with the uncertainty in the information. *Job description* The project is methodologically oriented. It is on the interface of statistical operations research and machine learning, and it is strongly inspired by industrial challenges. The PhD project will be conducted in an international team and in close collaboration with academic and industrial partners of PrimaVera. The main goal of the PhD project is to develop mathematical tools/models/algorithms for (some of) the above-mentioned key game changers, and thus get a deeper insight. The research will be concluded with a PhD thesis. A small teaching load is part of the job. *Job requirements *Preference will be given to candidates in any branch of applied mathematics and to candidates from a different background (e.g. engineering) but with strong mathematical foundation. Research experience will be highly valued. Strong knowledge of applied probability, statistics and operations research is highly desirable. The successful applicant will hold a Master’s degree in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering Sciences or related fields. All applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and transcripts. Proficiency in English is also required. *Team* The PhD project will be carried out at the stochastics section within the department of Mathematics and Computer Science (M&CS), TU/e. M&CS has a vibrant international environment, with almost 50% of the scientific staff being non-Dutch nationals and more than 100 PhD candidates. It has extensive experience in helping new (foreign) employees settle in. The research team consists of the candidate, Dr. Alessandro Di Bucchianico ( a.d.bucchianico(a)tue.nl) and Dr. Stella Kapodistria (s.kapodistria(a)tue.nl). Collaboration with the academic and industrial members of the PrimaVera consortium is highly supported. In particular, within TU/e, there will be a close cooperation with the Smart Manufacturing and Maintenance research program of the Data Science Center Eindhoven, the Eindhoven AI Systems Institute (EAISI) and with PrimaVera researchers from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences. *Terms of employment* - PhD candidates are appointed as temporary university employees for a four-year period (after nine months you will have an evaluation as to whether the research is expected to result in a PhD degree after four years). - The terms of employment are governed by the Collective Labour Agreement of Universities in The Netherlands, with a monthly salary starting at 2325 Euro in the first year, and increasing to 2972 Euro in the fourth year, and an additional 8% holiday allowance and 8% end-of-year bonus. An extensive fringe benefits package is included. Further details can be found *here* <http://www.tue.nl/en/working-at-tue/why-tue/compensation-and-benefits/>. Additional budget allows for extensive research visits abroad and conference attendance. - For information regarding the university, please visit the website of *TU/e* <http://www.tue.nl/>. *Here* <https://www.tue.nl/en/our-university/student-sports-centre-eindhoven/> you can find information about the sports facilities on campus. Information about Eindhoven can be found *here* <https://brainporteindhoven.com/>. The HR International Backoffice provides support with immigration procedures. - Information about terms of employment can be obtained from the HR services office, (pzwin[at]tue.nl). *Application procedure *In order to apply, please submit a · Cover letter (2 page max), which includes a motivation of your interest in the vacancy and an explanation of why you would fit well for the project. · Detailed curriculum vitae. · List of courses you have taken in Master’s and Bachelor’s programs (including grades). · Results of a recent English language test, or other evidence of your English language capabilities (TOEFL, IELTS, etc.). · Name and contact information of references. Upon selection, letters of recommendation, evaluating the candidate's research experience, will be required from two or more references. Please include the contact information of at least two references in your submitted material. *Information* For further information, please contact or consult, · about the research position: Dr. Alessandro Di Bucchianico, e-mail: a.d.bucchianico[at]tue.nl, phone: +31 40 247 2902 or Dr. S. Kapodistria, e-mail: s.kapodistria[at]tue.nl, phone: +31 40 247 5825 · about the employment conditions: HR advisor, e-mail: pzwin[at]tue.nl, phone +31 40 247 2321 · about the project: *click here* <https://www.tue.nl/en/news/news-overview/primavera-predictive-maintenance-f…> · about the department: *click here* <http://www.tue.nl/en/university/departments/mathematics-and-computer-scienc…> · about the stochastics section: *click here* <https://www.tue.nl/en/university/departments/mathematics-and-computer-scien…> *Application deadline* The deadline for applications is *October 19, 2019*. However, if you are interested, we invite you to apply at *click here <https://jobs.tue.nl/en/vacancy/phd-position-interface-of-statistical-operat…>* as soon as possible. Selection will begin immediately and continue until the position has been filled. -- ============================================= Antonio Di Crescenzo Dipartimento di Matematica Università degli Studi di Salerno Via Giovanni Paolo II, n. 132 <https://maps.google.com/?q=Via+Giovanni+Paolo+II,+n.+132+%0D%0A84084+Fiscia…> 84084 Fisciano (SA) Italy Tel. +39-089-963349 Fax: +39-089-963303 E-mail(1): adicrescenzo(a)unisa.it E-mail(2): adicresc(a)gmail.com Web: http://www.unisa.it/docenti/antoniodicrescenzo/index =============================================

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postdocs
by Marco Scarsini 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

The Department of Economics and Finance at LUISS has some openings for postdocs https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/research/research-grants-0 two of them on the following research projects: Stochastic methods in algorithmic game theory, Games on networks and Markov chains. ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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A``LATE-SUMMER'' DAY IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS: 27 September 2019 (Picco e Pires da Silva Castro)
by Francesca Romana Nardi 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

