Dear all,
the next One World Approximate Bayesian Inference (OWABI) Seminar<https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/news/upcoming-seminars/abcworldsem…> is quickly approaching, being scheduled on Thursday, the 30th January at 11am UK time.
Our next speaker is Paul Bürkner<https://paulbuerkner.com/> (TU Dortmund University), who will talk about "Amortized Mixture and Multilevel Models" with an abstract reported below.
Abstract: Probabilistic mixture and multilevel models are central building blocks in Bayesian data analysis. However, they remain challenging to estimate and evaluate, especially when the involved likelihoods or priors are analytically intractable. Recent developments in generative deep learning and simulation-based inference have shown promising results in scaling up Bayesian inference through amortization. Against this background, we have developed specialized neural inference frameworks for estimating Bayesian mixture and multilevel models. The involved neural architectures are closely mirroring the probabilistic symmetries and conditional (in-)dependencies assumed by these models. This not only speeds up neural network training, but also enables amortized inference for new datasets of varying number of groups and sample sizes.
Keywords: Amortized Bayesian Inference; Neural Posterior Estimation; Probabilistic Factorization
This and all talks are hosted on the OWABI Ms Teams Channel, which is available here https://teams.microsoft.com/l/team/19%3AdhZ_4e_XLNJzCXPAMzTvT6BZ5KShEETkd_w….
The MS Teams link to join Paul Bürkner's talk is
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3adhZ_4e_XLNJzCXPAMzTvT6BZ5KSh…
Meeting ID: 361 477 079 820
Passcode: C49gr9Gx
Lastly, if you missed Jeremias Knoblauch's seminar, you could now watch the recorded talk on the OWABI webpage<http://www.warwick.ac.uk/oneworldabc>.
I'm looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks,
best,
Massimiliano on the behalf of the OWABI Seminar Organisers
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Dr. Massimiliano Tamborrino
Reader (Associate Professor) and WIHEA Fellow
Department of Statistics
University of Warwick
https://warwick.ac.uk/tamborrino
Apologies for cross-posting
rc
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Roberto Casarin, PhD
Professor of Econometrics
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
San Giobbe 873/b - 30121 Venezia, Italy
http://sites.google.com/view/robertocasarin/
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From: Sylvia Kaufmann <sylvia.kaufmann(a)szgerzensee.ch>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025, 17:02
Subject: John Maheu: Course at the Study Center
Dear colleagues,
Happy new year!
I would like to draw your attention to a course that John Maheu will teach
at the Study Center around mid June:
https://web.antragocloud.de/SZG/portal/PROD/app/seminarportal_mit_login/Cou…
Please feel free to forward it to advanced PhD students that may be
interested. Interested faculty or senior researchers are also eligible.
Kind regards
Sylvia
Study Center Gerzensee
Deputy director
Dorfstrasse 2
<https://www.google.com/maps/search/Dorfstrasse+2?entry=gmail&source=g>
3115 Gerzensee
Switzerland
F +41317803112
szgerzensee.ch/kaufmann
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to the following SPASS seminar, jointly
organized by UniPi, SNS, UniFi and UniSi:
*The random Markov property for random walks in random environments*
by *Rangel Baldasso* (*PUC-Rio*)
The seminar will take place on TUE, 21.01.2025 at *14:00 CET* in Aula
Tricerri, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica "Ulisse Dini",
Università degli Studi di Firenze, and streamed online at this link
<https://meet.google.com/gji-phwo-vbg>.
The organizers,
A. Agazzi, G. Bet, A. Caraceni, F. Grotto, G. Zanco
https://sites.google.com/unipi.it/spass
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*Abstract: We consider random walks evolving in dynamic random environments
and propose a criterion which, if satisfied, allows to decompose the random
walk trajectory into i.i.d. increments, and ultimately to prove limit
theorems. This criterion, dubbed the random Markov property, involves the
construction of a random field built from the environment that has to
satisfy a certain Markovian-like property along with some mixing estimates.
