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Fwd: Postdoc position in Lyon in probability / statistical physics
by Francesco Caravenna 22 Nov '18

22 Nov '18

Ricevo e inoltro > Da: Christophe Garban <garban(a)math.univ-lyon1.fr> > Oggetto: Postdoc position in Lyon in probability / statistical physics > Data: 22 novembre 2018 13:34:20 CET > > Dear colleagues, > > I am currenlty advertising a postdoc position in probability/statistical physics in Lyon 1 (deadline January, 8th). > Please transfer the announcement below to potential candidates. > > Thanks a lot! > Best, > Christophe. > > ---------------------- > Postdoc position in Lyon for 2019 > Université Lyon 1 > (funded by the ERC project LiKo) > > Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship in probability at the University Lyon 1. > The postdoc is funded by the European Research Council grant LiKo. > > Main research areas include: statistical physics (percolation, Ising, FK, spin $O(n)$ models etc.), scaling limits (at and near the critical point), conformal invariance (and SLE, CLE, GFF...), Liouville quantum gravity, Euclidean quantum field theory, noise sensitivity, a touch of turbulence and SPDEs. > > Practical informations: > (you may also click on this link : http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~garban/Fichiers/PostdocLyon2019.pdf <http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/~garban/Fichiers/PostdocLyon2019.pdf>) > - The position is for two years (1+1), with a salary of approx. 27000 per year (between year 0 and 3 after PhD) and approx. 34000 euros per year (between year 3 and 5 after PhD). > - Substantial financial support to attend conferences, workshops and invite collaborators will be granted. (Approx 5000 euros/year). > - No teaching. > - A lot of activity around probability in Lyon. > - Great city :-) > - The expected starting date is September 2019, but a different date may be arranged. > > Application and deadline: > Applications including a CV, a list of publications and a (approximately) three-pages description of research interests should be sent by email to Christophe Garban (garban(a)math.univ-lyon1.fr <mailto:garban@math.univ-lyon1.fr>) > Applicants should also arrange for up to three letters of recommendation to be sent to the same address. > They will be evaluated first after January 8th, 2019 and then on a rolling basis.

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Lecturer/senior lecturer position in probability and analysis at Imperial College London
by Brigo, Damiano 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

The Pure Mathematics Section in the Department of Mathematics is seeking applications for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer position in the field of Analysis and Probability, starting on 1 September 2019, or as soon as possible thereafter. Further information can be found in the Departmental website. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/NAT00317/lecturersenior-lecture… Best wishes, D ----------------------- Prof. Damiano Brigo Chair of Mathematical Finance, Head of the MF Research Group and member of the Stochastic Analysis Group Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, damiano.brigo(a)imperial.ac.uk http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/damiano.brigo

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seminario Felix Liebrich - 22 novembre - REMINDER
by Emanuela Rosazza 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

Si avvisa che il giorno giovedì 22 novembre alle ore 14 presso l’Università di Milano- Bicocca (via degli Arcimboldi 8 - edificio U7, quarto piano- aula 4026) si terrà il seguente seminario: Speaker: Felix-Benedikt Liebrich (LMU Muenchen, Germany) Titolo: “Sharing utility and risk under (partial) law-invariance” Abstract: The so-called risk sharing problem has two variants: (1) How can an aggregation of individual utilities within a system of agents be maximised by means of distributing a certain good, or (2) how can an aggregation of individual risks be minimised by means of redistributing a certain loss the system incurs? The problem has a long history in economics and financial mathematics, and solving it in relevant infinite dimensional spaces is very challenging. Substantial results have been obtained in the context of Pareto efficiency of such sharing schemes when law-invariant (risk) preferences are involved. These rank Savage acts -- random variables -- in a way which only depends on their distribution under a fixed reference probability measure. It was shown that Pareto efficient allocations (i.e. sharing schemes) exist. For problem (1) of maximising aggregated utility, the talk presents a unifying framework in which solutions to the risk sharing problem can be found. As applications, we will discuss the existence of weakly Pareto efficient allocations, Pareto efficient allocations, and core allocations. In a second part, we solve the risk sharing problem (2) for a wide class of capital requirements determining individual risks. These will not be law-invariant functionals, but build on a law-invariant ingredient. The talk is based on joint work with Gregor Svindland. Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Un saluto cordiale, Emanuela ******************************************************************************************* Emanuela Rosazza Gianin Dipartimento di Statistica e Metodi Quantitativi Università di Milano-Bicocca Edificio U7 – 4° Piano Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8 20126 Milano Tel. 02 64483208 Fax. 02 64483105 e-mail: emanuela.rosazza1(a)unimib.it *******************************************************************************************

