4th International Workshop on Functional and Operational Statistics (IWFOS
2017)
A Coruña, SPAIN
http://iwfos2017.udc.es
Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends,
We are pleased to announce the Fourth International Workshop on Functional
and Operational Statistics (IWFOS 2017), to be held in A Coruña, SPAIN,
from 15th to 17th June 2017.
The treated topics (Functional Data Analysis and Operator-based Statistics)
and the format (5 sessions in 2.5 days) of this workshop will follow the
ones of the previous successful three editions held in Toulouse-France
(2008), Santander-Spain (2011) and Stresa-Italy (2014). The scientific
program will include invited talks, contributed talks and contributed
posters.
*Invited speakers (confirmed):*
John ASTON (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Alexander AUE (University of California, Davis, USA)
Antonio CUEVAS (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Aurore DELAIGLE (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Jeff GOLDSMITH (Columbia University, USA)
Stephan HUCKEMANN (Institut für Mathematische Stochastik, Göttingen,
Germany)
Victor PANARETOS (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Beatriz PATEIRO (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Laura SANGALLI (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
*Co-chairs of the Scientific Committee:*
Ricardo CAO (Universidad de A Coruña, Spain)
Philippe VIEU (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, France)
*Co-chairs of the Organizing Committee:*
Germán ANEIROS (Universidad de A Coruña, Spain)
Enea BONGIORNO (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)
More information can be found in the attached file as well as at
http://iwfos2017.udc.es .
Thank you for your attention.
Hoping to see you in A Coruña,
Sincerely Yours,
On behalf of the Scientific and Organizing Committees.
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4th International Workshop on Functional and Operational Statistics
IWFOS 2017, A Coruña (SPAIN)
http://iwfos2017.udc.es
Dear colleagues,
I am happy to forward this announcement of post-doc positions in Berlin.
For more information, you can contact Prof. Peter Friz (in cc).
Best regards
Mario Maurelli
Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics
&
Technische Universität Berlin
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sebastian Riedel <riedel(a)math.tu-berlin.de>
Date: 2016-01-21 13:13 GMT+01:00
Subject: Postdoc Positions in Berlin
To: riedel(a)math.tu-berlin.de
Hi everybody,
our Forschergruppe "Rough paths, stochastic partial differential equations
and related topics" offers several Postdoc positions, see attached PDF and
the announcement on our website:
https://sites.google.com/site/researchunitfor2402/job-openings.
Thank you for promoting this at your institution and for sharing with
possible candidates.
Best,
Sebastian
Dr. Sebastian Riedel
Technische Universität Berlin
Fakultät II, Institut für Mathematik
Sekretariat MA 7-5
Straße des 17. Juni 136
D-10623 Berlin, Germany
Office: MA 780
Phone: +49 30 314 28415
E-mail: riedel(a)math.tu-berlin.de
Homepage: http://page.math.tu-berlin.de/~riedel/
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Call for presentations:
It is our pleasure to announce the upcoming conference at Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany:
DEPENDENCE MODELING IN FINANCE, INSURANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
taking place on MAY 17-19, 2016.
CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:
* Carole Bernard, Grenoble Ecole de Management
* Roger Cooke, Technical University Delft
* Paul Embrechts, ETH Zurich
* Fabrizio Durante, Free University Bozen-Bolzano
* Christian Genest, McGill University
* Irene Gijbels, KU Leuven
* Harry Joe, University of British Columbia
* Luis Mediero, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
* Johanna Neslehova, McGill University
* Giovanni Puccetti, University of Florence
CONTENT:
In our complex and interrelated world, taking care of dependence is a key task for success in stochastic modeling. The copula framework takes a pivotal role in this area. The conference will bring together researchers from different methodological view points and application areas to provide an up to date forum on dependence modeling and their challenges in view of big data issues. This conference is a continuation of workshops held in Delft (2007, 2008), Oslo (2009), Munich (2011), and Beijing (2014). While the first workshops were focused on vine copulas (www.vine-copula.org<http://www.vine-copula.org>), the theme of the last workshop was much broader. This workshop is intended to continue with this broader view.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION:
In addition to invited sessions, we will also organize contributed talks. Contributions within the theme of the workshop are welcome and presentation abstracts can be submitted to dominik.mueller(a)ma.tum.de<mailto:dominik.mueller@ma.tum.de> until Jan 31, 2016.
