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STATISTICS SEMINARS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO
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Venerdi 7 Aprile 2017 alle ore 12:00, presso l’Aula Rossa del Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri (TO), si terra' il seguente seminario:
John ASTON (University of Cambridge)
FUNCTIONS, MANIFOLDS AND STATISTICAL LINGUISTICS
Functional Data Analysis concerns the statistical study of curves and surfaces. An extension, Functional Object Data Analysis, looks at the statistical analysis of curves and surfaces which live in restricted spaces, such as on manifolds. One particular example of these are the covariance functions associated with the underlying curves. These positive definite operators can often be of interest in their own right, yet standard functional data models are not appropriate due to the positive definite space they are constrained to lie in.
Statistical models for both traditional functional data and separable positive definite models will be discussed, particularly in regards to the modelling of phonetic data. Acoustic phonetic data from different dialects or languages can be associated with both mean and covariance functions, and models used to try to interpolate and extrapolate sounds from one language to another. We will demonstrate that by considering the spaces where these sounds lie, it is possible to turn a speaker from one language to another, and literally listen to our statistical analysis.
Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare.
Il seminario e' organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative (http://www.carloalberto.org/stats) in collaborazione con il Collegio Carlo Alberto.
Cordiali saluti,
Matteo Ruggiero
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Matteo Ruggiero
University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto
www.matteoruggiero.it
[Apologizes for cross-posting]
CSAMA 2017: Statistical Data Analysis for Genome Scale Biology
Bressanone-Brixen (IT)
June 11-16, 2017
About the Course
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The one-week intensive course Statistical Data Analysis for Genome-Scale Biology teaches statistical and computational analysis of multi-omics studies in biology and biomedicine. It covers the underlying theory and state of the art (the morning lectures) and practical hands-on exercises based on the R / Bioconductor environment (the afternoon labs). At the end of the course, you should be able to run analysis workflows on your own (multi-)omic data, adapt and combine different tools, and make informed and scientifically sound choices about analysis strategies.
The course is intended for researchers who have basic familiarity with the experimental technologies and their applications in biology, and who are interested in making the step from a user of bioinformatics software towards adapting or developing their own analysis workflows. The four practical sessions of the course will require you to follow and modify scripts in the computer language R.
Topics
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* Introduction to R and Bioconductor
* The elements of statistics: hypothesis testing, multiple testing, regression, regularization, clustering and classification, parallelization and performance (machine learning), visualisation
* RNA-Seq data analysis
* Computing with sequences and genomic intervals
* Working with annotation – genes, genomic features, variants, transcripts and proteins
* Gene set enrichment analysis
* Mass spec proteomics and metabolomics
* Basis of microbiome analysis
* Experimental design, batch effects and confounding
* Reproducible research and workflow authoring with R markdown
* Package development, version control and developer tools (incl. git, github, RStudio)
* Working with large data: performance parallelisation and cloud computing
Course Structure
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The course consists of:
* Morning lectures: 20 x 45 minutes: Monday to Friday 8:30 – 12:00
* Practical computer tutorials in the afternoons (13:30 – 16:30)
Registration
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Closes on April 23rd 2016
WebSite of the course
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http://www.huber.embl.de/csama2017/
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Prof. Stefano M. Iacus, Ph.D.
Director of MEF - Master in Economics & Finance
http://www.mef.unimi.it
Co-Founder of VOICES from the Blogs
http://www.voices-int.com
Department of Economics,
Management and Quantitative Methods
University of Milan
Via Conservatorio, 7
I-20123 Milan - Italy
Ph.: +39 02 50321 461
Fax: +39 02 50321 505
Twitter: @iacus
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JBs9tJ4AAAAJ&hl=enhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-4884-0047
Master in Economics & Finance
http://www.mef.unimi.it
Twitter: @mefunimi
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mefunimi
Email and further information at: mef(a)unimi.it
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Il Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi, Università degli Studi di Milano, ha aperto un bando per una posizione di ricercatore a tempo determinato, di tipo A, per il settore 13/D1, Statistica.
