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BAYSM 2020: registration and abstract submission are now open!
by Federico Camerlenghi 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Dear all, the 5th Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting, BAYSM2020, will take place in Kunming, China (June 26-27, 2020) as a satellite to the ISBA 2020 world meeting. BAYSM is the official conference of j-ISBA, the junior section of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. It is intended for Ph.D. Students, M.S. Students, Post-Docs, Young and Junior researchers working in the field of Bayesian statistics, providing an opportunity to connect with the Bayesian community at large. Senior discussants will be present at each session, providing participants with hints, suggestions and comments to their work. Distinguished professors of the Bayesian community will also participate as keynote speakers, making an altogether exciting program. Registration is now open ( https://baysm2020.uconn.edu/registration ) and will be available with an early bird discount until May 1, 2020. The event will be hosted at the Science Hall of Yunnan University (Kunming, China) right before ISBA 2020 world meeting. BAYSM 2020 will include social events, providing the opportunity to get to know other junior Bayesians. Young researchers interested in giving a talk or presenting a poster are invited to *submit an extended abstract by March 29, 2020*. All the instructions for the abstract submission are reported at the page https://baysm2020.uconn.edu/call-dates Thanks to the generous support of ISBA, a number of travel awards are available to support young researchers. Keynote speakers: Maria De Iorio David Dunson Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter Xuanlong Nguyen Amy Shi Jessica Utts Confirmed discussants: Jingheng Cai Li Ma Fernando Quintana Francesco Stingo Anmin Tang Yemao Xia While the meeting is organized for and by junior Bayesians, attendance is open to anyone who may be interested. For more information, please visit the conference website: https://baysm2020.uconn.edu/ On behalf of the BAYSM2020 organizing committee -- Federico Camerlenghi Department of Economics, Management and Statistics University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy. web-page: https://www.unimib.it/federico-camerlenghi

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Seminari congiunti ASI - Dipartimento Matematica Tor Vergata
by Anna Vidotto 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Annuncio Seminari congiunti ASI - Dipartimento Matematica Tor Vergata *9 Gennaio 2020* Aula Dal Passo, Edificio Sogene *Ore 14: Gianluca Polenta, ASI Space Science Data Centre* Title: Cosmology through CMB maps Abstract: The Cosmic Microwave Background is a fundamental source of information for cosmology. In the standard inflationary scenario, the CMB can be described to first order as a Gaussian random field on the sphere, and as such cosmological information is encoded in the two-point correlation function or in the angular power spectrum. To derive these quantities as well as the likelihood function needed to estimate the cosmological parameters, a number of estimators have been developed following different trade-off between optimality, unbiasedness, and computational resources, also depending on the characteristics of the dataset to be analysed. In this talk I will review the different classes of estimators used in the CMB data analysis, focusing in particular to the solutions adopted for the ESA Planck satellite, which produced CMB full sky maps of unprecedented quality. Finally, I will briefly discuss how CMB non-Gaussianity, isotropy, and those anomalies found in the analysis of Planck data can be used to further test the inflationary paradigm. *Ore 15: Domenico Marinucci, Department of Mathematics, University ofRome Tor Vergata* Title: Critical Points, Multiple Testing and Point Source Detection for Cosmological Data Abstract: In this talk, we shall review some mathematical issues arising in the analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation data; many of these issues can be related to the investigation of functionals of independent interest in random geometry. We will first review some results on harmonic analysis for spherical random fields, on the construction of spherical wavelets and on their stochastic properties; we will then show how to compute the asymptotic distribution of critical points for Fourier/wavelet components of random fields, and we will establish some ergodicity results, in the high-frequency limit. We will then investigate how to exploit these results to implement multiple testing procedures for detection of point sources (Galaxies) in CMB Data; the resulting tests will be shown to exhibit a number of optimality properties. Applications to CMB data from the Planck collaboration will also be briefly illustrated. --------- Anna Vidotto PostDoc Researcher Dipartimento di Matematica Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata https://sites.google.com/view/annavidotto

