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Ph.D. position in Mathematical Finance at Bielefeld University: new deadline JUNE 19
by Giorgio Ferrari 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

Dear All, this is to inform that the deadline for applications for the following position has been prolonged. *Ph.D. position in Mathematical Finance* (in particular on the theory of stochastic optimal control and optimal stopping with financial and economic applications) at Bielefeld University within the "Bielefeld Graduate School in Economics and Management" ( http://www.bigsem.de/ ) _*NEW DEADLINE*_ for applications: *June 19* *DETAILS* about the post and the application procedure can be found at: <https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/Universitaet/Aktuelles/Stellenausschreibungen/…> https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/Universitaet/Aktuelles/Stellenausschreibungen/… The successful candidate will be based at the Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW) of Bielefeld University ( https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/imw/ ) and will work under my supervision. All the best wishes, Giorgio Ferrari -- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Probability Webminar: Alberto Chiarini (TU Eindhoven) [Padova 12/06, 15.00]
by alessandra bianchi 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar that will take place on June 12 at 15 by the zoom platform. ________________________________________________________ Speaker: Alberto Chiarini (TU Eindhoven) Title: Entropic repulsion for the occupation-time field of random interlacements by disconnection 12 JUNE (Friday) - 15:00 - zoom link: TBA The link and password to access the seminar will be available at the following webpage https://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/seminari/ Abstract: The model of random interlacements was introduced in 2007 by A.-S. Sznitman, motivated by questions about the disconnection of discrete cylinders or tori by the trace of simple random walk. Since then, it has gained popularity among probabilists due to its percolative properties and also because of its connections to the free field. Random interlacements on transient graphs can be constructed as a Poisson point process of doubly infinite trajectories. After reviewing this model, we will focus on the rare event that these trajectories disconnect a macroscopic body from infinity, in the strongly percolative regime. We will ask the following question: What is the most efficient way for random interlacements to enforce such disconnection? In other words, how do the trajectories of random interlacements look like conditionally on disconnection? -- 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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PostDoc Position at University of Innsbruck (Austria)
by Daniela Bertacchi 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

Ricevo e inoltro con preghiera di diffusione. Cordiali saluti, Daniela Bertacchi *************************************** Dear colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to an open PostDoc position at University of Innsbruck (Austria) starting on 01.08.2020 or later. Application deadline is 13.06.2020. The duration of the position is two years (Gross Salary: € 3.890 / month (14 times a year)). A PhD degree with focus on Probability and Stochastic Processes is required. German language skills are beneficial but not strictly required. The successful candidate is meant to carry out research in the field of stochastics. The position comes with 4 hours of teaching per week. The formal announcement can be found here: https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=11284 Please forward this message to anyone you think might be interested and do not hesitate to contact Ecaterina Sava-Huss (Ecaterina.Sava-Huss(a)uibk.ac.at) for further details. Best wishes, Ecaterina Sava-Huss -- ----------------------------------------------------- Ecaterina Sava-Huss Department of Mathematics University of Innsbruck Technikerstrasse 13/7th floor/722b 6020 Innsbruck, Austria https://www.uibk.ac.at/mathematik/personal/sava-huss/ ----------------------------------------------------- <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> Mail priva di virus. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campai…> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>

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two 1-year (renewable to 2 years) postdoc positions at the Scuola Normale Superiore
by Stefano Marmi 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

Dear all, A call for two one-year research contracts (renewable up to 2 years) is open at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy). The topics of the research are _"Quantitative construction and optimization of multi-factor portfolios in the equity and fixed income markets "_ and _"Portfolio construction and optimization of Multi-Asset Portfolios with a target volatility level, creation and optimization of “smart” Multi-Factor Portfolios in the Equity and Fixed Income asset classes "_ and it is part of a collaboration between Fineco and Scuola Normale. The research activity will be in tight collaboration with the Quantitative Team of Fineco Asset Management in Dublin. The details of the call are at - ITA: https://amministrazionetrasparente.sns.it/sites/default/files/bandi/assegni… - ENG: https://amministrazionetrasparente.sns.it/sites/default/files/bandi/assegni… The deadline is June 24. I would be grateful if you could forward this message to any potentially interested candidate. Thanks and all the best, Stefano Marmi

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8 PhD positions at GSSI (fwd)
by Michele Gianfelice 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

Salve, ricevo ed inoltro p.c.. Cordialmente, m.gianfelice ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Michele Gianfelice Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università della Calabria Telephone : +39 0984 496412 Campus di Arcavacata Fax : +39 0984 496410 Ponte P. Bucci - cubo 30B email: gianfelice(a)mat.unical.it I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) www.mat.unical.it/~gianfelice/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 01:18:52 +0200 From: Pierangelo Marcati <pierangelo.marcati(a)gssi.it> To: Pierangelo Marcati <p.marcati(a)gmail.com> Subject: 8 PhD positions at GSSI DEADLINE June,11 Dear Colleagues, This is to announce the opening for 8 PhD Fellowships in ?Mathematics in Natural, Social and Life Sciences? at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) starting in October 2020 - deadline for application: June 11, 2020, info: https://applications.gssi.it/phd/ The 8 PhD fellowships including "4 years - ? 16.159,91 gross yearly - free accommodation - free luncheon vouchers and canteen", are awarded in the area of Mathematics of GSSI (https://www.gssi.it/people/professors/lectures-maths). Among them 2 fellowships are given within the GrowBot FET - EU project, under the direction of Professor Pierangelo Marcati. https://growbot.eu/ Interested candidates can apply to both programs by submitting two different applications. Students and researchers in Mathematics at GSSI are encouraged to interact with other scientific communities. At GSSI, we believe that the interdisciplinary endeavor is the most effective way to do science and benefit society. Mathematical models are ubiquitous in physics, engineering, information theory, social and life sciences, as they provide a formidable framework to describe the time evolution of deterministic, stochastic and complex systems, which is one of the main goals at GSSI. Within the PhD program in Mathematics in Natural, Social and Life Sciences a priority has been established on mathematical modeling, both towards the traditional areas of application, such as Physics or Engineering, and towards emerging issues in Biology and in the Social Sciences. GSSI mathematics researchers are interested in tackling many problems with complementary perspectives and methods. The area of Mathematics is characterized by four large macro-sectors: Applied Partial Differential Equations, Stochastic Analysis, Numerical methods and Continuum Mechanics modeling. Within these sectors there is a shared interest in problems related to fluid dynamics, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics and also its applications to data science. Important ideas of classical analysis, probability theory, mathematical physics and theoretical physics are used also for less traditional applications. Numerical linear algebra and numerical optimization help to design new models and accompanying numerical algorithms for applications in data mining, machine learning and network science. Continuum mechanics models, computational methods in fluid dynamics are used not only in their traditional field at the boundary between applied mathematics and theoretical engineering, but also in nonconventional problems like modeling the full heart function.

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Conference del prof. Phili Protter -June 8th 2020
by Fabio Antonelli 27 May '20

27 May '20

UNIVAQ RANDOM TALKS - The Ph.D. COLLOQUIUM ________________________________ Online conferences on Probability and Applications at DISIM - UNIVERSITÁ DI L'AQUILA Monday June 8th 2:30 p.m. - ZOOM Videoconference platform Prof. Philip Protter Statistics Department Columbia University Nonlinear Valuation in Credit Risk Everybody is welcome, please subscribe by the following form The day of the seminar, participants will receive an invitation by e-mail https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfivXQHs0ZbxtQG8anBnzTSy1Tq_uWN7sG… (max. 100 participants) No need to subscribe, if, in a previous form, you asked to be always included Abstract: In a series of recent papers, Damiano Brigo, Andrea Pallavicini, and co-authors have shown that the value of a contract in a Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) setting, being the sum of the cash flows, can be represented as a solution of a decoupled forward-backward stochastic differential equation (FBSDE). CVA is the difference between the risk-free portfolio value and the true portfolio value that takes into account the possibility of a counter party's default. In other words, CVA is the market value of counter party credit risk. This has achieved noteworthy importance after the 2008 financial debacle, where counter party risk played an under-modeled but huge risk. In their analysis, Brigo et al make the classical assumption of conditional independence of the default times, given the risk-free market filtration. This does not allow for the possibility of simultaneous defaults. We weaken their assumption, replacing it with a martingale orthogonality condition. This in turn changes the form of the BSDE that arises from the model. My talk is based on joint work with Aditi Dandapani. --------------------------------- Fabio Antonelli DISIM - Università di L'Aquila

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Probability Webminar: Giuseppe Cannizzaro (University of Warwick) [Padova 05/06, 11.00]
by alessandra bianchi 27 May '20

27 May '20

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar that will take place on June 05 at 11 by the zoom platform. ________________________________________________________ Speaker: Giuseppe Cannizzaro (University of Warwick) Title: A new Universality Class in (1+1)-dimensions: the Brownian Castle 05 JUNE (Friday) - 11:00 - zoom link: TBA The link and password to access the seminar will be available at the following webpage https://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/seminari/ Abstract: In the context of randomly fluctuating interfaces in (1+1)-dimensions two Universality Classes have generally been considered, the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang and the Edwards-Wilkinson. Models within these classes exhibit universal fluctuations under 1:2:3 and 1:2:4 scaling respectively. Starting from a modification of the classical Ballistic Deposition model we will show that this picture is not exhaustive and another Universality Class, whose scaling exponents are 1:1:2, has to be taken into account. We will describe how it arises, briefly discuss its connections to KPZ and introduce a new stochastic process, the Brownian Castle, deeply connected to the Brownian Web, which should capture the large-scale behaviour of models within this Class. This talk is based on a joint ongoing work with Martin Hairer. -- 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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PhD course "Fractional Brownian motion and non-Markovian modeling" by P. Pigato
by Lucia Caramellino 26 May '20

26 May '20

Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” PhD School in Mathematics Announcement of a PhD course (10 hours, online) Paolo Pigato (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", WIAS Berlin): Fractional Brownian motion and non-Markovian modeling Abstract. In several applications of stochastic analysis (financial engineering, telecommunication networks, ...), it is desirable to model real-world quantities which are non-Markovian, for example because the noise process exhibits slowly decaying auto-correlations and long memory. In this course we will focus on fractional Brownian motion, a prototypical example of non-Markovian process. Such process is a generalisation of Brownian motion with Holder regularity possibly different than 1/2 and it is not a martingale. We will consider large deviations problems, simulation methods and some examples of application. Schedule. - Friday June 05, 2020; h. 14-16 - Tuesday June 09, 2020; h. 14-16 - Thursday June 11, 2020; h. 14-16 - Tuesday June 16, 2020; h. 14-16 - Thursday June 19, 2020; h. 14-16 Information at http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~dott/corsi.html <http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~dott/corsi.html> http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~macci/corso-dottorato-pigato.htm <http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~macci/corso-dottorato-pigato.htm> How to join the course. The course will take place on the "Teams" platform. Those who do not have an account on Teams can join the course through Chrome or Edge. Please write to caramell(a)mat.uniroma2.it <mailto:caramell@mat.uniroma2.it> (subject: PhD course) to be part of the mailing list to which instructions for accessing the course will be sent.

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PhD in Computational Mathematics and Decision Sciences
by Giacomo Aletti 26 May '20

26 May '20

The admission procedure for the PhD program in Computational Mathematics and Decision Sciences at University of Pavia is now open, see http://phd.unipv.it/call-36/ We have 6 scholarships, of which 1 reserved for foreign (non-Italian) students. The deadline is June 24, 2020. Please share this call for applications with potential candidates. Giacomo Aletti -- ------------------------------- Giacomo Aletti, Full Professor (Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics) Department of Environmental Science and Policy (ESP) ADAMSS Centre (ex MIRIAM) Advanced Applied Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Università degli Studi di Milano Via Saldini, 50 20133 Milano, Italy Tel: +39-02-503.16158 Fax:+39-02-503.16090

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Fwd: [stoch-ned-l] COFUND: vacancies for PhD positions
by Gianmarco Bet 26 May '20

26 May '20

Cari colleghi, Vi segnalo numerose PhD openings nel programma NETWORKS in Olanda. Conosco personalmente i PI e il programma, e posso attestare che l’ambiente di ricerca è davvero ottimo. La scadenza è molto vicina, quindi vi invito a girare questo annuncio ai vostri studenti interessanti in probabilità applicata e/o combinatoria e/o modelli discreti. Sono a completa disposizione se voi (o i vostri studenti) avete domande specifiche. Un caro saluto, Gianmarco ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gianmarco Bet 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 22 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Mandjes, Michel via stoch-ned-l" <stoch-ned-l(a)lists.science.uu.nl> > Subject: [stoch-ned-l] COFUND: vacancies for PhD positions > Date: 8 May 2020 at 16:21:39 CEST > To: "Zanten, J.H. van via stoch-ned-l" <stoch-ned-l(a)lists.science.uu.nl> > Reply-To: "Mandjes, Michel" <m.r.h.mandjes(a)uva.nl> > > 14 PhD Positions in Stochastics and Algorithmics in NETWORKS (the Netherlands) > > The NETWORKS project is a collaboration of world-leading researchers from four institutions in The Netherlands: TU Eindhoven <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu…>, University of Amsterdam <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%…>, Leiden University <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu…> and the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu…>. Research in NETWORKS focuses on stochastics and algorithmics for network problems. NETWORKS offers a highly stimulating research environment and an extensive training program for PhD students. > > Recently NETWORKS was awarded a COFUND grant the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, funded by the European Commission. The grant allows NETWORKS to expand its activities by opening positions for an additional 14 PhD students. As a NETWORKS-COFUND PhD student you can define your own PhD project in one of the research areas mentioned above, in collaboration with your NETWORKS supervisors. > > Application deadline > 31 May 2020 > Contract > full time employment contract for 4 years > Salary indication > from €2.325 to €2.972 in 4 years > Location > The Netherlands (Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Leiden) > Are you interested in the stochastics and algorithmics behind network problems? And would you like to be part of this project with its many activities? Then go to https://www.thenetworkcenter.nl/Open-Positions/openposition/29/14-PhD-Posit… <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thene…> > On this website you can find an extensive information package about these positions, including further details about the application procedure. > > _______________________________________________ > stoch-ned-l mailing list > SMS-VvS+OR/ > Section Mathematical Statistics of > The Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research. > stoch-ned-l(a)lists.science.uu.nl > https://mailman.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/stoch-ned-l

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Postdoc in stochastic control at University of Uppsala (Sweden)
by Tiziano De Angelis 25 May '20

25 May '20

Dear All, Please find below links for 2 open postdoctoral positions in stochastic control at the University of Uppsala (Sweden). The deadline for application is 12 June. https://www.math.uu.se/the-department/vacant-positions/?positionId=334386 and https://www.math.uu.se/the-department/vacant-positions/?positionId=334402 Best wishes Tiziano

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Junior Professorship (W1) in Mathematical Economics at Bielefeld: NEW DEADLINE JUNE 05
by Giorgio Ferrari 24 May '20

24 May '20

Dear All, I hope this email finds you well. I am writing to inform that the deadline for applications for the post advertised below has been extended to *JUNE 05, 2020*. Best wishes and have a nice Sunday, Giorgio Ferrari %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The *Center for Mathematical Economics *(Institut für Mathematische Wirtschaftsforschung, IMW) and the *Faculty of Business Administration and Economics* at Bielefeld University are seeking to fill the following position as soon as possible: *Junior Professorship (W1) in Mathematical Economics* We are looking for outstanding, internationally visible candidates in research and teaching who are qualified by excellent publications in one of the research areas of the Center for Mathematical Economics. Interdisciplinary research and teaching across faculties traditionally plays an important role at the Center for Mathematical Economics. We expect participation in the existing and planned joint third-party funded projects of the Center, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, and other faculties, especially in the interdisciplinary context. The connection to the Collaborative Research Center 1283 `` Taming Uncertainty and Profiting from Randomness ... ’’ plays an important role for this professorship. We are looking for young researchers who can make a significant contribution to the economic sub-projects of the Collaborative Research Center; potential topics include dynamic game theory (differential games, mean-field games) as well as the analysis of financial markets (equilibrium models in continuous time), industrial dynamics (dynamic I.O.) or complex decisions under uncertainty (e.g. recursive dynamic utility). Teaching is to be provided in the research-oriented Master and Bachelor programs of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, especially in Mathematical Economics. The prerequisites for the position are a university degree, pedagogical aptitude and the special ability for scientific work, which is usually demonstrated by the outstanding quality of a doctorate. The position is initially for three years, and can be extended to six years after a positive evaluation. Applications from suitably qualified handicapped and severely handicapped persons are explicitly encouraged. Bielefeld University has received a number of awards for its achievements in the provision of equal opportunity and has been recognized as a family-friendly university. The university welcomes applications from women. Applications are handled according to the state's equal opportunity statutes. Applications with the usual documents (curriculum vitae, copies of certificates, list of publications with identification of up to 10 most important publications, a 2-page research and teaching concept) should preferably be submitted till *JUNE 05**, 2020* to: Bielefeld University Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW) Frau Buiwitt-Robson Postfach 10 01 31 33501 Bielefeld or by e-mail as a single PDF file to: IMW(a)uni-bielefeld.de Please refrain from submitting application folders and submit photocopies only, as the application documents will be destroyed at the end of the selection procedure. Please note that risks to confidentiality and unauthorized access by third parties cannot be ruled out when communicating via unencrypted e-mail. Information on the processing of personal data can be found at: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/Universitaet/Aktuelles/Stellenausschreibungen/… -- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Fwd: [umr8050] Extension de la date limite de candidature M2 Bézout
by Lucia Caramellino 22 May '20

22 May '20

Ricevo e volentieri inoltro un annuncio di borsa di studio per un master presso Paris-Est, riservata a studenti stranieri. Per inciso, gli indirizzi del master sono: - mathematics: mathematics of finance and data; probability theory and statistics of new data; analysis and applications (images, compressed sensing); - computer science: imaging sciences; software; systems and services for the Internet of Things; smart systems and applications. Saluti, Lucia > 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: Vendredi 22 Mai 2020 10:17:37 > Objet: [umr8050] Extension de la date limite de candidature M2 Bézout > > > Dear colleague, > > The 2020-2021 hiring campaign for the international Bézout master's program is now open until May 28, noon (Paris time). It 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 level. The laureates will receive a 11-month grant of about 1300€ per month 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) of Université Paris-Est. > > The details of the program and a link to the application website can be found here: http://bezout.univ-paris-est.fr/masters-scholarships/ <http://bezout.univ-paris-est.fr/masters-scholarships/> > > A description of the activities of the Bézout Labex can be found in the leaflet here: http://bezout.univ-paris-est.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bezout-leaflet.p… <http://bezout.univ-paris-est.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/bezout-leaflet.p…> > Contact: Raphaël Danchin <danchin(a)u-pec.fr <mailto:danchin@u-pec.fr>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Lucia Caramellino Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” Web: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~caramell <http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~caramell>

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Master of Science in Economics (University of Rome "Tor Vergata")
by Paolo Gibilisco 22 May '20

22 May '20

Dear Colleagues, please find enclosed some information on the Master of Science in Economics of the Department of Economics and Finance of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Do not hesitate to contact me if you need further information. Best regards Paolo Gibilisco Associate Professor Department of Economics and Finance University of Rome “Tor Vergata” Via Columbia 2, Rome, 00133, Italy Phone: +39-06-72595956 Email: paolo.gibilisco(a)uniroma2.it <mailto:paolo.gibilisco@uniroma2.it> Home page: https://economia.uniroma2.it/def/faculty/142/gibilisco-paolo <https://economia.uniroma2.it/def/faculty/142/gibilisco-paolo#> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, I am pleased to announce the 2020/2021 edition of the Master of Science in Economics <https://economia.uniroma2.it/master-science/economics> at the Department of Economics and Finance of Tor Vergata University of Rome. I would be grateful if you could help me spread the information about our program and recommend us to your most talented and motivated students. The MSc Economics (LM-56) is a two-year graduate program entirely taught in English and designed for highly qualified students. It provides students with a thorough knowledge and understanding of the concepts, tools and methods of economics, together with the application of these methods to the analysis of economic problems. We are committed to providing our students with high quality teaching from some of the best in the Department, which was recognized as a department of excellence by the MIUR. We have already prepared contingency plans, including options for studying remotely, in the event that our standard practices must be changed due to the COVID-19 epidemic. An important characteristic of the program is that we follow our students closely. They are provided with academic support and a personal tutor who follows them throughout the entire program. Moreover, annual extra-curricular initiatives are organized to strengthen their professional skills and to allow easy access to employment or further academic opportunities. We offer study grants for the best students enrolling in the first year as well as monetary awards to the best-performing first-year students. Selected second-year students have the opportunity to attend a Dual Degree Program in partnership with the University of Gothenburg or the University of Konstanz. Additional funding is also awarded to students to encourage participation in Summer Schools, database purchases, GRE test and MATLAB Associate Level Certification. The MSc Economics is the ideal program for those who want to acquire advanced analytical skills to pursue a career in national and international institutions, or who want to prepare for a Ph.D. program in Economics. The excellent placement of our graduates may be consulted on the employment statistics page <https://economia.uniroma2.it/master-science/economics/employment-statistics…> and on the Alumni page <https://economia.uniroma2.it/master-science/economics/Alu/> of our website. Applications are currently open for the 2020/2021 academic year. The application deadline is June 30, 2020 for non-EU students and August 16, 2020 for EU students. The Call for applications is available here <https://economia.uniroma2.it/master-science/economics/admissions/>, feel free to share this link with interested candidates and other colleagues from your institution. I will be available to provide additional information during the Online Open Day on June 16, 2020 <https://economia.uniroma2.it/cal/855/msc-economics-online-open-day#.XsVCUC-…> at 5pm on Microsoft Teams. Should you wish to have additional information or discuss anything related to the program, please do not hesitate to contact me. Best regards, Alberto Iozzi Master of Science in Economics, Director ----------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Alberto Iozzi Department of Economics and Finance Tor Vergata University of Rome Via Columbia 2, 00133 Rome - Italy Tel. +39 06 7259 5923 Fax + 39 06 2040 219 Webpage: sites.google.com/view/albertoiozzi/home <https://sites.google.com/view/albertoiozzi/home> ----------------------------------------------------------------

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Webinar RIGON
by Pierpaolo De Blasi 22 May '20

22 May '20

WEBINARS IN STATISTICS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO <https://www.carloalberto.org/research/webinars/> Venerdì 29 Maggio 2020, alle ore 15:00, si terrà il seguente webinar: ------------------------------------------------ Tommaso RIGON (Duke University) *A generalized Bayes framework for probabilistic clustering* Abstract: Clustering methods such as k-means and its variants are standard tools for finding groups in the data. However, despite their huge popularity, the underlying uncertainty can not be easily quantified. On the other hand, mixture models represent a well-established inferential tool for probabilistic clustering, but they are characterized by severe computational bottlenecks and may have unreliable solutions in presence of misspecifications. Instead, we rely on a generalized Bayes framework for probabilistic clustering based on Gibbs posteriors. Broadly speaking, in such a setting the log-likelihood is replaced by an arbitrary loss function and this arguably leads to much richer families of clustering methods. Our contribution is two-fold: first, we describe a clustering pipeline for efficiently finding groups and then quantifying the associated uncertainty. Second, we discuss two broad classes of loss functions which have advantages in terms of analytic tractability and interpretability. Specifically, we consider losses based on Bregman divergences and pairwise dissimilarities and we show they can be interpreted as profile and composite log-likelihoods, respectively. Full Bayesian inference is conducted via Gibbs sampling but efficient deterministic algorithms are available for point estimation. As an important byproduct of our work, we show that several existing clustering approaches can be interpreted as generalized Bayesian estimators under specific loss functions. Hence, our methodology can be also used to formally quantify the uncertainty in widely used clustering approaches. (joint work with Amy Herring and David Dunson, Duke University) ------------------------------------------------ Chiunque volesse collegarsi al webinar è pregato di inviare una email entro mercoledi 27 Maggio a pierpaolo.deblasi(a)unito.it Il webinar è organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative www.carloalberto.org/stats in collaborazione con il Collegio Carlo Alberto. 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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LMS Invited Lecture Series 2020
by Enrico Scalas 21 May '20

21 May '20

Car* collegh*, vi segnalo questo evento on-line: LMS Invited Lecture Series 2020 Fractional Calculus and Fractional Stochastic Calculus, Including Rough-Paths, with Applications, 15 Jun, 09:00 – 19 Jun, 16:00 https://www.lms2020.boguslavsky.net/ con lezioni di Yulia Mishura, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine e vari seminari su temi correlati. Dalla pagina web e' possibile registrarsi. Cordiali saluti, Enrico Scalas

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Postdoc position in Vienna
by Ulisse Stefanelli 21 May '20

21 May '20

Dear Colleagues, I would like to bring to your attention a postdoc opening (University Assistant) in Vienna, details are below. Kind regards Ulisse Stefanelli ************************************************ The Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna is inviting applications for a University-Assistant position (postdoc), limited to 3 years. We are looking for a highly qualified researcher with strong background in calculus of variations or evolution equations, also of stochastic type. The start date is 1.7.2020 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position comes with max. 4h of teaching per week, mostly exercise classes. The monthly gross salary is in the range 3.8-4.3 K€, depending on the experience level. Applications have to be submitted via the jobcenter of the University of Vienna: https://personalwesen.univie.ac.at/jobs-recruiting/job-center/ by navigating to 'Aktuelle Stellenausschreibungen', reference number 10846. Informal enquiries to ulisse.stefanelli(a)univie.ac.at ________________________________________ Ulisse Stefanelli (Univ.-Prof., PhD) Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1,1090 Vienna, Austria ulisse.stefanelli(a)univie.ac.at ________________________________________

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Annuncio Convegno Online
by Enrica Pirozzi 20 May '20

20 May '20

Carissimi nei pomeriggi dei giorni 1-2 e 8-9 Luglio si terrà in modalità online un workshop dal titolo: "Kick-Off Meeting of Prin 2017 Project: Stochastic Models for Complex Systems" (PRIN articolato nelle sedi di Lecce, Salerno e Napoli) dedicato alla presentazione dei primi risultati scientifici ottenuti nell'ambito del progetto. Per tutti i dettagli vi invitiamo a collegarvi al sito dedicato seguendo il link qui sotto: https://sites.google.com/view/kick-off-meeting/home Cari saluti Roberta Schiattarella, Mariella Longobardi, Nello Buonocore, Igia Caputo, Enrica Pirozzi. -- Enrica Pirozzi Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Universita' di Napoli FEDERICO II Via Cintia, Monte S.Angelo, 80126, NAPOLI, ITALY Tel. 081 675634 https://www.docenti.unina.it/ENRICA.PIROZZI

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Posizione RTD-B in Machine Learning presso la Scuola IMT Lucca
by Irene Crimaldi 20 May '20

20 May '20

Caro Collega, la Scuola IMT Lucca (www.imtlucca.it) sta valutando l'opportunità di bandire a breve una posizione di ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipo B nell'area del Machine Learning. Dato che il tema è affrontato da varie comunità scientifiche, il settore scientifico disciplinare nel quale bandire verrà scelto a valle della raccolta di espressioni di interesse. Chiunque fosse interessato alla posizione di cui sopra è pregato di inviare al decano, Prof. Rocco De Nicola (rocco.denicola(a)imtlucca.it) un cv e un breve *statement* motivazionale, *preferibilmente entro il 15 giugno 2020.* Di seguito riporto il profilo che è stato recentemente deliberato dagli organi della Scuola. Pregherei di inoltrare questo messaggio a chiunque fosse a conoscenza di potenziali interessati. Rimango a disposizione per qualsiasi altro dettaglio. Cari saluti, Irene Crimaldi --------PROFILO: L'assunzione di un esperto di Machine Learning è finalizzata ad accrescere le competenze sui metodi quantitativi per lo sviluppo di modelli di sistemi dinamici e alla loro previsione, regolazione e ottimizzazione, della Scuola IMT. Questa figura da un lato alimenterà l’arsenale di competenze metodologiche della Scuola e dall'altro lato sarà funzionale a fornire strumenti quantitativi alle aree dell'economia e del management nonché dell'analisi e gestione del patrimonio, delle attività e dei fenomeni culturali. Il ricercatore, oltre a consolidate conoscenze ed ottime pubblicazioni nel settore del machine learning, con particolare riferimento alle tematiche dell’apprendimento basato su reti neurali e alberi decisionali, dell’identificazione di sistemi dinamici, degli algoritmi di ottimizzazione, della regressione e all’analisi statistica multivariata, dovrà dimostrare la capacità di applicare le proprie competenze a problemi reali e di collaborare in attività di ricerca di tipo multidisciplinare.

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Borse di dottorato in area Statistica / Data Science presso il Politecnico di Milano
by Laura Maria Sangalli 19 May '20

19 May '20

Prego di dare la massima diffusione presso i potenziali interessati ITA E' uscito il bando di ammissione al 36esimo ciclo di dottorato presso il Politecnico di Milano, con scadenza il ** 29 Maggio, ore 14 ** http://www.dottorato.polimi.it/fileadmin/files/dottorato/concorso_linkweb/B… Sono disponibili varie borse in area Statistica / Data Science. Nell'ambito del dottorato in Metodi e Modelli Matematici per l'Ingegneria sono disponibili 8 borse libere, per le quali i candidati possono proporre progetti in area Statistica / Data Science Contatti: alessandra.guglielmi(a)polimi.it, anna.paganoni(a)polimi.it, laura.sangalli(a)polimi.it Nell'ambito del dottorato in Data Analytics and Decision Sciences sono disponibili le borse - "Patient representation methods for risk stratification in oncology" Contatto: francesca.ieva(a)polimi.it - "Impact Analysis in Real World Clinical Oncology" Contatto: anna.paganoni(a)polimi.it - "Learning analytics to support policies and managerial decision making in educational institutions" Contatto: anna.paganoni(a)polimi.it - “Cyber-Capital and impact on the urban rent” Contatti: valeria.fedeli(a)polimi.it, simone.vantini(a)polimi.it - "Neurosciences and genomics: advanced data analytic methods" Contatto: laura.sangalli(a)polimi.it ENGLISH: Several fellowships are available for a PhD in the area of Statistics / Data Science at Politecnico di Milano, Italy: Call: http://www.dottorato.polimi.it/en/ Deadline for applications: 29 May 2020 at 14:00, Italian time Within the PhD program in Mathematical Models and Methods in Engineering 8 fellowships are available in the generic field of Mathematics and Statistics, that can be targeted to Statistics / Data Science Contacts: alessandra.guglielmi(a)polimi.it, anna.paganoni(a)polimi.it, laura.sangalli(a)polimi.it Within the PhD program in Data Analytics and Decision Sciences fellowships on the following topics are available: - "Patient representation methods for risk stratification in oncology" Contact: francesca.ieva(a)polimi.it - "Impact Analysis in Real World Clinical Oncology" Contact: anna.paganoni(a)polimi.it - "Learning analytics to support policies and managerial decision making in educational institutions" Contact: anna.paganoni(a)polimi.it - “Cyber-Capital and impact on the urban rent” Contacts: valeria.fedeli(a)polimi.it, simone.vantini(a)polimi.it - "Neurosciences and genomics: advanced data analytic methods" Contact: laura.sangalli(a)polimi.it —— Laura Maria Sangalli MOX - Dipartimento di Matematica Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 20133 Milano - Italy tel: +39 02 2399 4554 fax: +39 02 2399 4568 email: laura.sangalli(a)polimi.it url: http://mox.polimi.it/~sangalli

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2020/21 PhD Programs at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
by Irene Crimaldi 19 May '20

19 May '20

*2020/21 PhD Programs at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca* Deadline for applications – July 10th 2020, 12 pm CEST Applications are now being accepted for the 2020/21 PhD Programs at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (www.imtlucca.it), one of the six Schools of Excellence in Italy and one of the highest rated graduate schools in Europe according to the most recent U-Multirank survey. Highly motivated candidates from all disciplines are invited to apply for one of the *32 fully-funded positions.* The 32 scholarships are equally divided between the two doctoral Programs that integrate scientific competences of economics, engineering, computer science, neuroscience and behavioral psychology, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, history and sciences of cultural heritage. *Economics, Networks and Business Analytics* is one of the four field-specific tracks offered and is under the “Systems Science” PhD Program. This Track provides participants with a solid knowledge on modern analytical methods in economics and management. With its multidisciplinary approach, the track is unique in its deployment of a strong integration of concepts, analytical foundations, and practical expertise, to educate the new generation of economists, scientists and practitioners with distinctive capabilities in analyzing, interpreting, and managing complex socio-economic systems. Graduates will be trained to become researchers and decision makers in academia, policy and industry by integrating knowledge at the boundary of Economics, Statistical Physics, Computer and Social Sciences with the unifying language of Mathematics and Statistics. Close associations with a selected set of companies and institutions provide the opportunity to analyze relevant problems, motivating new analytical techniques from practical problem solving. Students are involved in the analysis of real world high dimensional data, in collaboration with companies and institutions. During their doctoral studies, students are encouraged to carry out their research with the School’s Research Units. ENBA students also have the possibility of completing their theses under the joint supervision (Double-degree) with KU Leuven or the University of Alicante. Courses are led by world-renowned researchers and provide students with all the theoretical skills and advanced tools required for rigorously tackling a multitude of analysis, design and management problems within the broad framework of systems analysis in economic, social, scientific, technological and cultural domains. Specialized faculty and staff create a network that provides key guidance and support throughout the PhD Program. Working closely with faculty, both in the classroom and in the development of research, students reach the highest levels of scholarly achievement. IMT School PhD graduates will be able to use the skills they acquired during their studies to recognize and resolve complex problems, to choose the most appropriate method or instrument to utilize when approaching these problems, even in disciplines outside of their primary field of research. All students are based in the recently restored San Francesco complex, *a fully integrated Campus* in the historical center of the beautiful Tuscan city of Lucca. The Campus includes renewed residential facilities, an on-site canteen, study and living rooms, a state-of-the-art library and outdoor recreational spaces, which foster a unique cultural,professional and social environment for our doctoral program. Eligible students, in addition to *free room and* *board,* will also receive a *research scholarship which amounts to approximately €15,300/year. *The scholarships are *fully-funded for up to four years,* with a possibility of graduating after the third year. The PhD Programs at the IMT School attracts students from around the world, providing a truly international environment. English is the official language of the School. Moreover, all students will have the opportunity to spend periods abroad at research institutes, laboratories or universities, both within the Erasmus+ framework and through ad hoc mobility agreements. Most IMT School PhD Graduates have reached prominent roles in academics, governmental institutions, public and private companies or professions across the globe. To find out more about the School, the admission requirements and how to apply, please visit the following link: https://www.imtlucca.it/en/phd/information-for-students *Deadline for applications – July 10th 2020, 12 pm CEST* Find the IMT School on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube for the latest news.

