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Predicting the Unpredictable - Human Behaviors and Beyond

June 28, 2013

No matter how surprising, outlandish, or even impossible it may seem, one of the next challenges of modern applied mathematics is the modeling of human behaviors. [...]

A Day to Celebrate

June 27, 2013

"This is a day to celebrate that we have a president of the US standing up for the world in which we live and the future generations that will inhabit it."   Chris Jones, Director, Mathematics and Climate Research Network [...]

Sixth Simons Public Lecture

Prof. Dr. Rupert Klein (Free University of Berlin) delivered the sixth in the international series of MPE2013 Simons Public Lectures on May 23, 2013, at the Free University of Berlin. The title was CliMathematics: Models, data, structures.

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Blog on Math Blogs

General, Mathematics, Statistics

Today’s blog is a short blog about a “Blog on Math Blogs.”

This is just what it says, there is a blog about math blogs on the AMS site. The April 22 blog by Evelyn Lamb featured our very own MPE2013 blog, appropriate as the day was Earth Day.

I especially like the blog of May 28 by Lamb, “On Pregnancy and Probability.” It features the post of Kate Owens, who has started writing about being a “pregnant mathematician” and the issue of making decisions about which medical tests to have versus the reliability and cost. One particular test for gestational diabetes has really shocking statistics. Only 27 percent of women who have the condition test positive for it, and 11 percent of those who don’t have it, do.

There is a related post (submitted by Paul Alper) in the latest Chance News 93 called “The gold (acre) standard, fool’s gold” that discusses the book “Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients” by Ben Goldacre. It is an account of the bad and manipulated statistics used in random drug trials. One particularly disturbing section is on a patented system developed by drug manufacturers that concerns placebos. The whole point of the invention is to defeat the effectiveness of placebos. You can read the whole account here.

Estelle Basor
AIM

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