In this lecture sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the Loyola College for Diversity and Sustainability, Taleb will discuss hiw work on uncertainty, randomness, and disorder.
When: Tuesday, April 2, 2013, from 1 to 3 p.m.
Where: Alumni Auditorium, Room H-110, Henry F. Hall Building (1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.) , Sir George Williams Campus
Next Tueday (Feb 26), book party at the most intellectual bookstore in America (I am inviting; wine will be served).
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On Tuesday, February 26th at 7pm Nassim Taleb is hosting a book party.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb spent 20 years as a derivatives trader before starting a full-time career as a scholar of applied probability and risk management. Taleb’s current program is to build rules of decision-making under incomplete information and understanding, and to make political and economic systems robust to Black Swan problems. In his groundbreaking and prophetic book, Black Swan, Taleb shows in a playful way that black swan events explain almost everything about our world.
This is an audio player from NYPL Live. (Perhaps it will turn into a video player later.) The conversation took place at the New York Public Library February 5, 2013.
You can also download the audio here.
How do we — as individuals and as communities — make decisions when faced with uncertainty, inexperience, lack of knowledge or chaos? Nassim N. Taleb and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman have both devoted their careers to explorations of the decision making process: Kahneman approaching it through psychological study; Taleb through a philosophical lens. Their groundbreaking work has profoundly impacted our understanding of the decision making process today while raising new questions about how decisions are made in a world that is increasingly more difficult to comprehend.
Nassim N. Taleb is a former derivatives trader who became a scholar and philosophical essayist in 2006. Although he is currently Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering at New York University’s Polytechnic Institute, he self-funds his research and operates in the manner of independent scholars. Taleb is the author of The Black Swan (2007–2010) and Antifragile (2012). His work focuses on decision making under uncertainty, as well as technical and philosophical problems with probability and metaprobability; in other words, “what to do in a world we don’t understand.”
Nassim Taleb Discussing/Signing His New Title: Antifragile Things That Gain From Disorder
Business Author Breakfast: Nassim Taleb is a former derivatives trader who became a scholar and philosophical essayist. Bestselling titles include Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan. His works focus on what to do in a world we don’t understand.
Friday February 08, 2013 8:00 AM
555 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10017, 212-697-3048
Special Instructions
Attendees must purchase Antifragile at the Fifth Avenue event host store. Please maintain your book purchase receipt. Store/event access 7:30 am, Cafe service available. Format: introduction, author discussion, Q& A, meet/greet Mr. Taleb and book signing. RSVP/information: e-mail crm2234A@bn.com