Cari colleghi,
invio questa nota circa la Summer School che stiamo organizzando a Roma, che può essere di interesse per chi si occupa di matematica applicata alla finanza.
Un caro saluto e a presto
Roy
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Caro collega,
dal 6 all' 11 giugno 2016, a Roma, si terrà l'XI edizione l'International Summer School on Risk Measurement and Control in cui verranno trattati tre temi di fondamentale importanza:
* Session 1 - New Frontiers in Risk Management;
* Session 2 - Energy Risk Management;
* Session 3 - The EURO project: shadows and lights.
Ulteriori informazioni di dettaglio sono reperibili sul sito. <http://www.risksummerschool.eu/>
Ti chiederei gentilmente, di far circolare la notizia dell'evento quanto più possibile tra i tuoi contatti e all'interno della tua istituzione di afferenza. Siamo convinti che questo evento, che vanta un parterre di docenti internazionali di assoluta rilevanza, possa essere di interesse per molti studiosi.
In attesa di un cortese riscontro, ti mando i miei più cari saluti
Roy Cerqueti (Comitato Organizzatore)
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Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 15:33:10 +0200
From: Robert Stelzer <robert.stelzer(a)uni-ulm.de>
Subject: Open Position as a Scientific Employee at Ulm University
To: Robert Stelzer <robert.stelzer(a)uni-ulm.de>
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
please find below and attached the announcement for an open position as a
scientific
employee (Postdoc or PhD level) at the Institute of Mathematical Finance
at Ulm University.
It would be very kind if you would bring it to the attention of possible
candidates.
Best Regards,
Robert (Stelzer)
The Institute of Mathematical Finance at the Faculty of Mathematics and
Economics of Ulm University invites applications for one non-permanent position
as a
Scientific Employee (E13 TV-L)
starting October 1st, 2016, according to the rules of the German law for
non-permanent scientific positions (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz).
Prerequisite is a very good master degree in a mathematical field of study or a
comparable degree, and interest in future research in at least one of the areas
Financial Mathematics, Financial Econometrics, Statistics of Stochastic
Processes, Stochastic Analysis, Stochastic Optimal Control, Stochastic
Processes or Time Series Analysis. The opportunity for further scientific
qualification (Habilitation/PhD) is given.
The duties include contributing to the teaching activities of the institute.
For a full position the teaching duty is four hours per week during the
teaching period. The language of the courses is usually English. Thus no
knowledge of German is initially necessary. Candidates with a completed PhD are
going to be employed on a full position, otherwise candidates will be employed
on a partial position according to individual agreement. The contract duration
will be in accordance with the qualificaion aim.
The Ulm University is committed to increase the share of women in research and
teaching positions and therefore explicitly encourages female candidates to
apply.
Please send your application with the usual documents until May 31st, 2016,
preferably in electronic form to
Ulm University
Prof. Dr. Robert Stelzer
Institute of Mathematical Finance
Helmholtzstra?e 18
89081 Ulm, Germany
E-Mail: robert.stelzer(a)uni-ulm.de
Please indicate the index number 51 on the envelope or in the reference line of
the email.
Job sharing is always possible for full time positions.
Physically disabled applicants receive favourable consideration when equally
qualified.
The appointment is made by the central university administration.
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Prof. Dr. Robert Stelzer
Institute of Mathematical Finance
Ulm University
Helmholtzstra?e 18
89081 Ulm
Germany
Phone: +49 731 50 23520
Fax: +49 731 50 31096
Email: robert.stelzer(a)uni-ulm.de
http://www.uni-ulm.de/mawi/finmath/people/stelzer.html
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Venerdi 6 Maggio 2016 alle ore 16:00,
presso l’Aula Rossa del Collegio Carlo Alberto,
Moncalieri (TO), si terra' il seguente seminario:
Richard NICKL (University of Cambridge)
NONPARAMETRIC BAYESIAN INFERENCE FOR DISCRETELY SAMPLED DIFFUSIONS
We consider the nonlinear statistical inverse problem of
making inference on the unknown parameters of a diffusion process
describing the solution of a stochastic differential equation. The
observation regime is such that the process is sampled at discrete
time points that are a fixed distance apart, and we investigate the
asymptotic regime when more samples accrue in the time horizon (thus
avoiding unrealistic `high frequency’ assumptions). We shall briefly
review frequentist estimation techniques and then turn to Bayesian
nonparametric approaches to the problem, which have recently been
shown to be computationally tractable (work of A. Stuart, G. Roberts
and co-authors). A theory of frequentist contraction rates for the
posterior distribution has been elusive for several years, and we
present first rigorous, minimax optimal contraction rates for
posterior distributions arising from natural prior distributions on
infinite-dimensional parameter spaces on the drift and diffusion
coefficient. We will discuss what can be learnt from these results for
the choice of prior in such problems, as well as for the Bayesian
analysis of general nonlinear inverse problems. In the proofs we
obtain some new (functional) concentration inequalities for additive
functionals of Markov chains arising from diffusions that are of
independent interest.
