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Fwd: [owps] Talks thursday May 27
by Faggionato, Alessandra 26 May '21

26 May '21

Buongiorno inoltro l'annuncio del OWPS di domani. Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com> Date: mer 26 mag 2021 alle ore 08:01 Subject: [owps] Talks thursday May 27 To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk> Dear All, we have a session on opinion dynamics tomorrow, namely talks by Elchanan Mossel and Timo Vilkas, see below. Remember that we start 14:00 UTC which is 16:00 CET! 14:00-15:00 Elchanan Mossel Opinion Exchange Dynamics I will survey some of the main opinion exchange dynamics models that were invented in probability theory and in economics. I will then discuss ``martingale models" - models where the opinion of each agent forms a martingale. I will highlight some recent large-deviation and graph-limit perspectives of these models. Based on: Mossel, Elchanan, Allan Sly, and Omer Tamuz. "Asymptotic learning on bayesian social networks." Probability Theory and Related Fields 158.1-2 (2014): 127-157. Mossel, Elchanan, Allan Sly, and Omer Tamuz. "Strategic learning and the topology of social networks." Econometrica 83.5 (2015): 1755-1794. Mossel, Elchanan, and Omer Tamuz. "Opinion exchange dynamics." Probability Surveys 14 (2017): 155-204. Harel, Matan, Elchanan Mossel, Philipp Strack, and Omer Tamuz. "Rational groupthink." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 136, no. 1 (2021): 621-668. 15:00 - 16:00 UTC Timo Vilkas Long-term behavior in opinion dynamics: clustering vs. consensus and local vs. global Using the examples of the well-known voter model (Holley & Liggett, 1975) and a lesser-known bounded confidence model. introduced by Deffuant et al. (2000), I want to discuss common limit behavior in interacting particle systems modelling opinion dynamics. Both the transition from clustering to consensus formation and the dichotomy between weak (local) and strong (global) consensus will play a central role. The Zoom link is on the OWPS webpage. It can also be accessed directly via https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/69810931142 <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftum-conf.…> Meeting-ID: 698 1093 1142 Kenncode: 435370 Best wishes, Julien and Nina -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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posto RTDB - Milano-Bicocca
by Emanuela Rosazza Gianin 24 May '21

24 May '21

Si avvisa che e' stato bandito un posto da ricercatore RTDB nel settore SECS-S/06 presso il Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi quantitativi dell'Universita' di Milano-Bicocca. La scadenza per le domande e' il giorno 9 giugno 2021. Bando e dettagli sono consultabili alla pagina https://www.unimib.it/ateneo/gare-e-concorsi/2021-rtdb-095 Cordiali saluti, Emanuela ****************************************** Emanuela Rosazza Gianin Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi Quantitativi Università di Milano-Bicocca Edificio U7 – 4° Piano Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8 20126 Milano Tel. 02 64483208 e-mail: emanuela.rosazza1(a)unimib.it ******************************************

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Special Issue - Annals of Operations Research
by Claudio Fontana 21 May '21

21 May '21

Dear all, We want to bring to your attention the Call for papers for the Special Issue "Recent Advances in Mathematical Methods for Finance" of the journal Annals of Operations Research (https://www.springer.com/journal/10479 <https://www.springer.com/journal/10479>). We are targeting original contributions in emerging topics in mathematical finance, including theoretical aspects as well as computational techniques. Submitted papers will undergo a regular review process under the supervision of the Guest Editors (G. Callegaro, C. Fontana, M. Grasselli, W.J. Runggaldier, T. Vargiolu). The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2021. This Special Issue is connected to the themes of the 10th General AMaMeF Conference (June 22-26, University of Padova, https://events.math.unipd.it/AMAMEF2021/home <https://events.math.unipd.it/AMAMEF2021/home>) but paper submission is open to the research community and not restricted to the conference attendees. Here attached the full Call for papers. Best regards, the AMaMeF organizing committee, G. Callegaro, C. Fontana, M. Grasselli, W.J. Runggaldier, T. Vargiolu

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Sussex probability seminar
by Enrico Scalas 21 May '21

21 May '21

Care colleghe e colleghi, vi invio l'annuncio del seminario di William FitzGerald il 24 maggio a mezzogiorno. Le persone interessate possono ottenere il link contattando l'organizzatrice, Dr Minmin Wang (minmin.wang(a)sussex.ac.uk <https://fields.dm.unipi.it/listinfo/random>). Cordiali saluti, Enrico Scalas -- Dear all, Next Monday at 11am we’ll have the last Prob. Seminar of this semester. Will FitzGerald will speak about Random growth and random matrices This talk will focus on some connections between random growth models, directed polymers and random matrices. This is based on joint work with Jon Warren.

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Summer School in Trento (Italy) 30 August - 3 September 2021
by Luigi Amedeo Bianchi 21 May '21

21 May '21

The Stochastic Processes, Analysis and Semigroups Summer School will take place August 30 to September 3 2021 at the University of Trento (Italy). It is a one-week summer school for Master and PhD students and is co-organized by the Universities of Trento and Wuppertal. It will consist of four minicourses, delivered in a hybrid in-person/online mode: Introduction to the Large Deviations Theory (Mariem Abdellatif, Wuppertal) Asymptotics and ergodic properties of operator semigroups (Bálint Farkas, Wuppertal) SPDEs with multiple limiting distributions (Martin Friesen, Dublin City and Barbara Rüdiger, Wuppertal) Singular stochastic PDEs and renormalization of Anderson Hamiltonian (Baris Ugurcan, Wuppertal). The school is made possible by funding of the University of Trento, within the Department of Excellence project. There are limited resources available to partially cover local expenses of some of the participating students. For more information, visit the webpage of the school: https://sites.google.com/unitn.it/sstw/ Best regards, the organisers: Luigi Amedeo Bianchi (Trento) Stefano Bonaccorsi (Trento) Bálint Farkas (Wuppertal) Martin Friesen (Dublin City) Barbara Rüdiger (Wuppertal) Baris Ugurcan (Wuppertal)

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European Summer School on Learning in Games, Markets, and Online Decision Making
by Marco Scarsini 21 May '21

21 May '21

*European Summer School on Learning in Games, Markets, and Online Decision Making* *September 6-10, 2021* *Sapienza Università di Roma, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Antonio Ruberti* https://sites.google.com/a/diag.uniroma1.it/algadimar/summer-school The school will have a group of prestigious scholars giving tutorials and research seminars. Among them: Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi, José Correa, Michal Feldman, Renato Paes Leme, and Eva Tardos. The presence of all the speakers will be determined by the traveling constraints at the time of the school. Some of the speakers may have to take part in the school online. Partial support for local expenses and travel will be made available for at most 25 international students from COST countries <https://www.cost.eu/who-we-are/members/> by the COST GAMENET project. If you intend to attend the school, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UK6ysgJZuJNEhNkIFSTS--Pr93i-Ij-ZGHZXfWegeS…> by June 15, 2021. For further information, please contact leonardi(a)diag.uniroma1.it. Please spread the word among your graduate students. The organizers Nicola Gatti, Stefano Leonardi, Marco Scarsini

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May 27-28: BISP12 - Twelfth Workshop on Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes
by elisa varini 20 May '21

20 May '21

We informyou that it is still possible to register (free of charge) for *BISP12 (Twelfth Workshop on Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes)* to be held on May 27 (13.55-18.35 CEST) and 28 (13.00-17.50 CEST). The website ishttps://bisp12.imati.cnr.it/ <https://bisp12.imati.cnr.it/> The event is organized by CNR – IMATI (Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technology at the Italian National Research Council), Milano, Italy: https://www.imati.cnr.it/ <https://www.imati.cnr.it/> We have 10 junior invited speakers and 10 more senior discussants (within parentheses): • Atilla Ay, USA (Melike Baykal-Gursoy, USA) • Clara Grazian, Australia (Maria Concepcion Ausin, Spain) • Andrew Holbrook, USA (Katja Ickstadt, Germany) • Kaoru Irie, Japan (Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, Austria) • Roi Naveiro, Spain (Mike West, USA) • Giovanni Rebaudo , USA (Bernardo Nipoti, Italy) • Claudia Solis-Lemus, USA (Nicholas Polson, USA) • Stéphanie Van Der Pas, The Netherlands (Antonio Lijoi, Italy) • Andi Wang, UK (Giacomo Zanella, Italy) • Paul Wu, Australia (David Banks, USA) The titles of their (live) talks are available on the website. We have also many contributors who uploaded (or are uploading) a 20-minutes video at https://bisp12.imati.cnr.it/virtual_poster.php <https://bisp12.imati.cnr.it/virtual_poster.php>(accessible also in the near future) and will prepare a 5-minutes video to be broadcast during the conference. We invite to watch those videos and send comments to the authors. The entire event will be recorded and then uploaded in the BISP12 website. Best regards Elisa Varini and Fabrizio Ruggeri Chairs, Organising and Scientific Committees

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LTI@Unito webinar Andrea Modea (U. Bonn): “Recapitalization, Bailout, and Long-run Welfare in a Dynamic Model of Banking”| May 24, 2021 @12:45
by Luca Regis 20 May '21

20 May '21

Dear Colleagues, I am happy to share with you the following invitation to the Quantative Finance webinar organized by LTI@UniTO and Collegio Carlo Alberto, “Recapitalization, Bailout, and Long-run Welfare in a Dynamic Model of Banking” by Andrea Modena (University of Bonn), which will take place on Zoom on May 24, at 12.45. Below you find the Zoom link and an abstract of the presentation. Best regards, Luca Regis <#> <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/J7QJ4oN6YVj_zZsZOtARrIVf6c7Hmq99bS…> <#> LTI@Unito and Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto are pleased to invite you to the following workshop <#> *May 24, 2021 | 12:45 - 13:45* *“Recapitalization, Bailout, and Long-run Welfare in a Dynamic Model of Banking”* *Andrea Modena (University of Bonn, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) * <#> *Abstract. *We study the trade-off between the short-run costs and the long-run benefits of bank bailouts. In the model, banks leverage, thanks to their cost advantage at monitoring firms, but hold precautionary capital buffers to avoid costly equity issuance. Banks’ recapitalization is suboptimal because they do not internalize the externalities of the banking sector’s relative size on their individual leverage capacity and firms’ investments. Systematic bailouts can improve the allocation efficiency in bad states, in which banks’ leverage is persistently constrained and investments are low. In the long run, bailouts accelerate the economy’s recovery by fostering growth, thereby reducing endogenous risk. *Zoom link:* *https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83596624662?pwd=ZmlvenJSbGJVZjl4WTA0MnNMUXVlZz09* <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/s-qJVnhbS_zG1dfsi6qOu9mnfTxc8QKO7h…> Meeting ID: 835 9662 4662 Passcode: 056057 <#> <#> <#> <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/yuwpD8sTuPk6FHLiRKKpTMm-UjUyfN6wgb…> <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/VpUegKgodGXzBen7C44jhlkXkF9jhsSmmo…> <#> FONDAZIONE COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO Piazza Arbarello 8 - 10122 Torino, Italy phone: +390116705000 segreteria(a)carloalberto.org - www.carloalberto.org Facebook <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/cMWe7pVTdvfxQ1F14Ip-99gRFCuIRpXB8y…> Twitter <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/PBGBAvJh5x5DlI_7sK-JDvUzZNEYzjMddC…> LinkedIn <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/ODY9SQh8giPEbUl9tQNsfhNYuPH1kUrrxH…> Instagram <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/eSYLTqj79odIe23NOKQ9iD17xZiiWLxZpk…> Youtube <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/VHxNOf4LAHpDbLIqIRMcZ1IjxJ8vJMlt0R…> <#> *INFORMATION UNDER THE NEW GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)* Your personal information has been gathered for the exclusive purpose of informing you about the Collegio's initiatives, considering our and your legitimate interest or your consent. If you wish to have your personal data modified please contact Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto, piazza Arbarello 8, 1022 Torino, Italy - phone: +390116705000 - privacy(a)carloalberto.org *Unsubscribe* <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/un/pwqLm48bGIHoEgSNMJjK02XvcE2z7S4OYMkg…> <#> © 2021 Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto

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(PMS)^2 online talk: Alessandra Bianchi, Monday May 24 at 17.30
by Carlo Orrieri 19 May '21

19 May '21

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the following online talk: Speaker: Alessandra Bianchi (Università di Padova) Title: Limit Theorems for Exponential Random Graphs. Abstract: Exponential Random Graphs are defined through probabilistic ensembles with one or more adjustable parameters. They can be seen as a generalization of the classical Erdos Renyi random graph, obtained by defining a tilted probability measure that is proportional to the densities of certain given finite subgraphs. In this talk we will focus on the edge-triangle model, that is a two-parameter family of exponential random graphs in which dependence between edges is introduced through triangles. Borrowing tools from statistical mechanics, together with large deviations techniques, we will characterize the limiting behavior of the edge density for all parameters in the so-called replica symmetric regime, where a complete characterization of the phase diagram of the model is accessible. First, we determine the asymptotic distribution of this quantity, as the graph size tends to infinity, in the various phases. Then we study the fluctuations of the edge density around its average value off the critical curve and formulate conjectures about the behavior at criticality based on the analysis of a mean-field approximation of the model. Joint work with Francesca Collet and Elena Magnanini. Date and time: Monday May 24, 17:30-18:30 (Rome time zone) Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81602205122?pwd=Wlk0SVZPRjY4UHFzR1c5RmJMekRCZz09 <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81602205122?pwd=Wlk0SVZPRjY4UHFzR1c5RmJMekRCZz09> Meeting ID: 816 0220 5122 Passcode: d5v0SS This talk is the second of the (PMS)^2: Pavia-Milano Seminar series on Probability and Mathematical Statistics organized jointly by the universities Milano-Bicocca, Pavia, Milano-Politecnico and Milano-Statale. Participation is free and welcome! (though limited to 100 participants for technical reasons) Best regards The organizers (Mario Maurelli, Carlo Orrieri, Maurizia Rossi, Margherita Zanella)

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Fwd: [owps] talks May 20
by Faggionato, Alessandra 19 May '21

19 May '21

Buongiorno, inoltro l'annuncio del OWPS di domani per chi fosse interessato. Grazie dell'attenzione Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com> Date: mer 19 mag 2021 alle ore 08:03 Subject: [owps] talks May 20 To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk> Dear All, we have two talks tomorrow. Remember that we start 14:00 UTC which is 16:00 CET! 14:00-15:00 UTC Pascal MaillardBranching particle systems and front propagation I will review some recent results (some in progress) on extremes of branching particle systems as models of front propagation. The main theme will be asymptotic results about speed and fluctuations. The talk will be based on joint work with various subsets of the following people : Gaël Raoul, Michel Pain, Sarah Penington, Jason Schweinsberg, Julie Tourniaire. 15:00 - 16:00 UTC Sarah Penington Brownian bees in the infinite swarm limit Consider a system of N particles moving according to Brownian motions and branching at rate one. Each time a particle branches, the particle in the system furthest from the origin is killed. I will discuss the large N and large time behaviour of the system, which is related to solutions of a novel non-linear free boundary partial differential equation. Based on joint work with Julien Berestycki, Éric Brunet and Jim Nolen. The Zoom link is on the OWPS webpage. It can also be accessed directly via https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/67314174274 <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftum-conf.…> Meeting-ID: 673 1417 4274 Password: 532590 Best wishes, Julien and Nina -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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open rank positions at Lund University (all fields)
by Carina Geldhauser 18 May '21

18 May '21

The Centre for Mathematical Sciences at Lund University seeks expressions of interest for several research group leaders (open rank). We are looking for internationally /strong/ scholars in any field of mathematics, with 5-12 years of research experience after PhD, currently working outside Sweden. Group leaders will bring in their unique research programme and expertise, whilst integrating and enhancing existing strengths at the Centre. Your research vision and future plans will be at the core of Lund University's bid for a very generous sponsorship from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation, which will fund your research group for the first 5 years. Whilst your appointment will be permanent, we expect you to fund your staff members through external grants after the initial funding period. Lund University offers a competitive salary, attractive employer benefits and family-friendly working hours. We are committed to increase the diversity in our department and especially welcome proposals from scholars of underrepresented gender. Interested? Then send your CV and research group vision to erik.lindstrom(a)matstat.lu.se <mailto:erik.lindstrom@matstat.lu.se> by May 24th. We intend to invite interesting candidates to a virtual seminar talk and campus visit in /early/ June. More information about the hiring process will be given at this occasion.

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4-yearPhD program in MODELING AND ENGINEERING RISK AND COMPLEXITY
by Tiziano De Angelis 17 May '21

17 May '21

Dear all, Please find below information concerning an interdisciplinary 4-year PhD programme that may be of interest to applied probabilists. Best wishes Tiziano *----------------------------* *4-year PhD program in MODELING AND ENGINEERING RISK AND COMPLEXITY (MERC) at SSM, a new School for Advanced Studies of the University of Naples "Federico II"- ITALY* >From epidemics phenomena, climate change and sustainable cities to seismic engineering and Industry 4.0, all the crucial challenges facing mankind today require the development of new methodological approaches to understand, model and engineer ever-growing reliable interdependent, complex and interconnected systems and infrastructures. This PhD program is aimed at ambitious young scientists and engineers who wish to work on these crucial challenging problems with high impact in society in a new, *strongly-interdisciplinary *and inter-sectorial way. The Call for Applications for the 4 year PhD Program in Modeling and Engineering Risk and Complexity (*MERC*) of the Scuola Superiore Meridionale (*SSM* is a School for Advanced Studies in Naples) is now out and available at http://www.ssm.unina.it/en/phd-scholarships-calls-and-procedures/ We are looking for bright and ambitious students from any area of Mathematics, Physics, Science and Engineering to join this exciting PhD program. *6 fully funded 4-year scholarships are available this year* Each scholarship includes a stipend of EUR 19,000 (net) per year which is increased by 50% when the student is spending time abroad. Students are expected to spend at least 9-12 months abroad during their PhD. Each Scholarship also includes approx EUR 4,000 for research costs/travel per year. 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 July 1st 2021.* Successful candidates will be announced by the end of July 2021 with courses officially starting on November 2, 2021. For any further information contact the PhD Coordinator, Prof Mario di Bernardo, at merc(a)unina.it or check out the PhD website at: http://www.ssm.unina.it/en/modeling-and-engineering-risk-eng-and-complexity…

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Webinar in Statistics PAUL JENKINS
by Pierpaolo De Blasi 17 May '21

17 May '21

WEBINARS IN STATISTICS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO <https://www.carloalberto.org/events/category/seminars/seminars-in-statistic…> Venerdi 21 Maggio 2021, alle ore 12.00, si terrà il seguente webinar: ------------------------------------------------ Speaker: *Paul Jenkins *(University of Warwick) Title: *Asymptotic genealogies of interacting particle systems* Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87319216872?pwd=L1JnR0UvamZ2RC9Eb2xFbW9qREN0Zz09 Meeting ID: 873 1921 6872 Passcode: 626226 Abstract: Interacting particle systems are a broad class of stochastic models for phenomena arising in physics, engineering, biology, and finance. A prominent class of such models can be expressed as a sequential Monte Carlo algorithm in which the aim is to construct an empirical approximation to a sequence of measures. The approximation is constructed by evolving a discrete-time, weighted population of particles, alternating between a Markov update and a resampling step. Resampling gives rise to a notion of a genealogy in which duplicated particles are regarded as offspring of their parents. In this talk I discuss how to characterise the genealogy underlying this evolving particle system. More precisely, under certain conditions we can show that the genealogy converges (as the number of particles grows) to Kingman's coalescent, a stochastic tree-valued process widely studied in population genetics. This makes explicit the analogy between sequential Monte Carlo and an evolving biological population. This is joint work with Suzie Brown, Adam Johansen, Jere Koskela, and Dario Spanò. ------------------------------------------------ Il webinar è organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative www.carloalberto.org/stats Cordiali saluti, Pierpaolo De Blasi --- University of Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto carloalberto.org/pdeblasi <https://sites.google.com/a/carloalberto.org/pdeblasi/>

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RTD-A SECS/S-01 Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
by Argiento Raffaele (raffaele.argiento) 15 May '21

15 May '21

Si comunica che presso la facoltà di Economia dell'Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano è stato bandito 1 posto per ricercatore a tempo determinato - A - SECS-S/01. La scadenza per la presentazione della domanda è il 31 maggio 2021 Per ulteriori informazioni si rinvia al link http://progetti.unicatt.it/progetti-ateneo-milano-brescia-piacenza-e-cremon… (Decreto Rettorale 7321 del 24 marzo 2021) Cordiali saluti, Raffaele A. [http://static.unicatt.it/ext-portale/FirmaOutlook.jpg]<http://www.unicatt.it/> [http://static.unicatt.it/ext-portale/5xmille-firma-mail-scritta.jpg]

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Short Course on Composite likelihood inference and unbiased estimating equations
by Claudio Agostinelli 15 May '21

15 May '21

The Mathematical Statistics and Data Science group at the Department of Mathematics, University of Trento, organizes a short course (first lecture on 25 May 2021) on *Composite likelihood inference and unbiased estimating equations* by Prof. Davide Ferrari (unibz) Full details at http://datascience.maths.unitn.it/events/cl2021/index.html Kind regards, Claudio Agostinelli -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Claudio Agostinelli Dipartimento di Matematica Universita' di Trento email: claudio.agostinelli(a)unitn.it ------------------------------------------------------------ Per favore non mandatemi documenti in Microsoft Office/Apple iWork. Spediscimi invece OpenDocument! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/ Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork documents. Send OpenDocument instead! http://fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/ ------------------------------------------------------------

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PhD positions at Department of Mathematics, University of Trento
by Claudio Agostinelli 14 May '21

14 May '21

The Department of Mathematics at the University of Trento has an open call for PhD positions. In particular, there are 2 PhD positions available at the Mathematical Statistics and Data Science group, starting on 1 November 2021: Project A: Modelling dynamic networks with differential equations (supervised by Veronica Vinciotti, jointly with Ernst Wit at the University of Lugano) Project B: Mathematics of Reinforcement Learning (supervised by Claudio Agostinelli and Luigi Amedeo Bianchi) A description of the projects can be found here: https://www.unitn.it/alfresco/download/workspace/SpacesStore/9bee3b6b-8282-… Apply *by 31 May* at: https://www.unitn.it/en/ateneo/1956/announcement-of-selection Kind regards, Claudio Agostinelli

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PhD position at the University of Turin (and Saragozza)
by Elvira Di Nardo 14 May '21

14 May '21

1 PhD position on the project "Mathematical modeling of multivariate climate time series", starting on Nov 1, 2021. The project is a joint research initiative of the Stochastic group in the Dept. of Mathematics (https://www.matematica.unito.it/do/home.plat) the University of Turin (Italy), Labflux group in the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning ( https://www.dist.unito.it/do/home.pl) the University of Turin (Italy) and the Climatology group in the Department of Geography and Spatial Planning ( https://geografia.unizar.es/) the University of Saragozza (Spain). The advertised position will be based in both universities and will offer ample freedom to suitably organize the stay in the two cities. The gross salary is 1458/month during the stay in Turin and could be increased to about 50% during the period in Saragozza. The student will benefit from excellent research training in a structured programme including mathematical and computational analysis, statistics on stochastic processes, Bayesian inference, machine learning and so on. He will experience collaborative and interdisciplinary work through projects as well as a dynamic and forward-looking community of scientists, sharing a strong desire to collaborate to find new ideas and a fertile ground from the different skills. Successful candidates will have an MSc degree (or equivalent) in Mathematics (or a closely related field such as Applied Mathematics, Computational Science, Physics or Statistics), strong knowledge on stochastic processes and statistical methods. The current call is part of the recruitment PhD program in Modeling and Data Science. The call should be published on May, 20th (deadline June, 20th). More details on the position and how to submit your application: https://en.unito.it/postdegree/phd/modeling-and-data-science For further information, please contact elvira.dinardo(a)unito.it -- %------------------------------------------------------- Elvira Di Nardo Dept. Mathematics "G. Peano" University of Torino Via Carlo Alberto 10 10123 Torino, Italia tel. +39 0116702862 fax +39 0116702878 http://www.elviradinardo.it %-------------------------------------------------------

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Seminar announcement
by Marco Scarsini 14 May '21

14 May '21

Thursday, 20 May, 17:00 CEST *Irene Lo,* Stanford University Information Acquisition in Matching Markets: The Role of Price Discovery <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQBA0DSAULBgdOVgFdBQs> Discussants: David Delacrétaz and Julien Combe The paper can be found here <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3705049>. This is the link to the Virtual Room <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAAYBSAULBgdOVgFdBQs>. If you want to receive the password to access the virtual room, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDxM-M5ogG43elgjC-lNCp0BDhISiZHG0…> (If you filled it out in the past, this is not necessary). This is the last seminar of the season. The list of the past seminars can be found here <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/seminars/2020-2021-seminars>. ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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Fwd: [umr8050] Candidatures M2 Bézout
by Lucia Caramellino 13 May '21

13 May '21

Ricevo ed inoltro un avviso di borse di master presso Université Paris-Est. Buona giornata, Lucia +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Lucia Caramellino Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” Web: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~caramell <http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~caramell> > > > De: "raphael danchin" <raphael.danchin(a)u-pec.fr> > À: "umr8050" <umr8050(a)listes.math.cnrs.fr> > Cc: "eric.colindeverdiere" <eric.colindeverdiere(a)u-pem.fr> > Envoyé: Mercredi 12 Mai 2021 14:18:06 > Objet: [umr8050] Candidatures M2 Bézout > > > Dear colleague, > > The 2021-2022 hiring campaign for international Bézout master's scholarships is open until May 21. This year, we will be able to accept more applications than usual (about 10, compared to 7 usually). Bézout Master program is directed towards excellent students in mathematics or computer science (or both) from foreign institutions willing to pursue their studies in Université Paris-Est at the master's level. The laureates will receive about 1300 € per month over 11 months (pending approval of the University Executive Board) and will be proposed a room on the campus. Furthermore, the best students will then be invited to join the PhD program of the Doctoral School MSTIC (Mathematics, Sciences and Information and Communication Technology). A joint supervision with the student's national doctoral framework, leading to both PhD grades, is possible. > > The details of the program can be found here: http://bezout.univ-paris-est.fr/masters-scholarships/ <http://bezout.univ-paris-est.fr/masters-scholarships/> . From the same webpage, a link to the application form is available; the deadline will be May 21. > > A description of the activities of the Bézout Labex can be found at http://bezout.univ-paris-est.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bezout-leaflet.p… > Contact: Raphaël Danchin <danchin(a)u-pec.fr <mailto:danchin@u-pec.fr>> > > >

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Call for a Type B fixed-term researcher
by Susi Ceron 13 May '21

13 May '21

Dear Sir/Madam, this is to draw your attention to the call for a Type B fixed-term researcher (RTDB) position at the University of Padua: https://www.stat.unipd.it/procedura-selettiva-2021rub03-lassunzione-di-n-25… https://www.unipd.it/procedura-2021RUB03 The deadline is May 27, 2021. All interested candidates are welcome to apply, please help us to advertise this call. Thank you in advance! Alessandra Fabbri Colabich Management Secretariat Department of Statistical Sciences University of Padua

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Fwd: PhD offer(s) at e-MUSe ITN Network
by Enrico Bibbona 12 May '21

12 May '21

Gentili colleghi, vi segnalo le borse di dottorato in un consorzio ITN, pubblicizzate nella mail in calce, su un tema che ha ampia intersezione con la probabilità applicata e la statistica per processi stocastici. Cordiali saluti, Enrico Bibbona Associate Professor of Statistics Probability, Statistics and Optimization group Department of Mathematical Sciences "G. L Lagrange" Politecnico di Torino ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Irene Otero Muras <ireneotero(a)iim.csic.es> Date: lun 10 mag 2021 alle ore 14:50 Subject: PhD offer(s) at e-MUSe ITN Network To: Enrico Bibbona <enrico.bibbona(a)polito.it> Cc: Eva Balsa Canto <ebalsa(a)iim.csic.es> Dear Enrico, We (Eva Balsa and I) are searching for students to join the e-muse ITN-network to develop a PhD at CSIC, and we would be grateful if you could forward this offer to pontentially interested candidates. We search for students with a Master’s degree to develop a PhD in the framework of the ITN network e-MUSE (*Complex microbial ecosystems multiscale modelling: mechanistic and data driven approaches integration * https://www.itn-emuse.com/), Conditions: 3 year contract, salary between 2.963,34€/month - 3.361,68€/month. Deadline for application 31/05/2021 These are the two fellowships: PhD fellowship in dynamics of cellular interactions Supervisor: Eva Balsa-Canto to be developed at IIM-CSIC, Vigo http://www.iim.csic.es/ for required background, conditions, and application process: https://www.itn-emuse.com/esr2 PhD fellowship in feed-back control of individual cells in microorganism populations Supervisor: Irene Otero-Muras to be developed at I2SysBio, Valencia https://www.uv.es/i2sysbio https://www.itn-emuse.com/esr3 Thank you very much, Kind regards, Irene - Irene Otero-Muras CSIC Spanish National Researc Council

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Fwd: PhD offer(s) at e-MUSe ITN Network
by Enrico Bibbona 12 May '21

12 May '21

Dear Irene, the project sounds very interesting. I'm forwarding your message to the mailing lists of the Italian probabilists and statisticians, and to some students at Politecnico. A list of people interested in Reaction Networks meets every two weeks for a seminar organized jointly by Elisenda in Copenhagen and Daniele Cappelletti, now a colleague of mine in Torino. https://researchseminars.org/seminar/MoRN There is a mailing list too (instructions are on the website), you might want to post it there as well. I am also interested in collaborating on the project myself, in case you think it is suitable. My specific contribution could be for example in statistical analysis of experimental data, if that can help. All the best, Enrico Enrico Bibbona Associate Professor of Statistics Probability, Statistics and Optimization group Department of Mathematical Sciences "G. L Lagrange" Politecnico di Torino Il giorno lun 10 mag 2021 alle ore 14:50 Irene Otero Muras < ireneotero(a)iim.csic.es> ha scritto: > > Dear Enrico, > > We (Eva Balsa and I) are searching for students to join the e-muse > ITN-network to develop a PhD at CSIC, and we would be grateful if you > could forward this offer to pontentially interested candidates. > > We search for students with a Master’s degree to develop a PhD in the > framework of the ITN network e-MUSE (*Complex microbial ecosystems > multiscale modelling: mechanistic and data driven approaches integration * > https://www.itn-emuse.com/), > > Conditions: 3 year contract, salary between 2.963,34€/month - > 3.361,68€/month. > Deadline for application 31/05/2021 > > These are the two fellowships: > > PhD fellowship in dynamics of cellular interactions > Supervisor: Eva Balsa-Canto > to be developed at IIM-CSIC, Vigo http://www.iim.csic.es/ > for required background, conditions, and application process: > https://www.itn-emuse.com/esr2 > > PhD fellowship in feed-back control of individual cells in microorganism > populations > Supervisor: Irene Otero-Muras > to be developed at I2SysBio, Valencia https://www.uv.es/i2sysbio > https://www.itn-emuse.com/esr3 > > Thank you very much, > Kind regards, > Irene > > - > Irene Otero-Muras > CSIC Spanish National Researc Council > > >

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FW: Postdoc position at HU Berlin
by Tiziano De Angelis 12 May '21

12 May '21

Dear All, I am forwarding the email below concerning a 3-year postdoc opportunity at HU Berlin in the area of stochastic control, understood in a broad sense. Interested candidates should get in touch with Prof. Ulrich Horst ( horst(a)math.hu-berlin.de). The deadline for applications is 8 June. Best wishes Tiziano *From:* Ulrich Horst <horst(a)math.hu-berlin.de> *Sent:* 07 May 2021 16:11 *To:* Tiziano De Angelis <T.DeAngelis(a)leeds.ac.uk> *Subject:* Postdoc position at HU Berlin Dear Tiziano. I am currently looking for a new postdoctoral student with a research interest in stochastic control, game theory, BSDEs ... The appointment would be for three years. I would be most grateful, if you could forward this mail to interested students. Interested students can contact me at any time for more information. Applications can be sent to me by mail. Here is the link to the official job ad (unfortunately in German). The reference number is AN/109/21 https://www.personalabteilung.hu-berlin.de/de/stellenausschreibungen/wissen… The deadline for applications is June 8th. Many thanks for your help and best wishes, Ulrich

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LTI@Unito webinar: Maria Flora (CREST, ENSAE) “The liquidity uncertainty premium puzzle” | May 17, 2021 @12:45
by Luca Regis 12 May '21

12 May '21

Dear Colleagues, I am happy to share with you the following invitation to the Quantative Finance webinar organized by LTI@UniTO and Collegio Carlo Alberto, “The liquidity uncertainty premium puzzle” by Maria Flora (CREST, ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris), which will take place on Zoom on May 17, at 12.45. Below you find the Zoom link and an abstract of the presentation. Best regards, Luca Regis <#> <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/8Hh8hw5fQzN4jQSpBpJlwM967VPpREqhwi…> <#> LTI@Unito and Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto are pleased to invite you to the following workshop <#> *May 17, 2021 | 12:45 - 13:45* *“The liquidity uncertainty premium puzzle”* *Maria Flora (CREST, ENSAE, Institut Polytechnique de Paris)* <#> *Abstract*: We address a classical puzzle in financial economics: the counter-intuitive negative relation between volatility of volume and asset returns originally put forward by Chordia, Subrahmanyam, and Anshuman (2001) and confirmed by the subsequent empirical literature. We show that the alleged negative relation is not robust to the aggregation window, nor to the way the volatility of volume is measured. In particular, when we employ high-frequency one-minute volume data, the relation is positive and robust, restoring economic intuition which commends investors’ aversion to liquidity uncertainty. *Zoom link*: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81109847151?pwd=TEl0L1lNVEtUbjh5RVJvM3pRUG40UT09 <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/hB0bS22L3Y_ENjUYgp7T2q29i3-4-1d8K-…> Meeting ID: 811 0984 7151 Passcode: 268588 <#> <#> <#> <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/UOaR7QZZ72ijC7nTqdjimVg5pfXen_62Nr…> <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/xNe5dk_6XysCdtcFZgp9tEdEOiDcNPaSPo…> <#> FONDAZIONE COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO Piazza Arbarello 8 - 10122 Torino, Italy phone: +390116705000 segreteria(a)carloalberto.org - www.carloalberto.org Facebook <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/aYJaD7KHzPThdS0ChTziuoKxUUel5iGJkU…> Twitter <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/vhWcXWrVH_v7eAq6F84bbGMelwvSuUQT3Q…> LinkedIn <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/dfKa9OGMdhR4lMt-qQMtDhs0uMVON6_UUF…> Instagram <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/FZi5lYdgx-IrtBPfZ_N1VOEbhUdSAHDONW…> Youtube <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/LsxVbQ7peor6-eKyVmNsaiIImZcs_kIZ2U…> <#> *INFORMATION UNDER THE NEW GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)* Your personal information has been gathered for the exclusive purpose of informing you about the Collegio's initiatives, considering our and your legitimate interest or your consent. If you wish to have your personal data modified please contact Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto, piazza Arbarello 8, 1022 Torino, Italy - phone: +390116705000 - privacy(a)carloalberto.org *Unsubscribe* <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/un/4yxQgjiLOUKfT5Le7ZNWi9naP-lw6lYItnef…> <#> © 2021 Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto

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virtual seminar in Insubria & Bicocca
by Emanuela Rosazza Gianin 12 May '21

12 May '21

Dear all, On *May 20 at 17:00, Cosimo-Andrea Munari* (University of Zurich) will give a virtual seminar “in Insubria & Bicocca”, to which you are all invited. You can find the title and abstract below. Title: Capital requirements and claims recovery: A new perspective on solvency regulation Abstract: Protection of creditors is a key objective of financial regulation. Where the protection needs are high, i.e., in banking and insurance, regulatory solvency requirements help prevent creditors from incurring losses on their claims. The current regulatory requirements based on Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall limit the probability of default of financial institutions, but fail to control the size of recovery on creditors' claims in the case of default. We resolve this failure by developing a novel risk measure, Recovery Value at Risk. Our conceptual approach is flexible and allows the construction of general recovery risk measures. By design, these risk measures control recovery on creditors' claims and integrate the protection needs of creditors into the incentive structure of the management. The seminar will be on *Zoom*. You can find the information to join below. Speaker: Cosimo-Andrea Munari (Univ. Zurich) Topic: Capital requirements and claims recovery: A new perspective on solvency regulation Time: May 20, 2021 05:00 PM Rome Where: Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82132902292?pwd=UlJXcE5mT1dmSmhtKzNkS1pXTlRhUT09 ID riunione: 821 3290 2292 Passcode: 912323 After the talk, you are all invited to remain in the meeting for an informal aperitif and chat. Please forward to anyone interested. Kind regards, Elisa Mastrogiacomo and Emanuela Rosazza Gianin ****************************************** Emanuela Rosazza Gianin Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi Quantitativi Università di Milano-Bicocca Edificio U7 – 4° Piano Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8 20126 Milano Tel. 02 64483208 e-mail: emanuela.rosazza1(a)unimib.it ******************************************

