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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 08 Mar '20

08 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 13 Feb '20

13 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 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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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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Berlin-Oxford International Research Training Group (IRTG) 2544 “Stochastic Analysis in Interaction”
by Tiziano De Angelis 23 Dec '19

23 Dec '19

Dear All, The advert below might be of interest to bright students interested in PhD studies abroad. Have a good Christmas break and a Happy New Year. 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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RTD-B position in SECS-S/06 in Milano - call for interest
by Giovanni Puccetti 21 Dec '19

21 Dec '19

RTD-B position in Mathematical Methods for Economics, Finance and Actuarial Science in Milano - call for interest The Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM) of the University of Milano launches a call for expressions of interest to identify potential candidates for a RTD-B position in the sector 13/D4 (SECS-S/06), Mathematical Methods for Economics, Finance and Actuarial Science. The Department has been recently financed by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research under the program “Departments of Excellence” for the 2018/2022 period. Requests for information and expressions of interest, including a CV with publication record, must be sent to davide.parenti(a)unimi.it by January 10, 2020. Please note that this is a call for interest, not a job vacancy announcement. The Department will advertise job vacancies in 2020.

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Post-Doc at Luxembourg University
by Giovanni Peccati 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

Dear Colleagues, I would like to announce the opening of a post-doc position in my group at *Luxembourg University*, in the large domain of *stochastic analysis and applications*. The first possible starting date is *March 1st, 2020*. The length of the contract is two years, extendable up to 5 years. The deadline for applications is *January 31, 2020.* All information, together with the online application form, can be found here: http://emea3.mrted.ly/2db95 Please do not hesitate to share the news of this opportunity with potentially interested candidates. All my best, Giovanni -- Prof. Giovanni Peccati ------------------------------------------ UR en Mathématiques Faculté des Sciences, de la Technologie et de la Communication ------------------------------------------ Université du Luxembourg ----------------------------------------- homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/giovannipeccati/Home E-mail: giovanni.peccati(a)gmail.com

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ricertatore tipo B MAT/06 L'Aquila, proroga scadenza
by davide gabrielli 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

Segnalo ancora una volta il 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 in quanto la scadenza del bando è stata prorogata. Il bando e le informazioni si trovano al seguente link https://www.univaq.it/section.php?id=1532 Nuova scadenza 02-Gennaio-2020 Si prega di darne la massima diffusione, cordiali saluti Davide Gabrielli

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Academic openings at Roma "la Sapienza"
by Gustavo Posta 19 Dec '19

19 Dec '19

The Mathematics Department of Sapienza University of Rome invites applications for academic openings at the Associate and/or Full Professor level from any fields in Mathematics covered through a direct call procedure. All area of Mathematics will be considered. Candidates are encouraged to apply by February 28, 2020. For more details see: https://www.mat.uniroma1.it/dipartimento/chiamate-dirette ---------------------------------------------------------------- Gustavo Posta Dipartimento di Matematica Guido Castelnuovo Università di Roma "la Sapienza" P.le A. Moro 2, 00185 Roma Italy web: http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~posta e-mail: gustavo.posta(a)uniroma1.it phone: +39-06-4991-4969 ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ________________________________________________________ Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica sono strettamente riservate e indirizzate esclusivamente al destinatario. Si prega di non leggere, fare copia, inoltrare a terzi o conservare tale messaggio se non si è il legittimo destinatario dello stesso. Qualora tale messaggio sia stato ricevuto per errore, si prega di restituirlo al mittente e di cancellarlo permanentemente dal proprio computer. The information contained in this e mail message is strictly confidential and intended for the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, forward or store it on your computer. If you have received the message in error, please forward it back to the sender and delete it permanently from your computer system.

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I: Tenure Track Professorship of Stochastic Analysis (University of Konstanz, Germany)
by Marco Alessandro Fuhrman 18 Dec '19

18 Dec '19

Buongiorno. Inoltro un avviso di una posizione a Konstanz in Analisi stocastica. https://www.uni-konstanz.de/stellenangebote/stellenauswahl.php/stellenauswa… Cordiali saluti. Marco Fuhrman <signaturebeforequotedtext></signaturebeforequotedtext> <signatureafterquotedtext></signatureafterquotedtext>

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Assistant Professor and 2 Associate Professor, Dept. of Statistics, University of Warwick
by Massimiliano ... 18 Dec '19

18 Dec '19

Dear all, we are searching for 1 Assistant Professor (permanent) and 2 Associate Professors to join our team at the Department of Statistics, University of Warwick. The deadline for applying is January 12, 2020. For more information on the Assistant Professor, please visit https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?SID=amNvZGU9MTg0ODA4NyZ2dF90… For more information on the Associate Professor, please visit https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5062452&ownertype=fair… Best regards, Massimiliano ----------------- 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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Fwd: 2 years PostDoc position in dynamical systems
by Stefano Marmi 18 Dec '19

18 Dec '19

Dear Collegue, I would be grateful if you could bring to the attention of your best postgraduate students and PhD holders that a two years long research position in “Dynamical systems" is available at the Centro De Giorgi - Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. PhD students can also apply, provided they obtain their PhD no later than October 1st 2020. Deadline for application: *7th January 2020 (11.59 PM Italian time)*. The total two-year gross remuneration, inclusive of all taxes, is € 66,590.00 for each contract, corresponding to a monthly salary of approximately 2,000 Euros. An additional yearly research allowance of 1,000 Euros for exchange visits is also provided. The mathjobs announcement is available here: https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/15211 To submit applications please link to the *ANNOUNCEMENT* at https://wwwold.sns.it/bando/assegni-di-ricerca-denominati-%E2%80%9Cjunior-v… and read the *OFFICIAL CALL * https://wwwold.sns.it/sites/default/files/documenti/05-11-2019/584call.pdf Applicants must submit their applications *SOLELY* by using the on-line procedure "SerSe" (https://serse.sns.it/en/) <https://serse.sns.it/en/> available on the Scuola Normale Superiore website and fulfill ALL the tender's requirements. *No other submission method will be accepted.* For additional information e-mail *job.opportunities(a)sns.it <job.opportunities(a)sns.it>*. Best regards Stefano Marmi

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EFI5 Workshop: extended deadline and YITP prizes (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

===================================== CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE Dear All, we wish to inform you that the deadline for paper submission for the fifth edition of the Energy Finance Italia Workshop - EFI5, has been EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 23rd, in order to allow for a broader participation also to the YITP research prizes. We remind that, if our application to the Young Investigator Training Program (YITP) of the ACRI (Associazione Casse di Risparmio Italiane) will be funded, we will grant several 1-month positions to young researchers, coming from outside Italy, to spend in one Italian research institution of the network. In order to be eligible, the young researcher should submit a presentation to the workshop, and choose at least three research institutions to spend their grant at. You can find all the information on the website of the workshop: - http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/efi5/ (general information) - http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/efi5/html/institutional_support.html (YITP positions) All the best -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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JOB: Tenured senior lectureship in Mathematical Statistics & Data Science, Gothenburg, Sweden
by Massimiliano ... 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: JOB: Tenured senior lectureship in Mathematical Statistics & Data Science, Gothenburg, Sweden Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:17:54 +0100 From: Umberto Picchini <umberto.picchini(a)gmail.com><mailto:umberto.picchini@gmail.com> To: allstat(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:allstat@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> We are searching for a Senior Lecturer to the Division of Applied Mathematics and Statistics who would contribute to our expertise in the area of mathematical statistics towards data science. The position is permanent (tenured). The successful candidate is expected to develop and maintain a high-level research program in mathematical statistics with emphasis on computer intensive methods and participate in the undergraduate and graduate level teaching in mathematical statistics at our department. The successful candidate will strengthen and complement the research performed at theDivision of Applied Mathematics and Statistics<https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/math/organisation/applied-mathematic…> which is internationally recognized in areas such as * Bayesian statistics, forensic statistics, * spatial statistics, extreme value theory, * biostatistics, bioinformatics, and systems biology, * stochastic differential equations, computational mathematics. We are particularly interested in enhancing our AI@MS<https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/math/research/research-groups/AIMS/P…> group on Artificial Intelligence at Mathematical Sciences. Gothenburg is the second largest city in Sweden, located in the beautiful east coast. Read more at https://www.goteborg.com/en/ Deadline for applications: 29 February 2020. Full info and instructions to apply are at <https://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/job-opportunities/vacancies-…> https://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/job-opportunities/vacancies-… For further information please contact: Bernt Wennberg, Head of Department, tel +46 (0)31-772 53 26, email wennberg(a)chalmers.se <mailto:wennberg@chalmers.se>Annika Lang, Deputy Head of Division, tel +46 (0)31-772 5356, email annika.lang(a)chalmers.se <mailto:%20annika.lang@chalmers.se>Serik Sagitov, Head of Division, tel +46 (0)31-772 5351, email serik(a)chalmers.se<mailto:serik@chalmers.se> -- _________________________________________________________________________ Umberto Picchini picchini(a)chalmers.se<mailto:picchini@chalmers.se> Associate Professor https://umbertopicchini.github.io/ Department of Mathematical Sciences Twitter: @uPicchini Gothenburg University and Phone (office): +46 317 726 414 Chalmers University of Technology _________________________________________________________________________

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Fwd: I: Assistant Professorship at Chalmers
by Mario Maurelli 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Mario Maurelli <mario.maurelli(a)unimi.it> Date: lun 2 dic 2019 alle ore 12:01 Subject: I: Assistant Professorship at Chalmers To: mario.maurelli <mario.maurelli(a)sns.it> I wish to draw your attention to an assistant professorship position at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg which has just been announced. The theme of the position is the combination of optimal transport, machine learning, and geometry. The position is very wealthy, as it includes funding for one PhD student, 5 post-doc years, traveling, etc. The ideas is that the candidate should have enough funding to start building his/her own research group. If you know any suitable candidates I would be grateful if you could pass on the information to them. The announcement of the position, including detailed information of how to apply, is available at this link: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Pag… The dead-line for applications is 10 February 2020. Best wishes, Klas Modin ___________________ Klas Modin Associate Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg email: klas.modin(a)chalmers.se web: http://klasmodin.wordpress.com orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6900-1122

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Seminario Lionel Levine (Cornell), Università La Sapienza
by Silvestri, Vittoria 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

PREANNUNCIO DI SEMINARIO (seguirà un 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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Seminar at Scuola Normale Superiore, 17 December 2019, Luciano Campi
by Giulia Livieri 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

Dear all, On Tuesday, 17 December 2019 — at 11:30 — at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Room: Aula Bianchi Scienze) Prof. Luciano Campi (London School of Economics) will hold the following Seminar: Title : Correlated Equilibria and Mean Field Game Abstract: Mean field games are limit models for symmetric N-player games, as N tends to infinity, where the pre-limit models are solved in terms of Nash equilibria. A generalization of the notion of Nash equilibrium, due to Robert Aumann (1973, 1987), is that of a correlated equilibrium. Here, we discuss, in a simple non-static setting, the mean field game limit for correlated equilibria. We give a definition of correlated mean field game solution, prove that it arises as limit of N-player correlated equilibria in restricted (”open-loop”) Markov feedback strategies, and show how to construct approximate N-player equilibria starting from a correlated mean field game solution. We also compare our definition to the one by Lacker (2018) of weak solutions for mean field games without a common noise. (Joint work with Markus Fischer, Padova University) Fill free to forward this announcement to your colleagues. Best Giulia Livieri Assegnista di ricerca Scuola Normale Superiore Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7, 56126 Pisa PI room 65

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Doppio Seminario PELUCHETTI & KOWAL
by Pierpaolo De Blasi 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

Mercoledi 18 Dicembre 2019, presso il nuovo edificio del Collegio Carlo Alberto, in Piazza Arbarello 8, Torino, si terranno i seguenti due seminari: ———————————————————————— ore 11.00 Stefano PELUCHETTI (Cogent Labs Tokyo) DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS AND STOCHASTIC PROCESSES We review deep neural networks and their training, and then focus on the connection between neural networks and stochastic processes. Deep neural networks at initialization correspond to prior models in function space, and under appropriate assumptions they converge to Gaussian processes in the limit of infinite width. While this connection holds "a priori", it is possible to derive similar results for "a posteriori" training via gradient descent. In this talk we discuss these and related results, and we introduce a recent line of research which generalizes established results to non-Gaussian initializations and stochastic processes arising in the limit of infinite depth. ———————————————————————— ore 12.00 Daniel KOWAL (Rice University) SCALABLE BAYESIAN INFERENCE AND SUMMARIZATION FOR FUNCYIONAL DATA Modern scientific monitoring systems, such as wearable and implantable devices, commonly record data over a continuous domain at high resolutions. These functional data are high-dimensional, strongly correlated, and usually measured concurrently with other variables of interest. Bayesians models for functional data are particularly appealing: they accommodate multiple dependence structures, handle missing or irregularly-spaced data, and provide regularization via shrinkage priors. However, these models are often complex, computationally intensive, and difficult to interpret. This talk will focus on two fundamental challenges for Bayesian functional data analysis: (1) constructing sufficiently flexible and scalable functional regression models and (2) extracting interpretable posterior summaries. The proposed modeling framework is nonparametric and uses an unknown functional basis to learn prominent functional features, which are associated with scalar predictors within a regression model. A customized projection-based Gibbs sampler provides posterior inference with linear time complexity in the number of predictors, which is empirically faster than existing frequentist and Bayesian alternatives. Using the posterior distribution, a decision theoretic approach for Bayesian variable selection is developed, which identifies a subset of covariates that retains nearly the predictive accuracy of the full model. The methodology is applied to actigraphy data to investigate the association between intraday physical activity and responses to a sleep questionnaire. ———————————————————————— Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Il seminario è organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative (www.carloalberto.org/stats <http://www.carloalberto.org/stats>) in collaborazione con il Collegio Carlo Alberto. Cordiali saluti, Pierpaolo De Blasi --- University of Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto https://sites.google.com/a/carloalberto.org/pdeblasi/ <https://sites.google.com/a/carloalberto.org/pdeblasi/>

