LSE public lecture
Date: Thursday 6 March 2008
Time: 6:30-8pm
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Chair: Professor Richard Bradley
Professor Taleb will discuss the dominant role of the low probability, high impact events in historical, cultural and soci-economic life, and the cognitive and scientific biases behind our blindness with respect to the improbable, based on his book The Black Swan| (Allen Lane, 2007).
Nassim Nicholas Taleb is the Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
This event is organised in association with the LSE SU Philosophy Society, and supported by the LSE Annual Fund|.
This event is free and open to all with no ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more information, email events@lse.ac.uk| or call 020 7955 6043.
Media queries: please contact the Press Office if you would like to reserve a press seat or have a media query about this event, email pressoffice@lse.ac.uk| or call 020 7955 7060.