SMS scnews item created by Gareth White at Tue 17 Mar 2009 1234
Type: Seminar
Distribution: World
Expiry: 18 Mar 2009
Calendar1: 18 Mar 2009 1300-1400
CalLoc1: Carslaw 452
Auth: garethw@asti.maths.usyd.edu.au
SUMS Meeting: Zhu -- Embarrassing questions and Guns
Hello SUMS members,
I must say that Ivan's talk last week was a resounding success, by my standards anyway.
Apologies to Ivan and everyone else for the interruptions made by me halfway through the
talk, I think for future talks we will have a pre-organised intermission halfway
through.
Speaking of future talks, we have another one this week, this time by a statistics PhD
student, Jenny Zhu. Jenny is no stranger to SUMS, having given talks in past years,
although this week will be a new one. Her abstract:
"Asking embarrassing questions and shooting your friends are common problems we all
face. Studying Statistics helps. In this talk, we motivate the problem of estimating
the success probability from a Binomial random variable when the number of trials is
random. Also we give an example of when we might prefer to obtain a solution to a
problem computationally."
Feel free to come along, eat some food and have a good time!
Talk: Embarrassing questions and GUNS
Speaker: Jenny Zhu
Location: Carslaw 452
Date/Time: Wednesday March 18, 1-2pm
Hope to see you there.
SUMS President
"I would never kill somebody. Unless they pissed me off." - Eric Cartman
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