Carissimi, Siamo felici di annunciarvi la ottava giornata di seminari: A ``LATE-SUMMER'' DAY IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS University of Florence Friday 27 September 2019 Lecturers: Pierre Picco (Marseille) and Rui Pires da Silva Castro (Eindhoven) Location: Aula Tricerri Viale Morgagni 67, Firenze Informazioni su come arrivare alla pagina: https://www.dimai.unifi.it/vp-285-come-arrivare-how-to-get.html Note pratiche: Stiamo prenotando un catering con cibi vegerariani e non, percio` abbiamo bisogno del numero di persone che vogliono mangiare insieme. A coloro che fossero interessati (per una migliore organizzazione) chiedo di mandare un email a francescaromana.nardi(a)unifi.it <mailto:francescaromana.nardi@unifi.it> ; gianmarco.bet(a)unifi.it <mailto:gianmarco.bet@unifi.it> ; angela.caporicci(a)unifi.it <mailto:angela.caporicci@unifi.it> , con l'intenzione di partecipare al seminario, al coffe break e al pranzo. PROGRAMMA Prof. Pierre Picco (CNRS Marseille) Title: One-dimentional Ising model with long range interactions. A review of results Abstract: Introductory lecture In the first talk I will make an quick historical survey of the rigorous results on the one-dimensional Ising model with long-range interactions. A first part will be dedicated to uniqueness of the Gibbs states (Ruelle (1968); Dobrushin (1968); Bricmont, Lebowitz & Pfister (1986)) and the regularity of the free energy when the decay of the potential is fast enough (Dobrushin (1973) Cassandro & Olivieri (1981) and its extensions in particular Capocaccia, Campanino & Olivieri (1983). A second part will be dedicated to the existence of phase transition starting from the Kac-Thompson conjecture (1968) the Dyson results (1969), the Frohlich \& Spencer result (1982), the Imbrie result (1982) the Aizenmann, Chayes, Chayes & Newman result on the Thouless effect (1988), Imbrie & Newman result on the Berezinsky, Kosterlitz & Thouless transition (1988). A third part will be dedicated to present results in the phase transition regime that started with Frohlich & Spencer (1981), Cassandro, Ferrari, Merola & Presutti (2001) and its extensions in particular by Cassandro, Merola, Picco & Rosikov (2014) on the definition of an interface and its fluctuations, and on a Minlos & Sinai theorem on the phase separation problem by Cassandro, Merola & Picco (2017). Seminar In the second talk I will review heuristic arguments that were invoked to conjecture the existence of a phase transition at low temperature in particular the Landau argument. I will present toy models where the fluctuation of interfaces and localisation of the droplet in the Minlos & Sinai theory will be explained. I will give an algorithmic definition of one-dimensional contours of Cassandro, Ferrari, Merola & Presutti. Prof. Rui Pires da Silva Castro (Eindhoven University of Technology) Title: Testing for the presence of communities in inhomogeneous random graphs Abstract: Many complex systems can be viewed as a network/graph consisting of vertices (e.g., individuals) connected by edges (e.g., a friendship relation). Often one believes there is some sort of community structure, where some vertices are naturally grouped together (e.g., more densely connected between themselves than to the rest of the network). Much of the community detection literature is concentrated around methods that extract communities from a given network. Our goal in this work is different, and we attempt to understand how difficult is it to determine if a network has real communities. Furthermore, we are primarily interested in the case of small or very small communities, for which many existing results and methods are not applicable. We cast this problem as a binary hypothesis test, where the null model corresponds to a graph without community structure, and the alternative model almost the same, but it also includes a planted community - that is, a small subset of the vertices has higher connection probability than under the null. The main question is to determine the minimal size and “strength” of the planted community that will allow detection. The seminal work of Arias-Castro and Verzelen tackled this problem when the null model is a homogeneous random graph. In our work, however, we consider the case where the null model is inhomogeneous, as this is somewhat closer to realistic scenarios. In particular, we present a scan test and provide conditions under which it is able to detect the presence of a small community. These results are valid for a wide variety of parameter choices. Furthermore, we show that for some parameters choices the scan test is optimal, and no other test can perform better (e.g, detect smaller or weaker planted communities). Finally, we extend this scan test to adapt to many parameters of the model when the null is a rank-1 generalized random graph. In the first part of the talk I will describe the above formulation and ensuing results, with illustrative examples and briefly touching upon the analytical methodology. In addition, I will discuss the related problem of characterizing cliques in rank-1 random graphs, which provides some insights on the role of inhomogeneity. The second part of the talk will go deeper into more technical aspects and ensuing insights. This presentation is based on joint work with Kay Bogerd and Remco van der Hofstad (https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.01688 and ongoing work). Program: 11.00-11.45 Introductory lecture: Picco 11.45-12.00 Break 12.00-12.45 Seminar: Picco 13.00-14.30 Lunch 14.30-15.15 Introductory lecture: Pires da Silva Castro 15.15-15.30 Break 15.30-16.30 Seminar: Pires da Silva Castro Organizers: G. Bet, F. Caravenna, N. Cancrini, E.N.M. Cirillo, P. Dai Pra, A. De Masi, D. Fanelli, F. Flandoli, C. Giardina`, R. Livi, F. Martinelli, I.G. Minelli, F.R. Nardi, E. Presutti, B. Scoppola, E. Scoppola. Ricordo che ciascuno oratore fara` una lezione introduttiva e divulgativa di 45 minuti pensata proprio per i non esperti, seguita da altri 45 minuti di tipo seminario (vedi programma). Maggiori informazioni e aggiornamenti sono reperibili alla pagina web http://web.math.unifi.it/users/fnardi/seminari/ Vi aspettiamo numerosi Francesca R. Nardi e Gianmarco Bet Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università degli Studi di Firenze Viale Morgagni 67, Firenze, Italy

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FCPNLO 7
by Enrico Scalas 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

Car* Collegh*, vi segnalo che la settima edizione di Fractional Calculus Probability and Non-Local Operators si terra' presso l'Universita' del Sussex dal 26 al 28 settembre 2019. Piu' informazioni sono disponibili a: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/maths/research/fcpnlo-7 La registrazione e' aperta ed e' obbligatoria ma gratuita. Cordiali saluti Enrico Scalas

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RTD-a in MAT/06 al Politecnico di Torino
by TRIVELLATO BARBARA 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

Alla pagina web https://careers.polito.it/default.aspx?id=11/19/P/RA è consultabile il bando per una posizione RTD-a nel settore MAT/06 presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche del Politecnico di Torino. La scadenza di presentazione delle domande è fissata per giovedì 26 settembre 2019 alle ore 15.

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Two-year post-doc in Venice
by Marco LI CALZI 27 Aug '19

27 Aug '19

Postdoctoral Position - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia The Department of Management at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship within the research project: "Design of Incentives under Misspecified Models”. The general area of interest is Economic Theory, with emphasis on Game Theory. Prospective candidates are expected to have relevant experience on the research topic, and should preferably be holding a Ph.D. or being close to receiving one. The research shall be carried out in English. Duration of contract: 24 months (expected starting date: October 2019). Deadline: September 23rd 2019, 12 a.m. (GMT+2, Rome Time) Stipend: The research fellowship amounts to 24,400.00 Euros per year, including taxes and social charges. Abstract: This project studies the design of incentive systems for agents holding misspecified models or having access only to partial representations of the environment. The agents may be part of teams, organizations, markets, or more general game-theoretic contexts. Relevant information for applicants is available in English ( https://apps.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/5d6389ca17abb) and in Italian ( https://apps.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/5d6389ca176fe). __________________________________ Marco Li Calzi Department of Management Università Ca' Foscari Venezia San Giobbe, Cannaregio 873 30121 Venezia, Italy Tel.: (+39) 041 234-6925 Fax: (+39) 041 234-7444 E-mail: licalzi(a)unive.it WWW: http://mizar.unive.it/licalzi -- Nota automatica aggiunta dal sistema di posta.

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Conference on Assessing and Managing Climate Change Risk - Venice 26/27 September 2019
by Monica Billio 27 Aug '19