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Call of Interest on High-Dimensional Networks Econometrics
by Roberto Casarin UNIVE 18 May '20

18 May '20

*Advertiser: Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University Venice (Università Ca’ Foscari)** **Field(s) of specialization: Econometrics* Position type(s): Research Assistant Target date for applications: 25 May 2020 Application deadline: 31 May 2020 (accepting applications) CALL OF INTEREST POSITIONS AS RESEARCH FELLOW AT ITALIAN UNIVERSITIES: University of Bologna, *Ca' Foscari University*, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Under the Italian PRIN Project entitled “Hi-di network econometric analysis of high dimensional models with network structures in macroeconomics and finance – PROT. 2017TA7TYC” funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, the Departments of Economics at the University of Bologna, the *Department of Economics of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice* and the Faculty of Economics and Management at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano are opening a call of interest for three positions as Research Fellow (one position for each university). The positions will be funded by the project up to 24 months. The research project covers the following topics: *(i) Development of novel multivariate econometric models and methods able to deal with network effects and to take into account time varying relationships. Attention will be paid on how latent factors drive economic systems and are subject to instability. Their roles will be studied and compared in the pre- and post-coronavirus era.** * *(ii) Analysis of interconnected networks: either physical or intangible networks, observed or estimated. Results will expand academic knowledge on statistical modelling of network event data in a broad range of areas including, but not limited to, social media information diffusion, economic/financial crises contagion and epidemic/disease spread phaenomena.** * (iii) Economic impact of uncertainty: uncertainty is expected to act as a key driving factor in the aftermath of the covid-19 shock and the focus will be also on the policy actions necessary at the macro level to offset the economic consequences of a shock of size never experienced by world economies after WW2. Interested researchers can express their willingness to apply not later than 31st May 2020. Applications should include the CV of the candidate a short research proposal related to the topics covered by the project, and the indication of the University where the research activity will be carried out. For further information please contact: *- Monica Billio (billio(a)unive.it) - Department of Economics of the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice** * - Giuseppe Cavaliere (giuseppe.cavaliere(a)unibo.it) - Departments of Economics at the University of Bologna - Francesco Ravazzolo (francescoravazzolo(a)unibz.it) - Faculty of Economics and Management at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano -- Roberto Casarin, PhD Professor of Econometrics University Ca' Foscari, Venice Address: San Giobbe 873/b 30121 Venezia, Italy Phone: +39 041.234.91.49 Web: http://sites.google.com/view/robertocasarin/ IMEF: http://www.unive.it/imef VERA: http://www.unive.it/vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1746-9190 -- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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Webinar JACOB
by Pierpaolo De Blasi 16 May '20

16 May '20

WEBINARS IN STATISTICS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO <https://www.carloalberto.org/research/webinars/> Venerdì 22 Maggio 2020, alle ore 12:00, si terrà il seguente webinar: ------------------------------------------------ Pierre JACOB (Harvard University) *Unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo with couplings* Abstract: Various tasks in statistics involve numerical integration, for which Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are state-of-the-art. MCMC methods yield estimators that converge to integrals of interest in the limit of the number of iterations. This iterative asymptotic justification is not ideal; first, it stands at odds with current trends in computing hardware, with increasingly parallel architectures; secondly, the choice of "burn-in" or "warm-up" is arduous. This talk will describe recently proposed estimators that are unbiased for the expectations of interest while having a finite computing cost and a finite variance. They can thus be generated independently in parallel and averaged over. The method also provides practical upper bounds on the distance (e.g. total variation) between the marginal distribution of the chain at a finite step and its invariant distribution. The key idea is to generate "faithful" couplings of Markov chains, whereby pairs of chains coalesce after a random number of iterations. This talk will provide an overview of this line of research. (joint work with John O'Leary, Yves Atchadé) Paper at: https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rssb.12336 ------------------------------------------------ Chiunque volesse collegarsi al webinar è pregato di inviare una email entro mercoledi 20 Maggio a pierpaolo.deblasi(a)unito.it Il webinar è organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative www.carloalberto.org/stats in collaborazione con il Collegio Carlo Alberto. 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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Ph.D. position in Mathematical Finance at Bielefeld University
by Giorgio Ferrari 15 May '20

15 May '20

Dear All, this is to inform about a *Ph.D. position in Mathematical Finance* (in particular on the theory of stochastic optimal control and optimal stopping with financial and economic applications) at Bielefeld University within the "Bielefeld Graduate School in Economics and Management" ( http://www.bigsem.de/ ) *DEADLINE* for applications: *June 05* *DETAILS* about the post and the application procedure can be found at: <https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/Universitaet/Aktuelles/Stellenausschreibungen/…> https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/Universitaet/Aktuelles/Stellenausschreibungen/… The successful candidate will be based at the Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW) of Bielefeld University ( https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/imw/ ) and will work under my supervision. All the best wishes, Giorgio Ferrari -- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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RMTA 2020 New York May 25-29
by Davide Macera 14 May '20

14 May '20

ricevo ed inoltro: Dear colleague, we hope that you are in good health.You have registered for the conference "Random Matrices and Their Applications" (RMTA) which was supposed to take place in New York, May 25-29 2020. Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the conference will be reorganized online. You can check the tentative schedule on the new website: https://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/dokuwiki/mega:e-rmta-2020 <https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ceremade.dauphine.fr%2Fd…> We apologize for those of you who were supposed to present a poster: the poster session has been cancelled.Meanwhile, if you are interested to participate to the online RMTA conference, please register on the new website. Registration is free but mandatory to get the access details. We are looking forward to meeting you online!Best regards,Paul Bourgade, Djalil Chafaï, Alice Guionnet, Jamal Najim.

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COFUND: vacancies for PhD positions
by Matteo Quattropani 14 May '20

14 May '20

Ricevo ed inoltro. MQ 14 PhD Positions in Stochastics and Algorithmics in NETWORKS (the Netherlands) The NETWORKS project is a collaboration of world-leading researchers from four institutions in The Netherlands: TU Eindhoven <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu…>, University of Amsterdam <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%…>, Leiden University <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu…> and the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu…>. Research in NETWORKS focuses on stochastics and algorithmics for network problems. NETWORKS offers a highly stimulating research environment and an extensive training program for PhD students. Recently NETWORKS was awarded a COFUND grant the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, funded by the European Commission. The grant allows NETWORKS to expand its activities by opening positions for an additional 14 PhD students. As a NETWORKS-COFUND PhD student you can define your own PhD project in one of the research areas mentioned above, in collaboration with your NETWORKS supervisors. Application deadline 31 May 2020 Contract full time employment contract for 4 years Salary indication from €2.325 to €2.972 in 4 years Location The Netherlands (Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Leiden) Are you interested in the stochastics and algorithmics behind network problems? And would you like to be part of this project with its many activities? Then go to https://www.thenetworkcenter.nl/Open-Positions/openposition/29/14-PhD-Posit… <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thene…> On this website you can find an extensive information package about these positions, including further details about the application procedure.

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Bando dottorato congiunto Politecnico di Torino, Università di Torino e Indam (con link)
by Enrico Bibbona 14 May '20

14 May '20

Cari colleghi, vi chiedo di far circolare la notizia che il Politecnico di Torino, congiuntamente con L'Università di Torino e l'Indam offre 8 posizioni di dottorato. La domanda deve pervenire entro il 30 Aprile. http://dottorato.polito.it/en/call_for_applications Applicazioni di studenti interessati alla probabilità e alla statistica sono naturalmente benvenute. Cordiali saluti, Enrico 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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Probability Webminar: Saeda Marello (University of Bonn) [Padova 22/05, 11.00]
by alessandra bianchi 13 May '20

13 May '20

Dear Colleagues, We would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar that will take place on May 22 at 11 by the zoom platform. ________________________________________________________ Speaker: Saeda Marello (University of Bonn) Title: Metastability for the randomly dilute Curie-Weiss model with Glauber dynamics". 22 MAY (Friday) - 11:00 - zoom link: TBA The link and password to access the seminar will be available the day of the seminar at the following webpage https://www.math.unipd.it/news/metastability-for-the-randomly-dilute-curie-… Abstract: The Curie-Weiss model (CW) is a classical model of a ferromagnetic spin system in which all spins interact with each other, namely the interaction graph is complete. The randomly dilute Curie-Weiss model (RDCW) is a generalisation of the CW in which the deterministic interaction between pairs of spins is replaced by iid random coefficients. It can be also viewed as an Ising model on a random graph. We will show results in the case where the interaction coefficients are iid Bernoulli random variables with fixed parameter p, i.e. the interaction graph is an Erdős–Rényi random graph. After giving an introduction on metastability and on the well known results for the CW, we will focus on how the mean metastable hitting time in the RDCW can be approximated by that of the CW, asymptotically as the system size grows. The main methods we used are potential theoretic approach to metastability and concentration of measure inequalities. Based on joint work with Anton Bovier and Elena Pulvirenti. -- 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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Call for Expression of Interest: PhD in probability theory Göttingen-Strasbourg
by Vlada Limic 13 May '20

13 May '20

Dear colleague, This is to announce an opportunity for doctoral studies in probability theory starting Fall 2020, co-mentored by Anja Sturm (Göttingen) and Vlada Limic (Strasbourg). The research topics are in theoretical probability, more precisely in the area of near-critical random graphs and related processes. Interested candidates with strong mathematics research potential are encouraged to contact us, preferably by email, A. Sturm and V. Limic http://www.stochastik.math.uni-goettingen.de/~asturm/ https://irma.math.unistra.fr/~limic/ -- Kiva.org - Loans That Change Lives

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Fwd: Online Open Probability School is starting next week
by Faggionato, Alessandra 12 May '20

12 May '20

Buongiorno, inoltro con piacere l'annuncio per una scuola di probabilità online. Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Omer Angel <angel(a)math.ubc.ca> Date: mar 12 mag 2020 alle ore 06:17 Subject: Online Open Probability School is starting next week To: <faggiona(a)mat.uniroma1.it> Dear Alessandra, Our apologies if you receive multiple versions of this message. This is a second general announcement of OOPS: the Online Open Probability School, which will start next week (May 18), and will continue through most of the summer (https://www.math.ubc.ca/Links/OOPS). The school will feature a sequence of mini-courses on diverse topics in probability and related topics. All courses will take place online, and are open to all interested participants. Most courses will consist of three 1-hour lectures, though some will have longer lectures. Some courses will be accompanied by an introductory lecture or short research talks on topics related to the course. For information on these and on any suggested readings related to the courses please visit the above website. Please advertise OOPS to anyone who may be interested in the courses. They may also join our mailing list at https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/oops . The schedule for the first few weeks can be found on the website. Details about the first three mini-courses appear below. 1. Date and Time: May 18,19,21, 16:00 (UTC) Speaker: Jean-Christoph Mourrat Subject: Rank-one matrix estimation and Hamilton-Jacobi equations 2. Date and time: May 25,27,28, 16:00 (UTC) Speaker: Gady Kozma Subject: Critical and near-critical percolation 3. Date and time: June 1,2,4, 16:00 (UTC) Speaker: Nina Gantert Subject: Branching random walks: some recent results and open questions Please don't hesitate to contact any of us with questions, suggestions or ideas. Best wishes, Omer, On behalf of the organizers: Louigi Addario-Berry (louigi.addario(a)mcgill.ca) Omer Angel (angel(a)math.ubc.ca) Alex Fribergh (fribergh(a)dms.umontreal.ca) Sarai Alma Hernandez Torres (saraiht(a)math.ubc.ca) Thomas Hughes (hughes(a)math.ubc.ca) Mathav Murugan (mathav(a)math.ubc.ca) Edwin Perkins (perkins(a)math.ubc.ca) Lea Popovic (lea.popovic(a)concordia.ca) -- ************************************************* 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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bando di selezione al Center for Analysis Decisions and Society
by Antonio DI CRESCENZO 11 May '20

11 May '20

Cari colleghi, il Center for Analysis Decisions and Society, centro di ricerca congiunto di Human Technopole e del Politecnico di Milano, ha pubblicato un bando per la selezione di Group Leader. Trovate il bando qui: https://www.humantechnopole.it/en/join-us?p_p_id=JobViewer_INSTANCE_axOoepe… <https://www.humantechnopole.it/en/join-us?p_p_id=JobViewer_INSTANCE_axOoepe…> Potete pubblicizzare il bando ai vostri contatti potenzialmente interessati. Cordiali saluti, Antonio Di Crescenzo

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Webinar CASTILLO
by Pierpaolo De Blasi 08 May '20

08 May '20

WEBINARS IN STATISTICS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO <https://www.carloalberto.org/research/webinars/> Venerdì 15 Maggio 2020, alle ore 12:00, si terrà il seguente webinar: ------------------------------------------------ Ismael CASTILLO (Sorbonne Université Paris) *Multiscale analysis of Bayesian CART* Abstract: This work affords new insights about Bayesian CART in the context of structured wavelet shrinkage. We show that practically used Bayesian CART priors lead to adaptive rate-minimax posterior concentration in the supremum norm in Gaussian white noise, performing optimally up to a logarithmic factor. To further explore the benefits of structured shrinkage, we propose the g-prior for trees, which departs from the typical wavelet product priors by harnessing correlation induced by the tree topology. Building on supremum norm adaptation, an adaptive nonparametric Bernstein–von Mises theorem for Bayesian CART is derived using multiscale techniques. For the fundamental goal of uncertainty quantification, we construct adaptive confidence bands with uniform coverage for the regression function under self-similarity. (joint work with Veronika Rockova, University of Chicago). ------------------------------------------------ Chiunque volesse collegarsi al webinar è pregato di inviare una email entro mercoledi 13 Maggio a pierpaolo.deblasi(a)unito.it Il webinar è organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative www.carloalberto.org/stats in collaborazione con il Collegio Carlo Alberto. 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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May 18th 2020: Prof. Giorgio Ferrari 's online seminar at University of L'Aquila
by Fabio Antonelli 08 May '20

08 May '20

------------------------------------------------ UNIVAQ RANDOM TALKS ________________________________ Online talks on Probability and Applications at DISIM - UNIVERSITÁ DI L'AQUILA Using Zoom Videoconference system Monday 18th 2:30 p.m. Prof. Giorgio Ferrari - Bielefeld University TITLE: Singular Control of the Drift of a Brownian System Everybody is welcome, please subscribe by the following form The day of the seminar, participants will receive an invitation by e-mail [https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/CWhLsT4lqNWzIjVe3mEN_7Iq4wxE9g204khy6mYxf…]<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSclukp_QZeujS15nbL3IvtRKGJWvHkx-E5…> UNIVAQ RANDOM TALKS 3 - UNIVERSITÁ DI L'AQUILA<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSclukp_QZeujS15nbL3IvtRKGJWvHkx-E5…> ONLINE May 18th 2020 - 2:30 p.m. Prof. Giorgio Ferrari - Bielefeld University: Singular Control of the Drift of a Brownian System docs.google.com No need to subscribe, if, in a previous form, you asked to be always included ABSTRACT: Consider a standard Brownian motion whose drift can be increased or decreased in a possibly singular manner. The objective is to minimize an expected functional involving the time-integral of a running cost and the proportional costs of adjusting the drift. The resulting two-dimensional degenerate singular stochastic control problem with interconnected dynamics is solved by combining techniques of viscosity theory and free boundary problems. We provide a detailed description of the problem's value function and of the geometry of the state space, which is split into three regions by two monotone curves. Our main result shows that those curves are continuously differentiable with locally Lipschitz derivative and solve a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The optimal control is also constructed (weakly) under further specifications of the model. This talk is based on a joint work with Salvatore Federico (University of Siena) and Patrick Schuhmann (Bielefeld University). --------------------------------- Fabio Antonelli DISIM - Università di L'Aquila

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Reminder of Junior Professorship (W1) in Mathematical Economics at Bielefeld University: deadline MAY 15
by Giorgio Ferrari 08 May '20

08 May '20

Dear All, this is a gentle reminder of a *Junior Professorship (W1) in Mathematical Economics *at Bielefeld University. *Deadline for applications is May 15.* All the best wishes, Giorgio Ferrari %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The *Center for Mathematical Economics *(Institut für Mathematische Wirtschaftsforschung, IMW) and the *Faculty of Business Administration and Economics* at Bielefeld University are seeking to fill the following position as soon as possible: *Junior Professorship (W1) in Mathematical Economics* We are looking for outstanding, internationally visible candidates in research and teaching who are qualified by excellent publications in one of the research areas of the Center for Mathematical Economics. Interdisciplinary research and teaching across faculties traditionally plays an important role at the Center for Mathematical Economics. We expect participation in the existing and planned joint third-party funded projects of the Center, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, and other faculties, especially in the interdisciplinary context. The connection to the Collaborative Research Center 1283 `` Taming Uncertainty and Profiting from Randomness ... ’’ plays an important role for this professorship. We are looking for young researchers who can make a significant contribution to the economic sub-projects of the Collaborative Research Center; potential topics include dynamic game theory (differential games, mean-field games) as well as the analysis of financial markets (equilibrium models in continuous time), industrial dynamics (dynamic I.O.) or complex decisions under uncertainty (e.g. recursive dynamic utility). Teaching is to be provided in the research-oriented Master and Bachelor programs of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, especially in Mathematical Economics. The prerequisites for the position are a university degree, pedagogical aptitude and the special ability for scientific work, which is usually demonstrated by the outstanding quality of a doctorate. The position is initially for three years, and can be extended to six years after a positive evaluation. Applications from suitably qualified handicapped and severely handicapped persons are explicitly encouraged. Bielefeld University has received a number of awards for its achievements in the provision of equal opportunity and has been recognized as a family-friendly university. The university welcomes applications from women. Applications are handled according to the state's equal opportunity statutes. Applications with the usual documents (curriculum vitae, copies of certificates, list of publications with identification of up to 10 most important publications, a 2-page research and teaching concept) should preferably be submitted till *May 15, 2020* to: Bielefeld University Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW) Frau Buiwitt-Robson Postfach 10 01 31 33501 Bielefeld or by e-mail as a single PDF file to: IMW(a)uni-bielefeld.de Please refrain from submitting application folders and submit photocopies only, as the application documents will be destroyed at the end of the selection procedure. Please note that risks to confidentiality and unauthorized access by third parties cannot be ruled out when communicating via unencrypted e-mail. Information on the processing of personal data can be found at: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/Universitaet/Aktuelles/Stellenausschreibungen/… -- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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15 PhD scholarships in Mathematical Sciences - University of Padova, Italy - Deadline June 16, 2020 - 13:00 (CEST)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 08 May '20

08 May '20

Fifteen PhD scholarships (9 funded by the University of Padova, 4 funded by external public/private bodies, 1 "industrial doctorate" and 1 higher-level apprenticeship contract) are available at University of Padova for candidates interested in the area of Mathematical Sciences (start of activities: October 1st, 2020). 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 2020). Admission is decided on a preselection, based on qualifications, and an oral examination. Grant awarded The annual grant will be of euros 15,343.28. 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 June 16, 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 Applications are only accepted online using the link indicated in the call See https://dottorato.math.unipd.it/prospective-students 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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9 PhD scholarships in Statistical Sciences – University of Padova, Italy – Deadline June 16, 2020 - 13:00 (CEST)
by piacent 07 May '20

07 May '20

Nine PhD scholarships (7 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, 2020). 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 2020). 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 18,052.04 (gross amount). This is an increased scholarship with respect to the standard University of Padova scholarship of euros 15,343.28. The additional amount of euros 2,708.76 is funded by the Department of Statistical Sciences "Department of Excellence" grant, financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR). 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 June 16, 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_XXXVI 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 See http://www.stat.unipd.it/ricerca/ammissione or contact phd(a)stat.unipd.it Kindest regards, PhD Secretariat on behalf of prof. Massimiliano Caporin Coordinator of the PhD Course in Statistics University of Padova - Italy *We apologize for cross posting *

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ITN ETN funded PhD positions on large scale optimization for machine learning - University of Genova, Italy
by villa silvia 04 May '20

04 May '20

3 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/>). All 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. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: • the development of optimization methods (stochastic, accelerated, distributed , parallel) for non-smooth and possibly non convex problems • exploitation of data geometric structure to develop efficient optimization and machine learning algorithms • unsupervised features learning from multivariate time series (in collaboration with the SME CAMELOT biomedical systems, https://www.camelotbio.com <https://www.camelotbio.com/>) 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. All the research activities will be carried out at the University of Genova within a newly formed machine learning center across the Mathematics and Computer Science departments. The center counts over 10 faculties and 30 between PhD students + postdocs and provides a lively and dynamic work environment. Genova sits amidst of the Italian riviera and offer excellent life quality. PhD salaries are commensurated to international standards, including mobility and family allowance, according to Marie Curie actions. All position should start November 2020 (delays due to COVID19 are possible). Applicants need to apply to an open call that will be available by end of may. 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. At this point, we recommend prospective candidates to make an expression of interest by filling this https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddINJ-ox1MySLYyuTKDWvkYnmuBNkWSdA… <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddINJ-ox1MySLYyuTKDWvkYnmuBNkWSdA…> within the ***31st of May***. ____________________________________________ A total of 15 PhD positions are funded by the project, to see them all please check: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/516136 <https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/516136>

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Fwd: PhD position in Statistics at KU Leuven
by fcollet＠math.unipd.it 04 May '20

04 May '20

Ricevo ed inoltro Buona giornata, Francesca Collet ---------------------------------------------- PhD position in statistics at KU Leuven Project The research group ORSTAT of KU Leuven (Belgium) has a vacancy for a full-time PhD scholarship for the period of September 1, 2020 until September 1, 2024, for scientific research in the field of statistics. The candidate will work in the area of survival analysis. He/she will work under the supervision of Ingrid Van Keilegom. Profile Candidates should hold a Master's degree in (bio)statistics, mathematics, or equivalent. An average degree of "distinction" during preliminary studies is required, as well as an appropriate command of written and spoken English. Offer We offer an employment as full-time doctoral scholar for 1 year, renewable till max. 4 years after positive evaluation. You will find a dynamic and pleasant working environment, in a group that is actively involved in scientific research at the highest international level. Application Applicants should submit their expression of interest to Ingrid Van Keilegom (ingrid.vankeilegom(a)kuleuven.be) together with their CV, letter of motivation, a list of passed courses and grades, copies of diplomas and coordinates of 2 referees as soon as possible and before May 15, 2020. ---------------------------------------------- Ingrid Van Keilegom ORSTAT, KU Leuven, HOG 05.112 Naamsestraat 69 3000 Leuven, Belgium +32 16 32 87 44 ingrid.vankeilegom(a)kuleuven.be<mailto:ingrid.vankeilegom@kuleuven.be> https://feb.kuleuven.be/ingrid.vankeilegom ----------------------------------------------

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New deadline for postdoc position (assegno di ricerca) at Luiss
by Fausto Gozzi 03 May '20

03 May '20

Dear colleagues, this is to inform you that the deadline of the postdoc call mentioned in the email below has been extended to June 16, 2020 at 2pm. All the best Fausto Gozzi >Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 08:19:13 +0200 >To: random(a)dm.unipi.it >From: Fausto Gozzi <faustogozziluiss(a)gmail.com> > > >Dear colleagues, > >this email is to inform about the following postdoc call at Luiss University >(THREE years) entitled > >"The Time-Space Evolution of Economic Activities: Mathematical >Models and Empirical Applications ' (scadenza 10/05/2020) > >https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/ricerca/assegni-di-ricerca/bandi-di-conco… > > > >https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/sites/economiaefinanza.luiss.it/files/Ban… > > >The postdoc is partly financed by a PRIN 2017 project. > >All the best > > >Fausto Gozzi > >-- > >Fausto Gozzi >Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza >LUISS - Guido Carli >Viale Romania, 32 >00197 Roma >Italy >tel 06.85225723 (office) >FAX 06.86506513 >e-mail: fgozzi(a)luiss.it >webpage: http://docenti.luiss.it/gozzi/ > >old address, sometimes still used: > >Fausto Gozzi >Dipartimento di Matematica >Universita' di Pisa >Largo Bruno Pontecorvo n.5 >56127 Pisa >Italy >tel 050/2213270 >e-mail: gozzi(a)dm.unipi.it >_______________________________________________ >Random mailing list > >Per informazioni e per disiscriversi: >https://fields.dm.unipi.it/listinfo/random >Per contattare gli amministratori: random-admin(a)fields.dm.unipi.it >Per inviare un messaggio alla mailing list: Random(a)fields.dm.unipi.it >Archivio dei messaggi inviati: https://fields.dm.unipi.it/pipermail/random Fausto Gozzi Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza LUISS - Guido Carli Viale Romania, 32 00197 Roma Italy tel 06.85225723 (office) FAX 06.86506513 e-mail: fgozzi(a)luiss.it webpage: http://docenti.luiss.it/gozzi/ old address, sometimes still used: Fausto Gozzi Dipartimento di Matematica Universita' di Pisa Largo Bruno Pontecorvo n.5 56127 Pisa Italy tel 050/2213270 e-mail: gozzi(a)dm.unipi.it

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Post-Doc Position in Freiburg: Linking Finance and Insurance
by Claudio Fontana 01 May '20

01 May '20

Un'interessante possibilità di post-doc all’Università di Friburgo (v. sotto). Buon primo maggio a tutti! Claudio Fontana > Applications are invited for a postdoc position at the Department of Mathematical Stochastics, University of Freiburg. > > The successful candidate will hold a Ph.D. and has an excellent profile in mathematical finance, insurance mathematics, stochastic processes or a related field. The position is funded by a DFG research grant and will study fundamental valuation questions in the area of insurance contracts linked to financial market. The excellent research environment in Freiburg offers optimal scientific conditions for deep and highest-level research. > > The contract is for an initial time of two years, an extension is possible. Review of applications begins immediately. The starting point is quite flexible, but we hope to start the work on this exciting project in summer. > For inquiries please contact Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schmidt (thorsten.schmidt at stochastik.uni-freiburg,de) Please send your application in PDF format (cover letter, CV, research statement) per email to Monika Hattenbach (htb at stochastik.uni-freiburg.de <http://stochastik.uni-freiburg.de/>) with reference „Post Doc Position“. > Additionally, we ask for two letters of reference which should be sent directly to the same address.

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Two years postdoc grant at Luiss
by Sara 30 Apr '20

30 Apr '20

Dear colleagues, please circulate the following information about the postdoc grant. With my best wishes, Sara ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is the link to the call: https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/ricerca/assegni-di-ricerca/bandi-di-conco rso-2020 and the description: RESEARCH PROJECTS Name of the research project Energy and capacity Head(s) Prof.ssa Sara BIAGINI Summary description of the project The goal of this two years project is the study of the newborn capacity markets. Hereby we propose an innovative approach to the problems, in a dynamic setup and with interplay among the economics agents, namely producers and retailers. Both types of agents face an utility maximization problem, to be solved via a blend of dynamic programming and duality techniques. The study of optimal strategies will reveal information on the structure of the relation between the capacity price and the energy price. The existence of Nash equilibria will lead to an equilibrium solution for the capacity price, and also will lead to the confirmation or modification of the actual incentives/penalties system. Thus, we expect both theoretical results on the resolutions of the problems, and relevant applied results, given the nature of the project itself. Countries in which the research can be conducted (apart from Italy) All Countries of residence of the candidates All Nationality of candidates All -- Sara Biagini, Professor of Mathematical Finance Department of Economics and Finance LUISS Guido Carli Address: viale Romania, 32 - 00197 Roma Web: http://sites.google.com/site/sarabiagini/ -- Sara Biagini, Professor of Mathematical Finance Department of Economics and Finance LUISS Guido Carli Address: viale Romania, 32 - 00197 Roma Web: http://sites.google.com/site/sarabiagini/

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I: Seminario prof. Claudia Ceci
by Fabio Antonelli 27 Apr '20

27 Apr '20

________________________________ Chiunque volesse partecipare da esterno all'Università di L'Aquila è pregato di inviare una email a fabio.antonelli(a)univaq.it entro lunedì 27 aprile alle 11:30 per essere invitato come ospite nel Team Lunedì 27 aprile alle ore 14:30 sul Team Pubblico Seminari Aleatori https://teams.microsoft.com/_#/school/conversations/Generale?threadId=19:52… la prof. Claudia Ceci dell'Università di Chieti-Pescara terrà il seminario dal titolo A BSDE-BASED APPROACH FOR THE OPTIMAL REINSURANCE PROBLEM UNDER PARTIAL INFORMATION Abstract. We investigate the optimal reinsurance problem under the criterion of maximizing the expected utility of terminal wealth when the insurance company has restricted information on the loss process. We propose a risk model with claim arrival intensity and claim sizes distribution affected by an unobservable environmental stochastic factor. By filtering techniques, we reduce the original problem to an equivalent stochastic control problem under full information. Since the classical Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman approach does not apply, due to the infinite dimensionality of the filter, we choose an alternative approach based on Backward Stochastic Differential Equations (BSDEs). Precisely, we characterize the value process and the optimal reinsurance strategy in terms of the unique solution to a BSDE driven by a marked point process. The talk is based on the paper: Brachetta M., Ceci C. (2019). A BSDE-based approach for the optimal reinsurance problem under partial information, tutti gli interessati sono benvenuti a collegarsi Fabio Antonelli ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- ------------------ Comunicazioni DISIM Universita' degli Studi dell'Aquila Dipartimento di Ingegneria Scienze dell'Informazione e Matematica L'Aquila

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proposta gruppi UMI su Intelligenza Artificiale e Machine Learning
by Ernesto De Vito 24 Apr '20

24 Apr '20

Carissimi, vi scrivo per segnalarvi che verra' presentata una proposta per la formazione di un gruppo UMI su tematiche matematiche legate all'Intelligenza Artificiale e al Machine Learning, di cui sarò il rappresentante. Si tratta di un'iniziativa interdisciplinare che coinvolge ricercatori di diverse aree matematiche. In fondo al messaggio trovate un documento che descrive brevemente le finalita' del gruppo, gli aspetti scientifici ed organizzativi. L'iniziativa si affianca a quella proposta dal Prof. Antonio Di Crescenzo, di cui siete stati informati qualche giorno fa su questa lista di distribuzione, e che trova tutto il mio sostegno. A mio parere, per le loro caratteristiche le due proposte non sono in contrapposizione, mi auguro sinceramente che entrambe abbiano successo e vi sia la possibilita' di instaurare una proficua collaborazione, poiché la probabilita' e la statistica sono sicuramente il fondamento matematico del Machine Learning. Se qualcuno di voi fosse interessato a partecipare al nostro progetto UMI, il cui termine di presentazione scade il 30 aprile ore 24, deve a) risultare iscritto all'UMI per il 2020 ed in regola con il pagamento della quota sociale come socio ordinario (e' possibile iscriversi ancora per qualche giorno); b) inviare un messaggio di posta elettronica a ernesto.devito(a)unige.it entro lunedì 27 aprile ore 24. Vi chiederei gentilmente di diffondere l'iniziativa a tutti coloro che sono potenzialmente interessati a partecipare al progetto. Resto a vostra disposizione per ogni chiarimento e suggerimento. Mi scuso per il poco anticipo con cui vi informo dell'iniziativa, ma ho aspettato di avere pronta una bozza di documento più stabile. Un caro saluto, Ernesto De Vito ---------------- Dipartimento di Matematica Universita' di Genova http://www.dima.unige.it/~devito/ ernesto.devito(a)unige.it %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Proposta per la costituzione di un gruppo UMI “Matematica per l’Intelligenza Artificiale ed il Machine Learning” Uno dei più vecchi sogni del nostro sapere e' quello di capire il funzionamento dell'intelligenza degli esseri umani e la possibilita' di emularne i processi cognitivi da parte di sistemi automatici. L’intelligenza artificiale rappresenta quindi una delle più grandi sfide della scienza moderna coinvolgendo un ampio spettro di discipline e il suo realizzarsi probabilmente portera' ad una nuova rivoluzione “industriale”, di cui si possono gia' constatare i primi effetti. Ad esempio, negli ultimi anni sono stati sviluppati sistemi di Intelligenza Artificiale in grado di risolvere compiti complessi considerati fuori portata per decenni, quali riconoscimento di immagini o del linguaggio e apprendimento di strategie complesse. Al centro di questi successi c’e' il Machine Learning, i cui algoritmi sono addestrati ad apprendere dai dati piuttosto che essere esplicitamente programmati dall’uomo per risolvere un compito specifico. Per sua natura l’Intelligenza Artificiale e' un campo di ricerca multidisciplinare che vede la matematica fortemente coinvolta in tutti i suoi tradizionali settori (logica, algebra, geometria, analisi matematica, probabilita', fisica matematica, analisi numerica e ricerca operativa). La matematica affronta la varieta' dei problemi che si presentano in Intelligenza Artificiale con modelli, metodi e applicazioni, rispondendo quindi ad esigenze di tipo teorico, numerico ed implementativo. In questo contesto, in Italia molti ricercatori hanno indirizzato i loro interessi verso l’Intelligenza Artificiale ed il Machine Learning, ottenendo anche importanti risultati riconosciuti a livello internazionale. Tuttavia manca un quadro di riferimento nazionale per la matematica, che raccolga e sia un incubatore di iniziative e diventi punto di riferimento per le tematiche dell’Intelligenza Artificiale all’interno della nostra comunita' Lo scopo principale della creazione del gruppo UMI di “Matematica per l’Intelligenza Artificiale ed il Machine Learning” e' quello di colmare tale lacuna agendo lungo tre direzioni: ricerca, insegnamento e divulgazione. Innanzitutto il gruppo si prefigge di mettere in contatto i ricercatori che si occupano di queste tematiche al fine di mettere a sistema le risorse favorendo le collaborazioni e la diffusione dei risultati. Oltre a sostenere le interazioni tra le varie discipline e a rafforzare i contatti con i più affermati centri di ricerca internazionali, il gruppo potra' anche avvalersi delle sinergie gia' presenti per rendere accessibili le problematiche attuali e gli argomenti di ricerca alla comunita' matematica italiana. Accrescere la visibilita' delle attivita' di ricerca matematica in questo ambito sara' anche prezioso per attrarre l’interesse e promuovere collaborazioni con altri scienziati in campi sia teorici che applicativi nonché con potenziali utilizzatori dei metodi e delle tecniche di Intelligenza Artificiale. In secondo luogo il gruppo intende promuovere discussioni sul ruolo di questa nuova disciplina in relazione alla formazione, sia a livello di laurea che post-laurea, con l’obiettivo di formare matematici ben preparati che lavorino attivamente su queste tematiche portando risultati originali a più ambiti matematici. Questa esigenza e' particolarmente sentita sia nella ricerca che nelle applicazioni, dove i problemi matematici posti sono di una complessita' tale da richiedere figure ad hoc. Infine il gruppo intende favorire la disseminazione delle tematiche dell’Intelligenza Artificiale e del ruolo della matematica al loro interno presso le scuole e, più in generale, la societa' civile, anche tenuto conto delle delicate implicazioni di carattere etico, legale e filosofico che sono connesse con le moderne applicazioni dell’Intelligenza Artificiale alla vita di tutti i giorni. In conclusione il gruppo ha tra i suoi principi fondanti l’armonizzazione di ricerca, didattica e divulgazione intorno a questa disciplina emergente. Uno strumento per perseguirla e' quello di mantenere contatti stretti con altre macroaree che se ne occupano, in particolare l’informatica e la fisica, sia all’interno che oltre l’ambiente accademico. Questo perché si ritiene fondamentale l’interazione interdisciplinare sia per i contributi teorici sia per quelli implementativi ed applicativi, che richiedono un dialogo aperto con gli esperti dei settori. Aspetti organizzativi e sociali L’attivita' del gruppo si concentrera' principalmente sui seguenti aspetti: a) Organizzazione dell’assemblea annuale del gruppo b) Organizzazione di seminari periodici, anche in modalita' telematica: seminari di ricerca, di formazione e di divulgazione. c) Contribuire all’organizzazione di scuole (dottorato/post-doc) e convegni. d) Organizzazione del sito web e) Newsletter (eventualmente integrata nel Notiziario UMI). f) Indagine conoscitiva allo scopo di individuare i ricercatori italiani attivi nel settore AI e ML. g) Contributo al dibattito etico e sociale dell'intelligenza artificiale.

