*Big Data challenges for Mathematics: state of the art and future
perspectives*
*Online webinar – February 25, 2022*
The workshop will be held on the platform Zoom and will be streamed on
YouTube. Participants who would like to follow the workshop in real time
and participate to the discussion with the speakers are requested to
register.
See the web site of the workshop for registration, programme and additional
information:
*http://itn-bigmath.unimi.it/* <http://itn-bigmath.unimi.it/>
*Aims of the workshop:*
Nowadays the data deluge is the hallmark of a new kind of ‘Law of Large
Numbers’ that builds intelligence from large, heterogeneous, noisy and, in
general, complex data sets collected from mobile devices, the Internet of
Things, software logs, automated medical devices, social media, and so many
other data sources. The classical mathematical and statistical paradigms
are often not applicable to current real-world problems, so there is a
growing demand of new mathematical and statistical techniques to face such
problems, able to shed some light on the often black-box techniques which
are usually applied in such context and which characterise Deep Learning
and, more generally, Artificial Intelligence. On the other side, since
computers can not do everything by themselves, there is a growing need for
new professional and scientific figures, the data scientists, that master a
whole range of skills, ranging from data processing to sophisticated math
tools and computational skills that are needed to extract the knowledge.
The state of the art and future research perspectives in this framework
will be highlighted and discussed in this webinar by the PhD students
enrolled in the EU funded MSCA Project BIGMATH
<http://itn-bigmath.unimi.it/> (grant n. 812912), starting from a set of
challenging industrial case studies.
Additionally some well known keynote speakers will introduce their point of
view on possible future perspectives in different specific and quite hot
subject areas related with the analysis of complex and big data.
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Alessandra Micheletti
Associate Professor - Probability and Mathematical Statistics
Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy - ESP
Università degli Studi di Milano
via Saldini 50, 20133 Milano, Italy
phone: +39-02503-16130
fax: +39-02503-16090
https://alessandramichelettiwebpage.wordpress.com/
Dear all,
it's a pleasure to announce the next Probability and Finance seminar at the
Department of Mathematics of the University of Padova, which will be held
both *in presence* and online with the following details:
- Date: 25 February 2022
- Speaker: Dr. Sara Svaluto-Ferro (Univ. of Verona)
- Venue: Dept of Mathematics, Univ. of Padova, room 2BC30
- Zoom link: available at https://www.math.unipd.it/~bianchi/seminari/
- Title: "*Signature processes in mathematical finance, an introduction*"
- Abstract: we will provide an introduction to the signature of a
continuous semimartingale. This in particular includes its definition, its
main properties, and an overview of (some) of its uses in financial
mathematics.
Thanks and hope to see you soon,
Giorgia
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Giorgia Callegaro
Associate 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
The Department ESOMAS at University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto invites applications for a postdoctoral position within the European Research Council (ERC) project “Nonparametric Bayes and empirical Bayes for species sampling problems: classical questions, new directions are related issues”. The general area of interest is Statistics. Relevant details of the postdoctoral position ara available at the bottom of this letter.
Deadline for applications: 22 FEBRUARY 2022
Information for applicants are available (only in Italian) at the Call for Applications https://pica.cineca.it/unito/assegni-di-ricerca-unito-2022-i/file/Bando%20d… <https://pica.cineca.it/unito/assegni-di-ricerca-unito-2022-i/file/Bando%20d…>. Within the Call for Applications, the postdoctoral position appears at page 24 under the title “Statistica Bayesiana non-parametrica e non-parametrica empirica per problemi di campionamento di specie”. Reference code: ESOMAS.2022.01.
Applications are made only online - https://pica.cineca.it/unito/ <https://pica.cineca.it/unito/> - by selecting “Your Applications” in the box “Bando Assegni di ricerca - Tornata I 2022” (code TornataI2022). The application procedure is available in Italian/English, and it requires a CV, two reference letters and a research statement.
Prospective candidates may contact directly Stefano Favaro - stefano.favaro(a)unito.it <mailto:stefano.favaro@unito.it> - for any information on the postdoctoral position and the application procedure.
Best wishes
Stefano Favaro
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Prospective candidates are expected to have experience on nonparametric statistics, within the classical (frequentist) and/or Bayesian paradigm, and they should preferably be holding a Ph.D. or being close to receiving one. The research shall be carried out in English.
The duration of the contract is 24 months. Expected starting date in May 2022, but a different date may be arranged. The salary amounts to 46,000 Euros per year, including taxes and social charges, and considerable financial support to attend conferences and workshops will be granted. There are no teaching duties associated to the position.
