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Fwd: 2 years PostDoc position in dynamical systems
by Stefano Marmi 18 Dec '19

18 Dec '19

Dear Collegue, I would be grateful if you could bring to the attention of your best postgraduate students and PhD holders that a two years long research position in “Dynamical systems" is available at the Centro De Giorgi - Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. PhD students can also apply, provided they obtain their PhD no later than October 1st 2020. Deadline for application: *7th January 2020 (11.59 PM Italian time)*. The total two-year gross remuneration, inclusive of all taxes, is € 66,590.00 for each contract, corresponding to a monthly salary of approximately 2,000 Euros. An additional yearly research allowance of 1,000 Euros for exchange visits is also provided. The mathjobs announcement is available here: https://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/jobs/15211 To submit applications please link to the *ANNOUNCEMENT* at https://wwwold.sns.it/bando/assegni-di-ricerca-denominati-%E2%80%9Cjunior-v… and read the *OFFICIAL CALL * https://wwwold.sns.it/sites/default/files/documenti/05-11-2019/584call.pdf Applicants must submit their applications *SOLELY* by using the on-line procedure "SerSe" (https://serse.sns.it/en/) <https://serse.sns.it/en/> available on the Scuola Normale Superiore website and fulfill ALL the tender's requirements. *No other submission method will be accepted.* For additional information e-mail *job.opportunities(a)sns.it <job.opportunities(a)sns.it>*. Best regards Stefano Marmi

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EFI5 Workshop: extended deadline and YITP prizes (fwd)
by Tiziano Vargiolu 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

===================================== CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE Dear All, we wish to inform you that the deadline for paper submission for the fifth edition of the Energy Finance Italia Workshop - EFI5, has been EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 23rd, in order to allow for a broader participation also to the YITP research prizes. We remind that, if our application to the Young Investigator Training Program (YITP) of the ACRI (Associazione Casse di Risparmio Italiane) will be funded, we will grant several 1-month positions to young researchers, coming from outside Italy, to spend in one Italian research institution of the network. In order to be eligible, the young researcher should submit a presentation to the workshop, and choose at least three research institutions to spend their grant at. You can find all the information on the website of the workshop: - http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/efi5/ (general information) - http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/efi5/html/institutional_support.html (YITP positions) All the best -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tiziano Vargiolu Dipartimento di Matematica Phone: +39 049 8271383 Universita' di Padova Fax: +39 049 8271428 Via Trieste, 63 E-mail: vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it I-35121 Padova (Italy) WWW: http://www.math.unipd.it/~vargiolu --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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JOB: Tenured senior lectureship in Mathematical Statistics & Data Science, Gothenburg, Sweden
by Massimiliano ... 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: JOB: Tenured senior lectureship in Mathematical Statistics & Data Science, Gothenburg, Sweden Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:17:54 +0100 From: Umberto Picchini <umberto.picchini(a)gmail.com><mailto:umberto.picchini@gmail.com> To: allstat(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:allstat@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> We are searching for a Senior Lecturer to the Division of Applied Mathematics and Statistics who would contribute to our expertise in the area of mathematical statistics towards data science. The position is permanent (tenured). The successful candidate is expected to develop and maintain a high-level research program in mathematical statistics with emphasis on computer intensive methods and participate in the undergraduate and graduate level teaching in mathematical statistics at our department. The successful candidate will strengthen and complement the research performed at theDivision of Applied Mathematics and Statistics<https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/math/organisation/applied-mathematic…> which is internationally recognized in areas such as * Bayesian statistics, forensic statistics, * spatial statistics, extreme value theory, * biostatistics, bioinformatics, and systems biology, * stochastic differential equations, computational mathematics. We are particularly interested in enhancing our AI@MS<https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/math/research/research-groups/AIMS/P…> group on Artificial Intelligence at Mathematical Sciences. Gothenburg is the second largest city in Sweden, located in the beautiful east coast. Read more at https://www.goteborg.com/en/ Deadline for applications: 29 February 2020. Full info and instructions to apply are at <https://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/job-opportunities/vacancies-…> https://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/job-opportunities/vacancies-… For further information please contact: Bernt Wennberg, Head of Department, tel +46 (0)31-772 53 26, email wennberg(a)chalmers.se <mailto:wennberg@chalmers.se>Annika Lang, Deputy Head of Division, tel +46 (0)31-772 5356, email annika.lang(a)chalmers.se <mailto:%20annika.lang@chalmers.se>Serik Sagitov, Head of Division, tel +46 (0)31-772 5351, email serik(a)chalmers.se<mailto:serik@chalmers.se> -- _________________________________________________________________________ Umberto Picchini picchini(a)chalmers.se<mailto:picchini@chalmers.se> Associate Professor https://umbertopicchini.github.io/ Department of Mathematical Sciences Twitter: @uPicchini Gothenburg University and Phone (office): +46 317 726 414 Chalmers University of Technology _________________________________________________________________________

