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PhD in Statistics & CS in Bocconi - scadenza domande
by Antonio Lijoi 15 Jan '25

15 Jan '25

Cari tutti, ricordo l'imminente scadenza del 3 febbraio per la presentazione delle domande di ammissione al dottorato di ricerca in Statistics and Computer Science presso l'Università Bocconi (a.a. 2025-2026). Vi sarei grato se voleste portare all'attenzione di vostri studenti interessati l'annuncio riportato di seguito. Saluti, AL *********************** PhD in Statistics and Computer Science - a.y. 2025-2026 Call for applications for PhD student positions *********************** The Bocconi PhD School provides 7 scholarships for the PhD in Statistics and Computer Science, and a position with tuition waiver. * Scholarship amount * 27,000 euros per annum (year 1) 23,000 euros per annum (years 2-4) Further funding may be available through teaching and research assistantship. Visit www.unibocconi.eu/admissionphd for detailed information and for starting the online application process. ** Applications are due by February 3, 2025 ** Within the PhD School at Bocconi University, the four-year PhD program in Statistics and Computer Science is a high profile and rigorous doctoral program that develops strong mathematical, statistical, computational and programming backgrounds. The program is structured into two curricula: Statistics (4 scholarships) and Computer Science (3 scholarships). Students may apply to either one of the two curricula or to both. Highly qualified and motivated students with M.Sc. degrees in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Physics, Engineering and related areas, as well as other quantitatively-oriented fields, are encouraged to apply for admission. Applicants should hold, or be on their way to hold, a graduate degree or equivalent. For further information, visit www.unibocconi.eu/phdstatscompscience and feel free to contact: Antonio Lijoi (antonio.lijoi(a)unibocconi.it) Angela Baldassarre, PhD administrative assistant (angela.baldassarre(a)unibocconi.it)

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OWABI - Paul Bürkner - January 30
by Massimiliano Tamborrino 14 Jan '25

14 Jan '25

Dear all, the next One World Approximate Bayesian Inference (OWABI) Seminar<https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/news/upcoming-seminars/abcworldsem…> is quickly approaching, being scheduled on Thursday, the 30th January at 11am UK time. Our next speaker is Paul Bürkner<https://paulbuerkner.com/> (TU Dortmund University), who will talk about "Amortized Mixture and Multilevel Models" with an abstract reported below. Abstract: Probabilistic mixture and multilevel models are central building blocks in Bayesian data analysis. However, they remain challenging to estimate and evaluate, especially when the involved likelihoods or priors are analytically intractable. Recent developments in generative deep learning and simulation-based inference have shown promising results in scaling up Bayesian inference through amortization. Against this background, we have developed specialized neural inference frameworks for estimating Bayesian mixture and multilevel models. The involved neural architectures are closely mirroring the probabilistic symmetries and conditional (in-)dependencies assumed by these models. This not only speeds up neural network training, but also enables amortized inference for new datasets of varying number of groups and sample sizes. Keywords: Amortized Bayesian Inference; Neural Posterior Estimation; Probabilistic Factorization This and all talks are hosted on the OWABI Ms Teams Channel, which is available here https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3AdhZ_4e_XLNJzCXPAMzTvT6BZ5KShEETkd_w…. The MS Teams link to join Paul Bürkner's talk is https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3adhZ_4e_XLNJzCXPAMzTvT6BZ5KSh… Meeting ID: 361 477 079 820 Passcode: C49gr9Gx Lastly, if you missed Jeremias Knoblauch's seminar, you could now watch the recorded talk on the OWABI webpage<http://www.warwick.ac.uk/oneworldabc>. I'm looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks, best, Massimiliano on the behalf of the OWABI Seminar Organisers ------ Dr. Massimiliano Tamborrino Reader (Associate Professor) and WIHEA Fellow Department of Statistics University of Warwick https://warwick.ac.uk/tamborrino

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Fwd: John Maheu: Course at the Study Center
by Roberto CASARIN 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

Apologies for cross-posting rc -- Roberto Casarin, PhD Professor of Econometrics Ca' Foscari University of Venice San Giobbe 873/b - 30121 Venezia, Italy http://sites.google.com/view/robertocasarin/ ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Sylvia Kaufmann <sylvia.kaufmann(a)szgerzensee.ch> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025, 17:02 Subject: John Maheu: Course at the Study Center Dear colleagues, Happy new year! I would like to draw your attention to a course that John Maheu will teach at the Study Center around mid June: https://web.antragocloud.de/SZG/portal/PROD/app/seminarportal_mit_login/Cou… Please feel free to forward it to advanced PhD students that may be interested. Interested faculty or senior researchers are also eligible. Kind regards Sylvia Study Center Gerzensee Deputy director Dorfstrasse 2 <https://www.google.com/maps/search/Dorfstrasse+2?entry=gmail&source=g> 3115 Gerzensee Switzerland F +41317803112 szgerzensee.ch/kaufmann

