Dear colleagues,
this is a gentle reminder of today One World Probability Seminar, details below. Please note the unsual time: the seminar will be held at 17:00 (italian time).
You can find the calendar for the upcoming seminars at this link<https://www.owprobability.org/one-world-probability-seminar/future-seminars>.
We hope to see many of you online!
Luisa and Roger
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Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com>
Inviato: mercoledì 2 aprile 2025 14:41
A: Luisa Andreis <luisa.andreis(a)polimi.it>
Oggetto: Fwd: Next OWPS
The next OWPS will be on Wednesday, April 2, from 15:00 to 17:00 UTC time. Note that the UTC time is shifted by one hour (to add to the confusion of those of you in countries that have changed the clock recently).
Title, abstract and the zoom link are below the signature and can be found on the website https://www.owprobability.org/one-world-probability-seminar<https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/-zGkCWqjZFlpkVlsnEyR_?domain=eur01.safeli…>.
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Spherical integrals in probability and beyond
Colin McSwiggen (Academia Sinica)
This mostly expository talk will introduce a number of types of integrals over compact Lie groups that show up constantly in probability and mathematical physics. The analysis of these so-called spherical integrals, in particular their high-dimensional ("large-N") asymptotics, has played a central role in random matrix theory and related subjects over the last 25 years. I'll outline the history of these special functions and describe a number of applications in which they arise, including some original research results with various coauthors. Finally, as a segue to the second lecture by Jon Novak, I'll discuss approaches to large-N analysis.
Hypergeometric functions of huge (random) matrices
Jonathan Novak (UC San Diego)
Hypergeometric functions of matrix arguments are multivariate generalizations of classical hypergeometric functions, and approximating hypergeometric functions of huge matrices is one of the most exciting open problems in high-dimensional analysis. Over the course of the past decade, it has gradually become clear that hypergeometric functions of matrices are discrete analogues of random matrix partition functions. This analogy is clearest for complex matrices, where hypergeometric functions are discrete counterparts of the partition function of the Hermitian one-matrix model with an arbitrary potential, with Schur measure taking on the role of the Gaussian background. Once this is understood, a striking conjecture explicitly describing the asymptotics of all hypergeometric functions emerges. I will explain this conjecture, and outline recent progress towards its solution.
https://polimi-it.zoom.us/j/92945513591?pwd=zjtRwpHoO9kRyQuPPj4o186jXrvg1v.1
Meeting ID: 92945513591
Passcode: 131676
Ricevo e inoltro volentieri.
> Dear all,
>
> We invite applications for a fully-funded PhD position on "Resilience of Dynamic Flow Networks" within applied probability at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
>
> More information on this position and the application procedure can be found here:https://www.tue.nl/en/working-at-tue/vacancy-overview/phd-ta-resilience-of-dynamic-flow-networks/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.tue.nl/en/working-at-tue/vacancy-o…>.
>
> Deadline: May 4, 2025.
>
> Please feel free to share this opportunity with potential candidates in your network!
>
> Best regards,
> Fiona Sloothaak
Call for expressions of interest: PhD positions in Verona
We are looking for PhD students for the track in "Mathematics and Data Analytics for Finance" of our PhD program in "Economics and Finance". This is a 4-year PhD program.
The objective of the "Mathematics and Data Analytics for Finance" track is to prepare students for academic/professional careers in Financial Mathematics and Data Analytics according to the highest international standards.
We welcome applications from students with a strong background in mathematics, physics, statistics, quantitative finance or other highly quantitative disciplines.
During the first year, students will be offered a research-oriented training program. Core compulsory courses are:
1) Financial Time Series
2) Mathematical Statistics
3) Financial Mathematics
4) Continuous Time Econometrics
5) Stochastic Optimization and Control
6) Stochastic Processes in Finance
Courses are coordinated by Giuseppe Buccheri, Alessandro Gnoatto, Cecilia Mancini, Athena Picarelli, Francesca Rossi, Catia Scricciolo, Sara Svaluto Ferro under the supervision of Athena Picarelli (director of the PhD program).
