Domenico Marinucci (MSc, PhD)
Current Position
Director of the Department
of Mathematics
ERC Grantholder PASCAL (277742) 2011-2016 (New: Workshop
June 2013)
Full Professor of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (MAT06)
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 1
00133 Roma, Italy
Tel. +39-0672594105
Fax +39-0672594699
Email address: marinucc "at" mat "dot" uniroma2
"dot" it
Main
Academic Activities
1) Component of the Tor Vergata Cosmology Group and Core Team Member for the ESA
mission Planck
2) Component of the PhD Board in Mathematics
3) Associate Editor of the IMS Lecture Notes –
Monograph Series
4) Associate Editor of
the Electronic Journal of Statistics (IMS)
5) Associate Editor of
the Journal of Multivariate Analysis
6) Associate Editor of Statistics
and Probability Letters
7) INFN Associate at Rome Tor Vergata
Main
Research Interests: Mathematical Statistics and Probability
Harmonic analysis for
spherical random fields, higher order angular power spectra, spherical
wavelets. Tensor-valued random fields, spin wavelets, spin needlets. Weak
convergence and asymptotic theory. Characterization of isotropic random fields,
connections with group representation theory. Applications to cosmological
data. Statistical inference on stochastic processes: spectral analysis for
stationary and nonstationary processes, long memory, cointegration and
fractional cointegration.
Books
Random
Fields on the Sphere: Representations, Limit Theorems and Cosmological
Applications, with G.Peccati, Cambridge University
Press 2011
Publications on Peer-Reviewed International
Journals (updated February 2013)
1. Normal
Approximations for Wavelet Coefficients on Spherical Poisson Fields, (with C.Durastanti
and G.Peccati), under revision for the Journal of Mathematical Analysis and its Applications, (2013)
2. Needlet-Whittle Estimates on the
Unit Sphere, (with C.Durastanti
and X.Lan), Electronic
Journal of Statistics, in press, (2013)
3. Gaussian Semiparametric Estimates on the Unit
Sphere (with C.Durastanti and X.Lan), Bernoulli, in press, (2013)
4. Cosmic-Ray Anisotropies observed by the ARGO-YBJ Experiment, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 160-164 (2012)
5. On
the Linear Term Correction for Needlets/Wavelets non-Gaussianity Estimators (with S.Donzelli et
al.), Astrophysical Journal, 755, 19
(2012)
6. Detection of New Point Sources in WMAP 7 Year Data Using Internal
Templates and Needlets (with S.Scodeller
and F.Hansen), Astrophysical Journal, 753, 27 (2012)
7.
Adaptive Nonparametric Regression on Spin
Fiber Bundles (with C.Durastanti and D.Geller), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 104, pp. 16-38, (2012)
8. Planck early results. III. First assessment of the
Low Frequency Instrument in-flight performance (with the Planck
collaboration) Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 536, A3, (2011)
9. Planck early results. V. The Low Frequency Instrument data processing, (with the
Planck collaboration) Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 536, A5, (2011)
10.
On the Area of the Excursion Sets of
Spherical Gaussian Eigenfunctions (with I.Wigman),
Journal of Mathematical Physics, (2011)
11.
The Defect Variance of Random Spherical
Harmonics (with I.Wigman), Journal
of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 44, 355206 (2011)
12. Mixed
Needlets (with D.Geller), Journal of Mathematical Analysis and its Applications, Vol. 375,
pp. 610-630 (2011)
13. Introducing
Mexican needlets for CMB analysis: Issues for
practical applications and comparison with standard needlets (with S.Scodeller, O. Rujord, D.Geller,
F.Hansen, A.Mayeli), Astrophysical
Journal, (2011)
14. Ergodicity and Gaussianity for Spherical
Random Fields (with G.Peccati), Journal of
Mathematical Physics, n.4, 043301, (2010)
15. Spin Wavelets on the Sphere (with D. Geller), Journal of Fourier Analysis and its
Applications, Vol. 6, pp.840/884,
arxiv: 0811.2935 (2010)
16. A
statistical procedure for the identification of positrons in the PAMELA
experiment (with the
PAMELA collaboration), Astroparticle Physics, 34, 1-11, arXiv 1001.3522 (2010)
17. Directional Variations of the Non-Gaussianity Parameter
f_NL,
(with O. Rudjord, F.K.Hansen, X.Lan, M. Liguori, S.Matarrese), Astrophysical Journal, 708:1321-1325, arXiv: 0906.3232 (2010)
18. Representations of SO(3) and Angular Polyspectra (with G.Peccati), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Vol.
101, pp.77-100, arxiv: 0807.0687 (2010)
19. Group Representations and High-Resolution
Asymptotics for Subordinated Isotropic Fields on the Sphere (with G.Peccati), Bernoulli, in press, arxiv: 0706.2851 (2010)
20.
