The position will be held in the probability group at the University of
Bath, under the supervision of Alexandre Stauffer. The project is flexible,
but the main areas of interest are interacting particle systems, random
walks, and Markov chain mixing time.
Applications should be submitted through the online system (see
http://www.bath.ac.uk/math-sci/postgraduate/).
Interested candidates are encouraged to write to a.stauffer(a)bath.ac.uk to
discuss their research interests.
Best wishes,
Alexandre
Giovedi' 18 Gennaio, ore 12.00, Aula C
Speaker: M. Maurelli (WIAS, Berlin)
Title: Enhanced Sanov theorem for Brownian rough paths and an application
to interacting particles
Abstract: We establish a Sanov type large deviation principle for an
ensemble of interacting Brownian rough paths. As application a large
deviations principle for the (k-layer, enhanced) empirical measure of
weakly interacting diffusions is obtained. This in turn implies a
propagation of chaos result in rough path spaces and allows for a robust
subsequent analysis of the particle system and its McKean-Vlasov type
limit. The talk is based on a work in collaboration with J.D. Deuschel, P.
Friz and M. Slowik
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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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STATISTICS SEMINARS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO
Venerdì 19 Gennaio 2018, alle ore 12:00, presso il nuovo edificio del Collegio Carlo Alberto, in Piazza Arbarello 8, Torino, si terra' il seguente seminario:
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Davide LA VECCHIA (University of Geneva)
SADDLEPOINT TECHNIQUES FOR DEPENDENT DATA
Saddlepoint techniques provide numerically accurate, higher-order, small sample approximations to the distribution of estimators and test statistics. While a rich theory is available for saddlepoint techniques in the case of independently and identically distributed observations, only a few results have been obtained for dependent data. In this talk, we explain how to fill this gap in the literature. Using the method of the tilted-Edgeworth expansion, we devise new saddlepoint density approximations and saddlepoint test statistics in the settings of time series (short or long memory) and spatial processes (panel data models, with fixed effects, time-varying covariates and spatially correlated errors). We compare our new approximations to the ones obtained by standard asymptotic theory, by Edgeworth expansion and by resampling methods. The numerical exercises illustrate that our approximations yield accuracy's improvements, while preserving analytical tractability.
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Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare.
Il seminario e' organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative (www.carloalberto.org/stats <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
Dear Colleagues,
on 24 January 2018 from 9:30 to 13:00 (Aula 8, Department of Business
Studies-Roma Tre University, Via Silvio D'Amico, 77 -00145, Roma ), Dr.
Angela Loregian, senior researcher at ARPM, will hold a min-workshop on
"Advanced statistical techniques across disparate asset classes".
The attendance of the course is free, but for organizational reasons it is
necessary to register by sending an email to francesco.cesarone(a)uniroma3.it
with the following subjects:
Name Surname - ARPM min-workshop.
*About the Program.* *We introduce the concept of "risk driver" and
**"invariant“,
illustrating:*
*- the asset-specific art of building risk drivers across the financial
markets*
*- the asset-agnostic science of applying statistics (econometrics and
**machine
learning) to extract the invariants and estimate their joint *
*distribution. **Then, we translate the above statistical analysis into the
asset-specific **joint distribution of instrument returns.*
For more details, see the attached pdf file.
We look forward to meeting you in Roma Tre!
Best regards,
Francesco Cesarone
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http://disa.uniroma3.it/qfw2018/
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Francesco Cesarone - Ph.D.
Ricercatore - Assistant Professor
Facoltà di Economia
Dipartimento di Studi Aziendali
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/
Dear Colleagues,
on 23 January 2018 from 14:00 to 17:00 (Computer Lab, ground floor,
Department of Business Studies-Roma Tre University, Via Silvio D'Amico, 77
-00145, Roma), Dr. Francesca Perino, Application Engineer at MathWorks,
will hold a min-workshop on "Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics with
MATLAB".