This is joint work with Jakob Soehl (Cambridge),
see http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.05526
Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare.
Il seminario e' organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative
(http://www.carloalberto.org/stats) in collaborazione con il
Collegio Carlo Alberto.
Cordiali saluti,
Matteo Ruggiero
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Matteo Ruggiero
University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto
www.matteoruggiero.it
Seven PhD studentships will be available at University of Padova for
candidates
interested in the area of *Statistical Sciences* (*start of activities:
October 1st, 2016*).
*Eligibility*
The studentship competition is open to applicants of any age or citizenship,
holding a 2nd cycle degree or a single cycle degree from an Italian
university
or an equivalent qualification from other countries of at least four years'
duration (applicants can get their qualification no later than 30th
September 2016).
Admission is decided on the basis of qualifications only and does not
require
an entry examination.
*Award*
The award will be for three years, subject to satisfactory progress, at the
following rate: annual grant of euros 13.638,47 with a start date of 1
October 2016.
*How to apply*
The call will be published on *May 17 (deadline June 16)* at the page
http://www.unipd.it/ricerca/dottorati-di-ricerca/bandi-e-graduatorie
English version at the page
http://www.unipd.it/en/node/1053
*Applications are only accepted online*
*Further information*
See http://www.stat.unipd.it/fare-ricerca/ammissione
or contact phd(a)stat.unipd.it
Kindest regards,
Monica Chiogna
PhD Course Coordinator
CIME-EMS Summer School on Singular Random Dynamics
Cetraro (CS) - August 22 - August 27, 2016
Registration is open until end May at
http://web.math.unifi.it/users/cime/
MINI-COURSES
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Massimiliano Gubinelli (IAM, Bonn)
Applications of controlled paths to problems in stochastic analysis
Martin Hairer (Univ. Warwick)
Stochastic PDEs and Renormalisation
Panagiotis Souganidis (Univ. Chicago)
Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equations and conservation laws
with rough time signals and applications
Nikolay Tzvetkov (Univ. Cergy-Pontoise)
On Hamiltonian partial differential equations with random initial
conditions
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We look forward to seeing you in Cetraro,
Franco Flandoli, Massimiliano Gubinelli, Martin Hairer
Lunedì 9 Maggio 2016 alle ore 14:00,
presso l’Aula 1B1 dip. SBAI
Università La Sapienza di Roma,
si terra' il seguente seminario:
SPEAKER: Bill Hsin-Hsiung Huang, Ph.D. (Dep. Of Statistics University of
Central Florida)
TITLE: An Affine-Invariant Bayesian Cluster Process with Split-Merge Gibbs
Sampler
ABSTRACT:
We develop a clustering algorithm which does not requires knowing the
number of clusters in advance. Furthermore, our clustering method is
rotation-, scale- and translation-invariant coordinatewise. We call it
“Affine-invariant Bayesian (AIB) process”. A highly efficient split-merge
Gibbs sampling algorithm is proposed. Using the Ewens sampling distribution
as prior of the partition and the profile residual likelihoods of the
responses under three different covariance matrix structures, we obtain
inferences in the form of a posterior distribution on partitions. The
proposed split-merge MCMC algorithm successfully and efficiently estimate
the partition. Our experimental results indicate that the AIB process
outperforms other competing methods. In addition, the proposed algorithm is
irreducible and aperiodic, so that the estimate is guaranteed to converge
to the posterior distribution.
Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare.
Cordiali saluti,
Daniela De Canditiis
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Daniela De Canditiis, PhD
Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "M.Picone" (CNR)
via dei Taurini, 19 -- 00185 Roma, Italy
tel: +39 06 49270942
fax: +39 06 4404306
http://www.iac.rm.cnr.it/~danielad/
The Kolmogorov meets Turing Workshop on Stochastics, Optimization,
Algorithms, and Games will take place on May 18th, 2016 at LUISS,
Viale Romania 32, Rome, room 403.
https://sites.google.com/site/kolmogorovmeetsturing/
The purpose of KmT is to bring together researchers from Computer
Science, Economics, Mathematics and many other fields to present and
discuss research on probabilistic methods for the analysis of games,
stochastic processes, and randomized algorithms.