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Talk announcement, dos Reis, Tuesday Jan 7
by Mario Maurelli 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Dear all, Sorry for cross-posting. I would like to announce the following talk: Time and place: Tuesday January 7, 2pm Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' degli Studi di Milano [room TBC, another email will follow] via C. Saldini 50, Milano Speaker: Dr. Goncalo dos Reis (University of Edinburgh) Title: Ito type Chain rule for measure dependent random fields under full and conditional measure flows Abstract: We present several Itô-Wentzell formulae on Wiener spaces for real-valued functionals random field of Itô type depending on measures. We distinguish the full- and marginal-measure flow cases. Derivatives with respect to the measure components are understood in the sense of Lions. This talk is based on joint work with V. Platonov (U. of Edinburgh), see https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01892 . Best regards Mario Maurelli

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Reminder - workshop "Graphs and Randomness in Turin"
by Federico Polito 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

Dear colleagues, We would like to remind you about the upcoming workshop *Graphs and Randomness in Turin* January 20-21, 2020 Department of Mathematics "G. Peano", University of Torino, Italy For more information please see the webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/graphs-and-randomness-in-turin Registration is mandatory but free. To register please email tamas.makai(a)unito.it by January 15. With best regards, The organisers, Tamás Makai Federico Polito -- Federico Polito Department of Mathematics University of Torino Via Carlo Alberto, 10 10123, Torino, Italy Email: federico.polito(a)unito.it Tel: +39 011 6702862 Web: www.federicopolito.it

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Seminario Lionel Levine (Cornell), Università La Sapienza, Martedì 7 Gennaio
by Silvestri, Vittoria 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

REMINDER Seminario di Probabilità Speaker: Lionel Levine (Cornell University) Title: Random walks with local memory Martedì 7 Gennaio, ore 14:00 (sharp) Aula di Consiglio Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma La Sapienza Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 Abstract: The theme of this talk is walks in a random environment of "signposts" altered by the walker. I'll focus on three related examples: 1. Rotor walk on Z^2. Your initial signposts are independent with the uniform distribution on {North,East,South,West}. At each step you rotate the signpost at your current location clockwise 90 degrees and then follow it to a nearest neighbor. Priezzhev et al. conjectured that in n such steps you will visit order n^{2/3} distinct sites. I'll outline an elementary proof of a lower bound of this order. The upper bound, which is still open, is related to a famous question about the path of a light ray in a grid of randomly oriented mirrors. This part is joint work with Laura Florescu and Yuval Peres. 2. p-rotor walk on Z. In this walk you flip the signpost at your current location with probability 1-p and then follow it. I'll explain why your scaling limit will be a Brownian motion perturbed at its extrema. This part is joint work with Wilfried Huss and Ecaterina Sava-Huss. 3. p-rotor walk on Z^2. Rotate the signpost at your current location clockwise with probability p and counterclockwise with probability 1-p, and then follow it. This walk “organizes” its environment by destroying cycles of signposts. A native environment -- stationary in time, from your perspective as the walker -- is an orientation of the uniform spanning forest, plus one additional edge. This part is joint work with Swee Hong Chan, Lila Greco, and Peter Li: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04710 ******************************** Vittoria Silvestri Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome ********************************

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6-year position in probability in Vienna
by Fabio Toninelli 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

Dear friends and colleagues, the Technical University of Vienna is advertising a 6-year post-doctoral assistant position <https://tiss.tuwien.ac.at/mbl/blatt_struktur/anzeigen/10378?locale=en#p472.3> in probability (the position is comparable to a non-tenure track "junior professor position" in the German system). The successful candidate will work in the Mathematical Stochastics group, that I will start leading in March 2020. I would be grateful if you could forward this message to any suitable candidates (the application deadline is January 15, 2020). Candidates are encouraged to contact me directly by e-mail for any question related to this position. With best wishes and many thanks Fabio Toninelli -- Fabio Toninelli Institut Camille Jordan, Universite' Lyon 1 43 bd du 11 novembre 1918 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France Office 105, tel: +33 (0) 4 26 23 44 41