The attendance of the course is free, but for organizational reasons it is
necessary to register to register on the following web page:
https://it.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/ml-da-with-matlab-2373496.…
.
*Overview*
*At the heart of many financial applications are machine learning
techniques used for risk classification, economic analysis, credit scoring,
time series forecasting, estimating default probabilities, and data
mining. Big data represents an opportunity for quantitative analysts and
data scientists alike to impact the way organizations make informed
business decisions. By building machine learning models that harness big
data, a greater level of insight and confidence can be achieved.*
*However, implementing and comparing machine learning techniques to choose
the best method can be challenging. Furthermore, there is no single
approach to solving the many challenges arising from working with big
data. MATLAB minimizes these challenges by providing you with a number of
built-in functions and tools for quick prototyping, integration, and
scaling, to take you from initial prototype all the way to
business-critical production system.*
*In this session, we will introduce ways of working with big data systems,
the different types of machine learning techniques in MATLAB, how to
determine the best techniques for your problem by evaluating model
performance, and rapidly deploying your machine learning models into
production. We will cover several new workflows and data types in MATLAB
and the toolboxes that have been designed to address the most common
challenges with big data analytics and machine learning.*
*Highlights*
*Data management and integration with databases, live market data, and big
data environments*
*Efficient workflows for heterogenous time-series data using new data
management capabilities*
*Parallel Computing techniques to speed up long-running computations and
deal with out-of-memory data*
*Predictive modeling and using supervised machine learning techniques to
build a credit rating engine*
We look forward to meeting you in Roma Tre!
Best regards,
Francesco Cesarone
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http://disa.uniroma3.it/qfw2018/
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Francesco Cesarone - Ph.D.
Ricercatore - Assistant Professor
Facoltà di Economia
Dipartimento di Studi Aziendali
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/
Avviso Ciclo di Seminari
Il prof. James O. Berger, Duke University,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Berger_(statistician)
sarà ospite del Dipartimento MEMOTEF, Sapienza Università di Roma dal 22 al
26 gennaio 2018.
Nel corso della settimana il prof. Berger terrà una serie di seminari su
Bayesian Model Selection
I seminari si terranno in Aula 6B, al piano terrà della facoltà di
Economia, Via del Castro Laurenziano, 9, secondo il seguente orario:
Lunedì 22 gennaio ore 11-13
Martedì 23 gennaio ore 16.30-18
Mercoledì 24 gennaio 11.30-13
Mercoledì 24 gennaio 14.30-16
I seminari sono rivolti ad un pubblico di dottorandi ma tutti gli
interessati sono invitati a partecipare.
Brunero Liseo
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Brunero Liseo
*Dip. di metodi e modelli per il territorio, l'economia e la finanza *
*Sapienza Università di Roma*
*Viale Castro Laurenziano, 9 Roma I-00161 *Tel. +39 06 49766973
Fax +39 06 4957606
*https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/bruneroliseo/
<https://sites.google.com/a/uniroma1.it/bruneroliseo/>*
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My pevious mail contained a missprint in the title of the school
following is the correct announcement
Gianmario Tessitore
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Dear Colleagues,
This is the first announcement of the upcoming sixth RISM school
DEVELOPMENTS IN STOCHASTIC PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
in honor of Giuseppe Da Prato.
It will take place in Varese during the week July 23-27, 2018 at the
Riemann International School of Mathematics, Universita’ degli Studi
dell'Insubria, and it will be directed by Martin Hairer.
Please find the poster and further details at the link www.rism.it.
The school will consist of three courses delivered by:
Arnaud Debussche (Ecole Normale Superieure Rennes)
Martin Hairer (Imperial College, London)
Felix Otto (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)
and of three specialized talks aimed at presenting recent advances and
challenges of contemporary research in SPDEs in connection with the work of
Giuseppe Da Prato.
Moreover young participants will be offered the possibility to present
short communications on their own research.