Il bando completo è reperibile all'indirizzo internet:
http://www.unimi.it/ateneo/valcomp/93997.htm
I compiti che il ricercatore è chiamato a svolgere sono i seguenti:
Tipologia dell’impegno didattico e scientifico: Attività didattica, anche in lingua inglese, coerente con i contenuti del settore SECS-S/01 e dei corsi di laurea triennale, magistrale e dottorale di interesse per il dipartimento. Attività di ricerca coerente con le linee di indagine perseguite nel Dipartimento, con specifico riferimento alla analisi dei dati e alla statistica computazionale.
La scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è il 14 aprile 2017.
Cordiali saluti
Stefano Iacus
Pier Alda Ferrari
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Prof. Stefano M. Iacus, Ph.D.
Director of MEF - Master in Economics & Finance
http://www.mef.unimi.it
Co-Founder of VOICES from the Blogs
http://www.voices-int.com
Department of Economics,
Management and Quantitative Methods
University of Milan
Via Conservatorio, 7
I-20123 Milan - Italy
Ph.: +39 02 50321 461
Fax: +39 02 50321 505
Twitter: @iacus
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JBs9tJ4AAAAJ&hl=enhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-4884-0047
Master in Economics & Finance
http://www.mef.unimi.it
Twitter: @mefunimi
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mefunimi
Email and further information at: mef(a)unimi.it
Sent from my StrawBerry®
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Leonardo Rolla <leorolla(a)dm.uba.ar>
Date: 2017-03-30 4:08 GMT+02:00
Subject: Postdoctoral positions in Buenos Aires
To: Leonardo Rolla <leorolla(a)dm.uba.ar>
Dear friends and colleagues,
I would much appreciate if you could help me broadcast the announcement
below.
Apologies in advance for any duplicates.
Best regards,
Leonardo T. Rolla
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:29:52 -0300 (ART)
From: probab(a)dm.uba.ar
Subject: Postdoctoral positions in Buenos Aires
Applications are invited for post-doctoral positions in Percolation,
Particle Systems, and Stochastic Networks.
Please feel free to forward this message to other colleagues and potential
candidates.
The positions last two years and have a monthly stipend of around 19600ARS,
to start in April 2018.
Candidates should send a complete application to probab(a)dm.uba.ar by June
15, attaching:
- CV
- Motivation letter
- Research statement
Two recommendation letters should be sent confidentially to probab(a)dm.uba.ar
by June 20.
Information on the group activities and projects can be found at
http://mate.dm.uba.ar/~probab/
Thank you in advance,
Buenos Aires Probability Group
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Prof. Alessandra Faggionato
http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/
Department of Mathematics
University "La Sapienza"
Piazzale Aldo Moro, 2
00185 - Rome
Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252
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Applications are invited for post-doctoral positions in Percolation,
Particle Systems, and Stochastic Networks.
Please feel free to forward this message to other colleagues and potential
candidates.
The positions last two years and have a monthly stipend of around
19600ARS, to start in April 2018.
Candidates should send a complete application to probab(a)dm.uba.ar by June
15, attaching:
- CV
- Motivation letter
- Research statement
Two recommendation letters should be sent confidentially to
probab(a)dm.uba.ar by June 20.
Information on the group activities and projects can be found at
http://mate.dm.uba.ar/~probab/
Thank you in advance,
Buenos Aires Probability Group
Dear all,
I re-post the announcement for your convenience. The seminar will be next
Tuesday, but at 2:30 pm in Room 307b.
Professor A. Cerny from Cass will be visiting LUISS and on
Tuesday April 4, at 2:30 pm in Room 307b -- viale Romania
he will give the following seminar:
OPTIMAL TRADE EXECUTION UNDER ENDOGENOUS PRESSURE TO LIQUIDATE: THEORY
AND NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS
We study optimal liquidation of a large trading position in a market
with a temporary price impact. We endogenize the pressure to liquidate
and hence allow the time horizon of liquidation to be determined
endogenously, as part of the optimal strategy. The corresponding HJB
equation leads to a severely singular initial value problem whose
numerical solution we also study. In contrast to much of the existing
literature spreading the liquidation strategy over a longer horizon is
not necessarily beneficial to the trader.