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XXIV Brazilian School of Probability/São Paulo School of advanced science
by Francesco Caravenna 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

Ricevo e inoltro. > Da: Dirk Erhard <erharddirk(a)gmail.com> > Oggetto: XXIV Brazilian School of Probability/São Paulo School of advanced science > Data: 12 dicembre 2019 20:22:34 CET > > First announcement : > > XXIV Brazilian School of Probability/ São Paulo School of advanced science on singular stochastic partial differential equations and their applications > > It is a pleasure to announce the XXIV Brazilian School of Probability/ 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/ <https://www.ime.unicamp.br/spas2020/>. > > The XXIV Brazilian School of Probability will coincide with the second week of the São Paulo School. As in previous years, the XXIV Brazilian School of Probability 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 informations under https://www.ime.unicamp.br/bsp2020/ <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

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Saint-Flour 2020 - First announcement
by Francesco Caravenna 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

Ricevo e inoltro. > Da: Saint-Flour Summer School <stflour(a)math.univ-bpclermont.fr> > Oggetto: Saint-Flour 2020 - First announcement > Data: 12 dicembre 2019 21:08:36 CET > A: saintflour(a)math.univ-bpclermont.fr > Rispondi a: Saint-Flour Summer School <stflour(a)math.univ-bpclermont.fr> > > SAINT-FLOUR 2020 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT > > Dear colleagues > > The 50th Saint-Flour Probability Summer School will be held on July 5-17, 2020. > > It is supported by the Université Clermont Auvergne and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. > > This year, the three courses will be: > > Ivan Corwin: Integrable probability and Gibbsian line ensembles > Sylvie Méléard: The interplay between scales in mathematical modeling for ecology and evolution > Allan Sly: Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems > Further information can be found on the conference website and YouTube channel: > > http://recherche.math.univ-bpclermont.fr/stflour/stflour-en.php <http://recherche.math.univ-bpclermont.fr/stflour/stflour-en.php> > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC640PtwmkBnrhCdop2daETw <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC640PtwmkBnrhCdop2daETw> > > Online registration will open in march. You will receive another announcement at that time. > > Please give the information to anyone else who might be interested. > > Best regards, > > The organizing committee > > Christophe Bahadoran, Hacène Djellout, Arnaud Guillin > > ------------------------------------------------- > > Laboratoire de Mathématiques Blaise Pascal, CNRS UMR 6620 > Université Clermont-Auvergne, Campus des Cézeaux > 3, place Vasarely > TSA 60026 CS 60026 > 63178 Aubière cedex, France > > Tel: +33 (0)4 73 40 70 50 > Fax: +33 (0)4 73 40 54 50 > > mailto:stflour@math.univ-bpclermont.fr <mailto:stflour@math.univ-bpclermont.fr>

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Energy Finance Italia: deadline approaching + YITP grants for young researchers
by Tiziano Vargiolu 12 Dec '19

12 Dec '19

Dear All, we wish to remind that the deadline for paper submissions for the fifth edition of the Energy Finance Italia Workshop - EFI5, which will be held in Rome, University of Roma Tre, next February 10-11, 2020 http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/efi5/ is rapidly approaching (Sunday, December 15). We also want to advertise that, for the 3rd consecutive year, we are applying for the Young Investigator Training Program of the ACRI (Associazione Casse di Risparmio Italiane). If funded (as in the previous 2 editions), we will grant several 1-month positions to young researchers, coming from outside Italy, to spend in one Italian research institution of the network. In order to be eligible, the young researcher should submit a presentation to the workshop, and choose at least three research institutions to spend their grant at. All those interested in such positions are kindly asked to submit an extended abstract to the workshop (see http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/efi5/) and to contact me (vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it) in order to have more precise details on the official procedure. Best regards 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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Seminari di H.A.Mimun e G. Panizo a Roma, Univ. La Sapienza
by Faggionato, Alessandra 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

Buongiorno sotto trovate l'annuncio per due seminari che si terranno al Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università La Sapienza a Roma la prossima settimana. grazie saluti alessandra ****************************************************************************************** *When*: Monday 16 December, 16:00 *Where*: Room B, Department of Mathematics, Sapienza University, Rome. *Speaker*: H.A. Mimun (Department of Mathematics, Sapienza University, Rome) *Title:* Percolation in the Miller-Abrahams random resistor network *Abstract: *The Miller-Abrahams random resistor network is used to study electron transport in amorphous solids. This resistor network is given by the complete random graph built on a marked homogeneous Poisson point process on R^d and each edge {x,y} is associated to a filament with conductance depending on the temperature, the distance between the points x,y and their associated marks. In this talk we consider the subgraph containing only edges with lower bounded conductances and, using the method of randomized algorithms developed by Duminil-Copin et al. and the renormalization argument proposed by Grimmett and Marstrand, we analyze the connection probabilities and the left-right crossings in appropriate regimes. These percolation properties are key ingredients for understanding the asymptotic behavior at low temperature of the effective conductivity of the Miller-Abrahams random resistor network. Joint work with Alessandra Faggionato (Sapienza University, Rome). ****************************************************************************************** *When*: Tuesday 17 December, 14:00 (sharp!) *Where:* Sala di Consiglio, Department of Mathematics, Sapienza University, Rome. *Speaker: *Gonzalo Panizo Garcia, IMCA, Lima, Perù *Title:* A self-interacting random walk *Abstract:* In 2011, Benjamini, Kozma and Schapira introduced a “balanced excited random walk” in the 4-dimensional lattice. In 2016, a similar model was studied by Peres, Schapira and Sousi in the 3-dimensional lattice. Here we generalize their constructions in the d-dimensional lattice, in the following way: if the walk visits a site for the first time, it makes a simple random walk step in the first d_1 dimensions, whereas if the site has been already visited, it makes a simple random walk step in the last d_2 coordinates. Both BKS and PSS proved transience in the non-overlapping case d=d_1+d_2, with d_1=d_2=4 (BKS) and d_1=1, d_2=3 (PSS). In this talk some result for the overlapping case (d_1+d_2>d) will be presented, in particular for d=4, d_1=2 and d_2=3. (Joint work with D. Camarena and A. Ramirez). -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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Workshop Junior Female Researchers in Probability, 17.-19. June 2020
by Luisa Andreis 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

Dear colleagues, we would like to draw your attention to the third conference for "Junior female researchers in probability" in Berlin, 17.-19. June 2020. The aim of this workshop is to promote young female researchers by giving them an opportunity to present their own work, and hear distinguished mathematicians who can inspire them to pursue a fulfilling career in probability. Keynote spekaers: 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 may apply for financial support. There are special travel grants for female master students interested in gaining some insight into research and get in touch with researchers. Of course participation of 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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4 postdoctoral positions in Mathematics, Computer Science and interactions in Lyon & Saint-Étienne: 2020 campaign Labex Milyon
by Pietro Caputo 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

ricevo e inoltro: ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Christophe SABOT <sabot(a)math.univ-lyon1.fr> Date: Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 2:33 PM Subject: 4 postdoctoral positions in Mathematics, Computer Science and interactions in Lyon & Saint-Étienne: 2020 campaign Labex Milyon Dear Colleagues, Please forward this message to interested colleagues and potential candidates. Best regards, Christophe Sabot Responsible of the Labex Milyon ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Excellence Laboratory Milyon <http://milyon.universite-lyon.fr> (Labex Milyon) opens the 2020 campaign of postdoctoral researchers in Lyon--Saint-Etienne in Mathematics, Computer Science and their interactions (including some aspects of theoretical physics). *Milyon offers four postdoctoral positions of two years* with no teaching load for the period 2020–2022. The application is open to all research areas of the labex Milyon (see here <https://milyon.universite-lyon.fr/about-research-126697.kjsp?RH=EN-MILYON-9…> ). More information on the link below: https://milyon.universite-lyon.fr/postdoctoral-positions-2020-2022--130160.… Deadline: January 7th 2020 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Winter school in Leeds (13-17 January 2020)
by Tiziano De Angelis 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

Dear All, Just a kind reminder that registration for the winter school+workshop at the link below will close on the 15th of December. https://conferences.leeds.ac.uk/osfbp/ Best wishes Tiziano Sent from my iPhone

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Workshop "Graphs and Randomness in Turin"
by Federico Polito 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

Apologies for cross-posting. We are pleased to announce the 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. Invited Speakers: - Elisabetta Candellero (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre) - Umberto De Ambroggio (University of Bath) - Nicola Del Giudice (Graz University of Technology) - Thomas M. Michelitsch (Sorbonne Université, CNRS) - Angelica Pachon (University of South Wales) - Guillem Perarnau (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) - Matt Roberts (University of Bath) - Tatyana Turova (Lund University) 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

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Re: [Random] Fwd: Post-doc position in Dynamical Systems @ Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata (fwd)
by Michele Gianfelice 09 Dec '19

09 Dec '19

Salve, ricevo e inoltro p.c.. Cordialmente, m.gianfelice > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 17:31:58 +0100 > From: Paolo Giulietti <paologiulietti.math(a)gmail.com> > To: undisclosed-recipients: ; > Subject: Fwd: Post-doc position in Dynamical Systems @ Univ. of Rome Tor > Vergata > > > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Alfonso Sorrentino <sorrentino(a)mat.uniroma2.it> > Date: Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 6:08 PM > Subject: Post-doc position in Dynamical Systems @ Univ. of Rome Tor > Vergata > To: > Cc: Carlangelo Liverani <liverani(a)mat.uniroma2.it>, > <butterley(a)mat.uniroma2.it>, Alfonso Sorrentino > <sorrentino(a)mat.uniroma2.it> > > > Dear colleagues, > We would like to bring to your attention the following opening for a > 2-year research fellowship in Dynamical Systems at > University of Rome Tor Vergata. > This position is supported by the national grant MIUR-PRIN 2017 "Regular > and stochastic behaviour in dynamical systems". > > More information in the enclosed documents (both in italian and english) > and on > thewebsite: https://web.uniroma2.it/module/name/Content/newlang/italiano/action/showpag… > tion_id/4992 > > Applications should be received by 30/01/2020. > > We would be very grateful if you could help us bring this advertisement to > the attention of potential candidates. > > Do not hesitate to contact us if you need further information. > > Kind regards, > > Oliver Butterley > Carlangelo Liverani > Alfonso Sorrentino > > > -- > Dipartimento di Matematica > Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata" > Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1 > 00133 Rome (Italy) > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "NO! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try." > > "Much to learn, you still have." > > \\Yoda\\

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Tenure track position in stochastic analysis
by Enrico Priola 07 Dec '19

07 Dec '19

====================================== Tenure Track Professorship of Stochastic Analysis (University of Konstanz, Germany) At the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Konstanz, there is an opening for a Tenure Track Professorship of Stochastic Analysis (Tenure to W3). The successful candidate is expected to have outstanding knowledge of stochastic analysis with connections to partial differential equations and an excellent research record in a current field that complements and strengthens research areas of the department, in particular in stochastics and analysis. The deadline is January 6th, 2020. Further information can be found in German and English at: https://www.uni-konstanz.de/stellenangebote/stellenauswahl.php/stellenauswa… For more informations: Markus Kunze <markus.kunze(a)uni-konstanz.de>

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Seminario Antonio Lerario Roma Tor Vergata
by Anna Vidotto 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