27 Aug '19

18^th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CREDIT 2019 */Assessing and Managing Climate Change Risk: /* */Opportunities for Financial Institutions/* ** Venice, Italy 26 –27 September 2019 *GRETA Associati *(Venice, Italy), *European DataWarehouse* (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), *Intesa Sanpaolo *(Milan, Italy) and *S&P Global Market Intelligence* (London, UK) are co-sponsors of a Conference to be held in Venice on September 26-27, 2019. The objective of the Conference is to bring together academics, practitioners and Ph.D. students working in the area of risk management. The conference will provide an opportunity for participants engaged in research at the forefront of this area to discuss both the causes and implications of recent financial and atmospheric events and may, in turn, suggest fruitful directions for future research. The Conference, organised under the auspices of the *Department of Economics of the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice*, *ABI - Italian Banking Association*, *AIAF - Associazione Italiana per l'Analisi Finanziaria* (Milan, Italy)**and the *Joint Research Center, European Commission *(Ispra, Italy), is the *eighteenth* of a series dedicated to various aspects of credit risk. //The adoption of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development marks a historical international commitment to the objective of a more sustainable economy and society. How to mobilise the necessary financing for green and sustainable investments is thus a primary need. // //Meanwhile, Regulators are discussing about a green-supporting or a brown-penalising factor since they want to make sure financial institutions are prepared. It is to find the way to support sustainable investments but it is primarily a discussion about credit risk.// //The banking and insurance industries and more in general the financial sector has to develop new asset management strategies and to adjust their credit allocation practices to cope with these new challenges and take advantage of the new opportunities. All t////hese changes call for a substantial amount of research to improve the knowledge of the mechanisms at play and to design adapted policy tools.//// The SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE consists of: ·*Carlo Carraro*(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & CMCC, Programme Chair)** ·*Stefano Battiston *(University of Zurich) ·*Monica Billio *(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & GRETA) ·*Francesca Campolongo *(Joint Research Center, European Commission) ·*Robert Engle *(New York University) ·*Thomas Heller *(Climate Policy Initiative & Stanford University) ·*Andreas Hoepner*(University College Dublin) ·*StevenOngena *(University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute, KU Leuven & CEPR) ·*StephenSchaefer *(London Business School) ·*Cristiano Zazzara*(S&P Global Market Intelligence, New York) PROGRAMME *Thursday, September 26 2019* 08.30 - 09.00 _Registration_ 09.00 - 09.15 _Welcome_: *Michele Bugliesi* (Rector, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) _Opening Remarks:_ *Carlo Carraro* (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & CMCC, Programme Chair) 09.15 - 11.00 _Session I: BANKS AND CREDIT RISK_ Chairman: *Monica Billio* (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & GRETA) •*Key-note talk:*/Banks and Climate Risk/, *Til Schuermann* (Oliver Wyman, New York) •/Climate Change and Credit Risk/, Giusy Capasso (Bocconi University)and *Gianfranco Gianfrate* (EDHEC Business School, Nice) - _Discussant:_*Roberto Panzica* (European Commission) •/Relaxing Credit Constraints: Credit Risk, Financial Intermediation Quality, and Environmental Impact/, *Ashay Kadam* (Indian Institute of Management at Udaipur)and Magdalena Pisa (WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management) - _Discussant:_ *Andrea Giacomelli* (Knowshape, Venice) 11.30 - 13.15 _Session II: CLIMATE RISK AND EQUITY MARKETS_ Chairman: *Carlo Carraro* (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & CMCC, Programme Chair) •*Key-note talk*: /New Results on Sustainable Investing/, *Robert Engle* (New York University) •/Climate Risks and Stock Returns/, Eugenio Carnemolla (University of Lausanne)and *Giuseppe Vinci* (Rice University, Houston) - _Discussant:_ *Massimiliano Caporin* (University of Padua) •/Investor Ownership and Carbon-Intensive Stocks: Who Holds the Carbon Risk Bomb?/, Lukas Benz (University of Augsburg), Stefan Paulus (University of Augsburg), Julia Scherer (University of Augsburg), Janik Syryca (University of Augsburg)and *Stefan Trück* (Macquarie University, Sidney) - _Discussant:_ *Thomas Heller* (Climate Policy Initiative & Stanford University) 14.15 - 15.45 _Session III: CLIMATE POLICY RISK_ Chairman: *Reinhard Harry Schmidt* (SAFE - Goethe University Frankfurt) •/Being Stranded with Fossil Fuel Reserves? Climate Policy Risk and the Pricing of Bank Loans/, *Manthos D. Delis* (Montpellier Business School), Kathrin de Greiff (University of Zurich & Swiss Finance Institute)and Steven Ongena (University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute, KU Leuven & CEPR) - _Discussant:_ *Cristiano Zazzara* (S&P Global Market Intelligence, London) •/Assessing Sustainable Finance Policies Via a Stock-flow Consistent Macro Model with Portfolio Choice/, Nepomuk Dunz (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien), Irene Monasterolo (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)and *Marco Raberto* (University of Genoa) - _Discussant:_ *Carlo Giupponi* (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) •/Carbon Pricing Paths /to a/Greener Future /and/Potential Roadblocks /to/Public Companies Credit-Worthiness/, *Giorgio Baldassarri Höger von Högersthal* (S&P Global Market Intelligence, London), Arsene Lui (S&P Global Market Intelligence, London), Hrvoje Tomicic (S&P Global Market Intelligence, London), Luka Vidovic (S&P Global Market Intelligence, London)and Cristiano Zazzara (S&P Global Market Intelligence, London) - _Discussant:_ *Anant K. Sundaram* (Dartmouth College) 15.45 - 16.30 _POSTER SESSION_ 16.30 - 18.15 _Session IV: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ASSET PRICES _ Chairman: *Stephen Schaefer* (London Business School) •*Key-note talk:*/ESG Engagement and Downside Risk/, *Andreas Hoepner*(University College Dublin) •/Is Firm-level Clean or Dirty Innovation Valued More?/, Antoine Dechezleprêtre (London**School of Economics), Cal B. Muckley (University College Dublin)and *Parvati Neelakantan* (University College Dublin) - _Discussant:_ *Marti G. Subrahmanyam* (New York University) •/ESG and Corporate Credit Spreads/, Florian Barth (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), *Benjamin Hübel* (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)and Hendrik Scholz (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) - _Discussant:_ *Loriana Pelizzon* (SAFE - Goethe University Frankfurt) _Social dinner at the Hotel Monaco: _*Speech *by*Ignazio Visco* (Governor, Bank of Italy) *Friday, September 27 2019* 09.00 - 10.45 _Session V: CLIMATE RISK PRICING AND ASSESSMENT_ Chairman: *Andrea Gasperini* (AIAF, Milan) •*Key-note talk:*/A Climate Finance Risk Assessment and Management Approach under Uncertainty/, *Irene Monasterolo* (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) •/The Greenium Matters: Evidence on the Pricing of Climate Risk/, *Lucia Alessi* (European Commission), Elisa Ossola (European Commission)and Roberto Panzica (European Commission) - _Discussant:_ *Andreas Hoepner* (University College Dublin) •/Climate Risk and Financial Stability in the Network of Banks and Investment Funds/, Alan Roncoroni (University of Zurich), *Stefano Battiston* (University of Zurich), Luis Onésimo Leonardo Escobar Farfán (Banco de Mexico)and Serafin Martinez Jaramillo (Banco de Mexico & Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos) - _Discussant:_ *Matteo Manera* (University of Milano-Bicocca) 11.15 - 12.45 _PANEL Session: CLIMATE CHANGE RISK: THE POLICY MAKERS' POINT OF VIEW_ Moderator: *Francesca Campolongo* (Joint Research Center, European Commission) _Participants:_ *Sergio Nicoletti Altimari*(European Central Bank) *Mattia Romani*(European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) *Nancy Saich*(European Investment Bank) *Manuela Zweimueller*(European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority) *Mario Nava*(European Commission)will contribute a video message 13.45 - 15.15 _Session VI: LENDING AND CLIMATE CHANGE_ Chairman: *Giulio Mignola* (Intesa Sanpaolo, Turin) •/High Water, No Marks? Biased Lending After Extreme Weather/, Nicola Garbarino (Bank of England)and *Benjamin Guin* (Bank of England) - _Discussant:_ *Steven Ongena* (University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute, KU Leuven & CEPR) •/Buildings' Energy Efficiency and the Probability of Mortgage Default: The Dutch Case/, Monica Billio (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & GRETA), *Michele Costola* (SAFE - Goethe University Frankfurt), Loriana Pelizzon (SAFE - Goethe University Frankfurt)and Max Riedel (SAFE - Goethe University Frankfurt & Ca' Foscari University of Venice)- _Discussant:_ *Olivier De Jonghe* (National Bank of Belgium & Tilburg University) •/Climate Change and Bank Lending: the Case of Flood Risk in Italy, /*Ivan Faiella*(Bank of Italy)and Filippo Natoli (Bank of Italy) - _Discussant:_ *Malcolm Mistry* (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & CMCC) 15.45 - 17.15 _PANEL Session Practice: CLIMATE CHANGE RISK: A PRACTITIONERS’ VIEW_ Moderator: *Isabella Bufacchi* (Il Sole 24 Ore) _Participants:_ *Mark Carhart*(Kepos Capital, New York) *Carlo Carraro*(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & CMCC) *Robert Engle*(New York University) *Giulio Mignola*(Intesa Sanpaolo, Turin) *Jobst Neuss*(European Investment Fund, Luxembourg) *Til Schuermann*(Oliver Wyman, New York) *Cristiano Zazzara*(S&P Global Market Intelligence, New York) 17.15 - 18.15 _Session VII: CLIMATE CHANGE AND BOND MARKET_ Chairman: *Ludovic Thebault* (European DataWarehouse) •/Climate Change Implications for the Catastrophe Bonds Market: An Empirical Analysis/, *Claudio Morana* (University of Milano-Bicocca, Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies & Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis)and Giacomo Sbrana (NEOMA Business School) - _Discussant:_ *Luca De Angelis* (University of Bologna) •/The Pricing of Green Bonds: Are Financial Institutions Special?/, Serena Fatica(European Commission), Roberto Panzica (European Commission)and *Michela Rancan* (European Commission) - _Discussant:_ *Marcello Pericoli* (Bank of Italy) _End of conference - *Exclusive visit to the Venetian Collection of Intesa Sanpaolo* and cocktail at the Querini Stampalia_ __ REGISTRATION To register for the Conference you are requested to complete the registration form that is available on our website (http://www.greta.it/credit/credit2019/credit2019.htm). Registration fees are: Early registration (within August 31st) Late registration (from September 1st on) Academics: 250 Euro + VAT 300 Euro + VAT Practitioners: 800 Euro + VAT 1000 Euro + VAT Academics Poster Presenter: 150 Euro + VAT 200 Euro + VAT Practitioners Poster Presenter: 500 Euro + VAT 500 Euro + VAT PhD Students*: 100 Euro + VAT 150 Euro + VAT *VAT is currently 22% * *Students will have to provide valid proof of their student status. The registration fees cover: Admission to all scientific sessions, Lunches and coffee service during the Conference and Conference kit. The registration fees do not fully cover the conference dinner on *September 26th, 2019*, for which there is an extra charge of 90.00 Euro per person (conference attendees as well as accompanying persons). More detailed information soon available on the Conference website: http://www.greta.it/credit/credit2019/credit2019.htm -- -- Monica Billio Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Fondamenta San Giobbe 873, 30121 Venezia Tel +39 041 2349170, Fax +39 041 2349176 E-mail billio(a)unive.it http://www.unive.it/persone/billio http://ideas.repec.org/e/pbi55.html http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=303041 http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=ll83_twAAAAJ&hl=en CREDIT 2019 http://www.greta.it/credit/credit2019/credit2019.htm -- Nota automatica aggiunta dal sistema di posta.