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Online Seminar @SNS, Julien Guyon (Bloomberg L.P.), May 18 2021 at 4 PM (CEST)
by Giulia Livieri 12 May '21

12 May '21

Dear all, Tuesday, May 18 at 4 PM (CEST) there will be the following online seminar. Speaker: Julien Guyon (Bloomberg L.P.); below the short bio. Title: Dispersion-Constrained Martingale Schrodinger Problems and the Joint S&P 500/VIX Smile Calibration Puzzle Abstract: The very high liquidity of S&P 500 (SPX) and VIX derivatives requires that financial institutions price, hedge, and risk-manage their SPX and VIX options portfolios using models that perfectly fit market prices of both SPX and VIX futures and options, jointly. This is known to be a very difficult problem. Since VIX options started trading in 2006, many practitioners and researchers have tried to build such a model. So far the best attempts, which used parametric continuous-time jump-diffusion models on the SPX, could only produce approximate fits. In this talk we solve this long standing puzzle for the first time using a completely different approach: a nonparametric discrete-time model. Given a VIX future maturity T1, we build a joint probability measure on the SPX at T1, the VIX at T1, and the SPX at T2 = T1 + 30 days which is perfectly calibrated to the SPX smiles at T1 and T2, and the VIX future and VIX smile at T1. Our model satisfies the martingality constraint on the SPX as well as the requirement that the VIX at T1 is the implied volatility of the 30-day log-contract on the SPX. The model is cast as the unique solution of what we call a Dispersion-Constrained Martingale Schrodinger Problem which is solved by duality using an extension of the Sinkhorn algorithm, in the spirit of (De March and Henry-Labordere, Building arbitrage-free implied volatility: Sinkhorn's algorithm and variants, 2019). We prove that the existence of such a model means that the SPX and VIX markets are jointly arbitrage-free. The algorithm identifies joint SPX/VIX arbitrages should they arise. Our numerical experiments show that the algorithm performs very well in both low and high volatility environments. Finally, we discuss how our technique extends to continuous-time stochastic volatility models, via what we dub VIX-Constrained Martingale Schrodinger Bridges, inspired by the classical Schrodinger bridge of statistical mechanics. The resulting stochastic volatility model is numerically implemented and is shown to achieve joint calibration with very high accuracy. Time permitting, we will also briefly discuss a few related topics: (i) a remarkable feature of the SPX and VIX markets: the inversion of convex ordering, and how classical stochastic volatility models can reproduce it; (ii) why, due to this inversion of convex ordering, and contrary to what has often been stated, among the continuous stochastic volatility models calibrated to the market smile, the local volatility model does not maximize the price of VIX futures. Short bio: Julien Guyon is a senior quantitative analyst in the Quantitative Research group at Bloomberg L.P., New York. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University and at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, and a Louis Bachelier Fellow. Julien serves as an Associate Editor of SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, Finance & Stochastics, and Journal of Dynamics and Games, and as a Managing Editor of Quantitative Finance. Before joining Bloomberg, Julien worked in the Global Markets Quantitative Research team at Societe Generale in Paris for six years, and was an adjunct professor at Universite Paris Diderot and Ecole des Ponts ParisTech. Julien co-authored the book Nonlinear Option Pricing (Chapman & Hall, 2014) with Pierre Henry-Labordere. He has published more than 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals (including Finance & Stochastics, SIAM Journal on Financial Mathematics, Quantitative Finance, Risk, Journal of Computational Finance, Annals of Applied Probability, Stochastic Processes and their Applications) and is a regular speaker at international conferences, both academic and professional. His main research interests include nonlinear option pricing, volatility and correlation modeling, (nonlinear) optimal transport, and numerical probabilistic methods. A big soccer fan, Julien has also developed a strong interest in sports analytics, and has published several articles on the FIFA World Cup, the UEFA Champions League, and the UEFA Euro both in academic journals and in top-tier newspapers such as The New York Times, The Times, Le Monde, and El Pais, including a new, fairer draw method for the FIFA World Cup. Some of his suggestions for draws and competition formats have already been adopted by FIFA and UEFA. His paper "Risk of collusion: Will groups of 3 ruin the FIFA World Cup?" won the 2nd prize at the 2021 MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, the biggest sports analytics event in the world. The link for joining the meeting is: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MzdlZDljNmMtZDU3Zi00…

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Fwd: "Random excursions with Jean Bertoin", second announcement - please register before May 15th
by Faggionato, Alessandra 10 May '21

10 May '21

Buongiorno ricevo ed inoltro l'annuncio per il workshop ``Random excursions with Jean Bertoin". Attenzione alla scadenza imminente per la registrazione. Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Grégory Miermont <gregory.miermont(a)ens-lyon.fr> Date: sab 8 mag 2021 alle ore 00:20 Subject: "Random excursions with Jean Bertoin", second announcement - please register before May 15th [Apologies for multiple postings] Dear friends, dear colleagues, This is the second announcement for the conference "Random excursions with Jean Bertoin" in honour of his 60th birthday, to be held in Paris, Sorbonne Université, July 5 to 9, 2021. All relevant information will be available on the conference website at the address http://jb60.math.cnrs.fr which will be regularly updated. Registration, via this webpage, is free but mandatory. *Please note that registration will be closed on May 15th. * Given the current pandemic situation, part of the public and of the speakers will have to attend the conference online. As you register, please indicate whether you would agree to participate from home if needed. We will soon contact all registered participants with information about attending the conference in person or remotely. If you have any questions you can contact Franziska Robmann at franziska.robmann(a)math.uzh.ch Please feel free to forward this message to anyone you think might be interested. We hope to see you all in July! Best wishes, Grégory Miermont, for the organizers. -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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ISBA@CIRM (France)
by Julyan Arbel 10 May '21

10 May '21

Dear all, There will be a mirror workshop for ISBA world meeting, 28 June – 2 July, at CIRM in Marseille calanques (France). It is now possible to register to CIRM: https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/2701.html There is no registration fee, the only cost being the full-board on-site accommodation at CIRM to be paid upon arrival. More details: https://xianblog.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/isbcirm-through-the-looking-glass/ Best, Julyan Arbel Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes http://www.julyanarbel.com/ @JulyanArbel

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Internships in supervised machine learning at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain
by Gianni Pagnini 10 May '21

10 May '21

Cari colleghi, Vorrei diffondere attraverso questa mailing-list l’avviso di due possibilità di internship della durata di 3 mesi presso il BCAM di Bilbao su temi legati al machine learning. La scadenza per inviare le domande è il 1 Luglio. I link per accedere alla descrizione delle proposte sono i seguenti http://www.bcamath.org/documentos_public/archivos/internships/BCAM_Internsh… <http://www.bcamath.org/documentos_public/archivos/internships/BCAM_Internsh…> http://www.bcamath.org/documentos_public/archivos/internships/BCAM_Internsh… <http://www.bcamath.org/documentos_public/archivos/internships/BCAM_Internsh…> mentre l’invio delle domande deve avvenire attraverso questo http://www.bcamath.org/en/research/internships <http://www.bcamath.org/en/research/internships> Grazie. Saluti, Gianni — Gianni Pagnini Ikerbasque Research Associate BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics Alameda de Mazarredo, 14 E-48009 Bilbao, Basque Country - Spain Tel. +34 946 567 842 gpagnini(a)bcamath.org | www.bcamath.org/gpagnini ( matematika mugaz bestalde )

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Two postdoc positions at Lille (France)
by Giovanni Conforti 10 May '21

10 May '21

Ricevo e inoltro %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dear colleagues, Two 1-year postdoc positions are available at Institut Mines Télécom (IMT) Lille Douai, France, from September 2021: * with Benoît Henry and David Coupier, Beyond5G project; * with David Coupier, ANR GrHyDy. More informations can be found in the attached files. To be widely distributed, David Coupier

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bando dottorato "Methods and Models for Economic Decisions"
by Enrico Moretto 10 May '21

10 May '21

agli amministratori della lista Random; con la presente chiedo, se del caso, di inviare all'indirizzario RANDOM il seguente annuncio relativo al bando per l'ammissione al dottorato "Methods and Models for Economic Decisions", 37-esimo ciclo, offerto dal Dipartimento di Economia, Università dell'Insubria. Grazie mille. Cordiali saluti, enrico moretto *** Si informano i colleghi interessati, con preghiera di diffusione, che il bando del nuovo ciclo del dottorato "Methods and Models for Economic Decisions" è stato pubblicato sul sito internet dell'Ateneo dell'Insubria ed è disponibile ai seguenti link: https://www.uninsubria.it/la-didattica/dottorati-di-ricerca https://www.uninsubria.it/opportunita/ammissione-al-dottorato-methods-and-m… https://www.uninsubria.eu/programs/phd-doctoral-research Scadenza per le domande: 15 giugno. Cordiali saluti -- Dipartimento di Economia Università dell'Insubria #ChiarementeInsubria https://www.uninsubria.it/hpp/enrico.moretto

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LTI@Unito/CCA webinar in Quantitative Finance: “Self Inflicted Debt Crises”, Theo Dimpoulos (HEC Lausanne) | May 12, 2021 @12:00
by Luca Regis 07 May '21

07 May '21

Dear Colleagues, I am happy to share with you the following invitation to the Quantative Finance webinar organized by LTI@UniTO and Collegio Carlo Alberto, “Self Inflicted Debt Crises” by Theo Dimopoulos (HEC Lausanne), which will take place on Zoom on May 12, at 12.00. Below you find the Zoom link and an abstract of the presentation. Best regards, Luca Regis <#> <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/4a6SaiafujNub6pHriwakj0wncDAbmtUwm…> <#> LTI@Unito and Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto are pleased to invite you to the next webinar <#> *May 12, 2021 | 12:00-13:15* *“Self Inflicted Debt Crises”* *Theo Dimopoulos (HEC Lausanne)* <#> *Abstract*: The restrictions on economic activity in the Covid-19 pandemic have led to a looming debt crisis. In a dynamic model of strategic default and debt renegotiation, we show how to resolve debt crises depending on borrowers’ time-inconsistent preferences. Myopic borrowers misprice their option to default by a U-shaped negative pricing error, which causes imperfect consumption smoothing, underinvestment in normal times, and risk shifting in crisis times. The model shows that bailouts need to be tailored to borrowers’ myopia, that lenders and borrowers ultimately self-inflict debt crises through their strategic interaction, that myopic distress can be cheaper to resolve than rational distress, and that myopia can be beneficial for rational agents. Optimal bailouts either punish or reward myopia through smaller or larger transfers, leading to procrastinated default and protracted crises or the reverse, depending on whether transfers exacerbate or alleviate the borrowers’ misperception of default risk. *Zoom Link*: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86981911369?pwd=enM0c0lRM1BqOUhiNXJ1b1hoRUFkZz09 <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/hbrUdAY_KcHiYFp-zoUEFWWBp9T0Kg0cUl…> Meeting ID: 869 8191 1369 Passcode: 166986 <#> <#> <#> <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/Kc1f2ufQnOOWcPREh0lKmL7Q4fzC6kZTEu…> <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/b-edRrCQzu0enNR_azA3LGWp3pL_izmv84…> <#> FONDAZIONE COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO Piazza Arbarello 8 - 10122 Torino, Italy phone: +390116705000 segreteria(a)carloalberto.org - www.carloalberto.org Facebook <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/Gt2401hi4FK-WGDLZAuu96sNqvjzd4A07j…> Twitter <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/dMAP2G9V5OGEVQgiZTVGvRpJC3GmNfL6Kc…> LinkedIn <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/ZfldktwuWczKYK5tZjUQN--QuFGPkzyS3J…> Instagram <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/lxHhxw7_pN8bfa4lRN1Ro0KNXDKFYNSqGI…> Youtube <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/toZ5omiJqAM-e_mmWMFepsHZKCAJ2-Skq2…> <#> *INFORMATION UNDER THE NEW GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)* Your personal information has been gathered for the exclusive purpose of informing you about the Collegio's initiatives, considering our and your legitimate interest or your consent. If you wish to have your personal data modified please contact Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto, piazza Arbarello 8, 1022 Torino, Italy - phone: +390116705000 - privacy(a)carloalberto.org *Unsubscribe* <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/un/VBSMfA5QdgOL83sSDLP1ssvlYSrtMdGDR3mB…> <#> © 2021 Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto

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Phd Position at the Turin and Pau Universities
by Bruno Toaldo 07 May '21

07 May '21

The PhD School of the University of Turin, in the context of the PhD course in "Modeling and Data Science", offers: 1 PhD position on the project "Numerical approximations of non-local parabolic equations based on stochastic and finite elements methods and applications", starting on Nov 1, 2021. The project is a joint research initiative of the Stochastic group in the Dept. of Mathematics at the University of Turin (Italy) and the Numerical Analysis group in the "Laboratoire de Mathématique et de leurs applications" at the University of Pau (France). The advertised position will be based in both universities and will offer ample freedom to suitably organize the stay in the two cities. The possibility of double PhD Degree could be considered. The gross salary is 1458/month during the stay in Turin and could be increased of about 50% during the period in Pau. Embedded in a truly international environment, the student will get excellent research training in a structured programme focussing on challenges at the mathematical foundations of the stochastic and numerical approach to PDEs as well as on challenges arising from its various applications, e.g., in physics, biology, finance or data science. The combined expertise from the Turin and Pau groups will provide a significant breadth in depth and fertile ground for our student's ambitious research ideas. Successful candidates will have an MSc degree (or equivalent) in Mathematics (or a closely related field such as Applied Mathematics, Computational Science, Physics or Statistics), strong knowledge on stochastic processes or numerical methods, and feel eager to engage in the exchange of ideas with the teams in both Turin and Pau. For further information, please contact Bruno Toaldo: bruno.toaldo(a)unito.it -- Prima di stampare, pensa all'ambiente ** Think about the environment before printing Please don't send me Word or PowerPoint attachments if not absolutely necessary. See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.en.html <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html>

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Seminar announcement
by Marco Scarsini 07 May '21

07 May '21

Thursday, 13 May, 17:00 CEST *Yiling Chen,* Harvard University Forecast Aggregation via Peer Prediction <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQBAIDSAULBwNOVgFdBQs> Discussants: Ville Satopää and Aris Filos-Ratsikas The paper can be found here <https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.03779>. This is the link to the Virtual Room <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAAYBSAULBwNOVgFdBQs>. If you want to receive the password to access the virtual room, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDxM-M5ogG43elgjC-lNCp0BDhISiZHG0…> (If you filled it out in the past, this is not necessary). The schedule of the upcoming seminars can be found here <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/seminars/2020-2021-seminars>. ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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BAYSM 2021: extended deadline for registration & abstract submission
by Federico Camerlenghi 07 May '21

07 May '21

Dear all, This is a friendly reminder that the Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting (BAYSM2021) will take place online on September 1-3, 2021. We are also happy to announce that the registration deadline has been extended to the end of May. The registration link is https://events.stat.uconn.edu/BAYSM2021/ . Although the conference will be free, registration is mandatory. Young researchers interested in giving a talk or presenting a poster are invited to *submit an extended abstract by May 31, 2021* during the registration process. Our decisions will be emailed by the end of June. *The extended abstract should be written according to the template and instructions provided on the registration page.* The template is downloadable from the "Resources" section on the website. For organizational reasons, we kindly ask all the interested researchers to register even if they just want to attend the meeting. The deadline for registration is again May 31, 2021. 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://events.stat.uconn.edu/BAYSM2021/ Or write an email to baysm.isba(a)gmail.com On behalf of the BAYSM2021 organizing committee. -- Federico Camerlenghi Assistant Professor RTDb Department of Economics, Management and Statistics University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy. web-page: https://www.unimib.it/federico-camerlenghi

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Pisa Online Seminars - Michael Högele and Alessandra Caraceni (Tuesday, May 11 at 16:00 and 17:00)
by Giacomo Filippo Di Gesu 06 May '21

06 May '21

Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to the following online seminar organized by the Probability group of the University of Pisa. The two talks will be accessible under the link Click here to join<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:af3d635091e049579e555a84219ab3…"Tid":"c7456b31-a220-47f5-be52-473828670aa1","Oid":"dfd1e5f6-331d-43e0-a180-4bb6ce727fb7"}> Best regards, Giacomo Tuesday, May 11, 16:00 Speaker: Michael Högele (Universidad de los Andes) Title: Cutoff thermalization for Ornstein-Uhlenbeck systems with small Lévy noise in the Wasserstein distance Abstract: This talk presents recent results on cutoff thermalization (also known as the cutoff phenomenon) for a general class of asymptotically exponentially stable Ornstein-Uhlenbeck systems under ε-small additive Lévy noise. The driving noise processes include Brownian motion, α-stable Lévy flights, finite intensity compound Poisson processes and red noises and may be highly degenerate. Window cutoff thermalization is shown under generic mild assumptions, that is, we see an asymptotically sharp ∞/0-collapse of the renormalized Wasserstein distance from the current state to the equilibrium measure μ^ε along a time window centered in a precise ε-dependent time scale t_ε . In many interesting situations such as reversible (Lévy) diffusions it is possible to prove the existence of an explicit, universal, deterministic cutoff thermalization profile. The existence of this limit is characterized by the absence of non-normal growth patterns in terms of an orthogonality condition on a computable family of generalized eigenvectors of the matrix Q. With this piece of theory at hand this article provides a complete discussion of the cutoff phenomenon for the classical linear oscillator with friction subject to ε-small Brownian motion or α-stable Lévy flights. Furthermore, we cover the highly degenerate case of a linear chain of oscillators in a generalized heat bath at low temperature. Tuesday, May 11, 17:00 Speaker: Alessandra Caraceni (University of Oxford) Title: Polynomial mixing time for edge flips on planar maps Abstract: A long-standing problem proposed by David Aldous consists in giving a sharp upper bound for the mixing time of the so-called “triangulation walk”, a Markov chain defined on the set of all possible triangulations of the regular n-gon. A single step of the chain consists in performing a random edge flip, i.e. in choosing an (internal) edge of the triangulation uniformly at random and, with probability 1/2, replacing it with the other diagonal of the quadrilateral formed by the two triangles adjacent to the edge in question (with probability 1/2, the triangulation is left unchanged). While it has been shown that the relaxation time for the triangulation walk is polynomial in n and bounded below by a multiple of n^{3/2}, the conjectured sharpness of the lower bound remains firmly out of reach in spite of the apparent simplicity of the chain. For edge flip chains on different models – such as planar maps, quadrangulations of the sphere, lattice triangulations and other geometric graphs – even less is known. We shall discuss results concerning the mixing time of random edge flips on rooted quadrangulations of the sphere obtained in joint work with Alexandre Stauffer. A “growth scheme” for quadrangulations, which generates a uniform quadrangulation of the sphere by adding faces one at a time at appropriate random locations, can be combined with careful combinatorial constructions to build probabilistic canonical paths in a relatively novel way. This method has implications for a range of interesting edge-manipulating Markov chains on so-called Catalan structures, from “leaf translations” on plane trees to “edge rotations” on general planar maps. ************************ Giacomo Di Gesù Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Pisa Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 5 56127 - Pisa, Italy giacomo.digesu(a)unipi.it<mailto:giacomo.digesu@unipi.it> https://sites.google.com/site/giacomodigesu/

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bando per RTDB in SECS-S/06 a Pavia
by benedetta.ferrario 05 May '21

05 May '21

Presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Aziendali dell'Università di Pavia è stato bandito un posto RTD-B nel settore SECS-S/06, consultabile al link http://wcm-3.unipv.it/site/home/ateneo/bandi-e-concorsi/concorsi-per-person… Scadenza presentazione domande: 3 giugno 2021 ore 12.00. Si prega di dare la massima diffusione presso tutti gli interessati.

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Seminar Aernout van Enter
by Massimo Campanino 05 May '21

05 May '21

Aernout van Enter ONE-SIDED VERSUS TWO-SIDED STOCHASTIC PROCESSES Thursday the 6th of May 3 pm (Italian time) Stochastic processes can be parametrised by time (such as occurs in Markov chains), in which case conditioning is one-sided (on the past) or by one-dimensional space (which is the case, for example, for one-dimensional Markov fields), where conditioning is two-sided (on the right and on the left). I will discuss some examples, in particular generalising this distinction to g-measures versus Gibbs measures, where, instead of a Markovian dependence, the weaker property of continuity (in the product topology) is considered. In particular I will discuss when the two descriptions (one-sided or two-sided) produce the same objects and when they are different. We show moreover the role one-dimensional entropic repulsion plays in this setting. Based on joint work with R. Bissacot, E. Endo and A. Le Ny, and S. Shlosman ________________________________ Zoom link https://unibo.zoom.us/s/98736182682?zak=eyJ6bV9za20iOiJ6bV9vMm0iLCJhbGciOiJ… Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting<https://unibo.zoom.us/s/98736182682?zak=eyJ6bV9za20iOiJ6bV9vMm0iLCJhbGciOiJ…> Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done. Zoom is a publicly traded company headquartered in San Jose, CA. unibo.zoom.us

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"SPDEs & friends" May 30, June 1-2
by Luisa Andreis 05 May '21

05 May '21

Dear colleagues, I forward this workshop announcement I’ve just received. Best regards, Luisa Andreis %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dear all, We are organizing an online workshop on SPDEs which will take place from May 31st-June 2nd and feature many prominent speakers (Sandra Cerrai, Dan Crisan, Nina Holden, Nicolai Krylov, Jonathan Mattingly, Nicolas Perkowski, Jeremy Quastel, etc). http://page.math.tu-berlin.de/~tapia/spdes/ <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fpage.math.tu-berlin.de%2F~tapia…> The basic plan is to have six 35-minute talks by different speakers per day, and each talk will be followed by a 15-minute discussion session. The participation is open to everyone, but for organizational purposes we would like to ask people who are interested in attending the workshop to complete the registration form https://forms.gle/G9Xw942iVNNgB4SLA <https://forms.gle/G9Xw942iVNNgB4SLA?fbclid=IwAR3iCpxoI2ACqgqUoSBjxpFsA8_2R1…> Please feel free to forward this email to interested friends, students, collaborators, and colleagues of yours! We are looking forward to seeing you at the event. Best regards, The organizers Oleg Butkovsky Peter Friz Nikolas Tapia

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Fwd: [owps] OWPS: talks tomorrow
by Faggionato, Alessandra 05 May '21

05 May '21

Buongiorno giro l'annuncio del OWPS di domani. Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com> Date: mer 5 mag 2021 alle ore 08:12 Subject: [owps] OWPS: talks tomorrow To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk> Dear All, we have two talks tomorrow. Remember that we start 14:00 UTC which is 16:00 CET! 14:00-15:00 UTC Christina Goldschmidt The stable graph: the scaling limit of critical random graphs with i.i.d. random degrees having power-law tails Abstract: Consider a graph with label set \{1,2, \ldots,n\} chosen uniformly at random from those such that vertex i has degree D_i, where D_1, D_2, \ldots, D_n are i.i.d. strictly positive random variables. The condition for criticality (i.e. the threshold for the emergence of a giant component) in this setting is E[D^2] = 2 E[D], and we assume additionally that P(D = k) \sim c k^{-(\alpha + 2)} as k tends to infinity, for some \alpha \in (1,2). In this situation, it turns out that the largest components have sizes on the order of n^{\alpha/(\alpha+1)}. Building on earlier work of Adrien Joseph, we show that the components have scaling limits which can be related to a forest of stable trees (à la Duquesne-Le Gall-Le Jan) via an absolute continuity relation. This gives a natural generalisation of the scaling limit for the Erd\H{o}s-Renyi random graph (obtained in collaboration with Louigi Addario-Berry and Nicolas Broutin a few years ago, extending results of Aldous), which we call the stable graph. This complements recent work on random graph scaling limits by various authors including Bhamidi, Broutin, Duquesne, van der Hofstad, van Leeuwaarden, Riordan, Sen, M. Wang and X. Wang. 15:00 - 16:00 UTC Bénédicte Haas Distributional properties of the stable graphs Abstract: In this talk we will investigate some distributional properties of the connected components of the stable graphs introduced by Christina in the previous talk. We recall that for $\alpha \in (1,2]$, the $\alpha$-stable graph arises as the universal scaling limit of critical random graphs with i.i.d. degrees having an $\alpha$-dependent power-law tail behavior. Consider a connected component of such a graph. Our aim will be: (1) to describe the distribution of its kernel and more generally of its discrete finite-dimensional marginals, (2) to explicit its distribution as a collection of $\alpha$-stable trees glued on the kernel, and (3) present a line-breaking construction, in the same spirit as Aldous’ line-breaking construction of the Brownian CRT. Based on a joint work with Christina Goldschmidt and Delphin Sénizergues. The Zoom link is on the OWPS webpage. It can also be accessed directly via Zoom-link: https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/68722718449 <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftum-conf.…> Meeting ID: 687 2271 8449 Passcode: 054920 We hope to see you tomorrow! Best wishes, Julien and Nina -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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International Conference in Venice - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Monica Billio 04 May '21

04 May '21

20th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CREDIT 2021 *Compound Risk: Climate, Disaster, Finance, Pandemic * Venice, Italy 23 –24 September 2021 * * *GRETA Associati* (Venice, Italy), *Cattolica Assicurazioni* (Verona, Italy), *European Datawarehouse *(Frankfurt, Germany), *European Investment Bank* (Luxembourg), *European Investment Fund *(Luxembourg) and *Intesa Sanpaolo *(Milan, Italy) are co-sponsors of a Conference to be held in Venice on September 23-24, 2021. The Conference CREDIT 2021 will bring together academics, practitioners and PhD students working in various areas of financial and credit risk with the aim to create a unique opportunity for participants to discuss research progress and policy and industry-relevant insights as well as directions for future research. Credit 2021 is the *twentieth *in a series of events dedicated to various aspects of credit risk and organised under the auspices of the *Department of Economics* and *VERA - Venice centre in Economic and Risk Analytics for public policies - of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice*, *ABI - Italian Banking Association*,***AIAF - Associazione Italiana per l'Analisi Finanziaria* and the *Joint Research Center, European Commission* (Ispra, Italy). The theme of this year’s conference is the relation between financial risk on the one hand and pandemic, climate and disaster risk, on the other hand, with particular attention to the possible compounding of different sources of risk. The past year, 2020, has been marked by the still-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic crisis, which has shown how fragile our economic systems can be when confronted with shocks that threaten public health and the closeness of the connections between economic and financial risks and public policy. Climate change is now widely recognized as a new source of financial risk which is relevant both at the level of households and individual institutions and the systemic level. In particular, the many central banks and financial institutions that have joined the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) have issued recommendations on how to integrate climate considerations into risk management strategies and practices. However, risks such as pandemics and climate change do not occur in isolation but can also compound, as has already been seen in several countries. The compounding of risk, which is currently poorly understood, increases the complexity of risk assessment and risk management, and it has implications for socio-economic development, as well as for public debt sustainability. In the EU, these aspects have major implications for efforts to increase the resilience of the economy to future shocks and to “build back better”, and requires the alignment of COVID-19 recovery policies, such as those supported by the NextGenerationEU, and the EU Green Deal and the Paris Agreement targets. The organizers of CREDIT 2021 encourage submissions on a range of topics of relevance to this year’s theme including: finance and COVID-19; finance and climate risks; finance and compound COVID-19 and climate risks. In particular, submissions are welcome in the following areas: • INVESTMENTS: Sustainable Finance, Disaster risk finance; Finance 4 good; public finance; blended finance. • POLICIES: Climate Policies, European Green New Deal; Next Generation EU; Recovery Plan. • INFORMATION: Data gaps; modelling challenges; risk transmission channels; uncertainty; complexity. The final program will include both submitted and invited papers. Acceptances received so far from invited speakers include *Vittoria Colizza *(INSERM, France), *Robert Engle *(Stern Business School, New York University) and *Roberto Rigobon* (MIT Sloan School of Management) who will deliver keynotes, respectively on finance and on epidemics. The Conference will also feature panel discussions on researchers', practitioners' and policy makers’ views of the major issues at stake. The SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE for the Conference consists of: • * Stefano Battiston *(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & University of Zurich, Programme Chair) • * Monica Billio *(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & GRETA) • * Francesca Campolongo *(Joint Research Center, European Commission) • *Vittoria Colizza* (INSERM, France) • * Helmut Kraemer-Eis* (European Investment Fund) • * Jan Pieter Krahnen* (Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE & Goethe University, Frankfurt) • *Irene Monasterolo *(Vienna University of Economics and Business) • *Steven Ongena* (University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute, KU Leuven & CEPR) • *Roberto Rigobon* (MIT Sloan School of Management) • *Stephen Schaefer* (London Business School) CALL FOR PAPERS Those wishing to present a paper at the Conference should submit by *May 31, 2021 *to the address given below (preferably in electronic format). Please indicate to whom correspondence should be addressed. Decisions regarding acceptance will be made by *June 30, 2021*. The final version of accepted papers must be received by August 31, 2021. Please send papers to: GRETA Associati, San Polo, 2605 - 30125 Venice, ITALY Phone : +39 041 5238178 - e-mail: credit(a)greta.it <mailto:credit@greta.it> More detailed information available on the Conference website: https://www.greta.it/index.php/it/credit-2021 <https://www.greta.it/index.php/it/credit-2021>

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Open PhD position in Mathematics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
by Alessandro Zocca 04 May '21

04 May '21

Dear colleagues, There is an open fully-funded 4-year PhD position under my supervision at the Department of Mathematics of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The PhD project will focus on learning and stochastic optimization for power networks, which are increasingly affected by uncertainty due to a quickly growing adoption of renewable energy sources. The project aims at using and expanding mathematical knowledge to better understand and optimize these complex networks, especially in combination with the large amount of newly-available data. The PhD candidate will use modern methods in (stochastic) optimization, applied probability, operations research, and learning theory to develop both new theory and algorithms. The preferred starting date is September 1, 2021. The candidates are expected to have a Master's degree in Mathematics or Operations Research, and a solid background in stochastics and optimization. For more information (including eligibility criteria, salary, and employment conditions) see https://workingat.vu.nl/ad/phd-position-on-learning-and-stochastic-optimiza…. Please apply online at the same link, the deadline is June 1, 2021, but early applications are encouraged. If you have any further questions regarding this vacancy, feel free to reach out to me by email at a.zocca(a)vu.nl. Please feel free to advertise this position further and bring it to the attention of potentially interested candidates. Thank you in advance. Best wishes, Alessandro ================================= Alessandro Zocca (he/his) Assistant Professor Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Department of Mathematics https://sites.google.com/site/zoccaale/

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(PMS)^2 online talk: Guangqu Zheng, Monday May 10 at 17:30
by Maurizia Rossi 03 May '21

03 May '21

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the following online talk: Speaker: *Guangqu Zheng* (University of Kansas) Title: *Malliavin derivatives of hyperbolic Anderson model with applications to its absolute continuity and spatial averages.* Date and time: *Monday May 10, 17:30-18:30 (Rome time zone)* Abstract: see below. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83843864962?pwd=NlNadHhIRkdzYUErZWJpbTNJaytDUT09 Meeting ID: 838 4386 4962 Passcode: 5gVVXb This talk is the second of the *(PMS)^2: Pavia-Milano Seminar series on Probability and Mathematical Statistics* organized jointly by the universities Milano-Bicocca, Pavia, Milano-Politecnico and Milano-Statale. Participation is free and welcome! (though limited to 100 participants for technical reasons) Best regards The organizers (Mario Maurelli, Carlo Orrieri, Maurizia Rossi, Margherita Zanella) *Abstract:* In this talk, we present recent work on the hyperbolic Anderson model driven by a space-time colored Gaussian homogeneous noise with spatial dimension one and two. Under mild assumptions, we provide Lp-estimates of the iterated Malliavin derivatives of the solution in terms of the fundamental solution of the wave solution. We present two applications: (1) We present quantitative central limit theorems for spatial averages of the solution to the hyperbolic Anderson model, where the rates of convergence are described by the total variation distance. These quantitative results have been elusive so far due to the temporal correlation of the noise blocking us from using the Itô calculus. (2) We establish the absolute continuity of the law for the hyperbolic Anderson model. The Lp-estimates of Malliavin derivatives are crucial ingredients to verify a local version of Bouleau-Hirsch criterion for absolute continuity. Our approach substantially simplifies the arguments for the one-dimensional case, which has been studied in the recent work by Balan, Quer-Sardanyons and Song (2019). This talk is based on the joint work (arXiv:2101.10957) with *R. Balan*, *D. Nualart* and *L. Quer-Sardanyons* (2021). - - - Maurizia Rossi Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Università di Milano-Bicocca

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Seminar Antonio Linero @Bocconi - May 6th
by Giacomo Zanella 03 May '21

03 May '21

We announce the following DEC Statistics webinar at Bocconi: Date: Thursday, May 6, h17:00 (Italy time) Speaker: Antonio Linero (UT Austin) Title: Bayesian Decision Tree Ensembling Strategies for Nonparametric Problems Abstract: In this talk we will make the case for using Bayesian decision tree ensembles, such as Bayesian additive regression trees (BART), for addressing some fully-nonparametric problems. We present models for density regression and survival analysis, and argue that our approaches are both easier to use and more effective than more standard Bayesian nonparametric solutions (such as those based on mixture models). On the applied side, we show how to use our models to extract interesting features across several datasets. On the theoretical side, we also show that our models attain minimax-optimal rates of convergence of the posterior in high-dimensional settings. Throughout the talk, we will emphasize the flexibility and ease-of-use of our approach: all simulation and real data analyses attain excellent results using heuristically chosen "default" priors, and it is quite straight-forward for researchers (both in-principle and in-practice) to embed our ensembles in larger models. The webinar will be on zoom at: https://zoom.us/j/95265599865?pwd=NlEwVWFjNktjNkx5VjZFZmFLVGh0UT09 Meeting ID: 952 6559 9865 Passcode: 634366 Kind regards, Giacomo Zanella

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Fwd: PhD and postdoc position
by Francesco Caravenna 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Ricevo e inoltro. > Da: Martina Hofmanova <hofmanova(a)math.uni-bielefeld.de> > Oggetto: PhD and postdoc position > Data: 30 aprile 2021 11:04:15 CEST > > Dear colleagues, > > I would like to draw your attention to the open positions (1 postdoc, 1 PhD student) in my group (the starting date is flexible) > > https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/466/research-position?page_lang=en <https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/466/research-position?page_lang=en> > > https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/477/research-position?page_lang=en <https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/477/research-position?page_lang=en> > > I would be happy if you could share the information further and forward it to possible candidates. > > Thank you in advance. > > Best regards, > Martina

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Seminar announcement
by Marco Scarsini 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Thursday, 5 May, 17:00 CEST *Marta Blangiardo,* Imperial College Estimating Weekly Excess Mortality at Sub-National Level in Italy during the COVID-19 Pandemic <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQBAcGSAULAwdOVgFdBQs> Discussants: Marcus Ebeling and Javier Rubio This is the link to the Virtual Room <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAAYBSAULAwdOVgFdBQs>. If you want to receive the password to access the virtual room, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDxM-M5ogG43elgjC-lNCp0BDhISiZHG0…> (If you filled it out in the past, this is not necessary). The schedule of the upcoming seminars can be found here <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/seminars/2020-2021-seminars>. ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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Fwd: Post-Doc position at the University of Basel
by Francesco Caravenna 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Ricevo e inoltro. > Da: David Belius <david.belius(a)unibas.ch> > Oggetto: Post-Doc position at the University of Basel > Data: 22 aprile 2021 14:39:55 CEST > > Dear Colleagues, > > I am looking to fill a Post-Doc position at the University of Basel in Switzerland funded by my Swiss National Science Foundation Project "Hierarchical Structure and the Extrema of Correlated Random Fields". The candidate will work with myself, my group and my collaborators on high dimensional statistical physics problems such as the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick and related models. Topics will include critical point complexity and the development of a mathematically rigorous TAP approach. > > The starting date is 1 September 2021 (there is a bit of flexibility) with a planned duration of two years. Candidates should contact me by e-mail with a CV. Please forward this e-mail to anyone you think may be interested, and feel free to contact me about potential candidates directly. > > Best Regards, > David Belius > > -- > _______________________________ > David Belius | SNF Professor > Department of Mathematics and Computer Science | University of Basel > david.belius(a)unibas.ch <mailto:david.belius@unibas.ch> | +41 61 207 55 82 | Spiegelgasse 1, 4051 Basel, Switzerland > https://probability.dmi.unibas.ch/belius <https://probability.dmi.unibas.ch/belius>

