Seminars

Seminars 2025 

(Mandatory for the first-year Ph.D. Students)Speaker: Prof. Miguel Carrión Ruiz Peinado, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
Chair:  Prof. María Ruth Domínguez Martín, University of Brescia
Tuesday, January 28th, 2025, 11:30 AM
Room A6, C.da Santa Chiara, 50

(Mandatory for the first-year Ph.D. Students)Speaker: Prof. Thibault Prunet, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. France
Chair:  Prof. Claudia Archetti, University of Brescia
Thursday, January 16th, 2025, 2:30 PM
Room B2, Contrada Santa Chiara, 50

Seminars 2024 

October 8th, 2024, 2 p.m. - Sala Biblioteca, Via S. Faustino 74/b

November 12th, 2024, 2 p.m. - Sala Biblioteca, Via S. Faustino 74/b

(Mandatory for the first-year Ph.D. Students)Speaker: Prof. Alberto Santini, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Chair:  Prof. Claudia Archetti, University of Brescia
Thursday, November 7th, 2024, 11:00 AM
Room Aula A6, C.da Santa Chiara 50

(Mandatory for the first-year Ph.D. Students)Speaker: Prof. Andreas Groll, Technische Universität Dortmund, German
Chair:  Prof. Marica Manisera, Prof. Paola Zuccolotto, University of Brescia
Tuesday, October 15th, 2024, 3:00 PM
Sala della Biblioteca, San Faustino Building

(Mandatory for the first-year Ph.D. Students)Speaker: Prof. Afzal Siddiqui, Stockholm University (Sweden)
Chair:  Prof. Giorgia Oggioni, Prof. Rossana Riccardi, University of Brescia
Wednesday, September 25th, 2024, 11:00 AM
Room D5, Brixia Building

Machine Learning at the service of optimization algorithms for solving combinatorial optimization problems(Mandatory for the first-year Ph.D. Students)Speaker: Prof. Pantelis Lappas, University of Aegean (Greece)
Chair:  Prof. Luca Bertazzi, University of Brescia
Thursday, September 19th, 2024, 9:00 AM
Sala della Biblioteca, San Faustino Building

(Mandatory for the first-year Ph.D. Students)Speaker: Prof. Juan José Salazar González, Universidad de La Laguna - Tenerife (Spain)
Chair:  Prof. Carlo Filippi, University of Brescia
Thursday, June  13th, 2024, 11:30 AM
Sala della Biblioteca, San Faustino Building


Quasi exact frequentist inference (what is it, how it performs and how to compute it)(Mandatory for the first-year Ph.D. Students)Speaker: Prof. Chris Lloyd, Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Chair: Prof. Enrico Ripamonti
Thursday, June  6th, 2024, 12:00 PM
Sala della Biblioteca, San Faustino Building

PhD Annual MeetingAnnual Meeting of the PhD Programmes in Analytics for Economics and Management (AEM) and Business and Law (B&L) for an open discussion of the research projects/dissertation projects.Friday, May 24th, 2024, 02:30 PM
Room B4, Santa Chiara Building
Registration is mandatory by May 20th, 2024, via the following form: https://forms.gle/jbDh2ahcTqBAXvE36



From agent-based simulations to machine learning: The experience of the Applied Research Team in computational economics
(Mandatory for the first-year Ph.D. Students)Speaker: Dott. Aldo Glielmo, Bank of Italy, Applied Research Team of the IT Directorate
Chair: Prof. Giorgia Oggioni and  Prof.  Maria Elena De Giuli (University of Pavia)
Monday, May 20th, 2024, 10:00 AM
Sala della Biblioteca, San Faustino Building

Service level requirements in real-life-sized bike sharing systems
Speaker: Prof. Jean-François Côté, Department of Operations and Decision Systems, Université Laval, Quebec City (Canada)
Chair: Prof. Gianfranco Guastaroba
Wednesday, May 15th, 2024, 4:00 PM
Sala della Biblioteca, San Faustino Building

Optimal medium-term electricity procurement for cement producers considering flexible consumption(Mandatory for the first-year Ph.D. Students)Speaker: Prof. Miguel Carrión Ruiz Peinado, Universidad de Castilla – La Mancha, Spain
Chair: Prof. María Ruth Domínguez Martín
Thursday, April 18th, 2024, 09:30 AM
Sala della Biblioteca, San Faustino Building

Exact Solutions to Stochastic Programs with Decision-Dependent UncertaintySpeaker: Prof. Giovanni Pantuso, University of Copenhagen, Denmark  
Chair: Prof. Luca Bertazzi
Tuesday, April 16th, 2024, 11:00 AM
Sala della Biblioteca, San Faustino Building