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ECMI webinar announcement: Mathematics of the COVID-19 crisis
by Alessandra Micheletti 24 Apr '20

24 Apr '20

ECMI Webinar announcement: Mathematics of the COVID-19 crisis – In the eye of the storm The COVID-19 pandemic is currently generating considerable activity among applied and industrial mathematicians across Europe. The mathematics of modelling, simulation, and optimisation in all its various forms has experienced an unusual level of attention from authorities and from the media. In recent weeks, separate teams of researchers in countries across Europe (and elsewhere) have been busy with the urgent task of providing a rigorous basis for difficult political decisions. To aid exchange of ideas and preliminary results, to stimulate discussion, and to foster international collaboration, the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry (ECMI) is organising a web seminar to be held on April 29, 2020 at 2:00-4:30 pm CET (=GMT+1) The webinar will bring together experts from different countries, who will outline their approaches in short presentations. The webinar is primarily an exchange between applied mathematicians, but it is public, and will be viewable on YouTube. To attend the seminar on YouTube in real time, please connect to this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC91b85JbKwOmWuGHP1mkUgg and select the live streaming window, under the “VIDEO” tab. Each talk will be 15-20 minutes long and will be followed by a session of questions. The attendees may use the YouTube live chat to address questions to the speakers. Information about speakers, times, and abstracts are at the URL: https://sites.google.com/view/math4covid/ -- ------------------------------------ Alessandra Micheletti Associate Professor - Probability and Mathematical Statistics Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy - ESP Università degli Studi di Milano via Saldini 50, 20133 Milano, Italy phone: +39-02503-16130 fax: +39-02503-16090 http://users.mat.unimi.it/users/michel <http://www.mat.unimi.it/users/michel>

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Borse dottorato congiunto PoliTO - UniTo - Indam
by Enrico Bibbona 24 Apr '20

24 Apr '20

A parziale correzione degli annunci precedenti, vi prego di pubblicizzare le seguenti informazioni. Il Politecnico di Torino, congiuntamente con L'Università di Torino e l'Indam offre - 8 posizioni di dottorato con borse a tematica libera - 6 posizioni di dottorato con borse a tematica vincolata La domanda deve pervenire entro il *14 Maggio*. Applicazioni di studenti interessati alla *probabilità *e alla* statistica* sono naturalmente benvenute, e sono particolarmente coerenti col tema T4 del progetto scientifico del DISMA - Dipartimento di eccellenza T4. Approximation and statistical interface in random reaction (and interaction) networks <https://areeweb.polito.it/disma-excellence/scientificProject.html#tema-quat…> Cordiali saluti, Enrico 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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Bando dottorato congiunto Politecnico di Torino, Università di Torino e Indam
by Enrico Bibbona 23 Apr '20

23 Apr '20

Cari colleghi, vi chiedo di far circolare la notizia che il Politecnico di Torino, congiuntamente con L'Università di Torino e l'Indam offre 8 posizioni di dottorato. La domanda deve pervenire entro il 30 Aprile. Applicazioni di studenti interessati alla probabilità e alla statistica sono naturalmente benvenute. Cordiali saluti, Enrico 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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Borse di dottorato in area Statistica / Data Science presso il Politecnico di Milano
by Laura Maria Sangalli 22 Apr '20

22 Apr '20

Prego di dare la massima diffusione presso i potenziali interessati ITA E' uscito il bando di ammissione al 36esimo ciclo di dottorato presso il Politecnico di Milano, con scadenza il ** 29 Maggio, ore 14 ** http://www.dottorato.polimi.it/fileadmin/files/dottorato/concorso_linkweb/B… Sono disponibili varie borse in area Statistica / Data Science. Nell'ambito del dottorato in Metodi e Modelli Matematici per l'Ingegneria sono disponibili 8 borse libere, per le quali i candidati possono proporre progetti in area Statistica / Data Science Contatti: alessandra.guglielmi(a)polimi.it, anna.paganoni(a)polimi.it, laura.sangalli(a)polimi.it Nell'ambito del dottorato in Data Analytics and Decision Sciences sono disponibili le borse - "Patient representation methods for risk stratification in oncology" Contatto: francesca.ieva(a)polimi.it - "Impact Analysis in Real World Clinical Oncology" Contatto: anna.paganoni(a)polimi.it - "Learning analytics to support policies and managerial decision making in educational institutions" Contatto: anna.paganoni(a)polimi.it - “Cyber-Capital and impact on the urban rent” Contatti: valeria.fedeli(a)polimi.it, simone.vantini(a)polimi.it - "Neurosciences and genomics: advanced data analytic methods" Contatto: laura.sangalli(a)polimi.it ENGLISH: Several fellowships are available for a PhD in the area of Statistics / Data Science at Politecnico di Milano, Italy: Call: http://www.dottorato.polimi.it/en/ Deadline for applications: 29 May 2020 at 14:00, Italian time Within the PhD program in Mathematical Models and Methods in Engineering 8 fellowships are available in the generic field of Mathematics and Statistics, that can be targeted to Statistics / Data Science Contacts: alessandra.guglielmi(a)polimi.it, anna.paganoni(a)polimi.it, laura.sangalli(a)polimi.it Within the PhD program in Data Analytics and Decision Sciences fellowships on the following topics are available: - "Patient representation methods for risk stratification in oncology" Contact: francesca.ieva(a)polimi.it - "Impact Analysis in Real World Clinical Oncology" Contact: anna.paganoni(a)polimi.it - "Learning analytics to support policies and managerial decision making in educational institutions" Contact: anna.paganoni(a)polimi.it - “Cyber-Capital and impact on the urban rent” Contacts: valeria.fedeli(a)polimi.it, simone.vantini(a)polimi.it - "Neurosciences and genomics: advanced data analytic methods" Contact: laura.sangalli(a)polimi.it —— Laura Maria Sangalli MOX - Dipartimento di Matematica Politecnico di Milano Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 20133 Milano - Italy tel: +39 02 2399 4554 fax: +39 02 2399 4568 email: laura.sangalli(a)polimi.it url: http://mox.polimi.it/~sangalli

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Corso JACOB
by Matteo Ruggiero 21 Apr '20

21 Apr '20

Cari colleghi, nell’ambito del programma di Visiting Professors per la Laurea Magistrale in Stochastics and Data Science dell’Università di Torino, siamo riusciti a confermare almeno parte delle attività previste per il secondo semestre in modalità telematica. Con grande piacere dunque annunciamo che a breve si terrà il seguente corso: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierre JACOB (Harvard University) PROBABILITY COUPLINGS AND MONTE CARLO The course is about the method of coupling in probability and its use in Monte Carlo methods, which refer to algorithms generating samples from probability distributions of interest. The course includes an introduction to Monte Carlo methods (rejection sampling, importance sampling, MCMC), followed by an introduction to the coupling method. This includes the celebrated "coupling inequality" and various coupling interpretations of notions of distances between probability distributions, such as total variation and Wasserstein. The course then focuses on Markov chain methods and describes how couplings of Markov chains can be employed to quantify their convergence. The last part of the course covers various Monte Carlo methods that rely on explicit coupling constructions in their implementations, such as Coupling From The Past (Propp & Wilson 1996), debiasing techniques (Glynn & Rhee 2014) and some convergence diagnostics for MCMC (Johnson 1996). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Il corso è rivolto agli studenti del primo anno della Laurea Magistrale, e consisterà in materiale misto live e registrato, reso disponibile a partire dal 28 aprile nell’arco di 3/4 settimane. Eventuali interessati possono fare richiesta di partecipazione allo scrivente. Outline del corso e una versione preliminare delle lecture notes sono disponibili alla pagina https://sites.google.com/site/pierrejacob/cmclectures Il programma completo di Visiting Professors può essere consultato alla pagina http://www.master-sds.unito.it/do/home.pl/View?round=1&doc=visitingprofesso… Cordiali saluti, Matteo Ruggiero --- Matteo Ruggiero University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto www.matteoruggiero.it

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proposta di Gruppo UMI
by Antonio DI CRESCENZO 19 Apr '20

19 Apr '20

Gent.mi, nel recente passato, nei convegni "Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics", tenuti a Torino (2017) e Vietri sul Mare (2019), è emersa un'esigenza sentita e condivisa da molti di creare un organismo che possa raccogliere anche in modo istituzionalizzato le energie della comunità con interessi in ambito probabilistico e statistico. Un'ottima opportunità per realizzare tale progetto è emersa di recente, in quanto l'Unione Matematica Italiana ha aperto un bando per la creazione dei *Gruppi UMI* (cf. https://umi.dm.unibo.it/gruppi-umi/). A tale scopo, seguendo le linee del bando, è stata predisposta una proposta di istituzione di un Gruppo UMI, con l'intento di promuovere in modo coordinato attività di ricerca, didattiche e di terza missione inerenti discipline legate a temi stocastici. La proposta è stata formulata con l'aiuto di membri del Comitato Scientifico della prossima edizione del convegno, che si terrà a Bologna nel 2021 (cf. https://site.unibo.it/probstat/en) ad anche con l'apporto di diverse persone interessate. Una sintesi dei punti presenti nella richiesta è riportata in fondo alla mail. Per ricevere informazioni più dettagliate potete inviare una email a prisma.umi(a)gmail.com La proposta deve pervenire all'UMI entro il *30 aprile*, corredata dall'elenco di almeno *15 proponenti* (*iscritti all'UMI*). Per dare maggiore peso alla richiesta è opportuno avere un elevato numero di proponenti. Sperando che la proposta riscuota consenso, invito con piacere gli interessati a dare la disponibilità ad essere inseriti nell'elenco dei proponenti (scrivendo a: prisma.umi(a)gmail.com). Coloro che non sono soci possono comunque effettuare l'iscrizione all'UMI (cf. https://umi.dm.unibo.it/area-soci/associarsi/) per poter poi divenire proponenti del Gruppo. Vi ringrazio molto per l'attenzione, confidando della vostra collaborazione, e vi saluto con l'augurio che si possa superare al meglio l'emergenza epidemiologica in atto, Antonio Di Crescenzo =========================== DESCRIZIONE SINTETICA: Le attività del Gruppo avranno connotazione interdisciplinare coinvolgente varie aree della matematica anche in vista di ricadute in vari ambiti culturali e scientifici. Mantenendo l’attenzione agli sviluppi della probabilità e della statistica matematica lungo le molte direzioni che dominano la scena internazionale, esse promuoveremo anche l’interazione con settori attuali ed emergenti, con particolare riferimento allo sviluppo di metodi formali e strumenti probabilistici e statistici in diversi ambiti. Le attività si suddividono in - attività di ricerca (organizzazione di un convegno scientifico biennale e di mini-workshop su temi emergenti, coordinamento di seminari e corsi di dottorato, database aggiornato delle iniziative scientifiche, ...) - attività d’insegnamento (censimento di attività didattiche universitarie su temi stocastici, promozione di attività didattiche su temi stocastici a livello universitario e per la didattica della probabilità nella scuola, anche in collaborazione col Piano Nazionale Lauree Scientifiche per la Matematica, ...) - divulgazione dei risultati (attraverso convegni, canali istituzionali, ...) - interazione con vari settori della scienza e della società (incontri scientifici su temi stocastici della matematica industriale, incontri con attori dell’economia e delle istituzioni per public engagement, ...) -- ============================================= Antonio Di Crescenzo Dipartimento di Matematica Università degli Studi di Salerno Via Giovanni Paolo II, n. 132 <https://maps.google.com/?q=Via+Giovanni+Paolo+II,+n.+132+%0D%0A84084+Fiscia…> 84084 Fisciano (SA) Italy Tel. +39-089-963349 Fax: +39-089-963303 E-mail(1): adicrescenzo(a)unisa.it E-mail(2): adicresc(a)gmail.com Web: http://www.unisa.it/docenti/antoniodicrescenzo/index Skype: antoniodicrescenzo =============================================

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International Conference in Venice - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Monica Billio 17 Apr '20

17 Apr '20

CREDIT2020 <http://www.greta.it/credit/credit2020/credit2020.htm> *GRETA Associati* (Venice, Italy), *Cattolica Assicurazioni *(Verona, Italy), *CRIF* (Bologna, Italy), *European Investment* *Fund *(Luxembourg), *European Investment Bank* (Luxembourg) and*Intesa Sanpaolo *(Milan, Italy) are co-sponsors of a Conference to be held in Venice on September 24-25, 2020. The objective of the Conference is to bring together academics, practitioners and PhD students working in the area of risk management. The conference will provide an opportunity for participants engaged in research at the forefront of this area to discuss both the causes and implications of recent financial and climate-related events and may, in turn, suggest fruitful and policy-relevant directions for future research. The Conference, organised under the auspices of the *Department of Economics of the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice*, *ABI - Italian Banking Association*, *AIAF - Associazione Italiana per l'Analisi Finanziaria* and the *Joint Research Center*, *European Commission* (Ispra, Italy), is the *nineteenth *of a series dedicated to various aspects of credit risk. /The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the adoption of European Commission’s Action Plan on Sustainable Finance mark important international commitments to the objective of a more sustainable economy and society. However, their successful implementation is tightly related to the scaling up of low-carbon investments and divestment from carbon-intensive investments. This, in turn, requires an assessment of the credit risks stemming from investors’ exposure to economic activities and assets that could be stranded by climate change. For instance, regulators’ discussion about the revision of capital requirements aimed to foster green investments (i.e. a green-supporting or a brown-penalising factor) is hampered by the unclear understanding of the implications of a regulatory change on individual institutions and systemic financial risk. Thus, financing the low-carbon transition is primarily a discussion about credit risk./ /The financial sector, and in particular the banking and insurance industries need to develop new portfolios’ risk management strategies and to adjust their credit allocation practices to cope with the opportunities and challenges of the low-carbon transition in the economy and finance. All these changes call for a substantial amount of research to improve the knowledge of the mechanisms at play and to design tailored and effective policy tools./// // // // The organizers encourage submissions of papers on any topic within the overall theme of the conference and in the following areas in particular: * INVESTMENTS: Green Finance, Investments Principles, Real Estate Sustainability, Finance for Good; * POLICIES: Climate Policies, Climate Financial Risk; European Green New Deal, Social Sustainability * INFORMATION: Non Financial Disclosure, Climate risk disclosure, ESG Ratings, ESG Taxonomies The final program will include both submitted and invited papers. Acceptances received so far from invited speakers include *Marina Brogi* (Sapienza University of Rome) and *Andrew W. Lo *(MIT Sloan School of Management). The Conference will also feature panel discussions on researchers', practitioners' and policy makers’ views of the major issues at stake for embedding climate into credit risk. The Scientific Committee consists of: *Monica Billio *(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & GRETA, Programme Chair)* Marina Brogi *(Sapienza University of Rome)* Francesca Campolongo* (Joint Research Center, European Commission)* Helmut Kraemer-Eis* (European Investment Fund)* Rainer Haselmann* (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)* * Sponsors** *GRETA* <http://www.greta.it/> Cattolica Assicurazioni <https://www.cattolica.it/home-corporate/> CRIF <https://www.crif.it/> European Investment Fund <https://www.eif.org/> European Investment Bank <https://www.eib.org/en/> *IntesaSanpaolo* <http://www.group.intesasanpaolo.com/scriptIsir0/si09/eng_index.jsp> Auspices** ** <http://www.abi.it/Pagine/default.aspx> *Ca' Foscari - Economics Department* <http://www.unive.it/pag/16892> *ABI* <http://www.abi.it/Pagine/default.aspx> ** <http://www.abi.it/Pagine/default.aspx> AIAF <https://www.aiaf.it/> *JCR - European Commission <https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en> * ** *CALL FOR PAPERS* **COVID-19 update: As of the time of this writing (Mid April 2020), the CREDIT 2020 Conference is still planned for September 24-25, 2020 in Venice, Italy. With the event still five months away, it is difficult to anticipate what meeting and travel restrictions will exist in the fall. However, as the global fight against COVID-19 continues, we are exploring and planning alternatives to an in-person event but we hope to continue in Venice as planned. Thus, the paper submission and selection process will run just as expected and we warmly invite you all again to submit your papers to CREDIT 2020.** Those wishing to present a paper at the Conference should submit by *May 31, 2020* 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, 2020*. The final version of accepted papers must be received by August 31, 2020. 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> *IMPORTANT DATES* *May 31, 2020*: Papers submission deadline *June 30, 2020*: Paper acceptance notification *August 31, 2020*: Deadline for sending final version of accepted papers More detailed information on the Conference website: http://www.greta.it/credit/credit2020/credit2020.htm *** Please accept our apologies for any crossed e-mails. ** Probably you are in our mailing list from very long time because you collaborated with us or with our associates, you asked to be informed about our activities, you attended our conferences or you submitted papers to our call for papers. If you would like to continue enjoying the benefits of keeping up to date with our future events, invitations, and developments, you do not need to do anything. 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bando assegno di ricerca - Luiss, scadenza 10 Maggio 2020
by Fausto Gozzi 17 Apr '20

17 Apr '20

Cari colleghi, segnalo l'assegno di ricerca, SSD SECS-S/06 (Metodi matematici dell'economia e delle scienze attuariali e finanziarie ), della durata di TRE anni, dal titolo: "The Time-Space Evolution of Economic Activities: Mathematical Models and Empirical Applications ' (scadenza 10/05/2020) https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/ricerca/assegni-di-ricerca/bandi-di-conco… https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/sites/economiaefinanza.luiss.it/files/Ban… L'assegno è bandito all'interno di un progetto di cofinanziato PRIN 2017 presso la Luiss - Guido Carli. Grazie per l'attenzione. Fausto Gozzi -- Fausto Gozzi Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza LUISS - Guido Carli Viale Romania, 32 00197 Roma Italy tel 06.85225723 (office) FAX 06.86506513 e-mail: fgozzi(a)luiss.it webpage: http://docenti.luiss.it/gozzi/ old address, sometimes still used: Fausto Gozzi Dipartimento di Matematica Universita' di Pisa Largo Bruno Pontecorvo n.5 56127 Pisa Italy tel 050/2213270 e-mail: gozzi(a)dm.unipi.it

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Junior Professorship (W1) in Mathematical Economics at Bielefeld University
by Giorgio Ferrari 16 Apr '20

16 Apr '20

Dear All, please find below the annoucement of a *Junior Professorship (W1) in Mathematical Economics *at Bielefeld University. Deadline for applications is May 15. All the best wishes, Giorgio Ferrari %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% The *Center for Mathematical Economics *(Institut für Mathematische Wirtschaftsforschung, IMW) and the *Faculty of Business Administration and Economics* at Bielefeld University are seeking to fill the following position as soon as possible: *Junior Professorship (W1) in Mathematical Economics* We are looking for outstanding, internationally visible candidates in research and teaching who are qualified by excellent publications in one of the research areas of the Center for Mathematical Economics. Interdisciplinary research and teaching across faculties traditionally plays an important role at the Center for Mathematical Economics. We expect participation in the existing and planned joint third-party funded projects of the Center, the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, and other faculties, especially in the interdisciplinary context. The connection to the Collaborative Research Center 1283 `` Taming Uncertainty and Profiting from Randomness ... ’’ plays an important role for this professorship. We are looking for young researchers who can make a significant contribution to the economic sub-projects of the Collaborative Research Center; potential topics include dynamic game theory (differential games, mean-field games) as well as the analysis of financial markets (equilibrium models in continuous time), industrial dynamics (dynamic I.O.) or complex decisions under uncertainty (e.g. recursive dynamic utility). Teaching is to be provided in the research-oriented Master and Bachelor programs of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, especially in Mathematical Economics. The prerequisites for the position are a university degree, pedagogical aptitude and the special ability for scientific work, which is usually demonstrated by the outstanding quality of a doctorate. The position is initially for three years, and can be extended to six years after a positive evaluation. Applications from suitably qualified handicapped and severely handicapped persons are explicitly encouraged. Bielefeld University has received a number of awards for its achievements in the provision of equal opportunity and has been recognized as a family-friendly university. The university welcomes applications from women. Applications are handled according to the state's equal opportunity statutes. Applications with the usual documents (curriculum vitae, copies of certificates, list of publications with identification of up to 10 most important publications, a 2-page research and teaching concept) should preferably be submitted till *May 15, 2020* to: Bielefeld University Center for Mathematical Economics (IMW) Frau Buiwitt-Robson Postfach 10 01 31 33501 Bielefeld or by e-mail as a single PDF file to: IMW(a)uni-bielefeld.de Please refrain from submitting application folders and submit photocopies only, as the application documents will be destroyed at the end of the selection procedure. Please note that risks to confidentiality and unauthorized access by third parties cannot be ruled out when communicating via unencrypted e-mail. Information on the processing of personal data can be found at: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/Universitaet/Aktuelles/Stellenausschreibungen/… -- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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3-years post-doc position in Munich
by Faggionato, Alessandra 16 Apr '20

16 Apr '20

Buongiorno, vi inoltro l'annuncio per una posizione post-doc di 3 anni a Monaco. La scadenza e' prossima ma Markus Heydenreich mi ha scritto che anche le applications inviate la prossima settimana saranno prese in considerazione. Saluti Alessandra Faggionato ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ VACANCY FOR A POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER IN PROBABILITY THEORY AT LMU MUNICH Subject to final confirmation from DFG, we have a vacancy for a scientific employee (fixed term) at the Mathematics Department at the University of Munich to join our research group in Probability Theory. The project is part of the newly established Priority Programme “Random Geometric Systems” (SPP 2265) funded by DFG. We are looking for a talented and motivated postdoctoral researcher to carry out a research project on the weight-dependent random connection model. The project is on the intersection of complex networks and (continuum) percolation theory in high dimensions. Prior research experience in percolation theory, spatial random networks, or random walks with dependencies (e.g. Mott's variable-range hopping) is appreciated. The position is fixed term for 36 months. Intended starting date is autumn 2020. The LMU Munich is one of the largest and most renowned universities in Germany. The Mathematics Department is located in the city center of Munich. Interested candidates are invited to submit applications (in German or English) containing full curriculum vitae, copies of relevant certificates, as well as name and contact details of three academic referees preferably by email to <m.heydenreich(a)lmu.de>. Applications received until April 17, 2020 will be fully considered; the hiring procedure continues until the position is filled. The university is an equal opportunity employer. Handicapped applicants will be given preference in the case of approximately equal qualifications. The university of Munich is interested in increasing the number of female faculty members and encourages women to apply. Please contact me directly for further questions about the project or the position. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Markus Heydenreich Mathematisches Institut Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität München http://www.math.lmu.de/~heyden/ -- ************************************************* 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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colloquium of A. Montanari - correction
by Marco Romito 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

dear all I am writing to update the broadcasting information about Andrea's talk on next Wednesday. In order to attend the online seminar, you can connect to https://meet.google.com/iwa-aetx-bky (needs authorization if you do not have a UniPi account and it is limited to 250 participants). The seminar will be also streamed live on the official YouTube channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfMLkaFzJYx6JoMxtGvvqJw> of the Department, at the URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfMLkaFzJYx6JoMxtGvvqJw * MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN MODERN MACHINE LEARNING* /Andrea Montanari (Stanford University)/ April 15, 2020, 4pm (CEST) _Abstract_: The last fifteen years have witnessed dramatic advances in machine learning. This progress was mainly driven by engineering advances: greater computing power, and larger availability of training data. Not only the collection of methods that emerged from this revolution are not well understood mathematically, but they actually appear to defy traditional mathematical theories of machine learning. I will argue that future developments and applications will require to understand better the underlying mathematical principles. I will describe two recent examples of mathematical progress in this area that are connected to areas of modern mathematics: 1. Gradient flows in Wasserstein spaces; 2. Random matrix theory. [Based on joint work with: Song Mei, Phan-Minh Nguyen, Behrooz Ghorbani, Theodor Misiakiewicz]

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Call for papers: special issue of the J. Math. Ind. on COVID19
by Alessandra Micheletti 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

Sorry for multiple posting. I would like to announce that the Journal of Mathematics in Industry <https://mathematicsinindustry.springeropen.com/>, with the support of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry – ECMI <https://ecmiindmath.org/> , has decided to publish a special issue entitled: *Mathematical models of the spread and consequences of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemics. Effects on health, society, industry, economics and technology*. This is a call for papers. The *Journal of Mathematics in Industry* is a high-quality *open-access* journal that brings together research on developments in mathematics for industrial applications, where industry is understood as *any activity of economic and/or social value. * In the disruptive period we are living in, in the middle of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemics, scientists, and in particular mathematicians and statisticians, are investing an unprecedented effort to forecast the course of the pandemic and to suggest measures to mitigate its unfortunate effects. We are conscious that this pandemic will very likely deeply affect our societies, production, health management, and many other aspects of human life. That is why there is an urgency to provide scientifically reliable studies of the many aspects of the problem to policy makers. This special issue will be devoted to articles that propose data-driven mathematical and statistical models of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and/or of its foreseeable consequences on public health, society, industry, economics and technology. The editors of this special issue and the scientists of the ECMI Consortium will guarantee a *fast and fair peer-to-peer review procedure*, in order to provide society with a timely and reliable injection of scientific insights. Given the importance of the subject, *the APCs of all the articles accepted for this special issue will be waived.* Interested authors, during the submission procedure, will be asked to note whether their paper is tied to a Thematic Series or not, under the Additional Information section. Please select the MATHCOVID19 option, and apply for the waive of the APCs. Corresponding authors coming from an ECMI center may enter the ECMI code for APCs waive procedure (please refer to your national representative in the ECMI council to have this code). *Guest editors:* · Alessandra Micheletti, Università degli Studi di Milano (Lead guest editor) · Adérito Araújo, University of Coimbra · Neil Budko, Delft University of Technology · Ana Carpio, Universidad Complutense de Madrid · Matthias Ehrhardt, Bergische Universität Wuppertal *Topics of interest:* Scenarios of containment and mitigation; Socio-economic costs of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic; Spatio-temporal spread of SARS-CoV-2; Estimating the unreported number of virus cases; Bats-Hosts-Reservoir-People (BHRP) virus transmission; *Methods of interest and keywords:* mathematical epidemiology, mathematical modelling, SIR-type models, delay differential equations, waning immunity models, quarantine models, θ-SEIHRD model, parameter estimation, numerical simulation, incidence forecast methods, econometric models, contagion models, Poisson autoregressive models, basic reproduction number, optimal control, dynamical system, time delay process, parameter identification, outbreak, prediction, isolation, transmission risk, data-driven time-dependent transmission rate, risk assessment of virus outbreaks, fitting dynamic models to epidemic outbreaks with quantified uncertainty, short-term forecasting epidemic waves, big data analysis and prediction, data mining, risk modelling and simulation, Epidemic prevention and control, outbreak emergency management, Impact of the epidemic on the economy, finance, society, companies -- ------------------------------------ Alessandra Micheletti Associate Professor - Probability and Mathematical Statistics Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy - ESP Università degli Studi di Milano via Saldini 50, 20133 Milano, Italy phone: +39-02503-16130 fax: +39-02503-16090 http://users.mat.unimi.it/users/michel <http://www.mat.unimi.it/users/michel>

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colloquium of A. Montanari
by Marco Romito 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

dear all I am writing to announce the following Colloquium at the Mathematics department, Pisa University. *MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN MODERN MACHINE LEARNING** */Andrea Montanari (Stanford University)/ April 15, 2020, 4pm Abstract: The last fifteen years have witnessed dramatic advances in machine learning. This progress was mainly driven by engineering advances: greater computing power, and larger availability of training data. Not only the collection of methods that emerged from this revolution are not well understood mathematically, but they actually appear to defy traditional mathematical theories of machine learning. I will argue that future developments and applications will require to understand better the underlying mathematical principles. I will describe two recent examples of mathematical progress in this area that are connected to areas of modern mathematics: 1. Gradient flows in Wasserstein spaces; 2. Random matrix theory. [Based on joint work with: Song Mei, Phan-Minh Nguyen, Behrooz Ghorbani, Theodor Misiakiewicz] In order to follow the exposition the audience can join the live streaming at the URL: https://stream.meet.google.com/stream/ea5a4a6c-6b34-428a-b45c-b0d625ee5610

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Bando PhD in Economics 2020-21 -Ca' Foscari University
by Antonella Basso 04 Apr '20

04 Apr '20

Dear Colleague, I would be grateful if you could bring to the attention of your best students the new edition 2020-2021 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 Padova, King’s College London, Boston University, Aberdeen Univeristy, University of Addis Abeba and Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. Some PhDs were employed by private companies such as Morgan Stanley-London, Microsoft and public and private research centers: Banca d’Italia, Bundesbank, Banque Centrale du Luxembourg, European Central Bank, Ecuador Ministry of Education. 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 2020-2021, 6 positions are available. Five of them come with a scholarship (around 15,300 € per year), one is reserved for non-Italian applicants who can prove to have their own scholarship covering four years. Deadline for application is *April 21st 2020*, 13h00 (Italian time). Information and application procedure can be found at http://www.unive.it/phdapplication Information on the PhD in Economics can be found at http://www.unive.it/phdeconomics 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 ********************************************************************************************** Caro Collega, Ti scrivo per segnalarti l’apertura del bando per il programma di dottorato in Economics offerto dal dipartimento di Economia dell’Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia. Quest’anno sono disponibili 5 posti con borsa quadriennale (circa 15.300€ annui per l’intera durata del dottorato), più un posto per studenti stranieri in possesso di borsa di studio propria. Il bando si chiude il *21 aprile 2020 alle 13.00,* ora italiana. Il dottorato ambisce a preparare un gruppo selezionato di studenti per la carriera accademica, ma anche per ricoprire posizioni in research departments di organizzazioni internazionali, istituzioni pubbliche, imprese private banche centrali e istituzioni finanziarie. I primi placement dei nostri più recenti dottori di ricerca includono contratti o assegni di ricerca presso atenei, italiani o stranieri, (Università Libera di Bolzano, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Luiss Guido Carli, Università Ca’ Foscari e Università degli studi di Padova). Alcuni dottori hanno invece intrapreso la carriera universitaria come ricercatori presso atenei stranieri: King’s College London, Boston University, Univeristy of Aberdeen, University of Addis Ababa, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law. Altri invece hanno trovato la loro prima occupazione presso enti o aziende privati (Euromonitor International a Vilnius, Morgan Stanley-London, Microsoft) e enti di ricerca pubblici o istituzioni pubbliche (Banca d'Italia, Bundesbank, Banque Centrale du Luxembourg, Banca Centrale Europea, Tertiary Education Commission e Ecuador Ministry of Education). Il programma di dottorato ha una durata quadriennale. Il primo anno i dottorandi seguono un intenso programma di corsi avanzati. Gli studenti ammessi al secondo anno si concentrano sul lavoro di tesi e partecipano attivamente alla vita del dipartimento. L'ampio spettro di interessi di ricerca e la reputazione internazionale della faculty di area economica e quantitativa di Ca’ Foscari, così come il ricco programma di seminari e workshop di livello internazionale organizzati in dipartimento permettono agli studenti di lavorare in un ambiente stimolante per tutta la durata del corso di dottorato. Gli studenti più meritevoli ricevono l’adeguato supporto, anche economico, per partecipare a conferenze e workshop internazionali e per poter competere sul job market internazionale. Puoi trovare maggiori dettagli riguardo il bando a questo link: http://www.unive.it/phdapplication Informazioni dettagliate sul PhD in Economics a Ca’ Foscari: http://www.unive.it/phdeconomics Qualsiasi richiesta di informazioni riguardo il programma può essere rivolta alla Segreteria del dottorato all'indirizzo: sse(a)unive.it <mailto:sse@unive.it> Cordiali saluti Antonella Basso -- Antonella Basso Prorettore alla Programmazione e Valutazione - Prorector at Planning and Valuation Dipartimento di Economia Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Fondamenta S. Giobbe - Cannaregio 873 30121 Venezia - Italy Tel. +39-041-2346914 E-mail address:basso@unive.it Web page:http://www.unive.it/data/persone/5591751

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Fwd: Call for abstracts OICA online conference, deadline April 13th, 2020
by Elena Vigna 03 Apr '20

03 Apr '20

-------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Oggetto: Call for abstracts OICA online conference, deadline April 13th, 2020 Data: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 22:11:30 +0000 Mittente: LOISEL STEPHANE <stephane.loisel(a)univ-lyon1.fr> A: LOISEL STEPHANE <stephane.loisel(a)univ-lyon1.fr> Dear RIANA colleagues and friends, Can you please forward this announcement to your network and encourage your colleagues and PhD students to submit abstracts and/or attend ? Thanks, Best, Stephane Dear Colleagues and Friends, We organise at the end of the month (April 28-29, 2020) an _online_ conference in actuarial science, data science and finance. Abstract submission deadline : April 13th, 2020. Scientific committee : Hansjoerg Albrecher (Lausanne), Katrien Antonio (Leuven), Benjamin Avanzi (Melbourne), Pauline Barrieu (LSE), Mercè Claramunt (Barcelona), Nicole El Karoui (Paris), Romuald Elie (Berkeley), Stéphane Loisel (ISFA, chair), Mogens Steffensen (Copenhagen), Ruodu Wang (Waterloo), Hailiang Yang (Hong-Kong U.) We hope that’ll be able to submit an abstract : http://oica.univ-lyon1.fr <http://oica.univ-lyon1.fr> Details about the purpose of the conference are below. Parallel session talks are 15mins long. Take care and stay safe, Stéphane Loisel PS Registration is free but compulsory. ** *About OICA Conference* /(Online International Conference in Actuarial science, data science and finance)/ Covid19 is going to change the financial markets and the insurance-reinsurance network. As actuarial science, data science and finance researchers, we cannot easily help for the current phase as we are not medical doctors or epidemiologists. But we can help to mitigate/manage the financial/risk management consequences by carrying out relevant research in 2020-2021. For this we need to learn NOW from experts and decision makers what the research challenges are. Therefore we are organising an online conference on April 28-29, 2020 with two goals : * Enabling researchers and young researchers to present actuarial / data science / financial research that was done before covid19 (therefore NOT related to covid19) * Having 1 or 2 roundtables that describe covid19 implications on the economy, and which help us to know which research topics we could investigate in the future if we want to help (WACA roundtables : What Actuaries Could Accomplish researchwise in 2020-21). We also planned (classical) plenary talks on topics that could be useful for post-covid research, as well as a quite different talk by José Blanchet about a social platform startup that he created in response to covid19 in US and Mexico and the associated data science future challenges. INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS *Beatrice ACCIAIO */(LSE, London, United Kingdom)/** *José BLANCHET */(Stanford University, CA, USA)/ *Caroline HILLAIRET */(ENSAE, Paris, France)/ *Nora PANKRATZ */(UCLA, CA, USA)/ *Jae Kyung WOO */(UNSW, Sydney, Australia)/ ** To be clear, this event is NOT about presenting super-fast, opportunistic research on epidemiology produced by actuaries. It is about presenting classical actuarial/data science/finance research works that have been done before, and reflecting about how we can contribute researchwise for the future. As almost everyone is at home at that time, we think that the timing is possible. We’ll have sessions in the morning, lunch time and up to evening to accomodate participants in different locations. The roundtables will be held between 11am and 4pm French time to maximize audience (including Asia-Pacific and America). We hope that you’ll join us to this OICA-WACA conference and roundtable (please use French accent to sound like Shakira’s song) !

