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Hillerbrand & Taylor: "What is Risk?"
Posted on: 17 Jan 2008 in Events
Our seminar series is about risks in the 21st Century, yet there are many different meanings and uses made of the word “risk”.  Due to the importance of risk in modern societies, it is the subject of many fields.  Psychological... Read More »

Hillerbrand and Taylor: On Didier Sornette's "Endogenous and Exogenous Risk"
Posted on: 21 Jan 2008 in Events
The aim of this note is to summarise the key points from the talk by Didier Sornette (ETH, Zurich) on Endogenous and Exogenous risk on 17th January 2008 in the James Martin School seminar series. Sornette addressed the central question of how we... Read More »

Hillerbrand and Taylor: On Lenny Smith's "Model Error, Real World Risk"
Posted on: 25 Jan 2008 in Events
Professor Lenny Smith's presentation was entitled: "Model Error, Real World Risk: Probabilistic Pathways but Probably not Probabilities". The meaning of this riddle of a title became clear very quickly in his talk on 24 January.  ... Read More »

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