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postdoc opportunity in Bern
by Fabio Bellini 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

A postdoc search from Johanna Ziegel (University of Bern): The Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Sciences invites applications for the following position opening February 1, 2020. POSTDOC (80-100%) Oeschger Centre, University of Bern Compound weather and climate events refer to multiple climate events that potentially cause large societal impacts. The analysis and prediction of compound events pose substantial challenges from a statistical perspective. The prospective PostDoc will work at the interface of the development of statistical methods and their application to current topics of high interest in climate and weather applications. Potential topics include the evaluation of predictions for (joint) extreme events, the evaluation of multivariate or spatial predictions, and the calibration (or ``bias-correction'') of multivariate predictions. The PostDoc will be a part of the group of Prof. Dr. Johanna F. Ziegel (Institute of Mathematical Statistics and Actuarial Science). Close collaboration is planned with the group of Dr. Jakob Zscheischler (Physics Institute), and with the group of Prof. Dr. Olivia Romppainen-Martius (Institute of Geography). The position is ideally suited for a young researcher in statistics to become an expert in statistics for climate science and weather applications. Profile of the candidate The successful candidate holds a PhD in Statistics and has a strong interest in climate and weather applications, or he/she holds a PhD in Climate Science with a solid background in statistics. She/he has excellent programming and data handling skills, and a keen interest in interdisciplinary research. The candidate is proficient in English, both written and spoken. Details - Type of appointment: Full time or part time (80-100%) fixed term appointment for 2 years with the possibility of a 1 year extension after a positive evaluation. - Starting date: February 1, 2020 or upon agreement - Employment conditions and remuneration in accordance with the standards of the University of Bern, Switzerland. For further information please contact Prof. Dr. Johanna F. Ziegel ( johanna.ziegel(a)stat.unibe.ch) Applications All applications received before January 1, 2020 will be reviewed, and further applications will be considered until the position is filled. Please send your application documents including a CV, a motivation letter, and contact information for 3 references by e-mail to office(a)stat.unibe.ch. Homepage http://www.oeschger.unibe.ch/ http://www.stat.unibe.ch

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Spring School COMPLEX NETWORKS: THEORY, METHODS, AND APPLICATIONS (6th edition)
by Irene Crimaldi 16 Oct '19

16 Oct '19

Spring School COMPLEX NETWORKS: THEORY, METHODS, AND APPLICATIONS (6th edition) Lake Como School of Advanced Studies Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy, 18-21 May 2020 https://ntmf.lakecomoschool.org/ *** DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: February 23, 2020 *** Many real systems can be modeled as networks, where the elements of the system are nodes and interactions between elements are edges. An even larger set of systems can be modeled using dynamical processes on networks, which are in turn affected by the dynamics. Networks thus represent the backbone of many complex systems, and their theoretical and computational analysis makes it possible to gain insights into numerous applications. Networks permeate almost every conceivable discipline---including sociology, transportation, economics and finance, biology, and myriad others---and the study of "network science" has thus become a crucial component of modern scientific education. The school "Complex Networks: Theory, Methods, and Applications" offers a succinct education in network science. It is open to all aspiring scholars in any area of science or engineering who wish to study networks of any kind (whether theoretical or applied), and it is especially addressed to doctoral students and young postdoctoral scholars. The aim of the school is to deepen into both theoretical developments and applications in targeted fields. LECTURERS --- REKA ALBERT, Pennsylvania State University --- GUIDO CALDARELLI, IMT Lucca --- MARTON KARSAI, Central European University --- JOSE FERNANDO MENDES, University of Aveiro --- NATASA PRZULJ, Barcelona Supercomputing Center ORGANIZING COMMITTEE STEFANO BATTISTON, University of Zurich --- GINESTRA BIANCONI, Queen Mary University of London --- VITTORIA COLIZZA, INSERM and Sorbonne Université, Paris --- JAMES GLEESON, University of Limerick --- PETTER HOLME, Tokio Institute of Technology --- YAMIR MORENO, University of Zaragoza --- CARLO PICCARDI, Politecnico di Milano --- MASON A. PORTER, UCLA PROGRAM Monday, 18 May, morning - Introduction to Complex Networks (Mendes) Monday, 18 May, afternoon - Statistical Physics of Networks (Caldarelli) Tuesday, 19 May, morning - Critical Phenomena in Networks (Mendes) Tuesday, 19 May, afternoon - short talks by students Wednesday, 20 May, morning - Computational Human Dynamics (Karsai) Wednesday, 20 May, afternoon - Analyzing the structure of biological networks (Albert) Thursday, 21 May, morning - Biological Networks (II) (Przulj) Thursday, 21 May, afternoon - Analyzing the dynamics and attractors of biological networks (Albert) For more information and application: https://ntmf.lakecomoschool.org/ Sponsored by SICC - Italian Society for Chaos and Complexity http://www.sicc-it.org -------------------------------------------- SICC - Societa' Italiana Caos e Complessita' e-mail info(a)sicc-it.org Web http://www.sicc-it.org -------------------------------------------- Click here <http://www.sicc-it.org/lists/lt.php?id=Lk4AGgNTHwsDVA0E> to opt-out from all future mailings. [image: powered by phpList 3.2.7, © phpList ltd] <http://www.sicc-it.org/lists/lt.php?id=Lk4DGgNTHwsDVA0E>