Interested people can register at the link
http://www.rism.it/registration_rism5_45.html
(a modest registration fee will cover 5 lunches and local transportations).
IMPORTANT: PhD students, young researchers and postdocs are invited to
apply for financial support towards lodging expenses by sending a CV to
presidente(a)rism.it
For organizing purposes we kindly ask participants to get registered as
soon as possibe and, in any case, by the end of March 2018.
With very best regards and wishes for a prosperous 2018,
Scientific Committee: M. Hairer (Imperial College - London), S. Cerrai
(University of Maryland), A. Debussche (ENS - Rennes), L. Zambotti
(Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris).
Organizing Committee: D. Cassani (Univ. Insubria), M. Fuhrman (Univ.
Milano), G. Guatteri (Politecnico di Milano), F. Masiero and G. Tessitore
(Univ. Milano-Bicocca)
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Gianmario Tessitore
Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Dear Colleagues,
This is the first announcement of the upcoming sixth RISM school
DEVELOPMENTS IN STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
in honor of Giuseppe Da Prato.
It will take place in Varese during the week July 23-27, 2018 at the
Riemann International School of Mathematics, Universita’ degli Studi
dell'Insubria, and it will be directed by Martin Hairer.
Please find the poster and further details at the link: www.rism.it.
The school will consist of three courses delivered by:
Arnaud Debussche (Ecole Normale Superieure Rennes)
Martin Hairer (Imperial College, London)
Felix Otto (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)
and of three specialized talks aimed at presenting recent advances and
challenges of contemporary research in SPDEs in connection with the work of
Giuseppe Da Prato.
Moreover young participants will be offered the possibility to present
short communications on their own research.
Interested people can register at the link
http://www.rism.it/registration_rism5_45.html
(a modest registration fee will cover 5 lunches and local transportations).
IMPORTANT: PhD students, young researchers and postdocs are invited to
apply for financial support towards lodging expenses by sending a CV to
presidente(a)rism.it
For organizing purposes we kindly ask participants to get registered as
soon as possibe and, in any case, by the end of March 2018.
With very best regards and wishes for a prosperous 2018,
Scientific Committee: M. Hairer (Imperial College - London), S. Cerrai
(University of Maryland), A. Debussche (ENS - Rennes), L. Zambotti
(Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris).
Organizing Committee: D. Cassani (Univ. Insubria), M. Fuhrman (Univ.
Milano), G. Guatteri (Politecnico di Milano), F. Masiero and G. Tessitore
(Univ. Milano-Bicocca)
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Gianmario Tessitore
Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Ricevo e inoltro
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Fabrizio Lillo
Dipartimento di Matematica
Università di Bologna
ITALY
Personal website: fabriziolillo.wordpress.com
University website: www.unibo.it/sitoweb/fabrizio.lillo
<http://fabriziolillo.wordpress.com/>
phone: +39 050509159 <+39%20050%20509159>
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Doyne Farmer <Doyne.Farmer(a)inet.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2017-12-22 13:34 GMT+01:00
Subject: 3 year postdoc at Oxford in economic complex systems modeling
To: Fabrizio Lillo <fabrizio.lillo(a)sns.it>
We are seeking to appoint a Senior Research Associate to participate in the
‘Sensitive Intervention Points in the Transition to the Post-Carbon
Society” project funded by the Oxford Martin School under the leadership of
the Principal Investigators, Professor Doyne Farmer and Professor Cameron
Hepburn. The project will study the transition to carbon neutral energy
generation from economic, sociological and technological points of view.
Key duties include playing a leadership role in managing the project,
working closely with the principal investigators and the other members of
the team to achieve the goals of the project; managing and undertaking
academic research and write articles for publication in scientific
journals; managing and co-ordinating research activities, administrative
activities and grant reporting; playing a mentoring role, and act as a
source of information and advice to other members of the group;
disseminating research and presenting research outputs at conferences,
workshops and to stakeholders; and developing ideas for generating research
income and take a leadership role in finding additional sources of funding
and making applications for research grants.