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ABC World Seminar
by Massimiliano ... 03 Apr '20

03 Apr '20

Dear all, I hope you are keeping safe and well. Inspired by the One World Probability Seminar, we decided to run The ABC World Seminar, a weekly/fortnightly series of seminars that will take place on Blackboard collaborate on Thursdays at 9am [UK time]. The idea is to gather members and disseminate results and innovation during these weeks and months under lockdown. The first speaker will be Dennis Prangle on "Distilling importance sampling" on 9th April. Please sign up to the mailing list https://listserv.csv.warwick.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/abc_world_seminar to be able to join the talk. Full details are available on the webpage https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/news/upcoming-seminars/abcworldsem… Please share this email to anyone who may be interested. Best wishes, Massimiliano Tamborrino, on behalf of the ABC World Seminar Organisers. ------ Dr. Massimiliano Tamborrino Assistant Professor Department of Statistics University of Warwick https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic-research/tamborrino

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Vacancy for Lecturer, Financial Computing Group, University College London, deadline 27 April 2020
by Guido Germano 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

Dear Colleague, our Financial Computing and Analytics Group has advertised a lecturer position with application deadline on 27 April 2020: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BZQ100/lecturer-in-financial-computing The job description is attached. This position has been held by Simone Righi, who at the end of June 2020 will leave for the Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Kind regards Guido Germano Dr Guido Germano, Associate Professor, UCL Department of Computer Science Programme Director and Admissions Tutor, UCL MSc Computational Finance Research Associate, Systemic Risk Centre, London School of Economics Associate Editor, Advances in Complex Systems www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/g.germano

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First announcement: 10th AMaMeF Conference *2021* - SAVE THE DATE!
by Tiziano Vargiolu 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Dear Colleague, on behalf of the organising committee, it is a pleasure to announce that the 10th AMaMeF Conference will take place in Padova on June 22-25, *2021*. The conference will feature plenary lectures, invited sessions and contributed sessions covering the forefront areas of research in theoretical and quantitative finance, risk, insurance. Abstract submission for contributed talks and posters will be announced in due time. Follow the development at the website (in continuous development): https://events.math.unipd.it/AMAMEF2021/ Please help to distribute this announcement among your all contacts. Welcome to Padova in June 2021! 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: New online Oxford Discrete Mathematics and Probability seminar
by Silvestri, Vittoria 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Segnalo un'altra iniziativa di seminari online, gestita dal gruppo di Oxford. Il primo seminario è oggi pomeriggio (Rob Morris, IMPA) alle 15:00. Cari saluti, Vittoria ******************************** Vittoria Silvestri Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome ******************************** Begin forwarded message: *From:* Christina Goldschmidt <goldschm(a)stats.ox.ac.uk> *Date:* 27 March 2020 at 16:40:54 GMT *To:* "APPLIEDPROB(a)jiscmail.ac.uk" <APPLIEDPROB(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> *Subject:* *New online Oxford Discrete Mathematics and Probability seminar* *Reply-To:* Christina Goldschmidt <goldschm(a)STATS.OX.AC.UK> Dear colleagues, We hope that you are all well, and finding a way to adjust to our new circumstances. We are writing to announce the new Oxford Discrete Mathematics and Probability Seminar, which will take place on Tuesdays, on Zoom, starting on 31st March, and will feature talks in both Combinatorics and Probability. For the first week we will have a single seminar at 2pm (UK time); in most future weeks we will also have a second seminar at 3.30pm. The talks are open to everybody: please feel free to forward this announcement to anyone you think might be interested. The first two talks will be: 31st March, 2pm: Rob Morris (IMPA), Erdős covering systems 7th April, 2pm: Louigi Addario-Berry (McGill), Hipster random walks. More details can be found at http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/scott/dmp.htm . This will be something of an experiment while we get to grips with the technology, but we're excited about the possibilities this format might bring! We are aware of several other excellent such initiatives going on, and will be keen to share our experiences and learn what works. We have set up a mailing list for seminar announcements, discmathprob(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk. In order to subscribe, please send an email to sympa(a)maillist.ox.ac.uk with subject “subscribe discmathprob Firstname Lastname” (replace “Firstname” and “Lastname” appropriately); leave the message body blank. You should receive a message to let you know that your subscription has been successful. Our intention (of course with the agreement of the speakers) is to record the seminars and put them on YouTube for an indefinite period of time, to act as a resource for the community. This has consequences from the perspective of data protection since, by default, if you participate, personal data consisting of your username, audio and video may be recorded. If you wish to participate but do not want your personal data recorded, you should please make sure to turn off your video and mute your microphone. All best wishes, Christina Goldschmidt and Alex Scott. -- Christina Goldschmidt | http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~goldschm | she/her Department of Statistics and Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford ------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the APPLIEDPROB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=APPLIEDPROB&A=1

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Associate Professor Position @ Luxembourg University
by Giovanni Peccati 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Dear Colleagues, The *Department of Mathematics* of the *Faculty of Science, Technology, and Medicine* (FSTM) of the *University of Luxembourg* (UL) has an opening for an *Associate Professor in Mathematics (promotion track) – Area of Statistics and Machine Learning*. - Ref: *F1-50011779* (to be mentioned in all correspondence) - Full-time position (40 hrs/week) - Earliest starting date: September 2020 - Permanent position, with promotion track (after 5 years there is the possibility of being promoted to full professor after an evaluation). In case of an excellent more senior candidate, appointment at the level of full professor can be considered Deadline: *May 31, 2020* (NB: the previous deadline for this position was March 31, 2020 - we decided to postpone it by two months, mainly because of the current international crisis). All details can be found at the address: http://emea3.mrted.ly/2f9vz With my 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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Datathon on Covid-19
by Fabrizio Lillo 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Dear colleagues, please find below the announcement of a Datathon (real-time forecasting competition) on Covid-19 just started. Feel free to distribute to all interested parties. Best regards, Fabrizio Lillo ------------------------------------- Announcement and call for participation at Real-time Epidemic Datathon https://www.epidemicdatathon.com Real-time Epidemic Datathon is a collective open-source real-time forecasting challenge aimed at joining forces to push modeling limits further for real-time epidemic forecasting at large scale. Organized by ETH Zürich, UCLA, EU SoBigData++ project, NYU COURANT, and other partner organizations. The goal of this project is to bring together researchers and students from different disciplines (e.g., computer science, epidemiology, physics, statistics, applied math, ...) and advance real-time epidemic modeling frameworks. We provide a platform for scientific exchange and discussion. Participating teams can submit predictions of COVID-19 case evolutions in different countries and evaluate/compare their modeling approaches. Who can join? Everyone can join and contribute in various ways: (i) register as a developer (individual or with a team) of a real-time epidemic forecasting model, (ii) register and monitor scientific developments (see our disclaimer section), or (iii) share the news about this event and help us to reach more contributors. -------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Fabrizio Lillo Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Bologna 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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One World Probability Seminar
by enrico priola 30 Mar '20

30 Mar '20

Dear All, maybe you already know https://www.wim.uni-mannheim.de/doering/one-world/ All the best. Enrico -- Enrico Priola Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pavia Via Adolfo Ferrata 5, 27100 Pavia tel +39 0382 985639

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Open combined PhD-Junior Lecturer position at VU Amsterdam
by Zocca, A. 26 Mar '20

26 Mar '20

Dear colleagues, Here is the announcement for a combined PhD + lectureship position in the math department where I work at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam: PhD-Junior Lecturer position The department of Mathematics at the VU is advertising for a combined PhD - Junior Lecturer position in Mathematics. This is a position meant for a PhD student who also wants to acquire teaching experience and contribute to the educational program of the department as a junior lecturer. The position is for 6 years instead of the usual 4 for a “standard” PhD student. The PhD position is not tied to a particular topic nor supervisor: the research can be in any area that falls within the expertise available in the department. You can find more information for this position at https://workingat.vu.nl/ad/phd-judo-in-mathematics/o44o25 The deadline for applications is April 19th. The link above provides most of the information needed (salary, research-to-teaching ratio, benefits, etc.), but feel free to contact me for further details or if you may be interested to apply to work in the area of applied probability or reinforcement learning. Best regards, Alessandro Zocca ================================ Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam https://sites.google.com/site/zoccaale/

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Call for PhD
by Faggionato, Alessandra 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

Buongiorno, ricevo da Alberto Chiarini ed inoltro. Saluti Alessandra ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Chiarini, A. <a.chiarini(a)tue.nl> Date: mer 25 mar 2020 alle ore 11:15 Subject: Call for PhD To: faggiona(a)mat.uniroma1.it <faggiona(a)mat.uniroma1.it> ... Applications are invited for a PhD position at TU Eindhoven (TU/e), under the supervision of Alberto Chiarini. This PhD project is part of a larger collaboration between the Analysis and Stochastics groups of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and the PhD student will benefit from being embedded in both groups. The subject of the PhD project will be decided together with the student, and will be chosen from a range of topics on the interface between probability theory and analysis, including Gaussian free fields, particle systems, large deviations, gradient flows and partial differential equations. Ideally, applicants have a sound training in probability theory (including stochastic processes and stochastic differential equations), analysis (including partial differential equations and functional analysis), and measure theory. Students with deficiencies in one of these areas but who are strong in others are nonetheless encouraged to apply. PhD positions at TU/e are salaried, fixed-term, four-year positions; We offer you: - An exciting job in a dynamic work environment. - A full time appointment for 4 years at Eindhoven University of Technology. - The salary is in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement of the Dutch Universities, increasing from approximately € 2.325 per month initially, to € 2.972 in the fourth year. - An attractive package of fringe benefits, including end-of-year bonus (8,3% in December), an extra holiday allowance (8% in May), moving expenses and excellent sports facilities. Applicants are encouraged to send their applications as early as possible; the position will be filled as soon as a suitable candidate is found. The starting date is open for discussion. In case you decide to apply, please complete the following form: Form for application <https://forms.gle/Ejrurx7w8Mkggrw88> https://forms.gle/Ejrurx7w8Mkggrw88 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science MetaForum Groene Loper 5 5612 AZ Eindhoven The Netherlands -- ************************************************* 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: One World Probability Seminar
by Faggionato, Alessandra 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

cari tutti, vi giro un messaggio ricevuto da andreas kyprianou. saluti alessandra faggionato %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dear all, Firstly, we hope this email finds you safe and well. As we look forward to the next few weeks and months being under lockdown, we are all confronted with the reality of building up new communication channels. This presents us with an unprecedented opportunity that has arguably been long overdue. We would like to invite you to participate in a new grass roots project: the *One World Probability Seminar.* https://www.wim.uni-mannheim.de/doering/one-world/ *Every Thursday at 15:00 and 16:00 Central European Time, *two seminars will take place on line via the free webinar tool Zoom. Follow the information and link on the webpage and just tune in. No need to register, no need to announce your presence, we have capacity for an audience of up to 500 viewers. The short-term goal is to provide access to a seminar for as many researchers as possible, bringing a sense of normality and academic closeness. *For the indefinite future, the seminar is intended to foster ideas among our truly global research community and to help reduce our impact on climate change.* As a grass roots project, the seminar will evolve with time - in particular please keep a close eye on the webpage which will provide updated information of speakers. We have speakers lined up for the next month or so, and we hope you will all feel enthused to participate in the long term. * Please circulate this email as widely as you can.* Andreas Kyprianou and Leif Doering. -- Professor Andreas Kyprianou Co-director of EPSRC CDT SAMBa Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath BA2 7AY -- ************************************************* 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: Fw: One World Probability Seminar: This Thursday opening seminar
by Enrico Scalas 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

Car* collegh*, Spero stiate bene. Vi segnalo l'iniziativa qua sotto (e scusate se vi e' gia' arrivata la notizia). Cordiali saluti, Enrico Scalas ------------------------------ *From:* Andreas Kyprianou <ak257(a)bath.ac.uk> *Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2020 4:42 PM *To:* Leif Doering <doering(a)uni-mannheim.de> *Subject:* One World Probability Seminar: This Thursday opening seminar Dear all, Firstly, we hope this email finds you safe and well. As we look forward to the next few weeks and months being under lockdown, we are all confronted with the reality of building up new communication channels. This presents us with an unprecedented opportunity that has arguably been long overdue. We would like to invite you to participate in a new grass roots project: the *One World Probability Seminar.* https://www.wim.uni-mannheim.de/doering/one-world/ *Every Thursday at 15:00 and 16:00 Central European Time, *two seminars will take place on line via the free webinar tool Zoom. Follow the information and link on the webpage and just tune in. No need to register, no need to announce your presence, we have capacity for an audience of up to 500 viewers. The short-term goal is to provide access to a seminar for as many researchers as possible, bringing a sense of normality and academic closeness. *For the indefinite future, the seminar is intended to foster ideas among our truly global research community and to help reduce our impact on climate change.* As a grass roots project, the seminar will evolve with time - in particular please keep a close eye on the webpage which will provide updated information of speakers. We have speakers lined up for the next month or so, and we hope you will all feel enthused to participate in the long term. Please circulate this email as widely as you can. Andreas Kyprianou and Leif Doering. -- Professor Andreas Kyprianou Co-director of EPSRC CDT SAMBa Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath BA2 7AY -- Professor Andreas Kyprianou Co-director of EPSRC CDT SAMBa Department of Mathematical Sciences University of Bath BA2 7AY

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PhD position in Prague: Duality Techniques in Interacting Particle Systems
by Marco Formentin 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

PhD position in Prague: Duality Techniques in Interacting Particle Systems The Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Czech Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with Charles University (Prague) offers a: PhD position Duality Techniques in Interacting Particle Systems For a period of 4 years. Preferred starting date September 1, 2020 or according to agreement. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Jan Swart on topics chosen from a list of concrete problems. For more information: http://staff.utia.cas.cz/swart/advertentie.html Applicants are encouraged to send their applications as early as possible; the position will be filled as soon as a suitable candidate is found.

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Special Issue on Algorithms for complex network and its applications
by Yilun Shang 22 Mar '20

22 Mar '20

CALL FOR PAPERS Algorithms https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/complex_network Submission Deadline: 15 September 2020 ********* Manuscripts can be submitted continuously until the deadline. Once a paper is submitted, the review process will start immediately. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal. All accepted papers will be listed together in an online special issue published in the journal website. ********* Network science has become an important and growing field in today’s society as many sectors using information technology, wireless communications, big data, and the Internet of Things are formed by a large number of interacting components and underpinned with self-organizing principles. The need to understand algorithms underlying complex networks, large-scale structures, and the dynamics governing them is imperative. In this Special Issue we invite authors to submit high-quality papers from both theoretical/mathematical and practical points of view addressing algorithm-related problems arising from complex networks. Some of the topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Algorithms for random structure Combinatorial algorithms Complex network analysis Network visualization Community detection algorithms Web analytics Artificial intelligence Sensor networks Social network analysis Biological network analysis Algorithms for wireless networks Simulation for complex networks Network synchronization algorithms Distributed algorithms Optimization algorithms Guest Editors Joanna Józefowska, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland Yilun Shang, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK *** Instructions for submission *** Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Algorithms is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. For further information, please contact the guest editors at Joanna.Jozefowska(a)cs.put.poznan.pl yilun.shang(a)northumbria.ac.uk

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Statistical Mechanics Methods for Networks - satellite during NetSci2020
by Mateusz Wilinski 22 Mar '20

22 Mar '20

*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS* *NETSCI2020 - SATELLITE CONFERENCE* *"STATISTICAL MECHANICS METHODS FOR NETWORKS**”* *https://sites.google.com/view/smmn <https://sites.google.com/view/smmn>* The NetSci 2020 conference was postponed to September. The situation is dynamic and it is still unclear what will be the final outcome. Nevertheless, we would like to draw your attention to a satellite session, which will surely follow the main conference. The objective of the Satellite conference on "Statistical Mechanics Methods for Networks” is to bring together academics, young researchers and PhD students working in the area of statistical models of both static and dynamic networks. A particular focus is then given to the study of methods based on Statistical Mechanics of networks, which permit the learning of mechanisms driving the formation and the evolution of the networked systems. The Satellite will provide an opportunity for participants engaged in research at the forefront of this area to discuss the novel results and may, in turn, suggest fruitful and relevant directions for future research. *How:* Submit your one page abstract by email to *mateusz.wilinski(a)sns.it <mateusz.wilinski(a)sns.it>* *Important dates**:* * Abstract/Paper submission deadline: 20.04.2020 * Notification of acceptance: 27.04.2020 *- **subject to change, depending on the final NetSci 2020 timeline* *Where and When:* TBA *INVITED SPEAKERS:* Rossana Mastrandrea (IMT Lucca) Andrey Lokhov (Los Alamos National Laboratory) *TOPICS:* - Graphs Ensembles - Network Reconstruction - Statistical Inference - Phase Transitions in Network Models - Percolation in Networks - Maximum Entropy for Networks - Statistically Validated Networks *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:* Piero Mazzarisi (Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa) Mateusz Wilinski (Uniwersytet Warszawski) *PROGRAM COMMITTEE:* Paolo Barucca (University College London) Agata Fronczak (Politechnika Warszawska) Fabrizio Lillo (Università di Bologna) Leto Peel (Université Catholique de Louvain) Tiago Peixoto (Central European University) Katarzyna Sznajd-Weron (Politechnika Wroclawska) Daniele Tantari (Università di Bologna)

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OSD2020-postponed
by malongob＠unina.it 21 Mar '20

21 Mar '20

Dear all, we strongly hoped that the spread of Covid-19 would quickly attenuate, but it is now clear that, even if the situation were to become stable in Italy, there would be difficulties in reaching the conference venue for participants from abroad. For this reason, we regret to announce that the 14th International Conference on Ordered Statistical Data (OSD2020) has been postponed by one year, i.e., to May 2021 (same location - Vietri sul Mare, Italy). New announcements with the new dates of the conference will be send to all of you in October. We hope that the coronavirus outbreak will end soon, and we expect to see you next year. The OSD2020 Chief Organizers Maria Longobardi, Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics Associate Professor of Probability and Mathematical Statistics E-mail: maria.longobardi(a)unina.it Dipartimento di Biologia Università degli Studi di Napoli FEDERICO II Via Cintia - 80126 Napoli - Italy Studio 114 - V livello del Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Tel. +39 081 675620

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ECSO - CMS 2020 suspended
by Martina Nardon 20 Mar '20

20 Mar '20

_Important Announcement_ Joint EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION and COMPUTATIONAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Conference Venice 1-3 July 2020 *Due to the uncertainty caused by the Coronavirus outbreak, the chairs of the Scientific and Organizing Committees of Ecso-Cms2020 have decided to suspend the conference and postpone it, in order to guarantee a safe and successful participation. The conference will be rescheduled in 2021. * *Further information will be announced through the conference website soon *www.unive.it/ecsocms2020 *Submissions that have already been made are still valid and can be later updated or withdrawn. Registration is suspended.* Best Regards, Diana Barro, Stein-Erik Fleten and Martina Nardon Organizing and Program Committee Chairs -------------------------------------- Dr. Martina Nardon Dipartimento di Economia Università Ca' Foscari Venezia San Giobbe - Cannaregio, 873 30121 Venezia, Italy tel. +39 041 234 7413 --------------------------------------

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BaYSM 2020 -- Postponed
by Federico Camerlenghi 17 Mar '20

17 Mar '20

Dear all, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Bayesian Young Statistician Meeting (BaYSM 2020) will be postponed by one year, i.e. to the two days 25-26 June 2021. BaYSM 2021 will be held at the same location (Kunming, China) and right before the postponed ISBA 2020 world meeting. We will invite you to visit the webpage of the event-- https://baysm2020.uconn.edu/-- that will be updated with the new dates and deadlines. We will send a new call for abstract after the summer. Note that we will consider only abstracts that will be sent in the new submission window. We hope that the coronavirus pandemic will end soon, and to see you all at the BaYSM meeting next year. On behalf of the BAYSM2021 organizing committee, best regards, Federico Camerlenghi -- Federico Camerlenghi Department of Economics, Management and Statistics University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy. web-page: https://www.unimib.it/federico-camerlenghi

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Fwd: postdoc position
by Marco Romito 16 Mar '20

16 Mar '20

*From:*Beniamin Goldys [mailto:beniamin.goldys@sydney.edu.au] *Subject:* postdoc position Please, distribute it among potential applicants for a postdoc in Stochastic Partial Differential Equations at University of Sydney. *https://sydney.nga.net.au/?jati=1C49462E-B789-B239-6EBB-B62E19A9DFAD <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sydney.nga.net.au_-3Fj…>* Best, Ben ***************************************** Professor Beniamin Goldys School of Mathematics and Statistics Carslaw F07 The University of Sydney Sydney 2006, Australia phone: (612)93512976 fax: (612)93514534

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Cancellazione di ECQT'20
by Antonio DI CRESCENZO 12 Mar '20

12 Mar '20

Su richiesta degli organizzatori si rende noto quanto segue: ECQT20 : IV European Conference on Queueing Theory July 20-22, 2020 Madrid (Spain) IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Due to the COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, we regrettably must announce that ECQT-20 is CANCELLED and is postponed to a time when the situation becomes more stable. We are very sorry for the inconvenience this situation may cause, and gratefully appreciate if you could circulate this information to any appropriate channel. Kind regards, The Organizing Committee

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Fwd: Assegno di ricerca MAT/03, MAT/06 e INF/01, con preghiera di diffusione
by Francesco Morandin 12 Mar '20

12 Mar '20

Ricevo e inoltro: assegno di ricerca in Deep Reinforcement Learning per candidati di settori diversi, anche senza esperienza, all'Università di Chieti-Pescara, Dipartimento di Economia, all'interno di un gruppo di ricerca di matematici. Dovrebbe essere la sede di Pescara. Scadenza 3 aprile 2020. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Maurizio Parton <parton(a)unich.it> Date: Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 5:13 PM Subject: Assegno di ricerca MAT/03, MAT/06 e INF/01, con preghiera di diffusione Carissimi, potete per cortesia inoltrare questo messaggio nelle liste e alle persone che ritenete più opportune? Tre i settori interessati: MAT/03, MAT/06, INF/01. Scadenza 3 aprile 2020. Grazie mille, Mau ---------------------------------------------------------------- Apologies for multiple posting - English version below ---------------------------------------------------------------- Assegno di ricerca 1 anno + 1 anno, settori di interesse MAT/03, MAT/06 e INF/01. Bando: http://www.albo-pretorio.it/albo/archivio4_atto_0_356914_0_3.html Scadenza: 3 aprile 2020. È stato pubblicato il bando per un assegno di ricerca di un anno, rinnovabile, a tema Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), con sede Pescara. Richiesta laurea magistrale o equivalenti. Si cerca un candidato in grado di inserirsi in un gruppo di ricerca su problemi di varia natura. -) Problemi teorici. Ad esempio, ci sono vari algoritmi in DRL che sono molto usati perché funzionano bene, ma dei quali non si hanno ancora risultati teorici di convergenza o ottimalità. Competenze utili: probabilità, geometria. -) Problemi sperimentali. Ad esempio, estendere algoritmi tipicamente usati in giochi a due giocatori e informazione perfetta a giochi a più giocatori con informazione imperfetta. Competenze utili: algoritmi, teoria dei giochi, Python e TensorFlow o framework affini. -) Problemi applicati. Ad esempio, applicazioni nel mondo della finanza, che ben si presta a essere affrontata tramite DRL grazie alla grande quantità di dati a disposizione in questo settore. Competenze utili: probabilità, finanza. Seppur utile, una conoscenza di Deep Learning e/o Reinforcement Learning non è indispensabile, in quanto è prevista una prima fase di formazione e inserimento nel gruppo di ricerca. Per maggiori informazioni scrivere a parton(a)unich.it. ---------------------------------------------------------------- English version ---------------------------------------------------------------- Research grant 1 year + 1 year. Apply at: http://www.albo-pretorio.it/albo/archivio4_atto_0_356914_0_3.html Deadline: 3 April 2020. University of Pescara is opening a one-year position extendable to one more year, for research on Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). Applicants must have a master degree in informatics or mathematics, but are not requested to have previous expertise in Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning, since a training period is foreseen. Knowledge of probability or geometry or finance or computer science, and expertise in Python or TensorFlow or similar frameworks are preferred. The research team is active on a wide range of topics. -) Theoretical problems: for instance, convergence or optimality for DRL algorithms. -) Experimental problems: for instance, extension of algorithms for two-players perfect information games to multi-player settings with imperfect information. -) Applied problems: for instance, applications to finance. For additional information, don't hesitate to contact parton(a)unich.it. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- Francesco Morandin -- frmor.net Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Sciences Parma University -- sfmi.unipr.it To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. (R.A. Fisher)

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Corso di dottorato "Topics from the Gaussian World" a Milano-Bicocca
by Gianmario Tessitore 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

Carissimi La lezione iniziale del corso di dottorato di F. Caravenna e M. Rossi a Milano-Bicocca "Topics from the Gaussian World", prevista per giovedì 12 marzo 2020 in aula 3014, è annullata. A causa dell'emergenza sanitaria, il corso non si svolgerà più in presenza ma in modalità telematica. Informazioni aggiornate sulla pagina web: http://staff.matapp.unimib.it/~fcaraven/did1920/phd/index.html -- Gianmario Tessitore Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

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PhD course by Prof A. Jacquier in Padova: postponement
by Giorgia Callegaro 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

Dear all, due to the coronavirus emergency in Italy and, in particular, in Padova, we clearly had to postpone the visit of Professor Antoine Jacquier and as a consequence, also his course "*A smooth tour around rough models in finance (From data to stochastics to machine learning)*", which was scheduled in March/April 2020. Hopefully he will visit Padova and give his course later this year. At the moment, the new schedule is not available. I am sorry for the inconvenient, this cancellation was necessary. I wish to all of you a nice week, despite the virus, Giorgia Callegaro -- Giorgia Callegaro Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics - University of Padova Via Trieste 63 , I-35121 Padova - ITALY Tel: +39-0498271481 Fax: +39-0498271499 E-Mail: gcallega(a)math.unipd.it <https://webmail.math.unipd.it/horde3/imp/message.php?mailbox=Sent&index=598#> Personal web-page: https://sites.google.com/site/giogiocallegaro/Home

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rimandato il corso del prof. Zegarlinski
by Carbone Raffaella 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

Cari colleghi, per l'emergenza coronavirus, abbiamo deciso di rimandare al prossimo anno accademico il corso ''Introduction to coercive inequalities with applications in analysis and probability theory'' del prof. Boguslaw Zegarlinski (Imperial College, London) presso il Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università di Pavia. Le date precise saranno stabilite in seguito. Cordiali saluti, Raffaella Carbone -- Raffaella Carbone, PhD Probabilità e Statistica Matematica Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia

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rinvio corso di dottorato Maurelli
by Marco Alessandro Fuhrman 09 Mar '20

09 Mar '20

Buongiorno. Rimando questo messaggio che è rimasto sospeso qualche giorno su Random. Mi dispiace del disguido. Marco Fuhrman A causa dell'emergenza sanitaria, il corso di Mario Maurelli su Regularization by noise cambierà modalità di svolgimento. Di seguito il messaggio del docente. Cordiali saluti a tutti. Marco Fuhrman -------------------- Dear all, Unfortunately, given the situation with the coronavirus, I am forced to change plans for my course on Regularization by noise. Lectures will likely not take place anymore in the Aula Dottorato of the Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Milano, and will be replaced by recorded lectures. I will be available for questions and discussions on the recorded lectures. I invite those who are interested to contact me in order to have access to the recorded lectures. I am sorry for the change but I believe this is the best compromise in this situation. Best regards Mario Maurelli ------------------ <signaturebeforequotedtext></signaturebeforequotedtext><signatureafterquotedtext></signatureafterquotedtext>

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ECSO - CMS 2020 deadline extension
by Martina Nardon 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

_Deadline extension_ Joint EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION and COMPUTATIONAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Conference Venice 1-3 July 2020 We invite you to participate and submit your contribution to the joint conference ECSO - CMS 2020. Venue: Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice San Giobbe Campus – Cannaregio 873, 30121 Venice, Italy Webpage: www.unive.it/ecsocms2020 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: *March 31, 2020* Notification of acceptance: *April 20, 2020* Early registration: *April 30, 2020* ECSO - CMS 2020 is jointly organized by the Department of Economics of Ca' Foscari University of Venice, the CMS Journal and the EURO Working Group on Stochastic Optimization. ECSO 2020 is the 3rd edition of a stream of conferences organized by the EURO Working Group on Stochastic Optimization (EWGSO). The previous editions were held in Paris (2014) and Rome (2017). The scope of the conference is to bring together researchers and professionals in Stochastic Optimization and its applications in different fields spacing from economics and finance to supply chain, logistics, etc. CMS 2020 is the 17th edition of an annual meeting associated with the journal of Computational Management Science published by Springer. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for theoreticians and practitioners from academia and industry to exchange knowledge, ideas and results in a broad range of topics relevant to the theory and practice of computational methods in management science. This joint event will provide a forum for fruitful discussions and interactions among researchers and professionals from industry and institutional sectors on decision making under uncertainty in a complex world. The conference will be within the scopes of both CMS and EWGSO and, in particular, it will focus on models, methods and computational tools in stochastic, robust and distributionally robust optimization and on computational aspects of management science with emphasis on risk management, valuation problems, measurement applications. Traditional fields of application, such as finance, energy, water management, logistics, supply chain management, and emerging ones, such as healthcare, climate risk and sustainable development, will be included. A Best Student Paper Prize of 600 euro will be awarded. Papers should be nominated via e-mail by the students' supervisors (ecsocms2020(a)unive.it). Deadline for the submissions to the prize is May 15. The program will include a devoted session for presenting the best papers to compete for the prize, such that the jury could make the final choice. The paper does not have to be published. The papers should be principally authored by the student, but co-authors are permitted as long as their contributions are clarified. Only registered participants' papers will be considered for the prize. Jury for the Student Best Paper Prize: Stein-Erik Fleten (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Milos Kopa (Charles University of Prague), Francesca Maggioni (University of Bergamo), Ruediger Schultz (University Duisburg-Essen). PLENARY SPEAKERS DARINKA DENTCHEVA, Stevens Institute of Technology (USA) DAVID MORTON, Northwestern University (USA) GAH-YI BAN, London Business School (UK) DANIEL KUHN, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (CH) GIORGIO CONSIGLI, Università di Bergamo (I) WARREN POWELL, Princeton University (USA) Conference Secretariat: ecsocms2020(a)unive.it Conference hashtag: #ecsocms2020 Best Regards, Diana Barro, Stein-Erik Fleten and Martina Nardon Organizing and Program Committee Chairs -------------------------------------- Dr. Martina Nardon Dipartimento di Economia Università Ca' Foscari Venezia San Giobbe - Cannaregio, 873 30121 Venezia, Italy tel. +39 041 234 7413 --------------------------------------

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Lecturer or Associate Professor in Statistics at Leeds university
by Elena Issoglio 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

Dear all, We have a position available for Lecturer or Associate Professor in Statistics. The job description can be found at the link http://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/EPSMA1012 The closing date is 16 Mar 2020. Best wishes Elena %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% I am currently participating in ‘Action Short of a Strike’ as part of the UCU HE disputes on pay, equality, workloads and casualisation, and on pension justice. This includes working to contract, not covering for absent colleagues, not rescheduling teaching cancelled due to strike action; not undertaking any voluntary activities. This action will continue until the dispute is resolved, or until 29 April 2020 if that is sooner. Unfortunately, this means that I am unlikely to be able to complete all tasks punctually or respond to all requests immediately, and I would ask for your patience and understanding. More information about the disputes is available at www.ucu.org.uk/why-we-are-taking-action<http://www.ucu.org.uk/why-we-are-taking-action> and more about our working to contract at www.ucu.org.uk/working-to-contract<http://www.ucu.org.uk/working-to-contract> Dr Elena Issoglio Lecturer in Financial Mathematics Office 11.02, School of Mathematics School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT E: e.issoglio(a)leeds.ac.uk<mailto:e.issoglio@leeds.ac.uk> T: 0113 34 3 4660

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PhD position in theoretical probability at TU Delft
by Alessandra Cipriani 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

The Institute of Applied Mathematics at TU Delft invites applicants for a PhD position in Mathematics (theoretical probability) employed full-time. The research work lies in the intersection of the area of theoretical probability, analysis and distribution theory. The PhD project aims at understanding a long-standing question in analysis and probability, namely how to define functions of (random) distributions. In particular we will construct functions of random distribution using suitable discrete models and we plan to investigate the scaling limits of certain quantities of physical systems in different geometries as well. See https://www.academictransfer.com/en/290256/phd-position-in-theoretical-prob… for more details. This project is a joint collaboration between Dr. Cipriani from the Department of Applied Mathematics at TU Delft and Dr. Ruszel from the Mathematics Institute of Utrecht University. For information about the position contact A. Cipriani at A.Cipriani(a)tudelft.nl<mailto:A.Cipriani@tudelft.nl>. To apply for this vacancy, please send an email to vacancies-eemcs@tudelft<mailto:vacancies-eemcs@tudelft>.nl. Please ensure that you upload the following additional documents quoting the vacancy number EWI2020-23: * a detailed CV (including list of publications if available), * a list of courses taken and grades obtained, * a copy or link to your Master's thesis, * contact details of 2-3 references. Only applications received no later than 1st May 2020 can be considered.

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Master's Scholarships in Strasbourg
by Vlada Limic 03 Mar '20

03 Mar '20

Title : Second year of master program in probability at University of Strasbourg Attractive scholarships are available for our program http://irma.math.unistra.fr/article645.html?lang=en The application procedure is described at http://labex-irmia.u-strasbg.fr/spip.php?article62&lang=fr The deadline for applying is March 30, 2020. J. Bérard, N. Juillet, V. Limic and X. Zeng -- Kiva.org - Loans That Change Lives

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Rinvio corso di dottorato "Topics from the Gaussian World" a Milano-Bicocca
by Gianmario Tessitore 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

La lezione iniziale del corso di dottorato di F. Caravenna e M. Rossi a Milano-Bicocca "Topics from the Gaussian World", prevista per giovedì 5 marzo, è *rinviata a giovedì 12 marzo 2020* (ore 14:30-17:00, aula 3014). Informazioni aggiornate sulla pagina web del corso: http://staff.matapp.unimib.it/~fcaraven/did1920/phd/index.html cordiali saluti Gianmario Tessitore -- Gianmario Tessitore Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

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Reminder: Special issue "Stochastic Modeling in Biology" of "Mathematics" (ISSN 2227-7390); deadline: 31 May 2020
by Mario Abundo 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

REMINDER: (APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING) Dear Colleagues, The Journal "Mathematics" (ISSN 2227-7390) will publish the special issue "Stochastic Modeling in Biology" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/Stochastic_Modeling… of which I am guest editor. The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31 May 2020. The aim of this Special Issue is to publish original research articles covering advances in the theory of stochastic modeling in biology. In this framework, continuous and discrete time stochastic processes will be discussed, as well as stochastic differential equations, fractional differential equations, correlated processes, first-passage-time problems, stochastic optimal controls, parameter estimation, and simulation techniques. All the above topics are intended to be treated in the spirit of modeling the evolution of stochastic systems of interest in Biology. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: -Stochastic processes for neuronal activity; -Jump-diffusion processes; -Markov and semi-Markov processes; -Time-changed processes; -Markov chains; -Fractional processes; -Fractional Brownian motion. I hope that you will consider this special issue as an interesting and useful forum for publishing your latest research work in stochastic modeling in Biology. I would be glad if you will submit a paper to this special issue. Your submission should be made at the web site: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/Stochastic_Modeling… The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31 May 2020. Best Regards, Mario Abundo ================================== Mario Abundo Dipartimento di Matematica Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" via della Ricerca Scientifica 00133 Roma, Italy e-mail: abundo(a)mat.uniroma2.it http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~abundo tel: +39 06 7259 4627 fax: +39 06 7259 4699 ==================================

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Reminder: Special issue "Stochastic Modeling in Biology" of "Mathematics" (ISSN 2227-7390); deadline: 31 May 2020
by Mario Abundo 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

REMINDER: (APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING) Dear Colleagues, The Journal "Mathematics" (ISSN 2227-7390) will publish the special issue "Stochastic Modeling in Biology" https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/Stochastic_Modeling… of which I am guest editor. The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31 May 2020. The aim of this Special Issue is to publish original research articles covering advances in the theory of stochastic modeling in biology. In this framework, continuous and discrete time stochastic processes will be discussed, as well as stochastic differential equations, fractional differential equations, correlated processes, first-passage-time problems, stochastic optimal controls, parameter estimation, and simulation techniques. All the above topics are intended to be treated in the spirit of modeling the evolution of stochastic systems of interest in Biology. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: -Stochastic processes for neuronal activity; -Jump-diffusion processes; -Markov and semi-Markov processes; -Time-changed processes; -Markov chains; -Fractional processes; -Fractional Brownian motion. I hope that you will consider this special issue as an interesting and useful forum for publishing your latest research work in stochastic modeling in Biology. I would be glad if you will submit a paper to this special issue. Your submission should be made at the web site: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/Stochastic_Modeling… The deadline for manuscript submissions is 31 May 2020. Best Regards, Mario Abundo ================================== Mario Abundo Dipartimento di Matematica Universita' di Roma "Tor Vergata" via della Ricerca Scientifica 00133 Roma, Italy e-mail: abundo(a)mat.uniroma2.it http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~abundo tel: +39 06 7259 4627 fax: +39 06 7259 4699 ==================================

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PhD Course of Paolo Pigato deferred to a later date
by Claudio Macci 01 Mar '20

01 Mar '20

The PhD Course "Fractional Brownian motion and non-Markovian modeling" (by Paolo Pigato) is deferred to a later date. Best regards. Claudio Macci.