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Colloquium di Lorenzo Zambotti a Milano-Bicocca (lunedì 28 ottobre)
by Francesco Caravenna 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Ho il piacere di annunciare il seguente Colloquium del Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Università di Milano-Bicocca, congiuntamente con il Seminario Matematico e Fisico di Milano. Il giorno lunedì 28 ottobre 2019, alle ore 16:00, Lorenzo Zambotti (Sorbonne Université, Paris) terrà un colloquium dal titolo "Regularity structures: from physics to probability, from analysis to algebra, from combinatorics to geometry" Il seminario si terrà nell'aula 3014 (edificio U5, terzo piano, via Cozzi 55, Milano) e sarà seguito da un rinfresco. Segue l'abstract. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Francesco Caravenna %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Abstract: In this talk I wish to present some of the ideas at the heart of the theory of regularity structures (RS), introduced by Martin Hairer in 2014. RS are perhaps best described as a theory of Taylor expansions in a fractal (random) setting. I plan to show how this theory is based on a fascinating interplay between several different disciplines, as announced by my title. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% _________________________________________ Francesco Caravenna Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca Via Cozzi 55, 20125 Milano, Italy http://www.matapp.unimib.it/~fcaraven/ _________________________________________

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Workshop “Half day in Stochastic Analysis and applications”
by Paolo Dai Pra 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Dear Colleagues, it is with pleasure that we announce the *workshop* *** Half day in Stochastic Analysis and applications *** WHEN: Wednesday 30 October 2019, starting at 10:30 WHERE: Aula 1C150, Torre Archimede, via Trieste 61, Padova *** SCHEDULE: *** 10.30: Therry Lyons (Oxford) 11.05: Franco Flandoli (SNS Pisa) 11.40: Francesco Caravenna (Milano Bicocca) 12.15: Franco Rampazzo (Padova) Please find more details below and the poster in attachment. Looking forward to your participation, Fabio Ancona, Paolo Dai Pra, Franco Rampazzo ---------------------------------------------------------------- *** Half day in Stochastic Analysis and applications *** Wed. 30 Oct. 2019, Aula 1C150 Maths Department, Padova ---------------- *** Special Guest: THERRY LYONS (Oxford) *** *** Opening the workshop at 10:30*** ---------------- *** Speaker: FRANCO FLANDOLI (SNS Pisa)*** *** Seminar at 11:05*** *** Title: Effect of transport noise on PDEs *** *** Abstract *** Linear PDEs of transport type are regularized by the addition of an extra transport term of stochastic type; this is a phenomenon discovered around 2010 and consolidated by different techniques and on different examples. However, the effect on nonlinear PDEs is much less clear. Two results for point vortex solutions and point charge solutions of 2D Euler equations and 1D Vlasov-Poisson equations respectively, indicate that a rich noise has to be considered, opposite to the linear case where a simple space-independent noise suffices to regularize. Some confirmations that such rich noise may have regularizing properties on nonlinear models came for Leray alpha model and dyadic models of turbulence. We now have new insight in the case of 2D Euler equations and 3D Navier-Stokes equations, that will be explained in the talk. The results mentioned above, the classical and the new ones, have been obtained by several authors including Gubinelli, Priola, Barbato, Galeati, Luo and myself. ---------------- *** Speaker: FRANCESCO CARAVENNA (Milano Bicocca) *** *** Seminar at 11:40 *** *** Title: On the two-dimensional KPZ equation *** *** Abstract: *** We consider the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation in two space dimensions, driven by space-time white noise. This is a singular PDE which lacks a solution theory, so it is standard to consider a regularized version of the equation and then to investigate the behavior of the solution when the regularization is removed. We first show that the regularized solution undergoes a phase transition, as the noise strength is varied on a logarithmic scale. Then, in the sub-critical regime, we prove convergence (after centering and rescaling) to an explicit well-posed