I would like to announce the following talk that will be held on Thursday December 12th 2019, at 4:30 PM, in Aula Dal Passo of the Department of Mathematics, University of Rome Tor Vergata. Speaker: Antonio Lerario (SISSA Trieste) Title: Low-degree approximation of real singularities Abstract: In this talk I will discuss some recent results that allow to approximate a real singularity given by polynomial equations of degree $d$ (e.g. the zero set of a polynomial, or the number of its critical points of a given Morse index) with a singularity which is diffeomorphic to the original one, but it is given by polynomials of degree $O(d^{1/2}log d)$. The approximation procedure is constructive (in the sense that one can read the approximating polynomial from a linear projection of the given one) and quantitative (in the sense that the approximating procedure will hold for a subset of the space of polynomials with measure increasing very quickly to full measure as the degree goes to infinity). This is based on a combination of joint works with P. Breiding, D. N. Diatta and H. Keneshlou. — This talk is part of the activity of the MIUR Excellence Department Project CUP E83C18000100006 — —————— Anna Vidotto PostDoc Researcher Dipartimento di Matematica Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata https://sites.google.com/view/annavidotto

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2020 ABS Summer School on Bayesian Causal Inference (Florence, Italy)
by Consonni Guido 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

We are glad to announce that the 2020 Applied Bayesian Statistics Summer School (17th edition) will be held in Florence, Italy. BAYESIAN CAUSAL INFERENCE 8-12 June, 2020 Lecturer: Prof. Fan Li, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Further details are provided below. Guido Consonni and Fabrizio Ruggeri ABS20 Directors Raffaele Argiento and Antonio Pievatolo ABS20 Executive Directors ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ******************************* * ABS20 * ******************************* Applied Bayesian Statistics School BAYESIAN CAUSAL INFERENCE Florence Center for Data Science, University of Florence Florence, Italy 8-12 June, 2020 Lecturer: Prof. Fan Li (Department of Statistical Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA) https://stat.duke.edu/people/fan-li The conference webpage is >>> http://www.mi.imati.cnr.it/conferences/abs20/index.html <<< Registration is now open to reserve a place (but payments are possible only from early January). Please note that the conference room allows only for a very limited number of participants. COURSE OUTLINE The aim of this course is to introduce the fundamental concepts and state-of-art methods for causal inference under the potential outcome framework. The lectures will be organized by the treatment assignment mechanisms. Topics will cover randomized experiments, observational studies with ignorable assignment mechanisms, natural experiments, sequential ignorable longitudinal treatments. Recent advances related to machine learning and more complex situations such as spatial-temporal treatments and interference will also be discussed. All methods will be illustrated via real case studies in health studies, economics and biology. Though the causal framework and most of the methods are independent of the inferential paradigm, an emphasis will be put on the Bayesian paradigm for inference. TENTATIVE PROGRAM See the daily program on the website. PRACTICAL INFORMATION The school will replicate the successful format of the previous years, and will feature lectures and practical sessions (run by a junior researcher), as well as participants' talks. It will start on Monday after lunch and end on Friday before lunch; Wednesday afternoon is free. Info on accommodation will appear soon on the website. Florence (Firenze) is easily accessible by train, airplane or car.

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RISKS Special Issue
by Luca di persio 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Dear all, this is to communicate the *call for papers* related to the following RISKS Special Issue: *New Challenges in Mathematical Finance: From S(P)DEs to Machine Learning* more details can be found in the attached flyer. All the best, LuCa __ Luca Di Persio - PhD College of Mathematics Dept. of Computer Science - University of Verona strada le Grazie 15 - 37134 Verona - Italy Tel : +39 045 802 7968 Official UniVr spinoff: www.hpa8.com <http://www.hpa8.com/>

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Fwd: Open PostDoc position in Augsburg
by Marco Romito 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assistant position (PostDoc) for 3 years "Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (m/w/d)" At the Universität Augsburg, Chair of Nonlinear Analysis, in the area of stochastic partial differential equations, stochastic analysis, stochastic dynamical systems, or related fields. Scheduled to start on April 1, 2020 until March 31, 2023 For the official advertisement (in German only) see: https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/jobs-und-karriere/stellenangebote/2019/11/25… Please sent your application including a full CV, a short description of your research interests and a list of publications (either in German or English) via e-mail preferably in a single pdf file to: dirk.bloemker(a)math.uni-augsburg.de <mailto:dirk.bloemker@math.uni-augsburg.de> For questions regarding the position or the research group at the Chair of Nonlinear Analysis, please contact directly Prof. Dr. Dirk Blömker (dirk.bloemker(a)math.uni-augsburg.de <mailto:dirk.bloemker@math.uni-augsburg.de>) Deadline: Januar 6, 2020 Requirements: PhD in Mathematics Workload: 100% position salary: E13 TV-L teaching duties: 5 hours per week during term time -- Prof. Dr. Dirk Blömker, Institut für Mathematik, Universität Augsburg, 86135 Augsburg, Germany Telefon: ++49 (0821) 598 - 2156 Telefax: ++49 (0821) 598 - 2200 E-Mail: dirk.bloemker(a)math.uni-augsburg.de Skype: bloemker21

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mini workshop - A LATE MORNING ON INFORMATION GEOMETRY - 6 Dicembre
by Paola Siri 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

MINIWORKSHOP Venerdì 6 Dicembre alle ore 11.00 nell’aula BUZANO del Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche “G.L.Lagrange” (DISMA) - Politecnico di Torino si terrà il miniworkshop A LATE MORNING ON INFORMATION GEOMETRY Per i dettagli si veda la locandina allegata. Tutti gli interessati sono caldamente invitati a partecipare. Cordiali saluti, Paola Siri e Barbara Trivellato

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Fwd: [isspsm] XXXVI International Seminar on Stability Problems for Stochastic Models
by RITA GIULIANO 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

Ricevo e inoltro Rita Giuliano -------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: [isspsm] XXXVI International Seminar on Stability Problems for Stochastic Models Data: 03.12.2019 07:47 Mittente: "isspsm2020" <isspsm2020(a)krc.karelia.ru> Destinatario: <isspsm(a)lists.cs.msu.ru> Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the organizing committee we are pleased to invite you to participate in the XXXVI INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON STABILITY PROBLEMS FOR STOCHASTIC MODELS HTTP://ISSPSM2020.KRC.KARELIA.RU/ which will be held in PETROZAVODSK, KARELIA, RUSSIA from 22 TO 26 OF JUNE 2020 under the auspices of the Institute of Applied Mathematical Research of the Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Institute of Informatics Problems of the Federal Research Scientific Center "Computer Science and Control" of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow Centre of Fundamental and Applied Mathematics. Please, find the first information letter in the ATTACHMENT and feel free to pass this invitation to your colleagues. INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Victor Korolev (Moscow, Russia - Chairman) Vladimir Mazalov (Petrozavodsk, Russia - Chairman) Evsey Morozov (Petrozavodsk, Russia - Vice-Chairman) Irina Shevtsova (Moscow, Russia - Vice-Chairman) Andrey Gorshenin (Moscow, Russia - Secretary) Vladimir Chichagov (Perm, Russia) Sándor Baran (DEBRECEN, Hungary) István Fazekas (DEBRECEN, Hungary) Yuri Khokhlov (Moscow, Russia) Lev Klebanov (Prague, Czech Republic) Vassily Kolokoltsov (Warwick, United Kingdom) Edward Omey (Leuven, Belgium) Enzo Orsingher (Rome, Italy) Gyula Pap (DEBRECEN, Hungary) Yuri Pavlov (Petrozavodsk, Russia) Anna Rettieva (Petrozavodsk, Russia) Alexander Rumyantsev (Petrozavodsk, Russia) Georgy Shevlyakov (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) Alexander Zeifman (Vologda, Russia) THE MAIN TOPICS OF THE XXXVI SEMINAR · Limit Theorems and Stability Problems of Probability Theory · Stochastic Processes · Statistics of Time Series and Stochastic Processes · Finance, Insurance, Risk · Spatial Statistics · Applied Statistics and Data Analysis · Stochastic Dynamics · Random Graphs · Queuing Theory and Modeling · Information Systems · Probability Distributions · Discrete Probability Models · Nonparametric Statistics · Statistical Learning · Stochastic Games PUBLICATIONS Abstracts of communications on the XXXVI International Seminar on Stability Problems for Stochastic Models will be published before the Seminar. Selected proceedings of International Seminar on Stability Problems for Stochastic Models will be published in the Journal of Mathematical Sciences [1] (Springer Science+Business Media, ISSN: 1072-3374) and in the journal Informatics and Applications [2] (ISSN: 1992-2264). IMPORTANT DEADLINES · APRIL 1, 2020 - preliminary registration, abstract submission · April 15, 2020 - notification of acceptance · MAY 1, 2020 - early registration fee payment SEMINAR WEBSITE: HTTP://ISSPSM2020.KRC.KARELIA.RU/ For any questions, please, contact isspsm2020(a)krc.karelia.ru On behalf of the International Program Committee, Victor Korolev, Chairman Irina Shevtsova, Vice-Chairman On behalf of the Local Organizing Committee_,_ Vladimir Mazalov, Chairman Evsey Morozov, Vice-Chairman Links: ------ [1] http://www.springer.com/mathematics/journal/10958 [2] http://www.ipiran.ru/journal/issues/ _______________________________________________ isspsm mailing list isspsm(a)lists.cs.msu.ru https://lists.cs.msu.ru/mailman/listinfo/isspsm

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Seminario di Tyler Helmuth (Bristol) a Roma Tre, 12-12-2019
by Alexandre Stauffer 03 Dec '19

03 Dec '19

SEMINARIO Probabilita' Tyler Helmuth (University of Bristol) Titolo: Random spanning forests and hyperbolic symmetry Giovedi' 12 Dicembre 2019 ORE 10:00 Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre Largo San Leonardo Murialdo,1 - Pal.C - Aula 211 Abstract The arboreal gas is a probability measure that arises from conditioning the random subgraph given by Bernoulli(p) bond percolation to be a spanning forest, i.e., to contain no cycles. This conditioning makes sense on any finite graph G, and specializes to the uniform measure on spanning forests when p = 1/2. One is naturally lead to ask about the percolative properties of the arboreal gas, and this turns out to be a surprisingly rich question. I will discuss some results and conjectures about the arboreal gas, most of which are based on important relations between the arboreal gas and spin systems with hyperbolic symmetry. Based on joint work in progress with Roland Bauerschmidt, Nick Crawford, and Andrew Swan.

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Economists For Future (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

Per completezza: c'e' una cosa molto importante che non viene detta sotto, ma nella procedura di firma si', ed e' questa: IMPORTANT: This open letter is open to everyone to sign, not just economists! Cordiali saluti a tutti ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 13:16:12 +0000 From: Luisa Jentsch <noreply(a)econ4future.org> Reply-To: info(a)econ4future.org To: Tiziano <vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it> Subject: Economists For Future Dear Tiziano, I write to introduce you to Economists for Future?s open letter that is calling on the economics community to raise its game and devise a more impactful contribution to tackling climate change. Economists for Future is an international student-led organisation with the aim to put pressure on the economics community to treat climate change like the emergency it is. While many economists have shown great academic leadership on this issue, the overall contribution from the community has not been commensurate with the magnitude of the problem. The shortage of climate change related articles in top journals is one such demonstration. For example, the most-cited journal in our discipline has never published an article on climate change [https://lists.econ4future.org/links/iJ9AW4JXP/PfQP6QyMO/aMbvBGRdzdg/YJmX2li…] As the next generation of economists, as young people who will live through the most severe climate effects and as individuals with a deep belief in the power of good economics to make the world a better place, we feel an acute pressure to ?do more? that we are hoping you will share. We think economists have both a responsibility and an enormous opportunity to have an even greater contribution to help tackle this emergency. The open letter (attempts to) make the case for economists seizing this opportunity to provide the intellectual framework that enables a rapid decarbonisation that is coupled with a great leap in human progress. We would like to invite you to support this initiative by signing the letter, which you can do by filling out the form on our website. [https://lists.econ4future.org/links/iJ9AW4JXP/PfQP6QyMO/aMbvBGRdzdg/K8_4G0o…] And, if you agree with it, we would kindly ask you to share your support among your social and academic networks. If you have any questions about our initiative or the letter, we would love to hear from you ? at the end of the day, we are curious students that desire more from the discipline we want to dedicate our lives to. Kind Regards, Luisa Jentsch Economists For Future Website: econ4future.org [econ4future.org] Facebook [https://lists.econ4future.org/links/iJ9AW4JXP/PfQP6QyMO/aMbvBGRdzdg/CY-m9M0…] Instagram [https://lists.econ4future.org/links/iJ9AW4JXP/PfQP6QyMO/aMbvBGRdzdg/qHhHAzS…] Twitter [https://lists.econ4future.org/links/iJ9AW4JXP/PfQP6QyMO/aMbvBGRdzdg/zMI73YS…]

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Presentazione Rapporto IVASS 2019 (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 02 Dec '19

