News
2026
Upcoming: 14th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology
13–17 July 2026
Andrea Agazzi, Daniele Cappelletti, and Aidan Howells will participate in the 14th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, July 13–17, 2026 at the University of Graz, Austria.
Upcoming: 5th Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics
8–12 June 2026
Andrea Agazzi, Enrico Bibbona, Daniele Cappelletti, Aidan Howells, and Paola Siri will participate in the 5th Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, June 8–12, 2026 in Palermo, Italy.
Upcoming: Chemical Reaction Networks in Hawaii
17–22 May 2026
Enrico Bibbona, Daniele Cappelletti, and Aidan Howells will participate in Chemical Reaction Networks in Hawaii, May 17–22, 2026 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
New preprint: Stochastic ordering tools for continuous-time Markov chains
April 2026 (approx.)
Daniele Cappelletti, Giulio Cuniberti, and Paola Siri have posted a new preprint on arXiv: Stochastic ordering tools for continuous-time Markov chains and applications to reaction network models. The paper introduces a new algorithm for the stochastic comparison of reaction network models, released as open-source code. arXiv:2604.00756 · code.
The ConStRAINeD project has concluded
28 February 2026
The ConStRAINeD project (PRIN 2022, Prot. 2022XRWY7W) has officially concluded today. Many thanks to all members, postdocs, students, collaborators, and to the speakers and participants of the events organized within the project. This website remains online as a record of the project’s activities and outputs.
Paper published: LDP for the covariance process in fully connected Gaussian neural networks
21 January 2026
The paper by Luisa Andreis, Federico Bassetti, and Christian Hirsch, LDP for the covariance process in fully connected Gaussian neural networks, has been published in Electronic Journal of Probability 31, article no. 22, 1–35, 2026. DOI.
Paper published: Understanding the householder solar panel consumer
20 January 2026
The paper by Marta Leocata, Giulia Livieri, Silvia Morlacchi, Fausto Corvino, Franco Flandoli, and Alberto Pirni, Understanding the householder solar panel consumer: a Markovian model and its societal implications, has been published online in Technological Forecasting and Social Change 225, 2026. DOI.
Project members at the 4th Workshop on Formal Reaction Kinetics and Related Questions
7 January 2026
Andrea Agazzi, Daniele Cappelletti, and Aidan Howells participated in the 4th Workshop on Formal Reaction Kinetics and Related Questions, held January 7–9, 2026 in Szeged, Hungary.
2025
Luisa Andreis at the Probability Group seminar series, Oxford
1 December 2025
Luisa Andreis presented at the Probability Group seminar series, University of Oxford, UK, on December 1, 2025.
Luisa Andreis at the Seminario del Gruppo di Probabilità, Roma Tor Vergata
24 November 2025
Luisa Andreis presented at the Seminario del Gruppo di Probabilità, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy, on November 24, 2025.
Luisa Andreis at the SINEQ Final Conference, GSSI
20 October 2025
Luisa Andreis participated in the SINEQ Final Conference, held October 20–24, 2025 at GSSI, L’Aquila, Italy.
Luisa Andreis at the WK60 Workshop “Recent Developments in Spatial Interacting Random Systems”
15 October 2025
Luisa Andreis participated in the WK60 Workshop “Recent Developments in Spatial Interacting Random Systems”, held October 15–17, 2025 at WIAS, Berlin, Germany.
Daniele Cappelletti at the 65th ISI World Statistics Congress
5 October 2025
Daniele Cappelletti participated in the 65th ISI World Statistics Congress, held October 5–9, 2025 in The Hague, the Netherlands.
The ConStRAINeD project has been extended
28 September 2025
The ConStRAINeD project, originally scheduled to conclude on 28 September 2025, has been extended. The new conclusion date is 28 February 2026.
New preprint: Edwards–Wilkinson limit for a stochastic advection-diffusion PDE
September 2025 (approx.)
Spyridon Kotitsas, Dejun Luo, and Mario Maurelli have posted a new preprint on arXiv: Edwards–Wilkinson limit for a stochastic advection-diffusion PDE. arXiv:2509.07956.