We will also offer a wide basket of elective courses offered by leading international experts.
The attendance of Summer and Winter schools and an international research stay of at least 6 months are strongly encouraged. Financial support is provided.
To express your interest, please send your CV to athena [dot] picarelli [at] univr [dot] it
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Prof. Alessandro Gnoatto
Presidente del CdLM "Banca e Finanza"
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Università degli Studi di Verona
Via Cantarane 24
37129, Verona, Italy
Room 1.05
Tel: +39 045 802 8537<tel:+390458028537>
Homepage: www.alessandrognoatto.com<http://www.alessandrognoatto.com/>
E-mail: alessandro.gnoatto(a)univr.it<mailto:alessandro.gnoatto@univr.it>
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*Ph.D. program in ECONOMICS and FINANCE @ Tor Vergata*
*Call For Interest 2025*
The Department of Economics and Finance of the University of Rome Tor
Vergata is advertising a *Call for Interest* for PhD positions for the next
academic year with a full grant, which amounts to €16,243 per year (about
€1,200 per month net of taxes, increased by 50% during the periods – up to
one year - spent abroad for study and research).
A prerequisite for participating in the program is a M.Sc. university
degree in Economics or equivalent. All admissions are conditional on
obtaining the MSc degree before the beginning of the program.
The selection is based on the evaluation of the candidate’s profile from
the documentation provided, and a personal interview.
Interested candidates are kindly invited to express their interest by
sending at admin(a)phdef.uniroma2.it the following documents by *April 10,
2025*:
• Research statement (1-2 pages max)
• Curriculum Vitae
• Two reference letters (instruct your letter-writers to send letters at
admin(a)phdef.uniroma2.it)
• Transcript of M.Sc. courses and grades
• English language proficiency certificate (Such as IELTS/TOEFL/Cambridge
C2 Proficiency/Cambridge C1 Advanced. No English language certificate is
required from applicants who are English native speakers, and/or have been
awarded a degree from a university program entirely taught in English and
have written a thesis in English in such a program.)
• M.Sc. thesis (optional)
• Publications (if any)
• Motivational Letter (elective)
• GDPR acknowledge (rif. GDPR relevant rules)
Promising applicants will be invited to an interview.
Due to the limited number of available positions, we strongly encourage
early applications. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a formal
application for the admission procedure in accordance with the official
Call by Tor Vergata University of Rome, to be issued in Spring 2025.
Detailed information about scholarships and the formal admission procedure
can be found at
https://economia.uniroma2.it/phd/ef/calls.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for any questions at
info(a)phdef.uniroma2.it
Kind Regards
Davide Pirino
Call Talent@Unipd - ERC Scouting at the University of Padua
Dear Colleagues,
The University of Padua (Unipd) is looking for outstanding researchers of any
age and nationality to leverage successful applications for the 2026 ERC
Starting Grant call, funded by the European Commission within the Horizon
Europe Framework Programme.
ERC Starting Grants are open to candidates who have successfully defended
their first PhD thesis within a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 7 years prior
to 1st January 2026, have an outstanding scientific track-record, as well as
an excellent research proposal.
Through the Talent@Unipd Starting Grants scouting initiative, Unipd aims at
identifying promising candidates for the forthcoming ERC Starting Grant 2026
call, whose possible deadline is in October/November 2025
Selected Talent candidates will be assisted at each stage of their proposal
writing by highly qualified research support staff at Unipd.
Researchers wishing to participate should fill in the application form
available here
https://forms.gle/KU6J9sJYD6pNxSL68
and submit it by 30 April 2025, at 1 p.m. (Italian time zone), attaching the
following documents
· CV and track-record (use of a dedicated template is mandatory)
· Proposal in English of max. 4.000 characters (spaces included),
describing the project idea
· Letter of commitment, duly signed, indicating the University of
Padua as host institution for the future ERC application.
