The Data Science Initiative (DSI) is excited to welcome guest speaker Dr. Matthew Hansen to NC State. Dr. Hansen will give a talk on "Monitoring Global Land Change." From deforestation to urbanization, the human footprint on the land surface is ever expanding, […]
The Data Science Initiative (DSI) is excited to welcome guest speaker Dr. Steven Koonin to NC State. Dr. Koonin will give a talk on “Urban Data.”For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population lives in […]
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Andrew Belmonte, Professor of Mathematics and Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State University, will deliver the seventh Kwangil Koh Lecture. Belmonte will examine how humans play games. History gives us two examples of the development of new mathematical ideas and directions from our playful habits: games of chance, which led to the formulation of probability theory, and games of strategy, which led to game theory.