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Seminario KNAPIK
by Matteo Ruggiero 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

**************************************************************** STATISTICS SEMINARS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO **************************************************************** Venerdi' 24 Ottobre 2014 alle ore 12:00, presso la sala rossa del Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri (TO), si terra' il seguente seminario: Bartek KNAPIK (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) CONVERGENCE RATES OF POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS IN NONPARAMETRIC INVERSE PROBLEMS Abstract: Since the seminal works of Ghosal, Ghosh and van der Vaart (2000) and Shen and Wasserman (2001), posterior contraction has attracted much attention, resulting in the rich literature on this subject. However, these results are not suitable to deal with trully ill-posed inverse problems, where one is interested in the parameter of interest f, given noisy observations of its transformed version Kf. General theorems yield contraction results in some metric measuring the distance between Kf and Kf_0, whereas the interest lies in the distance betweend f and f_0, and these two metrics are not equivalent. In this talk we review (a part of) the existing literature on Bayesian approach to nonparametric inverse problems, and present a general contraction theorem. We show that in mildly ill-posed problems with conjugate priors, both empirical and hierarchical Bayes approaches lead to (nearly) optimal recovery of an infinite-dimensional parameter of interest. Moreover, using our general result, we obtain minimax adaptive concentration rates in two examples in the fixed-design regression setting. 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 --- Matteo Ruggiero University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto http://sites.carloalberto.org/ruggiero

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Seminario Kirone Mallick a Roma
by Gustavo Posta 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

The Asymmetric Simple Exclusion Process, a Review by Kirone Mallick (CEA, Saclay, Francia) Monday, 20 October 2014 from 16:00 to 18:00 (Europe/Rome) at Dip. di Fisica - Edificio G. Marconi ( Aula Conversi ) Abstract The asymmetric simple exclusion process plays the role of a paradigm to study various aspects of non-equilibrium statistical physics. It is a minimal model of interacting particles with transport, that displays interesting collective behaviour and breaks time-reversal symmetry. This system appears as a building block in more realistic descriptions of low-dimensional transport with constraints. During the last twenty years, a large number of exact results have been derived for the exclusion process. The aim of this talk is to review the main techniques used to study this system and some of the important results that have been obtained.

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MOSTRA e CONFERENZA sul matematico René Gateaux
by Nappo, Giovanna 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

Vi segnalo la Mostra (21.24 ottobre) e la conferenza (21 ottobre) su René Gateaux presso il Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma "La Sapienza" MOSTRA René Gateaux (1889-1914) Itinerario di una gioventù perduta: Dipartimento di Matematica "Guido Castelnuovo" Università di Roma "La Sapienza" 21 -24 ottobre 2014 René Gateaux era un giovane matematico francese. Circa un milione e mezzo di francesi sono morti durante la Prima Guerra Mondiale, e René Gateaux è stato uno di loro. Qualche tempo prima della sua prematura scomparsa, avvenuta nella notte tra il 2 e il 3 ottobre 1914, ebbe diversi contatti scientifici con la comunità matematica romana e in particolare con Vito Volterra. In occasione del centenario dalla morte di René Gateaux, nei locali del Dipartimento di Matematica Guido Castelnuovo (piano terra), si terrà una mostra sui suoi contributi scientifici e sulla sua breve vita: il caso di René Gateaux apporta qualche interessante contributo alla conoscenza del suo periodo storico. La mostra si può visitare durante l'orario di apertura del Dipartimento di Matematica: dalle 8 alle 20. L'ingresso è gratuito Consulenti scientifici: Laurent Mazliak (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris) e Rossana Tazzioli (Université de Lille 1) Concezione grafica: Raphaël Petit Organizzazione locale: Giovanna Nappo e Fabio Spizzichino (Dipartimento di Matematica) CONFERENZA Martedì 21 ottobre, ore 15:30, in Aula Picone del Dipartimento di Matematica "Guido Castelnuovo", il Professor Laurent Mazliak terrà una conferenza introduttiva. René Gateaux (1889-1914) abstract: Nell'ottobre 1914, il giovane matematico René Gateaux fu ucciso nei primi combattimenti della prima guerra mondiale. Aveva 25 anni. La sua fortuna postuma fu di essere stato, durante la sua breve vita, in relazione con importanti matematici, in particolare con Vito Volterra, e di avere lasciato prima di andare in guerra delle carte che diventarono, nelle mani esperte di Paul Lévy, la fonte di sviluppi capitali per la matematica del '900. Nella conferenza, considerata come un'introduzione e un complemento alla mostra omonima presso il Dipartimento di Matematica "Guido Castelnuovo", verranno presentati diversi aspetti di questo sorprendente destino. La conferenza sarà preceduta da una breve introduzione alla derivata di Gateaux, tenuta dal Prof. Antonio Siconolfi (Università di Roma "La Sapienza").