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Corso on Frequency domain approach to time series analysis
by Elvira Di Nardo 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Cari colleghi, nell’ambito del programma di Visiting Professors della Laurea Magistrale in Stochastics and Data Science dell’Università di Torino (programma completo alla pagina https://www.master-sds.unito.it/go/visiting), verrà svolto il seguente corso on-line: -------------------------------------- Luis Alberiko Gil-Alana (University of Navarra, Spain) A FREQUENCY DOMAIN COURSE ON TIME SERIES ANALYSIS This course deals with the analysis of time series. After a short review in the time domain, focusing on aspects such as autocovariances, estimation, testing, Box-Jenkins methodology, seasonality, prediction and non-stationary issues, the course will focus on the frequency domain, introducing the spectral distribution function or spectrum along with the spectral density function, the periodogram and other issues such as long memory processes. -------------------------------------- Il corso si svolgerà online secondo il seguente calendario - mar 4 Maggio, h.11.15-13.15 - ven 7 Maggio, h.10.15-12.15 - mar 11 Maggio, h.11.15-13.15 - ven 14 Maggio, h.10.15-12.15 - mar 18 Maggio, h.11.15-13.15 - ven 21 Maggio, h.10.15-12.15 - mar 25 Maggio, h.11.15-13.15 - ven 28 Maggio, h.10.15-12.15 Il corso è rivolto agli studenti della Laurea Magistrale ma la partecipazione è aperta a tutti gli interessati. Chi fosse interessato, può contattarmi privatamente (elvira.dinardo(a)unito.it) per essere incluso nella lista dei partecipanti e ricevere il collegamento Webex. Cordiali saluti, Elvira Di Nardo -- %------------------------------------------------------- Elvira Di Nardo Dept. Mathematics "G. Peano" University of Torino Via Carlo Alberto 10 10123 Torino, Italia tel. +39 0116702862 fax +39 0116702878 http://www.elviradinardo.it %-------------------------------------------------------

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IMPORTANT: Seminar announcement - Petter Kolm (April 28 at 4 pm) CANCELLED
by Giulia Livieri 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Dear all, We are very sorry for the short notice. Unfortunately, we have to postpone — the date will be communicated soon — the seminar of today for a last-minute setback of the speakers; He is really sorry for this. We will communicate the new date for the latter by Petter Kolm soon. Sorry again, Best, Giulia

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Fwd: [owps] talks tomorrow april 29
by Faggionato, Alessandra 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Buongiorno, giro l'annuncio del OWPS per chi fosse interessato. Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com> Date: mer 28 apr 2021 alle ore 14:04 Subject: [owps] talks tomorrow april 29 To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk> Dear All, we have two talks tomorrow. Remember that we start 14:00 UTC which is 16:00 CET! 14:00-15:00 UTC Bastien Mallein Tail behaviour of the derivative martingale in a branching random walk A branching random walk is a discrete-time particle system on the real line in which every particle gives independently birth to offspring positioned around the position of their parent. The derivative martingale of the branching random walk is a stochastic process which allows to measure the number of particles traveling at maximal speed in this process. Under some general integrability conditions uncovered by Aïdékon (2013) and Chen (2015), we know the derivative martingale converges a.s. to a non-negative limit. Recently, Maillard and Pain (2019) obtained a necessary and sufficient condition on the reproduction law of the branching Brownian motion under which the convergence of the derivative martingale satisfies a specific central limit theorem. In this talk, based on a joint work with Alexander Iksanov and Dariusz Buraczewski, we extend their result to branching random walk settings. The proof is based on the characterization of subharmonic functions of the killed random walk with at most linear growth. 15:00 - 16:00 UTC Hui He Deviation probabilities for the maximum of a branching random walk. Consider a supercritical branching random walk on real line started from the origin. Under some mild conditions, it is proved by Aïdékon (2013) that its centered maximum converges in law. In this talk, we will review some recent results on the large/lower deviation probabilities of the maximum. The talk is based on joint works with Xinxin Chen and Bastien Mallein. The Zoom link is on the OWPS webpage. It can also be accessed directly via https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/66226509320 <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftum-conf.…> Meeting-ID: 662 2650 9320 Kenncode: 710554 We hope to see you tomorrow! Best wishes, Julien and Nina ID: 662 2650 932 -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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Seminar Aernout van Enter
by Massimo Campanino 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Aernout van Enter ONE-SIDED VERSUS TWO-SIDED STOCHASTIC PROCESSES Thursday the 6th of May 3 pm (Italian time) Stochastic processes can be parametrised by time (such as occurs in Markov chains), in which case conditioning is one-sided (on the past) or by one-dimensional space (which is the case, for example, for one-dimensional Markov fields), where conditioning is two-sided (on the right and on the left). I will discuss some examples, in particular generalising this distinction to g-measures versus Gibbs measures, where, instead of a Markovian dependence, the weaker property of continuity (in the product topology) is considered. In particular I will discuss when the two descriptions (one-sided or two-sided) produce the same objects and when they are different. We show moreover the role one-dimensional entropic repulsion plays in this setting. Based on joint work with R. Bissacot, E. Endo and A. Le Ny, and S. Shlosman ________________________________ Zoom link https://unibo.zoom.us/s/98736182682?zak=eyJ6bV9za20iOiJ6bV9vMm0iLCJhbGciOiJ… Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting<https://unibo.zoom.us/s/98736182682?zak=eyJ6bV9za20iOiJ6bV9vMm0iLCJhbGciOiJ…> Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done. Zoom is a publicly traded company headquartered in San Jose, CA. unibo.zoom.us

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Padova Online Seminar by Gioia Carinci (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia) [Friday, May 7 at 14.30]
by alessandra bianchi 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar that will take place on May 7 at 14.30 by the zoom platform. ________________________________________________________ Speaker: Gioia Carinci (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia) Title: Condensation of SIP particles and sticky Brownian motion 7 MAY (Friday) - 14:30 zoom link: TBA available on the webpage https://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/seminari/ ) Abstract: The symmetric inclusion process (SIP) is a particle system with attractive interaction. We study its behavior in the condensation regime attained for large values of the attraction intensity. Using Mosco convergence of Dirichlet forms, we prove convergence to sticky Brownian motion for the distance of two SIP particles. We use this result to obtain, via duality, an explicit scaling for the variance of the density field in this regime, for the SIP initially started from a homogeneous product measure. This provides relevant new information on the coarsening dynamics of condensing particle systems on the infinite lattice. Joint works with M. Ayala, C Giardina and F. Redig -- Alessandra Bianchi Dip. di Matematica Università di Padova Via Trieste, 63 - 35121 Padova, Italy phone: +39 049 827 14 06 fax: +39 049 827 14 28 e-mail: bianchi(a)math.unipd.it http://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/

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webinars PRISMA Biagini-Colaneri
by c.ceci＠unich.it 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

Buongiorno a tutti, abbiamo il piacere di annunciare il quarto appuntamento del ciclo di seminari online promosso dal Gruppo UMI PRISMA. May 3,2021 - 16:00-17:00 (CET) Francesca Biagini Reduced-form setting under model uncertainty with non-linear affine Intensities. - 17:00-18:00 (CET) Katia Colaneri Classical solutions of the Backward PIDE for Markov modulated Marked Point Processes and applications to catastrophic bonds. Abstract Francesca Biagini: In this talk we present a market model including financial assets and life insurance liabilities within a reduced-form framework under model uncertainty by following [1]. In particular we extend this framework to include mortality intensities following an affine process under parameter uncertainty, as defined in [2].This allows both to introduce the definition of a longevity bond under model uncertainty in a consistent way with the classical case under one prior, as well as to compute it by explicit formulas or by numerical methods. We also study conditions to guarantee the existence of a càdlàg modification for the longevity bond’s value process. Furthermore, we show how the resulting market model extended with the longevity bond is arbitrage-free and study arbitrage-free pricing of contingent claims or life insurance liabilities in this setting. This talk is based on: [1] Francesca Biagini and Yinglin Zhang. Reduced-form framework under model uncertainty. The Annals of Applied Probability, 29(4):2481–2522, 2019. [2] Francesca Biagini and Katharina Oberpriller. Reduced-form framework under model uncertainty. Preprint University of Munich and Gran Sasso Science Institute, 2020. [3] Tolulope Fadina, Ariel Neufeld, and Thorsten Schmidt. Affine processes under parameter uncertainty. Probability, Uncertainty and Quantitative Risk <https://link.springer.com/journal/41546> volume 4 (5), 2019. Abstract Katia Colaneri: We give conditions ensuring that the backward partial integro differential equation (PIDE) associated with a multidimensional jump-diffusion with a pure jump component has a unique classical solution. Our proof uses a probabilistic arguments and extends the results of (Pham 1998) to processes with a pure jump component where the jump intensity is modulated by a diffusion process. This result is particularly useful in some applications to pricing and hedging of financial and actuarial instruments, and we provide an example to pricing of catastrophic (CAT) bonds. Collegamento Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ad685b25ed15f4821ac5168e63cf9… Tutte le informazioni le trovate anche alla pagina http://www.umi-prisma.polito.it/webinars.html Grazie per l’attenzione, Claudia Ceci e Domenico Marinucci ******************************************** Claudia Ceci Dipartimento di Economia Universita' "G. d'Annunzio" di Chieti-Pescara V.le Pindaro 42 65127, Pescara, ITALY c.ceci(a)unich.it *******************************************

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Seminar announcement - Petter Kolm (April 28 at 4 pm)
by Fabrizio Lillo 25 Apr '21

25 Apr '21

*Wednesday April 28 at 4pm (CEST):* Petter Kolm (NYU, Courant Institute) *Title*: Feature Selection in Jump Models *Abstract*: Jump models switch infrequently between states to fit a sequence of data while taking the ordering of the data into account. In this talk, we propose a new framework for joint feature selection, parameter and state-sequence estimation in jump models. Feature selection is necessary in high-dimensional settings where the number of features is large compared to the number of observations and the underlying states differ only with respect to a subset of the features. We develop and implement a coordinate descent algorithm that alternates between selecting the features and estimating the model parameters and state sequence, which scales to large data sets with large numbers of (noisy) features. We demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed framework by comparing it with a number of other methods on both simulated and real data in the form of financial returns, protein sequences, and text. The resulting sparse jump model outperforms all other methods considered and is remarkably robust to noise. This is joint work with Erik Lindstrom and Peter Nystrup The link for joining the meeting is: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NjVmYWI3OTMtZWZkYy00… Best regards Fabrizio Lillo ---------------------------------------- Fabrizio Lillo Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bologna Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa ITALY Personal website: fabriziolillo.wordpress.com University website: www.unibo.it/sitoweb/fabrizio.lillo <http://fabriziolillo.wordpress.com/> phone: +39 050509159

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Seminar announcement
by Marco Scarsini 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

Thursday, 29 April, 17:00 CEST *Carri Chan,* Columbia University Prediction-Driven Surge Planning with Applications in the Emergency Department <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQBwwLSAULAAdOVgFdBQs> Optimizing emergency department (ED) nurse staffing decisions to balance the quality of service and staffing cost can be extremely challenging, especially when there is a high level of uncertainty in patient-demand. Increasing data availability and continuing advancements in predictive analytics provide an opportunity to mitigate demand-rate uncertainty by utilizing demand forecasts. In this work, we study a two-stage prediction framework that is synchronized with the base (made months in advance) and surge (made nearly real-time) staffing decisions in the ED. We quantify the benefit of the more expensive surge staffing. We also propose a near-optimal two-stage staffing policy that is straightforward to interpret and implement. Lastly, we develop a unified framework that combines parameter estimation, real-time demand forecasts, and staffing in the ED. High fidelity ED simulation experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework can reduce staffing costs by 8% – 17% while guaranteeing timely access to care. Joint work with Jing Dong and Yue Hu. Discussants: Vahid Sarhangian and Julien Grand-Clément This is the link to the Virtual Room <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAAYBSAULAAdOVgFdBQs>. If you want to receive the password to access the virtual room, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDxM-M5ogG43elgjC-lNCp0BDhISiZHG0…> (If you filled it out in the past, this is not necessary). The schedule of the upcoming seminars can be found here <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/seminars/2020-2021-seminars>. ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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Webinar "Near-maxima and near-records", by F. Javier López Lorente
by Antonio DI CRESCENZO 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

---------- Forwarded message --------- Dear colleagues, We kindly invite you to attend the SPA Webinar *"Near-maxima and near-records"*, by F. Javier López Lorente (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain), on April 29, 2021, Thursday, at 16:30 p.m. (UTC+2). You may read the abstract at: blogs.mat.ucm.es/presa/our-webinar If you wish to attend this SPA Webinar, please send an email to the organizers (agcorral(a)ucm.es). You will receive an email with the link to access the seminar a few hours before the seminar starts. The SPA Webinar Series is organized by the Working Group on *"Stochastic Processes and their Applications"* of the Spanish Society for Statistics and Operations Research. With best regards, Miguel González Velasco & Antonio Gómez-Corral *Coordinators of the Working Group* -- *Antonio Gómez-Corral* Facultad de Ciencias Matemáticas Plaza de Ciencias 3 Universidad Complutense de Madrid 28040 Madrid Teléfono: +34 91 394 44 28 E-mail: agcorral(a)ucm.es Web page: blogs.mat.ucm.es/agomez-corral Las matemáticas de la pandemia (CSIC-Catarata, 2020): blogs.mat.ucm.es/agomez-corral/2020/11/07/las-matematicas-de-la-pandemia/ Antes de imprimir este correo piense si es necesario: el medio ambiente es cosa de todos. Before printing this mail please consider whether it is really necessary: the environment is a concern for us all.

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Webinar in Statistics MATTHIAS LOFFLER
by Pierpaolo De Blasi 23 Apr '21

23 Apr '21

WEBINARS IN STATISTICS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO <https://www.carloalberto.org/events/category/seminars/seminars-in-statistic…> Venerdi 30 Aprile 2021, alle ore 12.00, si terrà il seguente webinar: ------------------------------------------------ Speaker: *Matthias Loffler *(ETH Zurich) Title: *Optimality of Spectral Clustering in the Gaussian Mixture Model* Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81943504316?pwd=anlwTXpXSkU4R1ZsMjMxVEo5NHcwQT09 Meeting ID: 819 4350 4316 Passcode: 355115 Abstract: Spectral clustering is one of the most popular algorithms to group high dimensional data. It is easy to implement and computationally efficient. Despite its popularity and successful applications, its theoretical properties have not been fully understood. We show that spectral clustering is minimax optimal in the Gaussian Mixture Model with isotropic covariance matrix, when the number of clusters is fixed and the signal-to-noise ratio is large enough. Spectral gap conditions are widely assumed in the literature to analyze spectral clustering. On the contrary, we show that these conditions are not needed. ------------------------------------------------ Il webinar è organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative www.carloalberto.org/stats Cordiali saluti, Pierpaolo De Blasi --- University of Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto carloalberto.org/pdeblasi <https://sites.google.com/a/carloalberto.org/pdeblasi/>

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Post-doc position available at the University of Oslo, Norway. Deadline approaching!
by Valeria Vitelli 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

*A three-years postdoc position in Biostatistics is offered at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE), University of Oslo, Norway. * The position is funded under the* SCIENTIA FELLOWS* program, a transnational research fellowship programme in the field of Health Life Sciences at the University of Oslo, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 under the Maria Skłodowska-Curie scheme. *More information available here:* https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/research/groups/statistics-high-dimensio… *Hosts: *Valeria Vitelli ( https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/people/aca/valeriv/) and David Swanson ( https://sojourningnorth.github.io/) *Deadline for submission: May 11th, 2021* *Call, detailed information and how to apply:* (thematic area: "biostatistics") https://www.med.uio.no/english/research/scientia-fellows/apply/ *If you are interested in the position, please contact the hosts above as soon as possible! *In order to apply for the position, you have to submit a research proposal (and other documents as specified in the call) by May 11th, 2021. The position will be at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE), Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo ( https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/research/centres/ocbe/). *Salary: 526 000 NOK/year (roughly 52K EUR/year)* *Eligibility:* - You possess a PhD degree (at the latest by 1 July 2021) in statistics, biostatistics, mathematics, computer science or other related disciplines with a documented competence in statistics, biostatistics or mathematics. - You have not been resident in Norway for more than 12 months in the last 3 years. -- Valeria Vitelli Oslo Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, Norway mailto: valeria.vitelli(a)medisin.uio.no

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Summer School - Stochastic Models and Complex Systems
by Barbara Martinucci 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

Dear All, We are glad to announce the forthcoming Summer School, entitled *"Stochastic Models and Complex Systems"*, that will be held online in the period June 10th - July 7th, 2021. The Summer School is open to PhD students, postdoc and young researchers interested in the treated topics. It will feature mini-courses of plenary speakers, exercise sessions and students' talks. *Plenary courses *include: - *Enrico Scalas* (University of Sussex) "*A gentle introduction to combinatorial stochastic processes (with applications to Physics, Finance and Economics)*", 16 hours; - *Yuliia Mishura* (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv) "*Statistics of fractional models*", 8 hours; - *Jorge Navarro* (University of Murcia) "*Selected Topics on Distorted models and applications*", 6 hours. An outline of the event, including the themes covered, is already available on the website http://dipmat2.unisa.it/iniziative/smocs2020/School.html The students willing to apply for the Summer School are invited to fill the registration form available on the website. The participation is free but the registration is mandatory. Only the first 50 registration will be admitted. For any question, send an email to: smocs2021(a)gmail.com Do not hesitate to CIRCULATE this announcement to your colleagues and students. Best regards, the Organizing Committee

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2nd Spring Colloquium on Probability and Finance
by Claudio Fontana 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

Dear all, We would like to bring to your attention the following virtual workshop: /2ND SPRING COLLOQUIUM ON PROBABILITY AND FINANCE - /29 APRIL 2021, 9.00 - 13.00, ONLINE University of Padova, Department of Mathematics "Tullio Levi-Civita" The second edition of the Spring Colloquium on Probability and Finance will bring together researchers working in stochastic analysis and mathematical finance. The workshop will feature five invited talks and attendance is open. To attend the Colloquium, please register by sending an e-mail to the organisers (Giorgia Callegaro and Claudio Fontana). _SPEAKERS_: • René AID (Paris Dauphine Universty, FR) • Luciano CAMPI (University of Milan, IT) • Alessandro GNOATTO (University of Verona, IT) • Antoine JACQUIER (Imperial College London, UK) • Barbara PACCHIAROTTI (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", IT) Best regards, Giorgia Callegaro and Claudio Fontana

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Pisa Online Seminars - Constanza Rojas-Molina (Tuesday, April 27 at 16:00)
by Giacomo Filippo Di Gesu 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to the following online seminar organized by the Probability group of the University of Pisa. The talk will be accessible under the link Click here to join<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:af3d635091e049579e555a84219ab3…"Tid":"c7456b31-a220-47f5-be52-473828670aa1","Oid":"dfd1e5f6-331d-43e0-a180-4bb6ce727fb7"}> Best regards, Giacomo Tuesday, April 27, 16:00 Speaker: Constanza Rojas-Molina (CY Cergy Paris Université) Title: (Fractional) random Schrödinger operators, integrated density of states and localization Abstract: We consider the continuous Schrödinger operator - d^2/d^x^2 + B’(x) on the interval [0,L] where the potential B’ is a white noise. We study the entire spectrum of this operator in the large L limit. We prove the joint convergence of the eigenvalues and of the eigenvectors and describe the limiting shape of the eigenvectors for all energies. When the energy is much smaller than L, we find that we are in the localized phase and the eigenvalues are distributed as a Poisson point process. The transition towards delocalization holds for large eigenvalues of order L. In this regime, we show the convergence at the level of operators. The limiting operator in the delocalized phase is acting on R^2-valued functions and is of the form ``J \partial_t + 2*2 noise matrix'' (where J is the matrix ((0, -1)(1, 0))), a form appearing as a conjecture by Edelman Sutton (2006) for limiting random matrices. Joint works with Cyril Labbé. ************************ Giacomo Di Gesù Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Pisa Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 5 56127 - Pisa, Italy giacomo.digesu(a)unipi.it<mailto:giacomo.digesu@unipi.it> https://sites.google.com/site/giacomodigesu/

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(PMS)^2 online talk: Zdzislaw Brzezniak, Monday April 26 at 17:30
by Mario Maurelli 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, We are happy to announce the following online talk: Speaker: *Zdzislaw Brzezniak* (University of York, UK) Title: *The stochastic Strichartz estimates and stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equations driven by Levy noise* Date and time: *Monday April 26, 17:30-18:30 (Rome time zone)* Abstract: see below Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87131794820?pwd=R3l0VEtpZXNzUmQ1bnlnbWhBUm5XQT09 Meeting ID: 871 3179 4820 Passcode: 5yFGwK This talk is the first of the *(PMS)^2: Pavia-Milano Seminar series on Probability and Mathematical Statistics* organized jointly by the universities Milano-Bicocca, Pavia, Milano-Politecnico and Milano-Statale. The series will run approximately every fortnight and, for the moment, will be held online. Participation is free and welcome! (though limited to 100 participants for technical reasons) Best regards The organizers (Mario Maurelli, Carlo Orrieri, Maurizia Rossi, Margherita Zanella) Abstract: We establish a new version of the stochastic Strichartz estimate for the stochastic convolution driven by jump noise which we apply to the stochastic nonlinear Schrodinger equation with nonlinear multiplicative jump noise in the Marcus canonical form. With the help of the deterministic Strichartz estimates, we prove the existence and uniqueness of a global solution to stochastic nonlinear Schrodinger equation in $L^2(R^n)$ with either focusing or defocusing nonlinearity in the full subcritical range of exponents as in the deterministic case. This talk will be based on a joint paper with Wei Liu and Jiahui Zhu.

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Seminar Pierre Alquier @Bocconi - April 22
by Giacomo Zanella 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

A reminder of the following BIDSA webinar (link <https://www.bidsa.unibocconi.eu/wps/wcm/connect/site/bidsa/home/news_events…> ): Date: Thursday, April 22, h14:00 (Italy time) Speaker: Pierre Alquier (RIKEN) Title: Robust Estimation via M.M.D. Minimization Abstract: In this talk, I will study the properties of parametric estimators based on the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) defined by Briol et al. (2019). In a first time, I will show that these estimators are universal in the i.i.d setting: even in case of misspecification, they converge to the best approximation of the distribution of the data in the model, without ANY assumption on this model. This leads to very strong robustness properties. In a second time,I will show that these results remain valid when the data is not independent, but satisfy instead a weak-dependence condition. This condition is based on a new dependence coefficient, which is itself defined thanks to the MMD. I will show through examples that this new notion of dependence is actually quite general. Reference: This talk is based on the following papers and softwares, with Badr-Eddine Chérief Abdellatif (Oxford University), Mathieu Gerber(University of Bristol), Jean-David Fermanian (ENSAE Paris) and Alexis Derumigny (University of Twente): http://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05737 http://proceedings.mlr.press/v118/cherief-abdellatif20a.html http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00840 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00408 https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/MMDCopula/ The webinar will be on zoom at: https://zoom.us/j/95795747882 Meeting ID: 957 9574 7882 Passcode: 025765 Kind regards, Giacomo Zanella

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(Reminder) Seminar Thursday 22 - Optimal constrained and unconstrained subgraph structures (prof. Clara Stegehuis)
by Gianmarco Bet 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, This is a reminder that tomorrow (Thursday 22) at 14:30, prof. Clara Stegehuis (Twente University) will give a virtual seminar “in Florence”, to which you are all invited. You can find title and abstract below this message. The seminar will be on Zoom. You can find the information to join below. If you know of someone who might be interested and is not subscribed to the random mailing list, please do not hesitate to forward this announcement to them. Kind regards, Gianmarco Topic: Clara Stegehuis - Optimal constrained and unconstrained subgraph structures Time: Apr 22, 2021 02:30 PM Rome Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85651690146?pwd=ZnRCbGR6OUlxM2J4RldJd2R1aVE3Zz09 <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85651690146?pwd=ZnRCbGR6OUlxM2J4RldJd2R1aVE3Zz09> Meeting ID: 856 5169 0146 Passcode: 770134 Title: Optimal constrained and unconstrained subgraph structures Abstract: Subgraphs contain important information about network structures and their functions. We investigate the presence of subgraphs in a random graph model with infinite-variance degrees. We introduce an optimization problem which identifies the dominant structure of any given subgraph. The unique optimizer describes the degrees of the vertices that together span the most likely subgraph and allows us to count and characterize the asymptotic number of subgraphs in a simple manner. We then show that this optimization problem easily extends to investigating other random network structures, such as clustering, which expresses the probability that two neighbors of a vertex are connected. The optimization problem is able to find the behavior of network subgraphs in a wide class of random graph models. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gianmarco Bet (he/him) Junior researcher https://gianmarco.bet Phone: (+39) 055 2751491 Department of Mathematics and Informatics "U. Dini" University of Florence Viale Morgagni, 65 50134 Firenze, Italy Office 64 ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Online seminar Svaluto-Ferro
by matteo.burzoni＠unimi.it 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, it is our pleasure to invite you to the following online seminar: Zoom link (see also details below): <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88398874167?pwd=YkRzdlNYWjVjUlc3T294ZjZuVHNSdz09> https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88398874167?pwd=YkRzdlNYWjVjUlc3T294ZjZuVHNSdz09 Speaker: <https://homepage.univie.ac.at/sara.svaluto-ferro/> Sara Svaluto-Ferro (University of Vienna) Title: From signature-based models to affine and polynomial processes and back. Time: Tuesday, April 27, 4PM (Italian time) Abstract: Modern universal classes of dynamic processes, based on neural networks or signature methods, have recently entered the field of stochastic modeling, in particular in Mathematical Finance. This has opened the door to more data-driven and thus more robust model selection mechanisms, while principles like no arbitrage still apply. We analyze here different types of signature models. In the first part, we focus on models based on the signature of a supporting process, which can range from a Brownian motion, to a multidimensional Levy-process, to a general multidimensional tractable stochastic process, to the times series corresponding to some liquid objects on the market. We also present methods how to fit these models to data. In the second part we focus on signature SDEs, i.e. (possibly Lévy driven) SDEs whose characteristics are linear functions of the process signature. We show how these new models can be embedded in the framework of affine and polynomial processes, which have been - due to their tractability - the dominating process class prior to the new era of highly overparametrized dynamic models. We show that generic classes of diffusion models can be described in terms of a signature SDEs. This allows to get power series expansions for expected values of analytic functions of the process' marginals. The talk is based on joint works with Christa Cuchiero, Guido Gazzani, Francesca Primavera and Josef Teichmann. Zoom meeting details: meeting ID: 883 9887 4167 Passcode: mVJ6SR Best, Matteo Burzoni

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New deadline for BISP12 - Twelfth Workshop on Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes
by elisa varini 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Having received some late submission requests, we decided to reopen the call for contributed papers until 25 April 2021. It is possible to submit abstracts (using the templates in the website) at https://bisp12.imati.cnr.it/ In the meantime, we have completed the list of invited speakers (all junior ones) and we are going to contact senior researchers who will serve as discussants. The speakers will be: • Atilla Ay (George Washington University, USA) • Clara Grazian (University of New South Wales, Australia) • Andrew Holbrook (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) • Kaoru Irie (University of Tokyo, Japan) • Roi Naveiro (CSIC-ICMAT, Spain) • Giovanni Rebaudo (University of Texas at Austin, USA) • Claudia Solis-Lemus (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) • Stéphanie Van Der Pas (Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands) • Andi Wang (University of Bristol, UK) • Paul Wu (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) The titles of their contributions are available on the website. It is also possible to register (free of charge) on the same website to attend the workshop on 27-28 May (afternoons, Central European Summer Time). Elisa Varini and Fabrizio Ruggeri Chairs, Organising and Scientific Committees

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Richiesta di comunicazione ai membri della lista RANDOM
by Enrico Moretto 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

con preghiera di diffusione alla lista RANDOM. Ringrazio. Cordiali saluti, enrico moretto *** Si informano i colleghi interessati che il workshop "/Network models for financial contagion and systemic risk/", organizzato dal Dipartimento di Economia e Management dell'Università di Pavia si terrà online il prossimo 28 maggio 2021. I contributi selezionati saranno considerati per la special issue "Network models for financial contagion and systemic risk" della rivista Frontiers in AI (https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/17785/network-models-for-financ… <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.front…>). La scadenza della call for paper è fissata per il 14 maggio. Maggiori informazioni nella locandina allegata.

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Sussex probability seminar
by Enrico Scalas 19 Apr '21

19 Apr '21

Care colleghe e colleghi, vi invio l'annuncio del seminario di Vladislav Vysotskiy il 26 aprile a mezzogiorno. Le persone interessate possono ottenere il link contattando l'organizzatrice, Dr Minmin Wang (minmin.wang(a)sussex.ac.uk). Cordiali saluti, Enrico Scalas -- Next Monday (26th April) at 11am (UK time) there’ll be an online probability seminar given by Vladislav Vysotskiy. Title: How long is the convex minorant of a one-dimensional random walk? Abstract: We prove distributional limit theorems for the length of the largest convex minorant of a one dimensional random walk with independent identically distributed increments. Depending on the distribution of the increments there are several regimes with different limit distributions for the length. The most prominent of our results is a central limit theorem for the length in the case when the increments have zero mean and finite variance. Among other tools, we employ a representation of convex minorants of random walks in terms of uniform random permutations. This talk is based on a joint work with Gerold Alsmeyer, Zakhar Kabluchko, and Alexander Marynych.

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Corso SIMULATION AND INFERENCE IN POPULATION GENETICS
by Matteo Ruggiero 19 Apr '21

19 Apr '21

Cari colleghi, nell’ambito del programma di Visiting Professors della Laurea Magistrale in Stochastics and Data Science dell’Università di Torino (programma completo alla pagina https://www.master-sds.unito.it/go/visiting), con piacere annunciamo il seguente corso: -------------------------------------- Paul JENKINS (University of Warwick, UK) SIMULATION AND INFERENCE IN POPULATION GENETICS Population genetics provides a rich source of data. We now have the ability to sequence, cost-efficiently, the genomes of a large number of individuals from a species. Patterns of variation in DNA sequences offer a rich insight into biological and demographic processes: mutation, natural selection, past migration events, admixture, population structure, and so on. But such data are high-dimensional, noisy, and - because of shared ancestry - not independent, giving rise to some challenging statistical problems. In this course we will cover two important models for the analysis of genetic data - the coalescent, and the Wright-Fisher diffusion. We will discuss methods of simulation of data from these models, as well as how to perform inference for key biological and evolutionary parameters, using techniques such as MCMC. -------------------------------------- Il corso si svolgerà online secondo il seguente calendario - mar 27 Aprile, h.14-16 - mer 28 Aprile, h.16-18 - mar 4 Maggio, h.14-16 - mer 5 Maggio, h.16-18 - mer 12 Maggio, h.16-18 - mar 18 Maggio, h.14-16 - mer 19 Maggio, h.16-18 Il corso è rivolto agli studenti della Laurea Magistrale ma la partecipazione è aperta a tutti gli interessati, tramite le seguenti riunioni Webex valide rispettivamente per le lezioni del martedì e del mercoledì: https://unito.webex.com/unito/j.php?MTID=meeb9bd7865e8bc86b75074b346c0a3ed Ricorre ogni Martedì con validità 13/4/2021 fino a 18/5/2021 da 14:00 a 16:00 Numero riunione: 121 415 2525 Password: MEiAMZMf986 https://unito.webex.com/unito/j.php?MTID=m775c416c6142fd5b86bd7207f46dbabe Ricorre ogni Mercoledì con validità 14/4/2021 fino a 19/5/2021 da 16:00 a 18:00 Numero riunione: 121 469 7803 Password: C5RsPRapS92 Cordiali saluti, Matteo Ruggiero --- Matteo Ruggiero University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto www.matteoruggiero.it

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Course ISI-ERS "An Introduction to Functional Data Analysis for Density Functions in Bayes spaces"
by Alessandra Menafoglio 19 Apr '21

19 Apr '21

We cordially invite you to the short course "An Introduction to Functional Data Analysis for Density Functions in Bayes spaces”, which will be held on 29-30 April 2021, both days from 14:00 alle 17:00 (GMT+2). The course is part of the initiatives of the International Statistical Institute (ISI-ERS). It aims to provide participants with an overview on the models and methods today available for the analysis of distributional data (e.g., probability densities) by using the geometry of Bayes spaces. Further information on the course is available at: https://iasc-isi.org/events/iasc-ers-course-an-introduction-to-functional-d… <https://iasc-isi.org/events/iasc-ers-course-an-introduction-to-functional-d…> Participation to the webinars is free of charge, but registration is requested using the link below: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8667082239416059148 <https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8667082239416059148> Best regards, Alessandra Menafoglio Karel Hron Jitka Machalova **Abstract** The analysis of distributional data (probability density functions or histogram data) has recently gained increasing attention in the applications. Distributional data are often observed by themselves, or as result of aggregation of large streams of data. The course will provide an introduction to the analysis of these data using a Functional Data Analysis (FDA) approach, grounded on the perspective of Bayes spaces. These spaces are mathematical spaces whose points are densities (or, more generally, measures), which generalize to the FDA setting the Aitchison simplex for multivariate compositional data. The course will give an overview of the theory of Bayes spaces, as well as of statistical methods developed in this setting. All the methods will be illustrated through examples from real case studies. — Alessandra Menafoglio MOX - Dept. of Mathematics Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milan - Italy Phone: +39 02 2399 4642 Email: alessandra.menafoglio(a)polimi.it

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online seminar - Giuseppe Savaré - April 22
by Carbone Raffaella 18 Apr '21

18 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, it is our pleasure to invite you to the following online seminar Speaker: *Giuseppe Savaré* (Università Bocconi - Milano) Title: Hellinger/Wasserstein contraction and regularization properties of diffusion semigroups. Time: Thursday, *April 22, *4PM (Italian time) Zoom Link <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89543157111?pwd=NnAyblhVNkppeERRRFd1VGYwTkMyUT09> (ID and passcode below if necessary) The seminar is a satellite activity of the PhD course "Introduction to coercive inequalities with applications in analysis and probability theory" (professor Boguslaw Zegarlinski - Imperial College, London) Abstract We illustrate a duality approach to contraction and regularizing properties of diffusion semigroups satisfying a suitable Bakry-Emery condition that emphasize an interplay between Hellinger-Kakutani, Kantorovich-Wasserstein, and Hellinger-Kantorvich distances. In the case of the Kantorovich-Wasserstein distance, contraction properties are also related to the gradient flow structure of the evolution driven by the logarithmic entropy and provide a nice geometrical interpretation of Log-Sobolev and Talagrand inequalities. Best regards, Raffaella Carbone ---------- Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89543157111?pwd=NnAyblhVNkppeERRRFd1VGYwTkMyUT09 Meeting ID: 895 4315 7111 Passcode: 029655 + -- Raffaella Carbone, PhD Probabilità e Statistica Matematica Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia

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Post-doc position at Scuola Normale Superiore
by Mario Maurelli 18 Apr '21

18 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, A call for application for a post-doc position with name "Stochastic models of interest for fluid mechanics", as part of the research project "Stochastic Analysis tools for Extreme Event Probabilities in Climate Change", underProf. Franco Flandoli's guidance, is open at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. The position starts before the end of 2021 and lasts one year. The deadline for application is May 3, 2021. More information is available here: https://amministrazionetrasparente.sns.it/scuola/opportunit%C3%A0-offerte-d… Best regards Mario Maurelli

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Summer school on Mean Field Games online "in Chicago"
by Cecchin Alekos (M.) 16 Apr '21

