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From: Walter Schachermayer
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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:50:34 -0500
From: Ronnie Sircar <sircar(a)Princeton.EDU>
Subject: Position
Dear Colleague,
I would be grateful if you would bring to the attention of potential
candidates you know the position described in the announcement below.
Best regards,
Ronnie Sircar.
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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Operations Research & Financial Engineering Department
The Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
invites applications for a faculty position at either the assistant
professor or senior level.
Candidates must possess a strong commitment to excellence in teaching
at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and show demonstrable
excellence in research. The search is for such persons within the
general areas of stochastics, optimization, simulation, financial
engineering, and information technology.
The department is in the School of Engineering and Applied Science,
and is strongly involved in the activities of the Bendheim Center for
Finance. The appointee is expected to perform well within an
engineering setting and to have strong interest in our collaborative
efforts in finance.
Princeton University is an affirmative action/equal opportunity
employer and especially welcomes applications from women and
minorities. Applicants should send a resume along with the names of
at least three persons who can serve as references. Applications will
be considered from the date of this announcement. Please submit your
application of interest in electronic format to:
ORFE-search(a)princeton.edu or by mail to: Search Committee, ORFE
Department, E-Quad, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544. For
information about how to self identify, please link to
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/dof/ApplicantsInfo.htm
by Walter Schachermayer by way of Andreas Schamanek
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From: Walter Schachermayer
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Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 06:12:57 -0500
From: Ursula Gerber <Ursula.Gerber(a)mail.quantum.at>
To: director(a)esi.ac.at, secr(a)esi.ac.at
Werte Damen und Herren,
darf ich Sie bitten, in Ihrem Umfeld den beigefügten Wettbewerb, der im
Rahmen der Gödel-Konferenz veranstaltet wird, anzukündigen bzw. ggf.
selber daran teilzunehmen.
Er richtet sich an Studierende, die nach dem 1.1.1970 geboren wurden,
mit den Fachrichtungen Logik, Mathematik, Physik, Informatik, Theologie
und Philosophie.
Erster Preis: EUR 20.000,- zweiter und dritter Preis: je EUR 5.000,-
Submission Deadline: 24.2.2006
Für Rückfragen stehe ich gerne zur Verfügung!
Herzlichen Dank, Ursula Gerber
Inst. f. Experimentalphysik
Boltzmanngasse 5
1090 Wien
+43 1 4277-512 05
Young Scholars' Competition
The Kurt Gödel Centenary: Horizons of Truth organizers and sponsors
invite young scholars in logic, mathematics, physics, philosophy,
computer science and theology to submit project proposals for young
scholars' competition honoring Kurt Gödels hundredth birthday.
Web: http://www.logic.at/goedel2006/index.php?students
Project Proposal Description
Submitted project proposals should be strongly connected to the
scientific achievements including recent applications and/or life of
Kurt Gödel. The proposals can cover any of the following disciplines:
logic, mathematics, physics, computer science, theology or philosophy.
An interdisciplinary, international jury will carefully consider all
proposals, and will invite authors of the ten best submissions to the
Horizons of Truth Symposium to present their work. The travel and hotel
costs of each of the ten candidates will be paid by the organizers.
At the symposium, a fifteen minute time slot will be allocated to each
presentation. The presentations will take place at Josefinum on April
26, 2006 in the late afternoon (exact time to be announced here in due
course).
Participation Criteria
In order to participate in this competition, you must be born on or
after January 1, 1970.
Required documents
1. Project proposal
2. Curriculum vitae
3. List of references
Important note: Submissions should contain a description of the future
research project, its relation to the fields of research as mentioned
above, and to Kurt Gödel's life or work, and possible applications.
Including the list of references, and the CV it should not exceed six
(6) pages in PDF format.
The prize will facilitate the implementation of this particular project
or other scientific work. Prizes will be awarded without conditions or
constraints.
Prizes
Ten chosen projects will compete for three top prizes.
1st prize: 20 000 EUR
2nd and 3rd prize: 5000 EUR each
The prize ceremony will be held on Kurt Gödels birthday at the gala
dinner in the famous Belvedere Palace.
Deadlines
Submission deadline: Monday, 24. February 2006. 6 p.m. CET
Notifications: Monday, 15. March 2006.
Submission Modalitites
Only the electronic submissions using the EasyChair system on the
Conference's webpage will be accepted.
The modalities are available here
http://www.logic.at/goedel2006/index.php?submissions.
by Walter Schachermayer by way of Andreas Schamanek
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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 08:42:39 +0100
From: Institut für Mathematik <sekr.mathematik(a)univie.ac.at>
Subject: MathKoll. am 15.02./Prof. Warwick Tucker
Mathematisches Kolloquium
EINLADUNG
zu einem
VORTRAG
von
Prof. Dr. Warwick Tucker
(Dept. of Math., Uppsala University, Sweden)
mit dem Thema:
''The Lorenz attractor exists''
Abstract:
Four decades ago, the meteorologist Edward Lorenz introduced a simplified
model of atmospheric dynamics in his now famous article "Deterministic
Non-periodic Flow" published in the Journal of Atmospheric Sciences. The
simple system of differential equations produced amazingly complicated
solutions. One stunning property was that solutions starting very close
together were separated at an exponential rate. This gave rise to the
concept of the "butterfly effect", and seriously undermined the idea of a
deterministic world. Another feature of the system was that almost all
solutions tended to an invariant set on which they moved in a non-periodic
fashion.
