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Professor Ton
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Radboud University Nijmegen |
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Dr Peter
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CWI (National Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands), Amsterdam, NL |
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http://homepages.cwi.nl/~pdg/ |
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Speaker 1 Biography
Ton Derksen was professor of philosophy of science and cognitive philosophy at the Universities of Nijmegen and Tilburg (The Netherlands). He got his D.Phil. from Magdalen College, Oxford for a dissertation on probability, chances and belief. He wrote extensively on the problem of rationality of science and relativism. During the last years his interests moved to issues in the joined area of psychology, aesthetics and the problem of conventionalism. Recently he published on linear perspective and depth perception in The British Journal of Aesthetics and The Journal of Philosophy. He plays the oboe and has his own Bach orchestra.
Speaker 2 Biography
Peter Grünwald is senior researcher/project leader at the CWI, the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands, located in Amsterdam. He is also affiliated with EURANDOM, located at Eindhoven University of Technology. His research interests lie where statistics, computer science and information theory meet: theories of learning from data. He is author of "The Minimum Description Length Principle", (MIT Press, to appear April 2007) and leader of the research project "Learning When All Models Are Wrong". He is a steering committee member of the EU PASCAL Network of Excellence.
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Evidence Seminar. The case of Lucia de B.
Evidence Seminar, joint with Statistical Science.
In a recent high-profile criminal case in The Netherlands, the nurse Lucia de B. was convicted to life imprisonment for 7 murders and 3 attempted murders in four hospitals in the Hague. The principal evidence was that a suspiciously large number of reanimations happened during the shifts of this particular nurse, and the probability that this could have happened by chance was calculated by an expert as 1 in 342 million.
This double seminar will address the problems of dealing with such evidence, both in this specific case and more generally.
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