02 Dec '19

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2019 09:28:26 +0100 From: Paolo Foschi <foschip(a)gmail.com> To: Tiziano Vargiolu <vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it> Cc: Paolo Foschi <foschip(a)gmail.com> Subject: Presentazione Rapporto IVASS 2019 Caro Tiziano, la prossima settimana, a Rimini, ospitiamo i tecnici dell?IVASS che presentano il rapporto sullo stato del sistema assicurativo italiano. Potresti far circolare la locandina nella mailing list random? Grazie e saluti, Paolo ?? Giornata IVASS 9 Dicembre 2019 14:00-17:00 "Il Mercato Assicurativo Italiano: Update sul 2019." Aula Magna Campus di Rimini, Universit? di Bologna Via Domenico Angher? 22, Rimini Ore 14.00 Introduzione Chair Paolo Foschi (Univ. di Bologna) Ore 14:15 Il mercato assicurativo itliano: struttura, perfomance e solvibilit?, Leandro D'Aurizio (IVASS) Ore 15:00 Assicurazioni Vita: Ramo I e Ramo III, Riccardo Cesari (IVASS) Ore 15:45 Il mercato delle polizze RC auto: aspetti economici-quantitativi, Marco Cosconati (IVASS) Ore 16.30 Discussione e domande Carlo Mazzaferro (Univ. di Bologna) ORe 17:00 Chisura dei lavori Riccardo Cesari (IVASS) Pre Info: Prof. Paolo Foschi (paolo.foschi2(a)unibo.it) Dip. di Scienze Statistiche, Universit? di Bologna

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Seminario Prof. Claudio Macci
by malongob＠unina.it 30 Nov '19

30 Nov '19

Il Prof. Claudio MACCI dell'Università di Roma Tor Vergata mercoledì 4 dicembre 2019 alle ore 16 nell'Aula E al III livello del Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni dell'Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II terrà un seminario dal titolo: Large deviations for risk measures in finite mixture models ABSTRACT Due to their heterogeneity, insurance risks can be properly described as a mixture of different fixed models, where the weights assigned to each model may be estimated empirically from a sample of available data. If a risk measure is evaluated on the estimated mixture instead of the (unknown) true one, then it is important to investigate the committed error. In this paper we study the asymptotic behaviour of estimated risk measures, as the data sample size tends to infinity, in the fashion of large deviations. We obtain large deviation results by applying the contraction principle, and the rate functions are given by a suitable variational formula; explicit expressions are available for mixtures of two models. Finally, our results are applied to the most common risk measures, namely the quantiles, the expected shortfall and the shortfall risk measure. Joint work with Valeria Bignozzi and Lea Petrella. La proponente Maria Longobardi

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Avviso seminario_Alessandra Faggionato_Giovedì 5 dicembre_ore 16
by Carlo Orrieri 28 Nov '19

28 Nov '19

Avviso di Seminario, università di Trento Stochastic homogenization in amorphous media and applications to interacting particle systems and random resistor networks Giovedì 5 dicembre 2019 Luogo: Polo Ferrari 1, via Sommarive, 5 - Povo (TN) - Aula A221 Ore: 16:00 Relatore: Alessandra Faggionato (Università La Sapienza, Roma) Abstract: We consider random walks on marked simple point processes with symmetric jump rates and unbounded jump range. Examples are given by simple random walks on Delaunay triangulations or Mott variable range hopping in doped semiconductors. We present homogenization results for the associated Markov generators. As a first application, we obtain the hydrodynamic limit of the exclusion process given by multiple random walks as above, with hard–core interaction. As a second application, we derive a limit theorem for the effective conductivity of some classes of random resistor networks. This result together with a percolation-type analysis allows to derive the low temperature scaling behavior of conductivity in some classes of strongly disordered media.

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premi banditi dalla Società Italiana di Statistica
by Antonio DI CRESCENZO 27 Nov '19

27 Nov '19

Sono disponibili sul sito della SIS bandi e regolamenti per i seguenti premi: – migliori tesi di dottorato di ricerca; – migliore tesi di Laurea Magistrale in Statistica Matematica (in ricordo del Prof. Oliviero Lessi); – Premio SIS 2019-2020 per la Didattica della Statistica. Maggiori informazioni sono accessibili agli indirizzi seguenti: http://www.sis-statistica.it/ita/9933/Premio%20per%20le%20migliori%20tesi%2… http://www.sis-statistica.it/ita/9960/Premio%20per%20la%20migliore%20tesi%2… http://www.sis-statistica.it/ita/9920/Premio%20per%20la%20Didattica%20della…

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Mini corso: ASYMPTOTICS FOR POSTERIOR BAYESIAN INFERENCE
by Matteo Ruggiero 27 Nov '19

27 Nov '19

Cari colleghi, nell’ambito del programma di Visiting Professors per la Laurea Magistrale in Stochastics and Data Science dell’Università di Torino, con piacere annunciamo il seguente mini corso: ---------------------------------------------- Botond SZABO (Leiden University) ASYMPTOTICS FOR POSTERIOR BAYESIAN INFERENCE ---------------------------------------------- Il corso avrà luogo in Corso Unione Sovietica 218/bis, 10134, Torino, secondo il seguente calendario: Dec 10: 14.00-16.00, Room 30 Dec 11: 14.00-16.00, Room 30 Dec 12: 11.15-13-15, Room 11 Dec 12: 14.00-16.00, Room 11 Il corso è rivolto agli studenti del secondo anno della Laurea Magistrale, ma la partecipazione è aperta a tutti gli interessati. Il programma completo di Visiting Professors, consultabile alla pagina https://www.master-sds.unito.it/go/visiting è supportato dalla Fondazione CRT e dalla “de Castro” Statistics Initiative (www.carloalberto.org/stats) del Collegio Carlo Alberto. Cordiali saluti, Matteo Ruggiero --- Matteo Ruggiero University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto www.matteoruggiero.it

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PostDoc position in Graz
by Daniela Bertacchi 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

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 qualifications: 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 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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concorso RTD-B MAT 06 all'Aquila
by davide gabrielli 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

Segnalo il bando di 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 si trova al seguente link https://www.univaq.it/section.php?id=1532 Scadenza 19-12-2019 Si prega di darne la massima diffusione, cordiali saluti Davide Gabrielli

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Seminar Berthet @Bocconi
by Giacomo Zanella 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

We announce the following DEC Statistics seminar: Thursday, November 28 12:30 Meeting room 3-e4-sr03, Bocconi University, Via Roentgen 1, 3rd floor Quentin Berthet (Google Research) Title: Optimal transport methods in statistics and machine learning: theory and applications Abstract: Optimal transport is one of the foundational problems of optimization, and a very important topic in analysis. It asks how one can transport mass with a given measure to have another measure, with minimal global transport cost. The associated Wasserstein distance is a useful statistical tool to compare distributions, taking into account geometric properties of the data. In this presentation, I will talk about two recent projects on this topic. In the first one, we propose a novel approach for unsupervised embedding alignment, and show applications to natural language processing. It is based on a new approach for Wasserstein loss minimization (joint work with E. Grave and A. Joulin). In the second one, we provide new methods and guarantees for estimation of distributions with smooth densities, in the Wasserstein distance. We show that these tools, inspired by techniques in nonparametric statistics, yield information-theoretic optimal results. We also develop ideas to handle our proposed estimators in a computationally efficient manner, and explore some of the associated computational trade-offs (joint work with J. Weed). Kind regards, Giacomo Zanella The DEC statistics seminars schedule is available at http://www.unibocconi.eu/statseminar 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 elisa.picassi(a)unibocconi.it

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Extended deadline: MAF 2020 - 9th International Conference MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ACTUARIAL SCIENCES AND FINANCE
by Marco Corazza 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

*CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS - EXTENDED DEADLINE* *MAF 2020 - 9th International Conference MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL METHODS FOR ACTUARIAL SCIENCES AND FINANCE*April 15-17, 2020 - Geneve (CH) *https://www.unige.ch/maf2020/ <https://www.unige.ch/maf2020/>* * The Steering Committee is delighted to announce the 9th International Conference *MAF 2020*. * *MAF 2020* promotes interaction between *mathematicians* and *statisticians* in *actuarial sciences* and *finance*. * *MAF 2020* is open to *academicians* and to *professionals*, to encourage cooperation. * *MAF 2020* covers a *wide variety of subjects* in actuarial science and financial fields. * *MAF 2020* will be held at the *Université de Genève*, in *April 15-17*, *2020*. * *We invite submission of original contributions*. * *Important DEADLINE*: - Submission of 1-page abstracts: December 20th, 2019. - Organized session proposals: December 20th, 2019. - Submission of short papers (facultative): December 20th, 2019. - Early bird registration: December 20th, 2019. *The accepted short papers, at least 4 pages and at most 6 pages, will be included in a Springer Volume. * Keynote speakers - *Michael O'Neill*, Centre for Business Analytics, University College Dublin; - *Jaap Spronk*, Erasmus School of Economics (NEH) & Rotterdam School of Management - *Howell Tong*, London School of Economics and Political Science Apologies for cross-posting. The warmest regards, Marco CORAZZA | Ca'Foscari University of Venice (I) [Behalf of the Steering Committee] Manfred GILLI | University of Geneve (CH) Cira PERNA | University of Salerno (I) Claudio PIZZI | Ca'Foscari University of Venice (I) Marilena SIBILLO | University of Salerno (I)

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Seminatio Pierre Patie @ UniTo - 5 Dicembre
by Bruno Toaldo 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

********************************************************************* SEMINARI DI PROBABILITÀ E STATISTICA MATEMATICA DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA "G. PEANO" UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO ********************************************************************* Giovedì 5 Dicembre 2019 alle ore 14:00 nell'aula Magna del Dipartimento di Matematica "G. Peano" dell'Università degli Studi di Torino, Via Carlo Alberto 10, Il Prof. *Pierre Patie* (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA) terrà un seminario dal titolo *Completely monotone intertwining relations* Abstract: In this talk, we introduce the concept of completely monotone intertwining relations as a strengthening of usual intertwining relations between Markov semi-groups. We proceed by providing some interesting applications of this new idea which includes the characterization of ergodic constants and hypercontractivity estimates for non-self-adjoint semigroups. We illustrate these results by presenting several examples that have emerged from the recent literature: discrete-to-continuous interacting particle models, degenerate hypoelliptic Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes, and diffusion-to-jump Jacobi processes. This talk is based on a joint a work with L. Miclo (IMT Toulouse). Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare.

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First Announcement Conference SPDE&A Levico 2020
by Stefano Bonaccorsi 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

First Announcement of the Conference on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations & Applications - XI edition We are pleased to inform you that the "Conference on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations & Applications" will be held from June 1st to June 5th, 2020 in Levico Terme (Trento, Italy). This is the XI-th edition of a series of conferences on SPDEs which, during the years, has become one of the most popular occasions for the community to meet and discuss the latest developments. This year we have, for the first time, 4 mini-courses given by (1) Francesco Caravenna (Italy) (2) Martin Hairer (UK) (3) Martina Hofmanova (Germany) (4) Nikolay Tzvetkov (France) All the researchers in the field are invited to participate. We especially invite young researchers (at Ph.D. or Post-doctorate level) to attend the conference and give a short presentation in dedicated sessions we aim to organize. We are trying to secure funds to support their expenses. Any further information can be found in the website of the conference: https://spdelevico2020.wordpress.com/ Best regards, Stefano Bonaccorsi, Sandra Cerrai, Franco Flandoli, Lorenzo Zambotti (organizing committee)

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Seminario RYDER
by Pierpaolo De Blasi 22 Nov '19

22 Nov '19

STATISTICS SEMINARS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO Venerdì 29 Novembre 2019, alle ore 12:00, presso il nuovo edificio del Collegio Carlo Alberto, in Piazza Arbarello 8, Torino, si terrà il seguente seminario: ------------------------------------------------ Robin RYDER (Université Paris Dauphine) A BAYESIAN NON-PARAMETRIC METHODOLOGY FOR INFERRING GRAMMAR COMPLEXITY Based on a set of strings from a language, we wish to infer the complexity of the underlying grammar. To this end, we develop a methodology to choose between two classes of formal grammars in the Chomsky hierarchy: simple regular grammars and more complex context-free grammars. To do so, we introduce a probabilistic context-free grammar model in the form of a Hierarchical Dirichlet Process over rules expressed in Greibach Normal Form. In comparison to other representations, this has the advantage of nesting the regular class within the context-free class. We consider model comparison both by exploiting this nesting, and with Bayes’ factors. The model is fit using a Sequential Monte Carlo method, implemented in the Birch probabilistic programming language. We apply this methodology to data collected from primates, for which the complexity of the grammar is a key question. (joint work with L. Murray, J. Rousseau and A. Thin) ------------------------------------------------ Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Il seminario è organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative (www.carloalberto.org/stats <http://www.carloalberto.org/stats>) in collaborazione con il Collegio Carlo Alberto. Cordiali saluti, Pierpaolo De Blasi --- University of Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto https://sites.google.com/a/carloalberto.org/pdeblasi/ <https://sites.google.com/a/carloalberto.org/pdeblasi/>