random PDE, the additive Stochastic Heat Equation, with a non-trivial constant on the noise. Based on joint works with Rongfeng Sun and Nikos Zygouras. ---------------- *** Speaker: FRANCO RAMPAZZO (Padova) *** *** Seminar at 12:15 *** *** Title: Limit solutions for control-affine nonlinear systems of ode's *** *** Abstract: *** The aim of this talk, which is fully devoted to deterministic input-output systems, is to present the extremely weak notion of 'limit solution', that might be (or might be not) of interest also for whom is more interested in Stochastic Analysis. For a nonlinear (deterministic) control system with a given initial condition and with a dynamics which is affine in the control variable, a 'limit solution' verifies the following properties: i) it is pointwise defined for an input which is (formally) the derivative of a Lebesgue integrable function; ii) in the commutative case (i.e. when all Lie brackets of the involved vector field vanish identically) the limit solution coincides with the solution one can obtain via a (existing) change of coordinates which makes all vector fields constant; iii) the notion of limit solution subsumes former concepts of solution valid for the generic, non-commutative case. In particular, when the control is the derivative of a bounded variation path, a quite clear relation is established between limit solutions and so-called 'graph completion' solutions. Paolo Dai Pra Dipartimento di Informatica Università degli Studi di Verona Strada Le Grazie 15, 37134 Verona, Italy Tel. +390458027093

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Fwd: annuncio convegno
by Francesco Caravenna 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Ricevo e inoltro. > Da: malongob(a)unina.it > > Dear colleagues, > > We are writing to keep you updated on the news regarding the 14th International Conference on Ordered Statistical Data - OSD2020, which will take place at Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy, May 26th - 29th, 2020. > > The instructions for registration and abstract submission are now available on the web page of the conference. To register please visit the conference webpage (http:www.osd2020.unina.it) then click on the ?Registration? tab. If you are going to give a talk or to present a poster, please click on the ?Authors? tab for getting instructions on how to prepare and submit the abstract of your contribution. > > The deadline for early registration is April 1st and deadline for submissions of abstracts is February 15th, 2020. > > If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask us by sending an e-mail to osd2020(a)unina.it. > > We are looking forward to seeing you in Vietri sul Mare, > > On the behalf of the Organizing Committee, > Maria Longobardi > > Maria Longobardi > E-mail: maria.longobardi(a)unina.it > Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni "R. Caccioppoli" > Universita' degli Studi di Napoli FEDERICO II > Via Cintia - 80126 Napoli - Italy > Studio 114 - V livello > Tel. +39 081 675620

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Seminario di Antonio Blanca a Roma Tre il 24-10-2019
by Pietro Caputo 15 Oct '19

15 Oct '19

Speaker: Antonio Blanca (Penn State University) Titolo: Lower bounds for testing spin systems Giovedi' 24 Ottobre 2019 ORE 10:00 Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre Largo San Leonardo Murialdo,1 - Pal.C - Aula 211 Abstract We study the identity testing problem in the context of spin systems where it takes the following form: given the parameter specification of the model M and a sampling oracle for the distribution μ of an unknown model M*, can we efficiently determine if the two models M and M* are the same? We establish hardness results for this problem for two prototypical spin systems: the Ising model and proper colorings. For the ferromagnetic (attractive) Ising model, Daskalakis et al. (2018) presented a polynomial-time algorithm for identity testing. I will present a hardness result for the antiferromagnetic (repulsive) setting. In our proofs, we use random graphs as gadgets; this is inspired by similar constructions in seminal works on the hardness of approximate counting. The results for proper colorings are based on the presumed hardness of #BIS, the problem of (approximately) counting independent sets in bipartite graphs. Based on joint work with Ivona Bezakova, Zongchen Chen, Daniel Stefankovic and Eric Vigoda

