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Farewell lecture Tuesday April 12th 2022
Prof. Dr. Didier Sornette Dynamical risk management and dragon-kings: prediction and response to wild world Farewell lecture at 17.15 - 18.30 Location Zürich Zentrum, HG F30
Podcast: Didier Sornette: Risk-taking, scientific revolutions, and economic progress
New discoveries, inventions, and innovations — ideas — are at the heart of scientific progress and economic growth. But that means a growing economy depends on an accelerating production of new ideas. In this week’s episode of “Political Economy,” I’m joined by Didier Sornette to talk about where these ideas come from, why they’ve been in decline, and what we can do to foster greater scientific knowledge and a growing economy.
New Book: The Great 1976 Tangshan Earthquake: Learning from the 1966-1976 Chinese Prediction Program
From 1966 to 1976, four large earthquakes shook the Bohai Bay rift basin of Northeast China. This prompted the Chinese to launch one of the world’s largest social and science experiments into earthquake prediction that would engage tens of thousands of common people.
Interview Financial Times China
Didier Sornette in an Interview with the Financial Times China
Are ‘Flows of Ideas’ and `Research Productivity' in secular decline?
Are ‘Flows of Ideas’ and `Research Productivity' in secular decline? invited talk at the Workshop on AI and the Productivity of Science
These economists shape the debate about Corona and other things - the NZZ ranking 2020
Top ten economists influencing Switzerland.
Member of Academia Europaea
Didier Sornette has just been elected a full Member of Academia Europaea ("class of August 2020’’)