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Fractional Calculus, Probability and Non-Local Operators: Second (and final) call for papers.
by Enrico Scalas 15 Oct '14

15 Oct '14

Second Call for papers Second Workshop on Fractional Calculus, Probability and Non-Local Operators: Applications and Recent Developments BCAM, Bilbao, Basque Country - Spain 10-14 November 2014 Research on non-local operators and related stochastic processes has witnessed a rapid expansion over the past years. These problems pose new challenges to both pure and applied mathematicians, at the interface of at least three wide fields: functional analysis, stochastic processes and partial differential equations, while providing a new paradigm in scientific modelling. Applications range from relativistic models of quantum physics and quantum field theory, to sub-diffusion experimentally observed in molecular physics, from anomalous transport in cells to leptokurtic price distributions in financial markets, or to long-range dynamics ranging from the nano-scale to the geophysical scale. This interaction between mathematics and applications is giving rise to new concepts and methods, and it will produce new challenging mathematical problems for many years to come. Programme Monday 10th - Wednesday 12th Mon 11:30-13:30 / 15:00-19:00 Tue 9:00-12:00 / 15:00-16:00 / 17:00-19:00 Wed 9:00-12:00 / 15:00–18:00 PhD/PostDoc level course on "Fractional Kinetics: Analytic and Probabilistic Approaches" Vassili Kolokoltsov (University of Warwick, UK) Jozsef Lorinczi (Loughborough University, UK) Enrico Scalas (University of Sussex, UK) Tue 16:00-17:00 BCAM Scientific Seminar J. M. Sanz-Serna (University “Carlos III” Madrid, Spain) “Nonsymplectic uses of symplectic integrators” Thursday 13th - Friday 14th Thu, Fri 9:30-12:00 / 15:00-17:30 Workshop with specialist talks presented by Invited Speakers and by young researchers. A permanent poster session will be organised as well. Invited Talks: Luisa Beghin (University "La Sapienza" Rome, Italy) ”Stable processes at Poisson times in connection with the fractional shift operator" Kamil Kaleta (University of Wroclawska, Poland) “Lévy processes with uniformly dominated sequences of jumps" Joseba Mendiguren (Mondragon University, Spain) “Fractional Calculus application on mechanical engineering problems" Paolo Paradisi (ISTI-CNR Pisa, Italy/BCAM, Spain) “stochastic processes for space-time fractional diffusion” Juan Luis Vazquez (Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain) “Nonlinear diffusion with fractional Laplacian operator” Grants are available for attendees. For registration write to fcpnlo(a)gmail.com, no registration fee is required. To submit your abstract for a poster or a presentation (deadline: 24th of October, 2014) and further information, please write to: fcpnlo(a)gmail.com Sincerely Yours, Jozsef Lorinczi Gianni Pagnini Enrico Scalas

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FLAFR: Bando 2014 - Borse Premio per lo svolgimento di tesi di laurea magistrale
by Irene Crimaldi 15 Oct '14

15 Oct '14

Bando 2014 - BORSE PREMIO PER LO SVOLGIMENTO DI TESI DI LAUREA MAGISTRALE. Le borse sono messe a disposizione dalla Fondazione Lucchese per l’Alta Formazione e la Ricerca (FLAFR). Gli argomenti di tesi sono: Tema 1: Crisi e innovazione. Tema 2: Modelli, metodologie e strumenti software per lo sviluppo e l'analisi di sistemi ICT. Tema 3: Modelli e metodologie per l'analisi delle reti complesse e loro applicazione. Tema 4: Metodologie e strumenti software per l'analisi e il controllo di sistemi dinamici. Tema 5: Modelli stocastici e metodologie statistiche per lo studio di problematiche in campo economico, informatico o ingegneristico. Tema 6: Modelli teorici, numerici e sperimentali per l'ottimizzazione delle proprietà superficiali della carta. Per ulteriori dettagli, potete consultare il link http://www.fondazioneluccheseafr.it/borse_tesi.html. Irene Crimaldi IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca

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Seminario Giuliana Cortese (Università di Padova) - 28/10/2014
by Giacomo Aletti 14 Oct '14

