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Science on Screen: Stalker with Doyne Farmer
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The fourth Science on Screen event in collaboration with the Barbican was held on Tuesday, 13 October. Ole Peters introduced Doyne Farmer to a delightfully large audience in cinema 1.
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Barbican Podcast – Interview with J. Doyne Farmer
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As part of the Science on Screen series with The Barbican, J Doyne Farmer is interviewed in their September podcast, looking at why he chose the film Stalker for his upcoming talk and what it means to him.
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Science on Screen: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Rachel Cooke
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The third film in our Science on Screen series was presented by Rachel Cooke, a real-life chocolate engineer. Rachel amusingly shared some of her experiences in an actual chocolate factory.
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Summer Studentships 2015
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LML welcomed 7 project students to take up their summer studentships for 4 weeks in August. The students came from Belgium, Greece, Israel, Italy, UK, and Ukraine, and were the first occupants of LML’s new guesthouse.
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Why insure?
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Ole Peters and Alex Adamou have written a paper titled Rational insurance with linear utility and perfect information. Here they consider the insurance puzzle, namely that people are willing to buy insurance at a price
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Max Werner appointed External Fellow
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LML is pleased to announce that Max Werner has been appointed External Fellow. Max is a lecturer in Natural Hazards and Risk at The University of Bristol. His research interests centre on earthquake physics
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Colm Connaughton appointed External Fellow
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LML is pleased to announce that Colm Connaughton has been appointed External Fellow. Colm is an Associate Professor at Warwick University, focusing his research in the interplay between stochasticity and dynamics
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Mark Buchanan appointed External Fellow
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LML is pleased to announce that Mark Buchanan has been appointed External Fellow. Mark is a physicist, formerly editor at Nature magazine and the author of Forecast, of The Social Atom, and of Ubiquity.
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Science on Screen: The Prestige with Peter McOwan
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The second in the LML and Barbican joint Science on Screen series took place on 16 June with Professor of Computer Science Peter McOwan introducing one of his favourite films “The Prestige”.
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Why cooperate?
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Ole Peters and Alex Adamou have written a paper titled The evolutionary advantage of cooperation. Here they show how the simple and universal setting of noisy multiplicative growth predicts the formation of cooperating units