The workshop is free but we kindly ask you to register for logistic
purposes. You can register at
https://sites.google.com/site/kolmogorovmeetsturing/iscrizione
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Marco Scarsini
Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza
LUISS
Viale Romania 32
00197 Roma, ITALY
URL: http://docenti.luiss.it/scarsini/
The Salzburg workshop on Dependence Models and Copulas will take place
September 19-22, 2016, in Salzburg (Austria).
The workshop features
Irène Gijbels (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE) Erich Peter Klement (JKU Linz, AT) Roger B. Nelsen (Lewis & Clark College, Portland, US) Ludger Rüschendorf (Albert-Ludwig-Universität Freiburg, DE) Matthias Scherer (Technische Universität München, DE)
as plenary speakers and includes invited sessions organized by
Axel Bücher (DE), Elena Di Bernardino (FR), Fabrizio Durante (IT), Maria Rita Iacó (FR), Piotr Jaworski (PL), Ostap Okhrin (DE), and Carlo Sempi (IT)
as well as various promising contributed sessions.
Aiming to provide a meeting point for researchers working in the field of Dependence Modeling and Copulas the workshop comprises both, contributions with a theoretical focus as well as contributions concentrating on applied aspects. In order to stimulate the discussion of new results, ideas and applications there will be no parallel sessions.
Fees are kept at a minimum: 140 € for regular participants, 80 € for PhD Students registering before the end of May (including lunches, coffee breaks and conference dinner).
Registration is open already, see www.dmc-salzburg.at/Fees_and_Registration.html<http://www.dmc-salzburg.at/Fees_and_Registration.html>
for details - due to an unexpectedly high number of submitted contributions only a limited number of participants not giving a talk can register (first come first serve).
All relevant info can be found on the workshop homepage
http://www.dmc-salzburg.at
We are looking forward to welcome you in Salzburg
Fabrizio Durante & Wolfgang Trutschnig
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Venerdi 29 Aprile 2016 alle ore 12:00,
presso l’Aula Rossa del Collegio Carlo Alberto,
Moncalieri (TO), si terra' il seguente seminario:
Laura VENTURA (Università di Padova)
ROBUST APPROXIMATE BAYESIAN INFERENCE
The likelihood function is the basis of both frequentist and Bayesian methods. However, the stability of likelihood-based procedures requires strict adherence to the model assumptions: mild deviations from the model can lead to misleading inferential results. A possible Bayesian solution to robustness is to use a of robust pseudo likelihood, such as the quasi- and the empirical likelihoods, in the Bayes formula. However, in multiparameter problems the quasi-likelihood is cumbersome, while with small samples the empirical likelihood can be unstable. Moreover, some estimating functions can be difficult to evaluate, which rules out the use of the empirical likelihood and other existing methods (Bayesian bootstrap, Bayesian GMM, etc.). To avoid these drawbacks, in this contribution we focus on posterior distributions from robust unbiased M-estimating functions. These robust posteriors are obtained via Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) with the estimating functions used as summary statistics. Theory and examples with robust M-estimating functions are discussed.
Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare.
Il seminario e' organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative
(http://www.carloalberto.org/stats) in collaborazione con il
Collegio Carlo Alberto.
Cordiali saluti,
Matteo Ruggiero
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Matteo Ruggiero
University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto
www.matteoruggiero.it
Gent.mi Colleghi,
desidero informarvi dell'uscita di un bando della Libera Università di Bolzano per
1 assegno per attività di ricerca sul tema "Nuove Prospettive per i Modelli di Dipendenza"
Il Bando è consultabile al seguente link
http://www.unibz.it/it/organisation/vacancies/research/assegnidiricerca/def…
Scadenza presentazione delle domande: 2 maggio 2016
Cordiali saluti,
Fabrizio Durante
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Fabrizio Durante
Faculty of Economics and Management
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Piazza Università 1 - Universitätsplatz 1
I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano
T: +39 04710 13493
E-mail: Fabrizio.durante(a)unibz.it<mailto:Fabrizio.durante@unibz.it>
Web: sites.google.com/site/fbdurante
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