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Fwd: I: Assistant Professorship at Chalmers
by Mario Maurelli 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Mario Maurelli <mario.maurelli(a)unimi.it> Date: lun 2 dic 2019 alle ore 12:01 Subject: I: Assistant Professorship at Chalmers To: mario.maurelli <mario.maurelli(a)sns.it> I wish to draw your attention to an assistant professorship position at the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Chalmers and the University of Gothenburg which has just been announced. The theme of the position is the combination of optimal transport, machine learning, and geometry. The position is very wealthy, as it includes funding for one PhD student, 5 post-doc years, traveling, etc. The ideas is that the candidate should have enough funding to start building his/her own research group. If you know any suitable candidates I would be grateful if you could pass on the information to them. The announcement of the position, including detailed information of how to apply, is available at this link: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Pag… The dead-line for applications is 10 February 2020. Best wishes, Klas Modin ___________________ Klas Modin Associate Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg email: klas.modin(a)chalmers.se web: http://klasmodin.wordpress.com orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6900-1122

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Seminario Lionel Levine (Cornell), Università La Sapienza
by Silvestri, Vittoria 16 Dec '19

16 Dec '19

PREANNUNCIO DI SEMINARIO (seguirà un reminder) Seminario di Probabilità Speaker: Lionel Levine (Cornell University) Title: Random walks with local memory Martedì 7 Gennaio, ore 14:00 (sharp) Aula di Consiglio Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma La Sapienza Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 Abstract: The theme of this talk is walks in a random environment of "signposts" altered by the walker. I'll focus on three related examples: 1. Rotor walk on Z^2. Your initial signposts are independent with the uniform distribution on {North,East,South,West}. At each step you rotate the signpost at your current location clockwise 90 degrees and then follow it to a nearest neighbor. Priezzhev et al. conjectured that in n such steps you will visit order n^{2/3} distinct sites. I'll outline an elementary proof of a lower bound of this order. The upper bound, which is still open, is related to a famous question about the path of a light ray in a grid of randomly oriented mirrors. This part is joint work with Laura Florescu and Yuval Peres. 2. p-rotor walk on Z. In this walk you flip the signpost at your current location with probability 1-p and then follow it. I'll explain why your scaling limit will be a Brownian motion perturbed at its extrema. This part is joint work with Wilfried Huss and Ecaterina Sava-Huss. 3. p-rotor walk on Z^2. Rotate the signpost at your current location clockwise with probability p and counterclockwise with probability 1-p, and then follow it. This walk “organizes” its environment by destroying cycles of signposts. A native environment -- stationary in time, from your perspective as the walker -- is an orientation of the uniform spanning forest, plus one additional edge. This part is joint work with Swee Hong Chan, Lila Greco, and Peter Li: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.04710 ******************************** Vittoria Silvestri Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics University "La Sapienza" Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome ********************************

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Seminar at Scuola Normale Superiore, 17 December 2019, Luciano Campi
by Giulia Livieri 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

Dear all, On Tuesday, 17 December 2019 — at 11:30 — at the Scuola Normale Superiore (Room: Aula Bianchi Scienze) Prof. Luciano Campi (London School of Economics) will hold the following Seminar: Title : Correlated Equilibria and Mean Field Game Abstract: Mean field games are limit models for symmetric N-player games, as N tends to infinity, where the pre-limit models are solved in terms of Nash equilibria. A generalization of the notion of Nash equilibrium, due to Robert Aumann (1973, 1987), is that of a correlated equilibrium. Here, we discuss, in a simple non-static setting, the mean field game limit for correlated equilibria. We give a definition of correlated mean field game solution, prove that it arises as limit of N-player correlated equilibria in restricted (”open-loop”) Markov feedback strategies, and show how to construct approximate N-player equilibria starting from a correlated mean field game solution. We also compare our definition to the one by Lacker (2018) of weak solutions for mean field games without a common noise. (Joint work with Markus Fischer, Padova University) Fill free to forward this announcement to your colleagues. Best Giulia Livieri Assegnista di ricerca Scuola Normale Superiore Piazza dei Cavalieri, 7, 56126 Pisa PI room 65