14 Oct '14

Con preghiera di diffusione tra tutti i possibili interessati, scusandomi per invii multipli. Cordialmente, Giacomo Aletti -------------- Si comunica che in data 28 Ottobre 2014, ore 11, presso la Sala di Rappresentanza del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università degli Studi di Milano La dott.ssa Giuliana Cortese, del dipartimento di Statistica dell'Università di Padova, terrà un seminario dal titolo "Dynamic predictions via competing risks regression models with application to chemotherapy in breast cancer" Abstract In breast cancer, the risk for cardiotoxicity due to chemotherapy typically increases with the cumulative dose of treatment over time. Therefore, it is of interest to predict the cumulative risk for cardiotoxicity in a dynamic way, while controlling the competing risk for mortality. For this purpose, we consider a competing risks regression model with two events, cardiotoxicity and death. A second aim is to predict optimal cumulative doses along a given treatment time that keep the cumulative risk for cardiotoxicity below a certain threshold (e.g. <5%). We face these prediction problems with different regression models for competing risks, accounting for all the time-dependent information in the data. For example, some covariates are assumed to have time-varying effects, and the cumulative dose was included as (internal) time-dependent covariate into the models. A landmark analysis was used to obtain dynamic predictions. In this applied context, we compare the competing risks approach based on cause-specific hazards and the direct regression models that allow finding a one-to-one relationship between cumulative risks and covariates. These models were then employed to predict optimal cumulative doses at a sequence of landmark time points. To control and correct also for the increased risk of dying, we finally predict optimal cumulative doses when a illness-death model is considered. Implementation in R is also discussed. -- ------------------------------- Giacomo Aletti, Associate Professor ADAMSS Centre (ex MIRIAM) Advanced Applied Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Department of Mathematics (www.matematica.unimi.it) Via Saldini, 50 20133 Milano, Italy Tel: +39-02-503.16158 Fax:+39-02-503.16090 Cell: +39-340-9739142

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2014 Nicola Bruti Liberati Prize (IV edition)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 09:47:36 +0000 From: Daniele Marazzina <daniele.marazzina(a)polimi.it> To: "basso(a)unive.it" <basso(a)unive.it>, "vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it (vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it)" <vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it> Subject: 2014 Nicola Bruti Liberati Prize (IV edition) Con preghiera di diffusione tramite le vostre mailing-list. Grazie, Daniele Marazzina >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 2014 Nicola Bruti Liberati Prize (IV edition) The Bachelier Finance Society and the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano, in cooperation with Springer, are proud to announce the 2014 Nicola Bruti Liberati Prize (IV edition) which is to be awarded annually for a doctoral thesis in all subjects of Mathematical Finance, such as, but not limited to: Derivative Pricing, Computational Finance, Econometrics and Statistical Methods applied to Finance, Risk Analysis, Portfolio Optimization, Probability Methods in Finance, and Numerical Methods in Finance. Nicola obtained an undergraduate degree from Bocconi University (2001) in Mathematical Finance. He died in 2007 in a traffic accident in Sydney, while he was completing his PhD thesis at the University of Technology. At that time, he was also cooperating with the Quantitative Finance group of the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano. In order to commemorate Nicola, his family and the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano offer an annual prize of E3.000 for the best doctoral thesis to be selected by a Committee appointed by the Bachelier Finance Society. Theses defended in 2013 and 2014 must be submitted no later than January 31st, 2015. The call for scholarship can be downloaded from the QFinLab web-site (www.mate.polimi.it/qfinlab) or at the following urls [ENG] http://www.mate.polimi.it/servizi/bandi_di_concorso/upload_bandi/iizw 6q/Bruti_Liberati_Prize_2014.pdf [ITA] http://www.mate.polimi.it/servizi/bandi_di_concorso/upload_bandi/iizw 6q/borsa_di_studio_Bruti_Liberati_2014.pdf

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2014 Nicola Bruti Liberati Prize (IV edition)
by Daniele Marazzina 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

?The Bachelier Finance Society and the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano, in cooperation with Springer, are proud to announce the 2014 Nicola Bruti Liberati Prize (IV edition) which is to be awarded annually for a doctoral thesis in all subjects of Mathematical Finance, such as, but not limited to: Derivative Pricing, Computational Finance, Econometrics and Statistical Methods applied to Finance, Risk Analysis, Portfolio Optimization, Probability Methods in Finance, and Numerical Methods in Finance. Nicola obtained an undergraduate degree from Bocconi University (2001) in Mathematical Finance. He died in 2007 in a traffic accident in Sydney, while he was completing his PhD thesis at the University of Technology. At that time, he was also cooperating with the Quantitative Finance group of the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano. In order to commemorate Nicola, his family and the Department of Mathematics of the Politecnico di Milano offer an annual prize of E3.000 for the best doctoral thesis to be selected by a Committee appointed by the Bachelier Finance Society. Theses defended in 2013 and 2014 must be submitted no later than January 31st, 2015. The call for scholarship can be downloaded from the QFinLab web-site (www.mate.polimi.it/qfinlab) or at the following urls [ENG] http://www.mate.polimi.it/servizi/bandi_di_concorso/upload_bandi/iizw6q/Bru… [ITA] http://www.mate.polimi.it/servizi/bandi_di_concorso/upload_bandi/iizw6q/bor…