New preprint: Homogenisation of a passive scalar transported by locally supported white noise
September 2025 (approx.)
Filippo Butori, Avi Mayorcas, and Silvia Morlacchi have posted a new preprint on arXiv: Homogenisation of a passive scalar transported by locally supported white noise. arXiv:2509.06878.
Luisa Andreis at the Oberwolfach Workshop “Large Scale Stochastic Dynamics”
31 August 2025
Luisa Andreis participated in the Oberwolfach Workshop “Large Scale Stochastic Dynamics”, held August 31 – September 5, 2025 at MFO Oberwolfach, Germany.
Paper published: Structural properties in the diffusion of the solar photovoltaic in Italy
29 July 2025
The paper by Franco Flandoli, Fausto Corvino, Marta Leocata, Giulia Livieri, Silvia Morlacchi, and Alberto Pirni, Structural properties in the diffusion of the solar photovoltaic in Italy: individual people/householder vs firms, has been published online in Decisions in Economics and Finance, 2025. DOI.
Project members at SIAM AG25
7 July 2025
Andrea Agazzi, Daniele Cappelletti, and Aidan Howells participated in the SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry (AG25), held July 7–11, 2025 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
New preprint: Stability of randomly switching stochastic reaction networks
July 2025 (approx.)
Daniele Cappelletti, Aidan Howells, and Chuyu Xu have posted a new preprint on arXiv: Stability of randomly switching stochastic reaction networks with asymptotically linear transition rates. arXiv:2507.09421.
Project members at the 2025 INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference
30 June 2025
Andrea Agazzi and Daniele Cappelletti participated in the 2025 INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference, held June 30 – July 3, 2025 at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Silvia Morlacchi at “Stochastic bridges: From Avon to Arno”
25 June 2025
Silvia Morlacchi participated in Stochastic bridges: From Avon to Arno, held June 25–26, 2025 at Università degli Studi di Pisa, Italy.
The Stochastic Reaction Networks Workshop has concluded
18 June 2025
The Stochastic Reaction Networks Workshop, organized by the ConStRAINeD project at Politecnico di Torino, took place June 16–18, 2025. Fifteen speakers from across Europe, North America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia presented novel theoretical results on stochastic reaction networks and their use for modelling and inference. Thanks to all participants and speakers!
The Stochastic Reaction Networks Summer School has concluded
13 June 2025
The Stochastic Reaction Networks Summer School, organized by the ConStRAINeD project, took place June 9–13, 2025 at Hotel Panoramique in Torgnon, Aosta Valley. Lecturers Philippe Robert (INRIA) and Wasiur R. KhudaBukhsh (University of Nottingham) led the program for an audience of post-docs, PhD and master students. Thanks to all the lecturers and participants!
Luisa Andreis at the Workshop in Kinetic Limits and Probability
9 June 2025
Luisa Andreis participated in the Workshop in Kinetic Limits and Probability, held June 9–13, 2025 at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy.
New preprint: Noise-induced stabilization in a chemical reaction network
June 2025 (approx.)
Andrea Agazzi and Lucie Laurence have posted a new preprint on arXiv: Noise-induced stabilization in a chemical reaction network without boundary effects. arXiv:2506.12163.
Paper published: A new path method for exponential ergodicity
15 May 2025
The paper by David F. Anderson, Daniele Cappelletti, Wai-Tong Louis Fan, and Jinsu Kim, A new path method for exponential ergodicity of Markov processes on ℤd, with applications to stochastic reaction networks, has been published online in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 24(2), 1668–1710, 2025. DOI.
New preprint: LDP for the covariance process in fully connected Gaussian neural networks
12 May 2025
Luisa Andreis, Federico Bassetti, and Christian Hirsch have posted a new preprint on arXiv: LDP for the covariance process in fully connected Gaussian neural networks. arXiv:2505.08062.
Project members at SIAM DS25
11 May 2025
Daniele Cappelletti and Aidan Howells participated in the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS25), held May 11–15, 2025 in Denver, CO, USA.
Luisa Andreis at “Women in Random Geometric Systems”
5 March 2025
Luisa Andreis participated in Women in Random Geometric Systems, held March 5–8, 2025 at TU Munich, Germany.
