NECSI Winter School 2015
Guest Lecturer: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
CX201: Complex Physical, Biological, and Social Systems
NECSI is pleased to welcome Nassim Nicholas Taleb as a guest lecturer at our upcoming Winter School from January 5-16, 2015. He will speak during CX201: Complex Physical, Biological, and Social Systems.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent 20 years as a derivatives trader/risk taker before becoming an philosophical essayist and mathematical researcher in probability. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at NYU’s School of Engineering. His main subject matter is “decision making under opacity”, that is, a map and a protocol on how we should live in a world we don’t understand. He is also concerned with the properties of systems that can handle disorder (“antifragile”). Taleb is the author of the Incerto (The Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness, and Antifragile) a multivolume philosophical essay on uncertainty which has been translated into 35 languages. He has also published academic papers in physics, mathematical statistics, political science, philosophy, ethics, finance, international affairs, and economics, all around the notion of risk and probability.
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