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SPASS Seminar: Rangel Baldasso
by Gianmarco Bet 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to the following SPASS seminar, jointly organized by UniPi, SNS, UniFi and UniSi: *The random Markov property for random walks in random environments* by *Rangel Baldasso* (*PUC-Rio*) The seminar will take place on TUE, 21.01.2025 at *14:00 CET* in Aula Tricerri, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica "Ulisse Dini", Università degli Studi di Firenze, and streamed online at this link <https://meet.google.com/gji-phwo-vbg>. The organizers, A. Agazzi, G. Bet, A. Caraceni, F. Grotto, G. Zanco https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/spass -------------------------------------------- *Abstract: We consider random walks evolving in dynamic random environments and propose a criterion which, if satisfied, allows to decompose the random walk trajectory into i.i.d. increments, and ultimately to prove limit theorems. This criterion, dubbed the random Markov property, involves the construction of a random field built from the environment that has to satisfy a certain Markovian-like property along with some mixing estimates. We apply this criterion to correlated environments such as Boolean percolation and renewal chains featuring polynomial decay of correlations. Based on a joint work with Julien Allasia, Oriane Blondel, and Augusto Teixeira.*

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BioInference 2025: call for abstracts - deadline 31st January
by Massimiliano Tamborrino 13 Jan '25

13 Jan '25

Dear all, a kind reminder that the deadline for the abstract submission for contributed talks or poster at BioInference2025 (28th -30th May in Bardonecchia, a town in the Alps near Turin) is quickly approaching. If you are interested on mathematical modelling and statistical methods for (widely defined/interpreted) biological problems, then please consider submitting an abstract here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxF-b-Q_TY0o0F8T_fRmgY6_SAC72w71O… by the 31st January 2025. More info are available on the website https://bioinference.github.io/2025/ and below. Best, Massimiliano on the behalf of the BioInference2025 organising committee ------ BioInference aims to bring together researchers from across statistics and mathematical modelling who work with biological systems, to foster discussions and prompt collaborations between the two communities across all career stages. After the previous three editions hosted in the UK, the BioInference 2025 conference (https://bioinference.github.io/2025/) is now going abroad to Italy. This year’s BioInference conference will take place in Bardonecchia, a town in the Alps near Turin on the 28-30 May 2025. Differently from previous editions, this year's conference is going to be a residential 3-days event that will include more talks and networking opportunities compared to previous years. A hike activity will take place on the second day! The three-day conference will combine contributed talks and poster sessions. We now invite abstracts for oral/poster presentations on work on mathematical modelling and/or statistical methods (either development or application) for (widely defined/interpreted) biological problems. All presentations will be in-person with no-parallel sessions. The abstract can be submitted here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxF-b-Q_TY0o0F8T_fRmgY6_SAC72w71O… by the 31st January 2025. It is our pleasure to confirm that this year's invited speakers are: Davide Risso, Università di Padova<https://drisso.github.io/> Zhana Kuncheva, Bioxcelerate AI<https://bioxcelerateai.com/the-team/> Antonietta Mira, Universit`a della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano<https://search.usi.ch/en/people/f8960de6d60dd08a79b6c1eb20b7442b/mira-anton…> Jennifer Asimit, University of Cambridge MRC Biostatistics Unit<https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/staff/jennifer-asimit> Ben Swallow, University of St Andrew's <https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/mathematics-statistics/people/bts3/> Jonasz Słomka, ETH Zurich<https://n.ethz.ch/~jslomka/> Diego di Bernardo, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine<https://www.tigem.it/research/research-faculty/di-bernardo> The registration fee (covering three lunches, all coffee breaks and one dinner) is expected to be around 185€ . More information about the conference, talks and posters from previous years, as well as this year’s host town, Bardonecchia, can be found at https://bioinference.github.io/2025/ Kind regards, The 2025 BioInference Organisers ------ Dr. Massimiliano Tamborrino Reader (Associate Professor) and WIHEA Fellow Department of Statistics University of Warwick https://warwick.ac.uk/tamborrino

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P@W Summer School 7-11 July Warwick
by Giuseppe Cannizzaro 10 Jan '25

