Ticketing: This event is free and open to all. Registration is required and seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis – register on EventBrite.
Venue: Clore Lecture Theatre, Huxley Building, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, 180 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 2AZ (building no. 13 on the map of South Kensington Campus).
Coincidences happen, incredibly unlikely things occur, and the apparently miraculous comes about. The improbability principle says that such extraordinarily improbable events are commonplace. It shows that this is not a contradiction, but that we should expect identical lottery numbers to come up more than once, lightning to strike twice, and financial crashes to occur.
In our second Data Science Insights event Professor David Hand, Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, will speak on the subject of his book, The Improbability Principle, about why incredibly unlikely things keep happening. Axel Threlfall, Lead Anchor for Reuters Television, will chair.
Professor David J. Hand is Senior Research Investigator and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College, London. His applications interests include psychology, physics, and the retail credit industry – he and his research group won the 2012 Credit Collections and Risk Award for Contributions to the Credit Industry. He was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver by the Royal Statistical Society in 2002 and served as its President in 2008-9, then again from in 2010 after Bernard Silverman stood down, and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2003. He was made OBE for services to research and innovation in 2013. His latest book, The Improbability Principle, appeared in February 2014.
Axel Threlfall is Editor at Large at Reuters, based in London. He hosts high-profile engagements and thought leadership events for and on behalf of Reuters and Thomson Reuters, such as the Newsmaker series and the World Economic Forum news show in Davos. He was previously Lead European Anchor for Reuters Digital Video. Prior to joining Reuters, Axel spent four years as an anchor for CNBC in London and has also advised businesses and NGOs on their dealings with the international media.
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/data-science/events/data-science-insights