Spin Needlets
Spectral Estimation
(with D. Geller and X. Lan), Electronic
Journal of Statistics, Vol. 3, 1497-1530, arXiv 0907.3369 (2009)
21.
An Estimate of the
Primordial Non-Gaussianity Parameter f_NL Using the Needlet Bispectrum from
WMAP
(with O. Rudjord, F.K.Hansen, X.Lan, M. Liguori, S.Matarrese), Astrophysical Journal, 701:369-376, arxiv: 0901.3154 (2009)
22.
On the Dependence Structure of
Wavelet Coefficients for Spherical Random Fields (with X.Lan), Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Vol. 119, pp.
3749-3766, arxiv: 0805.4154, (2009)
23.
Adaptive Density Estimation for
Directional Data Using Needlets (with P.Baldi, G.Kerkyacharian, D. Picard), Annals of Statistics, Vol.37, pp.3362-3395, arxiv: 0807.5059 (2009)
24.
Subsampling Needlet Coefficients on the Sphere (with P.Baldi, G.Kerkyacharian, D.Picard),
Bernoulli, Vol. 15, 438-463, arxiv:
0706.4169, (2009)
25.
Statistical Challenges in the
Analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (with P. Cabella), Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol.3, N.1, pp. 61-95,
arxiv:0807.1816, (2009)
26.
Asymptotics for Spherical Needlets
(with
P.Baldi, G.Kerkyacharian, D.Picard), Annals
of Statistics, Vol. 37,
No. 3, 1150-1171,
math.st/0606599, (2009)
27.
Spin Wavelets for Polarization Data
Analysis, (with D.
Geller, F.Hansen, G.Kerkyacharian, D. Picard), Physical Review D, D78:123533, arxiv: 0811.2881, (2008)
28.
Needlet Detection of Features in CMB Sky and the Impact on Anisotropies and
Hemispherical Asymmetries, (with D.Pietrobon et al.), Physical
Review D, D78:103504,2008, arxiv: 0809.0010, (2008)
29.
The Needlet
Bispectrum (with X. Lan), Electronic Journal of Statistics, Vol. 2, pp.332-367, (2008)
30.
A Central Limit Theorem and Higher Order Results for the Angular
Bispectrum, Probability Theory
and Related Fields,
Vol. 141, N.3-4, pp. 389-409, math.pr/0509430,
(2008)
31.
High-Frequency
Asymptotics for Subordinated Isotropic Fields on an
Abelian Compact Group
(with G.Peccati), Stochastic Processes
and their Applications, Vol. 118,
pp. 585-613, math.pr/0607044, (2008)
32.
Spherical Needlets
for CMB Data Analysis
(with D.Pietrobon et al.), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 383, pp.539-545, (2008)
33.
High-Frequency Asymptotics for Wavelet-Based
Tests for Gaussianity and Isotropy on the Torus (with P.Baldi, G.Kerkyacharian, D.Picard), Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Vol.
99, pp. 606-636, math.st/0606154, (2008)
34.
Polynomial Cointegration among Stationary
Processes with Long Memory (with M.Avarucci), Journal of Time Series Analysis, Vol.28, pp.923-942, math.st/0607150, (2007)
35.
On
the Characterization of Isotropic Gaussian Fields on Homogeneous Spaces of
Compact Groups, (with
P.Baldi e V.S.Varadarajan), Electronic
Communications in Probability, 12, pp.291-302, (2007)
36.
Some Characterization of the Spherical Harmonics Coefficients for
Isotropic Random Fields, (with P.Baldi), Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 77, pp.
490-496, (2007)
37.
High Resolution Asymptotics for the Angular
Bispectrum of Spherical Random Fields, Annals of Statistics, Vol.34, N.1, pp. 1-41 (2006)
38.
Integrated
Sachs-Wolfe effect from the cross correlation of WMAP3 year and the NRAO VLA
sky survey data: New results and constraints on dark energy, (with A.Balbi e D.Pietrobon), Physical
Review D, 74, 043524, (2006)
39.
The integrated bispectrum as a test of cosmic microwave
background non-Gaussianity: detection power and limits on fNL with
WMAP data, (with P.
Cabella et al.), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,
Volume 369, n.1, pp. 819-824 (2006)
40.
Regression Methods for Testing Non-Gaussianity on a Sphere, Random Operator and Stochastic
Equations, Vol.13,
N.4, 313-324 (2005)
41.
Unbiased estimation of Angular Power Spectra (with G.Polenta et al.), Journal
of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue 11, n.1, (2005)
42.
Primordial non-Gaussianity: local curvature
method and statistical significance of constraints on fNL from WMAP
data, (with P.
Cabella et al.), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,
Volume 358, Issue 2, pp. 684-692 (2005)
43.