10 Jan '25

Dear all, we are extremely happy to announce the *P@W Summer School <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwarwick.a…>* - <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwarwick.a…>*Recent Trends in Probability and Statistics <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwarwick.a…>* which will take place at the *University of Warwick, 7-11 July 2025*. The school aims at engaging PhD students and researchers with cutting-edge topics at the frontiers of current knowledge in Probability and Statistics. It will feature four lecture courses held by - Martin Hairer <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.haire…>, EPFL (Switzerland) and Imperial (UK) - Nina Holden <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcims.nyu.…>, NYU Courant (US) - Hubert Lacoin <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fw3.impa.b…>, IMPA (Brazil) - Richard Nickl <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.statsl…>, Cambridge (UK) who will explore different but connected themes: stochastic PDEs, random planar maps, directed polymers and bayesian inference for time evolution PDEs (for more details please visit the website <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwarwick.a…>). The programme will be complemented by discussion and exercise sessions so to maximise interaction among participants and speakers. Further, the participants will have the chance to present their work in short-talk sessions. To join the school, please register at https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/news/patw_summer_school/registrati… <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwarwick.a…> and fill in and submit the registration form. The *registration deadline* is *18 May 2025*. For more information about the school, how to reach the University of Warwick and accommodation, please visit https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/news/patw_summer_school/ <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwarwick.a…> The school is jointly funded by the Statistics (via CRiSM <https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/research/crism/>) and Mathematics departments of the University of Warwick, the London Mathematical Society (via the grant 12415) and the UKRI (via the grant MR/W008246/1). We are looking forward to welcoming you in Warwick! Best wishes, The Organisers (Giuseppe Cannizzaro, Emma Horton, Yi Yu and Nikolaos Zygouras)

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PhD positions in Bielefeld
by Ferrari, Giorgio 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

Dear Colleagues, we have the great pleasure to share information on new doctoral positions within the research training group (RTG) „Coping with Uncertainty in Dynamic Economies“. This research training group is sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for up to 9 years, with approximately one million euro per year. We have successfully hired a first cohort of students in 2023, and we are now looking forward to the second cohort. The positions are fully funded, at competitive levels (approx 43.000 Euro gross per year). The RTG is an initiative of ten principal investigators from the Center for Mathematical Economics and the Data Science Research Group at Bielefeld University. Next to the well established core program of our doctoral school BiGSEM (www.bigsem.de <http://www.bigsem.de/>), students will thus work in an excellent research environment on topics involving uncertainty in its various aspects and their consequences for dynamic economies. The research training group holds strong ties with top international researchers who will give specialized block courses and summer schools. As a highlight of our program, the Mercator fellow Jean-Marc Tallon from the Paris School of Economics is part of our research training group. He will serve as a contact person for possible research stays in Paris. Please share the exciting news with your talented master students and encourage them to apply! More information can be found at the inomics website (https://inomics.com/program/9-phd-positions-in-the-research-training-group-…) and at Bielefeld’s official announcement (https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/3881/research-positions-in-the-re…) Best wishes, Giorgio Ferrari

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PhD Course Announcement - Stochastic control and games with different information structures
by Andrea Cosso 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

Dear all, I am pleased to announce the PhD course “Stochastic control and games with different information structures”, taught by Luciano Campi and Giorgia Callegaro and offered by the PhD in Mathematics of the University of Milan - La Statale. The course will be held at the Department of Mathematics, via Saldini 50, Milano, from January 22 to February 14, 2025 with the following scheduling: 2 pm - 5 pm, Wednesday 22 January 2025 2 pm - 5 pm, Thursday 23 January 2025 2 pm - 5 pm, Wednesday 12 February 2025 2 pm - 5 pm, Thursday 13 February 2025 10 am - 12 pm and 2 pm - 3 pm, Friday 14 February 2025 See the poster<https://sites.unimi.it/dottoratomat/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Corso_Campi_…> for more detailed information. Best regards, Andrea Cosso

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PhD positions in Probability at King's College London, upcoming deadline
by Alexandre Stauffer 09 Jan '25

09 Jan '25

Dear All, This is a final reminder of a PhD position in Probability at King’s College London, under my supervision. The deadline for application is 31 January 2025; after that date, applications will only be accepted if the position is still open. PhD funding will be available for 3.5-4 years, and includes tuition fees, tax free stipend set at UKRI rate plus London weighting, as well as an allowance for research-related travel. Further information may be found in the link below: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/funding/phd-studentship-interacting-part… See also the following link for other PhD openings in our group: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/program/kings-college-london-phd-studentships… Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me (Alexandre Stauffer, a.stauffer(a)kcl.ac.uk) Sam Johnston (samuel.g.johnston(a)kcl.ac.uk) or any other member of the Probability group via email. Thanks, Alexandre

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Fwd: Oberwolfach seminar
by Federica Masiero 08 Jan '25

08 Jan '25

Ricevo e volentieri inoltro Federica ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Mark Veraar <M.C.Veraar(a)tudelft.nl> Date: mer 8 gen 2025 alle ore 10:32 Subject: Oberwolfach seminar To: Mark Veraar <M.C.Veraar(a)tudelft.nl> Dear colleagues, We are organising an Oberwolfach seminar meeting for one week: *“Stochastic Partial Differential Equations in Critical Spaces”, during 8-13 June 2025.* The meeting takes place in Oberwolfach, and we will present several lectures on the above topic. The meeting is only meant for PhD students and postdocs. Oberfolfach only allows 24 participants. The deadline for applications is March 1st, 2025. Information on how to apply can be found at https://www.mfo.de/scientific-program/meetings/oberwolfach-seminars The program and the attached poster of our seminar please can be found at https://www.mfo.de/occasion/2524a/www_view Best regards, Antonio Agresti and Mark Veraar

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