Benford's Law Conference
The first Benford Law workshop was held at La Posada hotel in Santa Fe, NM on December 17 & 18, 2007. This multidisciplinary workshop dealt with the theory and applications of Benford Law in Mathematics, as well as the Physical and Social Sciences. The goals of the workshop were to provide a deeper understanding of this law, to consider common themes that may exist across multiple application domains, and to catalyze new research activities related to this law.
Benford's Law Conference Attendees
The workshop was attended by about 40 researchers, faculty members and students from around New Mexico (UNM, NMT), the US as well as international speakers from Europe. In attendance were also representative of the US treasury department who are interested in the application of Benford's law to fraud detection, as well as national laboratories researchers interested in data security issues. There were 10 talks delivered by experts on the theory and applications of Benford's law, as well as extensive discussion periods. The talks ranged from theory, to dynamical systems, image processing, data integrity, election fraud detection, molecular biology, and computing.
As an immediate outcome of the workshop, the organizers are in preliminary discussions with a couple of publishers (Princeton University Press, Taylor & Francis) in order to publish a book on the subject. Discussions are also ongoing to submit a proposal to NSF that builds upon the expertise of a subset of the researchers in attendance at the workshop.
More information about the program may be found here
The workshop was primarily supported by LANL's Institute for Advanced Studies, with supplementary support by NSF and Brown university.
For more information, contact Chaouki Abdallah, chaouki@ece.unm.edu
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