Templates are available at https://www.unipd.it/en/call-starting-grant-2026.
Thank you for your cooperation in promoting or participating in our
Talent@Unipd - Starting Grants 2026 scouting programme.
Should you have questions or need any further clarification, please do not
hesitate to contact the University of Padua International Research Office -
individual.grants(a)unipd.it.
Useful links:
- pagina Talent ITA | https://www.unipd.it/call-starting-grant-2026
- page Talent ENG | https://www.unipd.it/en/call-starting-grant-2026
- why choosing Padua as Host Institution
| https://www.unipd.it/en/unipd-host-institution
Best regards,
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Ufficio Ricerca Internazionale | International Research Office
Settore finanziamenti individuali | Individual Grants Unit
Università degli Studi di Padova | University of Padova
via Martiri della Libertà, 8 - 35137 Padova, Italia | Italy
http://www.unipd.it/ricercainternazionalehttps://www.unipd.it/en/supportingresearch
FB: International Research Office
Twitter: Ricerca Int. UniPd@ServizioRicerc
LinkedIN: Int. Research Office Unipd
Moodle: International Research Office
Tiziano
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Dipartimento di Matematica Phone: +39 049 8271383
Universita' di Padova Fax: +39 049 8271428
Via Trieste, 63 E-mail: vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it
I-35121 Padova (Italy) WWW: http://www.math.unipd.it/~vargiolu
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Gruppo di studio: Dottorato in Probabilità e Statistica e Industria (“PhD
Students in Probability and Statistics meet Companies”)
Il gruppo UMI-PRISMA, il Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche "G.L.
Lagrange” del Politecnico di Torino e il Dipartimento di Matematica “G.
Peano” dell’Università di Torino organizzano a Torino una tre giorni dal 16
al 18 settembre 2025 usando il formato ridotto dello "Study Group
Mathematics with Industry": il mattino del 16 settembre, le aziende
partecipanti presentano i problemi di loro interesse. Successivamente si
formano gruppi di dottorandi supportati da tutor accademici, che lavorano
su tali problemi e le soluzioni proposte sono discusse nel pomeriggio del
18 settembre.
Al momento hanno già accettato di partecipare le seguenti società:
Novartis (https://www.novartis.com/it-it/)
ToolsGroup (https://www.toolsgroup.com/)
La partecipazione al gruppo di studio è gratuita per dottorandi e
dottorande che stanno svolgendo una tesi di probabilità e/o statistica
matematica. Inoltre sarà disponibile un piccolo supporto finanziario su
richiesta. Il supporto sarà erogato con un criterio di priorità per ordine
di arrivo delle richieste. Infine, sarà rilasciato un certificato di
partecipazione.
In questa fase chiediamo una dichiarazione di interesse a partecipare. La
si può inviare a: laura.sacerdote(a)unito.it prima possibile e comunque entro
il 30 maggio 2025.
Il comitato organizzatore: Gianluca Guadagni, Franco Pellerey, Laura Lea
Sacerdote, Enrico Scalas, Serena Spina, Barbara Trivellato e Cristina Zucca
Dear all,
The Department of Economics and Finance at Luiss University in Rome (https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/>) is pleased to announce the following seminar:
Speaker: Alexandra Holzinger, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Title: Fluctuations around the mean-field limit for attractive Riesz interaction kernels in the moderate regime
When: April 3, 14:30
Where: Viale Romania, 32 00197 Rome
Meeting room: 405
Abstract: In this talk I will give a short introduction to moderately interacting particle systems and the general notion of fluctuations around the mean-field limit.
We will see how a central limit theorem can be shown for moderately interacting particles on the whole space for certain types of interaction potentials. The interaction potential approximates singular attractive potentials of sub-Coulomb type and we can show that the fluctuations become asymptotically Gaussians. The methodology is inspired by the classical work of Oelschläger in the 1980s on fluctuations for the porous-medium equation. To allow for attractive potentials we use a new approach of quantitative mean-field convergence in probability in order to include aggregation effects.