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open position: Substitute lecturer in mathematical statistics - University of Gothenburg
by Antonio DI CRESCENZO 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

OPEN POSITION: Substitute lecturer in mathematical statistics Employment level: Fixed term Location: Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Gothenburg Apply by: 2019-08-31 web: https://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/job-opportunities/vacancies-… ============================================= Antonio Di Crescenzo Dipartimento di Matematica Università degli Studi di Salerno Via Giovanni Paolo II, n. 132 <https://maps.google.com/?q=Via+Giovanni+Paolo+II,+n.+132+%0D%0A84084+Fiscia…> 84084 Fisciano (SA) Italy Tel. +39-089-963349 Fax: +39-089-963303 E-mail(1): adicrescenzo(a)unisa.it E-mail(2): adicresc(a)gmail.com Web: http://www.unisa.it/docenti/antoniodicrescenzo/index =============================================

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Concorso RTD.B - UPO (scadenza 22/09/2019)
by enea giuseppe bongiorno 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

*Concorso RTD.B - SC: 13/D1 - SSD: SECS-S/01 (Statistica)* *Università del Piemonte Orientale* Cari colleghi, con la presente si informa che è stato pubblicato il bando per un posto di ricercatore a tempo determinato, lettera B, per il settore concorsuale 13/D1 (Statistica), settore scientifico disciplinare SECS-S/01 (Statistica) presso il Dipartimento di Studi per l'Economia e l'Impresa (DiSEI) dell'Università del Piemonte Orientale. Il bando è disponibile alla pagina: https://www.uniupo.it/alta-formazione-aziende-lavoro/concorsi/concorsi-il-p… Le domande di partecipazione devono essere inviate entro il *22/09/2019* (ore 23.59). Si prega di diffondere la comunicazione tra i potenziali interessati. Cordiali saluti, Enea Bongiorno -- Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Via Perrone 18, 28100, Novara, Italia Tel: +390321375317 <0321%20375317> e-mail: enea.bongiorno(a)uniupo.it web: upobook.uniupo.it/enea.bongiorno

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Seminario di Sam Thomas a Roma Tre 2 settembre ore 14:30
by Pietro Caputo 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

SEMINARIO Probabilita' Sam Thomas (Cambridge, UK) Titolo: Cutoff for Random Walk on Random Cayley Graphs Lunedi' 02 Settembre 2019 ORE 14:30 Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre Largo San Leonardo Murialdo,1 - Pal.C - Aula 211 Abstract Consider the random Cayley graph of a finite group $G$ with respect to $k$ generators chosen uniformly at random, with $1 ll log k ll log|G|$: the vertices are the group elements, and $g,h in G$ are connected if there exists a generator $z$ so that $g = hz$ or $gz = h$. A conjecture of Aldous and Diaconis asserts that the simple random walk on this graph exhibits cutoff, at a time which depends only on $|G|$ and $k$, not on the algebraic structure of the group $G$ (ie universally in $G$). We verify this conjecture for a wide class of Abelian groups. Time permitting, we discuss extensions to the case where the underlying group $G$ is non-Abelian. There the cutoff time cannot be written only as a function of $|G|$ and of $k$; it depends on the algebraic structure. This is joint work with Jonathan Hermon.