We apply this criterion to correlated environments such as Boolean
percolation and renewal chains featuring polynomial decay of correlations.
Based on a joint work with Julien Allasia, Oriane Blondel, and Augusto
Teixeira.*
Dear all,
a kind reminder that the deadline for the abstract submission for contributed talks or poster at BioInference2025 (28th -30th May in Bardonecchia, a town in the Alps near Turin) is quickly approaching.
If you are interested on mathematical modelling and statistical methods for (widely defined/interpreted) biological problems, then please consider submitting an abstract here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxF-b-Q_TY0o0F8T_fRmgY6_SAC72w71O…
by the 31st January 2025.
More info are available on the website https://bioinference.github.io/2025/ and below.
Best,
Massimiliano on the behalf of the BioInference2025 organising committee
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BioInference aims to bring together researchers from across statistics and mathematical modelling who work with biological systems, to foster discussions and prompt collaborations between the two communities across all career stages.
After the previous three editions hosted in the UK, the BioInference 2025 conference (https://bioinference.github.io/2025/) is now going abroad to Italy.
This year’s BioInference conference will take place in Bardonecchia, a town in the Alps near Turin on the 28-30 May 2025. Differently from previous editions, this year's conference is going to be a residential 3-days event that will include more talks and networking opportunities compared to previous years. A hike activity will take place on the second day!
The three-day conference will combine contributed talks and poster sessions. We now invite abstracts for oral/poster presentations on work on mathematical modelling and/or statistical methods (either development or application) for (widely defined/interpreted) biological problems. All presentations will be in-person with no-parallel sessions.
The abstract can be submitted here https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxF-b-Q_TY0o0F8T_fRmgY6_SAC72w71O… by the 31st January 2025.
It is our pleasure to confirm that this year's invited speakers are:
Davide Risso, Università di Padova<https://drisso.github.io/>
Zhana Kuncheva, Bioxcelerate AI<https://bioxcelerateai.com/the-team/>
Antonietta Mira, Universit`a della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano<https://search.usi.ch/en/people/f8960de6d60dd08a79b6c1eb20b7442b/mira-anton…>
Jennifer Asimit, University of Cambridge MRC Biostatistics Unit<https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/staff/jennifer-asimit>
Ben Swallow, University of St Andrew's <https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/mathematics-statistics/people/bts3/>
Jonasz Słomka, ETH Zurich<https://n.ethz.ch/~jslomka/>
Diego di Bernardo, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine<https://www.tigem.it/research/research-faculty/di-bernardo>
The registration fee (covering three lunches, all coffee breaks and one dinner) is expected to be around 185€ .
More information about the conference, talks and posters from previous years, as well as this year’s host town, Bardonecchia, can be found at https://bioinference.github.io/2025/
Kind regards,
The 2025 BioInference Organisers
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Dr. Massimiliano Tamborrino
Reader (Associate Professor) and WIHEA Fellow
Department of Statistics
University of Warwick
https://warwick.ac.uk/tamborrino
Dear Colleagues,
we have the great pleasure to share information on new doctoral
positions within the research training group (RTG) „Coping with
Uncertainty in Dynamic Economies“. This research training group is
sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) for up to 9 years,
with approximately one million euro per year. We have successfully hired
a first cohort of students in 2023, and we are now looking forward to
the second cohort.
The positions are fully funded, at competitive levels (approx 43.000
Euro gross per year).
The RTG is an initiative of ten principal investigators from the Center
for Mathematical Economics and the Data Science Research Group at
Bielefeld University.
Next to the well established core program of our doctoral school BiGSEM
(www.bigsem.de <http://www.bigsem.de/>), students will thus work in an
excellent research environment on topics involving uncertainty in its
various aspects and their consequences for dynamic economies.
The research training group holds strong ties with top international
researchers who will give specialized block courses and summer schools.
