Heritage and ‘Urban Renewal’ in Istanbul30 April 2019In this seminar the focus will be on how the official heritage discourse in Turkey with its stress...
Portfolio Management and Optimal Execution via Convex Optimization30 April 2019In this talk I discuss the problem of managing a portfolio of financial assets in time, using...
Global Value Chains: The Economics of Spiders and Snakes29 April 2019The full abstract will be published shortly.
Price updating with production networks17 April 2019We provide a general non-parametric framework of variable markups in the presence of production...
Drilling in reinforced concrete: An overview17 April 2019Drilling in steel reinforced concrete is an important but very challenging application in the...
Facial beauty and statistical inference12 April 2019Facial attractiveness is a paradigm of a complex phenomenon depending on many variables through...
Tuscany and the transculturation of Middle Eastern objects11 April 2019In these seminars I shall consider the phenomenon of transculturation through an art-historical...
Feature-based categorical coding in human visual cortex: Evidence from similarities and differences between human vision and deep neural networks9 April 2019Humans are able to parse the complex flow of visual information into meaningful objects that can be...