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Fwd: 2-Year Lecturership in Mathematics (Probability), University College Dublin
by Elia Bisi 29 Feb '20

29 Feb '20

FYI ______________________ Elia Bisi Research Scientist School of Mathematics and Statistics University College Dublin Personal webpage <https://eliabisi.wordpress.com/> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Neil O'Connell <neil.oconnell(a)ucd.ie> > Subject: 2-Year Lecturership in Mathematics (Probability), University College Dublin > Date: 27 February 2020 at 05:35:35 GMT-6 > To: Neil O'Connell <neil.oconnell(a)ucd.ie> > > Dear Colleagues, > > University College Dublin is seeking to appoint a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Mathematics in the UCD School of Mathematics & Statistics, specifically in the area of Probability. Applications in related areas are also very welcome, especially random matrices and algebraic/enumerative combinatorics. > > It is a 2-year post, commencing on 1st September 2020. The salary scale is €34,065 - €59,788 per annum. > > For further details, and to apply, go to https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/ <https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/>(search under 'External Applicants'). > > The application period will close at 17:00hrs (local Irish time) on 24th March 2020. > > Please forward to anyone who might be interested. > > Best regards, > Neil

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CALL for the 2nd MSP
by Rigo Pietro 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

We are pleased to announce the 2nd Workshop on *The Mathematics of Subjective Probability (MSP2020)* to be held in Milano, on 2-4 september 2020 at Università Milano-Bicocca. Plenary speakers will be: Nabil A-NAJJAR, Kellog, Northwestern; Bhaskara-Rao KOPPARTY, Indiana University Northwest; Pierpaolo BATTIGALLI, Università Bocconi; Giulianella COLETTI, Università di Perugia; Massimo MARINACCI, Università Bocconi; Frank RIEDEL, University of Bielefeld. More information, including a non exhaustive list of topics, are available at the conference website, https://www.msp2020.campus.unimib.it/ <https://www.msp2020.campus.unimib.it/home> We invite all researchers in the areas of probability, statistics, economics, game theory to submit papers for presentation at the Workshop. *Important dates*: March 1, Submission starts; July 15, Acceptance notification; March 1, Registration starts THE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Gianluca Cassese (Università Milano-Bicocca); Pietro Rigo (Università di Bologna); Barbara Vantaggi (Università La Sapienza, Roma).

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Fwd: Fw: Equilibrium Conference
by Tiziano De Angelis 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Ricevo ed inoltro l'annuncio della conferenza riportato di seguito. Cordialmente Tiziano ------------------------------ *From:* Muhle-Karbe, Johannes <j.muhle-karbe(a)imperial.ac.uk> *Sent:* 24 February 2020 17:57 *To:* Tiziano De Angelis <T.DeAngelis(a)leeds.ac.uk> *Subject:* Equilibrium Conference Dear Tiziano, I hope this email finds you well! Together with Kostas Kardaras and Daniel Schwarz, I am organising a conference on *Equilibrium Theory — Economic, Financial and Mathematical Aspects* https://sites.google.com/view/equilibriumtheory/ The conference will take place at *UCL* on *6-7 April 2020*. Attendance is free, but registration on the website is required. If this is interesting for you or some of your colleagues at Leeds, we would be happy to see you there! All the best, Johannes Johannes Muhle-Karbe Chair in Mathematical Finance Director, CFM-Imperial Institute of Quantitative Finance Department of Mathematics Imperial College London email: j.muhle-karbe(a)imperial.ac.uk http://wwwf.imperial.ac.uk/~jmuhleka/

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"Harmonic Analysis, Stochastics and PDEs" at ICMS, June 08 - 12, 2020.
by enrico priola 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

There will be a 5-day workshop "Harmonic Analysis, Stochastics and PDEs" at ICMS, June 08 - 12, 2020. This workshop includes mini-courses by - Franco Flandoli (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa): Regularization by noise for linear and nonlinear PDEs - Massimiliano Gubinelli (Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn): TBA - Nicolai Krylov (University of Minnesota, USA): Ito stochastic processes, Ito stochastic equations, and Markov diffusion processes with drift in L^d - Lutz Weis (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany): TBA See also https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~toh/ICMS2020.html for a list of speakers. Public registration is now open at https://www.icms.org.uk/harmonicanalysis2020.php with limited financial support available. If interested, please apply online by March 31, 2020. Regards, Tadahiro Oh on behalf of the Organizers: Zdzislaw Brzezniak, University of York Istvan Gyongy, University of Edinburgh Tadahiro Oh, University of Edinburgh Oana Pocovnicu, Heriot-Watt University %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- Enrico Priola Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pavia Via Adolfo Ferrata 5, 27100 Pavia tel +39 0382 985639

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Meeting CIRM "Set estimation" June 2020
by DI BERNARDINO Elena 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Dear all, We, Christophe Biscio, Elena Di Bernardino, Céline Duval and Alberto Rodriguez Casal are organizing a meeting at the CIRM on « Set Estimation » from 29 June to 3 July 2020: https://conferences.cirm-math.fr/2296.html You will find below a short description of the theme of the conference. The conference will include long talks and 2 short courses given by Antonio Cuevas (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) and Georg Lindgren (Lund University). The full list of speakers is available on the website. It is a pleasure for us to ask you to participate to this event and we hope that you will respond positively. If so, could you register on the website: « pre-registrations-apply-here ». Note that during registration young researchers are encouraged to submit an abstract for a short talk or a poster session. If you intend to come, we would greatly appreciate if you could register before March 10th 2020. We remain available if you have any question. Best regards, Christophe Biscio Elena Di Bernardino Céline Duval Alberto Rodriguez Casal Abstract: Set estimation appears in many applied fields, for instance in cosmology, imaging, biology, environmental science, sea waves modeling, big data. Many mathematical issues arise and are studied by both random geometry and spatial statistics communities. The purpose of this meeting is to gather these two communities around this common question. The considered sets are obviously multidimensional. They can be either random or the observation of a random phenomenon. Among others, we can name the support of multi- dimensional densities, realizations of point processes, Gibbs or Boolean models, excursion sets of random fields, discrete or continuous, level sets or high dimensional data. Regard- ing estimation, it could include inference for the localization of the set, its frontier or its extremal points, its shape, its volume or any other geometrical functional. The study of these objects naturally leads to parametric or non-parametric estimation issues and the need for testing procedures (Gaussianity, isotropy,...). By set estimation, we mean the study of an inverse statistical problem to build consistent inference procedures and associated algorithms, starting from eventually sparse observations. Talks will be devoted to this question by firstly presenting the set of interest and its properties then the methods developed for its estimation. The program will include talks directed toward theory and applications. Warning: We encountered some technical issues with the registration of people who already visited the CIRM and who did not fully completed the registration procedure. When you register be careful to follow the procedure until the end, you will then receive an automatic email confirming that you are registered. If you do not receive this email, please contact us.

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PhD call for interest
by Andrea Ongaro 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

*University of Milano-Bicocca* *Graduate School* *Department of Economics, Management and Statistics* *PhD in Economics and Statistics* *Call for Interest * *Academic Year 2020- 2021* The Graduate School of the University of Milano-Bicocca and the Department of Economics, Management and Statistics promote a *Call for Interest* for the PhD Programme in Economics and Statistics, academic year 2020-2021 (XXXVI cycle). The *length* of the PhD Programme in Economics and Statistics, which is organized on *two curricula (“Economics” and Statistics”)*, is *four* years, *starting in late October/early November 2020. * We offer at least eight fellowships (four for each curriculum) to the highest ranked applicants. Each fellowship pays a grant of a minimum of € 16.200 (gross income) per year. The monthly allowance can be increased up to 50% for our PhD students visiting academic or scientific institutions abroad. The number of scholarships may increase if sponsorships on specific research projects become available. There will also be allowances (research funds) for short-period mobility (from the second year). Candidates are invited to state their interest in one of the two curricula, either “Economics” or “Statistics”. Detailed information concerning The Call for Interest and the PhD Programme in Economics and Statistics can be found at the PhD website: https://www.dems.unimib.it/en/research/phd-programme

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tenure-track on Mathematical Finance in Vienna
by Ulisse Stefanelli 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Dear Colleagues, I would like to point to your attention the current Tenure-Track opening on 'Mathematical Finance' at the Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Vienna (deadline 18.03.20). We are looking for candidates in mathematical finance and probability. Connections to other fields in analysis, statistics or stochastic optimisation are especially welcome. The call text can be found at the URL https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/15649 I would be grateful if you could pass this information to anyone interested. Many thanks in advance. With my best wishes Ulisse Stefanelli ________________________________________ Ulisse Stefanelli (Univ.-Prof., PhD) Faculty of Mathematics, University of Vienna Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1,1090 Vienna, Austria ulisse.stefanelli(a)univie.ac.at ________________________________________

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4 postdoc positions open (ONLY from abroad!), University of Oslo, Norway
by Valeria Vitelli 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Apologies for cross-posting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Four postdoc positions in Biostatistics are offered at the University of Oslo (UiO), Norway. The positions are each three years appointments for incoming fellows from abroad .* *Call:* https://www.med.uio.no/english/research/scientia-fellows/apply/ *Deadline for submission: 30th April 2020IMPORTANT! Deadline for contacting the UiO PI: 20th March 2020* *SCIENTIA FELLOWS* is a transnational research fellowship programme in the field of Health Life Sciences at UiO, funded by the EU Horizon 2020 under the Maria Skłodowska-Curie scheme. The purpose of the three years postdoc is to produce scientific results of the highest quality, in collaboration with your host at UiO and its other partners. You will also be part of UiO's career development programme designed for researchers at the beginning of their career, including our Health Innovator course which aims to provide researchers with tools and insight into how innovation can be put to work for the benefit of patients, the healthcare system and society. At completion of your three year term, your academic profile will be such that you can successfully apply to the best research positions worldwide. All four positions will be at the Oslo Center for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (OCBE), UiO ( https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/research/centres/ocbe/), and in collaboration with the Oslo University Hospital. *Eligibility:* - You possess a PhD degree (at the latest by 1 July 2020) 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. You apply for each position separately, for just one or more. Mention clearly which position you are applying for. See descriptions below and here: https://www.biginsight.no/news/2020/2/24/scientia-fellow-ii-postdoc-positio… . *If you are interested in any of these positions, please contact the corresponding UiO PI by sending her/him an email with your CV and links to your papers as early as possible and by March 20th, 2020.* You and your UiO host PI will identify common research interests and discuss the concept of your research proposal. While you are responsible for the research proposal, you will discuss your application via Skype and email, and your host will help you to write a good proposal. Finally, in order to apply for the position, you have to submit the research proposal (and other documents as specified in the call) by April 30th, 2020. A Fellow of the Scientia Fellows programme will be employed at UiO for three years. The place of work is the UiO campus in Oslo. The gross salary of a Fellow will amount to 515 200 NOK/year. UiO will cover full health insurance and pay towards your pension with the Norwegian pension fund. As employee in Norway you have several welfare benefits. In addition UiO will support research costs (laptop, travel, courses etc) with 54 600 NOK per year. For further information related to moving and settling in Norway, please visit the website of the International Staff Mobility Office ( https://www.uio.no/english/about/jobs/ismo/), which will also assist incoming fellows and their families with relocation to UiO. For more information, contact the hosts mentioned below. Detailed information and how to apply can be found here: https://www.med.uio.no/english/research/scientia-fellows/apply *Postdoc positions offered:* *1. Statistical learning for personalised cancer therapy* UiO PI Host: Manuela Zucknick ( https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/people/aca/manuelkz/) Summary: We develop new multivariate (multi-task) methods to improve prediction of drug sensitivity or synergistic effects in drug combinations in large-scale pharmacogenomic screens based on molecular characterization of cancer cell lines and patient samples as well as properties of the drugs. One particular challenge is the integration of multiple heterogeneous data sources, for example via multiple kernel learning. *2. Scalable inference for genomic data integration*UiO PI Hosts: Valeria Vitelli (https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/people/aca/valeriv/) and David Swanson (https://sojourningnorth.github.io/) Summary: The project focuses on scalable statistical methods for the integration and analysis of multi-omic data sources. We plan development of horizontal (multi-omic) and vertical (meta-analytic) integrative Bayesian clustering methods during project course with intended application to disease subtyping and signature/biomarker discovery. *3. Biostatistics and/or computational biology in precision medicine and systems pharmacology*UiO PI Hosts: Arnoldo Frigessi ( https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/people/aca/frigessi/) and Kjetil Tasken (https://www.med.uio.no/klinmed/english/people/aca/ktasken/index.html) Summary: To individually tailor new treatments, we have established a laboratory and computational pipeline to test drugs and drug combinations on blood of individual patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and multiple myeloma. This project will develop new statistical and machine learning methodologies, algorithms and computational approaches, to predict the efficacy of drugs and drug combinations, including their synergetic power. *4. Biostatistics and/or bioinformatics in precision medicine for head and neck cancer*Hosts: Arnoldo Frigessi ( https://www.med.uio.no/imb/english/people/aca/frigessi/) and Eivind Hovig ( https://www.ous-research.no/hovig/) Summary: This project aims to identify early signals for head and neck cancer, biomarkers for efficacy of treatment, prediction of prognosis of the cancer, at individual level. We will develop new statistical and machine learning methodologies, algorithms and computational approaches, including deep learning based strategies, exploiting one of the largest international collection of data based on clinical trials for this type of cancer, with unique longitudinal follow-up data for survivors. -- 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 in Statistics @ Luxembourg University
by Giovanni Peccati 25 Feb '20

25 Feb '20

Dear Colleagues, a *Summer School in Statistics* will take place in *Luxembourg University* from *June 29 to July 3, 2020*. The speakers are - Z. Kabluchko (Münster) - K. Lounici (CMAP) - S. Robin (INRA) A dedicated website - with exact pointers to registration deadlines - has been created here: http://sandalschool.daloos.uni.lu/ Please, forward this message to any potentially interested researchers in your group. With my 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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International Conference in Venice - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Monica Billio 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

19^th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CREDIT 2020 */Environmental, Social and Governance Risks/* Venice, Italy 24 –25 September 2020 *GRETA Associati *(Venice, Italy), *Cattolica Assicurazioni* (Verona, Italy), *CRIF*(Bologna, Italy), *European Investment Fund* (Luxembourg), *European Investment Bank* (Luxembourg) and *Intesa Sanpaolo *(Milan, Italy) are co-sponsors of a Conference to be held in Venice on September 24-25, 2020. The objective of the Conference is to bring together academics, practitioners and PhD students working in the area of risk management. The conference will provide an opportunity for participants engaged in research at the forefront of this area to discuss both the causes and implications of recent financial and climate-related events and may, in turn, suggest fruitful and policy-relevant directions for future research. The Conference, organised under the auspices of the *Department of Economics of the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice*, *ABI - Italian Banking Association, AIAF - Associazione Italiana per l'Analisi Finanziaria *and the *Joint Research Center, European Commission *(Ispra, Italy), is the *nineteenth* of a series dedicated to various aspects of credit risk. //The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the adoption of European Commission’s Action Plan on Sustainable Finance mark important international commitments to the objective of a more sustainable economy and society. However, their successful implementation is tightly related to the scaling up of low-carbon investments and divestment from carbon-intensive investments. This, in turn, requires an assessment of the credit risks stemming from investors’ exposure to economic activities and assets that could be stranded by climate change. For instance, regulators’ discussion about the revision of capital requirements aimed to foster green investments (i.e. a green-supporting or a brown-penalising factor) is hampered by the unclear understanding of the implications of a regulatory change on individual institutions and systemic financial risk. Thus, financing the low-carbon transition is primarily a discussion about credit risk.// //The financial sector, and in particular the banking and insurance industries need to develop new portfolios’ risk management strategies and to adjust their credit allocation practices to cope with the opportunities and challenges of the low-carbon transition in the economy and finance. All t////hese changes call for a substantial amount of research to improve the knowledge of the mechanisms at play and to design tailored and effective policy tools.//// The organizers encourage submissions of papers on any topic within the overall theme of the conference and in the following areas in particular: ·INVESTMENTS: Green Finance, Investments Principles, Real Estate Sustainability, Finance for Good; ·POLICIES: Climate Policies, Climate Financial Risk; European Green New Deal, Social Sustainability; ·INFORMATION: Non Financial Disclosure, Climate risk disclosure, ESG Ratings, ESG Taxonomies. The Scientific Committee for the Conference consists of: ·*Monica Billio *(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice & GRETA, Programme Chair)** ·*Marina Brogi *(Sapienza University of Rome)** ·*Francesca Campolongo *(Joint Research Center, European Commission)** ·*Helmut Kraemer-Eis *(European Investment Fund)** ·*Rainer Haselmann***(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* The final program will include both submitted and invited papers. Acceptances received so far from invited speakers include *Marina Brogi* (Sapienza University of Rome) and *Andrew W. Lo *(MIT Sloan School of Management). The Conference will also feature panel discussions on researchers', practitioners' and policy makers’ views of the major issues at stake for embedding climate into credit risk. Those wishing to present a paper at the Conference should submit by *May 31, 2020 *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, 2020*. The final version of accepted papers must be received by August 31, 2020. 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: http://www.greta.it/credit/credit2020/credit2020.htm * Please accept our apologies for any crossed e-mails. -- -- Monica Billio Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia Fondamenta San Giobbe 873, 30121 Venezia Tel +39 041 2349170, Fax +39 041 2349176 E-mailbillio(a)unive.it http://www.unive.it/persone/billio http://ideas.repec.org/e/pbi55.html http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=303041 http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=ll83_twAAAAJ&hl=en CREDIT 2019http://www.greta.it/credit/credit2019/credit2019.htm

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A WINTER DAY IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS - 6 MARCH 2020 (Gubinelli e Komjathy)
by Francesca Romana Nardi 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Carissimi, Vi annunciamo che prossimamente si terrà la decima giornata di seminari (notare la location differente dal solito!) : A WINTER DAY IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS University of Florence Friday 6 March 2020 Lecturers: Massimiliano Gubinelli (Bonn) and Julia Komjathy (Eindhoven) Location: Aula Magna 327 Viale Morgagni 40, Firenze Link alla mappa: https://goo.gl/maps/zpsC9oGMeqw695jGA Note pratiche: Stiamo prenotando un catering con cibi vegerariani e non, percio` abbiamo bisogno del numero di persone che vogliono mangiare insieme. A coloro che fossero interessati (per una migliore organizzazione) chiediamo di mandare un email a francescaromana.nardi(a)unifi.it; gianmarco.bet(a)unifi.it; angela.caporicci(a)unifi.it con l'intenzione di partecipare al seminario, al coffe break e al pranzo. PROGRAMMA Prof. Massimiliano Gubinelli (Hausdorff Center for Mathematics) Title: Universality in slow growth phenomena and singular martingale problems Abstract: In the last years there have been steady progress in understanding the large scale properties of one dimensional growing interfaces. In the regime where the growth is comparable to thermal fluctuations the interface are described via the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation (KPZ). This is a stochastic partial differential equation which contains a non-linearity whose precise meaning is not apriori clear. There are various analytic approaches to make sense of such an equation like regularity structures, paracontrolled distributions, rough paths. In this talk we will describe a further approach to the KPZ equation based on the probabilistic notion of martingale problem. This approach can be used to prove the scaling limit of interface fluctuations in a wide class of models. Due to the singular nature of the equation, the martingale problem has to be formulated in a non-standard way and several new ideas are needed to obtain a mathematically satisfactory theory. The aim of the first part of talk will be to give a wide perspective on the phenomenon of universality of the KPZ and related equations and in the issues involved in their definition. In the second part we will discuss more in details the well-posedness of the martingale problem, in particular the uniqueness problem. Prof. Julia Komjathy (Eindhoven University of Technology) Title: How to stop explosion by penalising transmission to hubs Abstract: In this talk we study the spread of information on infinite inhomogeneous spatial random graphs. We take a scale-free spatial random graph, where the degree of a vertex follows a power law with exponent tau >1. Examples of such graphs include: Scale free percolation, Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs, and Hyperbolic Random Graphs. Then we equip each edge with a random and iid transmission delay L, and study the ball-growth of the first-passage infected cluster around the source vertex as a function of time. For a second, more realistic spreading model, the iid random transmission delay L through an edge with expected degrees W and Z is multiplied by a factor that is a polynomial of W,Z, (the penalty factor). We call the model outwards (inwards) explosive if it is possible to reach infinitely many vertices within finite time (if infinitely many vertices can reach a target vertex within finite time). We will discuss the criterion for explosion in the original model (no penalty factor) and in the penalised model. In particular, we will discuss that asymmetric penalty functions can lead to `outwards' explosion but no `inwards' explosion or the other way round. Joint work with John Lapinskas and Johannes Lengler. Program: 11.00-11.45 Introductory lecture: Gubinelli 11.45-12.00 Break 12.00-12.45 Seminar: Gubinelli 13.00-14.30 Lunch 14.30-15.15 Introductory lecture: Komjathy 15.15-15.30 Break 15.30-16.30 Seminar: Komjathy Organizers: G. Bet, F. Caravenna, N. Cancrini, E.N.M. Cirillo, F. Colomo, P. Dai Pra, A. De Masi, D. Fanelli, F. Flandoli, C. Giardina`, R. Livi, F. Martinelli, I.G. Minelli, F.R. Nardi, E. Presutti, B. Scoppola, E. Scoppola. Ricordiamo che ciascun oratore fara` una lezione introduttiva e divulgativa di 45 minuti pensata proprio per i non esperti, seguita da altri 45 minuti di tipo seminario (vedi programma). Maggiori informazioni e aggiornamenti sono reperibili alle pagine web http://web.math.unifi.it/users/fnardi/seminari/ o http://silicio.math.unifi.it/wordpress/probability/days-in-probability-and-… Vi aspettiamo numerosi Gianmarco Bet e Francesca R. Nardi Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università degli Studi di Firenze Viale Morgagni 67, Firenze, Italy _______________________________________________ Dimai-news mailing list Dimai-news(a)lists.math.unifi.it https://lists.math.unifi.it/mailman/listinfo/dimai-news

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corso di dottorato M. Maurelli
by Marco Alessandro Fuhrman 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Buongiorno a tutti. Il seguente corso di dottorato verrà tenuto prossimamente dal dott. Mario Maurelli (Università di Milano). Cordiali saluti. Marco Fuhrman ----------------- Title: Regularization by noise Abstract: We say that a regularization by noise occurs if a possibly ill-posed ODE or PDE becomes well-posed with the addition of a suitable noise term. The aim of the course is to introduce regularization by noise and show this phenomenon in some instructive examples, mostly for ODEs and linear transport-type PDEs. In particular, we will show the intuition behind and the techniques used for regularization by noise. During the course, we will also introduce some needed tools from analysis (like PDE estimates, Young integration) and stochastic analysis (like Ito formula). Luogo e orario delle lezioni: aula Dottorato (primo piano) del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università degli Studi di Milano, via Saldini 50, 20133 Milano lunedì 9 marzo, lunedì 16 marzo, lunedì 23 marzo, lunedì 30 marzo, lunedì 6 aprile dalle 10:00 alle 13:00 ------------------------------- <signaturebeforequotedtext></signaturebeforequotedtext><signatureafterquotedtext></signatureafterquotedtext>

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Rinvio seminario di Dario Trevisan al Collegio Carlo Alberto
by Stefano Favaro 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Nell’ambito delle misure di massima precauzione per contrastare la diffusione del coronavirus, comunico che Il seminario di Dario Trevisan al Collegio Carlo Alberto, previsto per venerdì 28 febbraio alle ore 12.00, è rinviato a data da destinarsi. Cordial saluti, Stefano Favaro

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workshop (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 22:58:01 +0000 From: Beatrice Acciaio <dre(a)math.beatrice-acciaio.net> To: vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it Subject: workshop Workshop announcement: "Advances in Mathematical Finance and Optimal Transport" June 22-26, 2020 at Centro di Giorgi, Pisa, Italy This conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of leading researches with interest in Mathematical Finance and related fields. Particular emphasis will be given to Robust Finance, the pathwise approach to Wasserstein geometry and Otto calculus, non-classical approaches to Portfolio Optimization, and Mathematical Economics. Additionally, Professor Walter Schachermayer's work will be honored as we also come together to celebrate his 70th birthday. Scientific Committee: Beatrice Acciaio (LSE), Mathias Beiglboeck (Vienna University), Christa Cuchiero (Vienna University), Irene Klein (Vienna University), Josef Teichmann (ETH Zurich) http://www.crm.sns.it/event/448/ Registration is free but required online in advance (http://www.crm.sns.it/event/448/registration.html)

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Rinvio seminario di Maurizia Rossi a Milano-Bicocca
by Francesco Caravenna 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Nell'ambito delle misure precauzionali per contrastare la diffusione del coronavirus, comunico che il seminario di Maurizia Rossi a Milano-Bicocca, previsto per mercoledì 26 febbraio 2020, è rinviato a data da destinarsi. Cordiali saluti, Francesco Caravenna -- _________________________________________ 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: Workshop on Randomness and PDEs
by Giuseppe Cannizzaro 22 Feb '20

22 Feb '20

Ricevo e inoltro. ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Weijun Xu <weijunx(a)gmail.com> Date: sab 22 feb 2020 alle ore 17:11 Subject: Workshop on Randomness and PDEs To: Giuseppe Cannizzaro <giuse.cannizzaro(a)gmail.com> Hi Giuseppe, As you know, we are organising the workshop *Randomness and PDEs* at Oxford from 29 June to 3 July. It includes three mini-courses by Nicolas Perkowski, Nikolay Tzvetkov and Hendrik Weber, and a few invited talks by experts in the field. More information can be found at: https://sites.google.com/view/randomness-pdes-2020 We have reserved a few accommodations for junior participants. I would be grateful if you could forward the information to the relevant mailing list. Best wishes, Weijun

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Seminario TREVISAN
by Stefano Favaro 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

STATISTICS SEMINARS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO Venerdì 28 Febbraio 2020, alle ore 12:00, presso il nuovo edificio del Collegio Carlo Alberto, in Piazza Arbarello 8, Torino, si terrà il seguente seminario: ------------------------------------------------ Dario TREVISAN (Università di Pisa) THE LAW OF THE OPTIMAL MAP IN RANDOM EUCLIDEAN MATCHING PROBLEMS Random bipartite Euclidean matching problems can be seen as specific instances of optimal transport problems involving two random empirical measures, with a cost given by the Euclidean distance between pairs of sampled points. A heuristic approach, exploiting this connection and using a non-rigorous ``linearization'' of the problem, has been proposed in the physics literature (by Caracciolo et al. in 2014) strongly supported by numerical simulations. From a mathematical point of view, despite some partial success in the two dimensional case, many conjectures concerning asymptotics of matching/transportation costs and laws of optimal matchings/couplings remain open for a wide range of costs and geometries, especially in higher dimensional domains. Aim of this talk will be to review their current status, focusing on some recent results providing, in the two dimensional case, precise estimates on the distance between the optimal matching map and its ``linearized'' approximation (based on joint work with L. Ambrosio and F. Glaudo). ------------------------------------------------ Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Il seminario è organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative (www.carloalberto.org/stats <http://www.carloalberto.org/stats>) in collaborazione con il Collegio Carlo Alberto. Cordiali saluti, Stefano Favaro

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Seminario di Maurizia Rossi a Milano-Bicocca (26 feb 2020)
by Francesco Caravenna 21 Feb '20

21 Feb '20

Ho il piacere di annunciare il seguente seminario di Maurizia Rossi (Università di Milano-Bicocca): "Random waves: a probabilistic overview with an accent on Geometry" che si terrà mercoledì 26 febbraio 2020 alle ore 14:00 in aula U5-3014 (Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Università di Milano-Bicocca). Trovate l'abstract di seguito. Il seminario è rivolto a un pubblico matematico ampio. Tutti gli interessati, a partire dai dottorandi, sono invitati a partecipare. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Abstract. The geometry of (deterministic) Laplace eigenfunctions on manifolds is a challenging research topic, several natural questions are still open in their full generality, for instance Yau's conjecture on nodal volumes. A probabilistic counterpart of these questions aroused great interest recently, in particular for the universal behavior of high-energy eigenfunctions (the so-called Berry's ansatz). In this talk we investigate the geometry of random waves on manifolds, i.e. geometrical properties of their excursion sets. The aim is to give an introduction to this theory and, if time permits, to present some of the most recent results in this area. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% _________________________________________ 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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Associate Professor Positions @ Luxembourg University
by Giovanni Peccati 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Dear Colleagues, an *Associate Professor* position (with promotion track) is open at the *Department of Mathematics of Luxembourg University (DMATH)*, in the area of *Statistics and Machine Learning* The deadline for applications is *March 30, 2020*. All relevant information can be found here http://emea3.mrted.ly/2f9vz Please, do not hesitate to forward this message to any potential candidate. With my 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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Seminar announcement at LUISS - Talk by Giorgio Ferrari (Bielefeld University), 25/02/2020, 12:00
by Alessandro Calvia 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Dear colleagues, on Tuesday, 25 February 2020, at 12:00, Prof. Giorgio Ferrari (Bielefeld University) will give a talk "On The Free Boundaries of Two Multi-dimensional Singular Stochastic Control Problems with Interconnected Dynamics" at LUISS "G. Carli" University, Department of Economics and Finance, viale Romania 32, room 304b. ------------ Abstract: We present two continuous-time stochastic control problems involving controls of bounded-variation. Those problems are motivated by questions arising in macroeconomic theory - as the optimal control of inflation via interest rates - and in operations research - as the optimal management of an inventory having impact on the demand of a good - and their characteristic is that the drift of a diffusive component of the two-dimensional state variable is an affine function of a purely controlled process. The objective is to minimize an expected cost functional involving a running cost function and proportional costs of control. By relying on a combination of techniques from viscosity theory and free-boundary analysis, we provide the structure of the value function and we show that it satisfies a so-called second-order smooth-fit principle. Such a regularity is then exploited in order to determine a system of functional equations solved by the two monotone continuous curves (free boundaries) that split the control problem's state space in three connected regions. In one of the two considered problems, the free boundaries are even shown to be classical solutions to a system of first-order nonlinear ODEs. This is based on joint works with Salvatore Federico (University of Siena) and Patrick Schuhmann (University of Bielefeld). ------------ All interested people are kindly invited to participate. Best regards, Alessandro Calvia Alessandro Calvia Assistant Professor Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli Viale Romania, 32 - 00197 Roma T +39 0685225907 acalvia(a)luiss.it<mailto:acalvia@luiss.it> www.luiss.it<http://www.luiss.it>

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Seminar announcement at LUISS - Talk by Giorgio Ferrari (Bielefeld University), 25/02/2020, 12:00
by Alessandro Calvia 20 Feb '20

20 Feb '20

Dear colleagues, on Tuesday, 25 February 2020, at 12:00, Prof. Giorgio Ferrari (Bielefeld University) will give a talk "On The Free Boundaries of Two Multi-dimensional Singular Stochastic Control Problems with Interconnected Dynamics" at LUISS "G. Carli" University, Department of Economics and Finance, viale Romania 32, room 304b. ------------ Abstract: We present two continuous-time stochastic control problems involving controls of bounded-variation. Those problems are motivated by questions arising in macroeconomic theory - as the optimal control of inflation via interest rates - and in operations research - as the optimal management of an inventory having impact on the demand of a good - and their characteristic is that the drift of a diffusive component of the two-dimensional state variable is an affine function of a purely controlled process. The objective is to minimize an expected cost functional involving a running cost function and proportional costs of control. By relying on a combination of techniques from viscosity theory and free-boundary analysis, we provide the structure of the value function and we show that it satisfies a so-called second-order smooth-fit principle. Such a regularity is then exploited in order to determine a system of functional equations solved by the two monotone continuous curves (free boundaries) that split the control problem's state space in three connected regions. In one of the two considered problems, the free boundaries are even shown to be classical solutions to a system of first-order nonlinear ODEs. This is based on joint works with Salvatore Federico (University of Siena) and Patrick Schuhmann (University of Bielefeld). ------------ All interested people are kindly invited to participate. Best regards, Alessandro Calvia Alessandro Calvia Assistant Professor Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli Viale Romania, 32 - 00197 Roma T +39 0685225907 acalvia(a)luiss.it<mailto:acalvia@luiss.it> www.luiss.it<http://www.luiss.it>

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Second announcement: "Junior female researchers in probability” workshop in Berlin, 17-19 June 2020.
by Luisa Andreis 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Dear colleagues, we would like to draw your attention to the third workshop for Junior female researchers in probability in Berlin, June 17-19, 2020. The aim of this workshop is to promote early career female researchers by giving them an opportunity to present their own work and to hear distinguished mathematicians who can inspire them to pursue a fulfilling career in probability. Keynote speakers: Martina Hofmanova (Bielefeld) Nina Gantert (TU München) Invited speakers: Sigrid Källblad (Stockholm) Annika Lang (Göteborg) Elena Pulvirenti (Bonn) Maite Wilke Berenguer (Bochum) Female participants are invited to submit abstracts for contributed talks and/or may apply for financial support for travel and accommodation expenses.. Please notice that there are special travel grants for female master students interested in gaining some insight into research and in getting in touch with researchers. Deadline for financial support and/or abstract submission: March 15, 2020. Of course participation by men is very welcome, but presentations and financial support are reserved for women. 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/JFRP20/ <https://www.wias-berlin.de/workshops/JFRP20/> Best regards, Luisa Andreis, Peter Bank, Dörte Kreher and Noemi Kurt IRTG 2544 Stochastic Analysis in Interaction, Berlin-Oxford

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LTI@UniTO 2020 Call For Fellowships
by Luca Regis 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Dear all, please allow me to bring to your attention the 2020 LTI@UniTO Call for Fellowships, which you can find here https://www.carloalberto.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/LTI-CALL-March-2020… Long-Term Investors@UniTo (LTI@UniTO) is pleased to announce the availability of 8 Research Fellowships for the year 2020. LTI@UniTO is a think tank established as a joint initiative of the Università di Torino and of the major Italian market players in long term financing. Through the Fellowship program, LTI@UniTO aims to foster research in long-term investing and to assess its features, perspectives, contribution to growth and stability. The think tank supports independent research and informs the debate between long-term investors and policymakers. Candidates must send their application (CV + research program, approximately 2 pages) to lti_applications(a)carloalberto.org before midnight, ECT, March 22nd, 2020. Up to 4 senior and 4 junior fellowships can be awarded. For more information visit https://www.carloalberto.org/research/lti Senior Fellowships are targeted at applicants with a publication history in top Finance/Econ academic journals. Receivers of the fellowships will conduct their own research for a period of two months at UNITO. Total remuneration (for the entire period – gross and including all expenses): € 18000. Junior Fellowships are targeted at either PhD candidates or scholars with a PhD in Finance, Economics or a related field. Receivers of the fellowships will conduct research under the supervision of a Senior Fellow or a UNITO/Collegio’s Finance faculty for a period of two months at UNITO. Remuneration (for the entire period – gross and including all expenses): € 6000. The research programs should be related to one of the themes in the Strategic List below and must be included in the Application. STRATEGIC LIST • Interaction between financial markets and the real economy including start-up funding, impact finance, infrastructure, SME financing; • Role of LTIs in traditional financial markets (systemic risk, stability, pro or countercyclicality, liquidity and impact on prices...), as well as on private markets; • Risk and return of private markets (private equity, private debt, private placements); • Asset Management or ALM of LTIs, including past experiences, models, benchmarking, constraints on expenditures and liabilities; • Mandates, delegation and effectiveness of monitoring (short term accountability versus long-term strategies); • Optimal contracts in delegated portfolio management: what is the effectiveness of using benchmarking and bonus/target incentive schemes; • The collective costs of short-horizon investment and their control (regulatory constraints); • Fintech for LTIs (e.g., robo-advice): opportunities and risks; • Benefits and costs of financial regulation and macro prudential policies that matter to LTIs; • Real estate and real estate funds: risk, return and their role in the ALM of LTIs; • LTIs, sustainable finance and Green Financing. Best regards, Luca Regis Executive Director LTI@UniTO -- 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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MSc. Finance and Banking at Tor Vergata University of Rome
by Davide Pirino 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Dear Colleague, On behalf of the Program Director, Prof. Rocco Ciciretti I would be grateful if you could bring the Tor Vergata MSc. Finance and Banking to the attention of your best undergraduate students. MSc. Finance and Banking at Tor Vergata University of Rome is a 2-year full-time program designed for highly qualified and motivated students who wish to study mathematical and statistical techniques applied to financial markets. The deadline for the Application is June 10, 2020 for non-EU applicants and July 22, 2020 for EU applicants. This quantitative program is organized in courses, seminars and guest lectures. Moreover, students have the option to choose from a wide range of electives. Dedicated mentorship and support are offered to students throughout their time at Tor Vergata. Please find the 2020/21 official call at https://economia.uniroma2.it/master-science/financeandbanking/admission-app… . For more information about the program, please feel free to contact our Program Office at *msc_finance(a)economia.uniroma2.it <msc_finance(a)economia.uniroma2.it>*, or visit our website https://economia.uniroma2.it/master-science/financeandbanking. Sincerely, Davide Pirino Graduate program coordinator https://economia.uniroma2.it/master-science/financeandbanking Our conference https://www.qfinatwork.com/

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Fwd: Search for potential candidates (women or non-binary) for Assistant Senior lecturer (tenure track position)
by Carina Geldhauser 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Cari tutti, segnalo questa ottima opportunita per una posizione tenure track in Svezia, versione html qui: https://www.europeanwomeninmaths.org/offer/search-for-potential-candidates-… Soci di "European Women In Mathematics" possono anche farsi segnalare tutti annunci via email, basta impostarlo sul vosto profilo. Cordiali saluti, Carina ---- The department of mathematics at Lund University <https://europeanwomeninmaths.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca40359a7fa…> is looking for *potential candidates of under-represented gender* (women or non-binary) for an assistant senior lectureship position in mathematics (equivalent to *assistant professor with tenure track* in the US system). The department will be competing with the other departments in the engineering faculty for funding, and therefore we would like to get in contact with potential candidates at an early stage, in order to write a competitive proposal. If funding for the position is granted, the position(s) will be advertised in the autumn of 2020, and a likely starting date will be in Autumn 2021. Prospective candidates in mathematics (including mathematical statistics and computer vision), with a research interest that matches research done at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences <https://europeanwomeninmaths.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca40359a7fa…> (see http://www.maths.lu.se/english/research/research-groups/ <https://europeanwomeninmaths.us19.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ca40359a7fa…>) are welcome to contact Sara Maad Sasane (sara_at_maths.lth.se), with a cv and a short expression of how you see yourself interacting with people in the centre. I will contact you with further information and instructions if we want to proceed and apply for funding for a position in this area. Ideally, the candidates should have some postdoc experience, but even if you don't have this yet, you are welcome to send in your cv, since we may consider you for next year instead or for other positions.