POST-WORKSHOP SHORT COURSES:
Two short courses (Copulas and Vine copulas) will be arranged on the afternoon of May 19, 2016 directly following the workshop. The targeted audience includes advanced PhD students and junior faculty.
SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZERS:
C. Czado and M. Scherer
LOCAL ORGANIZERS:
B. Haas, M. Killiches, D. Krause, D. Mueller
SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS:
http://www.mathfinance.ma.tum.de/copulas2016/
13th edition of the ABS (Applied Bayesian Statistics) Summer School
BAYES, BIG DATA, AND THE INTERNET
Lecturer: STEVE SCOTT, Senior Economic Analyst at Google
Like in the past three years, the 2016 school will be held
in the magnificent Villa del Grumello, in Como (Italy), on
the Lake Como shore.
Guido Consonni and Fabrizio Ruggeri
ABS16 Directors
Raffaele Argiento
ABS16 Executive Director
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Applied Bayesian Statistics School
BAYES, BIG DATA, AND THE INTERNET
August, 29 - September, 2 2016
Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy
Lecturer:
Steve Scott, Senior Economic Analyst at Google, USA
https://sites.google.com/site/stevethebayesian/
The conference webpage is
>>>> web.mi.imati.cnr.it/conferences/abs16.html <<<<
Registration is now open. Please note that the conference
room allows only for a very limited number of participants.
The ABS16 Secretariat can be contacted at
abs16(a)mi.imati.cnr.it
COURSE OUTLINE
Day 1: One of the main applications of statistics at internet
companies is to A/B testing (e.g. to determine which version of a web
site is most effective). Standard statistical methods for A/B testing
using static experimental design is typically dominated (in terms of
cost) by sequential methods based on Thompson sampling. The first day
of the course uses Thompson sampling to motivate standard low
dimensional statistical modeling such as beta-binomial, Poisson-gamma
and normal-normal models. We will review Monte Carlo method for
computing with Bayesian models, including Gibbs sampling,
Metropolis-Hastings, and slice sampling.
Day 2: Very quickly after implementing an experiment, one discovers
that more than one factor needs to be tested (e.g. you need to test
whether the button should be red or blue, AND whether it should be
located on the left or the right of the page). You also need to
determine whether the optimal design varies according to various
contextual factors (e.g. whether the page is shown on the weekend or
on a week day). These factors can be handled within the Thompson
sampling framework by extending the reward distribution to various
generalized linear models. The second day of the course will discuss
Bayesian regression in linear and generalized linear models using data
augmentation. Probit, logit, Poisson, and student T models will be
covered.
Day 3: If the number of factors to be tested (or number of contexts to
be controlled for) is very large, then sparse models must be
considered. Sparsity can be introduced into a Bayesian model using a
"spike-and-slab" prior that places some prior mass at zero for each
coefficient in a linear model. The data can then move posterior mass
between the "spike" (at zero) and "slab" (nonzero) portions of the
posterior distribution.
Day 4: One valuable aspect of internet data is that it occurs in
nearly real time, while many official statistics are released as
monthly or quarterly time series. One way to model these data is with
dynamic linear models. These models can combine time series model
(capturing the target series' past behavior) with a sparse regression
component (capturing the impact of contemporaneous internet data). We
will work on examples using economic data from FRED (the St. Louis
Federal Reserve Economic Database) and data from Google trends.
Day 5: we will discuss methods that can be applied when facing "big"
data that must be distributed across several machines.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
The school will be as usual, with lectures and practical sessions
(run by a junior researcher), participants' talks, free Wednesday afternoon, start on Monday after lunch and ending on Friday before
lunch. Accommodation is available either at the Villa guesthouse or in downtown hotels (info will appear soon on the website). Como can be
easily reached by train from Milano and its airports. More details
are available on the website.