16 Apr '21

Dear Colleagues, I forward you this announcement of an online summer school on mean field games in June, organized by the University of Chicago. This is part of a long program and all the courses will last one week. [ https://www.imsi.institute/imfga21/ | https://www.imsi.institute/imfga21/ ] Kind regards Alekos Cecchin Da: Takis Souganidis <souganidis(a)math.uchicago.edu> Inviato: domenica 21 marzo 2021 02:54 A: Alekos Cecchin <alekos.cecchin(a)univ-cotedazur.fr> Oggetto: Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation-Summer program on MFG Dear Alekos, I am writing to let you know about the IMSI (a new NSF funded Institute at the University of Chicago) [ https://www.imsi.institute/imfga21/ | summer program on MFG ] . This will be an excellent opportunity for people to learn about the theory and some of the applications. Please help us advertise the program. If you know anyone who is interested, they can apply [ https://www.imsi.institute/imfga21/#apply | here ] . Best, Takis -- Panagiotis E. Souganidis Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor Department of Mathematics The University of Chicago [ http://math.uchicago.edu/~souganidis/ | http://math.uchicago.edu/~souganidis/ ]

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Seminar announcement
by Marco Scarsini 16 Apr '21

16 Apr '21

Thursday, 22 April, 17:00 CEST *Amy Ward,* University of Chicago Behavior-Aware Queueing <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQBwcLSAUECQdOVgFdBQs> Discussants: Dongyuan Zhan and Liron Ravner The paper can be found here <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3633435>. This is the link to the Virtual Room <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAAYBSAUECQdOVgFdBQs>. If you want to receive the password to access the virtual room, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDxM-M5ogG43elgjC-lNCp0BDhISiZHG0…> (If you filled out the form in the past, this is not necessary). The schedule of the upcoming seminars can be found here <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/seminari/seminari-2021>. ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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2 online seminars - Paolo Gibilisco (Roma Tor Vergata) and Cambyse Rouzé (TUM)
by Carbone Raffaella 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, it is our pleasure to invite you to the following online seminars (in two different days!) Speaker: *Paolo Gibilisco* (Roma Tor Vergata) Title: *Information Geometry: an invitation to the basic results of the subject and to some new perspectives* Time: Monday, *April 19*, 5PM (Italian time) Speaker: *Cambyses Rouzé *(Technische Universität München) Title: *Complete modified logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and quantum Gibbs samplers* Time: Tuesday, *April 20*, 5PM (Italian time) Abstracts follow: one below in this message and one attached. Zoom Link <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89543157111?pwd=NnAyblhVNkppeERRRFd1VGYwTkMyUT09> (the same for both seminars - ID and passcode below if necessary) The seminars are a satellite activity of the PhD course "Introduction to coercive inequalities with applications in analysis and probability theory" (professor Boguslaw Zegarlinski - Imperial College, London) Following speaker will be: *Giuseppe Savaré* on *April 22*nd, 4PM A specific announcement will be sent in the next days. Best regards, Raffaella Carbone *Cambyse Rouzé - Title and abstract* Title: Complete modified logarithmic Sobolev inequalities and quantum Gibbs samplers Abstract: Since the seminal works of Dobrushin-Shlosman and Stroock-Zegarlinski, equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium properties of classical lattice spin systems are known to be closely related: given a potential, one can construct a Markov process, called Glauber dynamics, whose reversing state coincides with the Gibbs state for the given potential. For these dynamics, Holley and Stroock made the key observation that systems thermalizing in times scaling logarithmically in the system size, a property known as rapid mixing, satisfy exponential decay of correlations at equilibrium. The converse implication, namely that exponential decay of correlations implies rapid mixing, was investigated later on in a series of articles by Zegarlinski and Stroock, who proved the stronger condition of an exponential entropic decay of the dynamics towards the limiting Gibbs measure, also known as logarithmic Sobolev inequality. In this talk, we will prove an extension of the result of Zegarlinski and Stroock to the quantum setting. More precisely, we will show that, given the Gibbs state $\sigma$ of a 2-local commuting Hamiltonian and above a critical temperature, there exists a local quantum Markovian evolution converging to $\sigma$ which satisfies the quantum modified logarithmic Sobolev inequality (MLSI) with a constant that does not depend on the size of the lattice. As a first step towards this proof, we will also provide a proof of the existence of the MLSI for finite dimensional systems coupled to an arbitrarily large, noiseless environment (also known as the complete MLSI constant), a problem that was left open until now. This talk is based on the following papers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.11817 https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.04146 -------- Dottorato Matematica is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Seminars April 19 to 22 Time: Apr 19, 2021 05:00 PM Rome Apr 20, 2021 05:00 PM Apr 22, 2021 04:00 PM Please download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system. Weekly: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZ0oc-qpqzwrG9W8L60lAyfp8kbqksDUWlwv/ics?ic… Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89543157111?pwd=NnAyblhVNkppeERRRFd1VGYwTkMyUT09 Meeting ID: 895 4315 7111 Passcode: 029655 One tap mobile +13017158592,,89543157111# US (Washington DC) +13126266799,,89543157111# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 408 638 0968 US (San Jose) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) Meeting ID: 895 4315 7111 Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kd3YVb722z -- Raffaella Carbone, PhD Probabilità e Statistica Matematica Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia

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post-doc positions call for interest
by Giovanni Sebastiani 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

The Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone" belonging to the National Research Council of Italy seeks expressions of interest for two post-doc positions of three years starting in September 2021. The post-docs will be involved full time in the interdisciplinary EU research project "WARIFA". The WARIFA primary goal is to define a general personalised early risk assessment tool that will be used to support individual preventive measures for noncommunicable diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, the leading causes of death in the world. This system will be accessible for individual citizens and patients on their smartphone via the WARIFA app. The WARIFA project represents expertise within AI technology, applied mathematics, statistics, medicine, sociology. We are looking for candidates with strong research expertise in applied probability and statistics, especially in mathematical foundations of machine learning, causal inference and bayesian belief networks, and advanced stochastic simulation techniques. There are no teaching duties. The positions will be formally advertised during the next months. In the meantime, those interested can send a mail to g.sebastiani(a)iac.cnr.it -- ________________________________________________________ Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica sono strettamente riservate e indirizzate esclusivamente al destinatario. Si prega di non leggere, fare copia, inoltrare a terzi o conservare tale messaggio se non si è il legittimo destinatario dello stesso. Qualora tale messaggio sia stato ricevuto per errore, si prega di restituirlo al mittente e di cancellarlo permanentemente dal proprio computer. The information contained in this e mail message is strictly confidential and intended for the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, forward or store it on your computer. If you have received the message in error, please forward it back to the sender and delete it permanently from your computer system.

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selezione pubblica per RTD-B, S.S.D. SECS-S/06 - Università degli Studi di Salerno
by Antonio DI CRESCENZO 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

Invio segnalazione di una procedura di selezione pubblica presso l'Università degli Studi di Salerno per il reclutamento di n. 1 ricercatore a tempo determinato, mediante stipula di contratti di lavoro subordinato di durata triennale, con regime di impegno a tempo pieno, ai sensi dell’art. 24, comma 3, lettera b) Legge 30 dicembre 2010 n. 240, presso il DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE ECONOMICHE E STATISTICHE Codice concorso BRIC/PS/138 Settore concorsuale: 13/D4 - Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e finanziarie Profilo richiesto: SECS-S/06 - Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e finanziarie per il bando di concorso: https://web.unisa.it/amministrazione-trasparente/albo?file=files/003439673-…

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Fwd: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday April 15, 2021
by Faggionato, Alessandra 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

Buongiorno vi inoltro l'annuncio del OWPS di domani (i moderatori sono cambiati). Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Nina Gantert <nina.gantert(a)tum.de> Date: mer 14 apr 2021 alle ore 15:48 Subject: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday April 15, 2021 To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk> Dear All, Tomorrow's speakers in the One World Probability Seminar are Peter Mörters and Markus Heydenreich. (Note: all times are in UTC. Due to time changes, you should check what that translates to in your location) ------------------------------------------------ (14:00-15:00 UTC) Speaker: Peter Mörters Percolation phase transition in random connection models I: Subcritical phase in weight-dependent models We investigate spatial random graphs defined on the points of a Poisson process in d-dimensional space, which combine scale-free degree distributions and long-range effects. Every Poisson point is assigned an independent weight. Given the weight and position of the points, we form an edge between any pair of points independently with a probability depending on the two weights of the points and their distance. Preference is given to short edges and connections to vertices with large weights. We characterize the parameter regime where there is a nontrivial percolation phase transition and show that it depends not only on the power-law exponent of the degree distribution but also on a geometric model parameter. Based on joint work with Peter Gracar and Lukas Luechtrath. (15:00-16:00 UTC) Speaker: Markus Heydenreich Percolation phase transition in random connection models II: Critical behaviour for weight-independent models We study the random connection model (without weights) in a regime where a percolation phase transition occurs: for low edge density there are finite connected components only, while for large density there is an infinite component a.s. Our interest is on the transition between the low- and high-density regime. We prove an infrared bound for the critical connection function if the dimension is sufficiently large or if the pair connectivity has sufficiently slow decay; this allows a detailed description of this transition. To this end, we devise the lace expansion for Poisson processes. Based on joint work with Remco van der Hofstad, Günter Last, and Kilian Matzke. The zoom link will appear the day before on the OWPS website: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.owpro… It can also be directly accessed through the link below: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftum-conf.… Meeting-ID: 656 4176 8006 Kenncode: 161076 Best wishes, Julien and Nina -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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LTI@Unito/CCA webinar in QuantitativeFinance: “What matters in a characteristic?”, Hugues Langlois (HEC Paris) | April 20, 2021 @12:00
by Luca Regis 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

Dear Colleagues, I am happy to share with you the following invitation to the Quantative Finance webinar organized by LTI@UniTO and Collegio Carlo Alberto, “What matters in a characteristic?” by Hugues Langlois (HEC Paris), which will take place on Zoom on April 20, at 12.00. Below you find the Zoom link and an abstract of the presentation. Best regards, Luca Regis <#> <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/KjYRmqlKjrwhqhAdI2gLilGDSZjf_N3e7h…> <#> LTI@Unito and Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto are pleased to invite you to the next webinar <#> *April 20, 2021 | 12:00 - 13:15* *“What matters in a characteristic?”* * Hugues Langlois (HEC Paris)* <#> *Abstract*. We decompose firm characteristics into country, industry, and adjusted components and investigate their respective role in explaining expected returns and comovements in individual international stock returns. Models with adjusted components describe expected returns and comovements of individual stock returns better than models with unadjusted characteristics. While exposures to systematic risk factors are primarily explained by country components, alphas are predominantly driven by adjusted components. In contrast to the U.S. stock market, alphas in emerging and other developed markets are larger and significant. These rich empirical patterns inform models of stocks’ expected returns and comovements. *Zoom link* https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88521626111?pwd=cEdjUmdINERxZ3VzKzZuaXN5ZjEyZz09 <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/K-LOg1rFfgAp1Vis_nPzZABCDin-nMwdWK…> Meeting ID: 885 2162 6111 Passcode: 044353 <#> <#> <#> <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/G3qixTm9-N1P6dg7PFv3AK8C7TVOCc-7Yp…> <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/jtHbMvSIZkL41agMTsAl7rz6CCttgjbC7h…> <#> FONDAZIONE COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO Piazza Arbarello 8 - 10122 Torino, Italy phone: +390116705000 segreteria(a)carloalberto.org - www.carloalberto.org Facebook <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/zsLCc65Y9FomNLxNOcBSZGMOP7owve5tNm…> Twitter <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/5YX2pmxa-oc0WA3-iUV5-ciorC7wUYUyd2…> LinkedIn <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/WiJwT1Nk93TEFOV9ZwOihDt72sZCKlKyql…> Instagram <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/NaZEbS89ljbfvlcZWai2J42HH6phhDKVe8…> Youtube <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/ooK-g3SzwKowF2BfH3OuFQOAb1i_2ZONOT…> <#> *INFORMATION UNDER THE NEW GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)* Your personal information has been gathered for the exclusive purpose of informing you about the Collegio's initiatives, considering our and your legitimate interest or your consent. If you wish to have your personal data modified please contact Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto, piazza Arbarello 8, 1022 Torino, Italy - phone: +390116705000 - privacy(a)carloalberto.org *Unsubscribe* <https://4z5y5.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/un/h2xCOW1uQ5i049PnKeo8VzMEWlTHSIzGmVY1…> <#> © 2021 Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto

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notizia di Workshop
by Antonio DI CRESCENZO 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

Gent.mi, inoltro la notizia di un Workshop indirizzato verso "Probabilistic Methods for Time Series Data Management". Cordiali saluti, Antonio Di Crescenzo ----- I would like to point out the Workshop "ProTime2021" at the conference 'Data Base and Expert System Applications' (DEXA2021) - the scope is Probabilistic Methods for Time Series Data Management: http://www.dexa.org/protime2021 <https://www.researchgate.net/deref/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dexa.org%2Fprotime2021> It happens for the first time, and we are curious about the amount of interest - also, the deadline is already the 23ed of April. However, this can be talked about. Please, if you know about interested people especially from the probability community, it would be of great value to the Workshop to have such contributions. It is a particularly good opportunity to publish probabilistic methods in the machine learning context. Thanks for spreading the news - it would be great to have participants from your community! With the best regards, Florian Sobieczky

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Reminder: online seminar - Angelo Lucia (Caltech)
by Carbone Raffaella 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, it is our pleasure to invite you to the following seminar Speaker: *Angelo Lucia *(Caltech - Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy) Title: *Mixing time of quantum Gibbs samplers* Time: Wednesday, *April 14*, 5PM (Italian time) The abstract follows below in this message. Zoom Link for the seminar <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86771523774?pwd=SitEVEhPSGRlaEkxTHZmQk9rTmlLZz09> The seminar is a satellite activity of the PhD course "Introduction to coercive inequalities with applications in analysis and probability theory" (professor Boguslaw Zegarlinski - Imperial College, London) Best regards, Raffaella Carbone Abstract. Gibbs samplers are Markovian semigroups whose evolution converges towards the termal equilibrium of a given Hamiltonian (the Gibbs state). The time that the evolution takes, in the worst case, to converge close to the thermal state is known as the mixing time. Knowing the mixing time of a process is useful for many applications, and it can be estimated with various functional inequalities. In the case of classical spin systems on a lattice, it was shown that it is possible to determine the mixing properties of the semigroup from some "static" clustering condition of the thermal state. This suggests the question of whether the same is true for quantum spin systems. In this talk, I will focus on the specific case of Gibbs states of commuting Hamiltonians, and present some recent result in this direction. I will introduce the notion of quantum conditional relative entropy and show how it can be used to prove quasi-factorization (or approximate tensorization) properties of the quantum relative entropy. I will then show how these can be used to bound log-Sobolev constants for product semigroups with heath-bath generators, and under stronger assumptions in more general situations. -- Raffaella Carbone, PhD Probabilità e Statistica Matematica Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia

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In ricordo di Luigi M. Ricciardi
by Luigia Caputo 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Cari colleghi, venerdì 16 Aprile, dalle ore 16:00 alle ore 16:30, in occasione dell'adunanza dell'Accademia di Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche, il Prof. Antonio Di Crescenzo, dell'Università degli Studi di Salerno, terrà una conversazione in ricordo di Luigi M. Ricciardi, a dieci anni dalla sua scomparsa. La conversazione avrà luogo in modalità telematica sulla piattaforma Microsoft Teams. Gli interessati sono calorosamente invitati a partecipare, accedendo al seguente link: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmee… Cordiali saluti, Luigia Caputo -- Luigia Caputo Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Scuola Politecnica e delle Scienze di Base Universita' di Napoli FEDERICO II Via Cintia, Monte S.Angelo, 80126, NAPOLI, ITALY Tel. 081-675671 https://www.docenti.unina.it/luigia.caputo

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PhD call
by Irene Crimaldi 12 Apr '21

12 Apr '21

Dear all, I am writing you because my university, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (*www.imtlucca.it <https://www.imtlucca.it/en>*) is currently recruiting PhD students for the 2021/22 Programs. It is truly an excellent opportunity highly motivated candidates: the Programs are fully-financed (no tuition fees), all students receive up to four years of scholarships (15.300€/year) plus free room and board on-campus. I have attached some additional information and a flyer that contains the main details of the call. The call for applications ends on June 30th 2021 - 12.00 pm CEST – the application is entirely online (*https://www.imtlucca.it/en/phd/information-for-students <https://www.imtlucca.it/en/phd/information-for-students>*). I would be so grateful if you could pass this one to whom you think might be interested. All the best, Irene

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8 PhD scholarships in Statistical Sciences – University of Padova, Italy – Deadline May 12, 2021 - 13:00 (CEST)
by Susi Ceron 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

Eight PhD scholarships (6 funded by the University of Padova and 2 funded by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Padova e Rovigo of which 1 is a fully funded grant reserved to foreign, non-italian, graduate students) are available at University of Padova for candidates interested in the area of *Statistical Sciences* (*start of activities: October 1st, 2021*). *Eligibility* The scholarship competition is open to applicants of any age or citizenship, holding a 2nd cycle degree or a single cycle degree from an Italian university or an equivalent qualification from other countries of at least four years’ duration (applicants can get their qualification no later than 30th September 2021). Admission is decided on the basis of qualifications only and does not require an entry examination. *Grant awarded* The annual grant will be of euros *15,343.28* (gross amount). The grant will be awarded for three years and it will be subject to satisfactory progresses evaluated on a yearly basis. *How to apply* The call is published (*deadline May 12, 2021 - 1 pm CEST*) at the page http://www.unipd.it/ricerca/dottorati-di-ricerca/bandi-e-graduatorie English version at the page http://www.unipd.it/en/node/1053 Please, note that the curriculum has to be written by filling the template CV_XXXVII available from the Course web page http://www.stat.unipd.it/ricerca/ammissione and uploading the filled template in the online procedure. *Applications are only accepted online using the link indicated in the call.* For more information about the Statistical Sciences PhD program see https://www.stat.unipd.it/ricerca/dottorato-di-ricerca For more information about admission see http://www.stat.unipd.it/ricerca/ammissione or contact phd(a)stat.unipd.it Kindest regards, PhD Secretariat on behalf of prof. Nicola Sartori Coordinator of the PhD Course in Statistics University of Padova - Italy *We apologize for cross posting *

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Online Seminar by Cagin Ararat, Bilkent University (Wednesday, April 21, 15:30)
by Elisa Mastrogiacomo 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

*** Apologize for cross-posting *** On April Thursday 21 at 15:30, Cagin Ararat (Bilkent University) will give a virtual seminar “in Insubria & Bicocca”, to which you are all invited. Title and abstract below. Title: Set-valued martingales and backward stochastic differential equations Abstract: Motivated by the connection between univariate dynamic risk measures and backward stochastic differential equations, we start building a theory for set-valued backward stochastic differential equations (SV-BSDE). As a first step for this purpose, we formulate a simple SV-BSDE with a compact-valued driver function and study the well-posedness of this SV-BSDE. A key tool in establishing well-posedness is the availability of a stochastic integral representation for set-valued martingales. We prove a new martingale representation theorem which, in contrast to the available literature, allows the initial value of the martingale to be nontrivial. This is a joint work with Jin Ma (USC) and Wenqian Wu (USC). The seminar will be on Microsoft Teams. You can find the information to join below. Topic: Cagin Ararat - Set-valued martingales and backward stochastic differential equations Time: Apr 21, 2021 03:30 PM Rome Where: Microsoft Teams Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_Yzc1OGY5YjAtNjNhZC00… Please forward to anyone interested. Kind regards, Emanuela Rosazza Gianin and Elisa Mastrogiacomo

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Associate Professor position in SPDEs in Oslo
by Luigi Amedeo Bianchi 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

Inoltro il seguente annuncio di una posizione da professore associato a Oslo. The Department of Mathematics at the University of Oslo announced an associate professorship position in the area of stochastic PDEs. The deadline for applications is April, 21. Additional information available at: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/202219/associate-professor-i… <https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/202219/associate-professor-i…>

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Seminar announcement
by Marco Scarsini 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

Thursday, 15 April, 17:00 CET *Vahideh Manshadi**, *Yale University Fair Dynamic Rationing <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQBwUASAUEBw1OVgFdBQs> Discussants: Florin Ciocan and Sean Sinclair The paper can be found here <https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.01240>. This is the link to the Virtual Room <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAAYBSAUEBw1OVgFdBQs>. If you want to receive the password to access the virtual room, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDxM-M5ogG43elgjC-lNCp0BDhISiZHG0…> (If you filled out the form in the past, this is not necessary). The schedule of the upcoming seminars can be found here <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/seminari/seminari-2021>. ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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ABC in "Svalbard" (in fact, online)
by Massimiliano ... 09 Apr '21

09 Apr '21

Buon giorno, causa pandemia, la 2 giorni "ABC in Svalbard" su ABC, simulation-based inference e likelihood-free inference sarà interamente online, gratis e aperta a tutti, come riportato sotto nell'invito di Chistian Robert. Cordiali saluti, Massimiliano ------ Dr. Massimiliano Tamborrino Assistant Professor Department of Statistics University of Warwick https://warwick.ac.uk/tamborrino ********************************************************************************** Dear All, Since we sadly had to cancel the physical workshop in Longyearbyen, Svalbard next week, we have organised mirror versions in different places. Brisbane, Grenoble and Melbourne. The event is open to everyone and free, with the programme available on https://sites.google.com/view/abcinsvalbard-grenoble-mirror/<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.go…> Here is the Zoom link for the Grenoble side [no password needed] https://univ-grenoble-alpes-fr.zoom.us/j/99840576807?pwd=ZHNkaU1jU0ZHRVZma3…<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funiv-gre…> while for Monash/Brisbane 1) Here are the schedule, personnel, titles and abstracts: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VP9qzvs85b7QnhfYyXBKJUbKAYm07SYMF5p…<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.goo…> 2) Here is the zoom link for the 2.00-5.00pm time slots on both days: Please click this URL to start or join. https://monash.zoom.us/j/89085250244?pwd=ZUxFTzVWTThuTldCMDZuUW1BQnA5UT09<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goog…> Or, go to https://monash.zoom.us/join<https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.goog…> and enter meeting ID: 890 8525 0244 and passcode: 746409 Feel free to forward the links through your mailing lists and we hope to see you on-line next week! All the best, Christian Robert (on behalf of the organisers)

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BAYSM 2021: registration and abstract submission are now open!
by Federico Camerlenghi 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

Dear all, the Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting (BAYSM2021) will take place online on September 1-3, 2021. 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://events.stat.uconn.edu/BAYSM2021/ <https://events.stat.uconn.edu/BAYSM2021/>and it will be free, but mandatory. The event is also supported by ISBA and Yunnan University (Kunming, China). Young researchers interested in giving a talk or presenting a poster are invited to *submit an extended abstract by May 10, 2021* during the registration process. Notification of acceptance will be given by the end of June. *The extended abstract should be written according to the template and instructions provided on the registration page*, the template is downloadable from the button "Resources". For organizational reasons, we kindly ask all the interested researchers to register even if they just want to attend the meeting, the deadline for registration is again May 10, 2021. *Confirmed Keynote speakers:* Maria De Iorio Francesca Dominici David Dunson Xuanlong Nguyen Amy Shi Jessica Utts *Confirmed discussants:* Cathy WS Chen Pierre Jacob Rosangela Loschi Li Ma David Rossel 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://events.stat.uconn.edu/BAYSM2021/ <https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fevents.st…> Or write an email to baysm.isba(a)gmail.com On behalf of the BAYSM2021 organizing committee -- Federico Camerlenghi Assistant Professor RTDb Department of Economics, Management and Statistics University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy. web-page: https://www.unimib.it/federico-camerlenghi

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Seminario: Step-by-step community detection in volume-regular graphs, 9 Aprile ore 15
by Pietro Caputo 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

Seminario di Emilio Cruciani a Roma Tre: Emilio Cruciani (Universitaet Salzburg) Titolo: Step-by-step community detection in volume-regular graphs Venerdi' 09 Aprile 2021 ORE 15:00 Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre Abstract Spectral techniques have proved amongst the most effective approaches to graph clustering. However, in general they require explicit computation of the main eigenvectors of a suitable matrix (usually the Laplacian matrix of the graph). Recent work (e.g., Becchetti et al., SODA 2017) suggests that observing the temporal evolution of the power method applied to an initial random vector may, at least in some cases, provide enough information on the space spanned by the first two eigenvectors, so as to allow recovery of a hidden partition without explicit eigenvector computations. While the results of Becchetti et al. apply to perfectly balanced partitions and/or graphs that exhibit very strong forms of regularity, we extend their approach to graphs containing a hidden k-partition and characterized by a milder form of volume-regularity. We show that the class of k-volume regular graphs is the largest class of undirected (possibly weighted) graphs whose transition matrix admits k “stepwise” eigenvectors (i.e., vectors that have constant entries over the components corresponding to the same set of the hidden partition). To obtain this result, we highlight a connection between volume regularity and lumpability of Markov chains. Moreover, we prove that if the stepwise eigenvectors are those associated to the first k largest eigenvalues of the transition matrix of a random walk on the graph and the gap between the k-th and the (k+1)-th eigenvalues is sufficiently large, the Averaging dynamics of Becchetti et al. recovers the underlying community structure of the graph in logarithmic time, with high probability. Based on a joint work with Luca Becchetti, Francesco Pasquale, and Sara Rizzo. Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.07149 Per partecipare al Seminario cliccare sul seguente Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/launcher.html?url=%2F_%23%2Fl%2Fmee…

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (RTD-B) in Statistics , DAIS - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
by Carlo Gaetan 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

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Tenure-track position (RTD-B) in Mathematics for Economics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice
by Antonella Basso 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Call for applications for a tenure-track position as associate professor at the Department of Economics - Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy The Department of Economics is actively searching for brilliant and promising scholars to fill one tenure-track position (ricercatore RTD-B). The research activity will concern themes related to Mathematics for Economics, Finance, Social and Actuarial Sciences (including models and mathematical methods for decision theory, risk and uncertainty management, agent models and computational methods). Teaching commitment: excellent teaching skills are required to deliver courses, within the terms provided for by the University regulations, at the three-year degree, master's degree and PhD level (in Italian and English). In particular: Mathematics - modules 1 and 2; Financial mathematics; Computational tools for economics. The researcher may also be assigned managerial and organizational tasks to be carried out in the Department. Detailed additional information is at https://www.unive.it/data/38002/?id=2021-UNVE000-0022725 Informal queries may be directed to prof.ssa Antonella Basso, basso(a)unive.it and prof. Paolo Pellizzari, paolop(a)unive.it. Apply within 6 May 2005. -- Antonella Basso Dipartimento di Economia Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Fondamenta S. Giobbe - Cannaregio 873 30121 Venezia - Italy Tel. +39-041-2346914 E-mail address: basso(a)unive.it Web page: http://www.unive.it/data/persone/5591751

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Padova Online Seminar by Chiara Franceschini (IST Lisbona) [Friday, Apr. 16 at 12.00]
by alessandra bianchi 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar that will take place on April 16 at 12.00 by the zoom platform. ________________________________________________________ Speaker: Chiara Franceschini (IST Lisbona) Title: The symmetric inclusion process: some properties and scaling limit 16 APRIL (Friday) - 12:00 zoom link: TBA available on the webpage https://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/seminari/ ) Abstract: The symmetric inclusion process (SIP) is an interacting particle system discovered as the dual process of a Markov diffusion that conserves the total energy, it can be tough as the inclusion counterpart of the well-known exclusion process. In this talk, I will present the model with an open boundary, i.e. with two reservoirs which create a flux of particles in the bulk putting the model in a non-equilibrium setting. We will see that via the duality property, we can characterize some correlations of its stationary measure in non-equilibrium and we will also see what are, in this open setting, the so-called hydrodynamic and hydrostatic limit. -- Alessandra Bianchi Dip. di Matematica Università di Padova Via Trieste, 63 - 35121 Padova, Italy phone: +39 049 827 14 06 fax: +39 049 827 14 28 e-mail: bianchi(a)math.unipd.it http://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/

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Workshop announcement: Junior female researchers in probability, 4-6 October 2021
by Luisa Andreis 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, we would like to draw your attention to the third conference for "Junior female researchers in probability”, 4-6 October 2021 (postponed from last year due to the pandemic). The aim of this workshop is to promote young female researchers by giving them an opportunity to present their own work, and hear distinguished mathematicians who can inspire them to pursue a fulfilling career in probability. Keynote speakers: Nina Gantert (TU München) Eva Löcherbach (Paris) Invited speakers: Sigrid Källblad (Stockholm) Annika Lang (Göteborg) Elena Pulvirenti (Delft) Maite Wilke Berenguer (Berlin) The workshop will take place online and, if possible, as a hybrid event in Berlin. We warmly invite those who identify as female to submit abstracts for contributed talks, and apply for financial support for travelling to Berlin in case we can have a hybrid event. However, please be aware that being unable to travel should not restrain from submitting an abstract. There are special travel grants for female master students interested in gaining some insight into research and get in touch with researchers. Of course everybody is very welcome to participate, but presentations and financial support are reserved for female participants. Deadline for submission of abstracts and funding requests: June 30, 2021. Please pass this information on to interested master students, PhD students and postdocs as well as your colleagues! More details can be found on our website: https://www.wias-berlin.de/workshops/JFRP21/ <https://www.wias-berlin.de/workshops/JFRP21/> Best regards, Luisa Andreis, Peter Bank, Dörte Kreher, Laura Körber, Noemi Kurt, Alexandra Quitmann and Weile Weng

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Seminar announcement Thursday 22 - Optimal constrained and unconstrained subgraph structures (prof. Clara Stegehuis)
by Gianmarco Bet 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, On April Thursday 22 at 14:30, prof. Clara Stegehuis (Twente University) will give a virtual seminar “in Florence”, to which you are all invited. You can find title and abstract below. Title: Optimal constrained and unconstrained subgraph structures Abstract: Subgraphs contain important information about network structures and their functions. We investigate the presence of subgraphs in a random graph model with infinite-variance degrees. We introduce an optimization problem which identifies the dominant structure of any given subgraph. The unique optimizer describes the degrees of the vertices that together span the most likely subgraph and allows us to count and characterize the asymptotic number of subgraphs in a simple manner. We then show that this optimization problem easily extends to investigating other random network structures, such as clustering, which expresses the probability that two neighbors of a vertex are connected. The optimization problem is able to find the behavior of network subgraphs in a wide class of random graph models. The seminar will be on Zoom. You can find the information to join below. Topic: Clara Stegehuis - Optimal constrained and unconstrained subgraph structures Time: Apr 22, 2021 02:30 PM Rome Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85651690146?pwd=ZnRCbGR6OUlxM2J4RldJd2R1aVE3Zz09 Meeting ID: 856 5169 0146 Passcode: 770134 If you know of someone who might be interested and is not subscribed to the random mailing list, please do not hesitate to forward this announcement to them. Kind regards, Gianmarco ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gianmarco Bet (he/him) Junior researcher https://gianmarco.bet Phone: (+39) 055 2751491 Department of Mathematics and Informatics "U. Dini" University of Florence Viale Morgagni, 65 50134 Firenze, Italy Office 64 ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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online seminar - Angelo Lucia - Mixing time of quantum Gibbs samplers
by Carbone Raffaella 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, it is our pleasure to invite you to the following seminar Speaker: *Angelo Lucia* Title: *Mixing time of quantum Gibbs samplers* Time: Wednesday, *April 14*, 5PM (Italian time) The abstract follows below in this message. Zoom Link for the seminar <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86771523774?pwd=SitEVEhPSGRlaEkxTHZmQk9rTmlLZz09> The seminar is a satellite activity of the PhD course "Introduction to coercive inequalities with applications in analysis and probability theory" (professor Boguslaw Zegarlinski - Imperial College, London) Best regards, Raffaella Carbone Abstract. Gibbs samplers are Markovian semigroups whose evolution converges towards the termal equilibrium of a given Hamiltonian (the Gibbs state). The time that the evolution takes, in the worst case, to converge close to the thermal state is known as the mixing time. Knowing the mixing time of a process is useful for many applications, and it can be estimated with various functional inequalities. In the case of classical spin systems on a lattice, it was shown that it is possible to determine the mixing properties of the semigroup from some "static" clustering condition of the thermal state. This suggests the question of whether the same is true for quantum spin systems. In this talk, I will focus on the specific case of Gibbs states of commuting Hamiltonians, and present some recent result in this direction. I will introduce the notion of quantum conditional relative entropy and show how it can be used to prove quasi-factorization (or approximate tensorization) properties of the quantum relative entropy. I will then show how these can be used to bound log-Sobolev constants for product semigroups with heath-bath generators, and under stronger assumptions in more general situations. -- Raffaella Carbone, PhD Probabilità e Statistica Matematica Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia

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Postdoc position at Université Laval
by Marzia Angela Cremona 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

12-month postdoc fellowship from September 2021 (indicatively) at Université Laval (Quebec City), under the supervision of Marzia A. Cremona (Operation and Decision Systems Department) and Federico Severino (Finance Department). Research area: Functional motif discovery for financial time series. Requirements: * Background in statistics, econometrics, or data science. * PhD in related areas obtained less than 5 years ago. * Proficiency in R and programming skills. Primary goal: Generalize and adapt existing statistical learning methods for motif discovery in functional data, to detect and predict bubbles and recurrent patterns in financial time series. An important part of the work is computational. No teaching activity required. Yearly salary: 51 737 CAD (maximum possible salary according to the postdoc union collective agreement). Additional funds available for conference attendance. A small amount of teaching assistantship can provide extra salary. The candidate commits to move to Quebec City. In case public health conditions do not allow the moving, remote work can be considered. For information or to apply, contact marzia.cremona(a)fsa.ulaval.ca<mailto:marzia.cremona@fsa.ulaval.ca> or federico.severino(a)fsa.ulaval.ca<mailto:federico.severino@fsa.ulaval.ca> Marzia A Cremona Department of Operations and Decision Systems Université Laval T 418 656-2131, poste 412525 https://marziacremona.com<https://marziacremona.com/> Pavillon Palasis-Prince, local 2449 2325, rue de la Terrasse Québec (Québec) G1V 0A6

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Pisa Online Seminars - Laure Dumaz and Martin Vogel (Tuesday, April 13 at 16:00 and 17:00)
by Giacomo Filippo Di Gesu 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to the following online seminar organized by the Probability group of the University of Pisa. The two talks will be accessible under the link Click here to join the meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3Aaf3d635091e049579e555a84219a…> Best regards, Giacomo Tuesday, April 13, 16:00 Speaker: Laure Dumaz (École Normale supérieure) Title: Localization of the continuous Anderson hamiltonian in 1-d and its transition towards delocalization. Abstract: We consider the continuous Schrödinger operator - d^2/d^x^2 + B’(x) on the interval [0,L] where the potential B’ is a white noise. We study the entire spectrum of this operator in the large L limit. We prove the joint convergence of the eigenvalues and of the eigenvectors and describe the limiting shape of the eigenvectors for all energies. When the energy is much smaller than L, we find that we are in the localized phase and the eigenvalues are distributed as a Poisson point process. The transition towards delocalization holds for large eigenvalues of order L. In this regime, we show the convergence at the level of operators. The limiting operator in the delocalized phase is acting on R^2-valued functions and is of the form ``J \partial_t + 2*2 noise matrix'' (where J is the matrix ((0, -1)(1, 0))), a form appearing as a conjecture by Edelman Sutton (2006) for limiting random matrices. Joint works with Cyril Labbé. Tuesday, April 13, 17:00 Speaker: Martin Vogel (Université de Strasbourg) Title: Eigenvalue asymptotics and eigenvector localization for non-Hermitian noisy Toeplitz matrices Abstract: A most notable characteristic of non-Hermitian matrices is that their spectra can be intrinsically sensitive to tiny perturbation. Although this spectral instability causes the numerical analysis of their spectra to be extremely unreliable, it has recently been shown to be also the source of new mathematical phenomena. I will present recent results about the eigenvalues asymptotics and eigenvector localization for deterministic non-Hermitian Toeplitz matrices with small additive random perturbations. These results are related to recent developments in the theory of partial differential equations. The talk is based on joint work with J. Sjöstrand, and with A. Basak and O. Zeitouni. ************************ Giacomo Di Gesù Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Pisa Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 5 56127 - Pisa, Italy giacomo.digesu(a)unipi.it<mailto:giacomo.digesu@unipi.it> https://sites.google.com/site/giacomodigesu/

