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                                PUBLIC 
                                  LECTURES 2014-15 
                                  Fields Institute, 222 College Street, Toronto 
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           Public Lecture 
            June 2, 2015 
             
           
            Clifford 
              Will 
               Distinguished Professor of Physics, 
              University of Florida 
            Black 
              Holes, Waves of Gravity, and other Warped Ideas of Dr. Einstein 
           
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           Avner Magen Memorial 
            Lecture 
            May 29, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. 
            Location: Room BA1170, Bahen Centre 
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              James R. Lee, University of Washington 
                Lower bounds on the size of semidefinite programming relaxations 
              Past Magen Memorial Lectures 
                
             
           
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           Public Lecture 
            2:30 p.m. on May 14, 2015 at 
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            Gabor 
              Stepan  
               Budapest University of Technology 
              and Economics 
            Delay 
              models for dynamic contact problems: machine tool vibrations 
            Part of the Short 
              Thematic Program on Delay Differential Equations 
           
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           Distinguished Public 
            Lecture 
            March 25, 2015 at 3:30 p.m. 
            Location: Room 230 
           
            Andrew Lo, Massachusetts Institute 
              of Technology (MIT) 
              Big Data, Big Brother, and Systemic Risk Measurement and Management 
             
               
                A recurring theme among the many narratives of the Financial 
                  Crisis of 2008 is the complexity of the financial system and 
                  the failure of private- and public-sector policies to anticipate 
                  and attenuate the Crisis. This failure may be a symptom of the 
                  emergence of a new type of risk to the financial systemsystemic 
                  riskand the growing mismatch between rapidly evolving 
                  financial technologies and increasingly antiquated regulations 
                  that were never designed to address these challenges. However, 
                  technology can also be used to improve regulation. In this talk, 
                  Prof. Lo will provide an overview of new challenges to macroprudential 
                  policies and the potential for big data analytics to transform 
                  financial regulation, including self-stabilizing capital requirements, 
                  machine-learning models for consumer credit risk management, 
                  and aggregate risk measures that guarantee individual privacy. 
               
             
            Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, a 
              Professor of Finance, and the Director of the Laboratory for Financial 
              Engineering at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His awards include 
              the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Paul A. Samuelson 
              Award, the American Association for Individual Investors Award, 
              and the 2001 IAFE-SunGard Financial Engineer of the Year Award. 
           
            
            
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           The University of Toronto 20th 
            Annual 
            R.A. Blyth Lecture Series in Mathematics 
          Public Lecture: Wednesday February 25 - 4:30 p.m.at Bahen 
            (BA1130) 
            Lecture II  Thursday February 26 - at 4:10 p.m. at the Fields 
            Institute (Room 230)  
            Lecture III  Friday February 27 - at 3:10 p.m. at the Fields 
            Institute (Room 230)  
           
             
              David Donoho, Stanford University 
                What's the Big Deal about "Big Data"? Emergent Phenomena 
                in High-Dimensional Data Analysis 
              This lecture series occurs during the Institute's Workshop 
                on Visualization for Big Data: Strategies and Principles. 
                For more information, see 
                the event's webpage here.  
             
           
           
             
                
             
           
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           Emmanuel Candes, Stanford University 
             Big Data and the Reproducibility of Scientific Research: What 
            Can Statistics Offer  
          Distinguished Public Lecture 
            January 13, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. 
            Location: Room 230  
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        Monday October 27, 2014 5:00 p.m. 
          Bahen Building, Room 1190 
          Donald 
          G. Saari 
          UCI Distinguished Professor: Mathematics and Economics 
          Professor (courtesy): Logic and Philosophy of Science 
          Director:Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences 
          University of California, Irvine  
          Mathematics and the mystery of "dark matter" (video 
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            Thursday September 11, 2014 
            Robert Aliber, 
            Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance at the University 
            of Chicago 
            The Source of Financial Crisis 
           
            
          
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            September 5, 2014 
             
            Pisa/Fields Seminar Series 
            at 3:30pm in Pisa and at 9:30am in Toronto.  
             
            Stefano Marmi, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa 
            Linearization of Roth type interval exchange maps   
          
          
          
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