News&Events
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BIDSA Webinar: "Streaming k-PCA and concentration for random matrix products"
BIDSA Webinar Spring Series 2021 - Jonathan Niles-Weed
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BIDSA Webinar: “Differentiating Through Optimal Transport”
BIDSA Webinar Spring Series 2021 - Marco Cuturi
19/01/2021
Marta Catalano and Sirio Legramanti Awarded for Their Papers
The PhD candidates in Statistics are among the winner of thr SSBS 2021 student paper competition and will fly to Seattle for JSM 2021, pandemic permitting.
04/12/2020
2021 IGIER - BIDSA Visiting Students Initiative (VSI) Call for Candidates
IGIER and BIDSA invite students in the MSc in Economic and Social Sciences, MSc in Data Science and Business Analytics and the MSc in Finance who are interested in pursuing a research career to join the two research centers
02/12/2020
Math as an Adventure: The Unexpected Applications of the Optimal Transport Problem
Giuseppe Savare' met the optimal transport problem twenty tears ago, and since then he has witnessed its many and sometimes unexpected applications ranging from pure mathemathis to machine learning.
19/11/2020
Big Data as Gold. A Bocconi Professor Contributes to Faster Simulators
Simulators are increasingly crucial in decision making, but they can be time and memory consuming, hence they are often substituted by emulators. Emanuele Borgonovo has developed a faster emulation algorithm improving a technique pioneered by a South African statistician and mining engineer
29/10/2020
How to Summarize Graphs and Hypergraphs
Luca Trevisan has recently published an article about how to summarize these data structures in order to save memory and computational time while preserving their characteristic features.
08/09/2020
Dirk Hovy wins an ERC Starting Grant
Dirk Hovy, Scientific Director of DMI and Associate Professor of Computer Science, has won an ERC Starting Grant.
17/08/2020
Daniele Durante wins the Leonardo Da Vinci Medal
Daniele Durante has won the Leonardo Da Vinci Medal, awarded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research to the best scientific contributions by junior researchers.
24/06/2020
Two Generations of Bayesian Statisticians in a Bocconi BayesLab Webinar Series
The new BIDSA Research Unit on Bayesian Statistics will host an online seminar series in which outstanding young researchers have the opportunity to present their work and get discussion from toplevel senior scholars.