August 16, 2006
Peter Fader's Cool Numbers
FIND THE WONDER IN A NUMBER
The story goes that British mathematician G. H. Hardy was visiting the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in the hospital. According to Hardy:
I remember once going to see him when he was ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.
Regardless of it being a logical fallacy, DSN belives that aping the habits of the great can make one great. Sometimes. So head over to a site where you can learn fasincating facts about numbers and perhaps end up the next Ramanujan.
The site is called coolnumbers.com and is run by Wharton's Pete Fader a man of both both decision science and marketing. (Now that's a cool combination.)
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August 09, 2006
When you're bored of London you're bored of life
LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS OFFERS DECISION SCIENCE POSITION
There is a Lectureship or Senior Lectureship in Decision Sciences/Operational Research at LSE, but hurry because the closing date for receipt of applications is 18 August 2006.
The Operational Research Group has been established at LSE for over 50 years and has an international reputation in Decision Sciences, Mathematical Programming, and Public Policy. The Group is one of the core groups within the new Department of Management being created at LSE. This position is part of the significant development of research and teaching with new appointments of leading scholars in management. We are looking to appoint an outstanding candidate with research interests in applying Decision Sciences, to join a flourishing group with a unique masters programme in Decision Sciences.
The successful candidate will be able to teach decision analysis, including Bayesian statistics and probability theory, or operational research modelling, on the masters programmes in Decision Sciences and Operational Research, and on the undergraduate degree in Management Sciences. Further details about these courses can be found on the OR Group's website at
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/operationalResearch
There is an opportunity for the appointee to collaborate with the established research programme in research centres at LSE such as the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, the Centre for Healthcare Systems Analysis and the growing research opportunities the new Department of Management will offer.
This is a tenure track appointment from January 2007.
For a full application pack, please see the instructions of how to apply at
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/recruitment/jobsAtLSE/pdf/WebCoverLetter%20for%20Lectureships.pdf
The job description and further particulars of the post are at:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/recruitment/jobsAtLSE/LEC_05_61fp.pdf
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August 01, 2006
How do conflicts increase?
ESCALATION
One time DSN host and all around smart person Dan Gilbert has a typically well-written and insightful piece in the New York Times op-ed section:He who cast the first stone probably didn't. It's a topic that doesn't get much play in the Judgment and Decision Making literature, which is strange because retaliation is a decision.
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