The successful candidate will have ability to undertake interdisciplinary
research, with strong skills in mathematics, programming, and large-scale
data analysis; a PhD/DPhil in a field of quantitative science such as
economics, mathematics, physics, computer science, social science, biology,
statistics or engineering; fluency in written and spoken English; and a
demonstrated track record in writing papers for publication. An ability to
work in a demanding environment subject to deadlines and exacting
professional and academic standards is essential.
The appointment will be available for up to 36 months.
Ricevo ed inoltro p.c. .
Cordialmente,
m.gianfelice
p.s:
Among the Skills & diploma requested, the successful candidate should
possess:
- A PhD in Statistics, Applied Mathematics or related fields;
- Strong bases on stochastic models including their statistical
inference;
- An excellent knowledge of R (recommended) or Python (second
choice) programming languages;
- English proficiency and attitude to work in an international
research environment.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 14:05:07 +0100 (CET)
From: Davide Faranda <davide.faranda(a)lsce.ipsl.fr>
Cc: Mathieu Vrac <mathieu.vrac(a)lsce.ipsl.fr>
Subject: Postdoctoral Research Associate position:
"Postdoctoral Research Associate position ?Laboratoire des Sciences du Clima
t et de l?Environnement? (LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette, France) funded by CEA on "E
vent Attribution of Climate Changes with dynamically driven-Stochastic
Weather Generators"
Dear Colleague,
(sorry for cross-posting)
please circulate this announcement for a post-doctoral position at LSCE starting Spring 2018 for
(at least) 16 months.
Applications will be open untill January 31, 2018
Best Regards,
Mathieu Vrac, Davide Faranda
Postdoctoral Research Associate position
?Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l?Environnement?
(LSCE, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
funded by CEA on
Event Attribution of Climate Changes
with dynamically driven-Stochastic Weather Generators
Expected starting date: Spring 2018.
Duration: 16 months
Context of the position:
There is an increasing interest worldwide in assessing the extent to which recent extreme weather
and climate events can be solely linked to natural climate variability or be significantly altered
in frequency or intensity by human-induced climate change (Stott, 2016). Examples are numerous:
Paris flood in June 2016, drought in Central Europe in Summer 2015, or the extremely cold European
winter of 2009/10. The usual question is to know to what extent such extremes are linked to climate
change, and if they are becoming (or will become) more or less frequent. Therefore, the science of
?event attribution? is evolving rapidly.
This postdoctoral position is part of the European ERA4CS ?EUPHEME? project, whose one of the main
objectives is to develop state-of-the-art event attribution methods for a range of timescales, and
new techniques for evaluating their reliability. The vision of the EUPHEME project is to place
extreme weather events in the context of climate variability and change, thereby helping European
citizens adapt to a changing climate and mitigate its worst effects.
Scientific context:
Event attribution relies on comparisons of various statistics of extreme events between
a ?factual world? (i.e., the world as we observe it or at least with the real physical forcings) and a
?counter-factual world? (i.e., the world as it would be without one or several given forcings, as
human-induced greenhouse gas emissions). Those comparisons are usually performed based on a very
high number (1000s of runs) of climate model simulations. One issue is that General circulation
models are generally too expensive to be run as long as needed to compute such statistics and at
the demanded resolution. Stochastic weather generators (SWGs) are therefore a valid alternative:
they are statistical models calibrated on past observations to simulate as many datasets as desired
with the same statistical properties [Wilks, 2010, 2012].
Moreover, the dynamics of atmospheric motions depends on the observed atmospheric states. Recently,
a technique to measure such state-dependent dynamical properties have been found [Faranda et al.,
2017] by the computation of the so-called local dimensions (a measure of the state disorder) and
the local persistence. Preliminary studies have shown that such information can be lumped with the
statistical model to obtain ?conditional SWGs? (e.g., Wong et al., 2014) providing simulations with a
realistic dynamics.