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Cirm conference PDE/Probability, last announcement
by Pietro Caputo 24 Aug '19

24 Aug '19

Dear colleagues, There will be a conference at CIRM on October 14-18 on PDE/Probability interactions, with a focus on particle systems and hyperbolic conservation laws. Pre-registration is open until early september on the website: https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/2083.html There will be two mini courses, by Christophe Bahadoran (Université Clermont-Auvergne) and Alexis Vasseur (University of Texas at Austin), as well as talks by Boris Andreianov (Université de Tours) Raphael Butez (Weizmann Institute of Science) Laura Caravenna (Universita degli Studi di Padova) Kleber Carrapatoso (Université de Montpellier) Djalil Chafaï (Université Paris-Dauphine) Helge Dietert (Université Paris Diderot) Jean Dolbeault (Université Paris-Dauphine) Mitia Duerinckx (ENS Lyon et Université Libre de Bruxelles) Nicolas Fournier (Sorbonne Université) Cyril Labbé (Université Paris-Dauphine) Mauro Mariani (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) William Ocafrain (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) Felix Otto (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig) Fraydoun Rezakhanlou (University of California, Berkeley) Samir Salem (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) Marielle Simon (Inria Lille-Nord Europe) Ariane Trescases (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse) Please pass on this announcement to anyone who might be interested in the conference, in particular PhD students. Apologies if you receive this announcement multiple times. Best wishes, Pietro Caputo, Max Fathi, Arnaud Guillin and Julien Reygner <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Garanti sans virus. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#m_-7676172159550020676_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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Seminario Prof. Macci 6/9/19 ore 15:30 Insubria University
by Elisa Mastrogiacomo 21 Aug '19

21 Aug '19

Seminar announcement: Macci on Large deviations for risk measures models – September 6, 2019 - 15.30-16.30 Dear Colleagues, On September 6, 2019, 15.30-16.30, Prof. Claudio Macci (University of Roma Tor Vergata) will give a talk on “Large deviations for risk measures in finite mixture models” (joint with Valeria Bignozzi and Lea Petrella). Insubria University Dept. Economics, Via Monte Generoso 71 Sala del Consiglio primo piano Below you find an abstract of Claudio’s paper. You are all invited. Best regards, Elisa Mastrogiacomo Abstract Due to their heterogeneity, insurance risks can be properly described as a mixture of different fixed models, where the weights assigned to each model may be estimated empirically from a sample of available data. If a risk measure is evaluated on the estimated mixture instead of the (unknown) true one, then it is important to investigate the committed error. In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of estimated risk measures, as the data sample size tends to infinity, in the fashion of large deviations. We obtain large deviation results by applying the contraction principle, and the rate functions are given by a suitable variational formula; explicit expressions are available for mixtures of two models. Finally, our results are applied to the most common risk measures, namely the quantiles, the expected shortfall and the shortfall risk measure.

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Fwd: University of Oxford: faculty position in Mathematical & Computational Finance
by Marco Romito 17 Aug '19

17 Aug '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: University of Oxford: faculty position in Mathematical & Computational Finance Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 17:10:16 +0200 From: Rama Cont <Rama.Cont(a)maths.ox.ac.uk> Call for applications: Departmental Lecturer in Mathematical and Computational Finance Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=… Grade 9: £47,263 - £53,765 with a discretionary range to £59,828 p.a. Application Deadline: *September 20, 2019* The Oxford Mathematical Institute proposes to appoint a *Departmental Lecturer in Mathematical and Computational Finance*. This is a *full-time permanent position*, equivalent to a tenured U.S. Associate professor. The Departmental Lecturer will have an outstanding research record in the area of Mathematical and Computational Finance and will be expected to engage in research projects and mentorship of graduate students, lead independent research projects and contribute to the teaching and academic administration as Course Director for the MSc in Mathematical and Computational Finance.The Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division runs periodic exercises to confer the title of Associate Professor to suitably qualified staff members who have met the university’s criteria. The successful candidate will be expected to have a doctorate in mathematics or closely related subject with proven ability and potential to carry out high quality independent research at an international level in Mathematical and Computational Finance, as evidenced by, for example, publications in leading international journals, together with the ability and willingness to undertake the role of Course director for the MSc in Mathematical & Computational Finance. Please direct informal enquiries to the Recruitment Administrator using the email address below, quoting vacancy reference 142100. Applicants should read the job description before writing their application. You will be required to upload a letter setting out how you meet the selection criteria, a curriculum vitae including full list of publications, details of teaching experience, a statement of research interests and the contact details of three referees as part of your online application. For more information on the Oxford Mathematical & Computational Finance Group: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/groups/mathematical-finance To apply: https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_details_form.jobspec?p_id=… NOTE: Applicants are responsible for contacting their referees and making sure that their letters are received by*12.00 noon on Friday 20 September 2019*. Contact Person : the Recruitment Administrator Vacancy ID : 142100 Contact Phone : 01865 273518 Closing Date : 2*0-Sep-2019* Contact Email : vacancies(a)maths.ox.ac.uk <mailto:vacancies@maths.ox.ac.uk?subject=Departmental%20Lecturer%20in%20Mathematical%20and%20Computational%20Finance>

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Concorso RTDA SECS-S/06 università di Verona, scad 22/8/2019
by Cecilia 17 Aug '19

17 Aug '19

Concorso RTDA SECS-S/06 S.C. 13/D4 Metodi Matematici dell’Economia e delle Scienze Attuariali e FinanziarieUniversità di Verona, Dipartimento di Scienze per l'Economia, scadenza 22/8/2019 Bando https://www.univr.it/it/concorsi/personale-docente/ricercatore/ricercatore-…

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PhD positions at ETH
by Daniele Cappelletti 02 Aug '19

02 Aug '19

Segnalo due posizioni di dottorato all'ETH, nel gruppo di Control Theory and System Biology <https://mail.ethz.ch/owa/redir.aspx?C=2XSFS4-kVXjKIgR9ycYf_X5K4qAuqGShasSts…>. Il progetto e' volto a sviluppare nuovi strumenti teorici da applicare alla biologia moderna (informazioni piu' dettagliate sono presenti nella locandina e nei link sottostanti). Sono richieste solide basi di teoria dei processi stocastici (o comunque disponibilita' ad apprenderle) e inventiva. Il termine di presentazione delle domande e' il primo settembre. Cordiali saluti, Daniele Cappelletti %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% You can access the advertisement directly via the following links: - Browser: https://apply.refline.ch/845721/7307/pub/1/index.html <https://mail.ethz.ch/owa/redir.aspx?C=3PvliOca-wxs8fQ8W0RMlAcJipYP7MIBef_pW…> - Mobile: https://m.refline.ch/845721/7307/pub/1/index.html <https://mail.ethz.ch/owa/redir.aspx?C=cFP9Ym6rGCFaGSeSp-9fpBlLkvGpxMQx4KdO6…> The advertisement is also attached to this email as a PDF.

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avviso di seminario UniTN
by Stefano Bonaccorsi 02 Aug '19

02 Aug '19

Eigenvalue bounds for the Laplacian on planar metric graphs *Giovedì 8 agosto 2019 * *Luogo: *Dipartimento di Matematica, via Sommarive, 14 - Povo (TN) - Sala Seminari "-1" *Ore*: 11:00 *Relatore:* - *Marvin Plümer* (FernUniversität Hagen, Germany) *Abstract:* Self-adjoint differential operators – in particular Schrödinger-type operators – acting on metric graphs have been studied very actively, in recent years. Here, a metric graph is a collection of intervals whose endpoints are identified in a graph-like fashion. In this talk, we present some new developments in the theory of Laplacians on metric graphs: in particular, we discuss the role played by planarity in spectral theory and derive some lower and upper bounds for the eigenvalues of the Laplacian. To derive upper bounds we make use of a geometric representation for planar graphs provided by the classical Circle Packing Theorem of Koebe, Andreev and Thurston. For the derivation of lower bounds, we extend and apply a recently developed transference principle by Amini and Cohen-Steiner that compares eigenvalues of continuous and discrete models in a very convenient way. In this context we give a brief introduction to metric graphs and differential operators on metric graphs. This is joint work with Delio Mugnolo. *Referente*: Stefano Bonaccorsi

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International Conference in Venice - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Monica Billio 29 Jul '19