For over 35 years Lorenz' equations defied all attempts at proving that they
really exhibit a so called "strange attractor". In this talk, I will present
a proof of this fact, produced during my graduate studies at Uppsala
University. By using a combination of pure and applied mathematics, it is
possible to prove that the equations do indeed give rise to a strange
attractor. Moreover, the attractor is robust, i.e., all nearby systems will
display similar strange attractors. The proof has two main ingredients:
rigorous numerics - which produces information about the global behaviour of
the system, and normal form theory - which deals with subtle local
properties of the solutions.
This work was described in Nature (by Ian Stewart), and won several prizes,
e.g. the European Mathematical Society Prize, and the R. E. Moore Prize for
Applications of Interval Analysis.
Zeit: Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006,
15.45 Uhr (Kaffeejause), anschlieszend 16.15 Uhr Vortrag
Ort: Fakultaet fuer Mathematik der Universitaet Wien, Nordbergstr. 15,
Seminarraum C 2.09
Harald Rindler
Arnold Neumaier
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Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:14:05 +0100
From: Monique JEANBLANC <Monique.Jeanblanc(a)univ-evry.fr>
Subject: EVRY RISK MEASURE
Une conférence de deux jours (6 et 7 juillet 2006) est organisée par
l'université d'EVRY sur le thème
MESURES DE RISQUE
Les orateurs ayant confirmé leur participation sont
Nicole El Karoui,
Hans Follmer,
Jocelyne Bion Nadal,
Freddy Delbaen,
Stanislas Uryasev,
Michel Crouhy,
Fabio Maccheroni,
Marco Frittelli
Rose Anne Dana
Contactez Valérie Picot valerie(a)univ-evry.fr pour vous inscrire. Les
frais d'inscription comportent les repas de midi du jeudi et du
vendredi.
Cette conférence est soutenue par le groupe AMAMEF
Les organisateurs
Nadiane Bellamy nadine.bellamy(a)univ-evry.fr
Laurent Denis laurent.denis(a)univ-evry.fr
Stéphane Crépey stephane.crepey(a)univ-evry.fr
Monique Jeanblanc monique.jeanblanc(a)univ-evry.fr
by Walter Schachermayer by way of Andreas Schamanek
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From: Walter Schachermayer
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Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 17:56:12 -0000
From: "Norberg,R" <R.Norberg(a)lse.ac.uk>
Subject: Lectureship at LSE
Dear Colleague,
If you should happen to know a suitable potential applicant then,
please, forward this.
Lecturer in Statistics
Applicants should have a first rate track record in research in
statistics or stochastic modelling in any area of statistics but
knowledge of computational statistics would be looked upon favourably.
Strengths of the Department are: time series, theoretical statistics and
probability, actuarial and financial mathematics, social statistics and
industrial statistics.
The closing date for receipt of applications is 10 March 2006
Further details are at
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/recruitment/jobsAtLSE/CurrentVacancies.htm…
Details about the department are at www.lse.ac.uk/collections/statistics
Information about the new MSc Risk and Stochastics and staff teaching
and conducting it are at
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/statistics/study/prospective/MScRiskandSto…
Thanks
R Norberg
Professor Ragnar Norberg
Department of Statistics
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
Tel +44 (0) 20 7955 6030
R.Norberg(a)lse.ac.uk
http://stats.lse.ac.uk/norberg/
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Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 15:07:08 -0800
From: pims <pims(a)pims.math.ca>
Subject: PIMS-CMM Frontiers in Mathematics and Economics
The Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences is pleased to
announce the Summer School Frontiers in Mathematics and Economics, at
the University of British Columbia, July 10-31, 2006
http://www.pims.math.ca/science/2006/06ssfme/
Please also find the attached poster for the summer school.
[attachment removed by admin; info available at above URL]
The summer school brings together graduate students, postdoctoral
fellows and young faculty members from business schools, economics,
mathematics and operations research with leading economists and
mathematicians. It exposes students in business administration and
economics to mathematical models and methods that they will find useful
in their research, and graduate students and young researchers in
mathematics and operations research to new mathematical problems arising
from economic theory.
The main focus of the summer school is a set of four courses, each
taught by world leaders in the corresponding discipline. All courses are
accompanied by introductory tutorials and a series of seminar presentations.
1. Topic: Dynamic Contract Theory and Corporate Finance
Lecturer: Jean-Charles Rochet (Professor of Mathematics and
Economics, U. Toulouse I)
2. Topic: Equilibrium: Theory and Computation
Lecturers: Kenneth L. Judd (Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution on
War, Revolution and Peace),
R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, (Professor of Mathematics, U. Washington),
Roger Wets (Professor of Mathematics, UC, Davis)
3. Topic: Information and Markets
Lecturer: William R. Zame (Professor of Mathematics and Economics,
UC, Los Angeles)
4. Topic: The mathematical Structure of Quality Pricing
Lecturer: Ivar Ekeland (Professor of Mathematics and Economics, UBC)
Please forward this message to the members in your Economics Department
and Business School if possible.