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Post-Doc Announcement
by Giovanni Peccati 20 Nov '18

20 Nov '18

Dear Colleagues, a new two years post-doc position is open in my group, at Luxembourg University. - 2 years (24 months) fixed term contract, full time (40h/week) - Start date: From March 1st, 2019 (earliest possible date) to June 1st, 2019 (latest possible date). - Research Group: Probability (Giovanni Peccati). - Domain: stochastic analysis, stochastic geometry and functional inequalities. Further details can be found here: http://emea3.mrted.ly/20j3s Please, kindly inform any potential candidate. With my best regards, Giovanni Peccati -- Prof. Giovanni Peccati ------------------------------------------ UR en Mathématiques Faculté des Sciences, de la Technologie et de la Communication ------------------------------------------ Université du Luxembourg ----------------------------------------- homepage: http://sites.google.com/site/giovannipeccati/Home E-mail: giovanni.peccati(a)gmail.com

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Statistics Seminar 2018 - Giovedì 29 Novembre 2018 - Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
by Alberto Lanconelli 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Statistics Seminar 2018 Giovedì 29 Novembre 2018 alle ore 15:00 presso l' Aula II della Scuola di Economia, Management e Statistica - Piazza Scaravilli 1-2 il Prof. Nicola Cufaro Petroni (Dipartimento di Matematica e TIRES, Università degli Studi di Bari e INFN) terrà il seminario dal titolo: Thou shalt not say “at random” in vain: Bertrand’s paradox exposed Abstract: We show by means of a few examples that the well known Bertrand paradoxes do not point to any probabilistic inconsistency, but rather to the risks incurred with a careless use of the locution at random. Empirical remarks are added Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare Cordiali saluti Alberto Lanconelli Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati" Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna

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Winter School on “Stochastic PDEs and Mean-Field Games” Bologna, January 14-16, 2019, Second Announcement
by Alberto Lanconelli 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

We are pleased to announce the Winter School on “Stochastic PDEs and Mean-Field Games” to be held at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Bologna on January 14-16, 2019. This is a three-day scientific activity consisting of the following two courses: 1) Stochastic PDEs, by Franco Flandoli (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy) 2) Mean-Field Games, by François Delarue (Université Nice-SophiaAntipolis, Nice, France) The two courses, having an introductory nature, are mainly addressed to PhD students and young researchers. Participants are also given the opportunity to deliver talks. There is no participation fee. However, for organizational reasons, we kindly ask you to register. For more information please visit https://events.unibo.it/spde-mfg We look forward to meeting you in Bologna. Organizing Committee Andrea Cosso, Università di Bologna Alberto Lanconelli, Università di Bologna Stefano Pagliarani, Università di Udine Andrea Pascucci, Università di Bologna Antonello Pesce, Università di Bologna

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Fwd: Conference Market Microstructure Confronting Many Viewpoints 5
by Maria Elvira Mancino 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

-------- Messaggio originale -------- OGGETTO: Conference Market Microstructure Confronting Many Viewpoints 5 DATA: Lunedì 19/11/2018 00:43 MITTENTE: "Rosenbaum Mathieu (M.)" <mathieu.rosenbaum(a)polytechnique.edu> Dear friends, Could you be kind enough to forward to your colleagues the website for the fifth edition of the conference "Market Microstructure Confronting Many Viewpoints", taking place on December 5-7 in Paris ? Website: market-microstructure.institutlouisbachelier.org Thank you very much ! Best regards, Mathieu