As a highlight of our program, the Mercator fellow Jean-Marc Tallon from
the Paris School of Economics is part of our research training group. He
will serve as a contact person for possible research stays in Paris.
Please share the exciting news with your talented master students and
encourage them to apply!
More information can be found at the inomics website
(https://inomics.com/program/9-phd-positions-in-the-research-training-group-…)
and at Bielefeld’s official announcement
(https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/3881/research-positions-in-the-re…).
Best wishes,
Giorgio Ferrari
Dear all,
I am pleased to announce the PhD course “Stochastic control and games with different information structures”, taught by Luciano Campi and Giorgia Callegaro and offered by the PhD in Mathematics of the University of Milan - La Statale.
The course will be held at the Department of Mathematics, via Saldini 50, Milano, from January 22 to February 14, 2025 with the following scheduling:
2 pm - 5 pm, Wednesday 22 January 2025
2 pm - 5 pm, Thursday 23 January 2025
2 pm - 5 pm, Wednesday 12 February 2025
2 pm - 5 pm, Thursday 13 February 2025
10 am - 12 pm and 2 pm - 3 pm, Friday 14 February 2025
See the poster<https://sites.unimi.it/dottoratomat/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Corso_Campi_…> for more detailed information.
Best regards,
Andrea Cosso
Dear All,
This is a final reminder of a PhD position in Probability at King’s College London, under my supervision.
The deadline for application is 31 January 2025; after that date, applications will only be accepted if the position is still open.
PhD funding will be available for 3.5-4 years, and includes tuition fees, tax free stipend set at UKRI rate plus London weighting, as well as an allowance for research-related travel.
Further information may be found in the link below:
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/funding/phd-studentship-interacting-part…
See also the following link for other PhD openings in our group:
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/program/kings-college-london-phd-studentships…
Interested candidates are encouraged to contact me (Alexandre Stauffer, a.stauffer(a)kcl.ac.uk), Sam Johnston (samuel.g.johnston(a)kcl.ac.uk) or any other member of the Probability group via email.
Thanks,
Alexandre
Ricevo e volentieri inoltro
Federica
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Da: Mark Veraar <M.C.Veraar(a)tudelft.nl>
Date: mer 8 gen 2025 alle ore 10:32
Subject: Oberwolfach seminar
To: Mark Veraar <M.C.Veraar(a)tudelft.nl>
Dear colleagues,
We are organising an Oberwolfach seminar meeting for one week:
*“Stochastic Partial Differential Equations in Critical Spaces”, during
8-13 June 2025.*
The meeting takes place in Oberwolfach, and we will present several
lectures on the above topic. The meeting is only meant for PhD students and
postdocs. Oberfolfach only allows 24 participants. The deadline for
applications is March 1st, 2025.
Information on how to apply can be found at
https://www.mfo.de/scientific-program/meetings/oberwolfach-seminars
The program and the attached poster of our seminar please can be found at
https://www.mfo.de/occasion/2524a/www_view
Best regards,
Antonio Agresti and Mark Veraar
Diffondo la richiesta relativa ad una posizione di dottorato
tra la modellistica stocastica e PDE.
Cordiali saluti
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We are looking for candidates on a PhD position in applied mathematics at the boundary between partial differential equations, stochastic modeling, computational mathematics, and (theoretical) materials science. Are you interested? If yes, then apply on the link below to join the Applied Analysis research group of Karlstad University, Sweden, as doctoral researcher for 4 years.
An additional year can be added to the working contract, if the PhD student gets involved in a mild teaching or takes care of small departmental duties (up to 20% fte/year).
To apply on this position, follow the instructions:
https://kau.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:777345/
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Daniela Morale
Dept. Mathematics
University of Milano
Via C. Saldini, 50
20133 MILANO, Italy
email: Daniela.Morale(a)unimi.it<mailto:Daniela.Morale@unimi.it>
URL: http://www.mat.unimi.it/users/morale/
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