Luisa Andreis at “Stochastic Processes on Random Geometries”
17 February 2025
Luisa Andreis participated in Stochastic Processes on Random Geometries, held February 17–21, 2025 at TU Braunschweig, Germany.
Silvia Morlacchi joins the project
1 February 2025
Silvia Morlacchi has been hired as a postdoctoral fellow funded by the ConStRAINeD project, based at Università di Pisa under the supervision of Mario Maurelli. Welcome Silvia!
Luisa Andreis at “Critical Behaviour in Spatial Particle Systems”
29 January 2025
Luisa Andreis participated in Critical Behaviour in Spatial Particle Systems, held January 29–31, 2025 at WIAS, Berlin, Germany.
Luisa Andreis at the SLMath Connections Workshop
23 January 2025
Luisa Andreis participated in the Connections Workshop: Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures, held January 23–24, 2025 at SLMath, Berkeley, CA, USA.
2024
Paper published: Fair Artificial Currency Incentives in Repeated Weighted Congestion Games
16 December 2024
The paper by Leonardo Pedroso, Andrea Agazzi, W. P. M. H. Heemels, and Mauro Salazar, Fair Artificial Currency Incentives in Repeated Weighted Congestion Games: Equity vs. Equality, was published in the Proceedings of the 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), pages 954–959, December 2024. DOI.
Luisa Andreis at “Mathematical Foundations of Network Models and their Applications”
15 December 2024
Luisa Andreis participated in Mathematical Foundations of Network Models and their Applications, held December 15–20, 2024 at BIRS & Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India.
Andrea Agazzi moves to Bern; Mario Maurelli joins the project in Pisa
30 November 2024
As of today, Andrea Agazzi has taken up a new position at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Mario Maurelli (Associate Professor at Università di Pisa) takes over as the project member based in Pisa. Andrea remains a member of the ConStRAINeD project. Welcome Mario, and congratulations Andrea!
Save the date: Stochastic Reaction Networks Summer School (June 9–13, 2025)
November 2024 (approx.)
The ConStRAINeD project will host the Stochastic Reaction Networks Summer School on June 9–13, 2025 in Torgnon (Aosta Valley, Italy), with lecturers Philippe Robert (INRIA) and Wasiur R. KhudaBukhsh (University of Nottingham). Open to post-docs and PhD/master students with a probability background; no registration fee.
Save the date: Stochastic Reaction Networks Workshop (June 16–18, 2025)
November 2024 (approx.)
The ConStRAINeD project will host the Stochastic Reaction Networks Workshop on June 16–18, 2025 at Politecnico di Torino. Three days of talks on novel theoretical results on Stochastic Reaction Networks and their use for modelling and inference. No registration fee.
Luisa Andreis at “Large Scale Behaviour of Interacting Diffusions”
18 September 2024
Luisa Andreis participated in Large Scale Behaviour of Interacting Diffusions, held September 18–20, 2024 in Padova, Italy.
Luisa Andreis at PSPDE XII
9 September 2024
Luisa Andreis participated in PSPDE XII, held September 9–13, 2024 in Trieste, Italy.
Paper published: Final nanoparticle size distribution under unusual parameter regimes
2 July 2024
The paper by Elena Sabbioni, Roberto Szabó, Paola Siri, Daniele Cappelletti, Gábor Lente, and Enrico Bibbona, Final nanoparticle size distribution under unusual parameter regimes, has been published online in The Journal of Chemical Physics 161, 014111, 2024. DOI.
Project members at KSMB-SMB Seoul
30 June 2024
Enrico Bibbona, Daniele Cappelletti, and Aidan Howells participated in the joint KSMB-SMB Seoul annual meeting, held June 30 – July 5, 2024 at Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Aidan Howells has started to work with us!
17 June 2024
Aidan’s 2-year postdoctoral position at Politecnico di Torino has officially started. Welcome Aidan!
Project members at the 4th Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics
10 June 2024
Andrea Agazzi, Luisa Andreis, and Martin Kolodziejczyk participated in the 4th Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, held June 10–14, 2024 in Rome, Italy.
