Laura Sacerdote is full professor of Probability and Statistics since March
2000, at the Department of Mathematics of Turin University. She is
coordinator of graduate program in mathematics of Torino University and she
has also some administrative roles in Department and Faculty commissions.
Previously she has been a tenured research associate and then Associate
Professor of Probability and Statistics at the Universities of Salerno and
Turin. From August 1998 to July 1999 she has been a Visiting Scholar in the
Department of Statistics of the North Carolina State University at Raleigh
(U.S.A.), taking part in the local program of Biomathematics. Since the work
done for her thesis in Physics at the University of Turin, supervised by
Professor L.M. Ricciardi, her research activity has been focused on the
application of the theory of stochastic processes to biological modeling. Her
main research theme during the past several years, partly carried out in
collaboration with Naples research group and partly autonomously or with
international collaborations, consists of the study of stochastic processes
with special emphasis on modeling biological systems and on the mathematical
description of neurons. She is the author of numerous papers appearing mainly
in international journals and in proceedings of international meetings in
which she has participated by invitation. She has organized and chaired
various international workshops. Recently she was in the Scientific and
organizing Commitee of the 5th International Workshop ``Neuronal Coding''
hold in Aulla (Ms) from September 20 through 25, 2003 she has organized the
International School ''Does noise simplify or complicate the dynamics of non
linear systems?'' held inTorino from April 13 to 17 and has chaired the
workshop ''Noise and biological Systems'' held in Torino from April 19 to 21,
2004 . Recently she was in the local Organizing Committee of Biocomp 2005 and
she has organized (July 2006) a special Session on "Stochastic Processes
and their Application" at "Mathematics and its Application"
French Italian Meeting with G. Pistone (Politecnico of Torino), G. Peccati
(Paris VI) and Marc Yor (Paris VI). She was advisor for various ph.d. thesis
in applied mathematics. She is member of the scientific committee of “9-th Neural Coding” that
will take place at Limassol Cyprus, on October 29- November 3, 2010. Recently
she has visited the ``Probabilités et
Modèles Aléatoires'', Paris VI (February 2009), SAMSI, NC, USA (April 2010).
She was advisor for various ph.d.
thesis in applied mathematics and she coordinates the activity of a group of
4 research associates in Torino Mathematics Department.