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Mini-corsi a Strasburgo per studenti magistrali
by Dario Trevisan 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

Salve, segnalo questa iniziativa di mini-corsi di probabilità che si terranno a Strasburgo nella settimana 20-24 Gennaio 2020, http://irma.math.unistra.fr/stochastique/mc2020/ rivolta a studenti delle lauree magistrali francesi (M1) -- principalmente per pubblicizzare il loro M2 -- ma aperta alla presenza di studenti equivalenti italiani (primo anno di magistrale). Mi hanno comunicato che sono ancora a disposizione alcuni fondi per pagare/rimborsare viaggio e alloggio, e di fare pubblicità anche in Italia. Se siete a conoscenza di qualche studente particolarmente capace e interessato, magari che parli un po' di francese, invitatelo pure a mettersi direttamente in contatto con gli organizzatori (N. Juillet, X. Zeng). Saluti, 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 first Call for Papers
by Martina Nardon 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

* Apologies for cross-posting First Announcement and Call for Papers Joint EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON STOCHASTIC OPTIMIZATION and COMPUTATIONAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE Conference 1-3 July 2020, Venice, Italy We are delighted to invite you to Venice, Italy, 1-3 July 2020, at the Department of Economics, Ca’ Foscari University. 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. 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 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). INVITED 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) 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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Fwd: [ST-NET] Edinburgh Lectureship/Readership in Probability and Stochastic Analysis
by Mario Maurelli 19 Nov '19

19 Nov '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Martin Keller-Ressel <st-net(a)mailbox.tu-dresden.de> Date: lun 21 ott 2019 alle ore 18:46 Subject: [ST-NET] Edinburgh Lectureship/Readership in Probability and Stochastic Analysis To: st-net(a)zib.de <st-net(a)zib.de> Von: Goncalo dos Reis @UoE <g.dosreis(a)ed.ac.uk> --- Dear friends, dear colleagues, Permanent position in Probability and Stochastic Analysis Position: Lectureship (assistant prof)/Readership (associate prof) As part of an ambitious long-term plan for the School of Mathematics, the University of Edinburgh is making a substantial number of new appointments in the Mathematical Sciences, which includes expansion into part of the new £40M Bayes Centre. As part of this development, we are recruiting in Probability and Stochastic Analysis (broadly interpreted) to start on 1st June 2020 or around that date by mutual agreement. We expect candidates to have either an established record of first-class research or to be able to demonstrate excellent research potential. Those pursuing interdisciplinary research with links to other fields, for instance, Computing, Engineering, Finance, Physics, or links to industry are also encouraged to apply. In addition to carrying out high-quality research, the successful candidate will contribute to the teaching of undergraduate courses and the teaching and further development of our successful MSc programmes in Mathematical Finance. Salary Scale: £41,526 - £49,553 per annum. Very strong and experienced applicants may be appointed to a Readership, for which the salary is £52,559 - £59,135. Applications close at 5pm (UK time) on 29 November 2019 Interviews will take place in Edinburgh during the week 13-17 January 2020 Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Iain Gordon (Head of School) email hosmaths(a)ed.ac.uk. further details: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobs… with kind regards to all Goncalo dos Reis _______________________________________________ St-net mailing list St-net(a)zib.de https://listserv.zib.de/mailman/listinfo/st-net --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dies ist das ST-NET, der (moderierte) Mail-Verteiler der DMV-Fachgruppe Stochastik e.V. Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf unserer Homepage: http://www.fg-stochastik.de This is ST-NET, the (moderated) mailing list of the DMV-Fachgruppe Stochastik e.V. For further information, please refer to our homepage: http://www.fg-stochastik.de Please note the guidelines for posting at http://www.fg-stochastik.de/beitraege-verschicken.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: Probability postdoc @ McGill
by Faggionato, Alessandra 19 Nov '19

19 Nov '19

---------- Messaggio inoltrato ---------- Da: *Louigi Addario-Berry* <louigi(a)gmail.com> Data: sabato 16 novembre 2019 Oggetto: Probability postdoc @ McGill A: "Linan Chen, Prof." <linan.chen(a)mcgill.ca>, Jessica Lin < jessica.lin(a)mcgill.ca>, Elliot Paquette <elliot.paquette(a)gmail.com> Dear colleague, We are advertising a 3-year postdoc in probability at McGill; details appear below. We would be grateful if you could pass along this ad to anyone who may be interested. The application deadline is December 10. Thanks very much, Louigi, Linan, Jessica and Elliot. -- To apply: https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/15010 The Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University is advertising a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in probability theory and related fields. The postdoctoral fellow will include a teaching obligation of two courses per year. Candidates must have a doctoral degree in mathematics or a related discipline at the date of appointment, and must have demonstrated the capacity for independent research of excellent quality. The probability group includes four faculty members from the McGill Department of Mathematics and Statistics (Louigi Addario-Berry, Linan Chen, Jessica Lin and Elliot Paquette), as well as several faculty members from other McGill departments and other Montreal universities. The fellowship will include a generous salary, and additional funding will be available to the postdoc for research-related travel. Moreover, postdoctoral fellows, depending on their residency status, may pay a reduced tax rate (via the Québec program "Tax Exemption for Foreign Postdoctoral Trainees"). McGill University is committed to equity and diversity. We welcome and encourage applications from women, Indigenous persons, people with disabilities, members of racialized communities, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and other groups which are currently underrepresented within the mathematical community. Candidates are welcome to signal any leave that affected productivity, or any other circumstances that may have had an effect on their career path. This information will be considered to ensure the equitable assessment of the candidate’s record. McGill seeks to ensure the equitable treatment and full inclusion of people with disabilities by striving for the implementation of universal design principles transversally, across all facets of the University community, and through accommodation policies and procedures. Individuals who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, accessibilityrequest.hr(a)mcgill.ca, or phone at 514-398-2477. Applications should be submitted via MathJobs.org and should include 3 references. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. To ensure full consideration applications must be received by December 10, 2019. -- Information about work permits, healthcare and benefits, parental leave, and other employment-related questions can be found at the following links. https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/postdocs https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/postdocs/international/workpermit https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/postdocs/fellows/healthcare https://www.mcgill.ca/gps/students/graduate-policies- and-regulations/parental-leave -- ************************************************* Prof. Alessandra Faggionato http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/~faggionato/ Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome Office 5, Phone (0039) 06 49913252 *************************************************

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Seminar Wadsworth @Bocconi
by Giacomo Zanella 18 Nov '19

18 Nov '19

We announce the following DEC Statistics seminar: Thursday, November 21 12:30 Meeting room 3-e4-sr03, Bocconi University, Via Roentgen 1, 3rd floor Jenny Wadsworth (Lancaster University) Title: Towards higher-dimensional spatial and spatio-temporal extremes Abstract: The past decade has seen a huge effort in modelling the extremes of spatial processes. Significant challenges include the development of models with an appropriate asymptotic justification for the tail; ensuring model assumptions are compatible with the data; and the fitting of these models to (at least reasonably) high-dimensional datasets. I will review basic ideas of modelling spatial extremes, and introduce a more scalable approach via conditioning on a single site being extreme, which can also be applied in the space-time context. Furthermore, the sometimes-undesirable nature of conditioning on an extreme event at a particular location can be circumvented by an importance sampling algorithm to change the conditioning event. As we move towards being able to model extremes at more locations, we must also learn to deal with the complex structures of larger datasets, such as spatial nonstationarity in the extremal dependence. Some approaches to simplify these structures via deformations tailored to extremal dependence will also be discussed. Kind regards, Giacomo Zanella The DEC statistics seminars schedule is available at http://www.unibocconi.eu/statseminar 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 elisa.picassi(a)unibocconi.it

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Seminar: okada@DISMEQ Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca
by Fulvia Pennoni 18 Nov '19

18 Nov '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** 21/11/2019 h.11.00 /Building U7 4th floor - Seminar Room 4026/ Department of Statistics and Quantitative-Methods, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8 - 20126 Milano ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING OF ASYMMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS Akinori Okada Professor Emeritus of the Rikkyo University, Tokyo okada(a)rikkyo.ac.jp Torgerson (1952) introduces his multidimensional scaling as the first practical method of representing proximity (similarity, dissimilarity) relationships among objects in a multidimensional space or a configuration. The method is called metric, which means that the observed proximities are assumed to be interval or ratio scaled values. Shepard (1962a, b) and Kruskal (1964a, b) introduced methods which are called nonmetric multidimensional scaling. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling assumes that the observed proximities are ordinal scaled values. This mean that only the information which of two proximities is larger (or smaller) than the other is utilized in the analysis. The nonmetric multidimensional scaling of Kruskal (1964a, b) has been used most frequently in practical applications of multidimensional scaling, and several multidimensional scaling methods based on the similar idea of Kruskal (1964a, b) have been introduced. The multidimensional scaling developed so far assumes that the proximity is symmetric. Several researchers focused their attention on the asymmetry in various sorts of proximity; similarity/dissimilarity judgment, same/different judgment, reaction time, social and psychological distance, and so on. It is meaningful to develop asymmetric multidimensional scaling which can represent asymmetric proximity relationships among objects in a configuration. Various kinds of procedures to analyze an asymmetric proximity matrix were invented. We concentrate on the multidimensional scaling which is based on the distance among points, each representing an object, in a multidimensional space (distance model). The asymmetric multidimensional scaling by Okada and Imaizumi (1987) represents asymmetric proximity relationships among objects by the interpoint distance in a multidimensional configuration. The distance between two points is symmetric. It is difficult to represent asymmetric relationships simply by the interpoint distance, because the distance itself is symmetric. The model of Okada and Imaizumi (1987), which is called Distance-radius model, represents an object by a point and a circle [two-dimensional model] (sphere [three-dimensional] or hypersphere [larger than three-dimensional]) centered at the point in a multidimensional space. Several models were derived from the model. Multidimensional scaling mentioned above, regardless of metric or nonmetric and of being able to represent asymmetry or not, analyzes one proximity matrix (object x object) or one-mode two-way proximities (Carroll and Arabie, 1980). To analyze a set of proximity matrices each comes from a source (object x object x source) or two-mode three-way proximities, INDSCAL was developed by Carroll and Chang (1970). INDSCAL can represent relationships among objects and how each source (individual) has different relationships among objects each other. While INDSCAL can represents differences among sources, it cannot represent the asymmetry in relationships among objects of each source. The model of Okada and Imaizumi (1997) is an extension of the Distance-radius model which can analyze a set of asymmetric proximity matrices or two-mode three-way asymmetric proximities. The asymmetric multidimensional scaling of Okada and Imaizumi (1997) can represents asymmetric relationships among objects, and how each source has different symmetric and asymmetric relationships among objects each other as well. Several models, which are less restricted or more restricted, have been derived from Okada and Imaizumi (1997). To analyze one-mode two-way asymmetric proximities, there is another asymmetric multidimensional scaling by Okada (2011) and Okada and Tsurumi (2012) which is based on the singular value decomposition. The asymmetric multidimensional scaling has been utilized to analyze mainly the data from marketing research or brand switching. Several models and procedures have been derived by extending the model of Okada (2011) which can, for example, evaluate newly introduced brands, diagnose brands, tell how to increase the dominance of a brand in the brand switching... Another sort of procedure to analyze one-mode two-way asymmetric proximities is asymmetric cluster analysis, which can represent asymmetric proximity relationships among objects by forming clusters (Okada & Iwamoto, 1966; Okada & Yokoyama, 2015). It is important and meaningful to develop not only multidimensional scaling but also cluster analysis as well so that we can use two different kinds of methods to analyze the same proximity data (Arabie & Hubert, 1994). There are quite a few number of applications of asymmetric multidimensional scaling and cluster analysis. While these applications are not mentioned here because of the space limitation, some of them will be mentioned in the talk. The present abstract deals only with researches of the author and his colleagues. Bove and Okada (2018) gives a review which covers a wide range of asymmetric multidimensional scaling and asymmetric cluster analysis in detail. Some books mention the analysis of asymmetric relationships. Borg and Groenen (2005) has a chapter of asymmetric multidimensional scaling. Coxon and Coxon (2001) refers to asymmetric multidimensional scaling. **/References/// Arabie, P. & Hubert, L. (1994). Cluster analysis in marketing research. In Bagozzi, R. F. (Ed.), A/dvanced methods marketing research/. pp. 160-199. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. Bove, G., & Okada, A. (2018). Methods for the analysis of asymmetric pairwise relationships. Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, *12*, 5-31. Borg, I., & Groenen, P.J.F. (2005). /Modern multidimensional scaling: Theory and applications/(2nd ed.). New York: Springer. Carroll, J. D., & Arabie, P. (1980). Multidimensional Scaling. In M. R. Rosenzweig & L. W. Porter (Eds.), /Annual Review of Psychology/, *31*, 607-649. Carroll, J. D. & Chang, J. J. (1970). Analysis of individual differences individual differences in multidimensional scaling via an /N/-way generalization of “Eckart-Young” decomposition. /Psychometrika/, /35/, 283-319. Coxon, T.F., & Coxon, M.A.A. (2001). /Multidimensional scaling/ (2nd ed.). Boca Raton, FLChapman&Hall/CRC. Kruskal, J. B. (1964a). Nonmetric multidimensional scaling by optimizing goodness of fit to a nonmetric hypothesis. /Psychometrika/, /29/, 1-27. Kruskal, J. B. (1964b). Nonmetric multidimensional scaling: A numerical method. /Psychometrika/, *29,* 115-129. Okada, A. (2011). Analyzing social affinity for foreigners by spectral decomposition: Asymmetric multidimensional scaling of EASS 2008 Data [Supekutoru bunkai niyoru gaikokujin ni taisuru shinkinkan no bunseki: EASS 2008 no deta wo mochiita hitaishou tajigenshakudokoueihou no ouyou]. In JGSS Research Center, (Ed.), /JGSS Research Series/, /11/. (pp. 119-128). Osaka: Osaka University of Commerce. Okada, A., & Imaizumi, T. (1987). Nonmetric multidimensional scaling of asymmetric proximities. /Behaviormetrika, /*21*/,/ 81-96. Okada, A., & Imaizumi, T. (1997). Asymmetric multidimensional scaling of two-mode three-way proximities. /Journal of Classification/,*14, *195-224. Okada, A., & Iwamoto, T. (1996). University enrollment flow among the Japanese prefectures: A comparison before and after the Joint First Stage Achievement Test by asymmetric cluster analysis. /Behaviormetrika/, *23*, 169-185. Okada, A., & Tsurumi, H. (2012). Asymmetric multidimensional scaling of brand switching among margarine brands./Behaviormetrika/, *39*, 111-126. Okada, A., & Yokoyama, S. (2015). Asymmetric CLUster analysis based on SKEW-Symmetry: ACLUSKEW. In I. Morlini, M. Tommaso, & M. Vichi, (Eds.), /Advance in statistical models for data analysis/.//191-199. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag. Shepard, R. N. (1963a). The analysis of proximities: Multidimensional scaling with unknown distance function. I. /Psychometrika/, *27*, 125-140. Shepard, R. N. (1963b). The analysis of proximities: Multidimensional scaling with unknown distance function. II. /Psychometrika/, *27,* 219-246. Torgerson, W. T. (1952). Multidimensional scaling: I. Theory and method. /Psychometrika/, *17*, 401-419. ** /For more info:/***//**/fulvia.pennoni@unimib.it <mailto:fulvia.pennoni@unimib.it>/* -- Fulvia Pennoni Ph.D. Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods University of Milano-Bicocca https://sites.google.com/view/fulviapennoni

