Today I am flying to Roma for the 4th Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, where I have been invited at a session on MCMC. This is a meeting leaning more towards probability than statistics, but I hope to learn from sessions close enough to my interests and obviously meet new people. At the same time this is an opportunity to see long time friends I haven’t seen since COVID and (cerise sur le gâteau !) to spend three days in Roma as I last visited this unique city with our parents in 2019 (with a fabulous discovery of the Ostia archaeological site!, as well as the visit to the very antique San Clemente al Laterano, with its Mithraic crypt).
Archive for Italia
via per Roma
Posted in Statistics with tags 4th Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Coliseo, conference, COVID, Italia, Italy, MCMC, Mithraic cult, Roma, Rome, San Clemente al Laterano, San Pietro in Vincoli on June 11, 2024 by xi'anBAYSM registration now open!
Posted in Kids, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags BAYSM 2024, Ca' Foscari University, childcare, gondola, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, ISBA, ISBA 2024, Italia, Italy, j-ISBA, junior researchers, junior-ISBA, registration, San Marco, Venezia, Venice on April 21, 2024 by xi'an
The registration for BAYSM 2024 is now officially open. The Bayesian Young Statistician Meeting will take place in Ca’Foscari on 29 and 30 June, 2024, prior to the ISBA meeting. Early bird registration is available till 10 May and for a very low fee that includes lunches and a reception, terrificò! (Note that dedicated childcare is furthermore available.) And note that the early bird registration for the World ISBA meeting has also been extended to 01 May.
Italy no-no’s
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags Duomo di Milano, Gran Canale, Italia, Italy, Lonely, Martinique, mass tourism, Milano, Piazza di Spagna, Roma, San Marco, Venezia on May 22, 2023 by xi'an
The Lonely Planet blog has a list of prohibitions on tourists’ activities when visiting some Italian cities. Like Venice, Rome or Milan (below). Most of which is sort of obvious, like not walking around shirtless or barefoot away from beaches, feed the pigeons (although our kids did when visiting Venice for the first time!), hold picnics in busy areas, sit on the Rialto Bridge or the Spanish steps, ride a bike in Venezia!, swim in Trevi Fountain or a Venezia canalo (although kayaking remains allowed outside main canals and working hours), or steal sands from beaches. Some are less predictable, like eating in the street in Florence centre, dress up like an historical (Roman) figure, or wear sandals when hiking. (For the latest one, I got scolded last January when hiking to a waterfall in the Northern tip of Martinique, if not by the police!)
partenza per Venezia²³
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel, University life with tags Carnevale di Venezia, Da'a Marisa, Italia, Rio Ca' Foscari, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venezia on March 27, 2023 by xi'an
This week I will be visiting Roberto Casarin at Ca’Foscari University of Venice, with presumably a quieter atmosphere than the past year, when I stayed there during Carnevale. Staying at the same flat as before in one of the quiet calli near the university.
MCMC postdoc positions at Bocconi
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Bayesian methodology, call, ERC Starting Grant, Italia, Italy, machine learning, MCMC, MCMC algorithms, Milano, postdoctoral position, Università Bocconi on January 17, 2023 by xi'an[A call for postdoc candidates to work in Milano with Giacomo Zanella in the coming years under ERC funding. In case you are interested with a postdoctoral position with me at Paris Dauphine on multi-agent decision-making, data sharing, and fusion algorithms, do not hesitate to contact me, the official call for applications should come up soon!]
Three postdoc positions available at Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), under the supervision of Giacomo Zanella and funded by the ERC Starting Grant “Provable Scalability for high-dimensional Bayesian Learning”. Details and links to apply available online.
The deadline for application is 28/02/2023 and the planned starting date is 01/05/2023 (with some flexibility). Initial contracts are for 1 year and are extendable for further years under mutual agreement.
Candidates will conduct research on computational aspects of statistical and machine learning methods, with a particular focus on Bayesian methodologies. The research activity, both in terms of specific topic and research approach, can adapt to the profile and interests of the successful candidates. Beyond working with the supervisor and coauthors on topics related to the grant project (see here and there for more details on the research topics of the supervisor and grant project), candidates will get the chance to interact with various faculty members, postdocs and PhD students of the Stats&ML group at Bocconi (see e.g. researchers at Bocconi).
Interested candidates can write to giacomo zanella at unibocconi for more information about the positions.
