Pale Blue Dot - IIT Palakakd Public Lecture Series
Title: "Taking Chances; Making Decisions"
Date and time: 08.10.2022, 04.00 PM
Venue: Victoria College Auditorium , Palakkad
Abstract: Like basic arithmetic, basic skills to read and interpret data is essential to survival in the modern world where surveys, polls, statistics from scientific studies, sports figures, economic data, etc. are thrown at us all the time. We take many half-real half-made-up situations to illustrate correct and incorrect ways to do this. The level of mathematical sophistication required will be kept at high-school level, and an attempt made towards a relaxed lecture, just short of putting the audience to sleep.
About the speaker: Dr. Manjunath Krishnapur is a Mathematician at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. He has made outstanding contributions to the field of Probability Theory. His discoveries have been published in the most reputed Mathematics journals, including Annals of Mathematics, as well as in reputed Physics journals because of their relevance to Statistical Physics. He is also a favourite "Math teacher" to many Math and non-Math students of IISc.
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