Call for expressions of interest: PhD positions in Verona
We are looking for PhD students for the track in "Mathematics and Data Analytics for Finance" of our PhD program in "Economics and Finance". This is a 4-year PhD program.
The objective of the "Mathematics and Data Analytics for Finance" track is to prepare students for academic/professional careers in Financial Mathematics and Data Analytics according to the highest international standards.
We welcome applications from students with a strong background in mathematics, physics, statistics, quantitative finance or other highly quantitative disciplines.
During the first year, students will be offered a research-oriented training program. Core compulsory courses are:
1) Financial Time Series
2) Mathematical Statistics
3) Financial Mathematics
4) Continuous Time Econometrics
5) Stochastic Optimization and Control
6) Stochastic Processes in Finance
Courses are coordinated by Giuseppe Buccheri, Alessandro Gnoatto, Cecilia Mancini, Athena Picarelli, Francesca Rossi, Catia Scricciolo, Sara Svaluto Ferro under the supervision of Athena Picarelli (director of the PhD program).
We will also offer a wide basket of elective courses offered by leading international experts.
The attendance of Summer and Winter schools and an international research stay of at least 6 months are strongly encouraged. Financial support is provided.
To express your interest, please send your CV to athena [dot] picarelli [at] univr [dot] it
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Prof. Alessandro Gnoatto
Presidente del CdLM "Banca e Finanza"
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
Università degli Studi di Verona
Via Cantarane 24
37129, Verona, Italy
Room 1.05
Tel: +39 045 802 8537<tel:+390458028537>
Homepage: www.alessandrognoatto.com<http://www.alessandrognoatto.com/>
E-mail: alessandro.gnoatto(a)univr.it<mailto:alessandro.gnoatto@univr.it>
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View my research on my SSRN Author page:
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*Ph.D. program in ECONOMICS and FINANCE @ Tor Vergata*
*Call For Interest 2025*
The Department of Economics and Finance of the University of Rome Tor
Vergata is advertising a *Call for Interest* for PhD positions for the next
academic year with a full grant, which amounts to €16,243 per year (about
€1,200 per month net of taxes, increased by 50% during the periods – up to
one year - spent abroad for study and research).
A prerequisite for participating in the program is a M.Sc. university
degree in Economics or equivalent. All admissions are conditional on
obtaining the MSc degree before the beginning of the program.
The selection is based on the evaluation of the candidate’s profile from
the documentation provided, and a personal interview.
Interested candidates are kindly invited to express their interest by
sending at admin(a)phdef.uniroma2.it the following documents by *April 10,
2025*:
• Research statement (1-2 pages max)
• Curriculum Vitae
• Two reference letters (instruct your letter-writers to send letters at
admin(a)phdef.uniroma2.it)
• Transcript of M.Sc. courses and grades
• English language proficiency certificate (Such as IELTS/TOEFL/Cambridge
C2 Proficiency/Cambridge C1 Advanced. No English language certificate is
required from applicants who are English native speakers, and/or have been
awarded a degree from a university program entirely taught in English and
have written a thesis in English in such a program.)
• M.Sc. thesis (optional)
• Publications (if any)
• Motivational Letter (elective)
• GDPR acknowledge (rif. GDPR relevant rules)
Promising applicants will be invited to an interview.
Due to the limited number of available positions, we strongly encourage
early applications. Selected applicants will be invited to submit a formal
application for the admission procedure in accordance with the official
Call by Tor Vergata University of Rome, to be issued in Spring 2025.
Detailed information about scholarships and the formal admission procedure
can be found at
https://economia.uniroma2.it/phd/ef/calls.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for any questions at
info(a)phdef.uniroma2.it
Kind Regards
Davide Pirino
Call Talent@Unipd - ERC Scouting at the University of Padua
Dear Colleagues,
The University of Padua (Unipd) is looking for outstanding researchers of any
age and nationality to leverage successful applications for the 2026 ERC
Starting Grant call, funded by the European Commission within the Horizon
Europe Framework Programme.
ERC Starting Grants are open to candidates who have successfully defended
their first PhD thesis within a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 7 years prior
to 1st January 2026, have an outstanding scientific track-record, as well as
an excellent research proposal.