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Seminario Sathyaa SUBRAMANIYAM (RGS & Matematica Applicata)
by Giacomo Aletti 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

Con preghiera di diffusione tra tutti i possibili interessati, scusandomi per invii multipli. Cordialmente, Giacomo Aletti -------------- Nell'ambito dei Reading Group Seminars e del Seminario di Matematica Applicata, il giorno lunedì 20 Ottobre 2014, alle ore 14.30, nell'Aula C del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Via C. Saldini, 50, Milano, Sathyaa SUBRAMANIYAM - Department of Brain and Behavioral Science, University of Pavia, Italy - Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia (CNISM), Pavia, Italy terra' una conferenza dal titolo Detailed computation model for a cerebellar excitatory interneuron Abstract: Unipolar Brush Cells (UBCs) have been suggested to play a critical role in cerebellar functioning, yet the corresponding cellular mechanisms remain poorly understood. UBCs have recently been reported to generate, in addition to early-onset glutamate receptor-dependent synaptic responses, a late-onset response (LOR) composed of a slow depolarizing ramp followed by a spike burst (Locatelli et al., 2013). The LOR activates as a consequence of synaptic activity and involves an intracellular cascade modulating H- and TRP-current gating. In order to assess the LOR mechanisms, we have developed a UBC multi-compartmental model (including soma, dendrite, initial segment and axon) incorporating biologically realistic representations of ionic currents and a cytoplasmic coupling mechanism regulating TRP and H channel gating. The model finely reproduced UBC responses to current injection, including a burst triggered by a low-threshold spike sustained by CaLVA currents, a persistent discharge sustained by CaHVA currents, and a rebound burst following hyperpolarization sustained by H- and CaLVA-currents. Moreover, the model predicted that H- and TRP-current regulation was necessary and sufficient to generate the LOR and its dependence on the intensity and duration of mossy fiber activity. Therefore, the model showed that, using a basic set of ionic channels, UBCs generate a rich repertoire of bursts, which could effectively implement tunable delay-lines in the local microcircuit. ================= Reading Group Seminars: The Reading Group Seminars (RGS) are organized within an open community of researchers interested in applying up to date mathematical modeling and data analysis approaches to the study of biological systems. The RGS take place at the Math. Department in Milan (via Saldini). Initiatives and updates are published on the website: http://rgs.mat.unimi.it/. -- ------------------------------- Giacomo Aletti, Associate Professor ADAMSS Centre (ex MIRIAM) Advanced Applied Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Department of Mathematics (www.matematica.unimi.it) Via Saldini, 50 20133 Milano, Italy Tel: +39-02-503.16158 Fax:+39-02-503.16090 Cell: +39-340-9739142

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Daphne Jackson Fellowship
by Enrico Scalas 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Car* collegh*, all'Universita' del Sussex abbiamo una posizione biennale per facilitare il reinserimento di persone che hanno dovuto sospendere l'attivita' di ricerca per un periodo prolungato (due o piu' anni). Probabilita' e statistica fanno parte delle discipline incluse nel bando. Per maggiori informazioni si puo' consultare il link seguente: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/819 Cordiali saluti Enrico Scalas

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[Fwd: Assegno di ricerca]
by reni＠mi.imati.cnr.it 10 Oct '14

10 Oct '14

Ai membri della lista RANDOM invio questa segnalazione che penso possa di interesse. Cordiali saluti Renata Rotondi ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Assegno di ricerca From: "Stefania Gentili" <sgentili(a)inogs.it> Date: Thu, October 9, 2014 9:37 am To: sgentili(a)inogs.it -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gentili colleghi, segnalo un bando per un assegno di ricerca presso OGS- Centro Ricerche sismologiche, sede di Udine, SCADENZA 20 OTTOBRE 2014, aperto a candidati con laurea scientifica che vi prego di diffondere tra chi pensiate possa essere interessato/adatto. Si chiede una solida preparazione matematico/statistica e conoscenze informatiche. L'assegnista collaborera' in progetti di ricerca che riguardano lo studio statistico dell'evoluzione spazio-temporale della sismicita' sia prima di forti eventi, al fine di rilevare possibili precursori sismici, che dopo di essi, per lo studio di sciami e sequenze sismiche. Particolare attenzione verra' posta nello studio della sismicita' dell'Italia nordorientale. All'assegnista verra' richiesto di applicare le proprie conoscenze di programmazione, di analisi statistica dei dati e di pattern recognition. Il bando si trova al sito: http://www.ogs.trieste.it/it/content/avviso-di-selezione-pubblica-n-1-asseg… la durata dell'assegno e' di un anno rinnovabile fino a 4 con possibili sviluppi successivi. Cordiali saluti, Stefania Gentili ================================================ Dr. Stefania Gentili Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale - OGS Centro Ricerche Sismologiche Via Treviso 55, 33100 Cussignacco (Udine), Italy Tel. +39 040 2140134, Fax. +39 0432 522474 E-mail: <mailto:sgentili%40inogs.it>sgentili(a)inogs.it Web page: http://www.ogs.trieste.it/ https://sites.google.com/site/stefaniagentili2/ ================================================