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Avviso di Seminario - PRISMA
by Domenico Marinucci 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

Cari Colleghi lunedì prossimo 12 Aprile dalle 16 alle 18 avrà luogo il prossimo incontro per il ciclo di seminari Prisma. Gli speaker saranno Marco Fuhrman e Andrea Cosso, qui sotto titoli, abstract ed il link al collegamento Teams. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Speaker: Marco Fuhrman (Università di Milano) Title: A new tool in stochastic optimal control: the randomization method. Abstract: In the first part of this talk I will present a survery on the relationships among classical stochastic optimal control problems, non-linear partial differential equations (the Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations) and backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs). In the second part, more specifically, I will introduce the so-called randomization method, which allows to associate an appropriate BSDE to a large class of optimal control problems. Among the possible generalizations, I will concentrate on optimal control of path-dependent equations, i.e. equations with general with memory effects. Speaker: Andrea Cosso (Università di Bologna) Title: Randomization method and path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation Abstract: In the present talk I will study a stochastic optimal control problem with path-dependent coefficients. I will exploit the so-called randomization method to derive a dynamic programming principle for the value function. This allows to prove that the value function is a viscosity solution to a path-dependent Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation, involving the horizontal and vertical derivatives of functional Ito calculus. Finally, I will discuss the validity of the comparison principle for such a partial differential equation. Collegamento Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a667d2414be564c5d8fba30acffeb… --------------------------------------------------------------------- Grazie per l'attenzione, Domenico Marinucci e Claudia Ceci

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Webinar in Statistics GILLES STUPFLER
by Pierpaolo De Blasi 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

WEBINARS IN STATISTICS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO <https://www.carloalberto.org/events/category/seminars/seminars-in-statistic…> Venerdi 9 Aprile 2021, alle ore 12.00, si terrà il seguente webinar: ------------------------------------------------ Speaker: *Gilles Stupfler *(ENSAI Rennes and CREST, France) Title: *Asymmetric least squares techniques for extreme risk estimation* Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81720792366?pwd=QWtaYVRRejVSVGlOMXFMaDdsemxjdz09 Meeting ID: 817 2079 2366 Passcode: 241135 Abstract: Financial and actuarial risk assessment is typically based on the computation of a single quantile (or Value-at-Risk). One drawback of quantiles is that they only take into account the frequency of an extreme event, and in particular do not give an idea of what the typical magnitude of such an event would be. Another issue is that they do not induce a coherent risk measure, which is a serious concern in actuarial and financial applications. In this talk, I will explain how, starting from the formulation of a quantile as the solution of an optimisation problem, one may come up with two alternative families of risk measures, called expectiles and extremiles. I will give a broad overview of their properties, as well as of their estimation at extreme levels in heavy-tailed models, and explain why they constitute sensible alternatives for risk assessment using some real data applications. This is based on joint work with Abdelaati Daouia, Irène Gijbels, Stéphane Girard and Antoine Usseglio-Carleve. ------------------------------------------------ Il webinar è organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative www.carloalberto.org/stats Cordiali saluti, Pierpaolo De Blasi --- University of Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto carloalberto.org/pdeblasi <https://sites.google.com/a/carloalberto.org/pdeblasi/>

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Seminar announcement
by Marco Scarsini 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

Thursday, 8 April, 17:00 CET *Clémentine Prieur**, *Université Grenoble Alpes Shapley Effects for Sensitivity Analysis with Correlated Inputs: Comparisons with Sobol' Indices, Numerical Estimation and Applications <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQBgMLSAUEBAROVgFdBQs> Discussants: Baptiste Broto and Giovanni Rabitti The paper can be found here <https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01556303v7>. This is the link to the Virtual Room <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAAYBSAUEBAROVgFdBQs>. The schedule of the upcoming seminars can be found here <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/seminari/seminari-2021>. If you want to receive announcements of future seminars, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDxM-M5ogG43elgjC-lNCp0BDhISiZHG0…> . ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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Oggetto: Concorso RTD-B a Milano Bicocca - MAT/06
by Gianmario Tessitore - UNIMIB 03 Apr '21

03 Apr '21

----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Concorso per un posto RTD-B a Milano Bicocca - MAT/06 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- È stato bandito un posto RTD-B nel settore MAT/06 (Probabilità e Statistica Matematica) presso il Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni dell'Università di Milano-Bicocca Il bando si trova alla pagina https://www.unimib.it/ateneo/gare-e-concorsi/2021-rtdb-042 La scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è il 29 aprile 2021. Si prega di dare la massima diffusione presso tutti gli interessati. -- Gianmario Tessitore Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

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Workshop "Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes - Online" 27-28 May 2021 - Call for contributions
by elisa varini 31 Mar '21

31 Mar '21

*CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS*** On behalf of the Scientific and Organising Committees we are pleased to inform you that contributions are now accepted for the Twelfth Workshop on “Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes (BISP12)” which will be held ONLINE on 27-28 May 2021 (afternoons, Central European Summer Time). Website:https://bisp.imati.cnr.it <https://bisp.imati.cnr.it> __ Attendance is free of charge but registration is required. As in the past, the workshop will provide the opportunity to review, discuss and explore directions of development of Bayesian inference in stochastic processes. The workshop has always offered many young researchers the opportunity to present their works in invited sessions. This year the entire invited programme is dedicated to them. Ten presentations by young scientists have been scheduled, followed by an in-depth discussion by senior scholars in the field. *We are now soliciting contributions for a virtual poster session. * We plan to post contributed videos on the workshop website and keep them there for a while after the event, with links to the presenting authors’ websites/emails, so that they can be contacted by interested people. Unfortunately, time constraints will not allow for the presentation of all those works during the workshop but we will allocate short spots for ten contributors to highlight the main findings of their research and few questions & answers. An abstract must be submitted *by 18 April* via the BISP12 website, where the abstract template (Word and Latex) and the guidelines for submission are provided. After submitting the abstract, contributors will receive an acceptance notification email by *30 April* and instructions to upload a pre-recorded video and/or a slide presentation by *15 May*. All presentations will be published on the BISP12 website. The workshop is organised by CNR-IMATI, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technology at the National Research Council of Italy, Milano, www.imati.cnr.it <http://www.imati.cnr.it>. Elisa Varini and Fabrizio Ruggeri Chairs, Organising and Scientific Committees

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Workshop "Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes - Online" 27-28 May 2021 - Call for contributions
by elisa varini 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

*CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS* On behalf of the Scientific and Organising Committees we are pleased to inform you that contributions are now accepted for the Twelfth Workshop on “*Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes (BISP12)*” which will be held ONLINE on 27-28 May 2021 (afternoons, Central European Summer Time). _Websit__e_:bisp.imati.cnr.it__ Attendance is free of charge but registration is required. As in the past, the workshop will provide the opportunity to review, discuss and explore directions of development of Bayesian inference in stochastic processes. The workshop has always offered many young researchers the opportunity to present their works in invited sessions. This year the entire invited programme is dedicated to them. Ten presentations by young scientists have been scheduled, followed by an in-depth discussion by senior scholars in the field. *We are now soliciting contributions for a virtual poster session. * We plan to post contributed videos on the workshop website and keep them there for a while after the event, with links to the presenting authors’ websites/emails, so that they can be contacted by interested people. Unfortunately, time constraints will not allow for the presentation of all those works during the workshop but we will allocate short spots for ten contributors to highlight the main findings of their research and few questions & answers. An abstract must be submitted *by 18 April* via the BISP12 website, where the abstract template (Word and Latex) and the guidelines for submission are provided. After submitting the abstract, contributors will receive an acceptance notification email by *30 April* and instructions to upload a pre-recorded video and/or a slide presentation by *15 May*. All presentations will be published on the BISP12 website. The workshop is organised by CNR-IMATI, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technology at the National Research Council of Italy, Milano, www.imati.cnr.it <http://www.imati.cnr.it>. Elisa Varini and Fabrizio Ruggeri Chairs, Organising and Scientific Committees

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Three open PhD positions in statistics at the University of Twente
by Gianluca Finocchio 30 Mar '21

30 Mar '21

Dear all, there are three open PhD positions in statistics at the University of Twente https://www.utwente.nl/en/organisation/careers/!/2021-297/three-phd-positio… Feel free to forward the link to potentially interested candidates. Application deadline is April 15. Best,Gianluca Finocchio

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Call for application PhD in Economics Ca' Foscari University a.y. 2021-22 - spread the news
by Antonella Basso 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

Dear Colleague, I would be grateful if you could bring to the attention of your best students the new edition 2021-2022 of the PhD Program in Economics offered by the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. The PhD Program in Economics aims at training selected students for a career as economists in academic institutions or in research departments of national and international organizations, public institutions, private corporations, central banks, financial institutions. Our recent PhDs first placement include positions both in Italian and foreign Universities such as Università Libera di Bolzano, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Luiss Guido Carli, Università degli studi di Bergamo, King’s College London, University of Bonn, University of Gondar and Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. Some PhDs were employed by private companies such as Morgan Stanley-London, Avis Budget Group, Microsoft and public and private research centers of national and international banks: Banca d’Italia, Bundesbank, Dutch Central Bank, European Central Bank, ING Bank The considerable diversification of research areas covered by the members of Department of Economics and their international reputation provide an excellent environment where students of most fields in economics can find research ideas and tight guidance for their doctoral studies. The PhD program has a duration of four years. For the academic year 2021-2022, 6 positions are available. Five of them come with a scholarship (around 15,300 € per year), one is reserved for non-Italian applicants holding an equivalent scholarship covering four years. Deadline for application is *April 21st 2021*, 13h00 (Italian time). A presentation of the PhD programme is organised on Zoom on*April 7th at 14.30. **Please register here: *http://phdeconomics.eventbrite.it <http://phdeconomics.eventbrite.it/> Requirements and how to apply: http://www.unive.it/phdapplication <http://www.unive.it/phdapplication> Information on the PhD in Economics: http://www.unive.it/phdeconomics <http://www.unive.it/phdeconomics> Herewith a link to our INOMICS advertisement: https://inomics.com/program/4-year-phd-in-economics-1447778 <https://inomics.com/program/4-year-phd-in-economics-1447778> Any questions on the program may be addressed to the PhD Secretariat at: sse(a)unive.it <mailto:sse@unive.it> Thank you for your cooperation Best regards, Antonella Basso -- Antonella Basso Dipartimento di Economia Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Fondamenta S. Giobbe - Cannaregio 873 30121 Venezia - Italy Tel. +39-041-2346914 E-mail address: basso(a)unive.it Web page: http://www.unive.it/data/persone/5591751

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RTD-B Bologna
by Enrico Bernardi 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

Buongiorno a Tutti la presente per segnalarvi che è stato pubblicato il seguente bando: RIF. 2011 – Bando per un posto da ricercatore a tempo determinato b) senior - Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati" - STAT - SECS-S/06. Universita' di Bologna. Il bando è consultabile ai seguenti indirizzi: Sito d'Ateneo: https://bandi.unibo.it/s/apos5/rif-2011-bando-per-1-posto-da-ricercatore-a-… Sito Miur: https://bandi.miur.it/jobs.php/public/job/id_job/80403 Sito Euraxess (Portale Europeo): http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess/ Cordiali saluti, Enrico Bernardi

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UiO - call for an associate professor in Stochastics and PDEs
by Giulia Di Nunno 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

Dear Colleagues, this is to draw your attention to the call for an Associate Professor position at the University of Oslo in Stochastics and Partial Differential Equations: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/202219/associate-professor-i… The deadline is April 21, 2021. All interested candidates are welcome to apply, please help us to advertise this call. Thank you in advance! Best regards, Giulia --- Giulia Di Nunno Professor Department of Mathematics University of Oslo, Norway

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(Reminder) Seminar Thursday 25 - Reciprocity in a Preferential Attachment Network
by Gianmarco Bet 24 Mar '21

24 Mar '21

Dear colleagues, This is a reminder that tomorrow (Thursday 25) at 16:00, prof. Tiandong Wang (Texas A&M) will give a virtual seminar “in Florence”, to which you are all invited. You can find title and abstract below this message. The seminar will be on Zoom, and the information to join is: Topic: Tiandong Wang - Reciprocity in a Preferential Attachment Network Time: Mar 25, 2021 04:00 PM Rome https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82762436142?pwd=MW45SWN6NTBqV0VWbVJWREhESmtaZz09 <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82762436142?pwd=MW45SWN6NTBqV0VWbVJWREhESmtaZz09> Meeting ID: 827 6243 6142 Passcode: 897951 If you know of someone who might be interested and is not subscribed to the random mailing list, please do not hesitate to forward this announcement to them. Kind regards, Gianmarco Title: Reciprocity in a Preferential Attachment Network Abstract: Empirical studies show that online social networks have not only in- and out-degree distributions with Pareto-like tails, but also a high proportion of reciprocal edges. A classical directed preferential attachment (PA) model generates in- and out-degree distribution with power-law tails, but theoretical properties of the reciprocity feature in this model have not yet been studied. We derive the asymptotic results on the number of reciprocal edges between two fixed nodes, as well as the proportion of reciprocal edges in the entire PA network. We see that with certain choices of parameters, the proportion of reciprocal edges in a directed PA network is close to 0, which differs from the empirical observation. This points out one potential problem of fitting a classical PA model to a given network dataset with high reciprocity, and indicates alternative models need to be considered. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gianmarco Bet (he/him) Junior researcher https://gianmarco.bet Phone: (+39) 055 2751491 Department of Mathematics and Informatics "U. Dini" University of Florence Viale Morgagni, 65 50134 Firenze, Italy Office 64 ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday March 25, 2021
by Faggionato, Alessandra 24 Mar '21

24 Mar '21

Buongiorno, vi inoltro l'annuncio del OWPS di domani, che riguarderà il modello $\phi^4_3$. Quello di domani sarà l'ultimo OWPS prima della pausa di Pasqua. Il OWPS riprenderà dopo le vacanze (credo il 15 Aprile) con moderatori Nina Gantert and Julien Berestycki. Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com> Date: mer 24 mar 2021 alle ore 09:09 Subject: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday March 25, 2021 To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk> Tomorrow's speakers in the One World Probability Seminar are3(Note: all times are in UTC. *Due to time changes, you should check what that translates to in your location*) ------------------------------------------------ (14:00-15:00 UTC) Speaker: Hendrik Weber (University of Bath) Title: Phase transitions for $\phi^4_3$ - Part 1 Abstract: The $\phi^4$ model is a classical model in Mathematical Physics, arising e.g. as a continuous version of the Ising model, as a toy model for a Quantum field theory and it is also closely related to the invariant measures of certain Hamiltonian PDEs. The aim of this series of two talks is to discuss the infinite volume limit and the emergence of phase transitions for this model: we will show that in a certain parameter regime, the model exhibits a phase segregation behaviour, akin to the low temperature phase of the Ising model. In the first lecture I will put our result into perspective by first discussing the connection of continuous $\phi^4$ and discrete Ising models as well as the phase segregation in low temperature Ising models. I will then discuss a variational approach to estimating the $\phi^4$ partition function, which is due to Barashkov and Gubinelli and a key ingredient of our method. Based on Chandra, Gunaratnam, Weber, arXiv:2006.15933. (15:00-16:00 UTC) Speaker: Trish Gunaratnam (University of Geneva) Title: Phase transitions for $\phi^4_3$ - Part 2 Abstract: In this talk I will continue to discuss phase transitions for $\phi^4_3$. I will establish a surface order large deviations estimate for the average magnetisation at sufficiently low temperatures in large but finite volumes. This immediately gives an upper bound on the decay of the spectral gap for the associated $\phi^4_3$ singular SPDE in the infinite volume limit. At the heart of this result are the development of Peierls’ contour bounds for $phi^4_3$, which requires control over the small-scale divergences and the low temperature Hamiltonian. We achieve this by incorporating a low temperature expansion, inspired by Glimm, Jaffe, and Spencer’s classical work on $\phi^4_2$, within the variational representation of the $\phi^4_3$ via coarse-graining. Based on Chandra, Gunaratnam, Weber, arXiv:2006.15933. ------------------------------------------------ The zoom link will appear the day before on the OWPS website: https://www.owprobability.org/one-world-probability-seminar <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.owpro…> It can also be directly accessed through the link below: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/82058081391?pwd=MWZTNEpZY2I3NEtYa0tFczdTenR0QT09 <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma1.…> Meeting ID: 820 5808 1391 Passcode: 493605 Please feel free to circulate this email. We hope to see you all tomorrow! One World Probability Team -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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Rtd-b Genova
by Eva Riccomagno 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Buonasera a Tutti è stato pubblicato l'avviso relativo all'indizione di una procedura selettiva per 1 posto da Ricercatore a tempo determinato RTD-B in SECS-S/01 presso il Dipartimento di Matematica dell’Università degli Studi di Genova. Il bando è disponibile alla pagina concorsi del sito web di Ateneo all’indirizzo https://concorsi.unige.it/home/procedure/2768 <https://concorsi.unige.it/home/procedure/2768> La scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è il 19 aprile 2021 alle ore 12:00:00. Cordiali saluti, Eva Riccomagno

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Sussex probability seminar
by Enrico Scalas 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Dear Colleagues, Next Monday 29th March at 11am, we’ll have an online probability seminar with a talk given by Nicholas Simm. Title: The characteristic polynomial of a random unitary matrix: from secular coefficients to holomorphic multiplicative chaos Description: I will begin by introducing some basic questions / historical tidbits regarding eigenvalue statistics of random matrices. Then I will discuss some recent work concerning limit theorems for secular coefficients of random unitary matrices, which are the Fourier coefficients of the characteristic polynomial. This draws on ideas from Gaussian multiplicative chaos on the one hand, but also combinatorial structures such as magic squares and random permutations make an appearance. This is joint work with Joseph Najnudel (Bristol) and Elliot Paquette (McGill) , pre-print: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.01823.pdf. If you are interested in attending, please write to Dr Minmin Wang ( minmin.wang(a)sussex.ac.uk) for the Zoom link. Best wishes, Enrico Scalas

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10th General AMaMeF Conference - Call for Contributed Talks
by Claudio Fontana 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Dear all, This is the Call for Contributed Talks at the 10th General AMaMeF Conference, held on 22-25 June 2021. The 10th edition of the meeting will be hosted by the Department of Mathematics "Tullio Levi-Civita" at the University of Padova (Italy). The program consists of 8 plenary lectures, 9 invited sessions and several contributed sessions. We welcome submissions for contributed talks in mathematical finance and its applications, including but not limited to the following topics: • Algorithmic trading • Asset pricing under market frictions • Collateralization and XVA • Credit risk and interest rate modeling • Energy and commodity markets • Equilibrium models • Financial technology • Green and sustainable finance • Insurance mathematics • Machine learning in finance • Market microstructure • Mean-field games and stochastic control • Model uncertainty and model risk • Optimal transport and robust finance • Portfolio optimization • Risk measures • Stochastic volatility modeling • Systemic risk and financial networks Each contributed talk will be allocated a 30 minutes time slot (25 min. presentation + 5 min. Q&A). Submission: you can submit title and abstract of your talk, with complete indication of names and affiliations of all authors, together with at most five key-words. It is possible (but not required) to upload the pdf file of your paper or an extended abstract. Submission webpage: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amamef-2021 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=amamef-2021> Deadline: Monday 3 May 2021. Acceptance notifications will be sent before 15 May 2021. Format of the conference: we plan to organize the conference in a hybrid format, with the presence of a limited number of participants in Padova. For in person participation, we will follow a first-come-first-served rule, according to the date of registration to the conference (the opening of the registration will be announced in due time). In any case, every speaker will have the possibility of presenting remotely. If the conditions do not allow a hybrid format, we will rapidly switch to a fully online format. We expect to have precise information on the format of the conference in April. Fees for a virtual conference will be significantly less than for an in-person conference. Conference website: https://events.math.unipd.it/AMAMEF2021 <https://events.math.unipd.it/AMAMEF2021> Contact: any inquiry about submissions should be emailed to amamef2021(a)math.unipd.it <mailto:amamef2021@math.unipd.it> Best regards, The organising committee, Giorgia Callegaro, Claudio Fontana, Martino Grasselli, Wolfgang J. Runggaldier, Tiziano Vargiolu

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Post-Doc position at the Weierstrass Institute
by Robert I. A. Patterson 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Dear colleagues, the Weierstrass Institute in Berlin has an immediate vacancy for a post-doc in the group “Interacting Random Systems”. This is a staff position where one would have some freedom to take on responsibility and start new projects. For more details please see https://short.sg/j/9473020 <https://short.sg/j/9473020> . The deadline for applications is 02 May. Kind regards, Robert Patterson

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International Conference in Venice on COMPOUND RISK - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Monica Billio 21 Mar '21

21 Mar '21

20th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CREDIT 2021 *Compound Risk: Climate, Disaster, Finance, Pandemic * Venice, Italy 23 –24 September 2021 * * *GRETA Associati* (Venice, Italy), *European Datawarehouse *(Frankfurt, Germany), *European Investment Bank* (Luxembourg), *European Investment Fund *(Luxembourg) and *Intesa Sanpaolo *(Milan, Italy) are co-sponsors of a Conference to be held in Venice on September 23-24, 2021. The Conference CREDIT 2021 will bring together academics, practitioners and PhD students working in various areas of financial and credit risk with the aim to create a unique opportunity for participants to discuss research progress and policy and industry-relevant insights as well as directions for future research. Credit 2021 is the *twentieth *in a series of events dedicated to various aspects of credit risk and organised under the auspices of the *Department of Economics* and *VERA - Venice centre in Economic and Risk Analytics for public policies - of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice*, *ABI - Italian Banking Association*,***AIAF - Associazione Italiana per l'Analisi Finanziaria* and the *Joint Research Center, European Commission* (Ispra, Italy). The theme of this year’s conference is the relation between financial risk on the one hand and pandemic, climate and disaster risk, on the other hand, with particular attention to the possible compounding of different sources of risk. The past year, 2020, has been marked by the still-ongoing COVID-19 pandemic crisis, which has shown how fragile our economic systems can be when confronted with shocks that threaten public health and the closeness of the connections between economic and financial risks and public policy. Climate change is now widely recognized as a new source of financial risk which is relevant both at the level of households and individual institutions and the systemic level. In particular, the many central banks and financial institutions that have joined the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) have issued recommendations on how to integrate climate considerations into risk management strategies and practices. However, risks such as pandemics and climate change do not occur in isolation but can also compound, as has already been seen in several countries. The compounding of risk, which is currently poorly understood, increases the complexity of risk assessment and risk management, and it has implications for socio-economic development, as well as for public debt sustainability. In the EU, these aspects have major implications for efforts to increase the resilience of the economy to future shocks and to “build back better”, and requires the alignment of COVID-19 recovery policies, such as those supported by the NextGenerationEU, and the EU Green Deal and the Paris Agreement targets. The organizers of CREDIT 2021 encourage submissions on a range of topics of relevance to this year’s theme including: finance and COVID-19; finance and climate risks; finance and compound COVID-19 and climate risks. In particular, submissions are welcome in the following areas: • INVESTMENTS: Sustainable Finance, Disaster risk finance; Finance 4 good; public finance; blended finance. • POLICIES: Climate Policies, European Green New Deal; Next Generation EU; Recovery Plan. • INFORMATION: Data gaps; modelling challenges; risk transmission channels; uncertainty; complexity. The final program will include both submitted and invited papers. Acceptances received so far from invited speakers include *Vittoria Colizza *(INSERM, France), *Robert Engle *(Stern Business School, New York University) and *Roberto Rigobon* (MIT Sloan School of Management) who will deliver keynotes, respectively on finance and on epidemics. The Conference will also feature panel discussions on researchers', practitioners' and policy makers’ views of the major issues at stake. The SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE for the Conference consists of: • * Stefano Battiston *(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & University of Zurich, Programme Chair) • * Monica Billio *(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & GRETA) • * Francesca Campolongo *(Joint Research Center, European Commission) • *Vittoria Colizza* (INSERM, France) • * Helmut Kraemer-Eis* (European Investment Fund) • * Jan Pieter Krahnen* (Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE & Goethe University, Frankfurt) • *Irene Monasterolo *(Vienna University of Economics and Business) • *Steven Ongena* (University of Zurich, Swiss Finance Institute, KU Leuven & CEPR) • *Roberto Rigobon* (MIT Sloan School of Management) • *Stephen Schaefer* (London Business School) CALL FOR PAPERS Those wishing to present a paper at the Conference should submit by *May 31, 2021 *to the address given below (preferably in electronic format). Please indicate to whom correspondence should be addressed. Decisions regarding acceptance will be made by *June 30, 2021*. The final version of accepted papers must be received by August 31, 2021. Please send papers to: GRETA Associati, San Polo, 2605 - 30125 Venice, ITALY Phone : +39 041 5238178 - e-mail: credit(a)greta.it <mailto:credit@greta.it> More detailed information available on the Conference website: https://www.greta.it/index.php/it/credit-2021 <https://www.greta.it/index.php/it/credit-2021>

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Post-doc position in Luxembourg
by Giovanni Peccati 20 Mar '21

20 Mar '21

Dear Colleagues, here is the announcement for a post-doc position (2Y) in mathematics at the University of Luxembourg: http://emea3.mrted.ly/2nwqp Please, do not hesitate to forward the announcement to potentially interested candidates. Best regards, Giovanni Peccati -- Prof. Giovanni Peccati ------------------------------------------ Head of the Department of Mathematics Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine ------------------------------------------ University of Luxembourg ----------------------------------------- homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/giovannipeccati/Home E-mail: giovanni.peccati(a)gmail.com

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bando RTD-B in SECS-S/01, Statistica, Univ. Verona, scadenza 22/3
by Cecilia Mancini 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

Segnalo un bando per un posto da RTD-B in SECS-S/01, Statistica, presso l'Università di Verona, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche. Scadenza lunedì 22 ore 20. Il bando si trova all'indirizzo https://www.univr.it/it/concorsi/personale-docente/ricercatore/ricercatore-… Saluti Cecilia Mancini

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bando rtd-b in Fisica Matematica all'Aquila
by davide gabrielli 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

Segnalo un bando per un posto da rtd-b in Fisica Matematica presso l'Università dell'Aquila. Scadenza 15-04-2021. Il bando si trova all'indirizzo https://www.univaq.it/section.php?id=1532 Si prega di darne la massima diffusione cordiali saluti Davide Gabrielli

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Università di Verona: concorso RTDB in Statistica...
by Marco Minozzo 19 Mar '21

19 Mar '21

Carissime e carissimi, nella Gazzetta Ufficiale - IV Serie Speciale n. 14 del 19/02/2021 è stato pubblicato l'avviso relativo all'indizione di una procedura selettiva per 1 posto da Ricercatore a tempo determinato RTDB in SECS-S/01 Statistica (Cod. 2021rtdb034) presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche dell'Università degli Studi di Verona. Il bando è disponibili all'Albo ufficiale e alla pagina concorsi del sito web di Ateneo all'indirizzo: https://www.univr.it/it/concorsi/personale-docente/ricercatore/ricercatore-… La scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è il 22 marzo 2021 alle ore 20.00. Un caro saluto, Marco Minozzo ------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Marco Minozzo, PhD Presidente Laurea in Economia e Commercio Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Università degli Studi di Verona Via Cantarane 24 37129 Verona (Italy) Tel: +39045 8028234 Fax: +39045 8028177 E-mail: marco.minozzo(a)univr.it<mailto:marco.minozzo@univr.it> -------------------------------------------------------------------

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LTI@Unito Webinars: March 1, Massimiliano Caporin | March 2, Roberto Renò
by Luca Regis 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

Dear colleagues, || |LTI@UniTO (www.carloalberto.org/lti <www.carloalberto.org/lti>) and Fondazione Collegio Carlo Alberto are pleased to invite you to the following webinars in Mathematical Finance: | | *March 1, 2021 | 17:00-18:00* *“Do jumps matter in Realized Volatility modeling and forecasting? Empirical evidence and a new model”* *Massimiliano Caporin, University of Padova* *Abstract*: Building on an extensive empirical analysis I investigate the relevance of jumps and signed variations in predicting Realized Volatility. I show that properly accounting for intra-day volatility patterns and staleness sensibly reduces the identified jumps. Realized Variance decompositions based on intra-day return size and sign improve the in-sample fit of the models commonly adopted in empirical studies. I also introduce a novel specification based on a more informative decomposition of Realized Volatility, which offers improvements over standard models. From a forecasting perspective, the empirical evidence I report shows that most models, irrespective of their flexibility, are statistically equivalent in many cases. This result is confirmed with different samples, liquidity levels, forecast horizons and possible transformations of the dependent and explanatory variables. *Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82672618584?pwd=VWdNeWhEc1pyVjJCQ3pucEhtb1BxUT09 <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82672618584?pwd=VWdNeWhEc1pyVjJCQ3pucEhtb1BxUT09>* Meeting ID: 826 7261 8584 Passcode: 599584 ------ *March 2, 2021 | 12:00-13:15 * *“V-shapes”* *Roberto Renò, University of Verona* *Abstract*: An insidious form of market inefficiency, by which prices lose their informativeness and wealth is distributed arbitrarily, translates into V-shapes, that is sudden changes of the sign of the price drift. We use this insight to develop a new tool for the detection of reverting drift, the V-statistic. We apply this tool to (i) quantify the extent of this kind of market inefficiency in the U.S. stock market during the Covid-19 pandemic; and (ii) show the harmful consequences of V-shapes on financial stability by estimating the huge loss suffered by Italian taxpayers (0.45B euros) in May 2018, when a transient crash hit the secondary bond market during a Treasury auction. /Joint with Maria Flora./ *Zoom link https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82590058916?pwd=VEowc2NUcm5rNmtFdWQ0MlMxUEVLQT09 <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82590058916?pwd=VEowc2NUcm5rNmtFdWQ0MlMxUEVLQT09>* Meeting ID: 825 9005 8916 Passcode: 055411 We look forward to your participation! | -- Luca Regis Associate Professor Department of Economics and Statistics (ESOMAS) University of Torino sites.google.com/view/lucaregis Office: +39 011 670 6065 www.carloalberto.org/lti ||

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Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato - Università della Basilicata
by Marco Isopi 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

È stato pubblicato il bando per un posto da Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato (tipo B) presso l'Università della Basilicata: http://service.unibas.it/albo/files/000695488-UNPZCLE-06163f19-bc48-438e-a2…

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Concorso RTDB 13/D1 Sapienza Università di Roma
by Brunero Liseo 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

Con eventuali scuse per ricezioni multiple Brunero Liseo Si comunica che sul Portale Trasparenza Amministrativa, è stato pubblicato il bando relativo alla seguente procedura selettiva: N. 1 POSTO DI RICERCATORE A TEMPO DETERMINATO TIPOLOGIA B - SC 13/D1 SECS-S/01 - DIP. DI METODI E MODELLI PER L'ECONOMIA, IL TERRITORIO E LA FINANZA (MEMOTEF) - FACOLTÀ DI ECONOMIA Il bando è pubblicato al seguente link: https://web.uniroma1.it/trasparenza/bando/174720_2021rtdb002 Si evidenziano di seguito gli elementi del bando: Codice bando: 2021RTDB002 Data scadenza del bando: 15/04/2021 Pubblicazione G.U. n. 21 del 16.03.2021 -- ============================================ Brunero Liseo *Dip. di metodi e modelli per il territorio, l'economia e la finanza * *Sapienza Università di Roma* *Viale Castro Laurenziano, 9 Roma I-00161 *Tel. +39 06 49766973 Fax +39 06 4957606 *https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/brulis/home <https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/brulis/home>* ============================================ -- ________________________________________________________ Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica sono strettamente riservate e indirizzate esclusivamente al destinatario. Si prega di non leggere, fare copia, inoltrare a terzi o conservare tale messaggio se non si è il legittimo destinatario dello stesso. Qualora tale messaggio sia stato ricevuto per errore, si prega di restituirlo al mittente e di cancellarlo permanentemente dal proprio computer. The information contained in this e mail message is strictly confidential and intended for the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, forward or store it on your computer. If you have received the message in error, please forward it back to the sender and delete it permanently from your computer system.

