Support this Podcast by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page Gail Tverberg is an analyst who has been researching the connection between oil limits and the economy for nearly 10 years.  She writes a widely-followed blog called Our Finite World. Her background is as an actuary, working as a consultant to insurance companies. She also has a foot more »

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Allen Garfield was a well-known character actor of the 1970s who starred in films including 'Nashville,' 'Conversation, 'Bananas' and 'The Candidate.'

strataconf: The Future Is Graph Databases http://t.co/BVxOZwtoKS A Conversation with @EmilEifrem, founder of @Neo4J #strataconf

As ISIS expands its reach into Afghanistan, it is training children and teenagers to become the next generation of jihadis.

Invitation Only Research Event

Event participants

Ali Farhan Hamid, Governor of Anbar Province
Chair: Dr Renad Mansour, Senior Research Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House

Omar D. Fernandes
Jul 1, 2010; 23:194-198
Care Innovations

Hours after he was released from police lock-up last week, dancehall artiste Dexta Daps dropped some new music on his eager fans. The track, Breaking News, explores an all-too-familiar domestic violence storyline, but incorporates a controversial...

A Conversation with John Faraci, executive chairman of the Carrier Corporation, and former CEO of International Paper

The Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics spoke with Anna Houseman '21 about her daily routine, personal ethics, and staying productive during the pandemic. 

Research Event

Event participants

Andrew Sullivan, President and CEO Internet Society
Chair: Emily Taylor, Associate Fellow, International Security Department, Chatham House; Editor, Journal of Cyber Policy

Members Event

Event participants

Penny Mordaunt MP, Member of Parliament for Portsmouth North; Secretary of State for Defence (2019); Secretary of State for International Development (2017-2019)

Chair: Thomas Raines, Director, Europe Programme, Chatham House

In his first public address on his inaugural official visit to Washington, DC, IOM Director General António Vitorino discusses his vision for IOM; reforms in the UN system; coordination with other organizations in addressing humanitarian protection; and the operational steps IOM is taking to respond to forced migration and displacement.

In his first public address during his inaugural formal visit to Washington, DC. International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director General António Vitorino discussed his vision for the agency; reforms in the UN system designed to address migration matters better; the coordination of efforts between IOM, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and other international partners in addressing humanitarian protection; and the operational steps IOM is taking to respond to forced migration and displacement in hotspots around the world, including Venezuela, Bangladesh, and Libya.

On her first official trip to Washington, DC, Secretary of the Interior Olga Sánchez Cordero offered a public address on Mexico’s new approach to migration policy at MPI. Her remarks and the event discussion were mostly conducted in Spanish, and this recording is of the simultaneous English interpretation. 

In this bipartisan discussion, two border-state members of Congress—Rep. Veronica Escobar and Rep. Dan Crenshaw—discuss the response to the coronavirus outbreak, how it is affecting the interconnected border region, and what the future might hold.

There is so much that is peculiar, irregular, silly, or downright twisted in mathematical verbiage that, certainly, we could all benefit from some soul-searching on the language of our culture. Some of mathematics usage is confusing (e. g. overuse of … Continue reading →

In this bipartisan discussion, two border-state members of Congress—Rep. Veronica Escobar and Rep. Dan Crenshaw—discuss the response to the coronavirus outbreak, how it is affecting the interconnected border region, and what the future might hold.
 

Relying on newly available data under ESSA, a local advocacy group found several districts that spend more money on wealthy students than poor students, despite the state's intentions.

Utah Valley University offers career and technical education, associate degrees, bachelor's degrees, and master's degrees under one roof, all for the average out-of-pocket tuition of $1,700.

Jahana Hayes, the 2016 National Teacher of the Year who was sworn into U.S. Congress last week, shares her education priorities, thoughts on the secretary of education, and her motivation to run for office.

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Dodd, Reg, 1940-

Chomsky, Noam -- Political and social views.

Peter M. Atkinson, Jorge Mateu.

Source: Statistical Science, Volume 34, Number 3, 504--521.