Should you be interested, please kindly send me an e-mail.
Best wishes,
Marta Leocata
Dear Colleagues,
We are glad to announce the summer school Mathematical methods for
high-dimensional data
<https://sites.google.com/view/math-high-dimensional-data/home>, which will
take place on September 8-12, 2025, at the Mathematics Department of
Sapienza University of Rome.
Lecturers of the school are
Jean Barbier (International Centre for Theoretical Physics)
Marylou Gabrié (École Normale Supérieure)
Alessandro Ingrosso (Radboud University)
Silvia Villa (University of Genova)
The school will also include poster sessions for PhD students and early
postdocs.
To register, please complete the form available on the website (here the
link
<https://sites.google.com/view/math-high-dimensional-data/registration?authu…>).
Participation is free, but registration is mandatory.
The school will launch the Eccellenza Scientific Program dedicated to Data
Science, running through January 2026. This program features workshops,
doctoral courses, and seminar series, focusing on the mathematical methods
underpinning data science. Participants will engage with cutting-edge
methodologies in statistical physics, statistical inference, optimization,
and control, alongside advanced techniques in numerical simulations and
scientific computing for machine learning. By integrating these
disciplines, the program provides an overview of rigorous foundations and
tools for tackling real-world challenges through data-driven approaches.
More about the program will be found on this page
<https://sites.google.com/view/math-high-dimensional-data/home>.
For additional information, do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards,
The organisers of the school
Elena Agliari
Emanuele Caglioti
Alberto Fachechi
Lorenzo Taggi
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Alberto Fachechi, PhD
Researcher (RTD-A)
Dipartimento di Matematica G. Castelnuovo
Sapienza Università di Roma
Dear colleagues,
This is a reminder that on Friday, *April 11th*, the fifteenth seminar day
in the “Days in Probability and Statistical Physics” will take place.in at
the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science "Ulisse Dini", Viale
Morgagni 67/a, Florence.
Lecturers:
Prof. *Clara Stegehuis* (Twente University)
Title: Detecting geometry in scale free networks
Prof.* David Belius* (UniDistance Suisse)
Title (Introductory lecture): The story of mean-field spin glasses
Title (Seminar): The Thouless-Andersson-Palmer (TAP) approach to mean-field
spin glasses
Each speaker will give a 45 minutes introductory lecture tailored for
non-experts, followed by another 45 minutes of seminar-style presentation
(see program). More information, including the abstracts, can be found on
the event’s webpage
<https://sites.google.com/unifi.it/florence-probability-group/probability-da…>
.
*Practical notes*: for organization purposes, we kindly ask those who plan
to attend to fill out the following Google Form *by* *April 6*:
https://forms.gle/zYv2BFAmMy42cf8y8
We look forward to seeing many of you and please feel free to share the
announcement with those you think may be interested, particularly to young
researchers!
Luca Avena, Luisa Andreis, Gianmarco Bet and Elia Bisi
Scientific advisory committee: F. Caravenna, E.N.M. Cirillo, F. Colomo, P.
Dai Pra, A. De Masi, C. Giardina`, R. Livi, F. Martinelli, I.G. Minelli, B.
Scoppola, E. Scoppola.
*PROGRAM*
10:30-11:00 Welcome coffee
11:00-11:45 Introductory lecture: Stegehuis
11:45-12:15 Break
12:15-13:00 Seminar: Stegehuis
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:15 Introductory lecture: Belius
15:15-15:45 Break
15:45-16:30 Seminar: Belius
You can find here
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#search/probability+day+11+aprile/FMfcgzQZ…>
the poster of the event.
Dear colleagues and friends,
as part of the GSSI intensive trimester “Particles, Fluids and Patterns: analytical and computational challenges”,
we are glad to announce 3 short courses in April:
April 14-17: Prof. Makiko Sasada (Tokyo)
April 28-30: Prof. Oriane Blondel (Lyon) and Prof. Alessandro Giuliani (Rome)
Please see at the end of the email for the detailed place and time, titles and abstracts.