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Fwd: UVA Integrable Probability summer school
by Cristian Giardina 18 Nov '18

18 Nov '18

Ricevo ed inoltro. Cristian Giardina' ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ivan Corwin <ivan.corwin(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 5:43 PM Subject: UVA Integrable Probability summer school Dear all, Could you distribute this summer school announcement to your seminar list and any one else who you think may want to apply. Best, Ivan ****************** Dear colleagues, The Focused Research Group on Integrable Probability is organizing a Summer School at University of Virginia, May 27 to June 8, 2019. The school is aimed to educate graduate students and young researchers in recent trends around Integrable Probability - a rapidly developing field at the interface of probability / mathematical physics / statistical physics on the one hand, and representation theory / integrable systems on the other. There will be 4 mini-courses: Week 1 - Dmitry Chelkak (École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France) - Ole Warnaar (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) Week 2 - Tomohiro Sasamoto (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan) - Paul Zinn-Justin (University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia) We have some NSF support to cover accommodation at a University of Virginia residence hall, and to partially contribute towards travel expenses (the travel support amount depends on the number of interested participants). Preference will be given to graduate students, postdocs, early career researchers, and members of underrepresented groups. Deadlines: - To request residence hall accommodation: January 5, 2019 - To request financial support: March 1, 2019 - General registration: April 20, 2019 More information and registration: http://vipss.int-prob.org/ Scientific Committee: Jinho Baik, Alexei Borodin, Ivan Corwin, Vadim Gorin, Leo Petrov Organizers: Leo Petrov, Axel Saenz

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Assistant Professorship and Postdoc - University of Twente (The Netherlands)
by Gianluca Finocchio 18 Nov '18

18 Nov '18

Con preghiera di diffusione,vi inoltro l'annuncio del Prof. Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Twente (Olanda). Gianluca Finocchio ============================================= Dear all, at University of Twente (the Netherlands) we will build a statistics group. At this moment we are looking for 1) an assistant professor in statistics. This is a full-time position with moderate teaching load. We offer a dynamic environment with a lot of support for the successful applicant in his/her academic development. University of Twente has a high percentage of foreign students and staff members. All teaching and internal communication is done in English and there is no need to speak Dutch. The starting salary is € 3.545 to € 5.513 gross per month, based on relevant work experience. On top of that, every staff member receives two additional monthly payments each year. Foreign applicants can apply for a 30% tax reduction for the first eight years. Application deadline is December 22nd. All details can be found in the job description https://www.utwente.nl/en/organization/careers/vacancy/!/539403/assistant-p… 2) a postdoc. The successful candidate should devote a part of the time to research and the remaining part to the statistics consulting lab that we will create at University of Twente. The lab is intended to advise researchers across the campus and to cooperate with companies/start-ups on projects related to data analysis. There is no online job description at the moment. The salary for postdocs is similar to the salary of an assistant professor. All questions and applications can be directed to a.j.schmidt-hieber(a)utwente.nl Best regards, Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

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A Summer Day in Probability and Statistical Physics
by Francesca Romana Nardi 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

