What do the weather forecast, board games and movie ratings have in common? According to the mathematician Ostap Okhrin, all of them are great examples of how our intuition in daily life can be described by statistical data. In this entertaining talk, Ostap demonstrates that we don't have to be mathematicians ourselves to make the mathematically best decisions. Since 2015, Ostap has been a professor for econometrics and statistics at the TU Dresden. Before that, he was junior professor at HU Berlin, being the youngest professor in Germany at the age of 23 at his call in 2008. His precious academic career he did on the fast track: graduating from high school with 16, he finished his Bachelor in mathematics with 20 and his Master with 21. Two years later, at the age of 23, Ostap did his Ph.D. at the Viadrina University at Frankfurt/Oder in economics.
Ostap expresses the world in numbers - he is fascinated by statistics and the insights into the world that we can obtain from it. His current research topics involve among others the prediction of the price development of certain commodities in agriculture, problems in traffic and the assessment of risks caused by e.g. the weather. Hereby, the focus is on the processing of data of moderate and high dimensions of incomplete or rare data sources. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
27 ноя 2018
