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Four reasons why the fight against climate change is likely to fail

March 15, 2014

Democrats in the Senate stayed up all night talking about the perils of climate change. But while there's hope that technology, changing consumer and business practices or new policies could finally turn the tide and slow or reverse climate change, there are also good reasons to think those efforts will fail. [...]

How Inge Lehmann discovered the inner core of the Earth

February 19, 2014

Inge Lehmann was a Danish mathematician. She worked at the Danish Geodetic Institute, and she had access to the data recorded at seismic stations around the world. She discovered the inner core of the Earth in 1936, by analyzing the seismic data from large earthquakes recorded at different stations around the world. [...]

Ninth Simons Public Lecture


On November 4, 2013, Emily A. Carter (Princeton) delivered the ninth and final public lecture in the series. The title was Quantum Mechanics and the Future of the Planet and the location was the Korn Convocation Hall at UCLA.

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Mathematical and Statistical Ecology

Ecology / Mathematics / Statistics

Organized by Philip Dixon, Louis Gross, Jennifer Hoeting, Mevin Hooten, Eleanor Jenkins, Claire Lunch, Ronald E. McRoberts, Jay Ver Hoef, Linda J. Young

www.samsi.info/ecology

08/01/14 - 05/31/15

Statistical and Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

A year-long program at the Statistical and Mathematical Sciences Institute, 2014/15. Applications are open for visiting positions at SAMSI, and will be posted in due course for the workshops.

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