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Doppio Seminario PELUCHETTI & KOWAL
by Pierpaolo De Blasi 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

Mercoledi 18 Dicembre 2019, presso il nuovo edificio del Collegio Carlo Alberto, in Piazza Arbarello 8, Torino, si terranno i seguenti due seminari: ———————————————————————— ore 11.00 Stefano PELUCHETTI (Cogent Labs Tokyo) DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS AND STOCHASTIC PROCESSES We review deep neural networks and their training, and then focus on the connection between neural networks and stochastic processes. Deep neural networks at initialization correspond to prior models in function space, and under appropriate assumptions they converge to Gaussian processes in the limit of infinite width. While this connection holds "a priori", it is possible to derive similar results for "a posteriori" training via gradient descent. In this talk we discuss these and related results, and we introduce a recent line of research which generalizes established results to non-Gaussian initializations and stochastic processes arising in the limit of infinite depth. ———————————————————————— ore 12.00 Daniel KOWAL (Rice University) SCALABLE BAYESIAN INFERENCE AND SUMMARIZATION FOR FUNCYIONAL DATA Modern scientific monitoring systems, such as wearable and implantable devices, commonly record data over a continuous domain at high resolutions. These functional data are high-dimensional, strongly correlated, and usually measured concurrently with other variables of interest. Bayesians models for functional data are particularly appealing: they accommodate multiple dependence structures, handle missing or irregularly-spaced data, and provide regularization via shrinkage priors. However, these models are often complex, computationally intensive, and difficult to interpret. This talk will focus on two fundamental challenges for Bayesian functional data analysis: (1) constructing sufficiently flexible and scalable functional regression models and (2) extracting interpretable posterior summaries. The proposed modeling framework is nonparametric and uses an unknown functional basis to learn prominent functional features, which are associated with scalar predictors within a regression model. A customized projection-based Gibbs sampler provides posterior inference with linear time complexity in the number of predictors, which is empirically faster than existing frequentist and Bayesian alternatives. Using the posterior distribution, a decision theoretic approach for Bayesian variable selection is developed, which identifies a subset of covariates that retains nearly the predictive accuracy of the full model. The methodology is applied to actigraphy data to investigate the association between intraday physical activity and responses to a sleep questionnaire. ———————————————————————— Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare. Il seminario è organizzato dalla "de Castro" Statistics Initiative (www.carloalberto.org/stats <http://www.carloalberto.org/stats>) in collaborazione con il Collegio Carlo Alberto. Cordiali saluti, Pierpaolo De Blasi --- University of Torino & Collegio Carlo Alberto https://sites.google.com/a/carloalberto.org/pdeblasi/ <https://sites.google.com/a/carloalberto.org/pdeblasi/>

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XXIV Brazilian School of Probability/São Paulo School of advanced science
by Francesco Caravenna 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

