34th Fisher Lecturer
Professor Peter McCullagh, FRS, University of Chicago
Title
Empirical phenomena and universal laws
Abstract
In 1943 Fisher, together with Corbet and Williams, published a study on the
relation between the number of species and the number of individuals, which
has since been recognized as one of the most influential papers in 20th
century ecology. It was a combination of empirical work backed up by a
simple theoretical argument, which describes a sort of universal law
governing random partitions, such as the celebrated Ewens partition whose
original derivation flows from the Fisher-Wright model. This talk will
discuss several empirical studies of a similar sort, including Taylor's law
and recent work related to Fairfield-Smith's work on the variance of spatial
averages.
Date and time
17:30, 27 October, 2015
Venue
Oxford Mathematical Institute
https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/
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