The Empirical process for Bivariate
Sequences with Long Memory, Statistical Inference on
Stochastic Processes, Volume 8, Issue 2, pp.205-223 (2005)
44.
Asymmetries in the Local Curvature of the WMAP Data (with F.K.Hansen et al.), Astrophysical
Journal Letters, p.L67-L70, (2004)
45.
The Empirical Process on Gaussian
Spherical Harmonics
(with M.Piccioni), Annals of Statistics,
vol. 32, pp.1261-1288 (2004)
46.
Search for non-Gaussianity in Pixel, Harmonic
and Wavelet Space: Compared and Combined (with P. Cabella et al.), Physical Review D,
vol.69, 063007, (2004)
47.
Testing for non-Gaussianity
on Cosmic Microwave Background
Radiation: a Review,
Statistical Science, Vol. 19, Issue
2, pp. 294-307 (2004)
48.
The Extended Empirical Process Test
for Non-Gaussianity, with an Application to Nonstandard Inflationary Models (with F.K. Hansen and N.Vittorio), Physical Review D, vol. 67, 123004,
(2003)
49.
Gaussian Semiparametric
Estimation for Random Fields with Singular Spectrum, Probability
and Mathematical Statistics, vol. 23, 1, pp.105-138 (2003)
50.
The empirical process approach for detection of non-Gaussianity in the
CMB (with F.Hansen
et al.), New Astronomy Reviews, Volume 47, Issue 8-10, p. 811-814 (2003)
51.
Testing for Non-Gaussianity
in Harmonic Space: an Empirical Process Approach (with F.Hansen et al. ), Physical Review D, vol. 66, id. 3006, (2002)
52.
Non-Iterative Methods to Estimate the In-Flight Noise Properties of CMB
Detectors, (with
P.Natoli et al.), Astronomy and Astrophysics, 383, 1100-1112, (2002)
53.
Cyclical Behaviour of Bone Remodelling and Bone Loss in Healthy Women after
Menopause: Results of a Prospective Study, (with G.Mazzuoli et al.), Bone, vol.31,
6, pp.718-724 (2002)
54.
Narrow Band Analysis of Nonstationary Processes, (with P.M.Robinson), Annals of
Statistics, Vol. 29, no 4, 947-86, (2001)
55.
Bayesian Semiparametric Analysis of Long Range
Dependence, (with
B.Liseo and L.Petrella), Biometrika, Vol. 88, pp. 1089-1104, (2001)
56.
Asymptotics for Linear Random Fields, (with S.Poghosyan), Statistics
and Probability Letters, , Vol.51, n.2, pp.131-141 (2001)
57.
Semiparametric Analysis of Fractional
Cointegration,
(with P.M.Robinson), Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 105, pp. 225-247, (2001)
58.
Finite Sample Improvements in Statistical Inference with I(1) Processes,
(with
P.M.Robinson), Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol.16, pp. 431-444 (2001)
59.
Weak Convergence of Multivariate Fractional Processes, (with P.M.Robinson), Stochastic
Processes and their Applications, (2000), vol.86, pp.103-120
60.
Spectral Regression for Cointegrated Time
Series with Long Memory Innovations, Journal of Time Series Analysis, Vol. 21, n.6, pp. 685-705
(2000)
61.
The Averaged Periodogram for Nonstationary Vector Stochastic Processes, (with P.M.Robinson) Statistical
Inference on Stochastic Processes, Vol.3, n.1/2, pp.149-160 (2000)
62.