29 Jul '19

CREDIT2019 <http://www.greta.it/credit/credit2019/credit2019.htm> * * * * *GRETA Associati* (Venice, Italy), *European DataWarehouse* (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), *Intesa Sanpaolo* (Milan, Italy) and *S&P Global Market Intelligence* (London, UK) are co-sponsors of a Conference to be held in Venice on September 26-27, 2019. The objective of the Conference is to bring together academics, practitioners and Ph.D. students working in the area of risk management. The conference will provide an opportunity for participants engaged in research at the forefront of this area to discuss both the causes and implications of recent financial and atmospheric events and may, in turn, suggest fruitful directions for future research. The Conference, organised under the auspices of the *Department of Economics of the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice*, *ABI - Italian Banking Association*, *AIAF - Associazione Italiana per l'Analisi Finanziaria* (Milan, Italy) and the *Joint Research Center, European Commission* (Ispra, Italy), is the *eighteenth *of a series dedicated to various aspects of credit risk. //The adoption of the Paris Agreement on climate change and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development marks a historical international commitment to the objective of a more sustainable economy and society. How to mobilise the necessary financing for green and sustainable investments is thus a primary need. // //Meanwhile, Regulators are discussing about a green-supporting or a brown-penalising factor since they want to make sure financial institutions are prepared. It is to find the way to support sustainable investments but it is primarily a discussion about credit risk.// //The banking and insurance industries and more in general the financial sector has to develop new asset management strategies and to adjust their credit allocation practices to cope with these new challenges and take advantage of the new opportunities. All these changes call for a substantial amount of research to improve the knowledge of the mechanisms at play and to design adapted policy tools. ////////// The final program will include both submitted and invited papers. Acceptances received so far from invited speakers include *Robert Engle *(New York University), *Andreas Hoepner* (University College Dublin), *Irene Monasterolo* (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) and *Til Schuermann *(Oliver Wyman, New York). The Conference will also feature a panel discussion on researchers', practitioners' and policy makers’ views of the major outstanding problems. The Scientific Committee consists of: *Carlo Carraro* (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & CMCC, Programme Chair) *Stefano Battiston* (University of Zurich) *Monica Billio* (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & GRETA) *Francesca Campolongo* (Joint Research Center, European Commission) *Robert Engle *(New York University) *Thomas Heller *(Climate Policy Initiative & Stanford University) *Andreas Hoepner* (University College Dublin) * Steven Ongena *(University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute, KU Leuven & CEPR) *Stephen Schaefer* (London Business School) *Cristiano Zazzara* (S&P Global Market Intelligence, New York) **** Sponsors** *GRETA* <http://www.greta.it/> *European Datawarehouse* <https://eurodw.eu/> *IntesaSanpaolo* <http://www.group.intesasanpaolo.com/scriptIsir0/si09/eng_index.jsp> S&P Global Market Intelligence <https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/> Auspices** ** <http://www.abi.it/Pagine/default.aspx> *Ca' Foscari - Economics Department* <http://www.unive.it/pag/16892> *ABI* <http://www.abi.it/Pagine/default.aspx> AIAF <https://www.aiaf.it/> *JCR - European Commission <https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en> * ** <https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en> ** <http://www.abi.it/Pagine/default.aspx> * * **PROGRAMME ** *Thursday, September 26 2019* * **08.30***- 09.00 Registration ** ***09.00***- 09.15 Welcome**** ********Opening Remarks: Carlo Carraro********(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & CMCC, Programme Chair)**** *** 09.15 - 11.00 Session I: BANKS**AND CREDIT RISK* • *Key-note talk:* /Banks and Climate Risk/, *Til Schuermann*(Oliver Wyman, New York) • /Climate Change and Credit Risk/, Giusy Capasso (Bocconi University) and *Gianfranco Gianfrate*(EDHEC Business School, Nice) •/Relaxing Credit Constraints: Credit Risk, Financial Intermediation Quality, and Environmental Impact/, Ashay Kadam**(Indian Institute of Management at Udaipur) and *Magdalena Pisa* (WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management) * * *11.00 - 11.30 Coffee break* * 11.30 - 13.15 Session II: CLIMATE RISK AND EQUITY MARKETS* • *Key-note talk:* /Hedging Against Climate Change/, *Robert Engle*(New York University) • /Climate Risks and Stock Returns/, Eugenio Carnemolla (University of Lausanne)and*Giuseppe Vinci* (Rice University, Houston) • /Investor Ownership and Carbon-Intensive Stocks: Who Holds the Carbon Risk Bomb?/, Lukas Benz (University of Augsburg), Stefan Paulus (University of Augsburg), Julia Scherer (University of Augsburg), Janik Syryca (University of Augsburg) and*Stefan Trück* (Macquarie University, Sidney) *13.15 - 14.15 Lunch * * * *14.15 - 15.45 Session III: ***CLIMATE POLICY RISK**** • /Being Stranded with Fossil Fuel Reserves? Climate Policy Risk and the Pricing of Bank Loans/, *Manthos D. Delis*(Montpellier Business School), Kathrin de Greiff (University of Zurich & Swiss Finance Institute)and**Steven Ongena (University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute, KU Leuven & CEPR) /• Assessing Sustainable Finance Policies Via a Stock-flow Consistent Macro Model with Portfolio Choice/, Nepomuk Dunz**(Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien), Irene Monasterolo (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)and*Marco Raberto* (University of Genoa) • /Carbon Pricing Paths To A Greener Future And Potential Roadblocks To Public Companies Credit-Worthiness/, *Giorgio Baldassarri **Höger von Högersthal* (S&P Global Market Intelligence, London), Hrvoje Tomicic (S&P Global Market Intelligence, London), Luka Vidovic (S&P Global Market Intelligence, London) and Cristiano Zazzara (S&P Global Market Intelligence, London) *15.45 - 16.30 Coffee break and POSTER SESSION* *16.30 - 18.15 Session IV: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ASSET PRICES*** • *Key-note talk:* /ESG Engagement and Downside Risk/, *Andreas Hoepner*(University College Dublin) • /Is Firm-level Clean or Dirty Innovation Valued More?/, Antoine Dechezleprêtre(London School of Economics), Cal B. Muckley (University College Dublin) and *Parvati Neelakantan*(University College Dublin) • /ESG and Corporate Credit Spreads/, Florian Barth (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), *Benjamin Hübel* (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)and Hendrik Scholz (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) *Social dinner at the Hotel Monaco <https://www.hotelmonaco.it/en/grand-canal-restaurant-venice-centre/>: Speech by Ignazio Visco (Governor, Bank of Italy) * *Friday, September 27 2019* *09.00 - 10.45 Session V: ***CLIMATE ******RISK **PRICING AND ASSESSMENT**** • *Key-note talk:* /A Climate Finance Risk Assessment and Management Approach under Uncertainty/, *Irene Monasterolo*(Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien) /• The Greenium Matters: Evidence on the Pricing of Climate Risk/, *Lucia Alessi *(European Commission), Elisa Ossola (European Commission)and**Roberto Panzica (European Commission) • /Climate Risk and Financial Stability in the Network of Banks and Investment Funds/, Alan Roncoroni (University of Zurich), *Stefano Battiston* (University of Zurich), Luis Onésimo Leonardo Escobar Farfán (Banco de Mexico) and Serafin Martinez Jaramillo (Banco de Mexico & Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos) *10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break* *11.15 - 12.45 **PANEL Session***: CLIMATE CHANGE RISK: THE POLICY MAKERS' POINT OF VIEW**- Moderator: *Francesca Campolongo* (Joint Research Center, European Commission) *_Participants:_* *Sergio Nicoletti Altimari***(European Central Bank) *Mattia Romani* (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) *Nancy Saich* (European Investment Bank) *Manuela Zweimueller* (European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority) *Mario Nava* (European Commission) will contribute a video message *12.45***- 13.45 Lunch** ** ** *13.45 - 15.15 Session VI: **LENDING AND CLIMATE CHANGE* • /High Water, No Marks? Biased Lending After Extreme Weather/, Nicola Garbarino (Bank of England) and *Benjamin Guin*(Bank of England) • /Buildings' Energy Efficiency and the Probability of Mortgage Default: The Dutch Case/, Monica Billio (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & GRETA), *Michele Costola* (SAFE - Goethe University Frankfurt), Loriana Pelizzon(SAFE - Goethe University Frankfurt) and Max Riedel(SAFE - Goethe University Frankfurt & Ca' Foscari University of Venice) • /Climate Change and Bank Lending: the Case of Flood Risk in Italy/, Ivan Faiella(Bank of Italy) and *Filippo Natoli*(Bank of Italy) *15.15***- 15.45 Coffee break** **** *15.45 - 17.15 PANEL Session ***Practice: CLIMATE CHANGE RISK: A PRACTITIONERS’ VIEW **- Moderator: *Isabella Bufacchi* (Il Sole 24 Ore) *_Participants:_* *Mark Carhart***(Kepos Capital, New York) *Carlo Carraro* (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & CMCC) *Robert Engle* (New York University) *Giulio Mignola* (Intesa Sanpaolo, Turin) *Jobst Neuss* (European Investment Fund, Luxembourg) *Til Schuermann* (Oliver Wyman, New York) *Cristiano Zazzara* (S&P Global Market Intelligence, New York) *17.15 - 18.15 Session VII: CLIMATE CHANGE AND BOND MARKET* • /Climate Change Implications for the Catastrophe Bonds Market: An Empirical Analysis/, *Claudio Morana*(University of Milano - Bicocca, Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies & Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis) and Giacomo Sbrana (NEOMA Business School) • /The Pricing of Green Bonds: Are Financial Institutions Special?/, Serena Fatica (European Commission), Roberto Panzica (European Commission) and *Michela Rancan* (European Commission) *End of conference - Cocktail at the Querini Stampalia* **REGISTRATION** To register for the Conference you are requested to complete the registration form that is available on our website (_http://www.greta.it/credit/credit2019/credit2019.htm_). Registration fees are: Early registration (within August 31st) Late registration (from September 1st on) Academics: 250 Euro + VAT 300 Euro + VAT Practitioners: 800 Euro + VAT 1000 Euro + VAT Academics Poster Presenter: 150 Euro + VAT 200 Euro + VAT Practitioners Poster Presenter: 500 Euro + VAT 500 Euro + VAT PhD Students*: 100 Euro + VAT 150 Euro + VAT ** *VAT is currently 22%* *Students will have to provide valid proof of their student status. The registration fees cover: * Admission to all scientific sessions * Lunches and coffee service during the Conference * Conference kit The registration fees do not fully cover the conference dinner on September 26th, 2019, for which there is an extra charge of 90.00 Euro per person (conference attendees as well as accompanying persons). More detailed information soon available on the Conference website: http://www.greta.it/credit/credit2019/credit2019.htm *** Please accept our apologies for any crossed e-mails. -- Nota automatica aggiunta dal sistema di posta.