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Fwd: 6 PhD Positions in Stochastics and Algorithmics
by Francesca Romana Nardi 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

Carissime e carissimi, Ricevo e inoltro. Se ci fossero interessati possono contattare direttamente Vlasiou, Maria <m.vlasiou(a)tue.nl> Cari saluti Francesca Romana Nardi ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Vlasiou, Maria <m.vlasiou(a)tue.nl> Date: mer 17 mar 2021 alle ore 17:16 Subject: 6 PhD Positions in Stochastics and Algorithmics To: Francesca Romana Nardi (Francescaromana.nardi(a)unifi.it) < Francescaromana.nardi(a)unifi.it> Hi Francesca, Marko has an open position where he *has* to recruit a foreigner and has a deadline for applications 31 March. Can you please forward the announcement to any student you know who may be about to finish their MSc and is interested in stochastics? The student can start in Sept / Oct, after they finish, but the application deadline is *31 March.* https://www.thenetworkcenter.nl/Open-Positions/openposition/29/6-PhD-Positi… https://www.thenetworkcenter.nl/uploaded_files/inlineitem/221Spring_Network… (The first project in Appendix A) Cheers, Maria -- Prof. dr. Maria Vlasiou University of Twente Eindhoven University of Technology President EWM-NL <http://www.ewmnetherlands.nl/> office: +31 40 247 5185 www.win.tue.nl/~mvlasiou

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Padova Online Seminar by Luisa Andreis (Università di Firenze) [Friday, Mar. 26 at 14.30]
by alessandra bianchi 18 Mar '21

18 Mar '21

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar that will take place on March 26 at 14.30 by the zoom platform. ________________________________________________________ Speaker: Luisa Andreis (Università di Firenze) Title: Phase transitions in sparse random graphs and coagulation processes 26 MARCH (Friday) - 14:30 zoom link: TBA available on the webpage https://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/seminari/ ) Abstract: Sparse inhomogeneous random graphs are a natural generalization of the well-known Erdos Rényi random graph, where vertices are characterized by a type and edges are independent but distributed according to the type of the vertices that they are connecting. These graphs undergo a phase transition in terms of the emergence of a giant component exactly as the classical Erdos Rényi model. In this talk we will present an alternative approach, via large deviations, to prove this phase transition. This allows a comparison with the gelation phase transition that characterizes coagulation processes and the phase transition of condensation type emerging in several systems of interacting components. This is an ongoing joint work with Wolfgang Koenig (WIAS and TU Berlin), Robert Patterson (WIAS) and Heide Langhammer (TU Berlin). -- Alessandra Bianchi Dip. di Matematica Università di Padova Via Trieste, 63 - 35121 Padova, Italy phone: +39 049 827 14 06 fax: +39 049 827 14 28 e-mail: bianchi(a)math.unipd.it http://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/

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Fwd: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday March 18, 2021
by Faggionato, Alessandra 17 Mar '21

17 Mar '21

Buongiorno inoltro l'annuncio del OWPS di domani, che sarà focalizzato sul metodo di Stein (anche con applicazioni alla statistica). Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com> Date: mer 17 mar 2021 alle ore 12:06 Subject: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday March 18, 2021 To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk> Tomorrow's speakers in the One World Probability Seminar are (Note: all times are in UTC. *Due to time changes, you should check what that translates to in your location*) ------------------------------------------------ (14:00-15:00 UTC) Speaker: Yvik Swan (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Title: Stein’s density approach Abstract: Stein’s method is a collection of tools allowing to obtain explicit (non-asymptotic) bounds on discrepancies between probability distributions. The heart of the method is a so-called “Stein operator”, and it is the objective of this talk to present the basic theory behind these operators, and also cover some applications of the theory. After presenting the general theory (with a focus on Stein’s so-called density approach), we will give details on the 1-dimensional case, hereby connecting with classical topics such as Covariance and Poincaré inequalities. The material covered in the talk is closely related to work with Marie Ernst, Christophe Ley, Guillaume Mijoule and Gesine Reinert. (15:00-16:00 UTC) Speaker: Gesine Reinert (University of Oxford) Title: Stein’s method for multivariate continuous distributions and some statistical applications Abstract: Stein’s method can be viewed as employing an operator which action characterises a distribution uniquely, relating this operator to test functions through a Stein equation, and comparing distributions by taking expectations of this Stein equation. Using the density approach for Stein’s method, this talk will present a general framework for Stein’s method for multivariate continuous distributions. For any given nontrivial distribution this approach leads to an infinite collection of Stein characterisations which can be used to assess distributional distances. We shall apply this framework to compare posterior distributions which arise from the same model but using different priors. Using the notion of a weak Stein equation, bounds on distributional distances based on Lipschitz test functions are obtained if the distribution admits a Poincare’ constant. This result will be used to compare copulas. Finally, using the notion of a Stein kernel, we shall extend Stein’s shrinkage results and Stein’s Unbiased Risk Estimate (SURE) to non-Gaussian distributions. This talk is based on joint work with Max Fathi, Larry Goldstein, Adrien Saumard, and of course Yvik Swan. ------------------------------------------------ The zoom link will appear the day before on the OWPS website: https://www.owprobability.org/one-world-probability-seminar <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.owpro…> It can also be directly accessed through the link below: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/81951703647?pwd=QUR4M0QraDFTZG5qY0VvVmVoS0pnZz09 <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma1.…> Meeting ID: 819 5170 3647 Passcode: 614352 Please feel free to circulate this email. We hope to see you all tomorrow! One World Probability Team -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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Seminario di Franco Flandoli e Umberto Pappalettera in Bicocca
by Gianmario Tessitore - UNIMIB 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Ho il piacere di annunciare il seguente seminario, da remoto, di Franco Flandoli e Umberto Pappalettera (Scuola Normale Superiore): Titolo " *Stochastic model reduction and stochastic equations with transport noise*" * Lunedì 22 Marzo 2021 ore 17:30* il seminario avrà la durata di un’ora circa e i due relatori si alterneranno. Seguono il riassunto e il link Zoom. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Gianmario Tessitore %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Abstract. The first part of the talk will illustrate the potential role of stochastic model reduction in the understanding of transport noise in fluid dynamic models. In the second part, some rigorous results will be outlined. Entra nella riunione in Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83074836346?pwd=ajZaL0JJc1VnR3BUNEdzclg1KzM2QT09 ID riunione: 830 7483 6346 Passcode: 778958 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- Gianmario Tessitore Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

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Pisa Online Seminars - Michela Ottobre and Andrea Agazzi (Tuesday, Mar. 23 at 16:00 and 17:00)
by Giacomo Filippo Di Gesu 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to the following online seminar organized by the Probability group of the University of Pisa. The two talks will be accessible under the link Click here to join the meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3A17115d7f6ef44c5e91974362906c…> Best regards, Giacomo Tuesday, March 23, 16:00 Speaker: Michela Ottobre (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh) Title: Uniform in time approximations of stochastic dynamics Abstract: Complicated models, for which a detailed analysis is too far out of reach, are routinely approximated via a variety of procedures; this is the case when we use multiscale methods, when we take many particle limits and obtained a simplified, coarse-grained dynamics, or, simply, when we use numerical methods. While approximating, we make an error which is small over small time-intervals but it typically compounds over longer time-horizons. Hence, in general, the approximation error grows in time so that the results of our ``predictions" are less reliable when we look at longer time-hormizons. However this is not necessarily the case and one may be able to find dynamics and corresponding approximation procedures for which the error remains bounded, uniformly in time. We will discuss a very general approach to understand when this is possible. I will show how the approach we take is very broad and show how it can be used for all of the approximation procedures mentioned above. This is based on a series of joint works with a number of people: L. Angeli, J. Barre', D. Crisan, P. Dobson, I. Souttar and E. Zatorska. Tuesday, March 23, 17:00 Speaker: Andrea Agazzi (Duke University) Title: Large deviations for stochastic models of chemical reaction networks Abstract: At the microscopic level, the dynamics of arbitrary networks of chemical reactions can be modeled as jump Markov processes whose sample paths converge, in the limit of large number of molecules, to the solutions of a set of algebraic ordinary differential equations. Fluctuations around these asymptotic trajectories and the corresponding phase transitions can in principle be studied through large deviations theory in path space, also called Wentzell-Freidlin (W-F) theory. However, the specific form of the jump rates for this family of processes does not satisfy the standard regularity assumptions imposed by such theory. This talk discusses how such conditions can be relaxed. In this talk, I will discuss sufficient stability and nondegeneracy conditions on the given family of Markov jump processes to obtain the desired large deviations estimates, and show how some of these conditions can be translated into structural ones, facilitating their verification for large chemical networks. ************************ Giacomo Di Gesù Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Pisa Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 5 56127 - Pisa, Italy giacomo.digesu(a)unipi.it<mailto:giacomo.digesu@unipi.it> https://sites.google.com/site/giacomodigesu/

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Seminar announcement Thursday 25 - Reciprocity in a Preferential Attachment Network (prof. Tiandong Wang)
by Gianmarco Bet 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

Dear colleagues, On March Thursday 25 at 16:00, prof. Tiandong Wang (Texas A&M) will give a virtual seminar “in Florence”, to which you are all invited. You can find title and abstract below. Title: Reciprocity in a Preferential Attachment Network Abstract: Empirical studies show that online social networks have not only in- and out-degree distributions with Pareto-like tails, but also a high proportion of reciprocal edges. A classical directed preferential attachment (PA) model generates in- and out-degree distribution with power-law tails, but theoretical properties of the reciprocity feature in this model have not yet been studied. We derive the asymptotic results on the number of reciprocal edges between two fixed nodes, as well as the proportion of reciprocal edges in the entire PA network. We see that with certain choices of parameters, the proportion of reciprocal edges in a directed PA network is close to 0, which differs from the empirical observation. This points out one potential problem of fitting a classical PA model to a given network dataset with high reciprocity, and indicates alternative models need to be considered. The seminar will be on Zoom. You can find the information to join below. Topic: Tiandong Wang - Reciprocity in a Preferential Attachment Network Time: Mar 25, 2021 04:00 PM Rome https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82762436142?pwd=MW45SWN6NTBqV0VWbVJWREhESmtaZz09 Meeting ID: 827 6243 6142 Passcode: 897951 If you know of someone who might be interested and is not subscribed to the random mailing list, please do not hesitate to forward this announcement to them. Kind regards, Gianmarco ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gianmarco Bet (he/him) Junior researcher https://gianmarco.bet Phone: (+39) 055 2751491 Department of Mathematics and Informatics "U. Dini" University of Florence Viale Morgagni, 65 50134 Firenze, Italy Office 64 ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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2 posizioni PhD aperte nell'ambito del progetto europeo ITN ETN TraDE-OPT
by villa silvia 15 Mar '21

15 Mar '21

Cari colleghi, vorrei pubblicizzare due posizioni di dottorato aperte presso l’Universita’ di Graz e presso l’Università di Louvain nell’ambito del progetto europeo TraDE-OPT <https://trade-opt-itn.eu/> . Di seguito la call piu’ precisa. Cari saluti Silvia Villa ________________________________________ 2 PHD positions to work broadly on large scale optimization for machine learning, supported by an ITN ETN project (https://trade-opt-itn.eu <https://trade-opt-itn.eu/>). The projects will aim at developing theoretical and algorithmic ideas that can explain the success of current systems as well as suggest the development of novel practical and efficient solutions. Candidates must have strong mathematical and computational skills. While the emphasis is on methodological and computational aspects, the candidates will have the opportunity to work in close collaborations on a number of applications, in connections with the industrial partners of the project. The research activities will be carried out at the University of Graz, under the supervision of Prof. Bredies, for one project and at the University Catholique de Louvain under the supervision of Prof. Glineur, for the other project. Applicants need to write an email to: malga(a)unige.it <mailto:malga@unige.it> specifying to which positions they are interested within the ***end of March***. Eligibility criteria • Candidates must – at the date of recruitment – have obtained the MSc degree entitling you to embark on a doctorate • Candidates must – at the date of recruitment – be within the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of your research career and not have a doctoral degree • Mobility rule: candidates must not have resided or carried out your main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the host organisation you are applying (i.e. Italy) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the recruitment date. Compulsory national service and/or short stays such as holidays are not taken into account. Please make sure you comply with the eligibility criteria before applying. You need to be able to provide documentation proving your eligibility for recruitment. You can read the full description of eligibility criteria in the Information Note for ITN Fellows. ____________________________________________ See also: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/61117 <https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/516136>

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avviso seminario lunedì 15 - Multiscale Approximations In Stochastic Biochemical Networks
by Enrico Bibbona 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

Gentilissimi, con la presente si comunica che lunedì 15 marzo, ore 16:30, la Prof.ssa Hye-Won Kang (University of Maryland Baltimore County) presenterà un seminario dal titolo: “Multiscale Approximations In Stochastic Biochemical Networks” Questo evento è parte del "Progetto di eccellenza", DISMA - Politecnico di Torino. Maggiori informazioni reperibili nella locandina allegata e sul sito: www.polito.it/disma-excellence/ Il seminario si terrà in forma telematica, tramite la piattaforma Zoom. Per collegarsi, è necessario utilizzare il seguente link https://polito-it.zoom.us/j/97383163671?pwd=T2pDZ2tpa0xTU3dOL1AyV3R3TEZuZz09 ID riunione: 973 8316 3671 Passcode: 343972 Accedendo al seminario, si prega di tenere microfono e videocamera disattivati. Per porre domande al termine del seminario, si prega di utilizzare la chat per chiedere la parola. Cordiali saluti - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dear colleagues, it is our pleasure to invite you to the seminar “Multiscale Approximations In Stochastic Biochemical Networks” by prof. Hye-Won Kang (University of Maryland Baltimore County). The seminar will be held on Monday, March 15, at 16:30. This event is part of "Progetto di eccellenza", DISMA - Politecnico di Torino. Further information available on the attached flyer and www.polito.it/disma-excellence/ The seminar will be an online event on Zoom platform. To connect, please follow this link https://polito-it.zoom.us/j/97383163671?pwd=T2pDZ2tpa0xTU3dOL1AyV3R3TEZuZz09 ID riunione: 973 8316 3671 Passcode: 343972 By connecting to the seminar, please switch both microphone and webcam off. The question time will be at the end of the talk. Please, use the chat to ask for the floor. Best regards, DISMA Politecnico di Torino Dipartimento di eccellenza 2018-2022 Enrico Bibbona Associate Professor of Statistics Probability, Statistics and Optimization group Department of Mathematical Sciences "G. L Lagrange" Politecnico di Torino

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Fwd: Portuguese mathematical society meeting - 12-16 july 2021
by Faggionato, Alessandra 14 Mar '21

14 Mar '21

Ricevo e con piacere inoltro. Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Patricia Gonçalves <pgoncalves(a)tecnico.ulisboa.pt> Date: dom 14 mar 2021 alle ore 17:32 Subject: Portuguese mathematical society meeting - 12-16 july 2021 To: Patrícia Gonçalves <patricia.goncalves(a)math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt> Dear Colleagues, the Portuguese Mathematical Society is organizing the ENSPM2021 on 12-16 July 2021 enspm2021.spmatematica.online The list of plenary speakers includes 4 Fields Medallists and several ICM invited speakers, along with recipients of many other distinctions such as the EMS Prize, Euler Medal, Fermat, Fulkerson, Henri Poincaré, Loève and Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet, Philip Leverhulme Prizes, MacArthur Fellows, CNRS Silver Medal, NSF Career, TWAS Prize, Whitehead Jr&Sr, and certainly many more awards in the future! The meeting has 9 slots for parallel sessions, two hours each, where many other outstanding mathematicians will have the opportunity to share and discuss ideas. We hope this meeting will help important ideas to flourish, inspire and spread. We would be very grateful if you could help this message reach anyone who may be interested. All are invited to join and/or to propose extra parallel sessions. On behalf of the organizers, João Araújo Mário Bessa Patrícia Gonçalves Luís Merca Patrícia Gonçalves Mathematics Department Instituto Superior Técnico University of Lisbon Portugal -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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RTD-B MAT/06 - Università della Basilicata
by Antonio DI CRESCENZO 13 Mar '21

13 Mar '21

Si rende noto che nella G.U. – IV Serie Speciale – “Concorsi ed Esami” n. 20 del 12/03/2021 (con scadenza alle ore 18.00 del 27/03/2021) sarà bandito un concorso da Ricercatore a tempo determinato *RTD-B* presso l'*Università della Basilicata* (Dipartimento di Matematica, Informatica ed Economia, sede: Potenza) nel SSD *MAT/06 (Probabilità e Statistica Matematica)*. Per informazioni è possibile contattare il coordinatore del CdS in Matematica, Alberto Cialdea (alberto.cialdea(a)unibas.it).

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Online seminar on "Machine Learning in Finance"
by Sara Svaluto-Ferro 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

We are pleased to announce a world online seminar on "Machine Learning in Finance" which will start on March 30th. The seminar will be held on a bi-weekly basis via Zoom at 7PM CET/10AM PST/1PM EST. Every two weeks, we will invite a speaker to cover a topic at the interface of machine learning and finance. Our opening speaker is Manuela Veloso from JP Morgan AI Research and CMU. More detailed information, in particular on the subsequent speakers can be found on our webpage https://sites.google.com/view/mlfinance/home <https://sites.google.com/view/mlfinance/home>. We also have a mailing list which can be subscribed through https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc--nB0dPRxLv_1qEMdjbrFdivaEHrzFSr… <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc--nB0dPRxLv_1qEMdjbrFdivaEHrzFSr…>. The seminar announcements and the Zoom links will be sent via this mailing list, but you can also register for the zoom link on our webpage. Please bring the announcement to the attention of other researchers who may be interested. We are looking forward to seeing you at the seminar. Best regards, The organizers Christa Cuchiero, Ruimeng Hu, Sara Svaluto-Ferro, Renyuan Xu

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Webinar in Statistics ANDREA OTTOLINI - 19/3, ore 17
by Pierpaolo De Blasi 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

WEBINARS IN STATISTICS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO <https://www.carloalberto.org/events/category/seminars/seminars-in-statistic…> Venerdi 19 Marzo 2021, alle ore 17:00, si terrà il seguente webinar: ------------------------------------------------ Speaker: *Andrea Ottolini (*Standford University, USA) Title: *Gibbs sampling in the analysis of priors for almost exchangeable data* Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83130864007?pwd=Z2dGbHVsWHJMMG9iaTJFb2VMcExqQT09 Meeting ID: 831 3086 4007 Passcode: 222589 Abstract: Consider a population of N individuals divided into d subgroups (e.g., d=4 and people are divided by sex and smoking habits). A sequence of 0-1 valued experiments on the population with outcomes X_1,..., X_n is called partially exchangeable if the only relevant information in the data is the number of 1's in each category. de Finetti's representation result guarantees that the distribution of the X's (for n<<N) is in bijection with measures pi^{(n)} on [0,1]^d. Natural problems -- such as understanding which of the subdivisions are truly meaningful and what is the effect of our initial belief pi^{(0)} -- can be addressed if one knows how to sample efficiently from these measures. In the absence of further information about the experiments, de Finetti suggests starting with a class of priors pi^{(0)}_{C,A} indexed by a d-dimensional network (measuring the relative differences among categories) and a positive parameter A (measuring the belief in complete exchangeability). in this talk I will analyze the performance of Gibbs sampling in approximating these measures in the almost exchangeable regime (A>>1). It will be shown that A^2 steps are necessary and sufficient to mix in a certain Wasserstein distance, with constants depending on few spectral parameters of the network C. This is based on joint work with Gerencsér. ------------------------------------------------ Il webinar è organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative www.carloalberto.org/stats in collaborazione con il Collegio Carlo Alberto e rientra nel Complex Data Modeling Research Network midas.mat.uc.cl/network Cordiali saluti, Pierpaolo De Blasi --- University of Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto carloalberto.org/pdeblasi <https://sites.google.com/a/carloalberto.org/pdeblasi/>

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Fwd: Pubblicazione bando RTDb SSD MAT/06
by Lucia Caramellino 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

Ricevo ed inoltro. Buona giornata, Lucia +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Lucia Caramellino Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” Web: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~caramell > Inizio messaggio inoltrato: > > Da: Filippo Bracci <fbracci(a)mat.uniroma2.it> > Oggetto: Pubblicazione bando RTDb Piano straordinario SSD MAT/06 Rif 1644 > Data: 3 marzo 2021 13:49:19 CET > A: Docenti <docenti(a)mat.uniroma2.it> > > Carissimi, > > è uscito il bando rtdB MAT/06 (con profilo per analisi dati): > > http://web.uniroma2.it/module/name/Content/newlang/italiano/action/showpage… <http://web.uniroma2.it/module/name/Content/newlang/italiano/action/showpage…> > > Scadenza: 01/04/2021 > > Vi prego di darne pubblicità > > grazie > > a presto > > Filippo > -- > ************************ > Prof. Filippo Bracci > Dipartimento di Matematica > Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" > Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1 > 00133 Roma - ITALIA > Tel: (+39-)06-7259 4643/4105 > Fax: (+39-)06-7259 4699 > E-mail: fbracci(a)mat.uniroma2.it <mailto:fbracci@mat.uniroma2.it> > Web-page: www.mat.uniroma2.it/~fbracci <http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~fbracci> > >

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Seminar announcement
by Marco Scarsini 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

*Thursday, 18 March, 17:00 CET* *Simina Brânzei**, *Purdue University Searching, Sorting and Cake Cutting in Rounds <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAQMFSAUEAQZOVgFdBQs> Discussants: Alexandros Hollender and Argyrios Deligkas The paper can be found here <https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00738>. This is the link to the Virtual Room <https://luiss.webex.com/webappng/sites/luiss/meeting/download/1e89e3ce671e4…> The schedule of the upcoming seminars can be found here <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/seminari/seminari-2021>. If you want to receive announcements of future seminars, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDxM-M5ogG43elgjC-lNCp0BDhISiZHG0…> . ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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Corso online del prof. Zegarlinski su "Coercive Inequalities"
by Federico Girotti 12 Mar '21

12 Mar '21

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Posto da Ricercatore di tipo B a Udine (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:37:26 +0100 From: Marcellino Gaudenzi <marcellino.gaudenzi(a)uniud.it> To: vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it Subject: Posto da Ricercatore di tipo B a Udine Caro Tiziano, ti chiedo gentilmente di rendere noto che l'Universit? di Udine ha bandito un posto da ricercatore di tipo B per il settore concorsuale 13/D4 Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e finanziarie, presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche. Il bando ? reperibile all'indirizzo: https://www.uniud.it/it/ateneo-uniud/concorsi-bandi-uniud/concorsi/bandi-do… Grazie. Cari saluti Marcellino ________________________ Marcellino Gaudenzi Professore di Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e f inanziarie Universit? di Udine Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche e Statistiche Via Tomadini 30/A - 33100 Udine, Italy

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Announcement: Online conference Stochastic Processes and their Friends, the 18th and 19th of March 2021 (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 20:11:48 +0000 (UTC) From: Miryana Grigorova <miryana_grigorova(a)yahoo.fr> To: Tiziano Vargiolu <vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it> Subject: Announcement: Online conference Stochastic Processes and their Friends, the 18th and 19th of March 2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues and friends, It is with the greatest of pleasure that we invite you to take part in the online conference Stochastic Processes and their Friends. This first edition of the conference celebrates the scientific career of Prof. Alexander Yu. Veretennikov. The event will take place online via Zoom in the afternoons of the 18th and 19th of March. More information can be found at https://www.miryanagrigorova.com/stochastic-processes-and-their-frie Please to register by following this link https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/special-online-event-stochastic-processes-an… Registration is free but required for organisational purposes. We are looking forward to seeing you next week! On behalf of the organising committee, Yours sincerely, Miryana

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Fwd: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday March 11, 2021
by Faggionato, Alessandra 10 Mar '21

10 Mar '21

Buongiorno inoltro l'annuncio per il OWPS di domani, che sarà relazionato alla biologia. Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com> Date: mer 10 mar 2021 alle ore 09:32 Subject: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday March 11, 2021 To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk> Tomorrow's speakers in the One World Probability Seminar are (Note: all times are in UTC. *Due to time changes, you should check what that translates to in your location*) ------------------------------------------------ (14:00-15:00 UTC) Speaker: Viet Chi Tran (Université Gustave Eiffel) Title: Limit Theorems for Historical Particle Systems Abstract: To describe the evolving phylogenies of a birth and death process with trait structure and ecological interactions, we build a historical process inspired by works by Dawson and Perkins (1991 and 1995): it is a càdlàg process whose value at time t is a measure on lineages stopped at this time, i.e. paths describing the trait ancestries of the individuals living at time t. The dynamics may depend on past traits and allows interactions between individuals through their lineages. We establish the convergence of the individual-based birth-death process to a nonlinear historical superprocess, under the assumptions of large populations, small individuals and allometric demographies. The limit is described here by a macroscopic martingale problem. Because of the interactions, the branching property fails and we use fine couplings between our population and independent branching particles. This is a joint work with Sylvie Méléard. (15:00-16:00 UTC) Speaker: Sylvie Méléard (École Polytechnique, Paris) Title: Historical Processes and Dynamics of Phylogenies in a Population with Climate Change Abstract: We investigate in a simple model how the phylogenies of living individuals are shaped by the adaptation to a varying environment. In this model, the individuals are characterised by one-dimensional real traits (or positions). The stochastic individual-based birth-death process depends on a time-changing growth rate that shifts the optimal trait to the right and depends on a nonlinear logistic competition term. The macroscopic behaviour is described by a PDE that admits a unique positive stationary solution. We are interested here in the ancestral lineages of the living individuals in the stationary regime. The dynamic of these lineages is modelled by a historical process, approximatively close to a similar one with non-linearity frozen to its stationary value. We then use a many-to-one identity together with Feynman-Kac's formula and fine stochastic calculus to completely describe the limiting distribution, in large populations, of the path of an individual drawn at random at a given time. This path, in reversed time, is approximated by a simple Ornstein-Uhlenbeck. It shows how the lagged bulk of the present population stems from ancestors once optimal in trait but still in the tail of the trait distribution in which they lived. This talk is based on a joint work with Vincent Calvez, Benoit Henry and Viet Chi Tran. ------------------------------------------------ The zoom link will appear the day before on the OWPS website: https://www.owprobability.org/one-world-probability-seminar <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.owpro…> It can also be directly accessed through the link below: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/86028841260?pwd=bUxyVUYzSjY5dDR4d3krb2lDTHZDQT09 <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma1.…> Meeting-ID: 860 2884 1260 Passcode: 868252 Please feel free to circulate this email. We hope to see you all tomorrow! One World Probability Team -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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Fwd: [umr8050] Allocations de Master Bézout : ouverture de la nouvelle campagne de recrutement
by Lucia Caramellino 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

Ricevo ed inoltro. Buona giornata, Lucia +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Lucia Caramellino Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” Web: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~caramell De: "raphael danchin" <raphael.danchin(a)u-pec.fr <mailto:raphael.danchin@u-pec.fr>> À: "umr8050" <umr8050(a)listes.math.cnrs.fr <mailto:umr8050@listes.math.cnrs.fr>> Envoyé: Mardi 9 Mars 2021 08:51:51 Objet: [umr8050] Allocations de Master Bézout : ouverture de la nouvelle campagne de recrutement Dear colleague, The 2021-2022 hiring campaign for international Bézout master's scholarships is open until May 21. This year, we will be able to accept more applications than usual (about 10, compared to 7 usually). Bézout Master program is directed towards excellent students in mathematics or computer science (or both) from foreign institutions willing to pursue their studies in Université Paris-Est at the master's level. The laureates will receive about 1300 € per month over 11 months (pending approval of the University Executive Board) and will be proposed a room on the campus. Furthermore, the best students will then be invited to join the PhD program of the Doctoral School MSTIC (Mathematics, Sciences and Information and Communication Technology). A joint supervision with the student's national doctoral framework, leading to both PhD grades, is possible. The details of the program can be found here: http://bezout.univ-paris-est.fr/masters-scholarships/ <http://bezout.univ-paris-est.fr/masters-scholarships/> . From the same webpage, a link to the application form is available; the deadline will be May 21. On April 27 and 30, we plan to hold two online presentations of the Bézout master's program and scholarships, followed by a session of questions and answers; potential applicants should express their interest (without commitment to attend), so that we can send them the credentials for the meeting; see the webpage. A description of the activities of the Bézout Labex can be found in the leaflet at http://bezout.univ-paris-est.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bezout-leaflet.p…. One can also send you a few printed leaflets at your postal address. Contact: Raphaël Danchin <danchin(a)u-pec.fr <mailto:danchin@u-pec.fr>>

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Webinar Yi Yu @Bocconi
by Giacomo Zanella 09 Mar '21

09 Mar '21

We announce the following DEC Statistics webinar: Date: Thursday, March 11, h17:00 (Italy time) Speaker: Yi Yu (University of Warwick) Title: Functional Linear Regression with Mixed Predictors Abstract: We study a functional linear regression model that deals with functional responses and allows for both functional covariates and high-dimensional vector covariates. The proposed model is flexible and nests several functional regression models in the literature as special cases. Based on the theory of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS), we propose a penalized least squares estimator that can accommodate functional variables observed on discrete grids. Besides the conventional smoothness penalties, a group Lasso-type penalty is further imposed to induce sparsity in the high-dimensional vector predictors. We derive finite sample theoretical guarantees and show that the excess prediction risk of our estimator is minimax optimal. Furthermore, our analysis reveals an interesting phase transition phenomenon that the optimal excess risk is determined jointly by the smoothness and the sparsity of the functional regression coefficients. A novel efficient optimization algorithm based on iterative coordinate descent is devised to handle the smoothness and sparsity penalties simultaneously. Simulation studies and real data applications illustrate the promising performance of the proposed approach compared to the state-of-the-art methods in the literature. The webinar will be on zoom at: https://zoom.us/j/95651583993?pwd=ZnZjaGxvZWVLdGFSL0dGTk43eU9Idz09 Meeting ID: 956 5158 3993 Passcode: 568279 Kind regards, Giacomo Zanella

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Seminario di Sandra Cerrai in Bicocca (circa)
by Gianmario Tessitore - UNIMIB 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Ho il piacere di annunciare il seguente seminario, da remoto, di Sandra Cerrai (University of Maryland): "Sull'approssimazione di Smoluchowski-Kramers per SPDE con termine di smorzamento variabile" Lunedì 15 Marzo 2021 ore 17:30 Seguono il riassunto e il link Zoom. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Gianmario Tessitore %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Link Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81619958846?pwd=V1BQemR1L01aMzJHMGVFOWg1WVR3UT09 (ID: 816 1995 8846 Passcode: 133769) Abstract: Darò una panoramica su una serie di risultati sul comportamento asintotico, rispetto alla massa piccola, di sistemi stocastici infinito-dimensionali descritti da equazioni delle onde smorzate perturbate da un rumore Gaussiano. In particolare, concentrerò la mia attenzione al caso in cui lo smorzamento dipende dallo stato. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- Gianmario Tessitore Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

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Fwd: PhD position in Statistics at University of Amsterdam
by Marco Formentin 08 Mar '21

08 Mar '21

Ricevo e inoltro. Buona giornata, Marco Formentin ----- Forwarded message from Eni Musta <e.musta(a)uva.nl> ----- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2021 12:20:58 +0000 From: Eni Musta <e.musta(a)uva.nl> Dear colleagues, Applications are invited for a PhD position in Statistics at the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics, University of Amsterdam. The PhD candidate will be supervised by Eni Musta and will work on the project "Shape-constrained estimation in survival analysis". The project aims at development of statistical methodology and theory for cure models using shape-constrained techniques. We are looking for candidates with a strong background in Mathematical Statistics/Statistics or Probability and interest in statistical methodology/theory. More details about the project and the application procedure can be found at: https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/vacancies/2021/03/21-144-phd-stude… https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/298398/phd-student-in-statistics/ Best regards, Eni Musta ----- End forwarded message -----

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Seminar announcement
by Marco Scarsini 05 Mar '21

05 Mar '21

*Thursday, 11 March, 17:00 CET* *Claire Mathieu**, *École Normale Supérieure Two-Sided Matching Markets with Correlated Random Preferences have Few Stable Pairs <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAQcLSAUFCQ1OVgFdBQs> Discussants: Andrés Cristi and Josué Ortega The paper can be found here <https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.03890>. This is the link to the Virtual Room <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAAYBSAUFBQBOVgFdBQs> The schedule of the upcoming seminars can be found here <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/seminari/seminari-2021>. If you want to receive announcements of future seminars, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDxM-M5ogG43elgjC-lNCp0BDhISiZHG0…> . ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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Fwd: Vacancies within NETWORKS, The Netherlands: 6 PhDs in Stochastics and Algorithms, deadline March 31, 2021
by pietro caputo 04 Mar '21

04 Mar '21

Ricevo e inoltro: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Avena, L. <l.avena(a)math.leidenuniv.nl> Date: Thu, Mar 4, 2021, 18:26 Subject: Vacancies within NETWORKS, The Netherlands: 6 PhDs in Stochastics and Algorithms, deadline March 31, 2021 To: Wolfgang Koenig <koenig(a)wias-berlin.de>, Francis Comets < comets(a)math.univ-paris-diderot.fr>, Cristina TONINELLI < toninelli(a)ceremade.dauphine.fr>, Fabio Toninelli < toninelli(a)math.univ-lyon1.fr>, pietro caputo <caputo(a)mat.uniroma3.it>, Fabio Martinelli <martinelli.fabio(a)gmail.com>, JProf Florian Voellering < Florian.Voellering(a)math.uni-leipzig.de>, Matteo Quattropani < matteo.quattropani(a)gmail.com>, Paolo MILANESI <paolo.MILANESI(a)univ-amu.fr>, FABIENNE CASTELL. AMU. <fabienne.castell(a)univ-amu.fr>, Clothilde Melot < clothilde.melot(a)univ-amu.fr>, A. Gaudilliere < alexandre.gaudilliere(a)math.cnrs.fr>, Augusto <augusto(a)impa.br>, Faggionato, Alessandra <faggiona(a)mat.uniroma1.it>, Conrado Costa <conradofpc(a)gmail.com>, Diego Garlaschelli <diego.garlaschelli(a)imtlucca.it>, Daniel Valesin < valesin(a)gmail.com>, Dirk Erhard <erharddirk(a)gmail.com>, Tertuliano Franco < francotertu(a)gmail.com>, F.H.J.Redig(a)tudelft.nl <F.H.J.Redig(a)tudelft.nl>, Otávio Menezes <ommenezes(a)gmail.com>, Jon Peterson <peterson(a)purdue.edu>, Vincent Tassion <vincent.tassion(a)math.ethz.ch>, 千野由喜 < y.chino.leiden(a)gmail.com>, Francesca Romana Nardi < francescaromana.nardi(a)unifi.it>, Patricia Goncalves <mophinha(a)gmail.com>, landim(a)impa.br <landim(a)impa.br>, Maria Eulalia Vares <eulaliavares(a)gmail.com>, rodrigo.bissacot(a)gmail.com <rodrigo.bissacot(a)gmail.com>, Rogerio Alves < rgalvess(a)gmail.com>, Arnaud Le Ny <arnaud.le-ny(a)u-pec.fr>, Nicolas Tremblay <nicolas.tremblay(a)gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr>, Simon Barthelmé < simon.barthelme(a)gipsa-lab.fr>, Marco Romito <marco.romito(a)unipi.it>, Dario Trevisan <dario.trevisan(a)unipi.it>, Giacomo Filippo Di Gesu < giacomo.digesu(a)unipi.it>, alessandra bianchi <bianchi(a)math.unipd.it>, Alessandra Cipriani <A.Cipriani(a)tudelft.nl>, Wioletta Ruszel < w.m.ruszel(a)tudelft.nl>, Christophe Garban <garban(a)math.univ-lyon1.fr>, Christina Goldschmidt <goldschm(a)stats.ox.ac.uk>, christian.maes(a)kuleuven.be <christian.maes(a)kuleuven.be>, Renato Soares Dos Santos <rsd8(a)nyu.edu>, Alexandre Stauffer <astauffer(a)mat.uniroma3.it>, Elisabetta Scoppola < elisabetta.scoppola(a)gmail.com>, Francesco Caravenna < francesco.caravenna(a)unimib.it>, Julián Martínez <julianfm7(a)gmail.com>, Milton D. Jara V. <mjara(a)impa.br>, Hubert Lacoin <hlacoin(a)gmail.com>, quentin.berger(a)sorbonne-universite.fr <quentin.berger(a)sorbonne-universite.fr>, rf87(a)nyu.edu <rf87(a)nyu.edu>, drewitz(a)math.uni-koeln.de < drewitz(a)math.uni-koeln.de>, Ines Armendariz <ines.armendariz(a)gmail.com>, Pablo Ferrari <pagfrr(a)gmail.com>, Lorenzo Zambotti <zambotti(a)lpsm.paris>, bertini(a)mat.uniroma1.it <bertini(a)mat.uniroma1.it> Dear friends and colleagues, I would like to ask you to advertise within your network of potentially interested colleagues and students, 6 PhD positions in Stochastics and Algorithms within the Dutch research project NETWORKS (Leiden, Amsterdam and Eindhoven). More details and the application description can be found at this link: https://www.thenetworkcenter.nl/Open-Positions/openposition/29/6-PhD-Positi… Thanks for the attention and see you hopefully soon. Sincerely, Luca

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2 years postdoctoral research position in Analysis at Bocconi University, Milan
by Marco Alessandro Fuhrman 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Buongiorno. Ricevo e inoltro un avviso su un assegno di ricerca. Cordiali saluti. Marco Fuhrman %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Applications are invited for a 2 years postdoctoral research position in Analysis at Bocconi University, Milan , with a flexible starting date between May and November 2021. The appointment is funded through the PRIN project "Gradient flows, Optimal Transport and Metric Measure Structures" and it will focus on the main topics of the project, with possible applications to PDEs and Machine Learning. This is a research-oriented position at the Bocconi Institute for Data Science and Analytics, with an expected net salary of €25000 per annum and without teaching duties. Additional information and details on the appointment can be found at the Jobmarket website of Bocconi . Applications (see the details in the annou n cement and the application form ) should be sent before noon of March 31, 2021 by email to the Faculty and Staff Administration office . For any further information please write to giuseppe.savare(a)unibocconi.it . Bando (Italian) Announcement Application form Link to the cvgmt website <signatureafterquotedtext></signatureafterquotedtext>

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Fwd: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday March 4, 2021
by Faggionato, Alessandra 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Buongiorno vi giro l'annuncio del OWPS di domani che sarà molto relazionato al trasporto ottimale. Grazie Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com> Date: mer 3 mar 2021 alle ore 14:06 Subject: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday March 4, 2021 To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk> Tomorrow's speakers in the One World Probability Seminar are (Note: all times are in UTC. *Due to time changes, you should check what that translates to in your location*) ------------------------------------------------ (14:00-15:00 UTC) Speaker: Matthias Erbar (Bielefeld University) Title: Optimal Transport and Gradient Flows in Discrete or Non-Local Settings Abstract: Optimal transport has become a powerful tool in the analysis of particle systems and the associated evolution equations. In particular the description as steepest descent or gradient flow in the Wasserstein distance gives insights on their long-time or limiting behavior. Yet many situations of interest fall outside the scope of the classical optimal transport theory. In the talk I will try to give an overview of some recent developments concerning the construction of different geometries on the space of probability measures tailored to capture the specific features of a given system. I will focus in particular on particles systems on discrete spaces and on the collisional dynamics in the Boltzmann equation. (15:00-16:00 UTC) Speaker: Jan Maas (IST Austria) Title: Optimal Transport: from Discrete to Continuous Abstract: Many stochastic systems can be viewed as gradient flow ('steepest descent') in the space of probability measures, where the driving functional is a relative entropy and the dissipation mechanism is described by a dynamical optimal transport problem. In this talk we focus on these optimal transport problems and describe recent work on the limit passage from discrete to continuous. Surprisingly, it turns out that discrete transport metrics may fail to converge to the expected limit, even when the associated gradient flows converge. We will illustrate this phenomenon in examples, discuss a geometric criterion for convergence, and present a recent homogenisation result. This talk is based on joint works with Matthias Erbar, Nicola Gigli, Peter Gladbach, Eva Kopfer, and Lorenzo Portinale. ------------------------------------------------ The zoom link will appear the day before on the OWPS website: https://www.owprobability.org/one-world-probability-seminar <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.owpro…> It can also be directly accessed through the link below: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/85095168711?pwd=dGx2dnNySUZQNm40ZC9aWlJTaXZTZz09 <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma1.…> Meeting-ID: 850 9516 8711 Passcode: 244220 Please feel free to circulate this email. We hope to see you all tomorrow! One World Probability Team -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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Statistics and Probability Seminars @University of Nottingham: Karthik Bharath (3pm Italian time)
by Fabrizio Leisen 03 Mar '21

