On the sad occasion of her untimely passing, Amases wishes to honor Prof. Marida Bertocchi by naming after her the 2017 Amases Award for the best paper presented by a young scholar to the XLI Amases Conference (Cagliari, September 14-16, 2017).
AMASES commemorates her dedication towards mathematics applied to economic and social sciences, especially as it concerns doctoral education and the training of young researchers. Marida has been a devoted mentor and a safe harbour for several budding colleagues, having been the Coordinator for the Doctoral Program in "Computational methods for forecasting and decision in economics and finance" (recently renamed as Doctoral Program in Analytics for Economics and Business) at the University of Bergamo since 1993-1994.