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post-doc
by Lucia Caramellino 09 Oct '14

09 Oct '14

Sono aperte posizioni post-doc in probabilita` numerica e/o finanza matematica presso il CERMICS (Ecole des Ponts, Parigi) finanziate dalla "Chaire Risques Financiers" che riunisce le universita` Parigi 6, Ecole Polytechnique ed Ecole des Ponts. Per info, contattare Aurelien Alfonsi <alfonsi(a)cermics.enpc.fr>. ================================== Lucia Caramellino Dipartimento di Matematica Universita` di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via della Ricerca Scientifica I-00133, Roma, Italy www.mat.uniroma2.it/~caramell

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Seminario di Probabilita'-Universita' di Padova
by alessandra bianchi 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Ho il piacere di invitarvi al seguente seminario che si terrà Mercoledì 15 ottobre, alle ore 16.00, nell'aula 2BC30. del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università degli Studi di Padova. Speaker: Prof. Jan Swart Affiliation: Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Title: Particle systems with cooperative branching Abstract: In a cooperative branching system, pairs of particles, rather than individuals, produce offspring. Interacting particle systems with this sort of interaction have been used to model the effect of sexual reproduction and in particular the effect that in many species, a low population density reduces the reproductive success of individuals due to the difficulty of finding a partner. In this talk, I will review some older work on this sort of models and also discuss recent joint work with Anja Sturm on a model with cooperative branching and coalesence. For such a model in one dimension, we show that for low cooperative branching rates, the process dies out at the same geometric rate as a pure coalescent. The proof uses ideas related to a general duality for monotone systems due to Lawrence Gray. -- Alessandra Bianchi Dip. di Matematica Pura e Applicata 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 Roma Tre 16 ottobre
by Pietro Caputo 05 Oct '14

05 Oct '14

SEMINARIO di Probabilita' a Roma Tre il 16/10/14 Prof. Itai Benjamini (Weizmann Institute) Titolo: Simple random walk and harmonic functions on graphs. Giovedi' 16 Ottobre 2014 ORE 16:00 Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre AULA 211 (Largo San L. Murialdo,1) Abstract First we will review a couple geometric invariants of graphs, such as the isoperimetric constant, hyperbolicity and vertex transitivity. Then we will discuss their manifestation in the behaviour of the simple random walk on the graph, in particular the existence of non constant bounded harmonic functions. --

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Seminario Roma Tre 8 ottobre
by Pietro Caputo 05 Oct '14

05 Oct '14

Seminario di Probabilita' a Roma Tre Niccolo' Torri (Universite' Lyon 1) Titolo: A stretched-exponential Pinning Model with heavy-tailed Disorder Mercoledi' 08 Ottobre 2014 ORE 14:30 Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre AULA 311 (SEMINARI) Largo San L. Murialdo,1 Abstract: We study the so-called pinning model, which describes the behavior of a Markov chain interacting with a distinguished state. The interaction depends on an external source of randomness, called disorder, which can attract or repel the Markov chain path. We focus on the case when the disorder is heavy-tailed, with infinite mean, while the return times of the Markov chain have a stretched-exponential distribution. We prove that the set of times at which the Markov chain visits the distinguished state, suitably rescaled, converges in distribution to a limit set, which depends only on the disorder and on the interplay of the parameters. We also show that there exists a random threshold of the interaction strength, below which the limit set is trivial. As a byproduct of our techniques, we improve and complete a result of Auffinger and Louidor on the directed polymer in a random environment with heavy tailed disorder.

