COMPLEXITY

Sidney Redner on Statistics and Everyday Life

May 7, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 3min
2
How Did You Decide to Become a Physicist?
02:59 • 3min
3
Statistical Methods - First Passage Processes
05:57 • 3min
4
How Long Does It Take for a Random Oxygen Mole to Get Into Your Body?
08:28 • 3min
5
Is There a Power Law?
11:41 • 2min
6
Is There a Problem With Crowding in Complex Systems?
14:02 • 3min
7
Firefly Synchronization
17:18 • 2min
8
A Random Walk Through Your Papers
19:45 • 3min
9
How to Make the Game Last Longer?
22:44 • 2min
10
The Race to the Finish Line
24:37 • 4min
11
The Effect of Global Warming on Record Temperature Statistics
28:51 • 2min
12
Are You Using a Statistical Approach to Identifying Winning Streaks?
31:04 • 4min
13
Baseball Is a Magnification of the Competitive Society
34:47 • 2min
14
The Scale Induced Competition Drives Convergence
36:32 • 3min
15
The Hot Hand Paradox
39:20 • 2min
16
Basketball Scoring Event by Vent as Repeated Coin Flippings of a Coin
41:06 • 2min
17
How Many Times Have You Been Cited?
43:36 • 4min
18
The Sleeping Beauty Phenomena in Scientific Citation
47:28 • 2min
19
Is There a Space That Could Fit Three Cars?
49:22 • 4min
20
How to Optimize for Walking Time
53:26 • 2min
21
Is Altruism Good or Bad?
55:10 • 3min