Related papers: Another Conversation with Persi Diaconis
The following conversation is partly based on an interview that took place in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in July 2013.
This is an introduction to small divisors problems. The material treated in this book was brought together for a PhD course I tought at the University of Pisa in the spring of 1999. Here is a Table of Contents: Part I One Dimensional Small…
Source separation (SS) of acoustic signals is a research field that emerged in the mid-1990s and has flourished ever since. On the occasion of ICASSP's 50th anniversary, we review the major contributions and advancements in the past three…
Respect for persons is a cornerstone value for any conception of research ethics--though how to best realize respect in practice is an ongoing question. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, "informed consent" emerged as a particular…
Ulf Grenander was born in Vastervik, Sweden, on July 23, 1923. He started his undergraduate education at Uppsala University, and earned his B.A. degree in 1946, the Fil. Lic. degree in 1948 and the Fil. Dr. degree in 1950, all from the…
The purpose of this text is twofold. First we discuss some divisor problems involving Paul Erd\H os (1913-1996), whose centenary of birth is this year. In the second part some recent results on divisor problems are discussed, and their…
As artificial intelligence increasingly influences our world, it becomes crucial to assess its technical progress and societal impact. This paper surveys problems and opportunities in the measurement of AI systems and their impact, based on…
This volume contains the papers presented at the sixth workshop on Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms (ASPOCP 2013) held on August 25th, 2013 in Istanbul, co-located with the 29th International Conference on Logic…
This is the transcript of the after-dinner talk I gave at the close of the 16 Nov 2013 symposium "Celebrating the Science of Kenneth Geddes Wilson" [1] at Cornell University (see Fig. 1 for the poster). The video of my talk is on-line [2],…
For more than 40 years, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI, now part of Thomson Reuters) produced the only available bibliographic databases from which bibliometricians could compile large-scale bibliometric indicators. ISI's…
These are (not updated) notes from the lectures I gave at the NATO ASI ``Symmetric Functions 2001'' at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge (June 25 -- July 6, 2001). Their goal is an informal introduction to asymptotic combinatorics…
Martin Bradbury Wilk was born on December 18, 1922, in Montr\'{e}al, Qu\'{e}bec, Canada. He completed a B.Eng. degree in Chemical Engineering in 1945 at McGill University and worked as a Research Engineer on the Atomic Energy Project for…
Donald Bruce Rubin is John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He has made fundamental contributions to statistical methods for missing data, causal inference, survey sampling, Bayesian inference, computing and…
This is the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, which was held in San Francisco, CA, June 30 - July 3, 2000
In spring 1949 about 70 physicists from eight countries met in Florence to discuss recent trends in statistical mechanics. This scientific gathering, co-organized by the Commission on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of the…
This book is a collection of papers dedicated to the memory of Yehuda Vardi. Yehuda was the chair of the Department of Statistics of Rutgers University when he passed away unexpectedly on January 13, 2005. On October 21--22, 2005, some 150…
Plenary talk at the conference, LATTICE 99, held in Pisa, Itay from June 29 to July 3, 1999.
Using a large dataset of research seminars held at US economics departments in 2018, I explore the factors that determine who is invited to present at a research seminar and whether the invitation is accepted. I find that high-quality…
The first baby boomer born in 1946 turned 65 in 2011 and the last baby boomer will turn 65 in 2029. By then, the total U.S. population over 65 is projected to be 71.5 million (compared with 44.6 million in 2013). The current (2014) median…
The present paper is a brief overview of random opinion dynamics on random graphs based on the Ising Lecture given by the author at the World Congress in Probability and Statistics, 12--16 August 2024, Bochum, Germany. The content is a…