Through the Talent@Unipd Starting Grants scouting initiative, Unipd aims at
identifying promising candidates for the forthcoming ERC Starting Grant 2026
call, whose possible deadline is in October/November 2025
Selected Talent candidates will be assisted at each stage of their proposal
writing by highly qualified research support staff at Unipd.
Researchers wishing to participate should fill in the application form
available here
https://forms.gle/KU6J9sJYD6pNxSL68
and submit it by 30 April 2025, at 1 p.m. (Italian time zone), attaching the
following documents
· CV and track-record (use of a dedicated template is mandatory)
· Proposal in English of max. 4.000 characters (spaces included),
describing the project idea
· Letter of commitment, duly signed, indicating the University of
Padua as host institution for the future ERC application.
Templates are available at https://www.unipd.it/en/call-starting-grant-2026.
Thank you for your cooperation in promoting or participating in our
Talent@Unipd - Starting Grants 2026 scouting programme.
Should you have questions or need any further clarification, please do not
hesitate to contact the University of Padua International Research Office -
individual.grants(a)unipd.it.
Useful links:
- pagina Talent ITA | https://www.unipd.it/call-starting-grant-2026
- page Talent ENG | https://www.unipd.it/en/call-starting-grant-2026
- why choosing Padua as Host Institution
| https://www.unipd.it/en/unipd-host-institution
Best regards,
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Ufficio Ricerca Internazionale | International Research Office
Settore finanziamenti individuali | Individual Grants Unit
Università degli Studi di Padova | University of Padova
via Martiri della Libertà, 8 - 35137 Padova, Italia | Italy
http://www.unipd.it/ricercainternazionalehttps://www.unipd.it/en/supportingresearch
FB: International Research Office
Twitter: Ricerca Int. UniPd@ServizioRicerc
LinkedIN: Int. Research Office Unipd
Moodle: International Research Office
Tiziano
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Dipartimento di Matematica Phone: +39 049 8271383
Universita' di Padova Fax: +39 049 8271428
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Gruppo di studio: Dottorato in Probabilità e Statistica e Industria (“PhD
Students in Probability and Statistics meet Companies”)
Il gruppo UMI-PRISMA, il Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche "G.L.
Lagrange” del Politecnico di Torino e il Dipartimento di Matematica “G.
Peano” dell’Università di Torino organizzano a Torino una tre giorni dal 16
al 18 settembre 2025 usando il formato ridotto dello "Study Group
Mathematics with Industry": il mattino del 16 settembre, le aziende
partecipanti presentano i problemi di loro interesse. Successivamente si
formano gruppi di dottorandi supportati da tutor accademici, che lavorano
su tali problemi e le soluzioni proposte sono discusse nel pomeriggio del
18 settembre.
Al momento hanno già accettato di partecipare le seguenti società:
Novartis (https://www.novartis.com/it-it/)
ToolsGroup (https://www.toolsgroup.com/)
La partecipazione al gruppo di studio è gratuita per dottorandi e
dottorande che stanno svolgendo una tesi di probabilità e/o statistica
matematica. Inoltre sarà disponibile un piccolo supporto finanziario su
richiesta. Il supporto sarà erogato con un criterio di priorità per ordine
di arrivo delle richieste. Infine, sarà rilasciato un certificato di
partecipazione.
In questa fase chiediamo una dichiarazione di interesse a partecipare. La
si può inviare a: laura.sacerdote(a)unito.it prima possibile e comunque entro
il 30 maggio 2025.
Il comitato organizzatore: Gianluca Guadagni, Franco Pellerey, Laura Lea
Sacerdote, Enrico Scalas, Serena Spina, Barbara Trivellato e Cristina Zucca
Dear all,
The Department of Economics and Finance at Luiss University in Rome (https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it <https://economiaefinanza.luiss.it/>) is pleased to announce the following seminar:
Speaker: Alexandra Holzinger, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Title: Fluctuations around the mean-field limit for attractive Riesz interaction kernels in the moderate regime
When: April 3, 14:30
Where: Viale Romania, 32 00197 Rome
Meeting room: 405
Abstract: In this talk I will give a short introduction to moderately interacting particle systems and the general notion of fluctuations around the mean-field limit.