[please distribute - apologies for multiple postings]
SMPS 2016
8th International Conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics
September 12 - 14, 2016
Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy
http://www.sbai.uniroma1.it/smps2016
***** ONLINE REGISTRATION AND SUBMISSION ARE NOW OPEN *****
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VENUE
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SMPS 2016 will be held in Rome, Italy. The conference venue will be San
Pietro in Vincoli (Via Eudossiana, 18), in the historic center of Rome,
directly overlooking the Coliseum and next to the ancient Basilica of San
Pietro in Vincoli, home to Michelangelo’s statue of Moses.
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SCOPE and TOPICS
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The scope of SMPS 2016 is to bring together experts working on and with
Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics.
SMPS 2016 invites submissions of papers dealing with a variety of topics
in soft methods in probability and statistics, which include, but are not
limited to:
- Analysis of Censored Data
- Analysis of Fuzzy Data
- Random Sets
- Fuzzy Random Variables
- Fuzzy Regression Methods
- Triangular Norms and Copulas
- Imprecise Probabilities
- Dempster-Shafer Theory
- Robust Methods
- Clustering and Classification
- Graphical Models
- Machine Learning
- Heuristic Optimization
- Soft Computing and Statistics
- Statistical Software for Imprecise Data
- Applications in Biology, Economics etc.
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PROCEEDINGS
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Papers accepted for presentation will be published in an edited volume of
the series Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing from
Springer-Verlag.
Full papers of 5-8 pages written in English and fulfilling the
instructions for authors should be submitted not later than February 15,
2016, camera-ready versions of the accepted papers not later than April
30, 2016 (tentative). For accepted contributions to be included in the
sessions and proceedings of the conference, the payment of the conference
fees should be made not later than May 20, 2016.
After the Conference there will be a SPECIAL ISSUE of International
Journal of Approximate Reasoning (IJAR) dedicated to SMPS 2016. For this,
all the selected papers will have to pass a regular review process.
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PLENARY SPEAKERS
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Ana Colubi (University of Oviedo, Spain)
Thierry Denoeux (University of Technology of Compiègne, France)
Massimo Marinacci (Bocconi University, Italy)
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline: February 15, 2016
Notification of paper acceptance: April 10, 2016
Revised paper due: April 30, 2016
Early registration deadline: May 20, 2016
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ORGANIZATION
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General Chairs:
- Maria Brigida Ferraro (Rome, Italy)
- Paolo Giordani (Rome, Italy)
- Barbara Vantaggi (Rome, Italy)
Executive Board:
- María Ángeles Gil (Oviedo, Spain)
- Przemyslaw Grzegorzewski (Warsaw, Poland)
- Olgierd Hryniewicz (Warsaw, Poland)
Best regards,
Maria Brigida Ferraro, Paolo Giordani, Barbara Vantaggi
SMPS 2016 Chairs – Sapienza University of Rome
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http://www.sbai.uniroma1.it/smps2016
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2nd STATALK ON BAYESIAN NONPARAMETRICS @ Collegio Carlo Alberto, 19 Feb 2016
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Dear all,
this is a reminder that the second edition of the StaTalk series
will be held at Collegio Carlo Alberto on February 19, 2016.
Deadline for registration: 7th February 2016.
StaTalks are one-day workshops on statistical topics during which the
hosting group introduces and overviews the main research interests of their
members.
Aimed at Master’s and PhD students, as well as at post-docs and young
researchers, StaTalks are intended to be informal gatherings which allow for
a more proficient interaction between presenters and participants. They
typically feature some introductory tutorials on the main workshop theme and
a few seminars that overview more advanced research topics, still kept at an
expository level. StaTalks are thus a great opportunity to become acquainted
with the workshop main topic, as well as to share and update one's knowledge
on the interface of Statistical research in an easy and informal atmosphere.