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Fwd: PhD fellowship in mathematical and computational methods for time series analysis
by Giovanni Peccati 17 Nov '19

17 Nov '19

Dear Colleagues, I am forwarding a message from K. Ebrahimli-Fard, advertising a prestigious doctoral position in Trondheim. All my best, Giovanni ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard <kurusch.ebrahimi-fard(a)ntnu.no> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 18:19 Subject: PhD fellowship in mathematical and computational methods for time series analysis To: giovanni.peccati(a)gmail.com <giovanni.peccati(a)gmail.com> Cc: Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard <kurusch.ebrahimi-fard(a)ntnu.no>, Joscha Diehl < joscha.diehl(a)gmail.com> Dear Giovanni, I hope all is well! A few months ago we advertised an open call for applications for a *PhD fellowship on time series analysis* here at NTNU in Trondheim. A joint project with Joscha DIEHL (cc) from Greifswald. Unfortunately, our top candidate eventually accepted another offer. Therefore, we've decided to re-open the position: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/177938/phd-fellowship-in-mat… Joscha and I would appreciate it if you could bring this announcement to the attention of your students. Kind regards, Kurusch =========================================== Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard Norwegian University of Science and Technology NTNU Department of Mathematical Sciences NO-7491 Trondheim, Norway Tel.: +47 735-935-27 (office) www: https://folk.ntnu.no/kurusche/ email: kurusch.ebrahimi-fard(a)ntnu.no <kurusch.ebrahimi-fard(a)ntnu.no> -- Prof. Giovanni Peccati ------------------------------------------ UR en Mathématiques Faculté des Sciences, de la Technologie et de la Communication ------------------------------------------ Université du Luxembourg ----------------------------------------- homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/giovannipeccati/Home E-mail: giovanni.peccati(a)gmail.com

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AN``AUTUMN'' DAY IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS - 22 November 2019 (Jansen e Avena)
by Francesca Romana Nardi 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

Ecco il reminder per Venerdi` 22 Novembre. Vi aspettiamo numerosi Gianmarco Bet e Francesca R. Nardi From: Francesca Romana Nardi [mailto:francescaromana.nardi@unifi.it] Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2019 10:33 AM To: 'random(a)fields.dm.unipi.it' <random(a)fields.dm.unipi.it> Subject: AN``AUTUMN'' DAY IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS - 22 November 2019 (Jansen e Avena) Carissimi, Vi annunciamo che prossimamente si terrà la nona giornata di seminari: AN ``AUTUMN'' DAY IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS University of Florence Friday 22 November 2019 Lecturers: Sabine Jansen (Munich) and Luca Avena (Leiden) Location: Aula Tricerri Viale Morgagni 67, Firenze Informazioni su come arrivare alla pagina: <https://www.dimai.unifi.it/vp-285-come-arrivare-how-to-get.html> https://www.dimai.unifi.it/vp-285-come-arrivare-how-to-get.html 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 <mailto:francescaromana.nardi@unifi.it> francescaromana.nardi(a)unifi.it; <mailto:gianmarco.bet@unifi.it> gianmarco.bet(a)unifi.it; <mailto:angela.caporicci@unifi.it> angela.caporicci(a)unifi.it con l'intenzione di partecipare al seminario, al coffe break e al pranzo. PROGRAMMA Prof. Sabine Jansen (LMU Munich) Title: Large deviations and metastability for the Widom-Rowlinson model Abstract: The Widom-Rowlinson model is one of the few models in statistial mechanics for which a phase transition is rigorously proven. It is also popular in stochastic geometry and spatial statistics where it is called area interaction model and belongs to the broader class of quermass interaction models. After reviewing some relevant background about Gibbs measures for continuum interacting particle systems, I will discuss large deviations for the Widom-Rowlinson model in a joint high-density / low-temperature limit. I will also discuss metastability for a spatial birth and death process, a.k.a. continuum Glauber or grand-canonical Monte-Carlo, for which the Gibbs measure is reversible. Based on joint work with Frank den Hollander, Roman Kotecký and Elena Pulvirenti. Prof. Luca Avena (University of Leiden) Title: Explorations of networks through random spanning forests: theory and applications Abstract: David Wilson in the 1990s described a simple and efficient algorithm based on loop-erased random walks to sample uniform spanning trees and, more generally, weighted rooted trees or forests spanning a given graph. The goal of this lecture is to describe the resulting probability measure when Wilson's algorithm is used to sample rooted spanning forests. This forest-measure has a rich, flexible and explicit mathematical structure which makes it a powerful tool to design different algorithms to explore a given network. In the first part of the lecture, I will focus on fundamental aspects of this measure and how it relates to other objects of interest in statistical physics such as the well known Random-cluster model. I will in particular describe the main properties of related observables (e.g. set of roots, induced partition) which turn out to be determinantal processes with simple kernels and then discuss some progress in understanding related scaling limits. The second part of the lecture will be devoted to applications. In particular, depending on time, I plan to discuss four different algorithms aiming at: (1) sampling well-distributed points in a graph, (2) coarse-graning a given network, (3) processing signals on graphs (a novel gaph wavelet transform), (4) estimating the spectrum of the graph Laplacian. The core of this lecture is based on different joint collaborations with the following colleagues and students: Castell, Gaudillere, Melot, Milanesi (Marselle), Quattropani (Rome), Driessen, Koperberg, Magrini (Leiden) , Amblard, Barthelme, Tremblay (Grenoble). Program: 11.00-11.45 Introductory lecture: Jansen 11.45-12.00 Break 12.00-12.45 Seminar: Jansen 13.00-14.30 Lunch 14.30-15.15 Introductory lecture: Avena 15.15-15.30 Break 15.30-16.30 Seminar: Avena 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

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Special issue "Stochastic Modeling in Biology" of the Journal "Mathematics" (ISSN 2227-7390)
by Mario Abundo 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

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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QFW2020 - Last call
by Maria Elvira Mancino 14 Nov '19

14 Nov '19

Dear All, please find the last call for papers for QFW2020 attached to this message. The submission deadline is now extended to December, 6th. Thanks, Stefania

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Fwd: Acri - YITP 2019
by Francesco Cesarone 13 Nov '19

13 Nov '19

Ricevo ed inoltro il seguente avviso per il bando “Young Investigator Training Program” promosso da ACRI (https://www.acri.it/) Il bando sostiene la partecipazione di giovani ricercatori, impegnati in strutture di ricerca all'estero, a congressi di rilevanza internazionale organizzati da Università ed Enti di ricerca italiani. https://www.acri.it/PublicFondazioniOnline/Detail/4863 https://www.acri.it/_upload/cartelle_documenti/BANDO_ACRI_YITP_2019.pdf Cordialmente, Francesco Cesarone ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Vito Vicini <Vito.Vicini(a)acri.it> Date: lun 4 nov 2019 alle ore 12:35 Subject: Acri - YITP 2019 To: Francesco Cesarone <francesco.cesarone(a)uniroma3.it> Gentile Prof. Francesco Cesarone, facendo seguito ai colloqui intercorsi e alla pubblicazione del bando Acri “Young Investigator Training Program 2019”, Le sarei grato qualora potesse contribuire alla diffusione dello stesso tra le Università e i Centri di Ricerca che ritenesse potenzialmente interessati alla partecipazione. Nel ringraziarLa per quanto potrà fare, Le porgo i miei più cordiali saluti. Vito Vicini [cid:428113308@23122010-0E74] -- Video - Quantitative Finance Workshop 2018 - Uniroma3 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DrAdCK8ht8&feature=youtu.be> http://disa.uniroma3.it/qfw2018/ -- Francesco Cesarone - Ph.D. Ricercatore - Assistant Professor Dipartimento di Economia Aziendale Università Roma Tre Via Silvio D'Amico, 77 00145 - Roma tel: +39 06 57335744 Skype: francesco.cesarone email: francesco.cesarone(a)uniroma3.it Studio n. 20 piano V WWW: http://host.uniroma3.it/docenti/cesarone/

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Seminario Luca Avena a Pisa
by Dario Trevisan 13 Nov '19

13 Nov '19

Dear all, this is to announce the following research talk by Luca Avena, to be held in Pisa. PLACE: Aula Riunioni, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pisa (first floor). DATE & TIME: Wednesday, Nov 20, 2019, 2 PM SPEAKER: Luca Avena (Univ. Leiden) TITLE: Multiscale analysis of network data sets via random walk kernels. ABSTRACT: I will present a random walk approach to analyse data sets that are encoded into a network structure (a weighted graph). Random walks are natural objects to explore a given network and have been used as building blocks to design different type of algorithms such as the celebrated PageRank. The core of this lecture is on three new general algorithms aiming at: 1) sampling well-distributed points in a graph, 2) coarse graining a given network at different scales, 3) processing signals on graphs through a novel wavelets transform. As I will discuss, these algorithms can be good or not depending on the specific data set problem to be analyzed. The main emphasis will be given on the underlying mathematical structures which are of fundamental interest per se within probability theory and statistical phyisics. Partially based on joint work with Castell, Gaudilliere and Melot Best 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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IWAP2020, THESSALONIKI, GREECE, 15-18 June 2020
by Antonio DI CRESCENZO 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Alexander Bochkov <a.bochkov(a)gmail.com> Date: mar 12 nov 2019 alle ore 14:10 Subject: about IWAP2020, THESSALONIKI, GREECE, 15-18 June 2020 Dear Colleagues, The IWAP International Board and the organizers are pleased to announce that the 10th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON APPLIED PROBABILITY, (IWAP2020) will take place in THESSALONIKI, GREECE, from 15 to 18 June 2020. For further information please visit the conference homepage: http://iwap2020.web.auth.gr For information: Prof. George Tsaklidis, e-mail: tsaklidi(a)math.auth.gr Sincerely yours, Alexander Bochkov

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Fwd: four postdoc positions in probability and stochastic processes - IME-USP - Brazil
by Daniela Bertacchi 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

Ricevo ed inoltro, con preghiera di diffusione a tutti gli interessati. ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Fabio Machado <faprama(a)gmail.com> Date: gio 7 nov 2019, 21:59 Subject: four postdoc positions in probability and stochastic processes - IME-USP - Brazil To: Fabio Machado <faprama(a)gmail.com> Dear colleagues, We have just advertised four postdoc positions in probability and stochastic processes at IME-USP (São Paulo, Brazil) to begin from February 2020 (flexible). Further information is available at: https://mathhire.org/jobs/854 or https://www.science.hr/jobs/54984/four-postdoc-positions-in-probability-and… Please forward this information to anyone who might be interested. Many thanks in advance, Fabio Machado https://www.ime.usp.br/~fmachado/ -- *Fábio Prates Machado* - Professor Instituto de Matemática e Estatística Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil.