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Seminario KOLOKOLTSOV @ UniTo
by Cristina Zucca 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

********************************************************************* SEMINARI DI PROBABILITA' E STATISTICA MATEMATICA DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA "G. PEANO" UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO ********************************************************************* Martedì 17 Aprile 2018 alle ore 15:00 in Aula Marro presso il Dipartimento di Matematica "G. Peano" dell'Università degli Studi di Torino, Via Carlo Alberto 10, Il Prof. *VASSILI KOLOKOLTSOV* terrà un seminario dal titolo *Recent developments in probabilistic and analytic methods for fractional differential equations * Abstract: We shall discuss recent achievements in solving fractional differential equations and their extensions arising from generalized fractional calculus. Probabilistic techniques will be derived from the notion of Markov processes interrupted on the attempt to cross the boundary. Analytic techniques will cover generalized operator-valued Mittag-Leffler functions and chronological Feynman-Kac formulas. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. -- Dr. Cristina Zucca Department of Mathematics University of Torino Via Carlo Alberto 10 10123 Torino, Italy tel: +39-011-6702850 fax: +39-011-6702878

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Announcement -- Half day in Stochastic Analysis and applications (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:53:54 +0200 From: ancona(a)math.unipd.it To: users(a)math.unipd.it Subject: Announcement -- Half day in Stochastic Analysis and applications Dear Colleagues, it is our great pleasure to announce at our Department the *workshop* *** Half day in Stochastic Analysis and applications *** WHEN: Wednesday 30 October 2019, starting at 10:30 WHERE: Aula 1C150, Torre Archimede, via Trieste 61, Padova *** SCHEDULE: *** 10.30: Terry Lyons (Oxford) 11.05: Franco Flandoli (SNS Pisa) 11.40: Francesco Caravenna (Milano Bicocca) 12.15: Franco Rampazzo (Padova) Please find more details below in attachment. Looking forward to your participation, Fabio Ancona, Paolo Dai Pra, Franco Rampazzo ---------------------------------------------------------------- *** Half day in Stochastic Analysis and applications *** Wed. 30 Oct. 2019, Aula 1C150 Maths Department, via Trieste 63, Padova ---------------- *** Special Guest: TERRY LYONS (Oxford) *** *** Opening the workshop at 10:30 *** ---------------- *** Speaker: FRANCO FLANDOLI (SNS Pisa)*** *** Seminar at 11:05 *** *** Title: Effect of transport noise on PDEs *** *** Abstract *** Linear PDEs of transport type are regularized by the addition of an extra transport term of stochastic type; this is a phenomenon discovered around 2010 and consolidated by different techniques and on different examples. However, the effect on nonlinear PDEs is much less clear. Two results for point vortex solutions and point charge solutions of 2D Euler equations and 1D Vlasov-Poisson equations respectively, indicate that a rich noise has to be considered, opposite to the linear case where a simple space-independent noise suffices to regularize. Some confirmations that such rich noise may have regularizing properties on nonlinear models came for Leray alpha model and dyadic models of turbulence. We now have new insight in the case of 2D Euler equations and 3D Navier-Stokes equations, that will be explained in the talk. The results mentioned above, the classical and the new ones, have been obtained by several authors including Gubinelli, Priola, Barbato, Galeati, Luo and myself. ---------------- *** Speaker: FRANCESCO CARAVENNA (Milano Bicocca) *** *** Seminar at 11:40 *** *** Title: On the two-dimensional KPZ equation *** *** Abstract: *** We consider the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang (KPZ) equation in two space dimensions, driven by space-time white noise. This is a singular PDE which lacks a solution theory, so it is standard to consider a regularized version of the equation and then to investigate the behavior of the solution when the regularization is removed. We first show that the regularized solution undergoes a phase transition, as the noise strength is varied on a logarithmic scale. Then, in the sub-critical regime, we prove convergence (after centering and rescaling) to an explicit well-posed random PDE, the additive Stochastic Heat Equation, with a non-trivial constant on the noise. Based on joint works with Rongfeng Sun and Nikos Zygouras. ---------------- *** Speaker: FRANCO RAMPAZZO (Padova) *** *** Seminar at 12:15 *** *** Title: Limit solutions for control-affine nonlinear systems of ode's *** *** Abstract: *** The aim of this talk, which is fully devoted to deterministic input-output systems, is to present the extremely weak notion of 'limit solution', that might be (or might be not) of interest also for whom is more interested in Stochastic Analysis. For a nonlinear (deterministic) control system with a given initial condition and with a dynamics which is affine in the control variable, a 'limit solution' verifies the following properties: i) it is pointwise defined for an input which is (formally) the derivative of a Lebesgue integrable function; ii) in the commutative case (i.e. when all Lie brackets of the involved vector field vanish identically) the limit solution coincides with the solution one can obtain via a (existing) change of coordinates which makes all vector fields constant; iii) the notion of limit solution subsumes former concepts of solution valid for the generic, non-commutative case. In particular, when the control is the derivative of a bounded variation path, a quite clear relation is established between limit solutions and so-called 'graph completion' solutions.