We will see how a central limit theorem can be shown for moderately interacting particles on the whole space for certain types of interaction potentials. The interaction potential approximates singular attractive potentials of sub-Coulomb type and we can show that the fluctuations become asymptotically Gaussians. The methodology is inspired by the classical work of Oelschläger in the 1980s on fluctuations for the porous-medium equation. To allow for attractive potentials we use a new approach of quantitative mean-field convergence in probability in order to include aggregation effects.
Should you be interested, please kindly send me an e-mail.
Best wishes,
Marta Leocata
Dear Colleagues,
We are glad to announce the summer school Mathematical methods for
high-dimensional data
<https://sites.google.com/view/math-high-dimensional-data/home>, which will
take place on September 8-12, 2025, at the Mathematics Department of
Sapienza University of Rome.
Lecturers of the school are
Jean Barbier (International Centre for Theoretical Physics)
Marylou Gabrié (École Normale Supérieure)
Alessandro Ingrosso (Radboud University)
Silvia Villa (University of Genova)
The school will also include poster sessions for PhD students and early
postdocs.
To register, please complete the form available on the website (here the
link
<https://sites.google.com/view/math-high-dimensional-data/registration?authu…>).
Participation is free, but registration is mandatory.
The school will launch the Eccellenza Scientific Program dedicated to Data
Science, running through January 2026. This program features workshops,
doctoral courses, and seminar series, focusing on the mathematical methods
underpinning data science. Participants will engage with cutting-edge
methodologies in statistical physics, statistical inference, optimization,
and control, alongside advanced techniques in numerical simulations and
scientific computing for machine learning. By integrating these
disciplines, the program provides an overview of rigorous foundations and
tools for tackling real-world challenges through data-driven approaches.
More about the program will be found on this page
<https://sites.google.com/view/math-high-dimensional-data/home>.
For additional information, do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards,
The organisers of the school
Elena Agliari
Emanuele Caglioti
Alberto Fachechi
Lorenzo Taggi
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Alberto Fachechi, PhD
Researcher (RTD-A)
Dipartimento di Matematica G. Castelnuovo
Sapienza Università di Roma
Dear colleagues,
This is a reminder that on Friday, *April 11th*, the fifteenth seminar day
in the “Days in Probability and Statistical Physics” will take place.in at
the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science "Ulisse Dini", Viale
Morgagni 67/a, Florence.
Lecturers:
Prof. *Clara Stegehuis* (Twente University)
Title: Detecting geometry in scale free networks
Prof.* David Belius* (UniDistance Suisse)
Title (Introductory lecture): The story of mean-field spin glasses
Title (Seminar): The Thouless-Andersson-Palmer (TAP) approach to mean-field
spin glasses
Each speaker will give a 45 minutes introductory lecture tailored for
non-experts, followed by another 45 minutes of seminar-style presentation
(see program). More information, including the abstracts, can be found on
the event’s webpage
<https://sites.google.com/unifi.it/florence-probability-group/probability-da…>
.
*Practical notes*: for organization purposes, we kindly ask those who plan
to attend to fill out the following Google Form *by* *April 6*:
https://forms.gle/zYv2BFAmMy42cf8y8
We look forward to seeing many of you and please feel free to share the
announcement with those you think may be interested, particularly to young
researchers!
Luca Avena, Luisa Andreis, Gianmarco Bet and Elia Bisi
Scientific advisory committee: F. Caravenna, E.N.M. Cirillo, F. Colomo, P.
Dai Pra, A. De Masi, C. Giardina`, R. Livi, F. Martinelli, I.G. Minelli, B.
Scoppola, E. Scoppola.
*PROGRAM*
10:30-11:00 Welcome coffee
11:00-11:45 Introductory lecture: Stegehuis
11:45-12:15 Break
12:15-13:00 Seminar: Stegehuis
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:15 Introductory lecture: Belius
15:15-15:45 Break
15:45-16:30 Seminar: Belius
You can find here
<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/#search/probability+day+11+aprile/FMfcgzQZ…>
the poster of the event.
