OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
In this lecture Persi Diaconis will take a look at some of our most primitive images of chance – flipping a coin, rolling a roulette wheel and shuffling cards – and via a little bit of mathematics (and a smidgen of physics) show that sometimes things are not very random at all. Indeed chance is sometimes confused with frequency and this confusion carries over to a confusion between chance and evidence. All of which explains our wild misuse of probability and statistical models.
Persi Diaconis is the co-author of ‘Ten Great Ideas about Chance (2017) and is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University.
5-6pm
Mathematical Institute
Oxford
Please email external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk to register.
Watch live:
facebook.com/OxfordMathematics
livestream.com/oxuni/PersiDiaconis
The Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures are generously supported by XTX Markets.
