Labex MME-DII

Modèles Mathématiques et Économiques de la Dynamique, de l’Incertitude et des Interactions

Actualité

Labex-phd-course

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We are pleased to welcome at ESSEC Business school on Monday 11th, Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th October 2021, Professor Paolo Guiotto from the University of Padova, Italy.

Professor Guiotto will teach a 9 hour Phd course on « Nonstandard Mathematical Methods in Asset Allocation », sponsored by LABEX.

Content:

  • Introduction : Classical static allocation Problems
  • Dynamic Allocation Problems : Martingale Approach, examples and analytic solutions
  • A crash course on Malliavin Calculus
  • Application of Malliavin Calculus to Dynamic Allocation

This course will be taught in class and online.

https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-labex-phd-course-180884228597

Call for propsals 2022-1

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The Labex MME-DII call for propsals 2022-1 is now open and will close on 9 October 23:59 (CET). The following funding schemes are available within the present call:

  • Scientific projects: either exploratory projects, for which up to 5,000 € can be requested, or ongoing projects, for which up to 2,000 € can be requested. Funding typically covers research stays and/or data collection or acquisition. Equipment and conference participation are not eligible for funding.
  • Scientific events: seminars, conferences, workshops, summer schools, or thematic cycles consisting of a series of such events together with advanced courses around a unifying theme.
  • Master’s study grants of 7,000 € for the academic year 2022-2023. Labex MME-DII covers the full cost of the grants. The master’s program must be offered by one of Labex MME-DII’s participating institutions. The application must be submitted by the director of the master’s program, who will subsequently award the grants to their most deserving students.

In all cases, the applicant must be a member of Labex MME-DII. Proposals are selected on the basis of their scientific quality, relevance to Labex MME-DII’s agenda, inter-disciplinary nature, and socio-economic impact. Within the scientific projects and scientific events schemes, targeted funding is available to proposals with a strong focus on inter-disciplinarity and/or impact.

To submit a proposal, please login to the CY Initiative online submission platform

https://cy-initiative.smapply.io/prog/labex_mme-dii_-_call_for_proposals_2022-1_/

and follow instructions therein (you will need to create an account if you don’t have one already).

prochain appel à propositions 2022-1 sera lancé en septembre 2021 et clos en octobre 2021. Les instruments de financement suivants seront ouverts :

Call for Proposals 2021-2

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The Labex MME-DII call for propsals 2021-2 is now open and will close on 7 March 23:59 (CET). EMAIL SUBMISSIONS ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTED. To submit a proposal, please login to the CY Initiative online submission platform

https://cy-initiative.smapply.io/prog/labex_mme-dii_-_call_for_proposals_2021-2/

and follow instructions therein (you will need to create an account on your first submission).

The following funding schemes are available within the present call:

  • Scientific projects: either exploratory projects, for which up to 5,000 € can be requested, or ongoing projects, for which up to 2,000 € can be requested. Funding typically covers research stays and/or data collection or acquisition. Equipment and conference participation are not eligible for funding.
  • Scientific events: seminars, conferences, workshops, summer schools, or thematic cycles consisting of a series of such events together with advanced courses around a unifying theme.
  • Teaching buyouts. Labex MME-DII provides 8,000 € of funding in compensation for a teaching load reduction amounting to half of the statutory teaching load during the academic year 2021-2022.
  • Research internships. Labex MME-DII covers at most half of the internship’s cost. The application must be submitted by the intern’s academic mentor.

In all cases, the applicant must be a member of Labex MME-DII. Proposals are selected on the basis of their scientific quality, relevance to Labex MME-DII’s agenda, inter-disciplinary nature, and socio-economic impact. Within the scientific projects and scientific events schemes, targeted funding is available to proposals with a strong focus on inter-disciplinarity and/or impact.

Séminaire de clôture du Cycle Thématique sur la Complexité

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Lundi 2 Décembre,  Maison Internationale de la Recherche, Institut d’Études Avancés de l’Université de Cergy-Pontoise.
Le séminaire débutera à 12h30 par  déjeuner auquel les participants sont conviés (enregistrement gratuit mais obligatoire sur le lien https://form.jotformeu.com/93132756002348 ), et il s’adresse à un large public interdisciplinaire de chercheurs et étudiants avancés. A cette occasion nous recevrons deux orateurs, qui abordent à deux échelles très différents la problématique de la cognition (individuelle et sociale):

1. Vittorio Loreto , SONY Computer Science Laboratories, Paris, France; Sapienza University of Rome, Physics Dept., Rome, Italy; Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Title: Exploring the adjacent possible: play, anticipation, surprise Novelties frequently occur in our individual daily lives. We meet new people, learn and use new words, listen to new songs, watch a new movie, adopt new technology.Such unique experiences sometimes happen by chance. Often they are triggered by earlier new experiences, thus providing a compelling correlation between their appearances. 
Historically the notion of the « new » has always offered challenges to humankind. What is new often defies the natural tendency of humans to predict and control future events. Still, we base most of our decisions on our expectations about the future. From this perspective, a deep understanding of the underlying mechanisms through which novelties emerge and humans anticipate their occurrence is key to progress in all sectors of human activities. The common intuition that one new thing often leads to another is captured, mathematically, by the notion of « adjacent possible ».The adjacent possible is the set of all those things (ideas, linguistic structures, concepts, molecules, genomes, technological artifacts, etc.) that are one step away from what exists, and hence can arise from incremental modifications and recombination of existing material.
In this talk, I’ll present a mathematical framework describing the expansion of the adjacent possible, whose predictions are borne out in several data sets drawn from social and technological systems.

2.  Boris Gutkin ,  Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et    computationnelles,  Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.

Title: Modelling the Role of Neural Oscillatory Activity in Working Memory.
Cognitive effort  such as remembering information in the short-term that is used to perform tasks (working memory) leads to a seeming cacophony of brain oscillations. During experimental tasks engaging working memory (WM), data show that specific oscillatory frequency bands of brain activity modulate in space and time.Despite ample data correlating such modulation to task performance, a mechanistic explanation remains elusive. To start deciphering this connection we built and analysed a reduced model of the sustained neural activity that implements WM. Based on our model we propose that flexible control of neural oscillations provides a unified mechanism for the rapid and controlled transitions between the computational operations required by WM. The various frequency bands determine the dynamic gating regimes enabling the necessary operations for WM, whose succession explains the need for the complex oscillatory brain dynamics during effortful cognition.