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Workshop announcement and call for presentation: ABC in Grenoble, March 19th-20th 2020
by Julyan Arbel 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

Dear all, The ABC in ... workshop series continues in Grenoble, France, on March 19-20 2020. We are still accepting contributions for oral presentations and posters, the deadline for submissions is on Feb. 21. The workshop is free but registration is mandatory, and the call for presentation is open until the end of the week. Register on the website: https://sites.google.com/view/abc-in-grenoble/ Confirmed speakers and sessions (more to come) are: Misspecified models --- Guillaume Dehaene (EPFL, Switzerland) TBA Gael Martin (Monash University, Australia) Focused Bayesian Prediction (joint with Ruben Loaiza-Maya, David T. Frazier) Tommaso Rigon (Duke University, USA) A generalized Bayes framework for probabilistic clustering (joint with Amy Herring and David Dunson) Neural network related techniques --- Flora Jay (Université Paris-Saclay, France) Deep learning for population size history inference: design, comparison and combination with approximate Bayesian computation Pierre-Alexandre Mattei (Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, France) Partially Exchangeable Networks and Architectures for Learning Summary Statistics in Approximate Bayesian Computation (joint with Samuel Wiqvist, Umberto Picchini, Jes Frellsen) Advanced computational techniques --- Umberto Picchini (Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Stratified sampling and bootstrapping for approximate Bayesian computation (joint with Richard G. Everitt) Dennis Prangle (Newcastle University, UK) Distilling importance sampling Hien D. Nguyen (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) ABC via the Energy Statistic (joint with Julyan Arbel, Hongliang Lü, Florence Forbes) Grenoble is the largest city in the French Alps, and easily accessible by train from Paris, Lyon, Geneva or Milan. Best regards, Julyan Arbel, Simon Barthelmé, Florences Forbes Julyan Arbel http://www.julyanarbel.com/ @JulyanArbel

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Probability Seminar: Alberto Chiarini (TU Eidhoven) [Padova 27/02, 11.30]
by alessandra bianchi 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

Dear Colleagues, we would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar that will take place at the Department of Mathematics of Padova, on February 27. ________________________________________________________ Speaker: Alberto Chiarini (TU Eindhoven) Title: Entropic repulsion for the occupation-time field of random interlacements by disconnection. 27 FEBRUARY (Thursday) , 11:30, ROOM 430, Dip. di Matematica “Tullio Levi-Civita”, Via Trieste 63, Padova Abstract: The model of random interlacements was introduced in 2007 by A.-S. Sznitman, motivated by questions about the disconnection of discrete cylinders or tori by the trace of simple random walk. Since then, it has gained popularity among probabilists due to its percolative properties and also because of its connections to the free field. Random interlacements on transient graphs can be constructed as a Poisson point process of doubly infinite trajectories. After reviewing this model, we will focus on the rare event that these trajectories disconnect a macroscopic body from infinity, in the strongly percolative regime. We will ask the following question: What is the most efficient way for random interlacements to enforce such disconnection? In other words, how do the trajectories of random interlacements look like conditionally on disconnection? All of you are very welcome. Best regards, Alessandra Bianchi -- 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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seminario Linard Hoessly
by Enrico Bibbona 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

Cari colleghi, giovedì 20 alle 13,40 in aula Buzano, DISMA Politecnico di Torino Linard Hoessly (Università di Copenhagen) terrà un seminario su Stationary distributions via decomposition of stochastic reaction networks https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.02871 Cordiali saluti, 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: Demande de diffusion de l'annonce d'une offre de PHD et de postdoc à Oslo (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 09:48:54 +0100 From: monique.jeanblanc <monique.jeanblanc(a)univ-evry.fr> To: Sergio Pulido <serpul3374(a)gmail.com>, Tiziano Vargiolu <vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it> Subject: Fwd: Demande de diffusion de l'annonce d'une offre de PHD et de postdoc ? Oslo -------- Message transf?r? -------- Sujet : Demande de diffusion de l'annonce d'une offre de PHD et de postdoc ? Oslo Date : Mon, 17 Feb 2020 09:38:49 +0100 (CET) De : Bion-Nadal Jocelyne (Mme) <jocelyne.bion-nadal(a)polytechnique.edu> Pour : caroline hillairet <Caroline.Hillairet(a)ensae.fr>, monique jeanblanc <monique.jeanblanc(a)univ-evry.fr>, jean-francois chassagneux <jean-francois.chassagneux(a)univ-paris-diderot.fr> Chers Caroline, Monique et Jean-Fran?ois Est-ce que l'un de vous pourrait diffuser rapidement l'annonce de cette offre de phd et de postdoc ? Oslo ? la mailing liste du s?minaire Bachelier? (La date limite est ? la fin du mois). PostDoc position https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/182298/postdoctoral-research -fellow-in-stochastic-analysis-and-applications University of Oslo Deadline: February 29th, 2020 PhD position https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/182276/phd-research-fellow-i n-stochastic-analysis-and-applications University of Oslo Deadline February 29th, 2020 Je vous remercie par avance. Bien amicalement. Jocelyne

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Workshop in Bath
by Giuseppe Cannizzaro 14 Feb '20

14 Feb '20

Ricevo e inoltro. Dear Colleagues, we would like to invite you to take part in the Bath Mathematical Symposium on PDE and Randomness which will take place at the University of Bath 26th August - 4th September The Symposium will consist of two events: 1) Summer school, August 26-28th: The school is aimed for a broad audience of researchers in the probability theory and the analysis of PDEs including PhD students and Postdocs. It will consist of three mini courses: • Roland Bauerschmidt (University of Cambridge, UK) - Log-Sobolev inequality and the renormalisation group • Hugo Duminil-Copin (IHES, France and University of Geneva, Switzerland) - Marginal triviality of the scaling limits of critical 4D Ising and ϕ^4_4 models • Martin Hairer (Imperial College London, UK) - Stochastic Yang Mills 2) Workshop August 31st - September 4: The workshop aims to explore current trends of the probability theory and its connections to PDEs and will have around 23 talks. Topics will include: SPDEs (e.g. parabolic, dispersive, 2d KPZ); Interacting Particle systems; Stochastic Homogenization. Please visit our webpage https://sites.google.com/view/pderandombath/ for more information and registration. You are more than welcome to apply for both school and workshop but you can also apply separately to either of the events. We can provide a limited number of rooms on campus of the University of Bath (either for the duration of the whole event or only for the school/workshop). If you would like to be considered for the accommodation please register before *20*/04/20. Please see the webpage for details. Best wishes, Hendrik Weber, Andris Gerasimovics

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Postdoc in Probability in Oxford
by Enrico Scalas 14 Feb '20

14 Feb '20

Car* collegh*, vi invio questo annuncio da Christina Goldschmidt con preghiera di diffusione a persone potenzialmente interessate. Cordiali saluti, Enrico Scalas -- Dear colleagues, (With apologies for cross-posting!) The Department of Statistics at Oxford is currently advertising a 1-year postdoctoral position in probability, to work with me on a project concerning random graphs and their scaling limits. I would be very grateful if you could bring this to the attention of any suitable people that you know. Potential candidates should feel free to contact me directly. More details are available from the university's jobs page, where there are links to a detailed job description and the online application form. The start date is flexible, but must be no later than 1st September 2020. The closing date for applications is 12 noon (GMT) on 6th March 2020. (Candidates should please ask their referees to send their letters of reference by the closing date.) Many thanks and best wishes, Christina Goldschmidt. -- Christina Goldschmidt | http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~goldschm | she/her Department of Statistics and Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford

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SIdE-Ca' Foscari Summer Schools in Venice (Italy)
by Roberto Casarin UNIVE 14 Feb '20

14 Feb '20

Dear all, Applications are now open for our Summer Schools: /*Networks Econometrics* /(28 June - 3 July 2020)/* */Instructors: /Monica Billio, Roberto Casarin and Walter Quattrociocchi/ (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), /Matteo Iacopini/ (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), /Sergio Petralia///(London School of Economics and Political Science), /Luca Rossini /(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands). /*Bayesian Multivariate Models and Forecasting in Economics and Finance*/ (August 24-28 2020) Instructors: /Gaetano Carmeci /(University of Trieste), /Roberto Casarin /(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice),///Matteo Ciccarelli///(European Central Bank, DG Research),///Francesco Ravazzolo///(Free University of Bozen-Bolzano). //Organization:// ////The courses for Master and PhD students are organized by the Italian Econometric Society (SIdE) in collaboration with the Venice centre in Economic and Risk Analytics for Public Policies (VERA) at Ca' Foscari University of Venice ///Venue: / The summer schools are hosted in the beautiful San Giobbe Campus at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, located at the heart of the city of Venice (Italy). The registration fees include full accommodation. /Further information:// /For further information on scope of the meeting, speakers, program, applications, deadlines, venue, etc. see the school web site https://www.side-iea.it/events/postgraduate-courses /Description (Networks Econometrics)// /The aim of the course is to provide the fundamentals of the econometrics network with particular reference to the Network mapping and visualisation, the Network Extraction Methods, Multi-layer Network Models and their applications to finance. The tutorials will develop applications to stocks, interest rates and commodities markets and to contagion analysis. Modelling of financial and commercial trade networks will be considered as well. /Description (Bayesian Multivariate Models and Forecasting in Economics and Finance)// /The course is advanced and covers state-of-the-art techniques and recent developments in Bayesian Multivariate Models, for structural analysis and forecasting, nonparametric methods and forecast combinations with a broad range of applications in economics and finance. The methods introduced in the lectures will be illustrated with hands-on applications in MATLAB. Please help us to promote this meeting by forwarding this email to anyone you know might be interested, and especially bring this announcement to the attention of your students or post-docs, who are likely not on our mailing lists. Apologies for cross-posting. The Organizers Roberto Casarin and Gaetano Carmeci -- Roberto Casarin, PhD Professor of Econometrics University Ca' Foscari, Venice Address: San Giobbe 873/b 30121 Venezia, Italy Phone: +39 041.234.91.49 Web: http://venus.unive.it/r.casarin/ IMEF: http://www.unive.it/imef VERA: http://www.unive.it/vera ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1746-9190

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Seminar of Francesco Morandin and Alessandro Montagnani, Padova 18/02/2020
by barbato＠math.unipd.it 14 Feb '20

14 Feb '20

Dear Colleagues, we would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar that will take place at the Department of Mathematics of Padova, on February 18. Speaker: Francesco Morandin Title: Turbulence, shell models and critical exponents for dissipation Abstract: Shell models of turbulence are nonlinear dynamical systems inspired by fluid dynamics. They are idealized and simplified, but tailored to exhibit the same energy cascade behaviour of three dimensional Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. A typical feature of these models is in fact anomalous dissipation of energy, which in finite time "escapes" to infinity, yielding a blow-up and instantaneous loss in regularity. A dissipative term corresponding to viscosity can recover regularity, for some of these models, but in total generality one needs hyper-dissipation, with an exponent larger than the physical one. Recent results hint that in the more refined framework of tree (hierarchical) models the required exponent may be actually lower. Speaker: Alessandro Montagnani Title: A stationary solution for turbulence shell models. Abstract The focus of the talk is to study well-posedness, with respect to generic Gaussian distributed initial data, in turbulence shell models. In the of state-of-the-art results we have existence of solution for any finite energy initial conditions. Here we show the generic existence of solutions with respect to initial data distributed as Gaussian invariant measures, in "mixed" dyadic and tree-like shell models, extending the classical deterministic results. The existence is given thanks to compactness argument and techniques similar to the ones used by Albeverio and Cruzeiro for Euler equation (and more recently with a different approach by F. Flandoli), adapted to our model. Uniqueness is not provided, and the natural oscillating behaviour of the solutions obtained may suggests that it doesn't hold at all All of you are very welcome. Best regards, David Barbato

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13th European Summer School in Financial Mathematics, Vienna, Aug. 31- Sept. 4, 2020 (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:39:42 +0100 From: Christa Cuchiero <christa.cuchiero(a)univie.ac.at> To: christa.cuchiero(a)unvie.ac.at Subject: 13th European Summer School in Financial Mathematics, Vienna, Aug. 31- Sept. 4, 2020 Dear colleagues, we are pleased to announce the 13th European Summer School in Financial Mathematics on "Machine Learning in Finance" and "McKean-Vlasov Equations & Mean Field Games in Finance" which will be held at the University of Vienna, from August 31 to September 4, 2020. Mini-courses will be given by Lyudmila Grigoryevya Xin Guo Lukasz Szpruch Josef Teichmann Detailed information on the summer school and instructions for applications can be found at: https://www.univie.ac.at/summer_school_MathFinance/index.html The application deadline is April 30, 2020. Successful applicants will be sponsored for accommodation and (partly) travel expenses. Please bring the announcement to the attention of PhD-students and other researchers who may be interested to attend. Kind regards, Christa Cuchiero

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Postdoc in Financial Mathematics at Dublin City University
by Paolo Guasoni 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Dear Colleague, Dublin City University has a Postdoctoral position (Two-year) in Financial Mathematics https://www.dcu.ie/sites/default/files/hr/rf1327_postdoctoral_researcher_fi… The closing date for the application is March 6th, 2020. With best regards, Paolo Guasoni -- * *Séanadh Ríomhphoist/Email Disclaimer* *Tá an ríomhphost seo agus aon chomhad a sheoltar leis faoi rún agus is lena úsáid ag an seolaí agus sin amháin é. Is féidir tuilleadh a léamh anseo. <https://sites.google.com/view/seanadh-riomhphoist>* *This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for use by the addressee. Read more here. <https://sites.google.com/view/dcu-email-disclaimer>* * -- <https://www.facebook.com/DCU/> <https://twitter.com/DublinCityUni> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/dublin-city-university> <https://www.instagram.com/dublincityuniversity/?hl=en> <https://www.youtube.com/user/DublinCityUniversity>

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PhD Course, Tor Vergata (Matematica), Paolo Pigato
by Claudio Macci 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Department of Mathematics, Univ. Roma Tor Vergata PhD Course held by Paolo Pigato (10 hours) Title: Fractional Brownian motion and non-Markovian modeling Schedule: March 03, 2020; h. 14-16. Room: Aula D'Antoni March 05, 2020; h. 14-17. Room: Aula D'Antoni March 10, 2020; h. 14-16. Room: Aula De Blasi March 12, 2020; h. 14-17. Room: Aula D'Antoni Abstract. In several applications of stochastic analysis (financial engineering, telecommunication networks, ...), it is desirable to model real-world quantities which are non-Markovian, for example because the noise process exhibits slowly decaying auto-correlations and long memory. In this course we will focus on fractional Brownian motion, a prototypical example of non-Markovian process. Such process is a generalisation of Brownian motion with Holder regularity possibly different than 1/2 and it is not a martingale. We will consider large deviations problems, simulation methods and some examples of application. Some other details can be found here: http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~macci/corso-dottorato-pigato.htm Best regards. Claudio Macci.

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BAYSM 2020: Announcement on coronavirus
by Federico Camerlenghi 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Dear all, as you may already be aware, there is a recent coronavirus epidemic going around in China, which may have raised concerns in attending the BAYSM 2020 meeting in China late June https://baysm2020.uconn.edu/ . As a satellite meeting of the 2020 ISBA World Meeting (Kunming, China, June 29-July 03), we would like to cite the email that ISBA Program Council just sent to ISBA members to address the coronavirus concerns and ISBA World Meeting in China: "We are keeping a close eye on the development. While at this point we are cautiously optimistic that the epidemic will not last till June, both as a result of the extraordinary measure that China is taking to contain the spread, and as cold-like coronaviruses generally don't spread effectively as temperature rises in spring. However, we want to stay cautious and keep options open, and will take the necessary actions to ensure the health and safety of our community." We are holding the same position as the ISBA Program Council and will keep you all updated of any changes in the plan of the meeting. Particularly, if the epidemic is not contained in the next couple of months, and thus the community participating in the meeting will be subject to health risk, we will consider alternatives such as postponing the BaYSM Meeting. For now, we have decided to extend the early registration deadline as follows. Deadline for submissions: May 1 2020 23:59 CST End of review process: May 23 2020 Early registration: June 01 2020 Late registration: June 15 2020 Thank you for your support of our BaYSM Meeting. We hope that the epidemic will be over soon and we will see you all in Kunming at the BaYSM this June. Best Regards, On behalf of the organizing committee Federico Camerlenghi -- Federico Camerlenghi Department of Economics, Management and Statistics University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy. web-page: https://www.unimib.it/federico-camerlenghi

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Seminar of Nicola Secomandi, Padova, Friday 21
by Tiziano Vargiolu 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear Colleagues, we would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar that will take place at the Department of Mathematics, University of Padova (via Trieste, 63), on February 21 h. 15.30 room 1BC/45. -------------------------------------------------- NICOLA SECOMANDI Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University Quadratic Hedging and Optimization of Option Exercise Policies in Incomplete Markets and Discrete Time Abstract: This paper extends quadratic hedging from European to Bermudan options in discrete time when markets are incomplete and investigates its use for supporting exercise policy optimization. The key idea is to construct date specific approximate replicating portfolios. Hedging any given exercise policy can be done by solving a collection of stochastic dynamic programs. Optimizing the exercise policy based on the resulting martingale measure requires care. If this measure is risk neutral (RN), the value of an optimal such policy, which can be obtained by augmenting the hedging model with an exercise policy optimization step, is a no arbitrage one. Otherwise this approach must be refined by imposing time consistency on exercise policies, although the value of the resulting exercise policy may not be arbitrage free. Following the common pragmatic strategy of specifying quadratic hedging under an RN measure, e.g., one calibrated to market prices, avoids these issues. In particular, it provides a simple hedging policy with immediate practical applicability and is equivalent to exercise policy optimization under RN valuation, thus complementing it with a consistent hedging policy. A simple numerical example shows that this procedure generates effective hedging policies. Paper available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.05788?context=q-fin --------------------------- All the best 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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10 Ph.D. positions @ Luxembourg Unviersity
by Giovanni Peccati 13 Feb '20

13 Feb '20

Dear Colleagues, *10 Ph.D. positions* are currently open in the *Department of Mathematics of Luxembourg University*, in the framework of a transversal grant spanning several disciplines - geometry, number theory, probability and mathematical physics. Here is the official link, where all details can be found: http://emea3.mrted.ly/2ej0i With my 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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Commodity and Energy Markets Association - Annual Meeting 2020 - Madrid (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 12 Feb '20

12 Feb '20

Apologies for cross-postings 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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CREST Post-doc offer: green finance / quantitative economics (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 12 Feb '20

12 Feb '20

Apologies for cross-postings. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 15:29:26 +0100 From: Peter Tankov <peter.tankov(a)polytechnique.org> To: Tiziano Vargiolu <vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it> Dear Tiziano,would you be so kind as to distribute my post-doc offer (attached) on your mailing list? Best wishes Peter -- Peter Tankov Professor of quantitative finance, ENSAE ParisTech Phone: +33 1 70 26 68 73 www.lpma-paris.fr/pageperso/tankov/ Email: peter.tankov(a)ensae.fr

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New Post-Doc position @ Luxembourg University
by Giovanni Peccati 12 Feb '20

12 Feb '20

Dear Colleagues, a new *2 years post-doc position *is open at the *Department of Mathematics of Luxembourg University *- deadline is* March 15, 2020. * Here is the official link for the application: http://emea3.mrted.ly/2ez6c The position is actually related to a large research grant (bridging several groups in the department) on the general topic of *Geometry, Probability and its Synergies. * As a consequence, applications are particularly welcomed from researchers whose expertise bridges two or more of the following areas: *geometry, probability theory, number theory and mathematical physics.* Please, do not hesitate to share this message with potential candidates. With my 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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Summer school in Santander for Master students
by Maurizia Rossi 11 Feb '20

11 Feb '20

Dear all, I would like to advertise this Probability Summer School on Random and deterministic point configurations https://www.ub.edu/santalo20/ that will be held in Santander - July 13-17, 2020. The aim of this Summer School is to introduce Master students into the field of point configurations, with wide-view courses that will include a friendly exposition of the main results in the area and its applications. If you know someone who might be interested in joining this event, please let them contact the organizers (C. Beltran and J. Marzo). Best wishes, Maurizia -- Maurizia Rossi Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca https://mauriziarossi.wordpress.com

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PROBABILITY SEMINAR: Giovanni Conforti (CMAP, École Polytechnique ) [Padova, 21/02, 14.30]
by alessandra bianchi 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

Dear Colleagues, we would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar that will take place at the Department of Mathematics of Padova, on February 21. ________________________________________________________ Speaker: Giovanni Conforti (CMAP, École Polytechnique ) Title: Understanding the most likely evolution of interacting particle systems 21 FEBRUARY (Friday), 14:30; ROOM 1BC45, Dipartimento di Matematica “Tullio Levi-Civita”, Via Trieste 63, Padova Abstract: An old question posed by Schrodinger may be rephrased as follows: what is the most likely evolution of an interacting particle system conditionally on the observation of its initial and final configurations? It is often the case that by means Large Deviation Principle this question is rigorously formulated as a (mean field) control problem in the space of probability measures. In the first part of this talk we will see if the space of probability measures is endowed with a Riemannian metric naturally induced by the form of the rate function, the equations governing the most likely evolution take the form of Newton's law. In some examples the Riemannian metric to be considered coincides with the Otto metric of optimal transport, but it is often the case that a different metric has to be chosen. In the second part of the talk we discuss how to use Newton’s laws to obtain convexity principles and dissipation estimates for entropy functionals along the most likely evolution. The interest of these estimates is twofold: on the one hand they imply a novel class of functional inequalities; on the other hand they allow to establish the turnpike property for the control problem defining the most likely evolution and to study its ergodic behaviour. Two concrete examples will be discussed in more detail: the exclusion process and systems of weakly interacting diffusions. Based on joint works with A.Chiarini, I.Gentil, J.Backhoff, C.Léonard, M.Pavon and L. Tamanini. All of you are very welcome. Best regards, Alessandra Bianchi tp://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/ <http://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/> -- 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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Quantitative Finance @ WORK - Rome, April 24, 2020
by Davide Erminio Pirino 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

Dear Student, Dear Colleague, The *Master of Science in Finance and Banking -* *University of Rome Tor Vergata* are pleased to host the fourth edition of *QFin@Work on April 24, 2020. *The Workshop is on the practical use of quantitative methods in Finance and related fields. The goal of the Workshop is to get together leading experts, and especially finance professionals, to learn from their experiences, listen to new ideas, and discuss about future perspectives in the field. The 2020 schedule is now available at https://qfinatwork.com/2020 Registration is free but compulsory to anyone will attend the meeting. We hope to see you there, *The Scientific Committee* Rocco Ciciretti Katia Colaneri Annalisa Fabretti Stefano Herzel Marco Nicolosi Davide Pirino Alessandro Ramponi Sergio Scarlatti

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PhD course by Prof Antoine Jacquier (Imperial College London) in Padova
by Giorgia Callegaro 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

Dear all, this email is to announce the PhD course entitled "*A smooth tour around rough models in finance (From data to stochastics to machine learning)*" which will be given by Prof Antoine Jacquier (Imperial College, London) at the Department of Mathematics of University of Padova in March/April 2020. The course details (aim, contents and prerequisites) are available here: https://www.math.unipd.it/~dottmath/corsi2020/Jacquier.pdf and here is the schedule (lectures will be given in room *2BC30* in Torre Archimede, Dept of Mathematics, Via Trieste 63, 35121 Padova) 1. Thursday 19 March: 14-16 2. Friday 20 March: 14-16 3. Monday 23 March: 14-16 4. Thursday 26 March: 14-16 5. Friday 27 March: 14-16 6. Thursday 2 April: 14-16 7. Friday 3 April : 14-16 8. Monday 6 April : 14-16. Every lecture lasts 45 minutes, so in a slot of 2 hours please expect two lectures (for a total of 90 minutes) with a break. Everybody is welcome! See you in Padova, Giorgia Callegaro -- Giorgia Callegaro Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics - University of Padova Via Trieste 63 , I-35121 Padova - ITALY Tel: +39-0498271481 Fax: +39-0498271499 E-Mail: gcallega(a)math.unipd.it <https://webmail.math.unipd.it/horde3/imp/message.php?mailbox=Sent&index=598#> Personal web-page: https://sites.google.com/site/giogiocallegaro/Home

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avviso breve ciclo seminari
by Franco Flandoli 08 Feb '20

08 Feb '20

Si comunica che nei giorni *martedì 11 febbraio (aula Mancini) martedì 18 febbraio (aula Mancini) martedì 25 febbraio (aula Tonelli)* si terranno, presso la Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, i seguenti due cicli di seminari, con eventuale proseguimento da concordare: *ore 11-12 Sigurd Assing ore 12-13 Michael Goldman* Il tema dei seminari è brevemente descritto qui di seguito. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. ------------------------ *Sigurd Assing* (University of Warwick) TITLE: Bayesian Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model ABSTRACT: We introduce a variational inference framework for training the Gaussian process latent variable model and thus performing Bayesian nonlinear dimensionality reduction. The maximization of the variational lower bound provides a Bayesian training procedure that is robust to overfitting and can automatically select the dimensionality of the nonlinear latent space. ------------------------ *Michael Goldman* (Université Paris Diderot, CNRS) TITLE: A variational approach to regularity in optimal transport and applications to the optimal matching problem. ABSTRACT: In this course I will present the regularity theory for optimal transport maps recently developed together with M. Huesmann and F. Otto. The main point of the course is to show that as long as we are in a linearization regime, that is as long as the local displacement and the local distances of the two marginals to the Lebesgue measure are small, the displacement is quantitatively close to the gradient of the solution of a Poisson equation. We will see applications both to partial regularity and to (a variant of) the optimal matching problem. In particular, we will see how this theory allows to justify down to the microscopic scale some predictions made by Caracciolo and al for that problem.

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2-year post-doc position at the University of Padova
by Claudio Fontana 08 Feb '20

08 Feb '20

Dear all (and apologies for cross-posting), A 2-year post-doctoral position at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Padova (Italy) is available, within the STARS@UNIPD project PRISMA under the supervision of Claudio Fontana (personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/fontanaclaud <https://sites.google.com/site/fontanaclaud>). The primary goal of the PRISMA project is the development of new stochastic methods for the modelling of information in finance and insurance. We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with a solid background in stochastic analysis and mathematical finance. A PhD degree in these fields is a necessary requirement. We offer a stimulating research environment, an exciting research project, excellent working conditions. Salary is fixed at a top level for a post-doctoral position at the University of Padova, corresponding to about 2100 euros/month (net of taxes). Generous financial support is available for participation to international conferences and workshops. The selected candidate will not have mandatory teaching duties. The starting date can be arranged, but cannot be later than September 1st, 2020. To be considered, the application package has to arrive before March 2, 2020. The official call for the position and application instructions can be found at https://www.math.unipd.it/it/news/?id=2579 <https://www.math.unipd.it/it/news/?id=2579> For any further information and expressions of interest on this position, please contact Claudio Fontana directly at fontana(a)math.unipd.it <mailto:fontana@math.unipd.it> Best regards Claudio Fontana

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Corso di dottorato "Topics from the Gaussian World" a Milano-Bicocca
by Gianmario Tessitore 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

Buongiorno Tra marzo e maggio 2020, Francesco Caravenna e Maurizia Rossi terranno il corso di dottorato: *"Topics from the Gaussian World"* presso il Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni dell'Università di Milano-Bicocca. La prima lezione avrà luogo giovedì 5 marzo alle 14:30-17:00 in aula U5-3014. Per maggiori informazioni si veda la pagina http://staff.matapp.unimib.it/~fcaraven/did1920/phd/index.html Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare un cordiali saluto -- Gianmario Tessitore Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

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Call for Interest - Assegno di ricerca
by Daniele Marazzina 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

Con preghiera di diffusione Il Qfinlab, laboratorio di finanza quantitativa del Dipartimento di Matematica del Politecnico di Milano, sta valutando la possibilità di bandire assegni di ricerca su tematiche relative alla finanza quantitativa (calcolo stocastico, portfolio allocation, pricing, ma non solo), all'econometria e/o all'utilizzo di tecniche machine learning in finanza. Eventuali persone interessate possono inviare il loro cv all'indirizzo qfinlab(a)polimi.it<mailto:qfinlab@polimi.it> . Per informazioni sul gruppo, si rimanda a www.qfinlab.polimi.it<http://www.qfinlab.polimi.it/> Cordialmente Daniele Marazzina

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Seminario Karim Barigou in Bicocca
by Valeria Bignozzi 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

Si avvisa che il giorno Lunedì 10 Febbraio alle ore 15:30 presso l’Università di Milano-Bicocca (via degli Arcimboldi 8 - edificio U7, quarto piano- aula 4026) si terrà il seguente seminario: Speaker: Karim Barigou (University of Lyon) Title: Fair valuation of insurance liabilities: interplay between actuarial judgement and market-consistency Abstract: Insurance liabilities are in most cases (only) partially replicable by traded assets. This may be due to the fact that the payoffs of the underlying insurance contracts are defined in terms of a combination of hedgeable and unhedgeable claims (e.g. unit-linked insurance) or due to the existence of traded insurance-linked securities of which the payoff is correlated with the payoff of the insurance liability (e.g. CAT bonds). Since not all insurance claims can be perfectly replicated by traded assets, we face the problem of valuating claims in incomplete markets (i.e. markets in which some claims are not perfectly hedgeable). The main goal of this presentation is to introduce different valuation frameworks for the determination of a fair valuation for insurance liabilities. The objective of this valuation is to merge the traditional actuarial valuation based on pooling and diversification with a market-consistent approach based on hedging and replication. In particular, we define a fair valuation as a valuation which is market-consistent (marked-to-market for hedgeable claims) and actuarial (marked-to-model for claims independent of financial market evolutions). Among the different fair valuation frameworks, we introduce and investigate the class of `hedge-based valuations'. Under this approach, one unbundles the unhedgeable insurance claim in a hedgeable part and a remaining part. The fair value of the claim is then set equal to the sum of the respective values of the hedgeable and the unhedgeable parts, where the hedgeable part is valuated by the financial price of its underlying hedge, while the value of the remaining part is determined via an actuarial approach. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Cordiali saluti, Valeria ******************************************************************************************* Valeria Bignozzi Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi Quantitativi Università di Milano-Bicocca Edificio U7 – 4° Piano Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8 20126 Milano e-mail: valeria.bignozzi(a)unimib.it <mailto:valeria.bignozzi@unimib.it> ******************************************************************************************* _______________________________________________ Random mailing list Per informazioni e per disiscriversi: https://fields.dm.unipi.it/listinfo/random <https://fields.dm.unipi.it/listinfo/random> Per contattare gli amministratori: random-admin(a)fields.dm.unipi.it <mailto:random-admin@fields.dm.unipi.it> Per inviare un messaggio alla mailing list: Random(a)fields.dm.unipi.it <mailto:Random@fields.dm.unipi.it> Archivio dei messaggi inviati: https://fields.dm.unipi.it/pipermail/random <https://fields.dm.unipi.it/pipermail/random>

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Research fellowship in Padova - "Stochastic processes on random structures and applications"
by alessandra bianchi 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

Cari colleghi con l'invito a volerne dare la massima diffusione, vi segnalo che, all'interno di un progetto congiunto UniBo-UniFi-UniPd denominato "Dinamiche stocastiche in ambienti disordinati ed applicazioni nelle scienze ", è uscito il bando per un assegno di ricerca su "Processi stocastici su strutture aleatorie e applicazioni" con sede presso il Dipartimento di Matematica "Tullio Levi-Civita " dell'Università di Padova. La descrizione e i dettagli per l'ammissione sono indicati di seguito. The Department of Mathematics "Tullio Levi-Civita" of the University of Padova invites applications for a Research fellowship of the duration of 12 months in the framework of a joint project with the University of Bologna and the University of Firenze, with subject "Stochastic processes on random structures and applications". Successful candidates will be recent PhDs in Mathematics, or graduates with a Master's degree, who have suitable and documented academic and professional experience. The gross amount of the research fellowship contract is 21.100 euro. The deadline for application is 2nd March 2020. To submit application please refer to the page https://www.math.unipd.it/news-files/2020/20200302-bianchi-bando.pdf For additional information, please contact: Alessandra Bianchi at bianchi(a)math.unipd.it Marco Lenci at marco.lenci(a)unibo.it Francesca Nardi at francescaromana.nardi(a)unifi.it <bianchi(a)math.unipd.it>-- 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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seminar announcement
by Marco Scarsini 05 Feb '20

05 Feb '20

*Xavier Venel,* Paris School of Economics Sequential Competition and the Strategic Origins of Preferential Attachment <http://mailsender.luiss.it/lists/lt.php?id=cRpRAgYLSAQFAw1OVAVUAQAH> Thursday 6 February 2020, 12 noon Room 207 Department of Economics and Finance Luiss Viale Romania, 32 ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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Re: [Random] [forumppg] XXIV Brazilian Probability School /São Paulo School of advanced science
by Chiara Franceschini 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

Ricevo e inoltro per potenziali interessati. ---------- Forwarded message --------- Subject: Fwd: [forumppg] XXIV Brazilian Probability School /São Paulo School of advanced science Date: 2020-02-04 12:02 From: Patrícia Gonçalves <mophinha(a)gmail.com> To: Chiara Franceschini <chiara.franceschini(a)tecnico.ulisboa.pt> Can you distribute this in Italy? Thanks! ---- *XXIV EBP/ São Paulo School of advanced science on singular stochastic partial differential equations and their applications* It is a pleasure to announce the XXIV EBP/ São Paulo School of advanced science on singular stochastic partial differential equations and their applications. The São Paulo school is divided into two parts and will happen in the weeks of July 28 to August 8, 2020 at Campinas University. In the first week there will be two introductory mini courses (stochastic calculus and rough paths) that lay the foundations for the courses of the second week. In the latter ones newly developed theories and their latest developments in the field of singular SPDEs and related areas will be taught. The program will be complemented with several plenary talks, invited talks, a poster session and a visit to the LNLS laboratories, where the only particle accelerator of Latin America is located. The school will give full financial support for around 100 students (50 from Brazil and 50 from abroad). More informations under https://www.ime.unicamp.br/spas2020/ . The XXIV EBP will coincide with the second week of the São Paulo School. As in previous years, the XXIV EBP will consist of two mini courses, plenary talks, contributed talks and poster sessions, all presented in a relaxed atmosphere. This will be our first edition at IMECC-UNICAMP, which is home to one of Brazil's top ranked Mathematics departments. More information under https://www.ime.unicamp.br/bsp2020/. We would be grateful if you could advertise these events among your colleagues. On behalf of the organizing committee Dirk Erhard Adriana Neumann Christian Olivera -- Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira Professor, IMPA rimfo(a)impa.br, rob.oliv(a)gmail.com sites.google.com/view/roboliv -- Você recebeu essa mensagem porque está inscrito no grupo "forumppg" dos Grupos do Google. Para cancelar inscrição nesse grupo e parar de receber e-mails dele, envie um e-mail para forumppg+unsubscribe(a)impa.br. Para ver essa discussão na Web, acesse https://groups.google.com/a/impa.br/d/msgid/forumppg/CAN9Gp7asj9%3DEymWpDw2… <https://groups.google.com/a/impa.br/d/msgid/forumppg/CAN9Gp7asj9%3DEymWpDw2…> . -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antiv�rus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo.