Abstract:
Peter John Diggle was born on February 24, 1950, in Lancashire, England. Peter went to school in Scotland, and it was at the end of his school years that he found that he was good at maths and actually enjoyed it. Peter went to Edinburgh to do a maths degree, but transferred halfway through to Liverpool where he completed his degree. Peter studied for a year at Oxford and was then appointed in 1974 as a lecturer in statistics at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne where he gained his PhD, and was promoted to Reader in 1983. A sabbatical at the Swedish Royal College of Forestry gave him his first exposure to real scientific data and problems, prompting a move to CSIRO, Australia. After five years with CSIRO where he was Senior, then Principal, then Chief Research Scientist and Chief of the Division of Mathematics and Statistics, he returned to the UK in 1988, to a Chair at Lancaster University. Since 2011 Peter has held appointments at Lancaster and Liverpool, together with honorary appointments at Johns Hopkins, Columbia and Yale. At Lancaster, Peter was the founder and Director of the Medical Statistics Unit (1995–2001), University Dean for Research (1998–2001), EPSRC Senior Fellow (2004–2008), Associate Dean for Research at the School of Health and Medicine (2007–2011), Distinguished University Professor, and leader of the CHICAS Research Group (2007–2017). A Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society since 1974, he was a Member of Council (1983–1985), Joint Editor of JRSSB (1984–1987), Honorary Secretary (1990–1996), awarded the Guy Medal in Silver (1997) and the Barnett Award (2018), Associate Editor of Applied Statistics (1998–2000), Chair of the Research Section Committee (1998–2000), and President (2014–2016). Away from work, Peter enjoys music, playing folk-blues guitar and tenor recorder, and listening to jazz. His running days are behind him, but he can just about hold his own in mixed-doubles badminton with his family. His boyhoood hero was Stirling Moss, and he retains an enthusiasm for classic cars, not least his 1988 Porsche 924S. His favorite authors are George Orwell, Primo Levi and Nigel Slater. This interview was done prior to the fourth Spatial Statistics conference held in Lancaster, July 2017 where a session was dedicated to Peter celebrating his contributions to statistics.

Christopher K. Wikle, Jay M. Ver Hoef.

Source: Statistical Science, Volume 34, Number 2, 349--359.

Abstract:
Noel Cressie, FAA is Director of the Centre for Environmental Informatics in the National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA) and Distinguished Professor in the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Missouri (USA), Affiliate of Org 398, Science Data Understanding, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (USA), and a member of the Science Team for NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite. Cressie was awarded a B.Sc. with First Class Honours in Mathematics in 1972 from the University of Western Australia, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Statistics in 1973 and 1975, respectively, from Princeton University (USA). Two brief postdoctoral periods followed, at the Centre de Morphologie Mathématique, ENSMP, in Fontainebleau (France) from April 1975–September 1975, and at Imperial College, London (UK) from September 1975–January 1976. His past appointments have been at The Flinders University of South Australia from 1976–1983, at Iowa State University (USA) from 1983–1998, and at The Ohio State University (USA) from 1998–2012. He has authored or co-authored four books and more than 280 papers in peer-reviewed outlets, covering areas that include spatial and spatio-temporal statistics, environmental statistics, empirical-Bayesian and Bayesian methods including sequential design, goodness-of-fit, and remote sensing of the environment. Many of his papers also address important questions in the sciences. Cressie is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Spatial Econometrics Association, and he is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. Noel Cressie’s refereed, unrefereed, and other publications are available at: https://niasra.uow.edu.au/cei/people/UOW232444.html.

Sam Behseta.

Source: Statistical Science, Volume 34, Number 2, 334--348.

Abstract:
Rob Kass has been been on the faculty of the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon since 1981; he joined the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) in 1997, and the Machine Learning Department (in the School of Computer Science) in 2007. He served as Department Head of Statistics from 1995 to 2004 and served as Interim Co-Director of the CNBC 2015–2018. He became the Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics and Computational Neuroscience in 2016. Kass has served as Chair of the Section for Bayesian Statistical Science of the American Statistical Association, Chair of the Statistics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Bayesian Analysis and Executive Editor of Statistical Science . He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information as one of the 10 most highly cited researchers, 1995–2005, in the category of mathematics. Kass is the recipient of the 2017 Fisher Award and lectureship by the Committee of the Presidents of the Statistical Societies. This interview took place at Carnegie Mellon University in November 2017.

