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- Prof. Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE (University of Cambridge)Chance, luck, and ignorance; how to put our uncertainty into numbers We all have to live with uncertainty about what is going to happen, what has happened, and why things turned out how they did. We attribute good and bad events as ‘due to chance’, label people as ‘lucky’, and (sometimes) admit our ignorance. I will show how to use the […]
- Whittaker Prize winner 2023Prof. Jonathan Fraser (University of St Andrews) The Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize for 2023 has been awarded to Professor Jonathan Fraser of the University of St Andrews in recognition of his outstanding research achievements.
- Prof. Mark Jerrum (Queen Mary University London)Perfect sampling, old and new The possibility of obtaining perfect samples efficiently from a complex probability distribution entered the consciousness of the community in the mid-nineties with the invention of `coupling from the past’ by Propp and Wilson. The study of perfect samplers of course has considerable theoretical appeal. But, in addition, their ‘self clocking’ aspect may have practical advantages. […]
- Prof. Benjamin Doyon (King’s College London)The emergence of hydrodynamics in many-body systems One of the most important problems of modern science is that of emergence. How do laws of motion emerge at large scales of space and time, from much different laws at small scales? Hydrodynamics offers a basic but very relevant example. Molecules in air simply go along their journey following Newton’s equations. But […]