Oxford Mathematics Public Lecture: Jon Keating - From one extreme to another: the statistics of extreme events
Jon Keating will discuss the statistics of rare, extreme events in various contexts, including: evaluating performance at the Olympics; explaining how glasses freeze; illustrating why computers are more effective than expected at learning; and understanding the Riemann zeta-function, the mathematical object that encodes the mysterious distribution of the prime numbers.
Jon Keating is Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of The Queen’s College.
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Date:
16 March 2021, 17:00 (Tuesday, 9th week, Hilary 2021)
Venue:
n/a
Speaker:
Prof. Jon Keating (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Mathematical Institute
Organiser:
Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
lumbard@maths.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures
Booking required?:
Not required
Cost:
n/a
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Dyrol Lumbard