Ricevo e inoltro. > Da: Dirk Erhard <erharddirk(a)gmail.com> > Oggetto: XXIV Brazilian School of Probability/São Paulo School of advanced science > Data: 12 dicembre 2019 20:22:34 CET > > First announcement : > > XXIV Brazilian School of Probability/ São Paulo School of advanced science on singular stochastic partial differential equations and their applications > > It is a pleasure to announce the XXIV Brazilian School of Probability/ São Paulo School of advanced science on singular stochastic partial differential equations and their applications. The São Paulo school is divided into two parts and will happen in the weeks of July 28 to August 8, 2020 at Campinas University. In the first week there will be two introductory mini courses (stochastic calculus and rough paths) that lay the foundations for the courses of the second week. In the latter ones newly developed theories and their latest developments in the field of singular SPDEs and related areas will be taught. The program will be complemented with several plenary talks, invited talks, a poster session and a visit to the LNLS laboratories, where the only particle accelerator of Latin America is located. The school will give full financial support for around 100 students (50 from Brazil and 50 from abroad). More informations under https://www.ime.unicamp.br/spas2020/ <https://www.ime.unicamp.br/spas2020/>. > > The XXIV Brazilian School of Probability will coincide with the second week of the São Paulo School. As in previous years, the XXIV Brazilian School of Probability will consist of two mini courses, plenary talks, contributed talks and poster sessions, all presented in a relaxed atmosphere. This will be our first edition at IMECC-UNICAMP, which is home to one of Brazil's top ranked Mathematics departments. More informations under https://www.ime.unicamp.br/bsp2020/ <https://www.ime.unicamp.br/bsp2020/>. > > > We would be grateful if you could advertise these events among your colleagues. > > On behalf of the organizing committee > > Dirk Erhard > Adriana Neumann > Christian Olivera

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Saint-Flour 2020 - First announcement
by Francesco Caravenna 13 Dec '19

13 Dec '19

Ricevo e inoltro. > Da: Saint-Flour Summer School <stflour(a)math.univ-bpclermont.fr> > Oggetto: Saint-Flour 2020 - First announcement > Data: 12 dicembre 2019 21:08:36 CET > A: saintflour(a)math.univ-bpclermont.fr > Rispondi a: Saint-Flour Summer School <stflour(a)math.univ-bpclermont.fr> > > SAINT-FLOUR 2020 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT > > Dear colleagues > > The 50th Saint-Flour Probability Summer School will be held on July 5-17, 2020. > > It is supported by the Université Clermont Auvergne and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. > > This year, the three courses will be: > > Ivan Corwin: Integrable probability and Gibbsian line ensembles > Sylvie Méléard: The interplay between scales in mathematical modeling for ecology and evolution > Allan Sly: Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems > Further information can be found on the conference website and YouTube channel: > > http://recherche.math.univ-bpclermont.fr/stflour/stflour-en.php <http://recherche.math.univ-bpclermont.fr/stflour/stflour-en.php> > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC640PtwmkBnrhCdop2daETw <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC640PtwmkBnrhCdop2daETw> > > Online registration will open in march. You will receive another announcement at that time. > > Please give the information to anyone else who might be interested. > > Best regards, > > The organizing committee > > Christophe Bahadoran, Hacène Djellout, Arnaud Guillin > > ------------------------------------------------- > > Laboratoire de Mathématiques Blaise Pascal, CNRS UMR 6620 > Université Clermont-Auvergne, Campus des Cézeaux > 3, place Vasarely > TSA 60026 CS 60026 > 63178 Aubière cedex, France > > Tel: +33 (0)4 73 40 70 50 > Fax: +33 (0)4 73 40 54 50 > > mailto:stflour@math.univ-bpclermont.fr <mailto:stflour@math.univ-bpclermont.fr>

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Energy Finance Italia: deadline approaching + YITP grants for young researchers
by Tiziano Vargiolu 12 Dec '19

12 Dec '19

Dear All, we wish to remind that the deadline for paper submissions for the fifth edition of the Energy Finance Italia Workshop - EFI5, which will be held in Rome, University of Roma Tre, next February 10-11, 2020 http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/efi5/ is rapidly approaching (Sunday, December 15). We also want to advertise that, for the 3rd consecutive year, we are applying for the Young Investigator Training Program of the ACRI (Associazione Casse di Risparmio Italiane). If funded (as in the previous 2 editions), we will grant several 1-month positions to young researchers, coming from outside Italy, to spend in one Italian research institution of the network. In order to be eligible, the young researcher should submit a presentation to the workshop, and choose at least three research institutions to spend their grant at. All those interested in such positions are kindly asked to submit an extended abstract to the workshop (see http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/efi5/) and to contact me (vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it) in order to have more precise details on the official procedure. Best regards Tiziano -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tiziano Vargiolu Dipartimento di Matematica Phone: +39 049 8271383 Universita' di Padova Fax: +39 049 8271428 Via Trieste, 63 E-mail: vargiolu(a)math.unipd.it I-35121 Padova (Italy) WWW: http://www.math.unipd.it/~vargiolu --------------------------------------------------------------------------

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