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two tenure track assistant professor position (Sao Paulo)
by Daniela Bertacchi 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

Ricevo e inoltro ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Fabio Machado <faprama(a)gmail.com> Date: lun 3 feb 2020, 19:46 Subject: two tenure track assistant professor positions To: Fabio Machado <faprama(a)gmail.com> Dear colleagues, please feel free to advertise to potential applicants. The Statistics Department of IME-USP has two tenure track assistant professor vacancies open for registration until March 24th. The contest will include, in addition to a memorial judgment, didactic evidence on basic Probability and Statistical Inference topics (in master's level), and project judgment in a wide range of research areas in Probability and Statistics. See message below and attached notice for further details. Do not hesitate to contact me for further clarification. Announce Math Hire https://mathhire.org/jobs/909 Science HR announcement https://www.science.hr/jobs/59528/assistant-professor-2-positions-statistic… Att Fábio Prates Machado -- *Fábio Prates Machado* - Professor Instituto de Matemática e Estatística Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil.

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Permanent research positions near Paris
by Guillaume Kon Kam King 04 Feb '20

04 Feb '20

Dear Colleagues, a call is open for two permanent positions, as a *Research Scientist in Statistics and stochastic algorithms for dynamic processes* and as a *Research Scientist in machine learning for text mining.* These are full research positions (no compulsory teaching), based at INRAE ( https://www.inrae.fr/en/about-us) and affiliated to Université Paris-Saclay. You may find the calls and instructions on how to apply at: https://jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-competitions/open-competions-research-scienti… and https://jobs.inrae.fr/en/open-competitions/open-competions-research-scienti… The application is in English and is fairly lightweight, it includes a CV, the 4 most significant publications and a 8-10 pages report detailing past research. The deadline is March 5, 2020, 5 p.m. Central European Time (UTC+01:00). If you would consider applying, please contact Elisabeta VERGU ( elisabeta.vergu(a)inrae.fr) for the position in Statistics and stochastic algorithms for dynamic processes, or Claire NEDELLEC ( claire.nedellec(a)inrae.fr)/Louise DELEGER (louise.deleger(a)inrae.fr) for the position in machine learning for text mining. Best regards, Guillaume KON KAM KING Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, MaIAGE, 78350, Jouy-en-Josas, France https://sites.google.com/site/guillaumekonkamking/home

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Seminar Fabrizio Leisen @ Unimib
by Federico Camerlenghi 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

Dear all, we are glad to announce the next DEMS seminar: Wednesday, 12th February 2020 Time 12.00, Aula de Lillo, Department of Economics, Management and Statistics (DEMS) Building U7, II floor, University of Milano - Bicocca The speaker is Fabrizio Leisen from University of Kent. *Title:* *On a Class of Objective Priors from Scoring Rules* *Abstract:* Objective prior distributions represent an important tool that allows one to have the advantages of using a Bayesian framework even when information about the parameters of a model is not available. The usual objective approaches work off the chosen statistical model and in the majority of cases the resulting prior is improper, which can pose limitations to a practical implementation, even when the complexity of the model is moderate. In this talk we propose to take a novel look at the construction of objective prior distributions, where the connection with a chosen sampling distribution model is removed. We explore the notion of defining objective prior distributions which allow one to have some degree of flexibility, in particular in exhibiting some desirable features, such as being proper, or log-concave, convex etc. The basic tool we use are proper scoring rules and the main result is a class of objective prior distributions that can be employed in scenarios where the usual model based priors fail, such as mixture models and model selection via Bayes factors. In addition, we show that the proposed class of priors is the result of minimising the information it contains, providing solid interpretation to the method. This is a work in collaboration with C. Villa and S. G. Walker. Best wishes, Federico Camerlenghi -- Federico Camerlenghi Department of Economics, Management and Statistics University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy. web-page: https://www.unimib.it/federico-camerlenghi

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University of Oslo - open positions for PhD and Postdoc within stochastic analysis
by Giulia Di Nunno 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

Dear Colleagues, This is to bring to your attention the opening of a number of positions involving stochastic analysis, both at PhD and Postdoc levels at the Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo. See here: https://www.mn.uio.no/math/om/jobb/ <https://www.mn.uio.no/math/om/jobb/> Deadline for application: February 29. An application to each position of interest (also if multiple) is mandatory for being considered in the evaluation. See also the presentation of STORM - Stochastics for Time-Space Risk Models and its group of researchers: https://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/projects/storm/ <https://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/projects/storm/> Strong of its large group, the interests of STORM are broad within stochastic analysis and its applications and include random fields, SDEs, SPDEs, finite and infinite dimensions, models of dependencies in dynamic setting, stochastic control, mathematical finance, energy finance. We are interested in numerical methods and machine learning. Please help us distribute this information among colleagues and all possibly interested people. Best regards, Giulia Di Nunno Professor Department of Mathematics University of Oslo, Norway http://folk.uio.no/giulian/ <http://folk.uio.no/giulian/>

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annucnio cncorso dottorato
by Franco Flandoli 02 Feb '20

02 Feb '20

A call for applications for 7 PhD student fellowships in Computational Methods and Mathematical Models for the Sciences and Finance has now been issued, see https://www.sns.it/en/admissions/phd/how-to-apply-for-the-phd-courses for application instructions. The first deadline is February 27 (Spring session), the second one is August 27 (Autumn session).

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bando RTD-B a Siena (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:08:32 +0100 From: Prof. Claudio Pacati <claudio.pacati(a)unisi.it> To: Tiziano Vargiolu <vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it> Subject: bando RTD-B a Siena The Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Siena calls for a full time position for assistant professor, tenure track for associate professor (ricercatore a tempo determinato senior): Academic recruitment area code: 13/D4 (Mathematical Methods of Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences) Academic scientific field code: SECS-S/06 (Mathematical Methods of Economics, Finance and Actuarial Sciences) Application deadline: February 23, 2020 Call text and application form (also in English):https://www.unisi.it/albo_pretorio/bandi/concorsi_interni/ricercatore-tempo -det-senior-3-anni-tempo-pieno-sc-13d4-metodi For further information: amministrazione.deps(a)unisi.it General requirements for candidates: Phd + 3 years post-doc position(s). Please, circulate this info. -- prof. Claudio Pacati Dean of the School of Economics and Management Director of the MSc. in Finance Department of Economics and Statistics University of Siena p.zza S. Francesco, 7 I-53100 Siena (Italy) tel. +39 0577 232772 https://docenti.unisi.it/it/claudiopacati

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Seminario di Filosofia della Matematica
by Stefania Ugolini 30 Jan '20

30 Jan '20

Segnalo questo interessante seminario di filosofia della matematica tenuto da un filosofo e matematico (probabilista).<signatureafterquotedtext></signatureafterquotedtext> Una Filosofia contemporanea della matematica contemporanea? Frederic Patras Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Milano, Martedì 4 Febbraio 2020, Aula 3, ore 14:30

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RTD-B SECS-S/06 @UNIMI
by Giovanni Puccetti 30 Jan '20

30 Jan '20

[Link funzionante] Alla pagina web https://www.unimi.it/it/node/581/ <https://www.unimi.it/it/node/581/> è consultabile il bando per la selezione pubblica per un posto di ricercatore a tempo determinato ai sensi dell’art. 24, comma 3, lett. b), nel settore 13/D4 (SECS-S/06), presso il Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi dell’Università degli Studi di Milano.

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RTD-B SECS-S/06 @UNIMI
by Giovanni Puccetti 30 Jan '20

30 Jan '20

Alla pagina web https://www.unimi.it/it/ateneo/lavora-con-noi/reclutamento-ricercatori/sele… <https://www.unimi.it/it/ateneo-lavora-con-noi-reclutamento-ricercatori-sele…> è consultabile il bando per la selezione pubblica per un posto di ricercatore a tempo determinato ai sensi dell’art. 24, comma 3, lett. b), nel settore 13/D4 (SECS-S/06), presso il Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi dell’Università degli Studi di Milano.

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PhD lectures by G. Peccati in Pisa
by Dario Trevisan 29 Jan '20

29 Jan '20

Dear all, this is to inform you that the second part of the PhD lectures on Stein-Malliavin Method, given by G. Peccati, will begin next week and are scheduled as follows: *Poisson part *(G. Peccati) February 3: 3-6 PM February 4: 2-5 PM They will take place in Sala Seminari, first floor, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli studi di Pisa. Regards, Dario -- Dario Trevisan, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Dipartimento di Matematica, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 5, 56127 - Pisa (PI) Italy telephone: (+39) 050 2213832 mobile: (+39) 331 2899761 Skype: dario-trevisan e-mail: dario.trevisan AT unipi.it webpage: http://people.dm.unipi.it/trevisan/

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ECSO - CMS 2020 second Call for Papers
by Martina Nardon 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

* Apologies for cross-posting Second Announcement and Call for Papers Joint EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION and COMPUTATIONAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Conference Venice 1-3 July 2020 We invite you to participate and submit your contribution to the joint conference ECSO - CMS 2020. Venue: Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice San Giobbe Campus – Cannaregio 873, 30121 Venice, Italy Webpage: www.unive.it/ecsocms2020 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: March 1, 2020 Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2020 Early registration: April 15, 2020 ECSO - CMS 2020 is jointly organized by the Department of Economics of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, the CMS Journal and the EURO Working Group on Stochastic Optimization. ECSO 2020 is the 3rd edition of a stream of conferences organized by the EURO Working Group on Stochastic Optimization (EWGSO). The previous editions were held in Paris (2014) and Rome (2017). The scope of the conference is to bring together researchers and professionals in Stochastic Optimization and its applications in different fields spacing from economics and finance to supply chain, logistics, etc. CMS 2020 is the 17th edition of an annual meeting associated with the journal of Computational Management Science published by Springer. The aim of the conference is to provide a forum for theoreticians and practitioners from academia and industry to exchange knowledge, ideas and results in a broad range of topics relevant to the theory and practice of computational methods in management science. This joint event will provide a forum for fruitful discussions and interactions among researchers and professionals from industry and institutional sectors on decision making under uncertainty in a complex world. The conference will be within the scopes of both CMS and EWGSO and, in particular, it will focus on models, methods and computational tools in stochastic, robust and distributionally robust optimization and on computational aspects of management science with emphasis on risk management, valuation problems, measurement applications. Traditional fields of application, such as finance, energy, water management, logistics, supply chain management, and emerging ones, such as healthcare, climate risk and sustainable development, will be included. A Best Student Paper Prize of 600 euro will be awarded. Papers should be nominated via e-mail by the students’ supervisors (ecsocms2020(a)unive.it). Deadline for the submissions to the prize is May 15. The program will include a devoted session for presenting the best papers to compete for the prize, such that the jury could make the final choice. The paper does not have to be published. The papers should be principally authored by the student, but co-authors are permitted as long as their contributions are clarified. Only registered participants’ papers will be considered for the prize. Jury for the Student Best Paper Prize: Stein-Erik Fleten (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Milos Kopa (Charles University of Prague), Francesca Maggioni (University of Bergamo), Ruediger Schultz (University Duisburg-Essen). PLENARY SPEAKERS DARINKA DENTCHEVA, Stevens Institute of Technology (USA) DAVID MORTON, Northwestern University (USA) GAH-YI BAN, London Business School (UK) DANIEL KUHN, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (CH) GIORGIO CONSIGLI, Università di Bergamo (I) WARREN POWELL, Princeton University (USA) Conference Secretariat: ecsocms2020(a)unive.it Conference hashtag: #ecsocms2020 Best Regards, Diana Barro, Stein-Erik Fleten and Martina Nardon Organizing and Program Committee Chairs -------------------------------------- Dr. Martina Nardon Dipartimento di Economia Università Ca' Foscari Venezia San Giobbe - Cannaregio, 873 30121 Venezia, Italy tel. +39 041 234 7413 --------------------------------------

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corso di B. Zegarlinski a Pavia - Disuguaglianze funzionali
by Carbone Raffaella 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

Cari colleghi, vi annuncio che il prof. Boguslaw Zegarlinski (Imperial College, London) terrà un corso di Dottorato dal titolo ''Introduction to coercive inequalities with applications in analysis and probability theory'' presso il Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università di Pavia. Il corso si svolgerà nel periodo 22 marzo - 24 aprile 2020, si prevedono 6 ore settimanali tenute (orario provvisorio) il martedì, mercoledì e giovedì mattina. Il corso è finanziato dal Progetto Dipartimenti di Eccellenza del MIUR (2018–2022) - Dipartimento di Matematica “F. Casorati", Università di Pavia. Informazioni più dettagliate seguiranno a breve. Il corso è aperto a tutti ma chiederò di segnalare l'iscrizione tramite mail per motivi organizzativi. Cordiali saluti, Raffaella Carbone -- Raffaella Carbone, PhD Probabilità e Statistica Matematica Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia

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Polimi Finance Seminars Paolo Di Tella (TU-Dresden)
by Carlo Sgarra 27 Jan '20

27 Jan '20

On Tuesday, February 11, at 10:30 in the Seminar Room at the third floor of the Department of Mathematics (Politecnico di Milano), in the framework of the quantitative finance seminars, Paolo Di Tella (TU-Dresden) will give a talk with title: * Semistatic and sparse variance-optimal hedging. ABSTRACT We consider the problem of hedging a contingent claim with a “semistatic” strategy composed of a dynamic position in one asset and static (buy‐and‐hold) positions in other assets. We give general representations of the optimal strategy and the hedging error under the criterion of variance optimality and provide tractable formulas using Fourier integration in case of the Heston model. We also consider the problem of optimally selecting a sparse semistatic hedging strategy, i.e., a strategy that only uses a small subset of available hedging assets and discuss parallels to the variable‐selection problem in linear regression. The methods developed are illustrated in an extended numerical example where we compute a sparse semistatic hedge for a variance swap using European options as static hedging assets. (joint work with M. Haubold, M. Keller-Ressel). All people interested are kindly invited to attend the talk. Carlo Sgarra

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PhD in Statistics & Computer Science, Università Bocconi
by Antonio Lijoi 26 Jan '20

26 Jan '20

Cari tutti, ricordo la scadenza del *3 febbraio* per la presentazione delle domande di ammissione al dottorato di ricerca in Statistics and Computer Science presso l'Università Bocconi (a.a. 2020-2021). 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 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<http://www.unibocconi.eu/admissionphd> for detailed information. ** Applications are due by 3 February, 2020 ** 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<http://www.unibocconi.eu/phdstatscompscience> and feel free to contact: Antonio Lijoi, PhD program director (antonio.lijoi(a)unibocconi.it<mailto:antonio.lijoi@unibocconi.it>) Angela Baldassarre, PhD administrative assistant (angela.baldassarre(a)unibocconi.it<mailto:angela.baldassarre@unibocconi.it>) Antonio Lijoi Director, PhD program in Statistics and Computer Science Bocconi University http://mypage.unibocconi.it/antoniolijoi

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2020 Bocconi Summer School in Advanced Statistics and Probability
by Giacomo Zanella 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

Dear all, we are happy to announce the 2020 edition of the Bocconi Summer School in Advanced Statistics and Probability on the topic of "Reproducibility in Data Science". The main instructor of the course will be Chiara Sabatti, more information below. Please feel free to forward to any potentially interested student. Best regards, Giacomo Zanella ------------------------------------------- The Bocconi Summer School in Advanced Statistics and Probability, on "Reproducibility in Data Science", will take place on July 6-17, 2020, at Villa del Grumello, Lake of Como, Italy. The 2020 Edition of the school is organized by Bocconi University, Milan, in collaboration with the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. Instructors: Chiara Sabatti (Stanford University, USA) Tutorials Stephen Bates (Stanford University, USA) Matteo Sesia (Stanford University, USA) The 2-weeks summer school is open to all interested researchers, but is especially designed for PhD students and possibly briliant master graduates/final year students interested in doctoral studies. The deadline for applications is April 7, 2020. For more information: http://bocconi2020.lakecomoschool.org or contact BBS.statistics(a)unibocconi.it, or sonia.petrone(a)unibocconi.it --------------

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Topics in Game Theory_Prof. Renault (TSE) at PhD EF Tor Vergata
by Davide Erminio Pirino 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

Dear all, on behalf of Professor Attar I am pleased to inform you that the PhD program in Economics and Finance <https://economia.uniroma2.it/phd/ef/> of the University of Rome Tor Vergata will host a course in “Topics in Game Theory”, taught by Professor Jérôme <https://www.tse-fr.eu/people/jerome-renault> <https://www.tse-fr.eu/people/jerome-renault>Renault <https://www.tse-fr.eu/people/jerome-renault> (Toulouse School of Economics). The course will be held next February. Professor Jérôme Renault is one of the best renowned mathematician of Game Theory of his generation. Lectures are scheduled in room A (1st floor, Bldg B) of the School of Economics <http://en.uniroma2.it/academics/schools-and-departments/school-of-economics/> as follows: - Mon. February 3, at 2.00 – 5.00 pm; - Tue. February 4, 2.00 – 4.00 pm; - Wed. February 5, 2.00-4.00pm; - Thu. February 6, 10.00 am – 1.00 pm; - Fri. February 7, 9.00 -11.00 am. Please find the Syllabus enclosed. Everybody is welcome to attend. Feel free to spread this information to potentially interested students and researchers. Best regards DP

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Workshop on Stochastic Analysis
by Stefania Ugolini 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

Geometry and Algebra in Stochastic Dynamics Department of Mathematics, Milano, 27-29 January 2020 http://users.mat.unimi.it/users/ugolini/workshop2020/ <signaturebeforequotedtext></signaturebeforequotedtext><signatureafterquotedtext></signatureafterquotedtext>

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Probability Seminar: Alessandra Cipriani (TU Delft) [Padova 31/01, 11.30]
by alessandra bianchi 21 Jan '20

21 Jan '20

Dear Colleagues, we would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar that will take place at the Department of Mathematics of Padova, on January 31. ________________________________________________________ Speaker: Alessandra Cipriani (TU Delft) Title: Dynamical fitness models: evidence of universality classes for preferential attachment 31 JANUARY (Friday), 11:30; ROOM 1BC45, Dipartimento di Matematica “Tullio Levi-Civita”, Via Trieste 63, Padova Abstract: In this talk we study different variations of a particular class of random graphs called preferential attachment models with fitness. These are dynamic graphs in which, at every time step, a new node attaches itself to an older one with probability proportional to the degree and a random factor associated to the node, called the fitness. Motivated by learning mechanisms of real-life networks, we assume the fitness to be a Moving Average process MA(q) with positive increments. We study different properties of such models, for example the degree distribution, the attachment probability and the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation. Finally we provide evidence that, tuning the parameters of the fitness process, we fall into two universality classes represented by the well-known Albert-Barabàsi model and Bianconi-Barabàsi model. This implies the robustness of heavy tails in the degree distribution under random perturbations of the attachment rule. All of you are very welcome. Best regards, Alessandra Bianchi -- 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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BFS World Congress in Hong Kong 2020: Special Issue of Mathematical Finance and Reconfirmation of Lectures (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 21 Jan '20

21 Jan '20

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 12:27:19 +0000 From: Office Bachelier Finance Society <office(a)bachelierfinance.org> Subject: BFS World Congress in Hong Kong 2020: Special Issue of Mathematical Finance and Reconfirmation of Lectures 12th World Congress of the Bachelier Finance Society SPECIAL ISSUE OF MATHEMATICAL FINANCE AND RECONFIRMATION OF LECTURES Dear Tiziano Vargiolu We are pleased to announce that a special issue of Mathematical Finance has been arranged for papers presented at the BFS World Congress in Hong Kong. Details will be available through the website soon. We are also delighted to report that Robert Merton has reconfirmed his delivery of the Louis Bachelier Lecture and all the 9 plenary speakers have reconfirmed their participation at the Congress. The deadline, January 31, 2020, for submitting abstracts to the 2020 Bachelier World Congress is approaching fast (http://www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~bfs2020/). Finally, the reservation of the Conference Hotel at discounted rates is open (http://www1.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~bfs2020/accommodation/accommodation.html). We are looking forward to seeing you at this unique event in Hong Kong. Nan Chen, Duan Li, Xunyu Zhou Organizers of the 2020 BFS World Congress Hong Kong Copyright ? 2020 Bachelier Finance Society, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: Bachelier Finance SocietyRaemistrasse 101 Z?rich 8092 Switzerland Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

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Seminario all'IAC
by torrisi＠iac.rm.cnr.it 21 Jan '20

21 Jan '20

Si comunica che il 30 gennaio 2020 alle ore 14.00 presso l'Aula Riunioni dell'Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo (sede di Roma) si terrà il seguente seminario: Relatore: Professor Alberto Lanconelli (Universita' di Bologna) Titolo: Absolute continuity and Fokker-Planck equation for the law of Wong-Zakai approximations of Ito SDEs Abstract: We investigate the regularity of the law of Wong-Zakai-type approximations for Ito stochastic differential equations. These approximations solve random differential equations where the diffusion coefficient is Wick-multiplied by the smoothed white noise. Using a criterion based on the Malliavin calculus we establish absolute continuity and a Fokker-Planck-type equation solved in the distributional sense by the density. The parabolic smoothing effect typical of the solutions of Ito equations is lacking in this approximated framework; therefore, in order to prove absolute continuity, the initial condition of the random differential equation needs to possess a density itself. -- *Giovanni Luca Torrisi Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy Homepage: http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it/~torrisi/* * *

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Seminario di Francesco Caravenna a Roma 1
by Faggionato, Alessandra 21 Jan '20

21 Jan '20

Buongiorno Lunedì 27.01 alle 16:00 Francesco Caravenna (Università di Milano-Bicocca) terrà il seguente seminario in Sala di Consiglio del Dipartimento di Matematica La Sapienza. Title: On the two-dimensional KPZ and Stochastic Heat Equation Abstract: We consider the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation (KPZ) and the multiplicative Stochastic Heat Equation (SHE) in two space dimensions, driven by with space-time white noise. These singular PDEs are "critical" and lack a solution theory, so it is standard to consider regularized versions of these equations - e.g. convolving the noise with a smooth mollifier - and to investigate the behavior of the regularized solutions when the regularization is removed. Based on joint works with Rongfeng Sun and Nikos Zygouras, we show that these regularized solutions undergo a phase transition as the noise strength is varied on a logarithmic scale, with an explicit critical point. In the sub-critical regime, the regularized solutions of both KPZ and SHE exhibit so-called Edwards-Wilkinson fluctuations, i.e. they converge to the solution of the *additive* Stochastic Heat Equation (after centering and rescaling), with a non-trivial constant on the noise. We finally discuss the critical regime, where many questions are open. Grazie Saluti Alessandra -- ************************************************* 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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Complexity72h Call for Tutors
by Mateusz Wilinski 19 Jan '20

19 Jan '20

Dear colleagues, We are glad to announce the *third edition of the Complexity72h workshop*, which will take place at LUISS, Rome, Italy, on *July 1-4 2020*, as pre-event of the *NetSci 2020* Conference. Complexity72h is an interdisciplinary workshop whose aim is to bring together young researchers from different fields of complex systems and complex networks. Participants form teams and carry out projects in a three days' time, i.e. 72 hours. The goal of each team is to upload on the arXiv a report of their work by the end of the event. The previous two editions have been a success: 11 out of 11 projects have become arXiv preprints and new collaborations have been born. Each team will have a tutor that: 1. designs and proposes the project; 2. supervises its execution; 3. provides the necessary knowledge and data. *Do you want to become a Complexity72h tutor?* We are opening a *call for tutors* targeting researchers in complex systems and networks. We are looking for people who wish to propose a stimulating project to a team of highly motivated students and postdocs, and have the stamina to carry it out in 72 hours. But is it really possible to do it in just 72 hours? To succeed, we need: 1. A motivated and multidisciplinary team of resilient researchers; 2. A comfortable research environment and supportive staff; 3. A solid and feasible research project and a tutor who can make it happen. We provide the first two. It is up to you to provide the last point. *Send your project proposal (title and abstract) and short CV to: complexity72h [at] gmail [dot] com* , or get in touch with us as soon as possible if you have any questions. *The call for tutors deadline is February 7th, 2020.* Looking forward to your ideas. Complexity72h Organizers

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7th Workshop on Stochastic Methods in Game Theory
by Marco Scarsini 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

The 7th Workshop on Stochastic Methods in Game Theory will take place in Erice July 1-8, 2020. https://sites.google.com/view/erice-smgt2020/the-workshop The workshop will include some tutorials that could be particularly useful to graduate students and young researchers. Some slots are still available for contributors who want to present a poster. ******************************************************* Marco Scarsini Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza Luiss Viale Romania 32 00197 Roma, ITALY URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/

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avviso di due seminari a Napoli
by Enrica Pirozzi 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

-- AVVISO DI SEMINARI DI PROBABILITÀ E STATISTICA MATEMATICA Title: The risk model with stochastic premiums and a multi-layer dividend strategy by Olena Ragulina Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Abstract: The lecture is devoted to a generalization of the risk model with stochastic premiums where dividends are paid according to a multi-layer dividend strategy. First of all, we derive piecewise integro-differential equations for the Gerber-Shiu function and the expected discounted dividend payments until ruin. Next, we concentrate on the detailed investigation of the model in the case of exponentially distributed claim and premium sizes and find explicit formulas for the ruin probability as well as for the expected discounted dividend payments. Moreover, we obtain an exponential bound for the ruin probability under certain conditions and study these conditions for some special distributions of claim and premium sizes. Lastly, numerical illustrations for some multi-layer dividend strategies are presented. -- Title: The first-passage time properties of the Jacobi process and applications to neuronal modeling by Giuseppe D'Onofrio Dipartimento di Matematica "Giuseppe Peano", Università di Torino Abstract: Nonlinear dynamical systems are often affected by different sources of noise and the usual belief is that the presence of noise can hinder or deteriorate the signal transmission in the system. However it has been observed, both in theoretical models and experiments, that random fluctuations can sometimes improve information processing. Mathematical models in neuroscience are one of the most prominent examples of phenomena for which the noise is of primary importance or even a part of the signal itself rather than a source of inefficiency and unpredictability. Our aim is to contribute to the discussion on the role of noise, studying the effects of a multiplicative noise on the performance of single neuron models using an analytical approach on the related first-passage-time problem. We consider a model where the evolution of the neuronal membrane depolarization between two consecutive spikes is described by a Jacobi process. We analyze the spiking activity of the neuron under study through the firing rate and the variability of the output related to the first two moments of the random variable first-passage time and we describe the occurrence of a phenomenon of coherence resonance. In particular we present counterintuitive effects due to the presence of the multiplicative noise and its dependence on the input parameters. Based on joint work with Petr Lansky (Czech Academy of Sciences) and Massimiliano Tamborrino (University of Warwick). I seminari si terranno il 23 Gennaio 2020 ore 15:00 e ore 15:45, rispettivamente, in Aula G terzo livello del Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni, Università di Napoli FEDERICO II, Complesso di Monte Sant'Angelo, Via Cintia, Napoli. -- Enrica Pirozzi Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Universita' di Napoli FEDERICO II Via Cintia, Monte S.Angelo, 80126, NAPOLI, ITALY Tel. 081 675634 https://www.docenti.unina.it/ENRICA.PIROZZI

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Seminario at Scuola Normale Superiore, Tiziano De Angelis, School of Mathematics, The University of Leeds (January 22, 2020, 11:30)
by Giulia Livieri 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

Dear all, On Wednesday, 22 January 2020 — at 11:30 — at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Room: Aula Fermi) Dr Tiziano De Angelis (University of Leeds) will hold the following Seminar: Title Probabilistic results concerning smoothness of the value function and of the free boundary in optimal stopping Abstract I will present probabilistic proofs of some regularity properties for the value function of general optimal stopping problems and for the associated optimal boundaries. In particular this talk focuses on C^1 regularity of the value function and Lipschitz continuity of the optimal boundary. Most of our arguments rely on fundamental concepts from the theory of Markov processes and bridge the probabilistic and the analytical strands of the literature on free boundary problems. I will also illustrate situations in which our work improves or complements known facts from PDE theory. (based on https://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/17M1113709 <https://epubs.siam.org/doi/pdf/10.1137/17M1113709> and https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04564 <https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04564>) Feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues. Best Giulia Livieri

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Seminar Cuturi @Bocconi
by Giacomo Zanella 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

We kindly invite you to the following BIDSA seminar: “Differentiable Ranking and Sorting using Optimal Transport” Marco Cuturi (Google Brain / ENSAE) Friday, January 17, 2020 | 12:30 | Room 3-e4-sr03 (third floor) Bocconi University, Via Roentgen 1, Milan Abstract: We propose in this paper proxy operators for ranking and sorting that are differentiable. To do so, we leverage the fact that sorting can be seen as a particular instance of the optimal transport (OT) problem between two univariate uniform probability measures, the first measure being supported on the family of input values of interest, the second supported on a family of increasing target values (e.g. 1,2,...,n if the input array has n elements). Building upon this link, we propose generalized rank and sort operators by considering arbitrary target measures supported on m values, where m can be smaller than n. We recover differentiable algorithms by adding to this generic OT problem an entropic regularization, and approximate its outputs using Sinkhorn iterations. To illustrate the versatility of these operators, we use the soft-rank operator to propose a new classification training loss that is a differentiable proxy of the 0/1 loss. Using the soft-sort operator, we propose a new differentiable loss for trimmed regression. Speaker: Marco Cuturi joined Google Brain, in Paris, in October 2018. He graduated from ENSAE (2001), ENS Cachan (Master MVA, 2002) and holds a PhD in applied maths obtained in 2005 at Ecole des Mines de Paris. He worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, between 11/2005 and 3/2007. He worked in the financial industry between 4/2007 and 9/2008. After working at the ORFE department of Princeton University between 02/2009 and 08/2010 as a lecturer, he was at the Graduate School of Informatics of Kyoto University between 9/2010 and 9/2016 as a tenured associate professor from 10/2013. He then joined ENSAE, the french national school for statistics and economics, in 9/2016, where he still teaches. His recent proposal to solve optimal transport using an entropic regularization has re-ignited interest in optimal transport and Wasserstein distances in the machine learning community. His work has recently focused on applying that loss function to problems involving probability distributions, e.g. topic models / dictionary learning for text and images, parametric inference for generative models, regression with a Wasserstein loss and probabilistic embeddings for words. Best regards, Giacomo Zanella Please note: if you are a guest and you do not have a Bocconi ID Card to access to the Bocconi Buildings, please communicate your participation by sending an email to c.monetti(a)unibocconi.it

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Ernesto De Vito @ Roma Tor Vergata
by Anna Vidotto 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Dear all, I would like to announce the following talk that will be held on Thursday January 23rd 2020, at 4:30 PM, in Aula D’Antoni of the Department of Mathematics, University of Rome Tor Vergata. Speaker: Ernesto De Vito Title: Multi-Scale Vector Quantization with Reconstruction Trees Abstract: The aim of vector quantization is a parsimonious reconstruction of unsupervised data as provided by K-means and geometric multi-resolution analysis, to name a few. In the talk I will present a multi-scale algorithm for vector quantization and study its statistical properties. The proposed approach is inspired by decision trees and is based a family of given partitions, to quickly explore the data in a coarse to fine-multi-scale-fashion. The main technical contribution is an analysis of the expected distortion achieved by the proposed algorithm. Both asymptotic and finite sample results are derived. The presentation is based on a joint work with E. Cecini and L. Rosasco. Kind regards --------- Anna Vidotto PostDoc Researcher Dipartimento di Matematica Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata https://sites.google.com/view/annavidotto

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seminario Djehiche a Milano 27/1/2020
by Marco Alessandro Fuhrman 15 Jan '20

15 Jan '20

Il prof. Boualem Djehiche (KTH Stockholm) terrà un seminario dal titolo On a class of mean-field reflected backward stochastic differential equations and the related obstacle problem. Il seminario è fissato alle ore 10:30 del 27/1/2020 presso il Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università di Milano (via Saldini 50), in aula C (II piano). Tutti gli interessati sono cordialmente invitati. Un sommario è riportato sotto. Il prof. Djehiche è ospite del Dipartimento per tutta la settimana. Cordialmente, Marco Fuhrman --------------------------- Abstract. In this talk I will review some recent results on the solvability of a class of reflected backward stochastic differential equations (BSDEs) (driven by the Brownian motion) of mean-field type, where the mean-field interaction in terms of the distribution of the Y-component of the solution enters both the driver and the lower obstacle. When the reflected BSDE is driven by an underlying Markov diffusion, it is possible to derive a related obstacle problem in the form of a variational inequality involving differential operators w.r.t. both the space and the probability measure components. -------------------------- <signaturebeforequotedtext></signaturebeforequotedtext><signatureafterquotedtext></signatureafterquotedtext>

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Post-doctoral position in probability - Paris
by Cristina TONINELLI 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

Dear friends and colleagues, I am currently advertising a post-doctoral position in Probability at Ceremade, University Paris Dauphine. The position is for two years. The expected starting date is September 2020, though a different date may be arranged. The position is funded by my European project MALIG, whose aim is to develop a mathematical approach to the liquid-glass transition and related phenomena. Main areas of research include interacting particle systems, bootstrap percolation cellular automata and glassy dynamics. The successful candidate will also have the opportunity to collaborate with the probability group of University Roma Tre, in particular with Fabio Martinelli, a key member of the MALIG team. The grant will provide substantial fundings to cover working periods in Rome. There are no teaching duties associated to the position. Candidates can contact me directly for any additional informations. Applications including a CV, a list of publications and a one-page description of research interests and experience should be sent directly to me at toninelli(a)ceremade.dauphine.fr<mailto:toninelli@ceremade.dauphine.fr> Applicants should also arrange for up to three letters of recommendation to be sent to the same address. The deadline for applications is Monday, 3rd February 2020. I would be grateful if you could bring this announcement to the attention of potential candidates and distribute it via local mailing lists. Best wishes, Cristina Toninelli --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cristina Toninelli Postal Address: Ceremade Univ.Paris Dauphine Place du Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny 75775 Paris Cedex 16 - France Office: B617 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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de Finetti Risk Seminar - January 2020
by Emanuela Rosazza 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

On behalf of the Scientific Committee of the de Finetti Risk Seminars, we are glad to invite you to participate at the following Lecture Quadratic Hedging and Optimization of Option Exercise Policies in Incomplete Markets and Discrete Time Nicola Secomandi Tepper School of Business – Carnegie Mellon University Abstract. This paper extends quadratic hedging from European to Bermudan options in discrete time when markets are incomplete and investigates its use for supporting exercise policy optimization. The key idea is to construct date specific approximate replicating portfolios. Hedging any given exercise policy can be done by solving a collection of stochastic dynamic programs. Optimizing the exercise policy based on the resulting martingale measure requires care. If this measure is risk neutral (RN), the value of an optimal such policy, which can be obtained by augmenting the hedging model with an exercise policy optimization step, is a no arbitrage one. Otherwise this approach must be refined by imposing time consistency on exercise policies, although the value of the resulting exercise policy may not be arbitrage free. Following the common pragmatic strategy of specifying quadratic hedging under an RN measure, e.g., one calibrated to market prices, avoids these issues. In particular, it provides a simple hedging policy with immediate practical applicability and is equivalent to exercise policy optimization under RN valuation, thus complementing it with a consistent hedging policy. A simple numerical example shows that this procedure generates effective hedging policies LOCATION: The seminar will be held on Wednesday, January 15, at 18.00 at room 3-E4-SR03, Bocconi University, Via Rontgen 1, 3rd floor, Milano. Scientific Committee: Prof. Simone Cerreia-Voglio (Univ. Bocconi) Prof. Marco Frittelli (Univ. degli Studi di Milano) Prof. Fabio Maccheroni (Univ. Bocconi) Prof. Marco Maggis (Univ. degli Studi di Milano) Prof. Massimo Marinacci (Univ. Bocconi) Prof. Emanuela Rosazza Gianin (Univ. Milano-Bicocca) ******************************************************************************************* 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 Fax. 02 64483105 e-mail: emanuela.rosazza1(a)unimib.it *******************************************************************************************

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Seminar Announcement: M. Glanzer (univie) at Polimi
by Carlo Sgarra 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

On Monday, January 21, at 11:00 o'clock, in the Seminar Room located at the third floor of the MATHEMATICS Department ( POLITECNICO di Milano) MARTIN GLANZER of the University of Vienna will give a talk on the following subject: Stochastic Optimization with Multiple Time Scales ( Joint work with G. Pflug) All interested people are kindly invited to participate. ABSTRACT Real-world multistage stochastic optimization problems are often characterized by the fact that the decision maker may take actions only at specific points in time, even if relevant data can be observed much more frequently. In such a case there are not only multiple decision stages present but also several observation periods between consecutive decisions, where profits/costs occur contingent on the stochastic evolution of some uncertainty factors. We present a tailor-made modeling framework for such problems, which allows for a computationally efficient solution. We first establish new results related to the approximation of (Markovian) stochastic processes by scenario lattices. In a second step, we incorporate the multiscale feature by leveraging the theory of stochastic bridge processes. The ingredients to our proposed modeling framework are elaborated explicitly for various popular examples, including both diffusion and jump models. In particular, we present new results related to the simulation of compound Poisson bridges. Finally, we discuss a valuation problem of a thermal power plant, where implementing our multiscale modeling framework turned out to be particularly convenient. If time permits, we incorporate model ambiguity into the power plant valuation problem and show some numerical results.

