I am looking forward to this seminar. A not-to-miss seminar. Mark your calender!
----- Forwarded Message ----- From: "Michael Saunders" <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], "BANANA" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 7:18:16 PM Subject: [icme-linear-algebra-opt Special seminar by Prof Rudolf Kalman Special seminar of interest to the Linear Algebra and Optimization community (and others) A NEW APPROACH TO UNCERTAINTY AND STATISTICS Rudolf Kalman, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland Monday 31 October 2011, 3:45pm Stanford University, Bldg 370, Room 370 (main quad) Especially in the English-speaking world, the mainstream approach to both problems has crystallized around a single hypothesis: (H) It is a law of Nature that randomness, uncertainty, indeterminacy, fuzziness, ..., and all that, is governed by probability. Rather than engaging in polemics or invoking Newton ("Hypotheses non fingo") we wish to make two simple remarks: 1. (H) is not true in the real world, and consequently is not a law of nature. 2. (H) is not necessary for a scientific analysis of randomness and uncertainty. We shall elaborate on the second point by presenting a mathematical critique (unpublished) of the "method of least squares" to illustrate the fact that dispensing with the a-priori assumptions centered on probability ("prejudices" in the scientific sense) leads to sharp insight and important new results. Bio: Prof Kalman received the IEEE Medal of Honor, the Kyoto Prize, and the National Medal of Science. _______________________________________________ icme-linear-algebra-optimization mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/icme-linear-algebra-optimization
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