Other courses hosted by the trimester can be found in
https://trimester2025.math.gssi.it/all_courses/.
Registration is free through the web form: https://indico.gssi.it/event/745/.
We would be grateful if you could circulate the announcement among potentially interested students and researchers.
For any information do not hesitate to contact us (patterns(a)gssi.it).
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Venue for all courses:
Main Lecture Hall, Gran Sasso Science Institute (Viale F. Crispi 7, L’Aquila)
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Introduction to probabilistic aspects of integrable systems
Lecturer: Makiko Sasada (The University of Tokyo)
14/4 (Mon) 9:00-10:30
15/4 (Tue) 14:15-15:45
16/4 (Wed) 10:45-12:15
17/4 (Thu) 9:00-10:30
In recent years, there has been growing interest in the study of integrable systems from the perspectives of statistical mechanics and probability theory. The theory of generalized hydrodynamics, developed by mathematical physicists, suggests that the macroscopic behavior of integrable systems is highly universal. To mathematically substantiate such theories with concrete models, a type of cellular automaton called the box-ball system (BBS) has been extensively studied by probabilists in recent years. The BBS, which exhibits solitonic behavior, has been studied from various viewpoints, such as tropical geometry, combinatorics, and representation theory, over 30 years. However, research from the probabilistic perspective began only about 10 years ago. Recently, probabilistic approaches, including the application of the Pitman transform, analysis of invariant measures, and scaling limits, have rapidly expanded. These have revealed new connections between probability theory and classical integrable systems, showing that the macroscopic behavior of integrable systems exhibits a universality distinct from that of chaotic systems.
In this lecture, I will introduce these new research topics, mainly focusing on the box-ball system, and present the rigorous results obtained in the past several years, starting from the basic concepts.
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Long range order in atomistic models for solids
Lecturer: Alessandro Giuliani (Rome Tre)
28/4 (Mon) 16:15-17:45
29/4 (Tue) 16:15-17:45
30/4 (Wed) 10:45-12:15 & 14:15-15:45
The emergence of long range order at low temperatures in atomistic systems with continuous symmetry is a fundamental, yet poorly understood phenomenon in physics. To address this challenge I will introduce a discrete microscopic model for an elastic crystal with dislocations in three dimensions, originally proposed by Ariza and Ortiz. The model is rich enough to support some realistic features of three-dimensional dislocation theory, most notably grains and the Read-Shockley law for grain boundaries, which I will review and show how to derive microscopically in the context of the Ariza-Ortiz model, at least in a simple, explicit geometry. I will also explain how to analyze the model at positive temperatures, in terms of a Gibbs distribution with energy function given by the Ariza–Ortiz Hamiltonian plus a contribution from the dislocation cores. The main result is that the model exhibits Long Range Positional Order (LRPO) at low temperatures. Its proof is based on the tools of discrete exterior calculus, together with cluster expansion techniques. In this mini-course I will introduce these methods and explain how to combine them in order to prove existence of LRPO. Time permitting, I will discuss some perspectives about the extension of these ideas and methods to two dimensions.
Based on joint work with Florian Theil.
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Fluctuations in exclusion processes
Lecturer: Oriane Blondel (University of Lyon 1)
28/4 (Mon) 10:45-12:15
29/4 (Tue) 9:00-10:30 & 14:15-15:45
30/4 (Wed) 16:15-17:45
We will focus on weakly asymmetric exclusion processes on the line or half-line, and investigate their fluctuations out of equilibrium. We will review the various tools used in proving convergence to the KPZ equation in the strategy initiated in [Bertini-Giacomin ‘97] and discuss how they can be adapted to the singular initial condition that arises when one considers fluctuations of the facilitated exclusion process at the interface.
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With our best wishes,
Lu Xu
Assistant Professor (RTDb)
Gran Sasso Science Institute