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4-YEAR PHD PROGRAM IN MODELING AND ENGINEERING RISK AND COMPLEXITY AT THE SCUOLA SUPERIORE MERIDIONALE, NAPLES, ITALY
by Tiziano De Angelis 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

Dear All, The announcement below may be of interest to students who wish to pursue a PhD in applied probability or statistics. Best wishes Tiziano De Angelis --------------------------- The Call for Applications for the 4 year PhD Program in Modeling and Engineering Risk and Complexity of the Scuola Superiore Meridionale (a brand new School for Advanced Studies established in Naples by the Italian Government in 2019) is now out and available at https://www.ssmeridionale.it/avcp/bando-di-concorso-xli-ciclo-dottorato-di-… <https://www.ssmeridionale.it/en-us/la-scuola/bandi-di-concorso/dottorati> https://www.ssmeridionale.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Copia_Call_for_appl… We are looking for bright and ambitious students from any area of Mathematics, Physics, Science and Engineering to join this exciting new program. *5** fully funded 4-year scholarships are available this year* *Each scholarship includes* a stipend of EUR 19,000 per year which is increased by 50% when the student is spending time abroad. Students are expected to spend at least *12 months abroad* during their PhD. Each Scholarship also includes approx EUR 3,800 for research costs/travel per year. Students can choose their projects and supervisor from a vast range of options during their first year. Examples of past and ongoing research projects are available on the website of the MERC PhD program at https://www.ssmeridionale.it/modeling-and-engineering-risk-and-complexity-m… Applicants must submit a brief scientific report (description of their MSc thesis work, CV, personal statement and reference letters) following the instructions provided at the website above *by* *no later than **27th August 2025**.** Applications must be submitted using the online platform as explained at the link below:* https://www.ssmeridionale.it/avcp/bando-di-concorso-xli-ciclo-dottorato-di-… Successful candidates will be announced by the end of September 2025 with the course officially starting on 1st November 2025. For any further information, contact the PhD Coordinator, Prof Mario di Bernardo, via e-mail at merc(a)ssmeridionale.it, or any of the PhD Board members listed in the PhD website above.

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Workshop "Evolutionary dynamics, game theory and uncertainty in economic modelling: theory and applications"
by Marina Pireddu 10 Jun '25

10 Jun '25

We are glad to announce the workshop "Evolutionary dynamics, game theory and uncertainty in economic modelling: theory and applications", to be held at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, on June 26th and 27th, 2025. This event is part of the PRIN PNRR 2022 Project "Evolutionary Poisson Games: Theory and Application", of the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) Prot. 2022BNPZY3. SPEAKERS (in alphabetic order): Gian Italo Bischi (University of Urbino) Alessia Cafferata (University of Pisa) Andrea Caravaggio (University of Siena) Fausto Cavalli (University of Milano-Bicocca) Lorenzo Cerboni Baiardi (University of Bologna) Arianna Dal Forno (University of Molise) Luca Gori (University of Pisa) Fabio Lamantia (University of Catania) Alessandra Mainini (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) Akio Matsumoto (Chuo University, Tokyo) Paulo Medeiros (University of Milano-Bicocca) Elisabetta Michetti (University of Macerata) Enrico Moretto (University of Milano-Bicocca) Marina Pireddu (University of Milano-Bicocca) Davide Radi (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart) Mauro Sodini (University of Naples Federico II) Fabio Tramontana (University of Urbino) Maria Cristina Uberti (University of Turin) Daniela Visetti (University of Milano-Bicocca) Please find attached the programme of the workshop. Registration is free, but mandatory. In case you are interested in attending the event, or should you need any further information, please write an email, by June 20th, to marina.pireddu(a)unimib.it. Please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone interested. We apologize in advance for multiple postings. Best regards, The Organizers (Fausto Cavalli, Paulo Medeiros, Ahmad Naimzada, Marina Pireddu and Daniela Visetti) [image: header.png]

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Conference in Pisa
by Marco Romito 09 Jun '25

09 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the two-day conference /Stochastic Bridges: From Avon to Arno/ taking place in Pisa from June 25th to 26th. The registration is now open for the workshop, and you can find more information at the website: https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/stochasticfata The conference brings together researchers in stochastic analysis and aims to highlight recent developments in stochastic PDEs and related areas. The program will feature a series of talks from experts and early-career researchers. The event is open to researchers in stochastic analysis. Best, Marco, Mario, Sotiris

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IMT Honors Program
by Irene Crimaldi 09 Jun '25