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Seminar annoucement at POLIMI- Talk by Martin GLANZER (Univie)
by Carlo Sgarra 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

On Monday, January 21, in the Seminar Room located at the third floor of the MATHEMATICS Department ( POLITECNICO di Milano) MARTIN GLANZER of the University of Vienna will give a talk on the following subject: Stochastic Optimization with Multiple Time Scales ( Joint work with G. Pflug) All interested people are kindly invited to participate. ABSTRACT Real-world multistage stochastic optimization problems are often characterized by the fact that the decision maker may take actions only at specific points in time, even if relevant data can be observed much more frequently. In such a case there are not only multiple decision stages present but also several observation periods between consecutive decisions, where profits/costs occur contingent on the stochastic evolution of some uncertainty factors. We present a tailor-made modeling framework for such problems, which allows for a computationally efficient solution. We first establish new results related to the approximation of (Markovian) stochastic processes by scenario lattices. In a second step, we incorporate the multiscale feature by leveraging the theory of stochastic bridge processes. The ingredients to our proposed modeling framework are elaborated explicitly for various popular examples, including both diffusion and jump models. In particular, we present new results related to the simulation of compound Poisson bridges. Finally, we discuss a valuation problem of a thermal power plant, where implementing our multiscale modeling framework turned out to be particularly convenient. If time permits, we incorporate model ambiguity into the power plant valuation problem and show some numerical results.

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Probability Seminar: Richard Kraaij (TUDelft) [Padova, Tue 14/01 (TOMORROW), 11am]
by Francesca Collet 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

*** REMINDER *** ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ DR. RICHARD C. KRAAIJ (Delft University of Technology) “Large deviations for weakly coupled slow-fast systems via the comparison principle of an associated Hamilton-Jacobi equation” Tuesday 14 January (TOMORROW), 11:00; room 1BC50, Dipartimento di Matematica “Tullio Levi-Civita”, Via Trieste 63, Padova ABSTRACT. In statistical physics many interesting phenomena, e.g. behavior of systems at critical parameters or in the theory of hydrodynamic limits, arise from systems having multiple time-scales. A slow component is influenced by fast components, and as the number of interacting components tends to infinity, limiting results for the slow component are obtained in terms of `averaged' versions of the fast components. I will consider in my talk the fluctuations (large deviations) of coupled Markovian systems with two-time scales. These fluctuations can arise from two sources: fluctuations of the slow process itself, or fluctuations of the large time averages of the fast process, effectively leading to a competition of two fluctuation effects. To obtain the large deviation principle, we consider an associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation of which the Hamiltonian is given in terms of the two fluctuation effects. We establish under mild conditions that this Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is well-posed, and as a consequence that we have a large deviation principle for a wide class of weakly coupled Markov processes. Based on joint work with Mikola Schlottke (Eindhoven, The Netherlands). ____________________________________________________________________________________________________

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OSD2020-14th International Conference on Ordered Statistical Data
by malongob＠unina.it 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Dear all, we are glad to announce the 14th International Conference on Ordered Statistical Data - OSD2020, that will take place on May 26-29 at Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy. The conference website is http://www.osd2020.unina.it/ The conference is devoted to recent advances and trends in the mathematical theory of ordered statistical data, including order statistics and their generalizations, and their applications in reliability, statistics and lifetime analysis. The scientific program will include plenary talks and sessions of contributed talks. It is our pleasure to point out the presence of Prof. Fabio Spizzichino in the list of keynote speakers of the conference. We look forward to welcome you in Vietri sul Mare. Chief organizers, Maria Longobardi and Franco Pellerey

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Robust Statistics @Lake Como: registration is now open!
by Francesca Greselin 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

*** apologies for cross posting *** Dear all, the III International School on Classification and Data Analysis, on *ROBUST STATISTICS: FOUNDATIONS and RECENT DEVELOPMENTS* will take place on the enchanting shores of Lake Como, Italy, on May 4-8, 2020. It is intended for Ph.D. Students, M.S. Students, Post-Docs, Young and Junior researchers. Robust statistics is at the forefront of statistical research, and a central topic in multidisciplinary science where mathematical ideas are used to model and understand the real world, without being affected by contamination that could occur in the data. Nowadays, with the increasing availability of Big data, robust statistical methods are crucially needed. The aim of this course is three-fold: present novel models to describe real-world phenomena, and their properties; study their behavior under different kinds of contamination; discuss their implementation through computational methods. The lecturers are amongst the most influential scholars in the field: Anthony Atkinson <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anthony_Atkinson3>, London School of Economics, UK Agustin Mayo-Iscar <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Agustin_Mayo>, University of Valladolid, ES Marco Riani <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marco_Riani>, University of Parma, IT Anna Maria Paganoni <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna_Paganoni>, Politecnico di Milano, IT The school is organized by the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society <http://cladag.it/>, under the auspices of the European Regional Section <https://iasc-isi.org/ers-mission/> (ERS) of the International Association for Statistical Computing <https://iasc-isi.org/> (IASC). Please note that the conference room allows only for a very limited number of participants (no more than 30). The registration deadline is March 4th 2020. For more information, visit the School website: https://rsfd.lakecomoschool.org/

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Call for Interest: 2-year senior post-doc position at the University of Padova
by Claudio Fontana 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

Dear all, This is a CALL FOR INTEREST FOR A 2-YEAR POSTDOCTORAL POSITION AT THE DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA (ITALY), within the STARS@UNIPD project PRISMA under the supervision of Claudio Fontana (personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/fontanaclaud). The primary goal of the PRISMA project is the development of new stochastic methods for the modelling of information in finance and insurance. We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with a solid background in STOCHASTIC ANALYSIS AND MATHEMATICAL FINANCE. A PhD degree in these fields is a necessary requirement. Previous research experience in arbitrage theory, stochastic filtering, enlargement of filtrations, mean-field games, or interest rate modelling will be appreciated. The candidate should have the ability to drive discovery by working independently, interacting with colleagues with different backgrounds and establishing relevant collaborations. Knowledge of the Italian language does not represent a requirement and language courses are offered by the University of Padova. We offer a stimulating research environment, an exciting research project, excellent working conditions. Salary is fixed at a top level for a post-doctoral position at the University of Padova, corresponding to about 2100 euros/month (net of taxes). Generous financial support is available for participation to international conferences and workshops. The selected candidate will not have mandatory teaching duties. The Probability and Finance group (https://www.math.unipd.it/en/research/areas/probability-and-finance) at the University of Padova is a dynamic research unit, with a strong international visibility and well-established collaborations with foreign institutions and world leaders in the field of mathematical finance. The University of Padova provides excellent support to foreign candidates. Padova is a beautiful city in the Venetian region, home to one of the oldest universities in the world, with a thriving student life and an excellent quality of life. The position will be officially opened in February 2020, the selection procedure is expected to take place in March 2020 and the position will then start as soon as possible. The effective starting date can be arranged depending on the individual needs of the selected candidate, but cannot be later than September 1st, 2020. For any further information and expressions of interest on this position, please contact directly Claudio Fontana at fontana(a)math.unipd.it Best regards (and apologies for cross posting), Claudio Fontana

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inizio corso dottorato Peccati-Rossi a Pisa
by Dario Trevisan 12 Jan '20

12 Jan '20

Salve, comunico agli interessati che in data *mercoledì 15/01/2020, ore 14:00-17:00 in AULA 2, dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa* avrà luogo la prima lezione del corso "Stochastic analysis on Gaussian and Poisson spaces, functional and geometric applications" tenuto da Giovanni Peccati (Univ. del Lussemburgo) e Maurizia Rossi (Univ. Milano-Bicocca). Il corso proseguirà con due lezioni nella stessa settimana, giovedì 16/01/2020, ore 14-17 e venerdì 17/01/2020, ore 10-13, sempre in AULA 2, dipartimento di matematica. Le lezioni successive saranno comunicate agli interessati. Mi scuso con lo scarso preavviso e con i non interessati. Saluti, Dario -- Dario Trevisan <dario.trevisan(a)unipi.it>

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Minicorsi Febbraio 2020
by Stefano Bonaccorsi 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Carissimi, Vorrei rendere noto che dal 12 al 14 febbraio 2020, presso il Dipartimento di Matematica dell’Università degli Studi di Trento, si terrà la nuova edizione dei “Primer on Data Science”. Questa edizione è dedicata a “Matematica finanziaria e statistica attuariale”. Vi saranno tre minicorsi: 1. Arrigo Pitacco, su “A lesson from actuarial mathematics: be stochastic but also, from time to time, reasonably deterministic” 2. Giovanni Alessandro Zanco, su “System with controls and interaction: mean field games and economic” 3. Paolo Pigato, su “An introduction to mathematical option pricing” Il corso è aperto a studenti delle lauree triennali e magistrali, nonché a dottorandi e agli addetti del settore. Per ragioni organizzative il numero di posti disponibili è limitato. Tutte le informazioni sono disponibili alla pagina web http://datascience.maths.unitn.it/events/pds2020/ Per il comitato organizzatore Stefano Bonaccorsi

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Berlin-Oxford International Research Training Group (IRTG) 2544 “Stochastic Analysis in Interaction”
by Tiziano De Angelis 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Dear All, I was asked to send a reminder of the advert below for PhD opportunities in Berlin and Oxford. The deadline for applications is 20 January. Best wishes Tiziano --------------------------------------------- The recently established Berlin-Oxford International Research Training Group (IRTG) 2544 “Stochastic Analysis in Interaction” offers 8 PhD positions (75% TVL E 13, about 1700 EUR after taxes, social security, ...) for 3 years starting April 1st, 2020, or soon thereafter. Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the IRTG is a joint research initiative of the stochastic analysis group of FU, HU, TU and WIAS Berlin with its counterpart at the University of Oxford. The advertised positions will be based in Berlin and will offer ample opportunities to interact also with members of the Oxford team, most notably in a 6-months exchange. Embedded in a truly international environment, the IRTG students will get excellent research training in a structured programme focussing on challenges at the mathematical foundations of Stochastic Analysis as well as on challenges arising from its various applications, e.g., in physics, biology, finance or data science. The combined expertise from the Berlin and Oxford groups will provide a significant breadth in depth and fertile ground for our students' ambitious research ideas. Successful candidates will have an MSc degree (or equivalent) in Mathematics (or a closely related field), strong knowledge of stochastic analysis, and feel eager to engage in the exchange of ideas with the teams in both Berlin and Oxford. Deadline for applications is January 20, 2020 (for now). Please see https://tub.stellenticket.de/de/offers/74386/ for the official job ad and for instructions how to apply. Our IRTG webpage www.math.tu-berlin.de/irtg offers more information on the Berlin-Oxford IRTG 2544.

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Maria Gordina @ Roma Tor Vergata
by Anna Vidotto 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Dear all, I would like to announce the following talk that will be held on *Thursday January* *16th* 2020, at *4:30 PM*, in *Aula Dal Passo* of the Department of Mathematics, University of Rome Tor Vergata. Speaker: *Maria Gordina* (University of Connecticut) Title: *Stochastic analysis and geometric functional inequalities* Abstract: We will survey different methods of proving functional inequalities for hypoelliptic diffusions and the corresponding heat kernels. Some of these methods rely on geometric methods such as curvature-dimension inequalities (due to Baudoin-Garofalo), and some are probabilistic such as coupling, and finally some use structure theory and a Fourier transform on Lie groups. For nilpotent groups, the latter can be interpreted as an eigenfunction expansion of the hypoelliptic heat kernel. This is based on joint work with F. Baudoin, B. Driver, T. Melcher, Ph. Mariano. This seminar is part of the activity of the MIUR Department of Excellence Grant 2018-2022, CUP E83C18000100006. Kind regards, Anna Vidotto --------- Anna Vidotto PostDoc Researcher Dipartimento di Matematica Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata https://sites.google.com/view/annavidotto

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Seminario di Antonio Galves a Roma 1
by Faggionato, Alessandra 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Buongiorno in aggiunta al seminario di Maria Gordina di Lunedì 13/01/2020 vi sara' al Dipartimento di Matematica della Sapienza il seminario di Antonio Galves, Martedì 14/01/2020. Sotto l'annuncio esteso. Grazie per l'attenzione Saluti Alessandra Faggionato *************************************************************************************** SEMINARIO DI PROBABILITA’ E STATISTICA MATEMATICA IL giorno 14/01/2020, alle ore 14 nell’Aula di Consiglio del Dipartimento di Matematica, Sapienza Università di Roma Il prof. Antonio Galves dell’Universidade de Sao Paulo terrà una conferenza dal titolo ESTIMATING THE INTERACTION GRAPH OF STOCHASTIC NEURAL DYNAMICS Abstract: We address the question of statistical model selection for a class of stochastic models of biological neural nets.Models in this class are systems of interacting chains with memory of variable length. Each chain describes the activity of a single neuron, indicating whether it spikes or not at a given time. The spiking probability of a given neuron depends on the time evolution of its presynaptic neurons since its last spike time. When a neuron spikes, its potential is reset to a resting level and postsynaptic current pulses are generated, modifying the membrane potential of all its postsynaptic neurons. The relationship between a neuron and its pre- and postsynaptic neurons defines an oriented graph, the interaction graph of the model. The goal is to estimate this graph based on the observation of the spike activity of a finite set of neurons over a finite time. We provide explicit exponential upper bounds for the probabilities of under- and overestimating the interaction graph restricted to the observed set and obtain the strong consistency of the estimator. Our result does not require stationarity nor uniqueness of the invariant measure of the process. Joint work with A. Duarte, E. Locherbach and G. Ost. -- ************************************************* 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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Annuncio seminario Galves 14/01/2020 RM1
by Nappo, Giovanna 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

SEMINARIO DI PROBABILITA’ E STATISTICA MATEMATICA IL giorno 14/01/2020, alle ore 14 nell’Aula di Consiglio del Dipartimento di Matematica, Sapienza Università di Roma Il prof. Antonio Galves dell’Universidade de Sao Paulo terrà una conferenza dal titolo ESTIMATING THE INTERACTION GRAPH OF STOCHASTIC NEURAL DYNAMICS Abstract: We address the question of statistical model selection for a class of stochastic models of biological neural nets.Models in this class are systems of interacting chains with memory of variable length. Each chain describes the activity of a single neuron, indicating whether it spikes or not at a given time. The spiking probability of a given neuron depends on the time evolution of its presynaptic neurons since its last spike time. When a neuron spikes, its potential is reset to a resting level and postsynaptic current pulses are generated, modifying the membrane potential of all its postsynaptic neurons. The relationship between a neuron and its pre- and postsynaptic neurons defines an oriented graph, the interaction graph of the model. The goal is to estimate this graph based on the observation of the spike activity of a finite set of neurons over a finite time. We provide explicit exponential upper bounds for the probabilities of under- and overestimating the interaction graph restricted to the observed set and obtain the strong consistency of the estimator. Our result does not require stationarity nor uniqueness of the invariant measure of the process. Joint work with A. Duarte, E. Locherbach and G. Ost.

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Fwd: Lectureship in Mathematics (Probability) at University College Dublin
by Elia Bisi 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Ricevo e inoltro. ______________________ Elia Bisi Research Scientist School of Mathematics and Statistics University College Dublin Personal webpage <https://eliabisi.wordpress.com/> > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Neil O'Connell <neil.oconnell(a)ucd.ie> > Subject: Lectureship in Mathematics (Probability) at University College Dublin > Date: 9 January 2020 at 13:58:25 CET > To: Neil O'Connell <neil.oconnell(a)ucd.ie> > > Dear Colleagues, > > We are currently advertising a Lectureship in Mathematics (Probability) at University College Dublin. > > Also advertised are Ad Astra Fellowships, these are fixed term positions with research support, in all areas of Mathematics and Statistics. Applications in Probability are particularly welcome. > > For more details, and to apply, go to https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/ <https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/> (search under 'External Applicants'). > > Please forward to anyone who may be interested in applying. > > Best regards, > Neil > > **** > > Lecturer / Assistant Professor in Mathematics (Probability), UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics (Permanent) > Applications are invited for a permanent post of a Lecturer / Assistant Professor in Mathematics (Probability) within UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics. > > University College Dublin is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Mathematics in the UCD School of Mathematics & Statistics, specifically in the area of Probability. > > UCD School of Mathematics & Statistics is committed to research and teaching across the mathematical sciences, including mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics and actuarial science. > > The successful candidate will be expected to engage in research in Mathematics, including supervision of research students and projects, and to contribute to the School's wide-ranging programme of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. > > 95 Lecturer / Assistant Professor (above the bar) Salary Scale: €53,773 - €84,544 per annum > Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines. > > Closing date: 17:00hrs (local Irish time) on 6 February 2020 > > **** > > Ad Astra Fellow, UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics > Applications are sought for Ad Astra Fellows within the UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics. > > In support of the 2024 University College Dublin Strategic Plan 'Rising to the Future', UCD has begun an ambitious plan to increase our faculty numbers by 500 over five years. With an initial 5-year contract, research support for these 5 years and the opportunity for an on-going contract subject to performance, there has never been a better time to join the faculty at Ireland's Global University and to live in one of Europe's most vibrant, friendly and connected capital cities. > > UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics is ranked in the top one percent in the world for both Mathematics and Statistics. The School is the largest of its kind in Ireland and offers the greatest choice of programmes at undergraduate, masters and PhD level. Our teaching and research activities cover a broad range including Mathematics, Financial Mathematics, Applied & Computational Mathematics, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Mathematics Education and Data & Computational Science. The School is keen to recruit academic staff to augment the existing research expertise. > > Prior to application, further information (including application procedure) should be obtained from the UCD Ad Astra Fellow website: http://www.ucd.ie/adastrafellows/ <http://www.ucd.ie/adastrafellows/> > > 95 Lecturer/Assistant Professor (above the bar) Salary Scale: €53,773 - €84,544 per annum > Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines > > Closing date: 17.00hrs (Local Irish Time) on 24th January 2020

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Annuncio seminario Galves 14/01/2020 RM1
by Nappo, Giovanna 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

SEMINARIO DI PROBABILITA’ E STATISTICA MATEMATICA IL giorno 14/01/2020, alle ore 14 nell’Aula di Consiglio del Dipartimento di Matematica, Sapienza Università di Roma Il prof. Antonio Galves dell’Universidade de Sao Paulo terrà una conferenza dal titolo ESTIMATING THE INTERACTION GRAPH OF STOCHASTIC NEURAL DYNAMICS Abstract: We address the question of statistical model selection for a class of stochastic models of biological neural nets.Models in this class are systems of interacting chains with memory of variable length. Each chain describes the activity of a single neuron, indicating whether it spikes or not at a given time. The spiking probability of a given neuron depends on the time evolution of its presynaptic neurons since its last spike time. When a neuron spikes, its potential is reset to a resting level and postsynaptic current pulses are generated, modifying the membrane potential of all its postsynaptic neurons. The relationship between a neuron and its pre- and postsynaptic neurons defines an oriented graph, the interaction graph of the model. The goal is to estimate this graph based on the observation of the spike activity of a finite set of neurons over a finite time. We provide explicit exponential upper bounds for the probabilities of under- and overestimating the interaction graph restricted to the observed set and obtain the strong consistency of the estimator. Our result does not require stationarity nor uniqueness of the invariant measure of the process. Joint work with A. Duarte, E. Locherbach and G. Ost.

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Seminar in Pisa, January 13th 2020
by Dario Trevisan 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

Dear all, happy 2020! I would like to announce the following seminar by G. Poly (U. Rennes 1). Best, Dario Trevisan #### time and place: Monday 13th January 2020, 14:00, sala Riunoni (dip. Matematica, università degli studi di Pisa, Pisa). speaker: Guillaume Poly (U. Rennes 1) title: Around Salem-Zygmund Central Limit Theorem and application to roots of random trigonometric polynomials abstract: We shall revisit the Salem-Zygmund Central limit Theorem and get several generalizations: a speed of convergence via Stein's method, a functional counterpart and extension to total variation topology. As an application we prove the almost-sure convergence of the empirical measure of the number of real roots of a random trigonometric polynomial under-mild conditions on the coefficients. This is a joint work with Jurgen Angst.

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extended deadline post doc applications in Graz
by Daniela Bertacchi 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

DEADLINE EXTENSION ! Open Assistant position (PostDoc) for 2 1/2 years Graz University of Technology, Austria Institute of Discrete Mathematics Working Groups Structure Theory and Stochastics & Noncommutative Structures (Wolfgang Woess & Franz Lehner) Scheduled to start on March 1, 2020. Requirements: PhD in Mathematics or Technical Mathematics, awarded before the beginning of the engagement. Desired qualifictations: scientific interest in the fields of Stochastic Processes (random walks) and their analytic counterparts, Graph Theory, Geometric Group Theory and Noncommutative Probability, possibly combining those topics. Readiness to collaborate in research projects in these areas. Workload 40 hours/week. Teaching duties of 4 hours per week per semester, in particular for Mathematics in the Engineering sciences, in German (!). For details + how to apply, see https://www.math.tugraz.at/~woess/position EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: January 19, 2020. Wolfgang Woess Institut fuer Diskrete Mathematik, Technische Universitaet Graz, Steyrergasse 30, A-8010 Graz, Austria email: woess(a)TUGraz.at http://www.math.TUGraz.at/~woess <http://www.math.tugraz.at/~woess>

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Seminario di M. Gordina alla Sapienza
by Faggionato, Alessandra 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Buongiorno sotto l'annuncio di un seminario per Lunedi' 13 Gennaio Grazie Saluti Alessandra ************************************************************************************** When: Monday 13 January, 16.00 Where: Sala di Consiglio, Department of Mathematics, University La Sapienza Speaker: Maria Gordina (University of Connecticut) Title: Ergodicity for Langevin dynamics with singular potentials Abstract: We discuss Langevin dynamics of N particles on R^d interacting through a singular repulsive potential, such as the Lennard-Jones potential, and show that the system converges to the unique invariant Gibbs measure exponentially fast in a weighted total variation distance. The proof relies on an explicit construction of a Lyapunov function using a modified Gamma calculus. In contrast to previous results for such systems, our results imply geometric convergence to equilibrium starting from an essentially optimal family of initial distributions. This is based on join work with F.Baudoin and D.Herzog. -- ************************************************* 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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5-year Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Financial Mathematics UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics
by Andrea Pascucci 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

University College Dublin is seeking to appoint a Lecturer/Assistant Professor (Above the Bar) in Financial Mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Applicants should have expertise in Financial Mathematics or Computational Finance, or both. It is a 5-year post, commencing on 1st May 2020. The salary scale is €53,773-€84,544 per annum. For further details, and to apply, go to https://www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/ (search under 'External Applicants'). The application period will close at 17:00hrs (local Irish time) on 24th January 2020. Regards, Adamaria Perrotta Programme Director of BSc. in Financial Mathematics UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics -- Adamaria Perrotta School of Mathematics and Statistics S2.85, Science South UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4 00 353 1 716 2590

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Probability Seminar: Richard Kraaij (TUDelft) [Padova, Tue 14/01, 11am]
by Francesca Collet 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

*** Apologies for cross-posting *** Dear Colleagues, we would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar that will take place at the Department of Mathematics, University of Padova, on January 14. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ DR. RICHARD C. KRAAIJ (Delft University of Technology) “Large deviations for weakly coupled slow-fast systems via the comparison principle of an associated Hamilton-Jacobi equation” 14 JANUARY (Tuesday), 11:00; ROOM 1BC50, Dipartimento di Matematica “Tullio Levi-Civita”, Via Trieste 63, Padova ABSTRACT. In statistical physics many interesting phenomena, e.g. behavior of systems at critical parameters or in the theory of hydrodynamic limits, arise from systems having multiple time-scales. A slow component is influenced by fast components, and as the number of interacting components tends to infinity, limiting results for the slow component are obtained in terms of `averaged' versions of the fast components. I will consider in my talk the fluctuations (large deviations) of coupled Markovian systems with two-time scales. These fluctuations can arise from two sources: fluctuations of the slow process itself, or fluctuations of the large time averages of the fast process, effectively leading to a competition of two fluctuation effects. To obtain the large deviation principle, we consider an associated Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation of which the Hamiltonian is given in terms of the two fluctuation effects. We establish under mild conditions that this Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation is well-posed, and as a consequence that we have a large deviation principle for a wide class of weakly coupled Markov processes. Based on joint work with Mikola Schlottke (Eindhoven, The Netherlands). ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ All of you are very welcome. Best regards, Francesca Collet

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BAYSM 2020: registration and abstract submission are now open!
by Federico Camerlenghi 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Dear all, the 5th Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting, BAYSM2020, will take place in Kunming, China (June 26-27, 2020) as a satellite to the ISBA 2020 world meeting. 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://baysm2020.uconn.edu/registration ) and will be available with an early bird discount until May 1, 2020. The event will be hosted at the Science Hall of Yunnan University (Kunming, China) right before ISBA 2020 world meeting. BAYSM 2020 will include social events, providing the opportunity to get to know other junior Bayesians. Young researchers interested in giving a talk or presenting a poster are invited to *submit an extended abstract by March 29, 2020*. All the instructions for the abstract submission are reported at the page https://baysm2020.uconn.edu/call-dates Thanks to the generous support of ISBA, a number of travel awards are available to support young researchers. Keynote speakers: Maria De Iorio David Dunson Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter Xuanlong Nguyen Amy Shi Jessica Utts Confirmed discussants: Jingheng Cai Li Ma Fernando Quintana Francesco Stingo Anmin Tang Yemao Xia 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://baysm2020.uconn.edu/ On behalf of the BAYSM2020 organizing committee -- Federico Camerlenghi Department of Economics, Management and Statistics University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy. web-page: https://www.unimib.it/federico-camerlenghi

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Seminari congiunti ASI - Dipartimento Matematica Tor Vergata
by Anna Vidotto 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Annuncio Seminari congiunti ASI - Dipartimento Matematica Tor Vergata *9 Gennaio 2020* Aula Dal Passo, Edificio Sogene *Ore 14: Gianluca Polenta, ASI Space Science Data Centre* Title: Cosmology through CMB maps Abstract: The Cosmic Microwave Background is a fundamental source of information for cosmology. In the standard inflationary scenario, the CMB can be described to first order as a Gaussian random field on the sphere, and as such cosmological information is encoded in the two-point correlation function or in the angular power spectrum. To derive these quantities as well as the likelihood function needed to estimate the cosmological parameters, a number of estimators have been developed following different trade-off between optimality, unbiasedness, and computational resources, also depending on the characteristics of the dataset to be analysed. In this talk I will review the different classes of estimators used in the CMB data analysis, focusing in particular to the solutions adopted for the ESA Planck satellite, which produced CMB full sky maps of unprecedented quality. Finally, I will briefly discuss how CMB non-Gaussianity, isotropy, and those anomalies found in the analysis of Planck data can be used to further test the inflationary paradigm. *Ore 15: Domenico Marinucci, Department of Mathematics, University ofRome Tor Vergata* Title: Critical Points, Multiple Testing and Point Source Detection for Cosmological Data Abstract: In this talk, we shall review some mathematical issues arising in the analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation data; many of these issues can be related to the investigation of functionals of independent interest in random geometry. We will first review some results on harmonic analysis for spherical random fields, on the construction of spherical wavelets and on their stochastic properties; we will then show how to compute the asymptotic distribution of critical points for Fourier/wavelet components of random fields, and we will establish some ergodicity results, in the high-frequency limit. We will then investigate how to exploit these results to implement multiple testing procedures for detection of point sources (Galaxies) in CMB Data; the resulting tests will be shown to exhibit a number of optimality properties. Applications to CMB data from the Planck collaboration will also be briefly illustrated. --------- Anna Vidotto PostDoc Researcher Dipartimento di Matematica Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata https://sites.google.com/view/annavidotto

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Talk announcement, dos Reis, Tuesday Jan 7
by Mario Maurelli 07 Jan '20

07 Jan '20

Dear all, Sorry for cross-posting. I would like to announce the following talk: Time and place: Tuesday January 7, 2pm Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' degli Studi di Milano [room TBC, another email will follow] via C. Saldini 50, Milano Speaker: Dr. Goncalo dos Reis (University of Edinburgh) Title: Ito type Chain rule for measure dependent random fields under full and conditional measure flows Abstract: We present several Itô-Wentzell formulae on Wiener spaces for real-valued functionals random field of Itô type depending on measures. We distinguish the full- and marginal-measure flow cases. Derivatives with respect to the measure components are understood in the sense of Lions. This talk is based on joint work with V. Platonov (U. of Edinburgh), see https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01892 . Best regards Mario Maurelli

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Reminder - workshop "Graphs and Randomness in Turin"
by Federico Polito 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

Dear colleagues, We would like to remind you about the upcoming workshop *Graphs and Randomness in Turin* January 20-21, 2020 Department of Mathematics "G. Peano", University of Torino, Italy For more information please see the webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/graphs-and-randomness-in-turin Registration is mandatory but free. To register please email tamas.makai(a)unito.it by January 15. With best regards, The organisers, Tamás Makai Federico Polito -- Federico Polito Department of Mathematics University of Torino Via Carlo Alberto, 10 10123, Torino, Italy Email: federico.polito(a)unito.it Tel: +39 011 6702862 Web: www.federicopolito.it

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Seminario Lionel Levine (Cornell), Università La Sapienza, Martedì 7 Gennaio
by Silvestri, Vittoria 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

REMINDER Seminario di Probabilità Speaker: Lionel Levine (Cornell University) Title: Random walks with local memory Martedì 7 Gennaio, ore 14:00 (sharp) Aula di Consiglio Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma La Sapienza Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 Abstract: The theme of this talk is walks in a random environment of "signposts" altered by the walker. I'll focus on three related examples: 1. Rotor walk on Z^2. Your initial signposts are independent with the uniform distribution on {North,East,South,West}. At each step you rotate the signpost at your current location clockwise 90 degrees and then follow it to a nearest neighbor. Priezzhev et al. conjectured that in n such steps you will visit order n^{2/3} distinct sites. I'll outline an elementary proof of a lower bound of this order. The upper bound, which is still open, is related to a famous question about the path of a light ray in a grid of randomly oriented mirrors. This part is joint work with Laura Florescu and Yuval Peres. 2. p-rotor walk on Z. In this walk you flip the signpost at your current location with probability 1-p and then follow it. I'll explain why your scaling limit will be a Brownian motion perturbed at its extrema. This part is joint work with Wilfried Huss and Ecaterina Sava-Huss. 3. p-rotor walk on Z^2. Rotate the signpost at your current location clockwise with probability p and counterclockwise with probability 1-p, and then follow it. This walk “organizes” its environment by destroying cycles of signposts. A native environment -- stationary in time, from your perspective as the walker -- is an orientation of the uniform spanning forest, plus one additional edge. This part is joint work with Swee Hong Chan, Lila Greco, and Peter Li: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04710 ******************************** Vittoria Silvestri Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome ********************************

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6-year position in probability in Vienna
by Fabio Toninelli 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

Dear friends and colleagues, the Technical University of Vienna is advertising a 6-year post-doctoral assistant position <https://tiss.tuwien.ac.at/mbl/blatt_struktur/anzeigen/10378?locale=en#p472.3> in probability (the position is comparable to a non-tenure track "junior professor position" in the German system). The successful candidate will work in the Mathematical Stochastics group, that I will start leading in March 2020. I would be grateful if you could forward this message to any suitable candidates (the application deadline is January 15, 2020). Candidates are encouraged to contact me directly by e-mail for any question related to this position. With best wishes and many thanks Fabio Toninelli -- Fabio Toninelli Institut Camille Jordan, Universite' Lyon 1 43 bd du 11 novembre 1918 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France Office 105, tel: +33 (0) 4 26 23 44 41

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ricercatore tipo B MAT/06 all' Aquila: ulteriore proroga
by davide gabrielli 02 Jan '20

02 Jan '20

La scadenza del bando è stata prorogata 2 volte; per un mio errore avevo mandato la data della prima proroga. Per completezza di informazione inoltro ancora una volta le informazioni con la scadenza finale. Bando da ricercatore a tempo determinato di tipo B nel settore scientifico disciplinare MAT/06 Probabilità e statistica matematica presso il Dipartimento di ingegneria e scienze dell'informazione e matematica dell'Università dell'Aquila. Il bando e le informazioni si trovano al seguente link https://www.univaq.it/section.php?id=1532 Scadenza definitiva 16-Gennaio-2020 Si prega di darne la massima diffusione, cordiali saluti Davide Gabrielli

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