Abstract. Object of research are species sampling problems, whose importance has grown considerably in recent years driven by numerous applications in the broad area of biosciences, and also in machine learning, theoretical computer science and information theory. Within the broad field of species sampling problems, the research will be focussed on two research themes: i) the study of nonparametric Bayes and nonparametric empirical Bayes methodologies for classical species sampling problems, generalized species sampling problems emerging in biological and physical sciences, and question thereof in the context of optimal design of species inventories; ii) the use of recent mathematical tools from the theory of differential privacy to study the fundamental tradeoff between privacy protection of information, which requires to release partial data, and Bayesian learning in species sampling problems, which requires accurate data to make inference.
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Stefano Favaro
University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto
http://sites.carloalberto.org/favaro/ <http://sites.carloalberto.org/favaro/>
Cari colleghi,
scusandomi per eventuali ripetizioni, vi annuncio i prossimi due
seminari della serie UMI-Prisma, che si svolgeranno online su
piattaforma teams lunedì prossimo 7 febbraio dalle 16 alle 18:
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Speaker: Ernesto De Vito, Dipartimento di Matematica e MaLGa Center,
Università di Genova
Title: Empirical risk minimization: old and new results
Abstract: The first part of the talk is devoted to a brief introduction
to supervised learning focusing on the regularised empirical risk
minimization (ERM) on Reproducing Kernel
Hilbert spaces. Though ERM achieves optimal convergence rates [1], it
requires huge computational resources on high dimensional datasets.
The second half of the talk is devoted to discuss some recent ideas
where the hypothesis space is a low dimensional random space. This
approach naturally leads to computational savings, but the question
is whether the corresponding learning accuracy is degraded. If the
random subspace is spanned by a random subset of the data, the
statistical-computational tradeoff has been first explored for the least
squares loss [2,3], for the least squares loss, then for
self-concordant loss functions [4] , as the logistic loss, and, quite
recently, for non-smooth convex Lipschitz loss functions [5], as the
hinge loss.
References:
[1] Caponnetto, A. and De Vito, E. (2007). Optimal rates for the
regularized least-squares algorithm. Foundations of Computational
Mathematics, 7(3):331–368.
[2] Rudi, A., Calandriello, D., Carratino, L., and Rosasco, L. (2018).
On fast leverage score sampling and optimal learning. In Advances in
Neural Information Processing Systems, pages 5672–5682.
[3] Rudi, A., Camoriano, R., and Rosasco, L. (2015). Less is more:
Nystrom computational regularization. In Advances in Neural Information
Processing Systems, pages 1657–1665.
[4] Marteau-Ferey, U., Ostrovskii, D., Bach, F., and Rudi, A. (2019).
Beyond least-squares: Fast rates for regularized empirical risk
minimization through self-concordance. arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.03046.
[5] Andrea Della Vecchia, Jaouad Mourtada, Ernesto De Vito, Lorenzo
Rosasco, Regularized ERM on random subspaces arXiv:2006.10016
Speaker: Alessandro Rudi, ENS Paris
Title: "Representing non-negative function with applications to
non-convex optimization and beyond"
Abstract: In this talk we present a rather flexible and expressive model
for non-negative functions. We will show direct applications in
probability representation and non-convex optimization. In particular,
the model allows to derive an algorithm for non-convex optimization that
is adaptive to the degree of differentiability of the objective function
and achieves optimal rates of convergence. Finally, we show how to apply
the same technique to other interesting problems in applied mathematics
that can be easily expressed in terms of inequalities.
References:
Ulysse Marteau-Ferey , Francis Bach, Alessandro Rudi. Non-parametric
Models for Non-negative Functions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03926
Alessandro Rudi, Ulysse Marteau-Ferey, Francis Bach. Finding Global
Minima via Kernel Approximations. https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.11978
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Il link teams per partecipare è il seguente:
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a667d2414be564c5d8fba30acffeb…
Grazie e saluti, Domenico Marinucci
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Domenico Marinucci
Dipartimento di Matematica
Università di Roma Tor Vergata
https://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~marinucc/
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Cari colleghi
vi annuncio il seguente seminario di Probabilità in presenza.
Speaker: Michele Stecconi, University of Nantes
Title: Gaussian fields in random real algebraic geometry
Abstract: I will describe the behaviour of the singularities of random
real algebraic varieties. This will serve as a reference example to
introduce some general methods to study topological and differential
geometric properties of smooth random fields.
Aula Dal Passo, Edificio Sogene, Giovedì 3 Febbraio Ore 16
Grazie per l'attenzione, Domenico Marinucci
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Dipartimento di Matematica
Università di Roma Tor Vergata
https://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~marinucc/
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Ricevo e inoltro.