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ricercatore tipo B MAT/06 all' Aquila: ulteriore proroga
by davide gabrielli 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

La scadenza del bando è stata prorogata 2 volte; per un mio errore avevo mandato la data della prima proroga. Per completezza di informazione inoltro ancora una volta le informazioni con la scadenza finale. Bando da ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipo B nel settore scientifico disciplinare MAT/06 Probabilità e statistica matematica presso il Dipartimento di ingegneria e scienze dell'informazione e matematica dell'Università dell'Aquila. Il bando e le informazioni si trovano al seguente link https://www.univaq.it/section.php?id=1532 Scadenza definitiva 16-Gennaio-2020 Si prega di darne la massima diffusione, cordiali saluti Davide Gabrielli

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Berlin-Oxford International Research Training Group (IRTG) 2544 “Stochastic Analysis in Interaction”
by Tiziano De Angelis 23 Dec '19

23 Dec '19

Dear All, The advert below might be of interest to bright students interested in PhD studies abroad. Have a good Christmas break and a Happy New Year. Tiziano --------------------------------------------- The recently established Berlin-Oxford International Research Training Group (IRTG) 2544 “Stochastic Analysis in Interaction” offers 8 PhD positions (75% TVL E 13, about 1700 EUR after taxes, social security, ...) for 3 years starting April 1st, 2020, or soon thereafter. Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the IRTG is a joint research initiative of the stochastic analysis group of FU, HU, TU and WIAS Berlin with its counterpart at the University of Oxford. The advertised positions will be based in Berlin and will offer ample opportunities to interact also with members of the Oxford team, most notably in a 6-months exchange. Embedded in a truly international environment, the IRTG students will get excellent research training in a structured programme focussing on challenges at the mathematical foundations of Stochastic Analysis as well as on challenges arising from its various applications, e.g., in physics, biology, finance or data science. The combined expertise from the Berlin and Oxford groups will provide a significant breadth in depth and fertile ground for our students' ambitious research ideas. Successful candidates will have an MSc degree (or equivalent) in Mathematics (or a closely related field), strong knowledge of stochastic analysis, and feel eager to engage in the exchange of ideas with the teams in both Berlin and Oxford. Deadline for applications is January 20, 2020 (for now). Please see https://tub.stellenticket.de/de/offers/74386/ for the official job ad and for instructions how to apply. Our IRTG webpage www.math.tu-berlin.de/irtg offers more information on the Berlin-Oxford IRTG 2544.

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RTD-B position in SECS-S/06 in Milano - call for interest
by Giovanni Puccetti 21 Dec '19

21 Dec '19

RTD-B position in Mathematical Methods for Economics, Finance and Actuarial Science in Milano - call for interest The Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM) of the University of Milano launches a call for expressions of interest to identify potential candidates for a RTD-B position in the sector 13/D4 (SECS-S/06), Mathematical Methods for Economics, Finance and Actuarial Science. The Department has been recently financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research under the program “Departments of Excellence” for the 2018/2022 period. Requests for information and expressions of interest, including a CV with publication record, must be sent to davide.parenti(a)unimi.it by January 10, 2020. Please note that this is a call for interest, not a job vacancy announcement. The Department will advertise job vacancies in 2020.

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Post-Doc at Luxembourg University
by Giovanni Peccati 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

Dear Colleagues, I would like to announce the opening of a post-doc position in my group at *Luxembourg University*, in the large domain of *stochastic analysis and applications*. The first possible starting date is *March 1st, 2020*. The length of the contract is two years, extendable up to 5 years. The deadline for applications is *January 31, 2020.* All information, together with the online application form, can be found here: http://emea3.mrted.ly/2db95 Please do not hesitate to share the news of this opportunity with potentially interested candidates. All my best, Giovanni -- 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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