News&Events

BIDSA Affiliate Giacomo Zanella has been awarderd the 2016/17 "John Copas Prize in Statistics" for the best PhD thesis of the Department of Statistics at the University of Warwick (UK). Our best congratulations! Giacomo is currently Postdoctoral Fellow at Bocconi University within the ERC Project "New directions in Bayesian Nonparametrics".

As one of the latest editions to the Department of Decision Sciences and to the BIDSA team, Zecchina operates at the intersection between computer science, information theory, statistical physics, computational biology.

The first edition on Statistical Causal Learning will take place on July 10-22, 2017 at Villa del Grumello, Lake Como.

Carlo Baldassi has recently joined the Department of Decision Sciences as an Assistant Professor and BIDSA as an affiliate. His research takes on optimization problems and complex systems, in particular in the field of computational neuroscience and machine learning.

IGIER and BIDSA invite students in the MSc in Economic and Social Sciences (ESS) interested in pursuing a research career to join the two research centers. The deadline for applications is Friday, February 3rd , 2017 at 10:00 a.m.

If you missed our November 18th event, the videos of Michael I. Jordan's, Marc Mézard's, Aldo Rustichini's, Riccardo Zecchina's talks are now available on VideoLectures.net.

Featuring lectures by Michael I. Jordan (University of California, Berkeley), Marc Mézard (École normale supérieure), Aldo Rustichini (University of Minnesota) and Riccardo Zecchina (Politecnico di Torino).

Marco Ottaviani, professor of Economics and BIDSA fellow, took on the role of Dean of Research in the team of new Bocconi Rector, Gianmario Verona, on November 1st 2016.

Carlo Favero (BIDSA fellow) and Vincenzo Galasso analyze the influence of age makeup on growth, interest rates and opportunities for implementing structural reforms during the Bocconi General Symposium on Pensions.