Vladimir Koltchinskii, Richard Nickl, Philippe Rigollet.

Source: Statistical Science, Volume 34, Number 1, 169--175.

Abstract:
Richard Mansfield Dudley (Dick Dudley) was born in 1938. He received the A.B. from Harvard in 1952 and the Ph.D. from Princeton in 1962 (under the supervision of Gilbert Hunt and Edward Nelson). Following an appointment at UC Berkeley as an assistant professor, he joined the Department of Mathematics at MIT in 1967. Dick Dudley has made fundamental contributions to the theory of Gaussian processes and Probability in Banach Spaces. Among his major achievements is the development of a general framework for empirical processes theory, in particular, for uniform central limit theorems. These results have had and continue having tremendous impact in contemporary statistics and in mathematical foundations of machine learning. A more extensive biographical sketch is contained in the preface to the Selected works of R. M. Dudley (editors: E. Giné, V. Koltchinskii and R. Norvaisa) published in 2010. This conversation took place (mostly, via email) in the fall of 2017.

Geurt Jongbloed.

Source: Statistical Science, Volume 34, Number 1, 156--168.

Abstract:
Petrus (Piet) Groeneboom was born in Scheveningen in 1941 and grew up in Voorburg. Both villages are located near The Hague in The Netherlands; Scheveningen actually being part of The Hague. He attended the gymnasium of the Huygens lyceum. In 1959, he entered the University of Amsterdam, where he studied psychology. After his “candidate” exam (comparable to BSc) in 1963, he worked at the psychological laboratory of the University of Amsterdam until 1966. In 1965, he took up mathematics as a part-time study. After having obtained his master’s degree in 1971, he had a position at the psychological laboratory again until 1973, when he was appointed to the Mathematical Center in Amsterdam. There, he wrote between 1975 and 1979 his Ph.D. thesis with Kobus Oosterhoff as advisor, graduating in 1979. After a period of two years as visiting professor at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, Piet moved back to the Mathematical Center until he was appointed full professor of statistics at the University of Amsterdam in 1984. Four years later, he moved to Delft University of Technology where he became professor of statistics and stayed until his retirement in 2006. Between 2000 and 2006 he also held a part-time professorship at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. From 1999 till 2013 he was Affiliate Professor at the statistics department of UW, Seattle. Apart from being visiting professor at the UW in Seattle, he was also visiting professor at Stanford University, Université Paris 6 and ETH Zürich. Piet is well known for his work on shape constrained statistical inference. He worked on asymptotic theory for these problems, created algorithms to compute nonparametric estimates in such models and applied these models to real data. He also worked on interacting particle systems, extreme value analysis and efficiency theory for testing procedures. Piet (co-)authored four books and 64 papers and served as promotor of 13 students. He is the recipient of the 1985 Rollo Davidson prize, a fellow of the IMS and elected member of the ISI. In 2015, he delivered the Wald lecture at the Joint Statistical Meeting in Montreal. Piet and his wife Marijke live in Naarden. He has two sons, Thomas and Tim, and (since June 12, 2018) one grandson, Tarik. This conversation was held at Piet’s house in Naarden, on February 28 and April 24, 2018.

On Saturday, October 16, 2019, Concerts from the Library of Congress hosted Afro-Cuban jazz master, Chucho Valdés. Founder and director of the legendary Cuban jazz band Irakere, winner of six GRAMMYs and four Latin GRAMMYs, Chucho Valdés is not just an authority in the jazz world, he is a living legend. As part of his engagement at […]

The Conversation

Rick talks with the CEO of Panorama Education, an ed-tech company whose college- and career-readiness tools are currently used each year in 11,500 schools.

A substantial gap exists between what is recommended for effective primary care of children and what takes place. Patient-centered health information technologies have been used to gather information and counsel parents, however, have not been integrated directly with electronic health records nor been speech-based to improve decision-making at the point-of-care.

This study shows that a ubiquitous technology, the telephone, can be successfully used to automatically assess and counsel parents before pediatric primary care visits as well as inform their primary care clinicians in a way that is feasible and effective for multiple important issues. (Read the full article)