Nassim Nicholas Taleb Recent and Forthcoming Seminars and
Talks
(combination of Literary & Technical Discussions)
(No, I am not interested in being a
speaker-bureau commodity with my picture on a catalogue next to Òthought
leadersÓ quacks. I am interested in
spreading my idea(s), not in peddling goods and services. I get hundreds of
invitations a year and pick those that gather thoughtful and thinking
audiences, preferably poor in funding. I donate all academic honoraria to
universities and research centers, with the exception of those offered by
business schools (which I use to invite my friends to dinner)).
For lecture requests, contact: gamma@[the domain name of this site]. Please
put ÒLecture requestÓ in the Subject. You can contact me directly or through
one of the main bureaus.
Note on the picture: I
hope that I donÕt look so much (physically) like Umberto Eco (30 years and 20
kilos away).
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU. I lecture more and more on applied probability theory (a non-idiot savantic approach to probability).
Sao Paulo, Brazil, Nov 12, 2008
Idea Festival, Sept 25-27, Louisville Kentucky
Modena, Italy Lit. Fest. Sept 3-7 2008
American Statistical Association, 2008 Joint Statistical Meetings, August 3-7, 2008
London Business School, June 26, 2008
Hong Kong, June 3
Mumbai, May 28
Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival, Wales, May 25, 2008
CFA Conference, Vancouver, May 12, 2008
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, ITMAT, April 14-15, 2008
Oxford Literary Festival, April 1, 2008
London School of Economics, March 6, 2008, Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House (starts at 6:30 PM)
Oxford University, James Martin 21st Century School, March 5, 2008
Brussels March 3, 2008
TED Conference Feb 27-March 1, 2008
Tokyo, Feb 26
Warwick Economics Summit –Feb 15-17, 2008. It is not organized by corrupt academic economists. (I have not confirmed)
RISK, Feb 12, 2008, NY
Long Now Foundation, Seminar about Long Term Thinking. ÒThe Future Has Always Been Crazier than We ThoughtÓ, San Francisco – Feb 4, 2008
University of Chicago, Stevanovich
Center for Financial Mathematics & the
International Center for Futures and Derivatives (University of Illinois), Joint Seminar, Jan 11, 2008 –[contact
Oleg Bodarenko at UIC for details]. Title: ÒPreasymptotics, Inverse
Problems, and the Real World.Ó
Prague (ESCP Business School of Paris)- December 2-4, 2007
Polytechnic University, November 28, 2007
European Parliament , November 19, 2007
Columbia Business School, November 17 & 27, 2007
Athens, Panel, November
8, 2007
Dutch Controllers Institute Annual Meeting, Rotterdam, November 7, 2007
Harvard University,
Kennedy School of Government, November
1-2, 2007
San Francisco, October 14, 2007
Mexico (with Paul Wilmott), October 5-6, 2007
Munich, September 27, 2007
Geneva, September
25-26, 2007 –Critique of factor models; data mining in statistics;
properties replication.
London Business School,
September 24, 2007 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC info here
Columbia University, Economic action with partial knowledge of the world, September 7th-8th , 2007
Brazil, August 22-24, 2007, BMF Congresso
Edinburgh Literary Festival, August 15-18, 2007
Vancouver, July 24, 2007
Washington, July 17-18, discussion on Bayesian
Inference &
Prediction
FreedomFest July 5-7 Las Vegas (A libertarian convention). Debate with Charles Murray.
Goldman Sachs, July 2, 2007 –Technical lecture on ÒWhy it is not PoissonÓ.
Museum van Loon, Amsterdam, June 28, 2007
Lucerne, June 25-26
2007
MillerÕs Academy, London June 12, 2007
RISKÕ07, Keynote, London, June 12, 2007
London Business School, June 11,2007
Brazil, May 30-31,
2007
University of Texas, May 22, 2007
Barnes and Noble lecture New York, May 17, 2007, (5th Avenue at 46th St)
Colbert TV Interview –May 8, 2007
London, May1, The Black Swan launch
Borders Books, NY (57 & Park), April 18, 2007, The Black Swan launch
London April 12-13, Wilmott
Zurich ETH March 31- Talk on Security and Terrorism Issues
Bowdoin College, March 26 – On the Impact of the Highly Improbable
New York, March 6, Morgan Stanley Quant Lecture Life is at best preasymptotics, at the worst an inverse problem.
Dubai March 2007 -CANCELLED
American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Feb 16, 2006 –Symposia: Life Science for Sustaining Health. Obsersational versus Randomized Trials. Discussion of data mining in epidemiology as an application of the narrative fallacy.
Columbia University, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Discussions with students of my A Priori Problem of Small Probabilities, Feb 5, 2006
South Africa, January 21-30, 2006
Birbeck College, London, January 19, 2007
Bank of England, Market Stability, January 19, 2006
Washington CFA Association, January 10, 2006
American University in Beirut, Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences, Beirut, Lebanon, December 11, 2006 [Postponed]
Columbia University, December
8, 2006
Yale University, Martin
ShubikÕs Seminar, December 6,
2006
Warsaw, Poland,
December 4, 2006
Brighton, England, November 29, 2006
Johns Hopkins University, November 7 (or 8), 2006 [tentative]
New York University, Economics Department, Colloquium on Market Institutions (ÒAustrian EconomicsÓ), November 6, 2006
Columbia University, October 26, 2006
Jim Lehrer Newshour,
October 23, 2006
Sloan Foundation October 23, 2006
London Risk and Insurance Lecture, October 18, 2006
Moscow, Russia, Lecture on Tail Events, September 13, 2006
Ecole Polytechnique, Les
Scalantes et les phŽnomenes sociaux, Lecture in Honor of Benoit Mandelbrot,
Paris, September 11,2006
GAIM 2006, Plenary, Cannes, July 10-13 2006
8th Wilmott-Taleb Workshop July 6-7 2006
Rome Summer School on Risk Management, June 20-28, 2006
Quant Congress, Plenary Lecture, Monte Carlo, June 6-8, 2006 [I CANCELLED]
Amsterdam Talk, May 31, 2006
Stockholm Stock Exchange, Stockholm, May 30, 2006
ICBI Derivatives, 2006, Paris, May 9 2006
GrantÕs Conference, New York, March 29, 2006
PRMIA, former Global Association of Risk Professionals, Who Cares About Infinite
Variance? Cass Business School, London, March 23 2006 [POSTPONED]
Frankfurt (Germany) Talk, March 20,2006
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2005-2006. I taught the class Randomness, Decisions and Human Nature .
Dubai Talk, March
6-8, 2006
Columbia University Sociology Seminar, On the Difference between Mild and Wild Rand