SEMINARS IN STATISTICS @ COLLEGIO CARLO ALBERTO <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.carloalberto.org/events/category/s…>
Venerdì 04/04/2025, presso il Collegio Carlo Alberto, in Piazza Arbarello 8, Torino, si terrà il seguente seminario:
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12.00-13.00
Speaker: Sergios AGAPIOU (University of Cyprus)
Title: HEAVY-TAILED BAYESIAN NONPARAMETRIC ADAPTATION OVER BESOV SPACES
Abstract: We will consider the Bayesian recovery of an unknown function from direct observations polluted by white Gaussian noise, and we will be interested in studying the asymptotic performance of the posterior in the infinitely informative data limit, in terms of rates of contraction. We will be especially interested in priors which are adaptive to the smoothness of the unknown function. In the past decade, certain hierarchical and empirical Bayes procedures based on Gaussian process priors, have been shown to achieve adaptation to spatially homogenous smoothness. However, we have recently shown that Gaussian priors are suboptimal for spatially inhomogeneous unknowns, that is, functions which are smooth in some areas and rough or even discontinuous in other areas of their domain. Such unknowns are abundant in applications such as imaging, and can be modeled using Besov spaces, which generalize (the more widely known) Sobolev and Hölder spaces. In contrast to Gaussian priors, we have shown that (similar) hierarchical and empirical Bayes procedures based on Laplace (series) priors, achieve adaptation to both homogeneously and inhomogeneously smooth functions. All of these procedures involve the tuning of a hyperparameter of the Gaussian or Laplace prior. We will introduce Besov spaces and will recall their minimax theory developed in the mid-late 90’s and has various interesting features. After reviewing the above Bayesian results, we will present a new strategy for adaptation to smoothness based on heavy-tailed priors. Specifically, we will show that adaptive rates of contraction in the minimax sense (up to logarithmic factors) are achieved without tuning of any hyperparameters. This adaptation is achieved for both homogeneously and inhomogeneously smooth unknowns, in particular, we will show that the studied heavy-tailed priors are adaptive over all Besov spaces and for all L^p-losses, for p from 1 up to infinity. Extensive numerical simulations corroborating the theory will be presented as well. This is joint work with Masoumeh Dashti, Tapio Helin, Aimilia Savva and Sven Wang (Laplace priors), and Ismaël Castillo and Paul Egels (heavy-tailed priors)
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Sarà possibile il seminario anche in streaming: chiunque volesse collegarsi è pregato di inviare una email entro *mercoledì 02/04/2025* a matteo.giordano(a)unito.it <mailto:matteo.giordano@unito.it> .
Il webinar 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,
Matteo Giordano
Assistant Professor (RTDA)
Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics (ESOMAS)
www.matteogiordano.weebly.com <https://matteogiordano.weebly.com/>
Cari Colleghi,
vi segnalo il seguente seminario, in modalità ibrida, della serie dei MOX COLLOQUIA:
10.04.25 Ore 14:30 - Aula IV, Edificio 11, Politecnico di Milano
Speaker: Mihaela van der Schaar, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge
Titolo: Can we discover fundamental laws from data using AI?
Abstract:
Discovering fundamental laws governing systems from observational data has long been a hallmark of scientific inquiry. In this talk, I will discuss how recent advances in AI and machine learning enable the automated discovery of scientific laws and governing equations directly from data, revolutionizing the way we unravel system dynamics in numerous domains, including medicine and pharmacology. I will highlight how AI-driven methods uncover underlying principles, from classical physics to biological systems to medicine, and offer insights into future possibilities—transforming data-driven observations into interpretable and actionable scientific knowledge. Yet, can we push this boundary further—going beyond equations entirely? I will introduce direct semantic modeling, a novel paradigm where AI learns the behavior of dynamical systems directly from data without relying on closed-form equations. This semantic approach offers intuitive, human-interpretable insights into system evolution, marking a transformative leap in scientific discovery. (This talk is based on recent research with Krzysztof Kacprzyk, Tennison Liu and Sam Holt.)
Il seminario sarà accessibile online:
https://mox.polimi.it/mox-colloquia-seminars-list/mox-seminars/?id_evento=2…https://cassyni.com/events/SAFbogPTLoJ6dkTvUoNtWy
Seguirà rinfresco.
Cari saluti,
Laura Sangalli
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Laura Maria Sangalli
MOX - Dipartimento di Matematica
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32
20133 Milano - Italy
(+39) 02 2399 4554
laura.sangalli(a)polimi.it<mailto:laura.sangalli@polimi.it>
https://sangalli.faculty.polimi.it