Veranstaltungen
Veranstaltungen der Fakultät für Mathematik
Some people have all the luck: finding criminals using publicly available lottery data, als mathkol gambrinus
Termin
13.10.2014, 17:15 Uhr -
Veranstaltungsort
E 28
Abstract
Winning a prize of 500 Euros or more in the lottery is a remarkable thing
-- I don't know anyone personally who has ever won one.
But when we investigated records of all claimed lottery prizes in several
US states, we discovered that some people had won hundreds of these
prizes! Such people seem to be not just lucky, but
suspiciously lucky. I will explain what we thought they might
have been up to, what mathematics says about it, and what further
investigations revealed.
Hinweis
Um 16:45 Uhr findet in Raum 614 ein kleines Kaffeetrinken statt. Interessenten sind herzlich eingeladen.
Vortragende(r)
Prof. Dr. Skip Garibaldi
Herkunft der/des Vortragenden
Emory University, Atlanta, USA