#SARSCoV2
https://t.co/eFGieP4cos

Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
https://www.researchers.one/article/2020-01-21.

The book investigates the misapplication of conventional statistical techniques to fat tailed distributions and looks for remedies, when possible.
Switching from thin tailed to fat tailed distributions requires more than "changing the color of the dress". Traditional asymptotics deal mainly with either n=1 or n=∞, and the real world is in between, under of the "laws of the medium numbers" --which vary widely across specific distributions. Both the law of large numbers and the generalized central limit mechanisms operate in highly idiosyncratic ways outside the standard Gaussian or Levy-Stable basins of convergence.

Six months into the pandemic, #coronavirus has reached almost every country in the world – but there’s a lot scientists still don’t know. https://t.co/ElytJd3EMQ

💡 Ecology of Intelligence - A talk with Frank Wilczek
https://www.edge.org/conversation/frank_wilczek-ecology-of-intelligence

💰 PhD positions in the Department of Living Matter Physics (LMP) | Max-Planck-Instiut for Dynamics and Self-Organization

https://jobs.physicstoday.org/jobs/rss/13763411/phd-positions-in-the-department-of-living-matter-physics

#physicsjobs #phd

The research

The PhD students will engage in theoretical and computational research in Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics of Active Matter and Living Systems. Possible topics include chemical and mechanical nonequilibrium activity and flow of information across the scales. For more information, visit our website (https://www.ds.mpg.de/lmp).

Workshop on Critical Transitions in Complex Systems 2020 (online)
29th - 31st July 2020

Complex systems research has been at the forefront of scientific priorities for some time and many very interesting phenomena have been identified and explored in the context of a wide variety of applications. This workshop is part of a series, reflecting on an emerging movement to develop a mathematical theory for sudden changes in the dynamical behaviour of complex systems, so-called critical transitions. The prospect to develop reliable early-warning signals for such critical transitions is potentially far-reaching since these could lead to better control strategies to avoid or diminish the effect of catastrophes.

🔗 The workshop will be conducted via zoom. The registration is free but compulsory via the zoom link here.

🎞 مقدمه‌ای بر زبان برنامه‌نویسی ژولیا
https://www.aparat.com/v/UsbGL

💡 Larry Page in 2004: "We want to get you out of Google and to the right place as fast as possible"
Google in 2020: Google is the right place, no outward links for you

Lots of useful stuff in Google's smart snippets etc but the shift is worthy of attention.
https://t.co/6l5NlMvEVK

#گفتگوی_لایو ‌در sciencetoday_ir

کاربرد علم داده در فیزیک‌، دکتر علیرضا وفایی صدر‌
متخصص علم داده‌ در پژوهشگاه دانش‌های بنیادی( IPM)‌‌‌

🎞 aparat.com/v/ycWG1

علم داده یکی از حوزه‌های در حال رشد است که در بین رشته‌های مختلف علمی و علوم کامپیوتر مشترک است. با گسترش روزافزون مشاهدات و آزمایش‌های گوناگون با حجم عظیم داده‌های مشاهداتی روش‌های بسیاری برای بررسی و تحلیل این داده‌ها در علم داده مطرح می‌شود. همچنین توسعه الگوریتم‌های هوش مصنوعی و روش‌های یادگیری ماشین در زندگی روزمره و کارهای تحقیقاتی اهمیت صدچندان علم داده را مشخص می‌کند. ‌
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Managing the COVID-19 Pandemic across Geography and Demography

Niayesh Afshordi
Wednesday, July 29, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:30 EDT


What factors drive the growth and decay of a pandemic? Can a study of community differences (in demographics, settlement, mobility, weather, and epidemic history) allow these factors to be identified? Has “herd immunity” to COVID-19 been reached anywhere? What are the best steps to manage/avoid future outbreaks in each community? We analyzed the entire set of local COVID-19 epidemics in the United States; a broad selection of demographic, population density, climate factors, and local mobility data, in order to address these questions. What we found will surprise you!

https://pitp.ca/seminar/managing-covid-19-pandemic-across-geography-and-demography

Zoom link

💰 Join me to do some awesome network dynamics in Amsterdam! I am looking for a #PhD student (see here) and #postdoc (see here) to start in fall.

Application deadline Aug 7, 2020.

introductory article by Maris and Kadanoff entitled Teaching the Renormalization Group

It conveys (in 6 pages!) the main ideas behind the RG approach to phase transitions and critical phenomena.

📺 https://youtu.be/tdDs13-paDA

🚨 Facebook is launching a new hub and an application process for university faculty, PhDs, and post-docs to access some FB datasets for studies on particular topics including well-being, misinformation, elections, COVID-19, and racial justice.

🔗 https://research.fb.com/blog/2020/07/crowdtangle-opens-public-application-for-academics/

brightrecruits is now Physics World Jobs! The place to find jobs in physics and engineering at all stages of your career – whether you're a graduate, technician, researcher or industry professional. Find out more at https://brightrecruits.com/physicsworld-jobs/

#phd #postdoc

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe!

📺 Idea #20: "Entropy and Information."

Why the past is different from the future, and how we seem to flow through time.

https://t.co/gbwSwWWM9f

💰 Fully funded #PhD project on modelling and quantifying food deserts. Deadline for applications is 31 August; further details in link below. https://t.co/S96IVZvaoH