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Data-driven prediction of thresholded time series of rainfall and self-organized criticality models
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Together with co-authors with Anna Deluca and Álvaro Corral, Nicholas has studied the predictability of thresholded events in rain data and the Manna model. Specifically, a running hazard function is used as a decision variable
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The perils of thresholding
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Together with co-authors Francesc Font-Clos, Gunnar Pruessner and Anna Deluca, Nicholas has studied the effect of thresholding on birth-death processes. The exact distribution of the duration time above threshold can be computed.
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Science on Screen lift-off
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The Science on Screen collaboration between LML and the Barbican got off to a block-busting start with Mark Buchanan reminding us of Enrico Fermi’s realisation that an alien invasion may be closer than we think.
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Science On Screen: Oblivion with Mark Buchanan
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LML is pleased to announce its partnership with London’s Barbican on a series of six events in which notable scientists present their favourite films to explore the overlap between science and the arts.
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Scientific Work Experience
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From 15-16th January, LML welcomed Hiro, Ren and Suzuka from the Japanese School in London for scientific work experience. On the first day the students were given a tutorial survey of time series,
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Tongue-tied by authority
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LML was delighted to host three distinguished speakers at the event, Tongue-tied by authority, held on 12th November 2014 The event explored the themes of academic authority and paradigm shifts.
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Summer studentships
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For 4 weeks in July/August, LML welcomed 6 summer project students:
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Stationarity of extreme bursts in the solar wind
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Nicholas R. Moloney and Joern Davidsen have an article in Physical Review E on their analysis of extreme bursts in the solar wind:
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Evaluating gambles using dynamics
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Ole Peters’ and Murray Gell-Mann’s manuscript is now available as SFI working paper 14-05-013 and on the arXiv at http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0585 The paper presents the foundations of a possible new
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Mark Buchanan at LML
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LML is delighted to welcome Writer-in-Residence Mark Buchanan, who will be here for the month of May. Mark is a physicist, formerly an editor at Nature magazine.