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PhD @Lausanne: Forensic statistics
by Giacomo Aletti 04 Oct '14

04 Oct '14

https://applicationsinter.unil.ch/inter/noauth/php/Po/pooffres.php?poid=339… PhD Position Summary: The School of Criminal Justice is seeking an aspiring young scientist to start a PhD research project on probabilistic evaluation of comparative handwriting examinations using graphical models (i.e., Bayesian networks). A Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Grant funds the starting phase of this PhD project during a period of 18 months. Project Summary: The primary objective of this SNSF funded research is to rely on Bayesian networks within a general methodology for structured expert knowledge elicitation and analysis in order to build diagrammatic interpretation structures that have the potential to become part of the scope of resources that forensic experts need to substantiate probabilistic evaluations and conclusions in cases involving the results of comparative handwriting examinations. The appointed PhD candidate in this project will work closely with practising forensic handwriting examiners and conduct both fundamental research on probabilistic interpretation in the context of forensic handwriting examination and in-depth case studies. The project also involves exchanges on methods and approaches with a researcher from the Institute of Evidence Law and Forensic Science of the China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing (CUPL). Application until: December 19th, 2014 -- ------------------------------- Giacomo Aletti, Associate Professor ADAMSS Centre (ex MIRIAM) Advanced Applied Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Department of Mathematics (www.matematica.unimi.it) Via Saldini, 50 20133 Milano, Italy Tel: +39-02-503.16158 Fax:+39-02-503.16090 Cell: +39-340-9739142

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Fwd: Notiziario dei Seminari
by Gustavo Posta 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

Begin forwarded message: > ====================================================================== > > DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA > > UNIVERSITA' DI ROMA "LA SAPIENZA" > > Settimana dal 6 al 12 ottobre 2014 > > ====================================================================== > > > Lunedi' 6 ottobre 2014 > > Ore 16:30, Aula C > Seminario di Probabilità e Fisica Statistica > Marco Ribezzi Crivellari (Universita' di Barcellona) > Experimental measurements of entropy production at the nano-scale: an > application for the 'fluctuation theorems' > > The study of non-equilibrium systems has led to several mathematically > rigorous and general results on the statistics of entropy production > in non-equilibrium systems. These results are generally known under > the name of 'fluctuation theorems' and include the Gallavotti-Cohen > theorem or the Jarzynski equality. My research focuses on performing > experiments in which such results can be tested in real physical > systems. I am interested in assessing their range of validity but even > more interested in exploiting them to develop new measurement > techniques. I will present some recent experiments, in which focused > laser beams (optical tweezers) are used to perform thermodynamic > transformations on single DNA molecules. As a first example I will > show how to use fluctuation theorems to measure the free energy change > across the transformation. As a second example I will discuss how, in > specific cases, fluctuation theorems can be used to measure the full > entropy production in a nano-scale system starting from a partial > measurement through what we call an 'inference' procedure. This last > example provides a new and general application of fluctuation theorems > which we are only beginning to explore.

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BISP9 - 9th Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes Workshop
by fabrizio＠mi.imati.cnr.it 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

We are glad to announce the 9th workshop on Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes (BISP9) which will take place at Point Hotel - Taksim in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 14-16, 2015. The conference web page is http://www.maoner.com/bisp9.htm We are currently working on the programme: confirmed speakers are Sylvia Fruhwirth-Schnatter, Antonio Pievatolo, Raquel Prado and Judith Rousseau. After a reception on June 14th, there will be two full days of talks by (senior and junior) invited speakers and contributors, ending with a dinner cruise on Bosphorus on June, 16th. Interested people can stay in Istanbul also in the next few days since there will be, on June, 17th - 19th, GDRR 2015 (4th Symposium on Games and Decisions in Reliability and Risk), with details at http://www.maoner.com/GDRR-2015.htm The workshop is organised by Yeditepe University, in cooperation with CNR IMATI and George Washington University. Details on past BISP workshops can be found at http://www.mi.imati.cnr.it/conferences/BISP8/ People interested in contributing papers should send a title and an abstract by e-mail to maoner(a)yeditepe.edu.tr, before November, 30th, 2014. Poster session is planned only if there will be a very large number of submissions. Instructions on abstract submission are available at http://www.maoner.com/bisp9_submission.htm Decision on acceptance (either as talk or poster) will be notified by December, 15th, 2014. Best regards M. Atilla Oner and Fabrizio Ruggeri Chairs, BISP9 Organising and Scientific Committees -- Fabrizio Ruggeri fabrizio AT mi.imati.cnr.it CNR IMATI tel +39 0223699532 Via Bassini 15 fax +39 0223699538 I-20133 Milano (Italy) www.mi.imati.cnr.it/~fabrizio

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Vacancy at the Brighton & Sussex Medical School
by Enrico Scalas 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

Car* collegh*, vi segnalo questo annuncio per un posto di Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/aboutus/jobs/714 Cordiali saluti, Enrico Scalas