Joint work with Pavol Brunovský and Ján Komadel, Comenius University
Bratislava
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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/
Cari colleghi,
vi scrivo perché mi sono trasferito da 6 mesi in Romania, a Cluj-Napoca al
RIST (www.rist.ro/en.html), un istituto privato no profit dove ho ottenuto
un grant di 4 anni co-finanziato dall'Europa, per implementare il progetto
di ricerca
DeepRiemann "Riemannian Optimization Methods for Deep Learning".
Ho diverse posizioni aperte per postdoc, e sto cercando giovani in gamba,
con background in matematica (geometria differenziale e ottimizzazione
Riemanniana), computer science, statistica, etc etc, per creare un gruppo
qui a Cluj che si occuperà di Machine Learning e Ottimizzazione
www.luigimalago.it/group.html
Gli argomenti del progetto includono:
*information geometry (differential geometry applied to statistical
manifolds)
*manifold optimization and second-order Riemannian optimization
*machine learning and deep learning (using Riemannian methods)
Vi chiederei gentilmente di inoltrare il messaggio a chi secondo voi
potrebbe essere interessato ad una delle posizione
Gli annunci sono disponibili alla seguente pagina:
www.luigimalago.it/postdocs_th.htmlwww.luigimalago.it/postdocs_dl.html <http://luigimalago.it/postdocs_dl.html>
grazie mille,
Luigi Malagò
I'm forwarding this annoucement for people eventually interested.
Kind Regards,
Carlo Sgarr*a*
This is the second announcement for the
*10th European Summer School in Financial Mathematics*
*"Rough Volatility and Transaction Costs"*
which will be held at TU Dresden in Dresden, Germany from August 28 -
September 1, 2017.
Mini-courses will be given by
Jim Gatheral
Johannes Muhle-Karbe
Mathieu Rosenbaum
Walter Schachermayer
More detailed information on the summer school and instructions for
application can be found at: https://www.math.tu-
dresden.de/euroschoolmathfi17
*The application deadline has been extended to April 30, 2017*. Successful
applicants will be sponsored for travel (within Europe) and accommodation.
Please bring the announcement to the attention of PhD-students and other
researchers who may be interested to attend.
Martin Keller-Ressel,
for the organizing committee: Bruno Bouchard, Stefano De Marco, Martin
Keller-Ressel, Mathieu Rosenbaum, Nizar Touzi
(Apologies if you have received this email in duplicate)
Seminario di probabilità e statistica matematica
Aula di Consiglio, Dipartimento di Matematica Guido Castelnuovo
Lunedì 3 aprile, ore 16:00
Mauro Piccioni (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
terrà una conferenza dal titolo:
How it happened (to me) to meet ?
Summary: The function ? was defined by Minkowski with the purpose of mapping quadratic irrationals bijectively onto the rationals of (0,1) (in addition, it maps the rationals onto the dyadic rationals). It has remarkable self-similarity properties and it maps (increasingly) the interval [0,1] into itself, with an almost everywhere vanishing derivative. For this reason it has been named the slippery devil’s staircase (to distinguish it from the Cantor set distribution function, which, not being strictly increasing, is not slippery!). In the talk we will obtain it as the equilibrium law of a random walk on the homogeneous space (H,PSL_2(Z)) where H is the upper half-plane in the complex plane and PSL_2(Z) is the modular group. The random walk walk drifts towards the real line with a limit in law X whose image under the function |x|v|x|^{-1} has distribution function ?. In proving this, the characterization of a ?-distributed random variable Y in term of its continued fraction expansion is also obtained. This is a joint work with Gerard Letac.
Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Per informazioni rivolgersi a piccioni(a)mat.uniroma1.it
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Gustavo Posta
Dipartimento di Matematica
Università di Roma "la Sapienza"
P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma
Italy
web: http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~posta
e-mail: gustavo.posta(a)uniroma1.it
phone: +39-06-4991-4969
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