Optimal Insurance for Prudent Risk-Averters and Risk-Lovers Speaker: Prof. Olivier Le Courtois, EM-Lyon Business School, France
Chair: Prof. Francesco Menoncin
Monday, April 8th, 2024, 11:30 AM
Room A5, Santa Chiara Building

Distributionally robust chance-constrained Markov decision processesSpeaker: Prof. Abdel Lisser, CentraleSupelec , L2S, Université De Paris Saclay, Paris, France   
Chair: Prof. Giorgia Oggioni
Thursday, March 21st, 2024, 3:00 PM
Room D5, Brixia Building

An Introduction to Stochastic Dynamic Programming
(Mandatory for the first-year Ph.D. Students)
Speaker: Prof. Justin Goodson, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis (USA)  
Chair: Prof. Luca Bertazzi
Wednesday, February 21st, 2024, 2:00 PM
Room A6, S. Chiara Building


Short Course: Bayesan Statistics (an introduction to)(Mandatory for the first-year Ph.D. Students)
Speaker: Prof. Luigi Spezia - Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland, Aberdeen, UK 
Chair: Prof. Paola Zuccolotto
Monday, February 5th, 2024, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM –2:30 PM-4:30 PM
Tuesday, February 6th, 2024, 12:30 PM, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM –2:30 PM-4:30 PM Informatics Laboratory, S. Chiara Building (Monday, February 5th)Room A5, S. Chiara Building (Tuesday, February 6th) 

Computational Performance Enhancement Strategies for Risk-Averse Two-Stage Stochastic Generation and Transmission Network Expansion Planning
Speaker: Prof. Luis Baringo - Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Chair: Prof. Maria Ruth Dominguez MartinMonday, January 22nd, 2024, 2:30 PMRoom A6, S. Chiara Building

How to efficiently (and easily) compute solution of Single-Leader-Multi-Follower games: two different approaches (Mandatory for the first-year Ph.D. Students)Speaker: Prof. Didier Aussel - Université de Perpignan, France Chair: Prof. Rossana RiccardiTuesday, January 11st, 2024, 3:30 PMRoom C1, S. Chiara Building

Seminars 2023

Facility Location: From Deterministic to Stochastic to Endogenous Uncertainty Prof. Giovanni Pantuso - University of Copenhagen Chair: Prof. Luca BertazziWednesday, November 22nd, 2023, 9:00 AMRoom A6, S. Chiara Building

A primer on bilevel optimization under uncertaintyProf. Martin Schmidt, Trier University Chair: Prof.  Rossana Riccardi, prof. Giorgia Oggioni
Tuesday, November 7th, 2023, 15:00 PM
Room A6 - S. Chiara Building

A review on lambda quantiles
Prof. Ilaria Peri, Birkbeck, University of LondonChair: Prof. Enrico RipamontiThursday, July 13th, 2023, 11:30 AMRoom B4, S. Chiara Building
A mean value theorem for tangentially convex functionsProf. Juan Enrique Martínez-Legaz, Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaChair: Prof. Elisabetta Allevi and Prof. Rossana RiccardiThursday, May 18th, 2023, 3:00 PMRoom A5, S. Chiara Building

The day after optimal: Operations Research for Modern Logistics

Prof. Stefan Nickel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)

Chair: Prof. Maria Grazia Speranza, University of Brescia

Thursday, April 2nd, 2023, 11:30 AM

Room A6, S. Chiara Building


Reservoir computing for Macroeconomic Forecasting with Mixed Frequency Data Prof. Petros Dellaportas, University College London, UK Chair: Prof. Roberto Savona, University of Brescia Thursday, February 16th, 2023, 9:00 AMRoom A6, S. Chiara Building
An Introduction to Bayesian StatisticsProf. Luigi Spezia, The James Hutton Institute, Biomathematics & Statistics, ScotlandChair: Prof.ssa Paola Zuccolotto, University of BresciaWednesday, February 8th, 2023, 2:45 PMSala della Biblioteca, S. Faustino Building

Link Prediction Tools for Networked Economic and Financial Systems

Prof. Alessandro Spelta, University of Pavia

Chair: Prof. Giorgia Oggioni, University of Brescia

Wednesday, February 8th, 2023, 10:30 AM

Sala della Biblioteca, S. Faustino Building

A Neural Network-Based Distributional Constraint Learning Methodology for Mixed-Integer Stochastic Optimization
Prof. Carlos Ruiz Mora, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Chair: Prof. Rossana Riccardi, University of Brescia
Wednesday, January 25th, 2023, 3:00 PM
Sala della Biblioteca, S. Faustino Building