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FW: Postdoc position in applied probability, Alan Turing Institute / QMUL
by Zocca, A. 11 Nov '19

11 Nov '19

Ricevo e inoltro, Cordiali saluti, Alessandro Zocca ----------------------------------------------------------- Assistant Professor Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Department of Mathematics https://sites.google.com/site/zoccaale/ From: John Moriarty <j.moriarty(a)QMUL.AC.UK> Date: Monday, November 11, 2019 at 12:36 Subject: Postdoc position in applied probability, Alan Turing Institute / QMUL Dear colleagues, it would be appreciated if you could forward the opportunity below to potentially interested candidates in applied probability. A postdoctoral position is available in the ‘Data-driven stochastic control’ project at the Alan Turing Institute, funded by the Institute and by my EPSRC fellowship. The successful applicant may sit either at Queen Mary or at the Turing. The role involves application of the theory of stochastic optimal control in data-driven settings, and the investigation of applications to artificial intelligence. The position may be of interest to researchers working in optimal stopping, optimal switching, backward stochastic differential and difference equations, model ambiguity and risk aversion. Applications close on 7th December and the expected start date is 1 January 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter, with an end date of 24 August 2021. For more details see https://webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.action?jobID=4824 and informal enquiries can be addressed to jmoriarty(a)turing.ac.uk<mailto:jmoriarty@turing.ac.uk>

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Special issue of Journal of Energy Markets
by Tiziano Vargiolu 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

Apologize for cross-posting Dear colleagues, Journal of Energy Markets will publish a special issue, associated to the workshop Energy Finance Italia 4 held in Milano in February 2019. However, this call is not limited to conference participants, but also extends to other researchers working on this topic. Topics of particular interest may include, but are not limited to: - integration of electricity markets, - market power and market strategies, - electricity market modeling and simulation, - impact of new technologies, - cross-border issues, - CO2 emissions trading, - green certificate markets, - risk management, - futures, forwards and derivatives, - price and volatility dynamics, - risk premia. Therefore, we hope that you will consider this issue as an interesting and useful forum for publishing your latest research work in the field. Your submission should be made by e-mail to one of the guest editors - Carlo Lucheroni <carlo.lucheroni(a)unicam.it> - Tiziano Vargiolu <vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it> The deadline for the submission of the full paper is December 31, 2019. We would be glad to receive your paper submission to the Journal of Energy Markets' special issue. With kind regards, Carlo Lucheroni and Tiziano Vargiolu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tiziano Vargiolu Dipartimento di Matematica Phone: +39 049 8271383 Universita' di Padova Fax: +39 049 8271428 Via Trieste, 63 E-mail: vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it I-35121 Padova (Italy) WWW: http://www.math.unipd.it/~vargiolu --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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SMPGD'20, Institut Pasteur, Paris, January 23-24
by Julyan Arbel 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

Dear all, FYI, the Statistical Methods for Post Genomic data (SMPGD) workshop will take place at Institut Pasteur in Paris on 23-24 January (more info below). Best, Julyan Arbel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Franck Picard <franck.picard(a)univ-lyon1.fr> Date: 7 Nov 2019 at 13:08 +0100 To: smpgd-scientific(a)groupes.renater.fr, smpgd-organization(a)groupes.renater.fr <smpgd-organization(a)groupes.renater.fr> Subject: [smpgd-scientific] SMPGD'20, Institut Pasteur, Paris, January 23-24 - second call > dear members of the SMPGD scientific committee > > Could you forward the announcement of the SMGPD 2020 edition to your > national lists ? It appears that the information has not spread > everywhere in Europe yet ;-) > > All the best > > Franck > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Dear all, > > The 2020 edition of the Statistical Methods for Post Genomic data(SMPGD) > workshop will take place at Institut Pasteur in Paris on 23-24 January. > The workshop aimis to present works from mathematical to applied > statistics, but alsonew areas in high throughput biology that could need > new statisticaldevelopments. > > https://smpgd2020.sciencesconf.org/ > > The 2020 edition is organized by the Bioinformatics and Biostatistics > Hub (Institut Pasteur) and the main topicsare: Evolution of > inter-species interactions, Machine learning algorithms for > computational biology, and Evolution and epidemiology. > > The workshop will feature 4 keynote speakers: > > * Simona Cocco (Ecole des Neurosciences Paris Ile de France, Paris, > http://www.paris-neuroscience.fr/en/chercheurs-non-enp/simona-cocco ) > > * Julia Gog (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK > http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/j.r.gog/ ) > > * Louis Lambrechts (Institut Pasteur, Paris > https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/insect-virus-interactions/ ) > > * Laurent Jacob (CNRS, LBBE, Université Lyon 1, Lyon > https://lbbe.univ-lyon1.fr/-Jacob-Laurent-.html ) > > Attendance is free, but registration is mandatory on the conference > website. Registration deadline is *January 7, 2020*. > > Submissions for posters and short talks are open and will close > on*November 15, 2019 at 23:59 pm*. Abstracts selected for a short > talkwill be announced on December 15, 2019. > > We are looking forward to meeting you in Paris. > > Best regards, > > Marie-Agnès Dillies, on behalf of the organizing committee (Alice > Cleynen, Franck Picard, Stéphane Robin and Anne Biton, Pascal Campagne, > Vincent Guillemot, Emeline Perthame, Stevenn Volant) >

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AN``AUTUMN'' DAY IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS - 22 November 2019 (Jansen e Avena)
by Francesca Romana Nardi 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

Carissimi, Vi annunciamo che prossimamente si terrà la nona giornata di seminari: AN ``AUTUMN'' DAY IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS University of Florence Friday 22 November 2019 Lecturers: Sabine Jansen (Munich) and Luca Avena (Leiden) Location: Aula Tricerri Viale Morgagni 67, Firenze Informazioni su come arrivare alla pagina: <https://www.dimai.unifi.it/vp-285-come-arrivare-how-to-get.html> https://www.dimai.unifi.it/vp-285-come-arrivare-how-to-get.html 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 <mailto:francescaromana.nardi@unifi.it> francescaromana.nardi(a)unifi.it; <mailto:gianmarco.bet@unifi.it> gianmarco.bet(a)unifi.it; <mailto:angela.caporicci@unifi.it> angela.caporicci(a)unifi.it con l'intenzione di partecipare al seminario, al coffe break e al pranzo. PROGRAMMA Prof. Sabine Jansen (LMU Munich) Title: Large deviations and metastability for the Widom-Rowlinson model Abstract: The Widom-Rowlinson model is one of the few models in statistial mechanics for which a phase transition is rigorously proven. It is also popular in stochastic geometry and spatial statistics where it is called area interaction model and belongs to the broader class of quermass interaction models. After reviewing some relevant background about Gibbs measures for continuum interacting particle systems, I will discuss large deviations for the Widom-Rowlinson model in a joint high-density / low-temperature limit. I will also discuss metastability for a spatial birth and death process, a.k.a. continuum Glauber or grand-canonical Monte-Carlo, for which the Gibbs measure is reversible. Based on joint work with Frank den Hollander, Roman Kotecký and Elena Pulvirenti. Prof. Luca Avena (University of Leiden) Title: Explorations of networks through random spanning forests: theory and applications Abstract: David Wilson in the 1990s described a simple and efficient algorithm based on loop-erased random walks to sample uniform spanning trees and, more generally, weighted rooted trees or forests spanning a given graph. The goal of this lecture is to describe the resulting probability measure when Wilson's algorithm is used to sample rooted spanning forests. This forest-measure has a rich, flexible and explicit mathematical structure which makes it a powerful tool to design different algorithms to explore a given network. In the first part of the lecture, I will focus on fundamental aspects of this measure and how it relates to other objects of interest in statistical physics such as the well known Random-cluster model. I will in particular describe the main properties of related observables (e.g. set of roots, induced partition) which turn out to be determinantal processes with simple kernels and then discuss some progress in understanding related scaling limits. The second part of the lecture will be devoted to applications. In particular, depending on time, I plan to discuss four different algorithms aiming at: (1) sampling well-distributed points in a graph, (2) coarse-graning a given network, (3) processing signals on graphs (a novel gaph wavelet transform), (4) estimating the spectrum of the graph Laplacian. The core of this lecture is based on different joint collaborations with the following colleagues and students: Castell, Gaudillere, Melot, Milanesi (Marselle), Quattropani (Rome), Driessen, Koperberg, Magrini (Leiden) , Amblard, Barthelme, Tremblay (Grenoble). Program: 11.00-11.45 Introductory lecture: Jansen 11.45-12.00 Break 12.00-12.45 Seminar: Jansen 13.00-14.30 Lunch 14.30-15.15 Introductory lecture: Avena 15.15-15.30 Break 15.30-16.30 Seminar: Avena 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

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Borse di studio per attività di ricerca - Uni Pavia e UniCredit
by Giorgia Callegaro 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

Carissimi tutti, vi comunico che all'Albo Ufficiale d'Ateneo di Pavia, alla pagina *http://www-5.unipv.it/alboufficiale/ <http://www-5.unipv.it/alboufficiale/>* è stato pubblicato in data 31/10/2019 il seguente bando (n. 1726): * Bando di concorso per il conferimento di n. *2* borse di studio per attività di ricerca dal titolo -Modelli di rischio finanziario- presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche e Sociali dell'Università degli Studi di Pavia - *Scadenza 20 novembre 2019 - ore 12:00* L’attività di ricerca verterà sulla tematica “*Modelli di rischio finanziario*” e si svolgerà presso la sede di Milano di Unicredit S.p.A. e sarà finanziata con fondi del contratto Unicredit, di titolarità della Prof.ssa Figini. Durata di mesi 12. L'importo totale della borsa è di € 15.600,00 e sarà corrisposto in rate mensili. Grazie per l'attenzione. Cordiali saluti, 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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Permanent position in Probability, Statistics, Actuarial or Financial Mathematics at DCU
by Paolo Guasoni 06 Nov '19

06 Nov '19

Dear Colleague, Dublin City University has an Assistant or Associate Professor (permanent) position in Probability, Statistics, Actuarial or Financial Mathematics: https://www.dcu.ie/sites/default/files/hr/bc1010_assistant_associate_profes… The closing date for the application is December 8, 2019. 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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Advances in Financial Mathematics 2020 (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 06 Nov '19

06 Nov '19

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 18:47:21 +0100 From: Idris Kharroubi <idris.kharroubi(a)upmc.fr> To: undisclosed-recipients: ; Subject: Advances in Financial Mathematics 2020 The conference "Advances in Financial Mathematics 2020" supported by the chair Risques Financiers will take place from january 14 to january 17 2020 at the Cordeliers campus in Paris. It will address topics of particular relevance for the practice of financial risk management : market liquidity, market microstructure, risk measures, numerical methods, model calibration and model risk, robustness, credit/Default/Counterparty risk, regulatory aspects, non-linear valuation, hedging, systemic risk, game theory, blockchain. Registration is free but compulsory on the website https://fin-risks2020.sciencesconf.org/ On Behalf of the organizing committee, Idris Kharroubi Professor Laboratoire de Probabilit?s, Statistique et Mod?lisation Sorbonne University - Facult? of Science and Engineering

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PhD opportunities, Oxford-Imperial StatML
by Stefano Favaro 06 Nov '19

06 Nov '19

Ricevo e inoltro. Cordial saluti, Stefano Favaro **** Inizio messaggio inoltrato **** Da: Patrick Rebeschini <patrick.rebeschini(a)stats.ox.ac.uk> Oggetto: PhD opportunities, Oxford-Imperial StatML Data: 5 novembre 2019 23:45:22 CET A: "stefano.favaro(a)unito.it" <stefano.favaro(a)unito.it> RE: PhD opportunities in Modern Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning at Imperial and Oxford. Deadline for first application round: November 15. Are you interested in modern statistics and machine learning? Do you have a background in Maths, Statistics or related areas? If so then apply to the StatML CDT! StatML is a new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) based at Imperial College London and the University of Oxford. We offer a transformative style of doctoral training, leading towards a PhD / DPhil, which provides opportunities to: • explore new research areas using modern statistical methods and machine learning; • make real scientific, societal and industrial impacts with your research; • experience and engage in peer to peer learning; • be involved in cohort based training; • work directly with leading industrial partners; • receive exposure to cutting edge researchers in two world-leading universities. We will offer about 15 studentships for entry in October 2020. Each student will be funded with a grant for four years of study. Typically, the funding is available for Home/EU students – we expect to have two admissions rounds with submission deadlines of 15 November 2019 and 24 January 2020. There are very limited funding opportunities for overseas students (see the website for details). StatML is funded by EPSRC with support from industrial partners. Please visit the StatML website to find out more: https://statml.io/ <https://statml.io/> Stefano Favaro University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto http://sites.carloalberto.org/favaro/