09 Jun '25

Dear All, we are pleased to announce the opening of the call for the selection of talented Master’s students from all over the world to join the *IMT Honors Program*, funded by the Educating Future Citizens (EFC) project. This Program is a novel initiative of the School designed to guide *outstanding Master's students* with excellent academic profiles and a strong interest in the School’s Multidisciplinary Scientific Areas (MSAs) towards research. *IMT faculty members* will play a key role as scientific tutors, providing guidance and supervision throughout the training path. At the same time, current *IMT PhD students* will have the opportunity to act as mentors, supporting their junior peers and fostering a collaborative learning environment. *Key information:* • Duration of funded activities: September 15, 2025 – June 14, 2026 • Mode of participation: blended (in-person and online) • Scholarships available: up to 16 • Scholarship amount: €10,000 each • Additional benefits: travel reimbursement up to €3,000, free accommodation and meals during stays in Lucca, full exemption from tuition fees • Program completion: July 2027 • Final recognition: the “IMT Honors” certificate will be awarded in July 2027, upon successful completion of the Master’s degree with a final grade of 110/110 cum laude. Please find the dedicated leaflet attached. For detailed information, please visit the relevant page on our website: https://www.imtlucca.it/en/education/honors-program For any questions or further information, please contact the Careers Service at career.service(a)imtlucca.it. Best wishes, Irene Crimaldi

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Save the date: OWABI live from BayesComp - 19th June 1pm UK time
by Massimiliano Tamborrino 09 Jun '25

09 Jun '25

Dear all, the next OWABI seminar https://www.warwick.ac.uk/owabi, the last of this Season, is also going to be a special one, featuring two selected talks live from BayesComp https://bayescomp2025.sg/! The two talks are scheduled on Thursday the 19th June at 1pm UK time (note the different date and time!), given by * Filippo Pagani (University of Warwick): Approximate Bayesian Fusion * Maurizio Filippone (KAUST): GANs Secretly Perform Approximate Bayesian Model Selection with abstracts reported below. The talks will be streamed on Zoom at the link: https://monash.zoom.us/j/81050994376?pwd=aF52Ab2oUlNYPO251d4nDw0jXRemia.1<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmonash.zoom.us%2Fj%2F81050994376…> Meeting ID: 810 5099 4376 Passcode: 137607 1st OWABI Talk: 1-1.30pm Uk time Speaker: Filippo Pagani<https://filippopagani.github.io/> (University of Warwick) Title: Approximate Bayesian Fusion Abstract: Bayesian Fusion is a powerful approach that enables distributed inference while maintaining exactness. However, the approach is computationally expensive. In this work, we propose a novel method that incorporates numerical approximations to alleviate the most computationally expensive steps, thereby achieving substantial reductions in runtime. Our approach retains the flexibility to approximate the target posterior distribution to an arbitrary degree of accuracy, and is scalable with respect to both the size of the dataset and the number of computational cores. Our method offers a practical and efficient alternative for large-scale Bayesian inference in distributed environments. 2nd OWABI Talk: 1.30-2pm Uk time Speaker: Maurizio Filippone<https://www.kaust.edu.sa/en/study/faculty/maurizio-filippone> (KAUST) Title: Approximate Bayesian Fusion Abstract: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are popular models achieving impressive performance in various generative modeling tasks. In this work, we aim at explaining the undeniable success of GANs by interpreting them as probabilistic generative models. In this view, GANs transform a distribution over latent variables Z into a distribution over inputs X through a function parameterized by a neural network, which is usually referred to as the generator. This probabilistic interpretation enables us to cast the GAN adversarial-style optimization as a proxy for marginal likelihood optimization. More specifically, it is possible to show that marginal likelihood maximization with respect to model parameters is equivalent to the minimization of the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence between the true data generating distribution and the one modeled by the GAN. By replacing the KL divergence with other divergences and integral probability metrics we obtain popular variants of GANs such as f-GANs, Wasserstein-GANs, and Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD)-GANs. This connection has profound implications because of the desirable properties associated with marginal likelihood optimization, such as (i) lack of overfitting, which explains the success of GANs, and (ii) allowing for model selection, which opens to the possibility of obtaining parsimonious generators through architecture search. We are looking forward to seeing you at the next OWABI seminar(s), best, Massimiliano on the behalf of the OWABI 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: 1 year postdoc in Probability at Warwick (deadline 19/06/25)
by Bruno Toaldo 08 Jun '25

08 Jun '25

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YEPXX | 23-27 June | final announcement
by Simone Baldassarri 06 Jun '25

06 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, This is the final announcement for the 20th edition of the Young European Probabilists (YEP) workshop *Interacting Particle Systems on Random Structures, *which will take place on *23-27 June, 2025* in *EURANDOM* at Eindhoven University of Technology.We inform you that the registration closes on *Sunday 15 June 2025.* Young researchers are encouraged to participate and contribute with a poster presentation by submitting their proposals through the registration form. Please visit the website of the event YEPXX | Interacting Particle Systems on Random Structures <https://www.eurandom.tue.nl/event/yepxx-interacting-particle-systems-on-ran…> for further information. We would be grateful if you could circulate the announcement among potentially interested researchers. Please feel free to contact us for any additional information. Looking forward to meeting you in Eindhoven! The organizing committee, Simone Baldassarri, Remco van der Hofstad, Vanessa Jacquier, Matthias Löwe