03 Mar '21

Con preghiera di diffusione. *Italian time: 15:00* Cordiali Saluti, Fabrizio Dear All, the Statistics and Probability group at the University of Nottingham organize a series of internal seminars which will be available to anyone interested, even outside the University of Nottingham. Our next speaker is Karthik Bharath. Seminar date and time: *4**th* * of March at 2pm. * Below you can find the Abstract and Title. Furthermore, you can find the Teams link to join the seminar. Best Wishes, Fabrizio Leisen Professor of Statistics University of Nottingham School of Mathematical Sciences University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK http://sites.google.com/site/fabrizioleisen/ You are cordially invited to the following seminar: Karthik Bharath <https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mathematics/people/karthik.bharath> (Internal Seminar) ----> 4th of March *at 2pm* Title: Shape space and models for functional data Abstract: Statements such as “death rate curve needs to remain single peaked”; “we expect the second peak of infected cases to be smaller compared to the first”, are, unfortunately, all too familiar nowadays. They represent instances of informal descriptions of shapes of functions we can relate to readily, wherein the notion of shape relates exclusively to ‘y direction’ variation. To formalise this, in this talk, I will consider a group-theoretic description of the shape of a function as that which is left behind once ‘x direction’ variability is ignored: only the number and values of local extrema are relevant to describe its shape and not their timings. Accordingly, the shape of a function is shown to be uniquely encoded by a polynomial, and this connection allows us to study structural aspects of the shape space of functions. For statistical analysis of functional data (e.g., densely sampled multiple time series data) the upside to this perspective is that (i) a natural dimension reduction mechanism based on local extrema becomes available when analysing amplitudes that avoids the task of registering (or aligning) the data; and (ii) simple finite-dimensional generative shape models can be defined. On the other hand, geometry of the shape space is complicated, and this makes it difficult to compute descriptive statistics (e.g., average shape) and study models induced on the shape space from the original (simpler) function space. This is joint work with Ian Jermyn (Durham). __________________________________________________ Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer or mobile app Click here to join the meeting <https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YTYwODYyNDEtYThiZi00…> Learn more <https://aka.ms/JoinTeamsMeeting> | Meeting options <https://teams.microsoft.com/meetingOptions/?organizerId=ac48eccb-4345-40d8-…> -- Fabrizio Leisen Professor of Statistics University of Nottingham School of Mathematical Sciences University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK http://sites.google.com/site/fabrizioleisen/

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Pisa Online Seminars - Atul Shekhar (Tuesday, March 9 at 16:00)
by Giacomo Filippo Di Gesu 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to the following online seminar organized by the Probability group of the University of Pisa. The talk will be accessible under the link Click here to join the meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3A17115d7f6ef44c5e91974362906c…> Best regards, Giacomo Tuesday, March 9, 16:00 Speaker: Atul Shekhar (Université Lyon 1) Title: On the fixed points of Branching Brownian motion Abstract: We consider a particle system on the real line in which each particle evolves into many particles via independent Branching Brownian motions. Under a very mild natural assumption, we give a full characterisation of the fixed points of this particle system. This result is motivated by an earlier work of T. Liggett on particle systems without branching. Further motivations come from the close connection between the Branching Brownian motion and the two dimensional Gaussian free field. This talk is based on a joint work with Christophe Garban and Xinxin Chen. ************************ Giacomo Di Gesù Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Pisa Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 5 56127 - Pisa, Italy giacomo.digesu(a)unipi.it<mailto:giacomo.digesu@unipi.it> https://sites.google.com/site/giacomodigesu/

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AMaMeF: update on the 2021 conference in Padova
by Tiziano Vargiolu 02 Mar '21

02 Mar '21

Dear all, we hope that this message finds you well. This message is an update on the 10th general AMaMeF (Advanced Mathematical Methods for Finance) conference, scheduled on June 22-25, 2021, at the University of Padova (Italy). In agreement with the AMaMeF steering committee, we decided to keep the conference on the scheduled dates. Obviously, the current pandemic situation, travel restrictions and the uncertainty of the near future prevent us from organising a conference and the accompanying social events in the style of the good old days. For this reason, we are planning a conference in a hybrid format, with the presence of a limited number of participants and with the option of rapidly switching to a fully online conference, if the hybrid format will turn out to be unfeasible. All of the plenary speakers confirmed their willingness to participate to the conference, and most of them will be present, if possible. The Call for contributed sessions and talks will be announced and opened very soon. Please visit the conference webiste for more detailed informations and constant updates: https://events.math.unipd.it/AMAMEF2021/ Best wishes Tiziano -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tiziano Vargiolu 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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Fwd: Ph.D. position information theory at IMT Lille Douai
by Michele Coghi 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

Ricevo ed inoltro. Con preghiera di diffusione a tutti i possibili interessati. On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 at 13:34, Giulia Cervia <giulia.cervia(a)imt-lille-douai.fr> wrote: > Dear all, > > together with Anne Savard and Laurent Clavier we are looking for a PhD > student at IMT Lille Douai. > The topic is in information theory*, *at the intersection between > information engineering and mathematics. More specifically, we are going > to look into efficient code design for finite-blocklength coordination > from both a practical and theoretical perspective. As the first objective > is more engineering-oriented, and the latter is basically large > deviations and Neyman-Pearson theory, the main focus will also depend on > the candidate’s background. More details in the proposal (attached). > > The PhD is supposed to start in September/October 2021, and the > application deadline is May 28th. > > We would be grateful if you could forward this to potentially interested > (master) students. > > Best regards > > Giulia Cervia > > > > -- Herr Dr. Michele Coghi Technische Universität Berlin, Raum 706 Straße des 17. Juni 136, 10587 Berlin, Germany E-Mail: coghi(a)math.tu-berlin.de

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assegno di ricerca in Fisica Matematica Univaq
by davide gabrielli 01 Mar '21

01 Mar '21

Segnalo il bando allegato per 1 assegno di ricerca in Fisica Matematica presso il Dipartimento di Ingegnerie e Scienze dell'informazione e Matematica dell'Università dell'Aquila su tematiche riguardanti la meccanica statistica e la modellistica stocastica. Il bando relativo alla presente procedura selettiva sarà pubblicato mediante affissione allAlbo ufficiale dellUniversità degli Studi dellAquila nonché sul sito internet: - dellAteneo (http://www.univaq.it/section.php?id=766); - del MIUR (http://bandi.miur.it); - dellUnione Europea (http://ec.europa.eu/euraxess). Scadenza 17-03-2021 saluti Davide Gabrielli

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I: Assegno di ricerca nel settore MAT/06 - Ancona
by Alberto Lanconelli 26 Feb '21

26 Feb '21

Ricevo e inoltro. Alberto ________________________________ Da: CRISTINA MARCELLI <c.marcelli(a)staff.univpm.it> Inviato: venerdì 26 febbraio 2021 18:18 A: Alberto Lanconelli <alberto.lanconelli2(a)unibo.it> Oggetto: Assegno di ricerca nel settore MAT/06 - Ancona Cari colleghi, sono docente di Analisi Matematica presso l’Università Politecnica delle Marche (Ancona). Vi scrivo per informarvi di un prossimo bando per un assegno di ricerca nel settore MAT/06 presso la Facoltà di Ingegneria del nostro Ateneo. L'assegno sarà annuale, ma rinnovabile fino a 3 anni. Se conoscete qualche giovane potenzialmente interessato (purché abbia già conseguito il titolo di dottore di ricerca) e desiderate avere maggiori informazioni, potete contattarmi scrivendomi a c.marcelli(a)univpm.it<mailto:c.marcelli@univpm.it> . Grazie per l’attenzione, Cristina Marcelli

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Seminar announcement
by Marco Scarsini 26 Feb '21

26 Feb '21

*Thursday, 4 March, 17:00 CET* *Katya Scheinberg**, *Cornell University A Theoretical and Empirical Comparison of Gradient Approximations in Derivative-Free Optimization <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAQUDSAUFBgdOVgFdBQs> Discussants: Pavel Dvurechensky and Giuseppe Ughi The paper can be found here <https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01332>. This is the link to the Virtual Room <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAAYBSAUFBQBOVgFdBQs> The schedule of the upcoming seminars can be found here <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/seminari/prossimi-seminari>. If you want to receive announcements of future seminars, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDxM-M5ogG43elgjC-lNCp0BDhISiZHG0…> . ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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Concorsi per ricercatori e tempo determinato...
by Marco Minozzo 25 Feb '21

25 Feb '21

Carissime e carissimi, nella Gazzetta Ufficiale - IV Serie Speciale n. 14 del 19/02/2021 è stato pubblicato l'avviso relativo all'indizione di procedure selettive per posti di Ricercatore a tempo determinato ai sensi dell'art. 24, comma 3, lettera b) della L. 240/2010 presso l'Università degli Studi di Verona. Si segnalano in particolare i seguenti settori: Dipartimento di Scienze economiche 1 posto SECS-S/01 Statistica - Cod. 2021rtdb034 1 posto SECS-S/06 Metodi Matematici dell'Economia e delle Scienze Attuariali e Finanziarie - Cod. 2021rtdb035 I bandi sono disponibili all'Albo ufficiale e alla pagina concorsi del sito web di Ateneo all'indirizzo: https://www.univr.it/it/concorsi/personale-docente/ricercatore/ricercatore-… La scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è il 22 marzo 2021 alle ore 20.00. Un caro saluto, Marco Minozzo ------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Marco Minozzo, PhD Presidente Laurea in Economia e Commercio Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Università degli Studi di Verona Via Cantarane 24 37129 Verona (Italy) Tel: +39045 8028234 Fax: +39045 8028177 E-mail: marco.minozzo(a)univr.it<mailto:marco.minozzo@univr.it> -------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday February 25, 2021
by Faggionato, Alessandra 24 Feb '21

24 Feb '21

Buongiorno, vi inoltro l'annuncio del OWPS di domani. Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com> Date: mer 24 feb 2021 alle ore 12:25 Subject: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday February 25, 2021 To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk> Tomorrow's speakers in the One World Probability Seminar are (Note: all times are in UTC. *Due to time changes, you should check what that translates to in your location*) ------------------------------------------------ (14:00-15:00 UTC) Speaker: Fredrik Viklund (KTH) Title: Interplay between Dirichlet and Loewner energies: cutting-welding operations and foliations by Weil-Petersson quasicircles - Part 1 Abstract: The Loewner energy is a Mobius invariant deterministic quantity attached to Jordan curves in the plane. One way in which it arises is as a large deviations rate function for the Schramm-Loewner evolution with small parameter. A curve has finite Loewner Energy if and only if it is a Weil-Petersson quasicircle, a class of curves that in the last decades has received significant attention by both physicists and mathematicians, but only very recently by probabilists. The Loewner-Kufarev energy is a dual quantity attached to certain continuous families of Jordan curves, which arises in the context of large deviations of SLEs with large parameter. We will survey recent joint works (and beyond) that describe the interplay between these energies (and the Weil-Petersson quasicircles) with the usual Dirichlet energy on the plane. The results are closely related to recent ideas and developments in Random Conformal Geometry but proofs are purely analytic. In the first talk, we begin by presenting background material and a survey of properties and characterisations of Weil-Petersson quasicircles. We then discuss interactions between Weil-Petersson quasicircles with ambient Dirichlet class functions via cutting and conformal welding operations as well as interpretations in terms of "flow-lines". At the end we will present a "dictionary" that relates these statements with ideas in Random Conformal Geometry. (15:00-16:00 UTC) Speaker: Yilin Wang (MIT) Title: Interplay between Dirichlet and Loewner energies: cutting-welding operations and foliations by Weil-Petersson quasicircles - Part 2 Abstract: The main topic of the second talk is the Loewner-Kufarev energy and corresponding families of Weil-Petersson quasicircles. We will indicate how to associate to such a foliation a (geometric) "winding function" on the plane whose Dirichlet energy equals the (analytic) Loewner-Kufarev energy. This duality entails several interesting results: for example, the Loewner-Kufarev Energy is in fact reversible and we obtain a new characterisation of Weil-Petersson quasicircles. We will end by discussing further implications and open problems. *Main references:*F. Viklund, Y. Wang: Interplay between Loewner and Dirichlet energies via conformal welding and flow-lines, Geom. Funct. Anal. (GAFA) 30 289–321 (2020) F. Viklund, Y. Wang: The Loewner-Kufarev Energy and Foliations by Weil-Petersson Quasicircles, arXiv:2012.05771 (2020) ------------------------------------------------ The zoom link will appear the day before on the OWPS website: https://www.owprobability.org/one-world-probability-seminar <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.owpro…> It can also be directly accessed through the link below: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/89460596402?pwd=QmZ5N25waCs5NVl5QkJGdWxQTFpDdz09 <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma1.…> Meeting-ID: 894 6059 6402 Passcode: 307302 Please feel free to circulate this email. We hope to see you all tomorrow! One World Probability Team -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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RTDB MAT/06 Università di Verona
by Paolo Dai Pra 23 Feb '21

23 Feb '21

Vi informo dell’uscita del bando RTDB S.C. 01/A3 Analisi matematica, Probabilità e Statistica matematica - S.S.D. MAT/06 Probabilità e Statistica matematica Presso in Dipartimento di Informatica dell’Università di Verona. https://www.univr.it/it/concorsi/personale-docente/ricercatore/ricercatore-… <https://www.univr.it/it/concorsi/personale-docente/ricercatore/ricercatore-…> Paolo Dai Pra Dipartimento di Informatica Università degli Studi di Verona Strada Le Grazie 15, 37134 Verona, Italy Tel. +390458027093

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Seminari Gruppo PRISMA
by c.ceci＠unich.it 22 Feb '21

22 Feb '21

Buongiorno a tutti, abbiamo il piacere di annunciare il secondo appuntamento del ciclo mensile di seminari online promosso dal Gruppo UMI PRISMA. Lunedi’ 1 marzo 2021, ore 16-18 Alessandra Faggionato Titolo: Random resistor networks and Mott’s variable range hopping Abstract: Random resistor networks allow to study electron transport indisordered systems. By means of stochastic homogenization one can characterize the infinite volume effective conductivity in terms of the homogenized matrix of suitable discrete Poisson equations. We will then focus on the low temperature behavior of the random conductance model and the Miller-Abrahams random resistor network. The latter models the so-called Mott’s variable range hopping, a fundamental transport mechanism in disordered solids in the regime of strong Anderson localization. We will discuss its percolative properties and show how homogenization, percolation and scaling arguments lead to Mott’s law. (For the percolation part, the talk is based on joint works with H.A. Mimun). Elisabetta Candellero Titolo: Competition processes on hyperbolic non-amenable graphs Abstract: We consider two first-passage percolation processes, FPP_1 and FPP_\lambda, spreading with rates 1 and \lambda respectively, on a graph G with bounded degree. FPP_1 starts from a single source, while the initial configuration of FPP_\lambda consists of countably many seeds distributed according to a product of iid Bernoulli random variables of parameter \mu on the set of vertices. This model is known as "First passage percolation in a hostile environment" (FPPHE), and was introduced by Stauffer and Sidoravicius as an auxiliary model for investigating a notoriously challenging model called Multiparticle Diffusion Limited Aggregation. We consider several questions about FPPHE, focusing on the case when G is a non-amenable hyperbolic graph. This talk is based on joint works with Alexandre Stauffer. Collegamento Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_YjVhZDc3MDctZTU1NC00… Tutte le informazioni le trovate anche alla pagina: http://www.umi-prisma.polito.it/webinars.html Grazie per l’attenzione, Claudia Ceci e Domenico Marinucci **************************************** Claudia Ceci Dipartimento di Economia Universita' "G. d'Annunzio" V.le Pindaro 42 65127, Pescara, ITALY c.ceci(a)unich.it ****************************************

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Three two-year postdoctoral fellowships -- Torino, Italy
by Federico Polito 21 Feb '21

21 Feb '21

The Department of Mathematics "G. Peano" (University of Torino) invites applications for *three two-year postdoctoral fellowships* in all areas of applied and pure mathematics. The winners will work with researchers of the department in all areas of mathematics, including Probability and Statistics. The call is online at https://pica.cineca.it/unito/ Look for "Bando assegni di ricerca - Cofinanziati - Tornata XXIII" and click the left blue button (Bando/call). For the application procedure choose instead the button on the right (Le tue domande/your applications -- the application is then available in English). *The closing date is March 8, 2021 (1pm CET)* The dates and location of the interviews will be published at https://www.serviziweb.unito.it/albo_ateneo/ For any enquiries in the area of probability please feel free to email me. Best regards, Federico Polito -- Federico Polito Department of Mathematics University of Torino Via Carlo Alberto, 10 10123, Torino, Italy Email: federico.polito(a)unito.it Web: www.federicopolito.it

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Tenure Track position in Financial Mathematics – University of Verona
by Alessandro Gnoatto 20 Feb '21

20 Feb '21

The Department of Economics at the University of Verona is looking for a tenure track researcher in the field of Financial and Insurance Mathematics (SECS-S/06 - 13/D4). The Department of Economics offers a vibrant research environment in the newly built campus of Santa Marta. According to the latest Italian Research Assessment Exercise (VQR), it ranks in the top 5% of the economics departments for the number of academics with only top publications and, according to REPEC, is in the top 10% in Italy for the proportion of cited publications. The Verona Quantitative Finance group offers a stimulating environment with researchers focusing on different areas such as: high frequency financial econometrics and asset pricing, mathematical/quantitative finance, stochastic optimal control and computational finance. The position is a fixed-term 3-year position (RTDB). If the researcher receives the National Scientific Habilitation (ASN), at the end of the 3 years then he/she becomes a tenured Associate Professor. A minimum of 3 years of postdoc experience is required together with a working knowledge of Italian. The call and the online application form can be accessed via the following link. https://www.univr.it/it/concorsi/personale-docente/ricercatore/ricercatore-… <https://www.univr.it/it/concorsi/personale-docente/ricercatore/ricercatore-…> For questions, please contact: alessandro.gnoatto(a)univr.it <mailto:alessandro.gnoatto@univr.it>

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Bernoulli Society New Researcher Award 2022
by Antonio DI CRESCENZO 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

Bernoulli Society welcomes applications for the New Researcher Award 2022. The deadline for applications is 15 March 2021. Each awardee shall deliver a talk at a special invited session during the 42nd Conference on Stochastic Processes and their Applications in 2022, and will receive a funding up to 1000€ to offset travel and other expenses. Eligible candidates are active researchers in Probability Theory who obtained their PhD degree on or after March 1st, 2016, and who are regular members of the Bernoulli Society. Candidates should apply through the web form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdajP4NBGSWFXHJxoVCQTmJMpv9rM2ZRNV… For more information, visit the website http://www.bernoulli-society.org/news/37-general-announcement/324-bernoulli… -- Antonio Di Crescenzo

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Two associate professor positions in Stockholm
by Martina Favero 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

Dear all, Two positions as associate professor in mathematics (specialization in mathematical statistics) are open at KTH, Stockholm. The two positions differ slightly in the subject description, see https://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:375477 and https://www.kth.se/en/om/work-at-kth/lediga-jobb/what:job/jobID:375478 for more details. The deadline for application is April 9, 2021. Best wishes, Martina Favero

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Seminar announcement
by Marco Scarsini 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

Thursday, 25 February, 17:00 CET *Daniela Saban,* Stanford University Online Assortment Optimization for Two-sided Matching Platforms <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAAwDSAUFBQBOVgFdBQs> Discussants: Will Ma and Antoine Désir The paper can be found here <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3712553>. This is the link to the Virtual Room <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAAYBSAUFBQBOVgFdBQs> The schedule of the upcoming seminars can be found here <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/seminari/prossimi-seminari>. If you want to receive announcements of future seminars, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDxM-M5ogG43elgjC-lNCp0BDhISiZHG0…> . ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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Padova Online Seminar by Luca Avena (Leiden University) [Friday, Feb. 26 at 14.30]
by alessandra bianchi 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar that will take place on February 26 at 14.30 by the zoom platform. ________________________________________________________ Speaker: Luca Avena (Leiden University) Title: Node immunization in networks: a scalable searching algorithm based on random rooted forests 26 FEBRUARY (Friday) - 14:30 zoom link: TBA available on the webpage https://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/seminari/ ) Abstract: We are interested in the so-called multiple-node immunization for complex networks under attack of a viral agent. The latter is a hot topic in network science and it consists of identifying and removing a set of nodes of a given size in a graph to maximally impede the agent spread. Several approaches have been proposed in the literature based on numerical and theoretical insights on how classical models for virus spread (so-called compartmental models) evolve on graphs. Based on the stability analysis of these compartmental models, the maximal eigenvalue of the adjacency matrix of the graph has been proposed as a measure for how resilient the network is. Thus one of the most common approaches for immunization consists in identifying the set of nodes of a given cardinality, for which the reduced network, obtained by removing these nodes, has minimal largest eigenvalue. This optimization problem turns out to be a computationally hard problem in the well known NP class and the available exact or proxy algorithms offer good solutions and performances only for small data sets. We propose a novel randomized flexible method to efficiently identify these sets of nodes based on random walk kernels and random rooted forests. We explain the theoretical results underlying the method, and present experimental results where we test method and performances on classical synthetic and real-world benchmarks. Joint work with Michael Emmerich, Alex Gaudilliere and Irina Gurewitsch -- Alessandra Bianchi Dip. di Matematica Università di Padova Via Trieste, 63 - 35121 Padova, Italy phone: +39 049 827 14 06 fax: +39 049 827 14 28 e-mail: bianchi(a)math.unipd.it http://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/

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Webinar in Statistics YUN WEI - 26/2, ore 17
by Pierpaolo De Blasi 19 Feb '21

19 Feb '21

WEBINARS IN STATISTICS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO <https://www.carloalberto.org/events/category/seminars/seminars-in-statistic…> Venerdi 26 Febbraio 2021, alle ore 17:00, si terrà il seguente webinar: ------------------------------------------------ Speaker: *Yun Wei (*Samsi and Duke University, USA) Title: *Obtaining faster convergence rates in finite mixture models by taking repeated measures* Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89954920036?pwd=dndsQnZqQ2crZzVlRW1pM0Q2RGo1Zz09 Meeting ID: 899 5492 0036 Passcode: 418668 Abstract: It is known that some finite mixture models suffer from slow rates for estimating the component parameters. Examples are mixtures of the weakly identifiable families in the sense of [Ho and Nguyen 2016]. To obtain faster parameter convergence rates, we propose to collect more samples from each mixture component, hence each data is a vector of samples from the same mixture component. Such a model is known in the literature as a finite mixture model of repeated measures, which has been applied in psychological study and topic modeling. This model also belongs to the mixture of product distributions, with the special structure that the product distributions in each mixture component are also identical. In this setup, each data consists of conditionally independent and identically distributed samples and thus is an exchangeable sequence. We show that by taking repeated measures (collecting more samples from each mixture component), a finite mixture model that is not originally identifiable becomes identifiable. Moreover, the posterior contraction rates for the parameter estimation are also obtained, demonstrating that repeated measures are beneficial for estimating the component parameters. Our results hold for general probability families including all regular exponential families and can also be applied to hierarchical models. The key tool to develop the results is by establishing an inverse inequality to upper bound a suitable distance between mixing measures by the total variational distance between the corresponding mixture densities. Based on joint work with Xuanlong Nguyen (University of Michigan). ------------------------------------------------ Il webinar è organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative www.carloalberto.org/stats in collaborazione con il Collegio Carlo Alberto e rientra nel Complex Data Modeling Research Network midas.mat.uc.cl/network Cordiali saluti, Pierpaolo De Blasi --- University of Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto carloalberto.org/pdeblasi <https://sites.google.com/a/carloalberto.org/pdeblasi/>

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Fwd: PhD at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy). Call 2021-2022
by Fabrizio Lillo 18 Feb '21

18 Feb '21

The call for applications to the 2021/2022 PhD program in *Computational Methods and Mathematical Models for Sciences and Finance* at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, see https://www.sns.it/en/computational-methods-and-mathematical-models-for-sci… ., is available here https://www.sns.it/en/admissions/phd/how-to-apply-for-the-phd-courses Please distribute this information to potentially interested candidates. Thank you very much in advance. ---------------------------------------- Fabrizio Lillo Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Bologna Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa ITALY Personal website: fabriziolillo.wordpress.com University website: www.unibo.it/sitoweb/fabrizio.lillo <http://fabriziolillo.wordpress.com/> phone: +39 050509159

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Fwd: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday February 18, 2021
by Faggionato, Alessandra 17 Feb '21

17 Feb '21

Buongiorno, inoltro l'annuncio del OWPS di domani. Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com> Date: mer 17 feb 2021 alle ore 10:50 Subject: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday February 18, 2021 To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk> Tomorrow's speaker in the One World Probability Seminar is (Note: all times are in UTC. *Due to time changes, you should check what that translates to in your location*) ------------------------------------------------ (14:00-16:00 UTC) Speaker: Richard Kenyon (Yale) Title: The multi-tiling model Abstract: Given a graph G and collection of connected subgraphs T (called tiles), we consider covering G with copies of tiles in T so that each vertex of G is covered with a predetermined multiplicity. The multitiling model is a natural probability measure on such configurations. In the limit of large multiplicities we compute the asymptotic growth rate of the number of multitilings: the free energy of the multitiling model. We will show that the individual tile densities tend to a Gaussian field with respect to an associated discrete Laplacian. We also find an exact discrete Coulomb gas limit when we vary the multiplicities. This is joint work with Andrei Pohoata (Yale). Please note: Richard Kenyon will be giving both talks in the session. ------------------------------------------------ The zoom link will appear the day before on the OWPS website: https://www.owprobability.org/one-world-probability-seminar <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.owpro…> It can also be directly accessed through the link below: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/83228198137?pwd=QUxhM1NXdlFTOGxvc09IUGIvenBxUT09 <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma1.…> Meeting-ID: 832 2819 8137 Passcode: 029896 Please feel free to circulate this email. We hope to see you all tomorrow! One World Probability Team -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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Workshop "Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes - Online", 27-28 May 2021
by elisa varini 17 Feb '21

17 Feb '21

On behalf of the Scientific and Organising Committees we are pleased to inform you that the Twelth Workshop on “*Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes (BISP12)*” will be held *online* on *27-28 May 2021* (afternoons, Central European Summer Time). Attendance is free of charge but registration is required (and limited to 150 people). As in the past, the workshop will provide an opportunity to review, discuss and explore directions of development of Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes. Ten presentations by young scientists have been scheduled this year, followed by an in-depth discussion by senior scholars in the field. The workshop is organised by CNR-IMATI (Milano), www.imati.cnr.it. Information on programme, website and registration will be available in early Spring. Elisa Varini and Fabrizio Ruggeri Chairs, Organising and Scientific Committees

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Pisa Online Seminars - Renaud Raquépas (Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 16:00)
by Giacomo Filippo Di Gesu 16 Feb '21

16 Feb '21

Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to the following online seminar organized by the Probability group of the University of Pisa. The talk will be accessible under the link Click here to join the meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3A17115d7f6ef44c5e91974362906c…> Best regards, Giacomo Tuesday, Feb. 23, 16:00 Speaker: Renaud Raquépas (McGill University Montréal and Université Grenoble Alpes) Title: Entropy production in nondegenerate diffusions: the large-time and small-noise limits Abstract: Entropy production (EP) is a key quantity originating from thermodynamics and statistical physics which quantifies the irreversibility of the time evolution of physical systems. I will start with a general introduction to the different approaches to defining EP. Then, I will focus on the context of nondegenerate diffusions and I will describe the large-deviation properties of EP as time goes to infinity. Finally, I will discuss the behaviour of the corresponding rate function as the intensity of the noise goes to zero. ************************ Giacomo Di Gesù Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Pisa Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 5 56127 - Pisa, Italy giacomo.digesu(a)unipi.it<mailto:giacomo.digesu@unipi.it> https://sites.google.com/site/giacomodigesu/

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Sussex probability seminar
by Enrico Scalas 15 Feb '21

15 Feb '21

Dear Colleagues, On Monday 22nd February at 11am UK time, Minmin Wang (Department of Mathematics, University of Sussex) will present a seminar on k-cut model for the Brownian Continuum Random Tree Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11080 If you are interested in joining the seminar, please contact Dr Wang at: minmin.wang(a)sussex.ac.uk. Best regards, Enrico Scalas

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Fwd: Funded PhD positions at University College Dublin
by Bisi, Elia 12 Feb '21

12 Feb '21

Dear colleagues, Applications are open for PhD scholarships in Maths & Stats at University College Dublin — see announcement below. Possible projects in probability will be supervised by Neil O’Connell. Cheers, Elia Bisi ————————— Elia Bisi Assistant Professor (non-TT) Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) Research Unit Mathematical Stochastics https://eliabisi.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Neil O'Connell <neil.oconnell(a)ucd.ie> Date: 12 Feb 2021, 16:46 +0100 To: Neil O'Connell <neil.oconnell(a)ucd.ie> Subject: Funded PhD positions at University College Dublin Dear colleagues, I would be grateful if you could forward the announcement below to any suitable mailing lists or students who might be interested: Applications are invited for the UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics Research Demonstratorship scholarship scheme. These scholarships fund up to 4 years full-time PhD research, beginning on 1st September 2021. The closing date for applications is March 9th 2021 with results anticipated by early April 2021. Details on the scholarships and the application process are available at www.ucd.ie/mathstat/study/researchdegrees/rd2021<http://www.ucd.ie/mathstat/study/researchdegrees/rd2021>. Best regards, Neil O'Connell

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Gubinelli graduate course
by Stefania Ugolini 12 Feb '21

12 Feb '21

Università degli Studi di Milano: PhD program Stochastic quantization of the Euclidean quantum field theory Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Gubinelli The goal of Euclidean quantum field theory is to build probability measures on the space of distributions satisfying properties such as Euclidean invariance, reflection positivity and non-triviality, that allows to recover an interacting relativistic quantum field satisfying Wightman axioms. Stochastic quantization, first proposed by Parisi–Wu and Nelson, is a method of construction of such measures via stationary solutions of a stochastic partial differential equations driven by additive Gaussian white noise. In this course we will learn about the stochastic quantization of the Euclidean quantum field theory of a scalar boson with quartic interaction and its main properties. We introduce the Φ43 measure as the limit of the invariant measure of a finite dimensional system of stochastic differential equations. The proof proposed uses several analytic and probabilistic techniques, such as white noise analysis, weighted Besov spaces on lattice and paraproducts, which also find applications in other problems arising in the study of deterministic and stochastic singular differential equations. All these tools and ideas will be gradually introduced and explained during the lectures. The course is as much as possible self-contained and requires as a prerequisite only basic knowledge of stochastic and functional analysis. Scheduling: February 15, 16, 18, 22, 25 from 10:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 16:00 Topic: Lectures on Stochastic Quantisation Time: This is a recurring meeting Meet anytime Join Zoom Meeting https://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/abteilung-gubinelli/sq-lectures-milan-ws2021(ht…" target="_blank">https://uni-bonn.zoom.us/j/94642762037?pwd=MG80cW92T29PMWw3dDQ3aEdsY2lsdz09 Meeting ID: 946 4276 2037 Passcode: 954150 The link is available also at the following page: Course page: <signaturebeforequotedtext></signaturebeforequotedtext><signatureafterquotedtext></signatureafterquotedtext>

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Seminar announcement
by Marco Scarsini 12 Feb '21

12 Feb '21

Thursday, 11 February, 17:00 CET *Eva Tardos,* Cornell University Stability and Learning in Strategic Queuing Systems <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAAALSAUFAA1OVgFdBQs> Discussants: Eran Shmaya and Federico Fusco The papers can be found here <https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.07009> and here <https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.10205>. This is the link to the Virtual Room <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAAYBSAUFAA1OVgFdBQs>. The schedule of the upcoming seminars can be found here <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/seminari/prossimi-seminari>. If you want to receive announcements of future seminars, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDxM-M5ogG43elgjC-lNCp0BDhISiZHG0…> . ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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Entropy - Special Issue "Measures of Information"
by francesco.buono3＠unina.it 10 Feb '21

10 Feb '21

Dear All, On behalf of the guest editor - Prof. Dr. Maria Longobardi, I would like to invite you to submit a paper to the Special Issue titled "Measures of Information" for Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300, IF 2.494). Special Issue Homepage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/meas_inf Submission deadline: 14 May 2021 Entropy is an open access journal which maintains a rigorous and fast peer-review system and accepted papers are immediately published online. Because it is an online and open access journal, papers published in Entropy will receive high publicity. It is fully covered by the leading indexing and abstracting services, including Google Scholar, MathSciNet, Scopus and Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science). The Impact Factor for Entropy is 2.494 (2019). An Article Processing Charge (APC) of CHF 1800 currently applies to all accepted papers. If the idea can retain your attention, please do not hesitate to contact Vincent Shang for further information. We are looking forward to hearing from you. -- Best regards, Francesco Buono

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Fwd: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday February 11, 2021
by Faggionato, Alessandra 10 Feb '21

10 Feb '21

Buongiorno inoltro l'annuncio del OWPS di domani. Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com> Date: mer 10 feb 2021 alle ore 09:25 Subject: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday February 11, 2021 To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk> Tomorrow's speakers in the One World Probability Seminar are (Note: all times are in UTC. *Due to time changes, you should check what that translates to in your location*) ------------------------------------------------ (14:00-15:00 UTC) Speaker: Bálint Virág (Toronto) Title: Introduction to random plane geometry Abstract: If lengths 1 and 2 are assigned randomly to each edge in Z^2, what are the fluctuations of distances between far away points? This problem is open, yet we know, in great detail, what to expect. The directed landscape, a universal random plane geometry, provides the answer to such questions. What is the directed landscape? What does it teach us about longest increasing subsequences in random permutations, about random polymers, about models for spread of infection, about tetris, about random Schrodinger operators, and about cell biology? (15:00-16:00 UTC) Speaker: Duncan Dauvergne (Princeton) Title: Building the directed landscape Abstract: The directed landscape is a random 'directed metric' on the plane that arises as the full scaling limit of last passage percolation. It was recently constructed by myself, Janosch Ortmann and Bálint Virág, and it is expected to be a universal limit for models in the KPZ universality class (e.g. random polymers, the KPZ equation, first passage percolation). In this talk I will explain some of the new ideas that underlie this construction. The key innovation is showing that a certain isometric property of the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth bijection passes to the limit. ------------------------------------------------ The zoom link will appear the day before on the OWPS website: https://www.owprobability.org/one-world-probability-seminar <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.owpro…> It can also be directly accessed through the link below: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/88066239585?pwd=djNYaHNkWUpGVkVZeWlXaHE5SkpqZz09 <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma1.…> Meeting-ID: 880 6623 9585 Passcode: 635181 Please feel free to circulate this email. We hope to see you all tomorrow! One World Probability Team -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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Ph.d. position (Spatio-temporal clustering and extreme-value theory)
by DI BERNARDINO Elena 09 Feb '21

09 Feb '21

Dear all, Please find attached a Ph.D. scholarship in Laboratory J.A. Dieudonné, University Cote d'Azur, Nice. This Ph.D. scholarship will start in September 2021 for 3 years and focus on the study of clustering methods taking into account the spatio-temporal dependency. A particular attention will be payed to programming the proposed methods and apply them to environmental data-sets. In addition, the selected student will be able to make proposals and test variant of the considered methods. For more information about this Ph.D. thesis please contact : Elena Di Bernardino at elenadb(a)nice.fr<mailto:elenadb@nice.fr> Gwladys Toulemonde gwladys.toulemonde(a)umontpellier.fr<mailto:gwladys.toulemonde@umontpellier.fr> Thomas Laloe laloe(a)unice.fr<mailto:laloe@unice.fr> Best regards, Elena Di Bernardino, Gwladys Toulemonde and Thomas Laloe Elena Di Bernardino Professeure des Universités Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné Université Côte d'Azur Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice, Cedex 2, France

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LINK a SEMINARIO AGRESTI RM1 oggi 08 febbraio 2021 ore 16:00
by Nappo, Giovanna 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

SEMINARIO DI PROBABILITA' E STATISTICA MATEMATICA Dipartimento di Matematica "Guido Castelnuovo" Università di ROMA, la SAPIENZA Link Zoom https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/81656265460?pwd=UmlZQzBDY2VmSUwrNitZbkNWMERIdz09 Lunedì 08 febbraio 2021 Ore 16:00 (modalità telematica con Zoom) Antonio AGRESTI (Dottorato in Matematica, Sapienza Università di Roma) Nonlinear parabolic stochastic evolution equations in critical spaces. Abstract: Critical spaces for non-linear equations are important due to scaling invariance, and in particular this plays a central role in fluid dynamics. In this talk we introduce and discuss local/global well-posedness, and blow-up criteria for stochastic parabolic evolution equations in critical spaces. Our results extend the celebrated theory of Prüss, Wilke and Simonett for deterministic PDEs. Due to the presence of noise it is unclear that a stochastic version of the theory is possible, but as we will show a suitable variation of the theory remains valid. We will also explain several features which are new in both the deterministic and stochastic framework. In particular, we discuss a new bootstrap method to prove regularization of solutions to (S)PDEs, which can also be applied in critical situations. Our theory is applicable to a large class of semilinear and quasilinear parabolic problems which includes many of the classical SPDE. During the talk we give applications to stochastic reaction-diffusion equations and stochastic Navier-Stokes equations with gradient noise. This is a joint work with Mark Veraar (TU Delft).