Main goals:
The goal of the postdoctoral research is to provide both a theoretical framework and a numerical
tool to build conditional SWGs driven by dynamical systems properties.
- The first step will be to introduce such properties and indicators in simple autoregressive
models to mimic the dynamical properties of univariate time series of climate variables and simple
dynamical systems.
- Those state-dependent indicators will then be used to condition progressively more
sophisticated SWGs (e.g., Vrac et al., 2007), up to spatial models (i.e., simulating fields) for
climate variables as wind, temperature or precipitation.
- At each stage, the different conditional SWGs developed will be applied in an event
attribution purpose to evaluate the improvements achieved or still needed, depending on the extreme
events of interest.
Skills & diploma requested:
The successful candidate should possess:
- A PhD in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Statistical Physics, Climate sciences or related
field;
- Strong bases on stochastic models including their statistical inference;
- A basic knowledge of climate dynamics;
- An excellent knowledge of R (recommended) or Python (second choice) programming languages;
- A basic knowledge of dynamical systems framework will be a plus but is not mandatory;
- English proficiency and attitude to work in an international research environment.
Geographical location & scientific team:
This postdoctoral position will be located at Gif-sur-Yvette (France), in the ?Extremes ? Statistics ?
Impacts ? Regionalization? (ESTIMR) scientific research team of the ?Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat
et de l?Environnement? (LSCE). The ESTIMR team develops a methodological research aiming to better
understand the climate data: statistical analyses of observations and simulations in order to
investigate the variability and identify the trends, modelling of extreme events, detection and
attribution of their changes, downscaling, bias adjustment of simulations, uncertainty modelling of
climate projections, etc. The ESTIMR team leads and participates to international projects, from
pure to more applied science project. The main activity of the team relies on the use and
development of advanced statistical models via a strong multidisciplinary interaction among
climatology, modelling and statistics.
How to apply:
Applications will be open until January 31, 2018 (or until the position is filled) and have to be
submitted by e-mail to M. Vrac (mathieu.vrac[at]lsce.ipsl.fr) and D. Faranda
(davide.faranda[at]lsce.ipsl.fr) as soon as possible and must include:
- a CV (max 2 pages + Publication list),
- A statement of research interests describing why the candidate fits the position (max 2
pages),
- The names of at least two references including e-mail addresses and telephone numbers.
More information on the ?Extremes ? Statistics ? Impacts ? Regionalization? (ESTIMR) team:
http://www.lsce.ipsl.fr/en/Phocea/Vie_des_labos/Ast/ast_groupe.php?id_group…
More information on the ?Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l?Environnement? (LSCE):
http://www.lsce.ipsl.fr/
References:
Davide Faranda, Gabriele Messori and Pascal Yiou. Dynamical proxies of North Atlantic
predictability and extremes. Scientific Reports, 7-41278, 2017
Vrac, M., M. Stein, K. Hayhoe. Statistical downscaling of precipitation through nonhomogeneous
stochastic weather typing. Climate Research, 2007, 34: 169-184, doi: 10.3354/cr00696
Wilks DS. Use of stochastic weather generators for precipitation downscaling. WIRES Clim
Change 2010, 1(6):898?907
Wilks, D. S. (2012), Stochastic weather generators for climate-change downscaling, part II:
multivariable and spatially coherent multisite downscaling. WIREs Clim Change, 3: 267?278.
doi:10.1002/wcc.167
Wong, G., D. Maraun, M. Vrac, M. Widmann, J.M. Eden, and T. Kent, 2014: Stochastic Model Output
Statistics for Bias Correcting and Downscaling Precipitation Including Extremes. J.
Climate, 27, 6940?6959, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00604.1
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Davide Faranda
LSCE - CNRS
http://www.lsce.ipsl.fr/Pisp/davide.faranda/