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course prof. Z. Brzeniak - Pavia - 11-27 june
by Enrico Priola 06 Jun '25

06 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, we are glad to announce the following course by prof. Zdzislaw Brzezniak at the Department of Mathematics in Pavia (period: june 11-27) - STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS - (https://unipv.unifind.cineca.it/resource/af/495318) Lectures in Sezione Laureati of Collegio Nuovo (Via Abbiategrasso 404, Pavia): 1. Wednesday 11 June, 9-11 and 14-15 2. Thursday 12 June, 12-13 and 14-16 3. Friday 13 June, 9-11 and 14-15 4. Thursday 19 June, 9-11 and 14-15 5. Friday 20 June, 12-13 and 14-16 6. Wednesday 25 June, 9-11 and 14-15 7. Thursday 26 June, 9-11 and 14-15 8. Friday 27 June, 9-11 and 14-15 All the best Enrico Priola -- Enrico Priola Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pavia Via Adolfo Ferrata 5, 27100 Pavia tel +39 0382 985639

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Seminario PRISMA venerdì 6 giugno 2025 - S. Mazzonetto & P. Pigato
by Sonia Mazzucchi 06 Jun '25

06 Jun '25

Seminari on-line del gruppo UMI - PRISMA (http://www.umi-prisma.polito.it/) I seminari PRISMA hanno un formato di "colloquium" per creare un'occasione di scambio e discussione con tutta la comunità dei probabilisti e statistici italiani. Ogni giornata comprende due relatori che tengono due seminari di 30 minuti strettamente connessi, per presentare alla comunità una prospettiva sul proprio ambito di ricerca. Da quest'anno le registrazioni dei seminari vengono pubblicate sul canale YouTube dell'UMI: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmySpc-jrtAMq84VH71evyqPc1hl6eEQb Il prossimo appuntamento è per oggi *venerdì 6 giugno* 2025. I relatori saranno *Sara Mazzonetto* (Université de Lorraine) e *Paolo Pigato* (Università di Roma 2 “Tor Vergata”) che parleranno di: *Diffusioni a soglia e il ruolo del tempo locale* con il seguente orario: 16:00 Primo seminario 16:30 Pausa e discussione 16:45 Secondo seminario 17:15 Conclusione e discussione Trovate di seguito il riassunto. I seminari verranno trasmessi via Zoom al seguente link: https://unitn.zoom.us/j/82271416480 ID riunione: 822 7141 6480 Codice d’accesso: 130382 Vi aspettiamo numerosi! Alberto Chiarini e Sonia Mazzucchi %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% RELATORI: Sara Mazzonetto (Université de Lorraine) e Paolo Pigato (Università di Roma 2 “Tor Vergata”) TITOLO: Diffusioni a soglia e il ruolo del tempo locale RIASSUNTO: Le diffusioni a soglia sono soluzioni di equazioni differenziali stocastiche i cui coefficienti cambiano in modo discontinuo a seconda della posizione del processo rispetto a delle barriere (soglie). Sono usate nella modellizzazione di vari fenomeni, in finanza/economia, ingegneria e altre scienze. In questo seminario, daremo un’introduzione a questi processi dal punto di vista matematico e parleremo delle loro applicazioni. Considereremo poi alcuni problemi di inferenza dei parametri, discutendo risultati asintotici sotto diverse ipotesi e sottolineando le difficoltà tecniche provenienti in particolare dalla connessione tra discontinuità, moto browniano skew e tempi locali. .%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

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QFinLab Seminar - Marco Tolotti (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) - 9/6/2025, 12:15 @ Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano
by Alessandro Calvia 05 Jun '25

05 Jun '25

Dear colleagues, you are all invited to participate in the following seminar organized by QFinLab - Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano. Monday, 9 June 2025, 12.15-13.15 Seminar room, third floor, building 14, Via Bonardi 9, Milano (Leonardo Campus) Marco Tolotti (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Title: Market Dynamics, Learning, and the Equity Premium Puzzle in an Agent-Based Model of Information Acquisition. Abstract: We analyze a financial market with a large number of investors who use an imitation-based learning mechanism to choose among various strategies that differ in the amount and quality of information they incorporate. Agents’ strategies evolve through a straightforward learning mechanism in which traders occasionally imitate more successful strategies adopted by peers they encounter. In this context, equilibrium is defined as a state where investors, on average, win half the time and lose in the remaining periods. Through an agent-based model, we show that at equilibrium, most investors rely on a limited number of strategies. In most scenarios, two strategies dominate: overly cautious traders, who hold little equity and capture the largest market share, and informed traders, who achieve higher average profits. Our model can help to justify the existence of an equity premium puzzle: in equilibrium, the higher mean profit of informed investors is associated with a median profit that is equal to that of more prudent or misinformed investors. All news can be found on the QFinLab webpage<https://www.qfinlab.polimi.it/seminars-and-meetings/>. The organizers: Michele Azzone and Alessandro Calvia.

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