Alternative Forms of Fractional Brownian Motion, (with P.M.Robinson), Journal
of Statistical Inference and Planning, Vol.80, 111-122, (1999)
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Invited
Seminars and Lectures
1)
Seminars on Probabilità and Mathematical Statistics, Università Roma 1,
9/2/1998
2)
Meeting CIDE on Time Series, Bologna, 27/2/1998
3)
LSE Workshop in Econometrics and Statistics, Londra, 25/2/1998
4)
XXXIX SIS Meeting, Sorrento, 16/4/1998
5)
PhD Seminars on Theoretical Statistics, Università Roma 1, 14/7/1998
6)
National Meeting: Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Padova,
16/9/1998
7)
French-Belgian Meeting of Statisticians, Luminy, Marsiglia, 26/11/1998
8) Probability and Statistics Seminars, Università “Gabriele d’Annunzio”, Pescara, 10/12/1998
9)
Workshop on MCMC methods and applications, Università Roma 3, 15/12/1998
10)
III Ukrainian-Skandinavian Conference on Mathematical Statistics and
Probability, Kiev, 10/6/1999
11)
Summer School on Empirical Processes, University of Aarhus (DK), 11/8/1999
12)
National Meeting on Computational Statistics and Applications, Venezia,
27/9/1999
13) Workshop “Empirical Processes”, Università “La Sapienza”, 26/11/1999
14)
National Meeting MURST on Time Series Analysis, Portici (Napoli) 24/1/2000
15)
XXXX SIS Meeting, Firenze, 27/4/2000
16)III
International Conference on Mathematical Problems of Statistical Physics, Nor
Amberd, Armenia, 31/4/ 2000
17)Conference
on Nonparametric, Semiparametric and Resampling Methods, Universitad Carlos
III, Madrid, 4/10/2000
18)
LSE Workshop in Econometrics and Statistics, Londra, 11/1/2001
19)
National Meeting MURST on Time Series Analysis, L’Aquila, 5/4/2001
20) Seminari Probabilità e Statistica Matematica, Università di Pavia, 24/5/2001
21)
European Meeting of Statisticians, Funchal (Portogallo), 16/8/ 2001
22) Seminars on Probabilità and Mathematical Statistics, Politecnico di Milano, 15/11/2001
23)
Meeting National Institute for Nuclear Physics PD51, “Inflation, dark matter
and large scale structure of the Universe”, Ferrara, 9/5/2002
24) Invited Speaker, XXXXI
SIS meeting, Milano, giugno 2002
25) Invited Speaker,
Scientific Meeting of the Italian Sociaty for Operational Research, L’Aquila,
13/9/2002
26) National Meeting MURST
on Probabilità and its applications to Filtering, Finance, Statistics and
Simulations, Università di Roma La Sapienza, 19/9/2002
27) Seminars on Mathematical Physics, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, 11/11/2002
28) European Meeting
CMBNET, Oxford, 20/2/2003
29) Statistics Seminars,
Università di Venezia, 20/6/2003
30) Invited Speaker, Joint Meeting University of New York / University of Florence
“Stochastic Models in the Continuum”, Florence, 15/6/2004
31) Workshop on Precision Cosmology, Department of
Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 2/7/2004
32) 6th World Congress of the Bernoulli
Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability, Barcellona (ES), 26/7/2004
33) Adamis Cosmology Group - University Paris VI,
6/7/2005
34) European Meeting of Statisticians, Oslo (NK),
28/7/2005
35) Workshop “Stochastic Methods in Mathematical
Finance”, Department of Mathematics, University of Rome “La Sapienza”,
16/9/2005
36) Planck-ESA WG Meeting, Institute of Physics of
Cantabria, Santander (ES), 26/9/2005
37) Department of Mathematics, University of Rome
“La Sapienza”, 14/11/2005
38) Invited Speaker, IMS World Meeting, Rio de
Janeiro, 2/8/2006
39) Plenary Speaker, CLAPEM Bernoulli Meeting,
Lima, 2/3/2007
40) Department of
Statistics and Probability, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 3/5/2007
41) Meeting on Random
Fields and Interacting Particle Systems, Department of Mathematics, Bologna,
26/6/2007
42) DAC2007 – Data Analysis
in Cosmology, Santander (ES), 10/07/2007
43) Invited Speaker and
Session Organizer, Bernoulli-ISI meeting on Probability and Statistics in
Science and Technology, Porto (PT), 2/9/2007
44) Department of
Mathematics, University of Rome III, 6/11/2007
45) Invited Speaker,
Conference on Limit Theorems and their Applications, Paris-Sorbonne, 14/1/2008
45) Invited Speaker, Joint
Bernoulli Society – IMS World meeting, Singapore, 18/7/2008
46) Invited Speaker,
Workshop on Stochastic Geometry, Banff, Canada, 24/2/2009
47) Cosmostat Meeting,
Ascona (Switzerland), 28/7/2009
48)
Invited Speaker, SFOA Meeting, Institute for the Mathematics and Physics of the
Universe, Tokyo, 30/9/2009
49)
IMS Conference, Gothenburg, 9/8/2010
50)
Rome International Conference on Cosmic Rays Astrophysics, Rome, 25/5/2011
51)
Invited Speaker, Workshop Cosmology and Sparsity, Nice, 1/6/2011
52)
Plenary Speaker, Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis, Rome, 8/6/2011
53)
Plenary Speaker, Statistical Challenges in Modern Astrophysics, Penn State,
13/6/2011
54)
Invited Speaker, Joint IMS/China Conference, Xian, 8/7/2011
55)
Invited Speaker, International Society for Nonparametric Statistics, Chalkidiki, 15/6/2012
56)
Invited Speaker, Modern Theory Stochastic Processes Conference, Kiev, 12/9/2012
57)
Invited Speaker, Big^3 Conference, Paris, 19/9/2012
58)
Invited Speaker, Workshop Stochastic Analysis for
Poisson Point Processes, Oberwolfach,
12/2/2013
Teaching 2012-2013:
Statistica (LT Matematica)
and Statistical Techniques for Science and Technology (LM Physics):
http://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~marinucc/PS3.htm
My Math Genealogy can be found here