A one-day meeting organised by the History of Statistics Group of the Royal Statistical Society

 

Thursday 21 April at the RSS

 

Speakers and titles:

 

‘‘It took a Global Conflict’: Mathematicians, Statistics and the Second World War’ - John Aldrich (University of Southampton)

 

‘Statisticians who began their careers during the War’ - Helen Joyce (The Economist)

 

‘Wartime social planning by the Government Actuaries Office and by the organised actuarial profession in relation to the Beveridge Report’ - Jose Harris (Oxford University)

 

‘Corporatism, autarky and the coming economic order: Statisticians and economists in wartime Italy (1940-43)’ - Jean-Guy Prèvost (Centre interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technologie,Université du Québec à Montréal)

 

‘Soviet statisticians and household budget surveys for quantifying food consumption in the aftermath of the War’ - Martine Mespoulet (University of Nantes)

 

Registration fees (including lunch):

£35 for RSS Concessionary Fellows

£44 for RSS Fellows

£75 for none of the above

 

Full details and a booking form available from:

https://www.statslife.org.uk/events/eventdetail/621/-/the-impact-of-statisticians-actuaries-and-economists-during-the-second-world-war

 

 

Paul Gentry
Conferences & Events Manager

The Royal Statistical Society

12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX

Direct dial: (44) 020 7614 3918

www.rss.org.uk

 

The RSS is a registered charity No. 306096

 

RSS 2016 Conference will take place in Manchester, 5-8 September.  More information at www.rss.org.uk/conference2016