Carissimi, la prossima giornata di seminari sara` il 14 Settembre 2018. Ricordo che ciascuno oratore fara` una lezione introduttiva e divulgativa di 45 minuti pensata proprio per i non esperti, seguita da altri 45 minuti di tipo seminario (vedi programma). Maggiori informazioni e aggiornamenti sulle giornate passate e future sono reperibili alla pagina web che vi invitiamo a visitare periodicamente. http://web.math.unifi.it/users/fnardi/seminari/ A SUMMER DAY IN PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS University of Florence Friday 14 September 2018 Lecturers: Stefano Olla (Paris) and Raúl Rechtman (Mexico) Location: Aula Magna di Via S. Gallo 10, Firenze Prof. Stefano Olla (Universite` Paris Dauphine) Title: Hyperbolic Hydrodynamic Limits Abstract: I will present a review of old and new results (and open problems) concerning scaling limits for conservation laws in the hyperbolic space-time scale, for a system of anharmonic oscillators with external boundary tension. The macroscopic equation is given by the compressible Euler system, with corresponding boundary conditions. The problem is particularly challenging when shockwaves are present. Some results exists when the microscopic dynamics is perturbed by a conservative stochastic viscosity. Works in Collaboration with Stefano Marchesani (GSSI) and Lu Xu (CEREMADE). Prof. Raúl Rechtman, (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) Title: Chaos and damage spreading in a probabilistic cellular automaton Abstract: Deterministic Boolean cellular automata (CA) are discrete maps F:BN → BN, B={0,1}, x(t+1)=F(x(t)) with x ϵ BN, N large and t=0,1,… . The vector x is the state of the cellular automaton with components xi,, i=0,…,N-1 the state of cell I. Each cell is connected to others, generally in a uniform and local way, and one can define an adjacency matrix aij=1 is cell j is connected to cell i and zero otherwise. The global map F is determined by the parallel application of a local function f, such that xi(t+1) = f(vi(t)), where vi denotes the state of cells connected to cell i. Deterministic CA are thus the discrete equivalent of dynamical systems, and many concepts like trajectory (the sequence of configurations x(t)), fixed points and limit cycles can be used. There are cellular automata for which a small modification in an initial configuration propagates to the whole system, a situation similar to chaos in continuous systems, and indeed one can extend the concept of the largest Lyapunov exponent to deterministic CA using Boolean derivatives. One of the main inconvenient is that these systems do not have continuous parameters to be tuned, in order to study bifurcations. In probabilistic cellular automata, the function f (and thus F) is defined in terms of transition probabilities so that deterministic CA can be seen as the extreme cases of probabilistic ones, when the transition probabilities are either zero or one. Probabilistic CA can be seen also as Markov chains, and one can observe interesting phase transitions after changing the transition probabilities that are therefore continuous control parameters. A realization of a specific trajectory is determined by the extraction of one or more of random numbers for each cell. By extracting these numbers at the beginning of the simulation, for all cells and all times, one converts a probabilistic CA into a deterministic one, running over a quenched random field. One can therefore use the concepts of deterministic CA, like damage spreading and maximum Lyapunov exponent also for probabilistic CA, with the advantage of having the possibility of fine-tuning the control parameters. In particular, we investigate a probabilistic cellular automaton which can be considered an extension of a model in the universality class of directed percolation models, but with two absorbing states. In the first part of the talk all the concepts mentioned above are defined and in the second part, the probabilistic cellular automaton is studied numerically. We show that the phase transitions when the order parameter is the average damage do not coincide with those found for the Lyapunov exponent and the reason of this is the presence of absorbing states. Program: 11.00-11.45 Introductory lecture: Olla 11.45-12.00 Break 12.00-13.00 Seminar: Olla 13.00-14.30 Lunch 14.30-15.15 Introductory lecture: Rechtman 15.15-15.30 Break 15.30-16.30 Seminar: Rechtman Organizers: F. Caravenna, N. Cancrini, E.N.M. Cirillo, P. Dai Pra, A. De Masi, D. Fanelli, F. Flandoli C. Giardina`, R. Livi, F. Martinelli, I.G. Minelli, F.R. Nardi, E. Presutti, B. Scoppola, E. Scoppola Note pratiche: 1) E` importante prenotare il biglietto del treno il piu` presto possibile per poter usufruire di sconti!!!! 2) Stiamo prenotando un ristorante (diverso dal precedente) con un paio di menu fissi (di cui uno vegerariano) che possa ospitarci, ma ho bisogno del numero di persone che vogliono mangiare insieme. A coloro che fossero interessati chiedo di mandare un email a francescaromana.nardi(a)unifi.it Resta fermo il fatto che saremo in pieno centro di Firenze, quindi ci sono moltissime altre possibilita` per mangiare se preferite regolarvi indipendentemente. Vi aspettiamo numerosi Francesca R. Nardi Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica Università degli Studi di Firenze Viale Morgagni 67, Firenze, Italy

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