International Symposium
Bruno de Finetti Centenary Conference

Rome, November 15-17, 2006

Program


Wednesday, November 15 -

Aula Magna, Università "La Sapienza"
P.le Aldo Moro, 5

Mathematical Session 1: De Finetti's Legacy in Probability Today


9,00

Opening of Conference


Chairman: Marco Scarsini


9,45

Eugenio Regazzini (Università di Pavia, Italy)
De Finetti's contribution to the theory of random functions


10,45 - 11,15  

Coffee Break


11,15

Presentation of the Volumes
"Opere di Bruno de Finetti", Edited by Unione Matematica Italiana


Chairman: Giorgio Koch


15,00

Olav H. Kallenberg (Auburn University , USA)
Some highlights from the theory of multivariate symmetries


16,00 - 16,30  

Coffee Break


16,30

Persi Diaconis (Stanford University, USA)
Exchangeability in the Twenty First Century



12,00 - 18,00    Exhibition of Historical Books
"Probability from Cardano to de Finetti"
Library of Department of Mathematics "G. Castelnuovo"



Thursday, November 16 -

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Via della Lungara, 230

Mathematical Session 2: De Finetti's Legacy in Probability Today


9,00

Opening


Chairman: Carlo Sbordone


10,00

Steffen L. Lauritzen (Oxford University, UK)
Exchangeable Rasch Models


11,00 - 11,30  

Coffee Break


11,30

Paul Ressel (Katholische Universitat Eichstatt, Germany)
Exchangeability and semigroups


Chairman: Wolfgang Runggaldier


15,00

Yoseph Rinott (Hebrew University, Israel)
Exchangeability, concepts of dependence, and statistical implications


16,00 - 16,30  

Coffee Break


16,30

Murad Taqqu (Boston University, USA)
Dependence structures of some infinite variance stochastic processes



Friday, November 17 -

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
Via della Lungara, 230

Economics Session: Bruno de Finetti and Economics Analysis


9,00

Opening


Chairman: Siro Lombardini


9,30

Giorgio Lunghini (Università di Pavia, Italy)
Bruno de Finetti and Economic Theory


10,30 - 11,00  

Coffee Break


11,00

Luca Barone (Goldman-Sachs International, UK)
Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection: de Finetti scoops Markowitz
(Communications to the Conference by Mark Rubinstein and Harry Markowitz)


12,00

Flavio Pressacco (University of Udine, Italy)
B.de Finetti hero of the two worlds: (applied) mathematician and (quantitative) economist


13,00

Conclusions and Closure of Conference


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