Benford's Law Workshop
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Dec 17, 2007 02:25 AM
to Dec 18, 2007 02:25 PM |
| Where | Santa Fe, NM |
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This two-day multidisciplinary workshop will deal with the theory and applications of Benford's Law in Mathematics, as well as the Physical and Social Sciences. The format consists of talks by approximately 10 experts that have been studying or applying Benford's Law in a wide diversity of areas. Our goals are to provide a deeper understanding of this law, to consider common themes that may exist, and to catalyze new research activities related to this law.
We anticipate a 45-minute lecture by each of the experts, followed by liberal discussion opportunities. The keynote address would be provided by Professor Ted Hill, who is currently recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on this topic. We would like to accommodate an additional 30-40 interested scientists, engineers, and mathematicians as audience members and discussion participants.
Workshop Program
Sunday, December 16
7:00 - 9:00pm: Reception at La Posada (heavy hors d'oeuvres and cash bar)
Monday, December 17
7:00 - 9:00am: Breakfast 9:00 - 9:55am: HILL: Benford's Law: Empirical Evidence, Theory, and Applications
9:55 - 10:10am: Break
10:10 - 11:05am: NIGRINI: The Logarithmic Link Between Economic, Hydrologic, and Seismic Statistics
11:05 - 11:20am: Break
11:20 - 12:00pm: Open Discussion Session
12:00 - 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30 - 2:25pm: LEEMIS: Benford's Law Geometry
2:25 - 2:40pm: Break
2:40 - 3:35pm: SCHURGER: Extensions of Geometric Brownian Motion and Benford's Law
3:35 - 3:50pm: Break
3:50 - 4:45pm: ABDALLAH/HEILEMAN/PEREZ-GONZALEZ: Benford's Law and Multimedia Signals
6:00 - 8:00pm: Dinner (cash bar)
Tuesday, December 18
7:00 - 9:00am: Breakfast
9:00 - 9:55am: MILLER: Poisson Summation and Benford's Law: From Values of L-functions to the3x+1 Problem to Products of Random Variables
9:55 - 10:10am: Break
10:10 - 11:05am: HOYLE: Benford's Law in Molecular Biology
11:05 - 11:15am: Break
11:15 - 12:10pm: RAVIKUMAR: Some Computational Problems and Their Connection to Benford Distribution
12:10 - 1:40pm: Lunch
1:40 - 2:35pm: BERGER: Digits and Dynamics - Exploring Benford's Law for Dynamical Systems
2:35 - 2:50pm: Break
2:50 - 3:45pm: MEBANE: In Search of a Second-digit (but not First-digit) Law for Vote Counts
3:45 - 4:00pm: Break
4:00 - 4:55pm: CLAUSET: Terrorist Attacks and Power-law Distributions
Some weblinks for the conference:
Clauset:
- Clauset, M. Young and K. S. Gledistch, On the Frequency of Severe Terrorist Attacks. Journal of Conflict Resolution 51(1): 58 - 88 (2007). )
- Clauset, C. R. Shalizi and M. E. J. Newman, Power-law distributions in empirical data.
Mebane:
Election Forensics: Vote Counts and Benford's Law,
Election Forensics: Statistics, Recounts and Fraud
Miller:
The Modulo 1 Central Limit Theorem and Benford's Law for Products
"Benford's Law, Values of L-functions and the 3x+1 Problem": http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0412003
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