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Formal Sciences
To Allow, or Deny?
Panagiotis Andriotis discusses how installed apps on Android devices are able to employ the systems’ public assets and extract users’…
University of the West of England
Exact Inference with Approximate Computation for Differentially Private Data via Perturbations
Ruobin Gong discusses approximate Bayesian computation, a practical suite of methods to simulate from approximate posterior distributions of…
Rutgers Unversity
An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics
Mathematics is as much a science of the real world as biology is. It is the science of…
UNSW Sydney
Irrational Exuberance: Correcting Bias in Probability Estimates
Gareth James discusses the common setting where one observes probability estimates for a large number of events, such…
University of Southern California
Fake News in an Era of Social Media: Tracking Viral Contagion
Over the last few years, social media has expanded to become a key platform for news dissemination and…
University of East London
Entropy Growth in the Central Limit Theorem
Keith Ball discusses how the central limit theorem is analogous to the second law of thermodynamics; in that…
University of Warwick
The Hiring Gambit: In Search of the Twofer Data Scientist
Radu Craiu discusses generating new methods motivated by cross-disciplinary collaborations between scientists and statisticians.
University of Toronto
A novel bibliometric index with a simple geometric interpretation
Researchers from Birkbeck’s Department of Computer Science and Information Systems have proposed an innovative new index to measure…
Birkbeck, University of London
Non-Spherically Symmetric Collapse in AdS Spacetimes
Hans Bantilan discusses gravitational collapse in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes away from spherical symmetry. Publication
Queen Mary, University of London
String-Theory-Based Predictions in Strongly Interacting Fermi Gases
Very different strongly interacting quantum systems such as Fermi gases, quark-gluon plasmas formed in high energy ion collisions…
Queen Mary, University of London