Project members at SPT Chemical Reaction Networks, Pula
9 June 2024
Enrico Bibbona, Daniele Cappelletti, Aidan Howells, and Paola Siri participated in SPT Chemical Reaction Networks, held June 9–15, 2024 in Pula, Italy.
Paper published: Random splitting of point vortex flows
4 June 2024
The paper by Andrea Agazzi, Francesco Grotto, and Jonathan C. Mattingly, Random splitting of point vortex flows, has been published online in Electronic Communications in Probability 29, article no. 25, 1–10, 2024. DOI.
Luisa Andreis at the SISSA Mathematical Physics Seminar
19 March 2024
Luisa Andreis presented at the Mathematical Physics Seminar at SISSA, Trieste, Italy on March 19, 2024.
New preprint: Fair Artificial Currency Incentives in Repeated Weighted Congestion Games
6 March 2024
Leonardo Pedroso, Andrea Agazzi, W. P. M. H. Heemels, and Mauro Salazar have posted a new preprint on arXiv: Fair Artificial Currency Incentives in Repeated Weighted Congestion Games: Equity vs. Equality. arXiv:2403.03999.
New preprint: Scalable Bayesian inference for generalized linear mixed models via stochastic gradient MCMC
5 March 2024
Samuel I. Berchuck, Youngsoo Baek, Felipe A. Medeiros, and Andrea Agazzi have posted a new preprint on arXiv: Scalable Bayesian inference for generalized linear mixed models via stochastic gradient MCMC. arXiv:2403.03007.
New preprint: Spatial particle processes with coagulation
12 January 2024
Luisa Andreis, Wolfgang König, Heide Langhammer, and Robert I. A. Patterson have posted a new preprint on arXiv: Spatial particle processes with coagulation: Gibbs-measure approach, gelation and Smoluchowski equation. arXiv:2401.06668.
2023
Martin Kolodziejczyk joins the project
5 December 2023
Martin Kolodziejczyk has been hired as a postdoctoral fellow funded by the ConStRAINeD project, based at Politecnico di Milano. Welcome Martin!
New preprint: Random splitting of point vortex flows
27 November 2023
Andrea Agazzi, Francesco Grotto, and Jonathan C. Mattingly have posted a new preprint on arXiv: Random splitting of point vortex flows. arXiv:2311.15680.
Aidan Howells has been hired!
6 November 2023
Aidan Howells has been hired for a 2-year researcher position at Politecnico di Torino, starting in June 2024. Congratulations Aidan!
Giulio Cuniberti has started his PhD studies
1 November 2023
Giulio Cuniberti has started his PhD studies at Politecnico di Torino, under the supervision of Daniele Cappelletti, Paola Siri, and Barbara Trivellato. He will work on topics related to the ConStRAINeD project. Welcome Giulio!
One-year postdoctoral position at Politecnico di Milano
27 October 2023
A one-year postdoctoral position is being offered at the Mathematics Department of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. The deadline is November 24, 2023.
The project aims to study and use probabilistic techniques (scaling limits, fluctuations, large deviations) in the framework of stochastic reaction networks with spatial components.
You find the details of the call here. Please note that the starting date is flexible.
Two-year postdoctoral position at Politecnico di Torino
25 September 2023
A postdoctoral position is being offered at the Politecnico di Torino. The position is a 2-year position (advertised as a renewable 1-year position). To apply, please use the following link: https://careers.polito.it/default.aspx?id=135/2023-AR. Be aware the deadline of October 5 at 3PM is to be intended Rome time.
New preprint: A new path method for exponential ergodicity
September 2023 (approx.)
David F. Anderson, Daniele Cappelletti, Wai-Tong Louis Fan, and Jinsu Kim have posted a new preprint on arXiv: A new path method for exponential ergodicity of Markov processes on ℤd, with applications to stochastic reaction networks. arXiv:2309.06970.
New preprint: Gelation in cluster coagulation processes
August 2023 (approx.)
Luisa Andreis, Tejas Iyer, and Elena Magnanini have posted a new preprint on arXiv: Gelation in cluster coagulation processes. arXiv:2308.10232.