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24/01/2022
Botond Szabo on the Annals of Statistics Editorial Board

The Bocconi Associate Professor was named Associate Editor of the journal published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

24/01/2022
New ERC Projects in Statistics and Cryptography at BIDSA

Two new ERC projects awarded at BIDSA: Botond Szabo's Starting Grant "The missing mathematical story of Bayesian uncertainty quantification for big data" and Alon Rosen's Advanced Grant "Fine-Grained Cryptography"

22/12/2021
2022 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

16/12/2021
Crypto Is Far More Than Currencies

New Bocconi Professor Alon Rosen studies the interplay of computational complexity and cryptography, and is the recipient of an ERC advanced grant on these topics

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BIDSA Hybrid Seminar: "Two applications of the variational form of Bayes theorem”

BIDSA Hybrid Seminar 2021: Haavard Rue, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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Giornata Teorica Workshop

BIDSA is pleased to invite you to the workshop "Giornata Teorica", organized by Luca Trevisan and Alon Rosen. The event will take place in hybrid form on Monday December 13th and will include talks and presentations from several speakers. Read more to find out the full programme.

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Second Edition of Junior Bayes Beyond the Borders (JB^3)

The 2021 edition of Junior Bayes Beyond the Borders (JB^3) is an online seminar series jointly organized by the BayesLab at Bocconi University and j-ISBA, the junior section of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). This year the series will feature talks by the winners of the Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award by j-ISBA.

26/10/2021
Tommaso Rigon Awarded for His PhD Dissertation

Tommaso Rigon, Bocconi PhD in Statistics alumnus, received the Savage Award 2020 in Theory & Methods for his PhD dissertation, Finite-dimensional nonparametric priors: Theory and applications.
 

08/10/2021
A Simple yet Powerful Model for Irrigation Water Consumption

Irrigation agriculture plays a major role in global food security: it currently produces about 40% of all food consumed worldwide in just 20% of the total cultivated land. The water demand for irrigation agriculture has been constantly rising over the last decades, and it is expected to increase even further due to changes in precipitation patterns, higher temperatures and the expansion of irrigated areas to meet the soaring food demand.

08/10/2021
The Math of Stem Cells

Triggered by a challenging biological problem, Hugo Lavenant, Assistant Professor at Department of Decision Sciences and BIDSA Affiliate, has developed innovative mathematical models for stem cell differentiation.