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Postdoctoral position in Paris - Saclay with Eric Moulines and Nicolas Chopin
by Julyan Arbel 12 Oct '19

12 Oct '19

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: eric.moulines(a)polytechnique.edu Date: 12 Oct 2019 at 09:33 +0200 To: 'Julyan Arbel' <julyan.arbel(a)inria.fr> Subject: TR: offre de post-doc > As a consequence of its recent funding by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), the ABSint research group is recruiting a post-doctoral collaborator for up to 21 months. The accronym ABSint stands for Approximate Bayesian solutions for inference on large datasets and complex models. The project involves researchers in Paris, Saclay, Montpellier, Lyon and Nice. This second call seeks candidates with an excellent research record interested to collaborate more closely with members on the ABSint team located in Saclay, at institutions such as Institut Polytechnique de Paris (e.g. Nicolas Chopin and Eric Moulines), Université Paris Saclay, on any topic (broadly) relevant to ABSint and to these researchers' interests. > Applications can be submitted in either English or French. > The candidate must obtain a PhD degree by the date of application. > Good working knowledge of English is required. > Estimated salary is around 2500 EUR with taxes, depending on experience since PhD. > Position opened December 1, 2019, with possible accommodation for later start. > Call opened until position filled. > Candidates should contact Nicolas Chopin (mail address: nicolas.chopin(a)ensae.fr) with a vita and a motivation letter. Letters of recommendation can also be sent to the same address. >

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Seminario PODOLSKIJ
by Pierpaolo De Blasi 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

STATISTICS SEMINARS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO Venerdì 18 Ottobre 2019, alle ore 12:00, presso il nuovo edificio del Collegio Carlo Alberto, in Piazza Arbarello 8, Torino, si terrà il seguente seminario: ------------------------------------------------ Mark PODOLSKIJ (Aarhus University) OPTIMAL ESTIMATION OF CERTAIN RANDOM QUANTITIES ASSOCIATED WITH LEVY PROCESSES In this talk we present new ideas on optimality of statistical estimates of certain random quantities of stochastic processes, such as supremum or local times. Despite the existing results on estimation of such objects through high frequency observations, the question of optimality is rarely discussed. We will demonstrate some optimal estimation methods for the supremum and local times of the Brownian motion in the L2 and L1 sense. In the second part of the talk we will investigate how the main ideas can be extended towards the class of Levy processes and continuous diffusion models. (joint work with J. Ivanovs) ------------------------------------------------ Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Il seminario è organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative (www.carloalberto.org/stats <http://www.carloalberto.org/stats>) in collaborazione con il Collegio Carlo Alberto. Cordiali saluti, Pierpaolo De Blasi --- Pierpaolo De Blasi University of Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto https://sites.google.com/a/carloalberto.org/pdeblasi/

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