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post-doc position in St Petersburg
by Dario Trevisan 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

Salve, segnalo ai potenziali interessati un annuncio per una posizione post-doc presso L'Euler International Mathematical Institute a St Peterburg, ``in all areas of Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science, Mathematical and Theoretical Physics''. Il salario corrisponde circa a 1450 euro netti mensili + biglietti aerei. La durata e' da 1 a 2 anni eventualmente rinnovabili per un altro anno. La domanda va fatta preferibilmente entro il 30.11.19. Per ulteriori dettagli, vedere http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/EIMI/ Saluti, Dario Trevisan -- 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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14-15 nov: Giovanni Peccati mini-course at Roma Tor Vergata
by Anna Vidotto 05 Nov '19

05 Nov '19

*Mini-course* held by *Giovanni Peccati* (6 hours) Title: *The Malliavin-Stein method* Abstract: *I will provide a self-contained introduction to a collection of probabilistic techniques developed in the last decade, focussing on quantitative limit theorems for non-linear functionals of Gaussian fields, obtained by combining two techniques: (i) the Malliavin calculus of variations, and (ii) Stein's method for probabilistic approximations. I will develop in full detail at least one geometric application related to the structure of level sets of Gaussian fields, and I will try to point out a number of further directions of research, connected e.g. to concentration estimates, entropic bounds, discrete geometric structures and the analysis of Boolean functions.* *A systematically updated list of papers related to Malliavin-Stein techniques can be found here * https://sites.google.com/site/malliavinstein/home *The main reference of the matter is the monograph by I. Nourdin and myself: *https://tinyurl.com/y3h2n8e2 Place: Aula Dal Passo, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Roma Tor Vergata Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma Schedule: - Thursday November 14th, from 2 PM to 5 PM - Friday November 15th, from 9:30 AM to 12:30 AM --------- Anna Vidotto PostDoc Researcher Dipartimento di Matematica Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata https://sites.google.com/view/annavidotto

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3-year postdoctoral fellowship in Statistics
by Samantha Leorato 01 Nov '19

01 Nov '19

Apologize for cross-posting. --------------------------------------------- Dear All, with this e-mail, we would like to inform you that the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods (DEMM), University of Milan, Italy, launches a call for a full-time, 3-year fixed-term Postdoctoral Research Associate position to work on a statistical science programme grant funded by the Centre of Excellence in Economics and Data Science (CEEDS), awarded by the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR). The research activity is to be carried out at the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods of the University of Milan, under the supervision of Prof. Chiara Tommasi, within the research programme “Selection of the most informative observations”. The annual gross remuneration package for this position will be €32,000. The research project concerns adaptation and generalization of the optimal design theory and of some typical results of mathematical statistics, for selecting the most informative observations from a huge and complex data set. Details on the application can be found at https://www.unimi.it/it/ricerca/ricerca-lastatale/fare-ricerca-da-noi/asseg… <https://www.unimi.it/it/ricerca/ricerca-lastatale/fare-ricerca-da-noi/asseg…>. Deadline for application: November 15th 2019 Samantha Leorato ----------------------------------------------------- Associate Professor in Statistics Dept. Economics, Management, and Quantitative Methods University of Milan, via Conservatorio, 7 20122 Milano Samantha.Leorato(a)unimi.it https://sites.google.com/site/samanthaleorato/ https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Samantha_Leorato -----------------------------------------------------

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Politecnico di Milano - Seminario Borgonovo
by Laura Maria Sangalli 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

Si avvisa che in data 06-12-2019, alle ore 14:30 precise, presso l'Aula Seminari "F. Saleri" VI piano, Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, nell'ambito delle iniziative MOX, si svolgerà il seguente seminario: Relatore: Emanuele Borgonovo, Bocconi University Titolo: Explainability, intepretability and sensitivity analysis Sommario: A growing research activity is developing for increasing interpretability of machine findings. When complex architectures are used, analysts are, in fact, exposed to the black-box effect. This seminar will review several methods used both in the machine learning and in the simulation community to make the black box more transparent. We shall discuss tools such as partial dependence functions, layerwise relevance propagation, as well as present several local and global sensitivity analysis methods, also proposing new tools and new findings on popular tools. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Cordiali saluti, Laura Sangalli -- 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<mailto:laura.sangalli@polimi.it> url: http://mox.polimi.it/~sangalli

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Fwd: Position in Probability at Durham University
by Elisabetta Candellero 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

Ricevo ed inoltro. Elisabetta ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "CHHITA, SUNIL" <sunil.chhita(a)durham.ac.uk> To: Cc: Bcc: Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:45:31 +0000 Subject: Position in Probability at Durham University Dear Friends and Colleagues, Apologies if you receive more than one copy of this message. We are currently advertising a new assistant professor position (i.e. lecturer) in probability at Durham University, UK. The closing date for applications is 13th December 2019. Please see the link below for more details: https://www.dur.ac.uk/jobs/recruitment/vacancies/math20-15/ Please pass this on to anyone who you think might be interested. Many thanks, Sunil Chhita Nicholas Georgiou Ostap Hryniv Mikhail Menshikov Ellen Powell Mustazee Rahman Matthias Troffaes Andrew Wade

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University of Padova: call for interest for a Professor in Probability
by Tiziano Vargiolu 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

Please circulate among all potential interested people 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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Call for Papers -- EFI5-Energy Finance Italia Ed.5
by Tiziano Vargiolu 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

-------- Messaggio originale -------- Oggetto: Call for Papers -- EFI5-Energy Finance Italia Ed.5 Data: 30-10-2019 23:09 Mittente: LM <lmastroeni(a)os.uniroma3.it> Dear All, we are delivering the Second Call for Papers for the workshop EFI5 - Energy Finance Italia Edn. 5 Roma Tre University, Department of Economics February 10 - 11, 2020 The DEADLINE for submissions is DECEMBER 15TH, 2019 IMPORTANT DATES: DECEMBER, 15TH Deadline for submissions of extended abstracts JANUARY, 15TH Deadline for notification of acceptance JANUARY, 25TH Deadline for the payment of fees JANUARY, 31ST Deadline for the submission of full papers FEBRUARY, 10TH - 11TH Workshop KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Lutz Kilian [1] and Brian Wright [2] A SELECTION OF PAPERS presented at the workshop will be published in the journal Decisions in Economics and Finance [3]. You can find all the information at the following link http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/efi5/ All the best Loretta Mastroeni LORETTA MASTROENI Associate Professor of Mathematical Finance Department of Economics Via Silvio D'Amico, 77 - 00145 Rome - Italy ph: +39-6-5733.5693 e-mail: loretta.mastroeni(a)uniroma3.it Skype contact: lmastroeni_1 Links: ------ [1] https://sites.google.com/site/lkilian2019/ [2] https://are.berkeley.edu/users/brian-wright [3] https://www.springer.com/journal/10203

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Fourth European Conference on Queueing Theory (ECQT'20)
by Antonio DI CRESCENZO 30 Oct '19

30 Oct '19

ricevo e inoltro /********************************************************************/ /* *Fourth European Conference on Queueing Theory (ECQT'20)* */ /* Madrid, Spain, *July 20-22, 2020* */ /* ecqt20.sciencesconf.org */ /********************************************************************/ *GENERAL INFORMATION* The European Conferences on Queueing Theory (ECQT) is now a consolidated tradition for the members of the queueing theory community in europe and abroad. After the three past editions (Genth, Belgium in 2014, Toulouse, France in 2016, Jerusalem, Israel in 2018), the next one comes back in Madrid, where the parent MCQT conferences were first organized by Jesús Artalejo during the years 2002-2010. ECQT conferences aim to be a meeting place where scientists and technicians in the field can find a discussion forum to promote research,encourage interaction and exchange ideas. The conference is open to all trends in queueing theory, including the development of the theory, methodology advances, computational aspects and applications. The spirit of the conference is to be a queueing event organized from within Europe, but attendees and submissions need not be restricted to Europe. *CALL FOR ABSTRACTS* We invite you to submit an abstract to ECQT'20 conference. Instructions for preparing the abstracts will be available soon on the conference website . Each abstract accepted for presentation will require a separate registration. The deadline for submission of an abstract is April 15, 2020. *SPECIAL ISSUES* Participants at the conference will be given the opportunity to submit a paper to special volumes of the journals *Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications* (QUESTA) and *Performance Evaluation*. The paper should be based on unpublished work presented at the conference. All submitted papers will be refereed according to the high standards of the journals. The deadline for submission to the special issues is *September 30, 2020*. More information on the special issues will be given in future announcements. *TAKACS THESIS AWARD* The Steering committee of the European Conference on Queueing Theory (ECQT) is pleased to announce the setting up of the third edition of the Takács award. The Takács Award is a bi-annual award presented to doctoral dissertations in recognition of outstanding contributions to queueing theory, including the development of theory, methodological advances, computational aspects and applications. The award will be presented during the ECQT'20 conference. Details will be published in the conference website soon. *ECQT'20 IMPORTANT DATES* Submission site opens: *January 1, 2020* Deadline for abstract submission: *April 15, 2020* Notification of acceptance: *April 30, 2020* Early registration deadline: *May 31, 2020* Conference dates: *July 20-22, 2020* *CONFERENCE WEBSITE* Further information is provided at the conference website <http://ecqt16.sciencesconf.org/>ecqt20.sciencesconf.org, accessible also at ecqt20.uc3m.es. *ECQT'20 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* *General Chairs*: Bernardo D'Auria, Madrid University Carlos III *TPC Chairs*: Ivo Adan, Eindhoven University of Technology Bernardo D'Auria, Madrid University Carlos III Offer Kella, Hebrew University of Jerusalem *ECQT Steering Committee*: Sem Borst, TU Eindhoven and Nokia Herwig Bruneel, Ghent University Douglas Down, McMaster University Antonis Economou, University of Athens Bara Kim, Korea University Michel Mandjes, University of Amsterdam Antonio Pacheco, IST-UTL Miklos Telek, Budapest University of Technology and Economics Sabine Wittevrongel, Ghent University *Local Organizing Committee*: Sergio Santiago Benito, ADCOMM Century S.L., Madrid

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Concorso RTDB Mat/06 Roma Tor Vergata
by Domenico Marinucci 30 Oct '19

30 Oct '19

Cari colleghi vi segnalo il bando per un posto di Ricercatore di tipo B, Mat/06, Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma Tor Vergata, uscito ieri sulla Gazzetta Ufficiale: http://web.uniroma2.it/module/name/Content/newlang/italiano/action/showpage… Vi prego di diffondere l'annuncio tra i potenziali interessati, saluti e grazie, Domenico Marinucci -- @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Domenico Marinucci Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma Tor Vergata https://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~marinucc/ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

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seminario Emilio Porcu a Roma Tor Vergata
by Anna Vidotto 30 Oct '19

30 Oct '19

Dear all, I would like to announce the following talk that will be held on Thursday *November* *7th* 2019, at *5 PM*, in *Aula D’Antoni* of the Department of Mathematics, University of Rome Tor Vergata. *Speaker:* Emilio Porcu (Trinity College Dublin) *Title:* Modeling Temporally Evolving and Spatially Globally Dependent Data *Abstract:* The last decades have seen an unprecedented increase in the availability of data sets that are inherently global and temporally evolving, from remotely sensed networks to climate model ensembles. This paper provides an overview of statistical modeling techniques for space–time processes, where space is the sphere representing our planet. In particular, we make a distinction between (a) second order‐based approaches and (b) practical approaches to modeling temporally evolving global processes. The former approaches are based on the specification of a class of space–time covariance functions, with space being the two‐dimensional sphere. The latter are based on explicit description of the dynamics of the space–time process, that is, by specifying its evolution as a function of its past history with added spatially dependent noise. We focus primarily on approach (a), for which the literature has been sparse. We provide new models of space–time covariance functions for random fields defined on spheres cross time. Practical approaches (b) are also discussed, with special emphasis on models built directly on the sphere, without projecting spherical coordinates onto the plane. We present a case study focused on the analysis of air pollution from the 2015 wildfires in Equatorial Asia, an event that was classified as the year's worst environmental disaster. The paper finishes with a list of the main theoretical and applied research problems in the area, where we expect the statistical community to engage over the next decade. 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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