*2020/21 PhD Programs at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca*
Deadline for applications – July 10th 2020, 12 pm CEST
Applications are now being accepted for the 2020/21 PhD Programs at the IMT
School for Advanced Studies Lucca (www.imtlucca.it), one of the six Schools
of Excellence in Italy and one of the highest rated graduate schools in
Europe according to the most recent U-Multirank survey. Highly motivated
candidates from all disciplines are invited to apply for one of the *32
fully-funded positions.* The 32 scholarships are equally divided between
the two doctoral Programs that integrate scientific competences of
economics, engineering, computer science, neuroscience and behavioral
psychology, physics, applied mathematics, statistics, history and sciences
of cultural heritage.
*Economics, Networks and Business Analytics* is one of the four
field-specific tracks offered and is under the “Systems Science” PhD
Program. This Track provides participants with a solid knowledge on modern
analytical methods in economics and management. With its multidisciplinary
approach, the track is unique in its deployment of a strong integration of
concepts, analytical foundations, and practical expertise, to educate the
new generation
of economists, scientists and practitioners with distinctive capabilities
in analyzing, interpreting, and managing complex socio-economic systems.
Graduates will be trained to become researchers and decision makers in
academia, policy and industry by integrating knowledge at the boundary of
Economics, Statistical Physics, Computer and Social Sciences with the
unifying language of Mathematics and Statistics. Close associations with a
selected set of companies and institutions provide the opportunity to
analyze relevant problems, motivating new
analytical techniques from practical problem solving. Students are involved
in the analysis of real world high dimensional data, in collaboration with
companies and institutions. During their doctoral studies, students are
encouraged to carry out their research with the School’s Research Units.
ENBA students also have the possibility of completing their theses under
the joint supervision (Double-degree) with KU Leuven or the University of
Alicante.
Courses are led by world-renowned researchers and provide students with all
the theoretical skills and advanced tools required for rigorously tackling
a multitude of analysis, design and management problems within the broad
framework of systems analysis in economic, social, scientific,
technological and cultural domains. Specialized faculty and staff create a
network that provides key guidance and support throughout the PhD Program.
Working closely with faculty, both in the classroom and in the development
of research, students reach the highest levels of
scholarly achievement. IMT School PhD graduates will be able to use the
skills they acquired during their studies to recognize and resolve complex
problems, to choose the most appropriate method or instrument to utilize
when approaching these problems, even in disciplines outside of their
primary field of research.
All students are based in the recently restored San Francesco complex, *a
fully integrated Campus* in the historical center of the beautiful Tuscan
city of Lucca. The Campus includes renewed residential facilities, an
on-site canteen, study and living rooms, a state-of-the-art library and
outdoor recreational spaces, which foster a unique cultural,professional
and social environment for our doctoral program. Eligible students, in
addition to
*free room and*
*board,* will also receive a *research scholarship which amounts to
approximately €15,300/year. *The scholarships are *fully-funded for up to
four years,* with a possibility of graduating after the third year.
The PhD Programs at the IMT School attracts students from around the world,
providing a truly international environment. English is the official
language of the School. Moreover, all students will have the opportunity to
spend periods abroad at research institutes, laboratories or universities,
both within the Erasmus+ framework and through ad hoc mobility agreements.
Most IMT School PhD Graduates have reached prominent roles in academics,
governmental institutions, public and private companies or professions
across the globe.
To find out more about the School, the admission requirements and how to
apply, please visit the following link:
https://www.imtlucca.it/en/phd/information-for-students
*Deadline for applications – July 10th 2020, 12 pm CEST*
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latest news.
*Advertiser: Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University Venice
(Università Ca’ Foscari)**
**Field(s) of specialization: Econometrics*
Position type(s): Research Assistant
Target date for applications: 25 May 2020
Application deadline: 31 May 2020 (accepting applications)
CALL OF INTEREST
POSITIONS AS RESEARCH FELLOW AT ITALIAN UNIVERSITIES:
University of Bologna, *Ca' Foscari University*, Free University of
Bozen-Bolzano
Under the Italian PRIN Project entitled “Hi-di network econometric
analysis of high dimensional models with network structures in
macroeconomics and finance – PROT. 2017TA7TYC” funded by the Italian
Ministry of Education, the Departments of Economics at the University of
Bologna, the *Department of Economics of the Ca’ Foscari University of
Venice* and the Faculty of Economics and Management at Free University
of Bozen-Bolzano are opening a call of interest for three positions as
Research Fellow (one position for each university). The positions will
be funded by the project up to 24 months.