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Symmetry - Special Issue "Bioinformatics and Statistics"
by Antonella Iuliano 08 Feb '21

08 Feb '21

Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to inform you that the following special issue is now open to receive submissions for possible publications. The paper will be published in Symmetry (a peer-reviewed open access journal ISSN 2073-8994 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/symmetry <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/symmetry> I. F. 2.645 (2019)). Below, you can find further information. Special Issue "Bioinformatics and Statistics" Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/symmetry/special_issues/Bioinformatics_Statist… <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/symmetry/special_issues/Bioinformatics_Statist…> Guest Editors: Dr. Claudia Angelini, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “M. Picone” - CNR, Dr. Italia De Feis, Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo “M. Picone” – CNR, Dr Antonella Iuliano, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2021 If you are interested in presenting a contribution, we kindly ask you to let us know within 15 March 2021. Potential topics for manuscripts include but are not limited to: Penalized statistical methods for omics data Statistical methods for omics data integration Machine Learning and Deep learning approaches in bioinformatics Mathematical and probabilistic models in biology Multitask learning in biological applications Network analysis and omics data Computational and statistical tools in bioinformatics High dimensional data visualization Description: In the last decades, advances in high throughput technologies have allowed scientists to collect massive omics datasets. International projects and consortia made different types of omics data publicly available. Examples span from transcriptomics to epigenomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. Moreover, scientists can also collect heterogenous multi-omic information on the same samples, allowing to elucidate the interplay role of different cellular components. However, the difficulty in defining an appropriate statistical methodology to analyze the data and integrate diverse sources of information and the limited availability of efficient algorithms and software tools hinder the possibility of investigating fundamental cellular mechanisms and understanding disease onset and progression. This gap prompted us to highlight the statistical data analysis challenges and collect novel emerging statistical methods for omics data analysis and integration in a thematic issue on Bioinformatics and Statistics. Manuscripts that report novel software tools and efficient algorithms are very welcome too. As the Guest Editors, we warmly invite you to contribute to our Special Issue. Do not hesitate to forward this message to anyone who could be interested. Thank you very much for your kind consideration, and apologies for multiple copies. We look forward to hearing from you. Claudia Angelini Italia De Feis Antonella Iuliano -- Antonella Iuliano, PhD Bioinformatics Core Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM) E-mail: a.iuliano(a)tigem.it <mailto:a.iuliano@tigem.it>

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Fwd: Postdoc/PhD positions in discrete probability
by Elisabetta Candellero 07 Feb '21

07 Feb '21

Buongiorno, ricevo ed inoltro gli annunci di due bandi per postdoc e/o dottorato in Francia. Cordiali saluti, Elisabetta ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dieter Mitsche <dmitsche(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 12:25 PM Subject: Postdoc/PhD positions in discrete probability To: Dear all, I hope you are doing fine in these strange times. Could you please forward the announcement below to interested candidates? thanks, dieter ============ Applications are invited for the following two positions within the project "Dynamic hyperbolic graphs" http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~mitsche/GrHyDy/GrHyDy.htm. The two positions will be at two different places (Institut Camille Jordan and Institut Mines Télécom Lille Douai), but the successful candidates will have the chance and are encouraged to spend time at the different project locations: 1) Fully funded 2-year postdoc position OR fully funded PhD scholarship at Institut Camille Jordan (http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/), hosted by Dieter Mitsche. For more details how to apply please look at http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~mitsche/GrHyDy/ANRposition.pdf (contact Dieter Mitsche, dmitsche(a)gmail.com, for information and for applying for this position) 2) Fully funded 1-year postdoc position at Institut Mines Télécom Lille Douai, hosted by David Coupier. For more details please look at http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~mitsche/GrHyDy/ANRpositionDavid.pdf (contact David Coupier, david.coupier(a)imt-lille-douai.fr for information and for applying for this position) Informal inquiries welcome. Deadline for applications: May 1, 2021 ((If you are interested, please contact us as soon as possible. Depending on the applications that we will receive, we may decide to fill the position before the official deadline).

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I: Post-doc position in Rennes
by Marco Alessandro Fuhrman 05 Feb '21

05 Feb '21

Buongiorno. Inoltro volentieri un messaggio su una posizione post-doc all'estero. Cordiali saluti. Marco Fuhrman <signaturebeforequotedtext></signaturebeforequotedtext> -------- Messaggio originale -------- Da: Arnaud Debussche <arnaud.debussche(a)ens-rennes.fr> Data: 04/feb/2021 14.07.50 Oggetto: Post-doc position in Rennes A: Arnaud Debussche <arnaud.debussche(a)ens-rennes.fr> Dear all, A post-doctoral position will be available at the ENS Rennes next fall 2021. Please find the announcement attached. Best regards, Arnaud. <signatureafterquotedtext></signatureafterquotedtext>

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Call for 3 PhD positions and 2 Postdoc positions at the University of Oslo
by Giulia Di Nunno 04 Feb '21

04 Feb '21

Dear Colleagues, this is to draw your attention to the call for 3 PhD positions and 2 Postdoc (3 years) positions at the University of Oslo in stochastic analysis, stochastic (partial) differential equations, control and their applications to finance, insurance, energy and risk: PhD Research Fellow in Stochastic Analysis, Risk and Machine Learning<https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/200033/phd-research-fel…> PhD Research Fellow in Stochastic analysis and insurance mathematics<https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/200006/phd-research-fel…> PhD Research Fellow in Stochastics, Partial Differential Equations, Computational Mathematics, and Risk<https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/200028/phd-research-fel…> Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Stochastics, Differential Equations, Computational Mathematics, and Risk<https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/200030/postdoctoral-res…> Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Mathematics, Mechanics or Statistics<https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/200036/postdoctoral-res…> The deadline of application is February 28th, 2021. Full description of the different positions and details for application procedure are given here: https://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/about/vacancies/index.html Please help to advertise these calls and bring them to the attention possible candidates. Thank you in advance! Best wishes Giulia --- Giulia Di Nunno Professor Department of Mathematics University of Oslo

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Statistics and Probability Seminars @University of Nottingham: Rachel Carrington
by Fabrizio Leisen 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

Dear All, the Statistics and Probability group at the University of Nottingham organize a series of internal seminars which will be available to anyone interested, even outside the University of Nottingham. Our next speaker is Dr *Rachel Carrington*. Seminar date and time: *11th* * of February at 2pm. * Below you can find the Abstract and Title. Furthermore, you can find the Teams link to join the seminar. Best Wishes, Fabrizio Leisen You are cordially invited to the following seminar: Rachel Carrington <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rachel_Carrington2> (Internal Seminar) ----> *11**th** of* *February at 2pm* *Title:* Semi-supervised word embeddings *Abstract:* Word embeddings are a popular way of modelling language, in which words are represented as low-dimensional vectors. The aim is that distances between vectors correspond to relationships between words: words with similar meanings should be closer together in the embedding space. Recently this has been a growing area of interest, with applications including sentiment analysis, machine translation, and artificial intelligence. However, a disadvantage is that large amounts of data are generally needed to train word embedding models. In this talk I will first give an overview of how word embeddings are generated, and then I will outline a novel method of generating semi-supervised word embeddings, based on multidimensional scaling, which has the potential to reduce the amount of data needed to generate accurate word embeddings. ________________________________________________________________________________ Microsoft Teams meeting Join on your computer or mobile app Click here to join the meeting <https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDE4YWYxNmEtZTFlMC00…> Learn more <https://aka.ms/JoinTeamsMeeting> | Meeting options <https://teams.microsoft.com/meetingOptions/?organizerId=ac48eccb-4345-40d8-…> -- Fabrizio Leisen Professor of Statistics University of Nottingham School of Mathematical Sciences University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK http://sites.google.com/site/fabrizioleisen/

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Pisa Online Seminars - Lorenzo Dello Schiavo (Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 14:00)
by Giacomo Filippo Di Gesu 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

Dear colleagues, I would like to invite you to the following online seminar organized by the Probability group of the University of Pisa. The talk will be accessible under the link Click here to join the meeting<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3A17115d7f6ef44c5e91974362906c…> Best regards, Giacomo Tuesday, Feb. 9, 14:00 Speaker: Lorenzo Dello Schiavo (IST Austria) Title: The Dirichlet—Ferguson Diffusion on the space of probability measures over a closed Riemannian manifold (1811.11598) Abstract: We construct a diffusion process on the L^2-Wasserstein space P_2(M) over a closed Riemannian manifold M. The process, which may be regarded as a candidate for the Brownian motion on P_2(M), is associated with the Dirichlet form induced by the L^2-Wasserstein gradient and by the Dirichlet–Ferguson random measure with intensity the Riemannian volume measure on M. We discuss the closability of the form via an integration-by-parts formula, which allows explicit computations for the generator and a specification of the process via a measure-valued SPDE. We comment how the construction is related to previous work of von Renesse–Sturm on the Wasserstein Diffusion and of Konarovskyi–von Renesse on the Modified Massive Arratia Flow. ************************ Giacomo Di Gesù Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Pisa Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 5 56127 - Pisa, Italy giacomo.digesu(a)unipi.it<mailto:giacomo.digesu@unipi.it> https://sites.google.com/site/giacomodigesu/

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Seminario on-line di G. Peccati a Milano-Bicocca (10 feb 2021)
by Francesco Caravenna 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

Ho il piacere di annunciare il seguente seminario di Giovanni Peccati (Luxembourg University): "Stopping sets and phase transitions on the Poisson space" Mercoledì 10 febbraio 2021 ore 14:30 Seguono il riassunto e il link Zoom. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Francesco Caravenna %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Link Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81567245594?pwd=OFJwNzNMYmRxYXl6T0srU2gyamdWZz09 (ID: 815 6724 5594 Passcode: 969423) Abstract: I will discuss several refinements of the Poincaré inequality on the Poisson space, based on the use of "restricted hypercontractivity", stopping sets and continuous-time decision trees. One of the main estimates presented in my talk corresponds to an intrinsic, infinite-dimensional version of the "OSSS inequality" (O'Donnel, Saks, Schramm, Servedio, 2006), allowing one to control the fluctuations of a given functional by means of its decision tree complexity. The research discussed in my talk is strongly motivated by the analysis of sharp phase transitions in continuum percolation models. If time permits, I will also discuss an intrinsic version of the Schramm-Steif inequality on the Poisson space - which is particularly adapted to capture noise sensitivity at criticality. Based on joint works with G. Last and D. Yogeshwaran (2021), and with I. Nourdin and X. Yang (2019). %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- _________________________________________ 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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Fwd: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday February 4, 2021
by Faggionato, Alessandra 03 Feb '21

03 Feb '21

Buongiorno giro l'annuncio del OWPS di domani Grazie Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com> Date: mer 3 feb 2021 alle ore 12:12 Subject: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday February 4, 2021 To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk> Tomorrow's speakers in the One World Probability Seminar are (Note: all times are in UTC. *Due to time changes, you should check what that translates to in your location*) ------------------------------------------------ (14:00-15:00 UTC) Speaker: Davide Gabrielli (L'Aquila) Title: Soliton decomposition of the Box Ball System Abstract: The Box-Ball System (BBS) is a one-dimensional cellular automaton on the integer lattice. It is related to the Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation and exhibits solitonic behaviour. It was introduced by Takahashi and Satsuma who identified conserved quantities called solitons. We illustrate equivalent definitions of the system and we describe the Takahashi and Satsuma algorithm of identification of the solitons. We propose a different soliton decomposition which is equivalent to a branch decomposition of the tree associated to the excursions of the walk constructed starting from the ball configuration. Ferrari, Nguyen, Rolla and Wang (FNRW) map a ball configuration to a family of "soliton components" indexed by the soliton sizes. Building over this decomposition, we give an explicit construction of a large family of invariant measures for the BBS that are also shift invariant, including Markov and Bernoulli product measures. The construction is based on the concatenation of iid excursions in the associated walk trajectory. (15:00-16:00 UTC) Speaker: Pablo A. Ferrari (Universidad de Buenos Aires) Title: Soliton dynamics in the Box-Ball system Abstract: A soliton is a solitary wave that in absence of other solitons moves at speed proportional to its size and conserves shape and speed even after colliding with other solitons. The FNRW soliton decomposition of a ball configuration is based on the k-slots, boxes determined by the configuration where size k solitons can be inserted. The components of a configuration η are denoted ζk∈N^Z, where ζk(i)=n means that there are n size k solitons in slot i of the kth component. The dynamics of the components reduce to a hierarchic translation; the shift of a component depending on the larger size components. Shift invariant ball distributions with independent components are time invariant for the dynamics. For space-ergodic initial distributions, the asymptotic speeds of solitons are shown to satisfy an universal system of linear equations related to the Generalized Gibbs Ensemble hydrodynamics. ------------------------------------------------ The zoom link will appear the day before on the OWPS website: https://www.owprobability.org/one-world-probability-seminar <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.owpro…> It can also be directly accessed through the link below: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/89695339114?pwd=QTdVVC9ybjNoaVlTKy9CbGJBUEVsQT09 <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma1.…> Meeting-ID: 896 9533 9114 Passcode: 246188 Please feel free to circulate this email. We hope to see you all tomorrow! One World Probability Team -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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Tomas Bjork
by Tiziano Vargiolu 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

Carissimi, e' con gran dolore che vi dobbiamo informare del fatto che Tomas Bjork e' mancato ieri 31 gennaio. Ecco le parole di Catriona Byrne, Editorial Director a Springer: We mourn the passing, on January 31, 2021, as a result of serious illness, of Tomas Bjork, emeritus professor of Mathematical Finance of the Stockholm School of Economics, and with it the loss of an esteemed scientist, adviser, colleague, friend. Cordiali saluti a tutti Wolfgang Runggaldier Tiziano Vargiolu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tiziano Vargiolu 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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Graduate course in February
by Stefania Ugolini 30 Jan '21

30 Jan '21

Università degli Studi di Milano: PhD program Stochastic quantization of the Euclidean quantum field theory Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Gubinelli The goal of Euclidean quantum field theory is to build probability measures on the space of distributions satisfying properties such as Euclidean invariance, reflection positivity and non-triviality, that allows to recover an interacting relativistic quantum field satisfying Wightman axioms. Stochastic quantization, first proposed by Parisi–Wu and Nelson, is a method of construction of such measures via stationary solutions of a stochastic partial differential equations driven by additive Gaussian white noise. In this course we will learn about the stochastic quantization of the Euclidean quantum field theory of a scalar boson with quartic interaction and its main properties. We introduce the Φ43 measure as the limit of the invariant measure of a finite dimensional system of stochastic differential equations. The proof proposed uses several analytic and probabilistic techniques, such as white noise analysis, weighted Besov spaces on lattice and paraproducts, which also find applications in other problems arising in the study of deterministic and stochastic singular differential equations. All these tools and ideas will be gradually introduced and explained during the lectures. The course is as much as possible self-contained and requires as a prerequisite only basic knowledge of stochastic and functional analysis. Scheduling: February 15, 16, 18, 22, 25 from 10:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 16:00 Online via Zoom (see the following link) Course page: https://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/abteilung-gubinelli/sq-lectures-milan-ws2021 <signaturebeforequotedtext></signaturebeforequotedtext><signatureafterquotedtext></signatureafterquotedtext>

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Seminario Antonio Agresti RM1
by Nappo, Giovanna 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

SEMINARIO DI PROBABILITA' E STATISTICA MATEMATICA Dipartimento di Matematica "Guido Castelnuovo" Lunedì 08 febbraio 2021 Ore 16:00 (modalità telematica con Zoom) Antonio AGRESTI (Dottorato in Matematica, Sapienza Università di Roma) Nonlinear parabolic stochastic evolution equations in critical spaces. Abstract: Critical spaces for non-linear equations are important due to scaling invariance, and in particular this plays a central role in fluid dynamics. In this talk we introduce and discuss local/global well-posedness, and blow-up criteria for stochastic parabolic evolution equations in critical spaces. Our results extend the celebrated theory of Prüss, Wilke and Simonett for deterministic PDEs. Due to the presence of noise it is unclear that a stochastic version of the theory is possible, but as we will show a suitable variation of the theory remains valid. We will also explain several features which are new in both the deterministic and stochastic framework. In particular, we discuss a new bootstrap method to prove regularization of solutions to (S)PDEs, which can also be applied in critical situations. Our theory is applicable to a large class of semilinear and quasilinear parabolic problems which includes many of the classical SPDE. During the talk we give applications to stochastic reaction-diffusion equations and stochastic Navier-Stokes equations with gradient noise. This is a joint work with Mark Veraar (TU Delft). Link Zoom https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/81656265460?pwd=UmlZQzBDY2VmSUwrNitZbkNWMERIdz09

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MSP 2021
by Pietro Rigo 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

We are pleased to announce the second edition of the Workshop on The Mathematics of Subjective Probability (MSP 2021) that will take place at the University of Milano-Bicocca on September 1-3, 2021. As in the preceding edition, this workshop is intended as a forum for scholars of different fields who are interested in modeling probability as part of the behaviour of individuals rather than on a purely axiomatic basis. Papers on Probability Theory are obviously welcome as well as papers from Economic Theory, Game Theory, Statistics and Mathematics. We intend to hold the conference in the classical form, with speakers attending physically although, as of now, we cannot exclude that at least in part it will have to take place remotely The following speakers have accepted our invitation to deliver a talk: * Nabil Al-Najjar, Northwestern University; * Pierpaolo Battigalli, Università Bocconi; * K.P.S. Bhaskara-Rao, Indiana University Northwest; * Giulianella Coletti, Università di Perugia; * Massimo Marinacci, Università Bocconi; * Frank Riedel, University of Bielefeld. We invite all interested researchers to submit their papers for presentation. Papers should be submitted electronically via e-mail at the address MSP2021(a)unimib.it<mailto:MSP2021@unimib.it> . Submission will be possible until July 1st; notification of acceptance will be received by july 15th. For all details concerning the conference, please refer to the website msp2021.campus.unimib.it<https://www.msp2021.campus.unimib.it/>. Gianluca Cassese, Pietro Rigo, Barbara Vantaggi

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Seminar announcement
by Marco Scarsini 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

*Thursday, 4 February, 17:00 CET* *Annie Liang**, *Northwestern University Dynamically Aggregating Diverse Information <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAAYCSAUGBgBOVgFdBQs> Discussants: Jacopo Perego and Weijie Zhong The paper can be found here <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3385451>. This is the link to the Virtual Room <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpQAAYBSAUGBgBOVgFdBQs>. The schedule of the upcoming seminars can be found here <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/en/seminari/prossimi-seminari>. If you want to receive announcements of future seminars, please fill out this form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDxM-M5ogG43elgjC-lNCp0BDhISiZHG0…> . ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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Fwd: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday January 28, 2021
by Faggionato, Alessandra 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

inoltro per problemi tecnici grazie alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com> Date: gio 28 gen 2021 alle ore 15:03 Subject: Re: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday January 28, 2021 To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk> Dear All, If you have trouble joining the meeting using the zoom link below, please try using the link on the website. We apologise for any problems. Amanda and Alessandra On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 8:26 AM One World Probability < ow.probability(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Tomorrow's speakers in the One World Probability Seminar are > (Note: all times are in UTC. *Due to time changes, you should check what > that translates to in your location*) > ------------------------------------------------ > > (14:00-15:00 UTC) Speaker: Cristina Toninelli (Université Paris Dauphine) > Title: Universality results for interacting particle systems with > dynamical constraints > Abstract: We introduce the kinetically constrained models (KCM), a class > of interacting particle systems with a simple spin flip dynamics subject to > local dynamical constraints. Each vertex is resampled (independently) at > rate one by tossing a (1-q)-coin iff a certain neighbourhood of the vertex > contains no particles. In other words, the holes (empty vertices) act as > facilitating sites. When q shrinks to 0, the presence of the constraints > gives rise to glassy dynamics, in particular to an anomalous divergence of > the characteristic time scales. Thus, KCM are extensively used in physics > literature to model the liquid-glass transition, a longstanding open > problem in condensed matter physics. > > We focus on the behavior of E(T_0), the mean over the stationary process > of the first time at which the origin becomes empty. Our results establish > the universality classes of KCM in two dimensions: we group all possible > constraints into distinct classes with all models in a class featuring the > same divergence for E(T_0) as q->0. Within each class, we present an > efficient relaxation mechanism that involves the cooperative motion of > large rare patches of empty sites and we use it to determine matching upper > and lower bounds for E(T_0). > > Joint work with L.Marêché, I.Hartarsky, F.Martinelli and R.Morris > > (15:00-16:00 UTC) Fabio Martinelli (Università Roma Tre) > Title: Sharp threshold for the FA-2f kinetically constrained model > Abstract: > The Fredrickson-Andersen 2-spin facilitated model (FA-2f) on the > d-dimensional lattice, d ≥ 2, is a paradigmatic interacting particle system > with kinetic constraints (KCM) featuring "dynamical facilitation", an > important mechanism in condensed matter physics. In FA-2f a site may change > its state only if at least two of its nearest neighbors are empty. The > process, while reversible w.r.t. a product Bernoulli measure, has > degenerate jumps rates and it is non-attractive, with an anomalous > divergence of characteristic time scales as the density q of the empty > sites tends to zero. A natural random variable encoding the above features > is the first time T at which the origin becomes empty for the stationary > process. Our main result is the sharp threshold T ≍ Exp[ d > λ(d,2)/q^(1/(d-1)) ] w.h.p. as q → 0, with λ(d,2) the threshold constant > for the 2-neighbor bootstrap percolation, the monotone deterministic > cellular automaton counterpart of FA-2f. This is the first sharp result for > a critical KCM. Besides settling various controversies accumulated in the > physics literature over the last four decades, our novel techniques enable > completing the recent ambitious program on the universality phenomenon for > critical KCM and establishing sharp thresholds for other two-dimensional > KCM. > > Joint work with I. Hartarski and C. Toninelli > > ------------------------------------------------ > > The zoom link will appear the day before on the OWPS website: > https://www.owprobability.org/one-world-probability-seminar > <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.owpro…> > > It can also be directly accessed through the link below: > https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/83154591101?pwd=dkZyekxwa1Z1b2w2bW5SOWY3L21Xdz09 > <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma1.…> > > Please feel free to circulate this email. > > We hope to see you all tomorrow! > One World Probability Team > -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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ABC in Svalbard, 12-13 April, 2021 - Mirror in Grenoble
by Julyan Arbel 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Dear all, The approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) conference is planned to be held in Svalbard on 12-13 April, 2021, in a hybrid way: on top to the on-site meeting, there will be two physical mirrors (one in Brisbane and one in Grenoble), and all talks will be live-streamed. If you wish to participate to the virtual event, stay tuned for further information on: https://sites.google.com/view/abcinsvalbard/home If you consider participating to Grenoble mirror (free of charge), please fill the form here: https://sites.google.com/view/abcinsvalbard-grenoble-mirror/ in order to receive further notice about the organisation. Best, Julyan Arbel and Christian Robert

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Padova Online Seminar by Michele Salvi (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) [Friday, Feb. 05 at 14.30]
by alessandra bianchi 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar that will take place on February 05 at 14.30 by the zoom platform. ________________________________________________________ Speaker: Michele Salvi (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) Title: Scale-free percolation in continuous space 05 FEBRUARY (Friday) - 14:30 zoom link: TBA (available on the webpage https://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/seminari/ ) Abstract: The scale-free percolation random graph features three fundamental properties that are often present in large real-world structures (social networks, communication networks, inter-banking systems and so on), but which are never present at once in classical models: (1) Scale-free: the degree of the nodes follows a power law; (2) Small-world: two nodes are typically at a very small graph distance; (3) Positive clustering coefficient: two nodes with a common neighbour have a good chance to be linked. We study a continuous version of scale-free percolation and its possible application to the statistical analysis of a dataset provided by the French Ministry of Agriculture. We discuss some stochastic processes (random walks and particle systems) on these kinds of structures with the final goal of understanding how an epidemic would spread. -- Alessandra Bianchi Dip. di Matematica Università di Padova Via Trieste, 63 - 35121 Padova, Italy phone: +39 049 827 14 06 fax: +39 049 827 14 28 e-mail: bianchi(a)math.unipd.it http://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/

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Fwd: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday January 28, 2021
by Faggionato, Alessandra 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

Buongiorno, vi inoltro l'annuncio del OWPS di domani. Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: One World Probability <ow.probability(a)gmail.com> Date: mer 27 gen 2021 alle ore 09:28 Subject: [owps] One World Probability Seminar Thursday January 28, 2021 To: <owps(a)lists.bath.ac.uk> Tomorrow's speakers in the One World Probability Seminar are (Note: all times are in UTC. *Due to time changes, you should check what that translates to in your location*) ------------------------------------------------ (14:00-15:00 UTC) Speaker: Cristina Toninelli (Université Paris Dauphine) Title: Universality results for interacting particle systems with dynamical constraints Abstract: We introduce the kinetically constrained models (KCM), a class of interacting particle systems with a simple spin flip dynamics subject to local dynamical constraints. Each vertex is resampled (independently) at rate one by tossing a (1-q)-coin iff a certain neighbourhood of the vertex contains no particles. In other words, the holes (empty vertices) act as facilitating sites. When q shrinks to 0, the presence of the constraints gives rise to glassy dynamics, in particular to an anomalous divergence of the characteristic time scales. Thus, KCM are extensively used in physics literature to model the liquid-glass transition, a longstanding open problem in condensed matter physics. We focus on the behavior of E(T_0), the mean over the stationary process of the first time at which the origin becomes empty. Our results establish the universality classes of KCM in two dimensions: we group all possible constraints into distinct classes with all models in a class featuring the same divergence for E(T_0) as q->0. Within each class, we present an efficient relaxation mechanism that involves the cooperative motion of large rare patches of empty sites and we use it to determine matching upper and lower bounds for E(T_0). Joint work with L.Marêché, I.Hartarsky, F.Martinelli and R.Morris (15:00-16:00 UTC) Fabio Martinelli (Università Roma Tre) Title: Sharp threshold for the FA-2f kinetically constrained model Abstract: The Fredrickson-Andersen 2-spin facilitated model (FA-2f) on the d-dimensional lattice, d ≥ 2, is a paradigmatic interacting particle system with kinetic constraints (KCM) featuring "dynamical facilitation", an important mechanism in condensed matter physics. In FA-2f a site may change its state only if at least two of its nearest neighbors are empty. The process, while reversible w.r.t. a product Bernoulli measure, has degenerate jumps rates and it is non-attractive, with an anomalous divergence of characteristic time scales as the density q of the empty sites tends to zero. A natural random variable encoding the above features is the first time T at which the origin becomes empty for the stationary process. Our main result is the sharp threshold T ≍ Exp[ d λ(d,2)/q^(1/(d-1)) ] w.h.p. as q → 0, with λ(d,2) the threshold constant for the 2-neighbor bootstrap percolation, the monotone deterministic cellular automaton counterpart of FA-2f. This is the first sharp result for a critical KCM. Besides settling various controversies accumulated in the physics literature over the last four decades, our novel techniques enable completing the recent ambitious program on the universality phenomenon for critical KCM and establishing sharp thresholds for other two-dimensional KCM. Joint work with I. Hartarski and C. Toninelli ------------------------------------------------ The zoom link will appear the day before on the OWPS website: https://www.owprobability.org/one-world-probability-seminar <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.owpro…> It can also be directly accessed through the link below: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/83154591101?pwd=dkZyekxwa1Z1b2w2bW5SOWY3L21Xdz09 <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Funiroma1.…> Please feel free to circulate this email. We hope to see you all tomorrow! One World Probability Team -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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Seminario Prisma
by Domenico Marinucci 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Cari colleghi Lunedì prossimo avrà inizio il ciclo mensile di seminari online promosso dal Gruppo UMI PRISMA: 1 Febbraio 2021, ore 16:00-18:00: Franco Flandoli, Mario Maurelli TITLE: Regularization by noise ABSTRACT: The presence of the irregular fluctuations of a noise sometimes improves the theory of differential equations, ordinary or partial, a phenomenon today called "regularization by noise". This joint talk will introduce the problem in finite dimensions, by some classical and some more recent examples and results. Then it moves to SPDEs, where the results are mostly recent and under investigation. The different roles of additive noise and multiplicative transport type noise, the latter with its fluid mechanic flavour, will be described. Collegamento Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a667d2414be564c5d8fba30acffeb… Grazie per l'attenzione e scusate le ripetizioni, Domenico Marinucci e Claudia Ceci -- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Domenico Marinucci Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma Tor Vergata https://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~marinucc/ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

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Annuncio seminario - 28 gennaio ore 14:00 - Alessio Farcomeni
by Anna Paganoni 25 Jan '21

25 Jan '21

Buongiorno, ricordo il seguente Seminario MOX on-line di giovedì organizzato dal gruppo Stat@MOX. 28.1, ore 14:00 Link: https://mox.polimi.it/elenco-seminari/?id_evento=2001&t=763721 Speaker: Alessio Farcomeni, Università Roma Tor Vergata Titolo: Nowcasting the Italian epidemic outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Abstract: In the talk, we briefly discuss the main epidemiological features of SARS-CoV-2 one year into the pandemic, giving also a short account of the public data available for Italy and of the main limits of lay analyses. We then discuss an accurate method for short-term forecasting ICU occupancy at local level. Our approach is based on an optimal ensemble of two simple methods: a generalized linear mixed regression model which pools information over different areas, and an area-specific non-stationary integer autoregressive methodology. Optimal weights are estimated using a leave-last-out rationale. Daily predictions between February 24th and November, 27th 2020 have a median error of 3 beds (third quartile: 8) at regional level, with coverage of 99% prediction intervals that exceeds the nominal one. Finally we present a different method based on a modified non-linear GLM for each indicator, including the potential effect of exogenous variables, based on appropriate distributional assumptions and a logistic-type growth curve. This allows us to accurately predict important characteristics of the epidemic (e.g., peak time and height). Based on joint works with Pierfrancesco Alaimo di Loro, Fabio Divino, Giovanna Jona Lasinio, Gianfranco Lovison, Antonello Maruotti, Marco Mingione Contatto: francesca.ieva(a)polimi.it Buona giornata Anna Maria Paganoni -- Anna Maria Paganoni MOX - Modeling and Scientific Computing Dipartimento di Matematica "F. Brioschi" Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32 I-20133 Milano - Italy tel. +39 02 2399 4574 fax. +39 02 2399 4568 e.mail: anna.paganoni(a)polimi.it

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Announcement: STAR Online seminar - Speaker: Rama Cont
by michele giordano 25 Jan '21

25 Jan '21

Dear all, This is a reminder for the: STAR Online Seminars. The seminar will be held Friday 13. November from 11:00-12:00 . You will recieve the link for the Zoom room by registering for the seminar with the link provided at the end of this mail. The lecture will last for 45 minutes + questions. This week's speaker is Rama Cont - University of Oxford, with the seminar: Excursion risk Abstract: A broad class of dynamic trading strategies may be characterized in terms of excursions of the market price of a portfolio away from a reference level. We propose a mathematical framework for the risk analysis of such strategies, based on a description in terms of price excursions, first in a pathwise setting, without probabilistic assumptions, then in a probabilistic setting, when the price is modelled as a Markov process. We introduce the notion of δ-excursion, defined as a path which deviates by δ from a reference level before returning to this level. We show that every continuous path has a unique decomposition into such δ-excursions, which turn out to be useful for the scenario analysis of dynamic trading strategies, leading to simple expressions for the number of trades, realized profit, maximum loss and drawdown. When the underlying asset follows a Markov process, we combine these results with Ito's excursion theory to obtain a tractable decomposition of the process as a concatenation of independent δ-excursions, whose distribution is described in terms of Ito's excursion measure. We provide analytical results for linear diffusions and give new examples of stochastic processes for flexible and tractable modeling of excursions. Finally, we describe a non-parametric scenario simulation method for generating paths whose excursions match those observed in a data set. This is joint work with: Anna Ananova and RenYuan Xu. After the end of the seminar, you are invited to bring a cup of coffee/tea and have a chat in our Coffee in the Stars here you will have the chance to talk and interact with the other persons that attended the seminar, and have a digital "coffee break". We are looking forward to see you, online! Best regards, We are looking forward to see you, online! Best regards, Michele Giordano Doctoral research fellow Department of Mathematics University of Oslo, Norway ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Register for the seminar: https://nettskjema.no/a/159180 Link for the seminar webpage: https://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/projects/storm/events/seminars/…

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PhD Statistics & Computer Science @Bocconi - prossima scadenza
by Antonio Lijoi 24 Jan '21

24 Jan '21

Cari tutti, ricordo la scadenza dell'1 febbraio per la presentazione delle domande di ammissione al dottorato di ricerca in Statistics and Computer Science presso l'Università Bocconi (a.a. 2021-2022). Vi sarei grato se voleste portare all'attenzione dei vostri studenti interessati la "call for applications", riportata di seguito. Saluti, AL ******************* PhD in Statistics and Computer Science - a.y. 2021-2022 Call for applications for PhD student positions ******************* The Bocconi PhD School provides 7 scholarships for the PhD in Statistics and Computer Science, and a position with tuition waiver. * Scholarship amount * 20.280 euro per annum in the 1st and 2nd year 15.343 euro per annum in the 3rd and 4th year Further funding is available through teaching and research assistantship. Visit www.unibocconi.eu/admissionphd for detailed information. ** Applications are due by February 1, 2021 ** Within the PhD School at Bocconi University, the four-year PhD program in Statistics and Computer Science is a high profile and rigorous doctoral program that develops strong mathematical, statistical, computational and programming backgrounds. The curriculum is structured into two tracks: Statistics and Computer science. The first year includes courses that are compulsory for all enrolled PhD students. The second-year features track-specific and elective courses that provide students with a more specialized competence and focus on topics that may be the object of the doctoral dissertation. Dedicated mentorship is offered to students throughout their time at Bocconi. Multidisciplinary interchange with other graduate programs in Bocconi’s PhD School, as well as research experience abroad, are also encouraged. The Faculty includes internationally acknowledged top researchers in Statistics, Computer Science, Decision Theory, Statistical Physics and Machine Learning. The program also benefits from contributions of authoritative visiting professors who deliver short monographic courses. Highly qualified and motivated students with M.Sc. degrees in in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Physics, Engineering and related areas, as well as other quantitatively-oriented fields, are encouraged to apply for admission. Applicants should hold, or be on their way to hold, a graduate degree or equivalent. For further information about the PhD program in Statistics and Computer Science at Bocconi, visit www.unibocconi.eu/phdstatscompscience and feel free to contact: Antonio Lijoi (antonio.lijoi(a)unibocconi.it) Angela Baldassarre, PhD administrative assistant (angela.baldassarre(a)unibocconi.it)

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Rivista Nuova Lettera Matematica
by Lorenzo Zambotti 24 Jan '21

24 Jan '21

Gentili colleghi e colleghe vi segnalo l’uscita del secondo numero della Nuova Lettera Matematica https://www.unipapress.it/it/book/nuova-lettera-matematica-2_280/ <https://www.unipapress.it/it/book/nuova-lettera-matematica-2_280/> cordiali saluti Lorenzo -- Lorenzo Zambotti Postal Address: Sorbonne Universite', LPSM - Boite courrier 158 4, place Jussieu - 75252 Paris cedex 05, France Bureau n. 22, 2eme etage, tours 16/26, Jussieu E-mail: lorenzo.zambotti(a)upmc.fr https://www.lpsm.paris/pageperso/zambotti

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