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PhD in statistics and deep neural networks at UT Netherlands
by Gianluca Finocchio 26 Jul '19

26 Jul '19

Gentili colleghi/e, vi inoltro un annuncio dall'università di Twente (Olanda). Cordialmente,GF The statistics group at the University of Twente (UT, in the Netherlands) has a vacancy for a Ph.D. student to work on statistical theory for deep neural networks. A requirement is a M.Sc. degree in mathematics/statistics with solid background in probability theory and mathematical statistics. The deadline for applications is August 15. Intended starting date for the position is in October/November this year. Additional information can be found here https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/!/292044/phd-in-statistical-… For questions, please email a.j.schmidt-hieber(a)utwente.nl

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Internship positions in machine learning at BCAM, Bilbao
by Marco Romito 25 Jul '19

25 Jul '19

Ricevo e inoltro ============================================ Dear Colleagues, The Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) is offering several internship positions to work on machine learning problems. This is an opportunity for MS and last year BS students to start a research career while learning very interesting topics. You can find below the description of the positions. Further informations are available at the link http://www.bcamath.org/en/research/internships <http://www.bcamath.org/en/research/internships>. I appreciate if you can distribute the announcement to potential candidates. Thank you very much. Regards, Gianni ——————————————————————————————————————————— Internship 1: Research topic title: Minimaxsupervised classification Research topic description: Supervised classification can be approached as a zero-sum game between learner and nature. Efficient algorithms can be enabled by using uncertainty sets of distributions defined by a generating function. This project will develop techniques to determine such function and to estimate its expectations Keywords: supervised classification, statistics, probability ——————————————————————————————————————————— Internship 2: Research topic title: Open supervision for machine learning Research topic description: Training data obtained in practice is often provided by a heterogeneous community that label examples with different levels of accuracy, ranging from perfect to missing annotations. This project will develop new machine learning techniques that utilize such weak and heterogeneous training data, and evaluate the performance gains with respect to existing approaches. Keywords: python/R/Matlab, supervised classification ——————————————————————————————————————————— Internship 3: Research topic title: Data science for energy management Research topic description: Numerous data sets related with energy can be exploited in order to improve energy management both at large and small scales. For instance, weather data can serve to better schedule energy generation, historical consumption/generation data can serve to avoid outages, and contextual data can serve to use resources more efficiently. This project will develop techniques that utilize heterogenous and posibly inaccurate, incomplete, or erroneous data in order to improve energy management Keywords:Statistics, data science, machine learning ——————————————————————————————————————————— Internship 4: Research topic title: Probabilistic energy forecasting Research topic description: Energy forecasing is widely used to manage energy resources, e.g., schedule generation and prevent outages. This project will develop techniques that obtain probability distributions of future energy consumption/generation using energy related data. In particular, the techniques developed will use data such as historical consumption/generation, weather conditions, location, and time. Keywords:Probabilistic forecasting, online learning, supervised learning ——————————————————————————————————————————— Internship 5: Research topic title: Projective geometry of convex sets and its application to machine learning Research topic description: The natural transformations in machine learning (Markov transitions, stochastic kernels, channels, probabilistic mappings) are affine/projective transformations between probability simplexes. This project will 1) characterize such linear geometrical representation and its relationship with classical convex geometry, e.g., convex duality, support functions, and barycentric coordinates; and 2) develop machine learning techniques inspired by such geometrical interpretation, e.g., dimensionality reduction based on invariance w.r.t. affine/projective transformations. Keywords:Projective geometry, convex geometry, advanced linear algebra. ——————————————————————————————————————————— ——————————————————————————————————————————— Required knowledge and skills: Statistics/probability, Linear algebra, optimization, Programming in python or R or Matlab Required language skills: Spanish or English Duration and dates: 3 months; flexible dates depending student availability Covered expenses: To be negotiated Application deadline: 30th of August ================================================================ — Gianni Pagnini Ikerbasque Research Associate BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics Alameda de Mazarredo, 14 E-48009 Bilbao, Basque Country - Spain Tel. +34 946 567 842 gpagnini(a)bcamath.org <mailto:gpagnini@bcamath.org> | www.bcamath.org/gpagnini <http://www.bcamath.org/gpagnini> ( matematika mugaz bestalde )