The research project covers the following topics:
*(i) Development of novel multivariate econometric models and methods
able to deal with network effects and to take into account time varying
relationships. Attention will be paid on how latent factors drive
economic systems and are subject to instability. Their roles will be
studied and compared in the pre- and post-coronavirus era.**
*
*(ii) Analysis of interconnected networks: either physical or intangible
networks, observed or estimated. Results will expand academic knowledge
on statistical modelling of network event data in a broad range of areas
including, but not limited to, social media information diffusion,
economic/financial crises contagion and epidemic/disease spread
phaenomena.**
*
(iii) Economic impact of uncertainty: uncertainty is expected to act as
a key driving factor in the aftermath of the covid-19 shock and the
focus will be also on the policy actions necessary at the macro level to
offset the economic consequences of a shock of size never experienced by
world economies after WW2.
Interested researchers can express their willingness to apply not later
than 31st May 2020. Applications should include the CV of the candidate
a short research proposal related to the topics covered by the project,
and the indication of the University where the research activity will be
carried out.
For further information please contact:
*- Monica Billio (billio(a)unive.it) - Department of Economics of the Ca’
Foscari University of Venice**
*
- Giuseppe Cavaliere (giuseppe.cavaliere(a)unibo.it) - Departments of
Economics at the University of Bologna
- Francesco Ravazzolo (francescoravazzolo(a)unibz.it) - Faculty of
Economics and Management at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
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Roberto Casarin, PhD
Professor of Econometrics
University Ca' Foscari, Venice
Address: San Giobbe 873/b
30121 Venezia, Italy
Phone: +39 041.234.91.49
Web: http://sites.google.com/view/robertocasarin/
IMEF: http://www.unive.it/imef
VERA: http://www.unive.it/vera
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1746-9190
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WEBINARS IN STATISTICS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO
<https://www.carloalberto.org/research/webinars/>
Venerdì 22 Maggio 2020, alle ore 12:00, si terrà il seguente webinar:
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Pierre JACOB (Harvard University)
*Unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo with couplings*
Abstract:
Various tasks in statistics involve numerical integration, for which Markov
chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are state-of-the-art. MCMC methods yield
estimators that converge to integrals of interest in the limit of the
number of iterations. This iterative asymptotic justification is not ideal;
first, it stands at odds with current trends in computing hardware, with
increasingly parallel architectures; secondly, the choice of "burn-in" or
"warm-up" is arduous. This talk will describe recently proposed estimators
that are unbiased for the expectations of interest while having a finite
computing cost and a finite variance. They can thus be generated
independently in parallel and averaged over. The method also provides
practical upper bounds on the distance (e.g. total variation) between the
marginal distribution of the chain at a finite step and its invariant
distribution. The key idea is to generate "faithful" couplings of Markov
chains, whereby pairs of chains coalesce after a random number of
iterations. This talk will provide an overview of this line of research.
(joint work with John O'Leary, Yves Atchadé)
Paper at:
https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rssb.12336
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Chiunque volesse collegarsi al webinar è pregato di inviare una email entro
mercoledi 20 Maggio a
pierpaolo.deblasi(a)unito.it
Il webinar è organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative
www.carloalberto.org/stats
in collaborazione con il Collegio Carlo Alberto.
Cordiali saluti,
Pierpaolo De Blasi
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University of Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto
carloalberto.org/pdeblasi
<https://sites.google.com/a/carloalberto.org/pdeblasi/>
ricevo ed inoltro:
Dear colleague,
we hope that you are in good health.You have registered for the conference
"Random Matrices and Their Applications" (RMTA) which was supposed to take
place in New York, May 25-29 2020.
Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the conference will be reorganized online.
You can check the tentative schedule on the new website:
https://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/dokuwiki/mega:e-rmta-2020
<https://slack-redir.net/link?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ceremade.dauphine.fr%2Fd…>
We apologize for those of you who were supposed to present a poster: the
poster session has been cancelled.Meanwhile, if you are interested to
participate to the online RMTA conference, please register on the new
website.
Registration is free but mandatory to get the access details.
We are looking forward to meeting you online!Best regards,Paul Bourgade,
Djalil Chafaï,
Alice Guionnet,
Jamal Najim.
Ricevo ed inoltro.
MQ
14 PhD Positions in Stochastics and Algorithmics in NETWORKS (the Netherlands)
The NETWORKS project is a collaboration of world-leading researchers from four institutions in The Netherlands: TU Eindhoven <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu…>, University of Amsterdam <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%…>, Leiden University <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu…> and the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtu…>. Research in NETWORKS focuses on stochastics and algorithmics for network problems. NETWORKS offers a highly stimulating research environment and an extensive training program for PhD students.
Recently NETWORKS was awarded a COFUND grant the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, funded by the European Commission. The grant allows NETWORKS to expand its activities by opening positions for an additional 14 PhD students. As a NETWORKS-COFUND PhD student you can define your own PhD project in one of the research areas mentioned above, in collaboration with your NETWORKS supervisors.
Application deadline
31 May 2020
Contract
full time employment contract for 4 years
Salary indication
from €2.325 to €2.972 in 4 years
Location
The Netherlands (Amsterdam, Eindhoven, Leiden)
Are you interested in the stochastics and algorithmics behind network problems? And would you like to be part of this project with its many activities? Then go to https://www.thenetworkcenter.nl/Open-Positions/openposition/29/14-PhD-Posit… <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thene…>
On this website you can find an extensive information package about these positions, including further details about the application procedure.