The topic of the second StaTalk will be Bayesian nonparametrics, a field of
Statistics which has experienced a tremendous growth in the last few
decades, both in terms of research production and in terms of impact of the
discipline on the applications.
Collegio Carlo Alberto, which will host the event, is a research and high
education institution which comprises national and international faculty
members, research fellows and visiting scholars in the fields of Economics,
Statistics and wider social sciences. The Collegio is sited in a historical
building in Moncalieri, at the outskirts of Torino, and can be easily
reached from Torino city centre with public transportation.
The StatTalk on Bayesian nonparametrics is supported by the “de Castro"
Statistics Initiative in collaboration with Collegio Carlo Alberto.
Additional info can be found at the workshop page
www.carloalberto.org/research/statistics-initiative/events/statalk
Information on the PROGRAMME can be found here
www.carloalberto.org/research/statistics-initiative/events/statalk/workshop…
Information on the REGISTRATION (which is free of charge but mandatory) can
be found here
www.carloalberto.org/research/statistics-initiative/events/statalk/registra…
Best regards,
The Organising Committee
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Matteo Ruggiero
University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto
www.matteoruggiero.it
Ricevo e inoltro.
> > Dear All,
> >
> > The Department of Mathematical Sciences at Durham University, UK is
> > advertising the following permanent position:
> >
> > Lectureship in Probability
> >
> > Closing date: 16 February 2016
> >
> > https://www.dur.ac.uk/mathematical.sciences/news/?itemno=26840&rehref=%2Fma…
> >
> >
> > Please could you forward the details of the above vacancy to anyone you think could be interested.
> >
> > Durham University is seeking to increase the proportion of female
> > academic staff, and therefore specifically invites qualified women to apply.
> >
> > Should you have any queries, please do let me know.
> >
> > Anne
>
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SEMINARI DI PROBABILITA' E STATISTICA MATEMATICA
DIPARTIMENTO DI MATEMATICA "G. PEANO"
UNIVERSITA' DEGLI STUDI DI TORINO
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Giovedì 11 Febbraio 2016 alle ore 15:00 in Aula C presso il Dipartimento di
Matematica "G. Peano" dell'Università degli Studi di Torino, Via Carlo
Alberto 10,
Il Dott. BRUNO TOALDO (Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, "Sapienza"
Università di Roma)
terrà un seminario dal titolo
INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND SEMI-MARKOV PROCESSES
Abstract:
A stochastic process X is semi-Markov in the sense of Gihman and
Skorohod if the couple (X(t),J(t)), where J(t) is the sojourn time in
the current position, is a strict Markov process. The waiting times
between the changes of state of the process are in general non
exponential r.v.'s. We study the governing equations (Kolmogorov type
equations) for semi-Markov processes. These equations are
integro-differential equations that become fractional in some
particular and interesting cases. For example this is true when the
distribution of the waiting times have Mittag-Leffler distribution.
Furthermore we present various sufficient conditions to say that a
semi-Markov process is a time-changed Markov process. This last case
has interesting consequences on the structure of the governing
equation.
Tutti gli interessati sono invitati a partecipare.
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Federico Polito
Department of Mathematics
University of Torino
Via Carlo Alberto, 10
10123, Torino, Italy
Email: federico.polito(a)unito.it
Tel: +39 011 6702937
Web: www.federicopolito.it
Dear Colleague,
the International Workshop
"Stochastic Models And Related Topics"
will take place on January 21 and 22, 2016, at
the Department of Mathematics of Salerno
University, Via Giovanni Paolo II, n. 132, 84084
Fisciano (SA), Italy
The program and the relevant information can be
found at
http://www.unisa.it/docenti/antoniodicrescenzo/smart2016/workshop
Your participation is welcome.
The Organizing Committee
Antonio Di Crescenzo, Virginia Giorno, Barbara
Martinucci, Alessandra Meoli, Amelia G. Nobile,
Serena Spina.
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