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Fractional Calculus, Probability and Non-Local Operators (Call for papers)
by Enrico Scalas 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Call for papers Second Workshop on Fractional Calculus, Probability and Non-Local Operators: Applications and Recent Developments http://www.bcamath.org/en/workshops/2workshoponfcnlo-courseonfk2014 BCAM, Bilbao, Basque Country - Spain 10-14 November 2014 (November 10, 12:00 to 19:00h; November 11 13:00- 19:00 November 12-14, 9:30 to 18:00h) Research on non-local operators and related stochastic processes has witnessed a rapid expansion over the past years. These problems pose new challenges to both pure and applied mathematicians, at the interface of at least three wide fields: functional analysis, stochastic processes and partial differential equations, while providing a new paradigm in scientific modelling. Applications range from relativistic models of quantum physics and quantum field theory, to sub-diffusion experimentally observed in molecular physics, from anomalous transport in cells to leptokurtic price distributions in financial markets, or to long-range dynamics ranging from the nano-scale to the geophysical scale. This interaction between mathematics and applications is giving rise to new concepts and methods, and it will produce new challenging mathematical problems for many years to come. Programme Monday 10th - Wednesday 12th PhD/PostDoc level course on "Fractional Kinetics: Analytic and Probabilistic Approaches" Vassili KOLOKOLTSOV (University of Warwick, UK) Jozsef LORINCZI (Loughborough University, UK) Enrico SCALAS (University of Sussex, UK) Thursday 13th - Friday 14th Workshop with specialist talks presented by Invited Speakers and by young researchers. A permanent poster session will be organised as well. Grants are available for attendees. No registration fee is required. To submit your abstract for a poster or a presentation (deadline: 24th of October, 2014) and for further information, please write to: fcpnlo(a)gmail.com Sincerely Yours, Jozsef LORINCZI Gianni PAGNINI Enrico SCALAS

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Open Associate professor in Stochastic Analysis (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 10:07:12 +0000 From: Giulia Di Nunno <giulian(a)math.uio.no> To: Giulia Di Nunno <giulian(a)math.uio.no> Cc: Giulia Di Nunno <giulian(a)math.uio.no> Subject: Open Associate professor in Stochastic Analysis Dear All, could you please help distribute this adv in your list of contacts? Thank you in advance Best wishes Giulia ??????????? An associate professor position in Stochastic Analysis is now open at the Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo: http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1262181/64285?iso=no Please bring this to the attention of possible candidates. Thank you in advance for your help in the distribution. Best regards, GdN ************* Giulia Di Nunno Professor, PhD CMA and Department of Mathematics University of Oslo

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Semester: Information in Finance & Insurance
by c.ceci＠unich.it 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Cari colleghi, al link: http://www.informationinfinanceandinsurance.org/themes/partial-information-… trovate tutte le informazioni relative al Semestre Information in Finance & Insurance. I primi incontri dal 3 al 10 ottobre, organizzati da Caroline Hillairet (Ecole Polytechnique) and Monique Jeanblanc (Evry University), sul tema Partial Information/Filtering si svolgeranno presso l'Institut Henri Poincaré. Gli altri temi del Semestre sono: Insider information / Enlargement of Filtrations Strategic Aspect of Information in Games and Financial Markets Kyle-Back Equilibrium models Asymmetric Information and Insurance. Cari saluti Claudia Ceci ****************************** Prof. Claudia Ceci Dip. di Economia University "G. d'Annunzio" V.le Pindaro 42 65127, Pescara, ITALY c.ceci(a)unich.it *********************************

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Mini corso Yuri Kondratiev [ Statistical dynamics for interaction particle systems and applications - DipInf Verona ]
by Luca di persio 28 Sep '14