Cari colleghi,
vi chiedo di far circolare la notizia che il Politecnico di Torino,
congiuntamente con L'Università di Torino e l'Indam offre 8 posizioni di
dottorato.
La domanda deve pervenire entro il 30 Aprile.
http://dottorato.polito.it/en/call_for_applications
Applicazioni di studenti interessati alla probabilità e alla statistica
sono naturalmente benvenute.
Cordiali saluti, Enrico
Enrico Bibbona
Associate Professor of Statistics
Probability, Statistics and Optimization group
Department of Mathematical Sciences "G. L Lagrange"
Politecnico di Torino
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to the following Probability seminar
that will take place on May 22 at 11 by the zoom platform.
________________________________________________________
Speaker: Saeda Marello (University of Bonn)
Title: Metastability for the randomly dilute Curie-Weiss model with Glauber
dynamics".
22 MAY (Friday) - 11:00 - zoom link: TBA
The link and password to access the seminar will be available the day of
the seminar at the following webpage
https://www.math.unipd.it/news/metastability-for-the-randomly-dilute-curie-…
Abstract:
The Curie-Weiss model (CW) is a classical model of a ferromagnetic spin
system in which all spins interact with each other, namely the interaction
graph is complete.
The randomly dilute Curie-Weiss model (RDCW) is a generalisation of the CW
in which the deterministic interaction between pairs of spins is replaced by
iid random coefficients. It can be also viewed as an Ising model on a random
graph. We will show results in the case where the interaction coefficients
are iid Bernoulli random variables with fixed parameter p, i.e. the
interaction graph is an Erdős–Rényi random graph.
After giving an introduction on metastability and on the well known results
for the CW, we will focus on how the mean metastable hitting time in the
RDCW can be approximated by that of the CW, asymptotically as the system
size grows. The main methods we used are potential theoretic approach to
metastability and concentration of measure inequalities.
Based on joint work with Anton Bovier and Elena Pulvirenti.
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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/
Dear colleague,
This is to announce an opportunity for doctoral studies in probability
theory starting Fall 2020, co-mentored by Anja Sturm (Göttingen) and Vlada
Limic (Strasbourg). The research topics are in theoretical probability,
more precisely in the area of near-critical random graphs and related
processes.
Interested candidates with strong mathematics research potential are
encouraged to contact us, preferably by email,
A. Sturm and V. Limic
http://www.stochastik.math.uni-goettingen.de/~asturm/https://irma.math.unistra.fr/~limic/
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Buongiorno,
inoltro con piacere l'annuncio per una scuola di probabilità online.
Saluti
Alessandra
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Da: Omer Angel <angel(a)math.ubc.ca>
Date: mar 12 mag 2020 alle ore 06:17
Subject: Online Open Probability School is starting next week
To: <faggiona(a)mat.uniroma1.it>
Dear Alessandra,
Our apologies if you receive multiple versions of this message.
This is a second general announcement of OOPS: the Online Open
Probability School, which will start next week (May 18), and will
continue through most of the summer
(https://www.math.ubc.ca/Links/OOPS). The school will feature a sequence
of mini-courses on diverse topics in probability and related topics.
All courses will take place online, and are open to all interested
participants. Most courses will consist of three 1-hour lectures, though
some will have longer lectures. Some courses will be accompanied by an
introductory lecture or short research talks on topics related to the
course. For information on
these and on any suggested readings related to the courses please
visit the above website.
Please advertise OOPS to anyone who may be interested in the courses.
They may also join our mailing list at
https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/oops .
The schedule for the first few weeks can be found on the website.
Details about the first three mini-courses appear below.
1. Date and Time: May 18,19,21, 16:00 (UTC)
Speaker: Jean-Christoph Mourrat
Subject: Rank-one matrix estimation and Hamilton-Jacobi equations
2. Date and time: May 25,27,28, 16:00 (UTC)
Speaker: Gady Kozma
Subject: Critical and near-critical percolation
3. Date and time: June 1,2,4, 16:00 (UTC)
Speaker: Nina Gantert
Subject: Branching random walks: some recent results and open questions
Please don't hesitate to contact any of us with questions, suggestions
or ideas.
Best wishes,
Omer,
On behalf of the organizers:
Louigi Addario-Berry (louigi.addario(a)mcgill.ca)
Omer Angel (angel(a)math.ubc.ca)
Alex Fribergh (fribergh(a)dms.umontreal.ca)
Sarai Alma Hernandez Torres (saraiht(a)math.ubc.ca)
Thomas Hughes (hughes(a)math.ubc.ca)
Mathav Murugan (mathav(a)math.ubc.ca)
Edwin Perkins (perkins(a)math.ubc.ca)
Lea Popovic (lea.popovic(a)concordia.ca)
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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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