> Da: marco barchiesi <mbarchiesi(a)units.it>
> Oggetto: posizione RTDA in MAT06 Università di Trieste
> Data: 31 gennaio 2022 17:54:27 CET
> A: undisclosed-recipients:;
>
> Gentili colleghi,
>
> E' stata bandita una posizione RTDA in Probabilità e Statistica presso l'Università di Trieste,
> Dipartimento di Matematica e Geoscienze. Vi chiedo gentilmente di diffondere l'informazione
> presso i vostri gruppi di ricerca, qualora qualche giovane fosse interessato.
> Qui il link con la descrizione della posizione e il relativo bando (scadenza 14 Febbraio):
> https://web.units.it/node/43638/ricerca/pub <https://web.units.it/node/43638/ricerca/pub>
>
> Il bando è reperibile anche sulla pagina del Miur:
> https://bandi.miur.it/jobs.php/public/job/id_job/89044 <https://bandi.miur.it/jobs.php/public/job/id_job/89044>
>
> Cordiali saluti,
> Marco Barchiesi
Salve a tutti,
vi segnalo l'uscita del seguente bando per una posizione di RTD-b nel SSD MAT/06 presso il Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica dell'Università degli Studi di Perugia.
Tutti i dettagli del bando si trovano al seguente link:
https://www.unipg.it/ateneo/concorsi/procedure-di-valutazione-comparativa-r…
La scadenza per la presentazione delle domande è il 22 marzo 2022.
Cordiali saluti a tutti,
Alessandra Cretarola
[cid:D672B847-338D-490C-9127-DD1AAD2C18A4]
Alessandra Cretarola
Professore Associato
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Stanza 307, Piano III
Via Vanvitelli, 1
06123 Perugia,
tel. 0755855021
Dear colleagues,
would you kindly forward the announcement below to (strong and
motivated) master students interested in a PhD thesis in probability
theory/statistical mechanics in Vienna?
Thanks in advance
Fabio Toninelli
A PhD position in Probability and Statistical Mechanics is open at the
Technical University of Vienna. Research topics include: random
interface models, stochastic interface growth, Markov dynamics of spin
systems and dimer models. The position is funded by the Austrian Science
Fund (FWF) via the recently funded project "Random Surfaces: growth,
fluctuations and universality". The research program will be carried out
under the supervision of the principal investigator, Prof. Fabio
Toninelli. The PhD program offers the opportunity to interact with the
international research partners of the FWF project and, more broadly,
with the Vienna probability and mathematical physics communities.
DEADLINE: March 4, 2022
Requirements: Master degree (obtained or to be obtained soon)
Salary: 2294 euros/month brutto, 14x per year (around 23718 euros/year
netto). Health and pension benefits are included.
Starting period: Autumn 2022
Duration: three years
Teaching obligations: none
How to apply: send your application (motivation letter, CV, Course
transcripts, copy of master degree (if already available), Reference
letter(s) or contact information for references) to
fabio.toninelli(a)tuwien.ac.at
For information on the PI, please visit the following webpage:
https://toninellifabio.wixsite.com/homepage
<https://toninellifabio.wixsite.com/homepage>
For information on the FWF project "Random Surfaces: growth,
fluctuations and universality", visit the following webpage:
https://toninellifabio.wixsite.com/homepage/projects
<https://toninellifabio.wixsite.com/homepage/projects>
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Prof. Dr. Fabio Toninelli
Technical University of Vienna
Institut für Stochastik und Wirtschaftsmathematik
Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10, 1040 Wien, Austria
Office: 6th floor, green area. tel: +43-1-58801-10570
https://toninellifabio.wixsite.com/homepage
FYI
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Elia Bisi
Assistant Professor (non-TT)
Technische Universität Wien
Research Unit Mathematical Stochastics
https://eliabisi.com
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From: CHHITA, SUNIL <sunil.chhita(a)DURHAM.AC.UK>
Date: 26 Jan 2022, 18:56 +0100
To: APPLIEDPROB(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK <APPLIEDPROB(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Subject: Assistant Professor Position at Durham University
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Apologies if you receive more than one copy of this message.
We are currently advertising a new faculty position (Assistant Professor) in probability, stochastic analysis, or a related area, to join the probability group<http://www.maths.dur.ac.uk/PiNE/prob_at_dur.html> at Durham University<https://www.dur.ac.uk/mathematical.sciences/>, UK. The closing date for applications is 13th February 2022.
Please see the links for more details: https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/jobdetail.ftl?job=22000104&lang=en
Please pass this on to anyone who you think might be interested. Best wishes Sunil