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Invito a sottoporre articoli al Journal for Mathematics in Industry
by Alessandra Micheletti 22 Jul '19

22 Jul '19

Diffondo la seguente informazione da parte dell'editor in chief del Journal of Mathematics in Industry. Grazie ad un nuovo accordo con la Springer, chi ha una affiliation presso un centro ECMI (European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry), puo' pubblicare gratuitamente sul giornale, che e' di tipo open access. In Italia i centri ECMI sono attualmente: Universita' degli Studi di Milano Politecnico di Milano Universita' degli Studi di Verona Universita' degli Studi di Catania IAC-CNR Roma Ulteriori informazioni sull'ECMI e sulle quote associative si possono trovare al sito https://ecmiindmath.org/ Resto a disposizione per ulteriori spiegazioni. Cordialmente, Alessandra Micheletti ------------------------------------------ Some weeks ago, Adérito Araújo, president of ECMI (European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry), informed all members on a new opportunity to publish within the ECMI-Springer open-access Journal of Mathematics in Industry. <https://mathematicsinindustry.springeropen.com/> [image: ECMI_JMiI] The Journal of Mathematics in Industry is a high-quality journal that brings together research on developments in mathematics for industrial applications, including both methods and the computational challenges they entail. Here, industry is understood as any activity of economic and/or social value. As such, “mathematics in industry” concerns the field as it actually improves industrial processes and helps to master the major challenges presented by cost and ecological issues. In terms of theory, the journal seeks articles with demonstrable mathematical and statistical developments motivated by problems of modern industry. With regard to computational aspects, it publishes works introducing new methods and algorithms that represent significant improvements on the existing state of the art of modern numerical and simulations methods. In addition, online publication in Journal of Mathematics in Industry gives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and movies, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links. A new agreement has been made with Springer *allowing all researchers affiliated to an ECMI member-institution to publish in our journal free of charge to the author(s).* The article processing charge (APC) will be waived at the expense of ECMI. To have access to this publishing opportunity, please contact your local ECMI node representative to get the institutional reference code for ECMI, which is needed during the submission process to waive the APC. You may find your local ECMI node representative here: https://ecmiindmath.org/list-of-ecmi-members/ Please help in making our ECMI Journal of Mathematics in Industry a success story! Do not hesitate to contact me for further information or to answer your questions. Michael Günther Editor-in-chief of Mathematics in Industry guenther(a)uni-wuppertal.de -- ------------------------------------ Alessandra Micheletti Associate Professor - Probability and Mathematical Statistics Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy - ESP Università degli Studi di Milano via Saldini 50, 20133 Milano, Italy phone: +39-02503-16130 fax: +39-02503-16090 http://users.mat.unimi.it/users/michel <http://www.mat.unimi.it/users/michel>

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Fwd: QFW2020 - First call
by Maria Elvira Mancino 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

Dear All, we are ready to deliver the First call for papers for the workshop. Please find the call attached to this message. I kindly ask your support in promoting the event. Thanks in advance, arrivederci a Napoli Stefania Corsaro

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Bando di RTD-B MAT/06 - Università di Bari - scadenza 22 luglio
by Nicola Cufaro 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

A TUTTI GLI INTERESSATI Care colleghe, cari colleghi, Sulla Gazzetta Ufficiale del 21.06.2019 n. 49 è stato pubblicato un bando per posti di Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato di tipo B sul piano straordinario. Fra le posizioni bandite ce n'è anche una per il settore concorsuale 01/A3 – Analisi Matematica, Probabilità e Statistica Matematica - per il settore scientifico-disciplinare MAT/06 – Probabilità e Statistica Matematica, presso il Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università di Bari (D.R. n2514 del 28 maggio 2019 – codice selezione R 2514/2019) Il bando completo e la documentazione allegata sono visionabile sul portale www.uniba.it alla pagina https://reclutamento.ict.uniba.it/reclutamento-ricercatori/selezioni-ric/25… Il termine ultimo per la presentazione delle domande è il 22 Luglio 2019. Si prega di informare tutti i possibili candidati. Cordiali saluti Nicola Cufaro Petroni -- =========================================================== Prof. Nicola Cufaro Petroni ----------------------------------------------------------- Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università di Bari, and INFN Sezione di Bari via E. Orabona 4, 70125 Bari (Italy) Tel ++39 080 5443212-2250/5232289; Fax ++39 080 5442470 Emailcufaro(a)ba.infn.it http://www.ba.infn.it/~cufaro/homepage.html ----------------------------------------------------------- "... intra moenia atque in sinu urbis sunt hostes ... quare ego ita censeo ... more maiorum supplicium sumendum." C. Sallustius Crispus: Bellum Catilinae, 52 ===========================================================

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Short Summer School on Uncertainty quantification and applications
by Claudio Agostinelli 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

Short Summer School on Uncertainty quantification and applications 9-11 September 2019 Department of Mathematics, University of Trento The school is open to 30 students, no fees are required, but registration is mandatory. The school is also open to professionals and companies. Lectures will be delivered in English. Full information and registration form at http://datascience.maths.unitn.it/events/pds2019/index.html For further information please contact Alberto Valli (alberto.valli(a)unitn.it) ------------------------------------------------------------ Claudio Agostinelli Dipartimento di Matematica Universita' di Trento email: claudio.agostinelli(a)unitn.it ------------------------------------------------------------ Per favore non mandatemi documenti in Microsoft Office/Apple iWork. Spediscimi invece OpenDocument! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/ Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/ ------------------------------------------------------------

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Dottorato di Ricerca - XXXV ciclo - Università di Roma Tre
by Francesco Cesarone 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

Cari Colleghi, vi invio l’avviso di pubblicazione del Bando di Concorso per l’ammissione al Dottorato - XXXV ciclo - A.A. 2019/2020 presso il Dipartimento di Economia Aziendale - Università degli Studi di Roma Tre. Il bando per l’accesso ai corsi di dottorato di ricerca è stato pubblicato sul seguente sito https://apps.uniroma3.it/bando2019/ in cui è disponibile anche la versione in inglese. Le posizioni per il SSD SECS-S/06 sono 2 (1 con borsa e 1 senza borsa) relative al curriculum “Finanza, mercati e regolazione”. Si segnala che la scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è fissata alle ore 14.00 del giorno mercoledì 24 luglio 2019. Cordialmente, Francesco Cesarone -- Video - Quantitative Finance Workshop 2018 - Uniroma3 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DrAdCK8ht8&feature=youtu.be> http://disa.uniroma3.it/qfw2018/ -- Francesco Cesarone - Ph.D. Ricercatore - Assistant Professor Dipartimento di Economia Aziendale Università Roma Tre Via Silvio D'Amico, 77 00145 - Roma tel: +39 06 57335744 Skype: francesco.cesarone email: francesco.cesarone(a)uniroma3.it Studio n. 20 piano V WWW: http://host.uniroma3.it/docenti/cesarone/

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