28 Sep '14

Il Prof. Yuri Kondratiev [Fakultät für Mathematik Universität Bielefeld ] sarà ospite del Dipartimento di Informatica dell’Università di Verona [ Strada le Grazie, 15 - Vr ] nei giorni dal 27 al 31 Ottobre 2014 e terrà il seguente mini corso [8 ore] Statistical dynamics for interaction particle systems articolato in tre lezioni, che si terranno nell'edificio Ca' Vignal 2 - Aula M, nei giorni - Lunedì 27 Ottobre [ 13:30-16:30 ] - Mercoledì 29 Ottobre [ 15:30-18:30 ] - Giovedì 30 Ottobre [ 13:30-15:30 ] con il seguente programma *Abstract* We will discuss an approach to modeling of real world phenomena by interacting particle systems in the continuum. In many cases, evolutions of considered systems may be described as Markov stochastic processes. Related statistical dynamics are evolutions of macroscopic states associated with the forward Kolmogorov (or Fokker-Planck) equations for these Markov processes. We will study statistical dynamics in terms of corresponding hierarchical chains of evolution equations for correlation functions. These chains admit mesoscopic scalings that leads to kinetic evolution equations for densities of considered systems. Particular examples which will be discussed include *models from mathematical physics, ecology, cell biology and socio-economic models*. Between other aspects these examples illustrate such notions as dynamical phase transitions, non-local evolution equations, front propagation, self-aggregation, effects of environment fluctuations etc. *Tentative program* 1. Configuration spaces 2. Harmonic analysis on configuration spaces 3. Statistical Markov evolutions and hierarchical chains 4. Birth-and-death Markov processes on configuration spaces 5. Conservative stochastic dynamics 6. Mesoscopic scalings and kinetic equations 7. Multicomponent systems 8. Applications (a) Mathematical physics (b) Ecological models (c) Cancer modeling (d) Social models Per informazioni contattare: luca.dipersio(a)univr.it __ Luca Di Persio - PhD assistant professor of Probability and Mathematical Finance Dept. Informatics University of Verona strada le Grazie 15 - 37134 Verona - Italy Tel : +39 045 802 7968 Dept. Math University of Trento V. Sommarive, 14 - 38123 Povo - Italy Tel : +39 0461 281686

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Seminario del prof. Enzo Orsingher
by Massimo Campanino 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

Il giorno venerdì 24 ottobre alle ore 15 nell'Aula Seminario 2 del Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università di Bologna in piazza Porta S. Donato 5 il prof. Enzo Orsingher della Sapienza Università di Roma terrà un seminario dal titolo Random Flights related to the Euler-Poisson-Darboux Equation Abstract: We first present an overview on random motions at finite velocity on the line an in the space. We study different forms of random motions, the probability distributions of which are solutions of the famous Euler-Poisson-Darboux equations which emerges also in the accelerated telegraph process. Finally, we present some fractional extensions of the finite-velocity random motions. References: 1) Fractional Klein-Gordon equations and related stochastic processes (2014) (with R. Garra and F. Polito) Journal of Statistical Physics, Vol. 155, 777-809. 2) Random flights governed by Klein-Gordon.type partial differential equations (2014) (with R. Garra). Stochastic Processes and their Appllications, Vol. 124, 2171-2187. 3) Flying randomly in R^d with Dirichlet displacements (2012) (with A. De Gregorio). Stochastic Processes and their Appllications, Vol. 122, 676-713. 4) Random flights in higher spaces (with A. De Gregorio) (2007). Journal of Theoretical Probability, Vol. 20, 769-806.

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Fwd: Open position for a Junior Professorship for Mathematical 4D Microscope Modeling, Image Analysis and Data Processing, JMU Wuerzburg, Germany (fwd)
by Lucia Caramellino 26 Sep '14

26 Sep '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Petra Markert-Autsch <petra.markert-autsch(a)mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de > Date: Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 9:40 AM Subject: Open position for a Junior Professorship for Mathematical 4D Microscope Modeling, Image Analysis and Data Processing, JMU Wuerzburg, Germany To: Alfio Borzi <alfio.borzi(a)mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de> The Chair of Scientific Computing at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany would like to announce a *Junior Professorship for Mathematical 4D Microscope Modeling, Image Analysis and Data Processing *as from 01.04.2015 Wanted is a young scientist working in the field of applied mathematics with experience in the field of mathematical modeling, stochastic analysis, data mining, and mathematical image processing. This personality should have an excellent profile in teaching and research with internationally visible research achievements. This professorship will contribute to the research and development of interdisciplinary research between mathematics and biology, physics, computer science, and medicine and the networking of these areas while also contributing to the scientific developments within the Chair of Scientific Computing, Mathematik IX. The candidate is required to have successfully completed her/his graduate studies and received an excellent doctoral degree. Post-doc experience is desired. A detailled description can be found under the following links: http://www.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/pdf/W1JuniorMathematik_1409.pdf http://www.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/pdf/W1JuniorMathematik_e_1409.pdf Best regards, Alfio Borzi -- Petra Markert-Autsch _________________________________________________________________ Sekretariat Lehrstuhl für Mathematik IX (Wissenschaftliches Rechnen) Secretary Chair of Mathematics IX (Scientific Computing) Prof. Dr. Alfio Borzi Universität Würzburg Campus Hubland Nord Emil-Fischer-Straße 30 97074 Würzburg, Germany Tel. (0931) 31-85362 Fax: (0931) 31-81491 petra.markert-autsch(a)mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de www.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/lmath09.html Lehrstuhl IX SciComp http://www9.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/ Bürozeiten / Office Times: Mo.-Do. 8°° - 13°° Uhr _________________________________________________________________

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