[cmath] Fields Institute Keyfitz Lecture: Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon University)

[Andrea Yeomans]

Lecture Announcement:

The Nathan and Beatrice Keyfitz Lectures in Mathematics and the Social
Sciences
Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie Mellon University)
May 3, 2012 at 6:00 p.m.
Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George Street, Room 1160


The Fields Institute is proud to welcome Stephen Fienberg, who will
deliver the Nathan and Beatrice Keyfitz Lectures in Mathematics and the
Social Sciences.

Title: Counting the People

On Wednesday February 8, 2012, the world population passed 7 billion
people. Or was it October 31, 2011 or March 12, 2012? How do we know the
date so precisely? Nathan Keyfitz had a life-long fascination with
different aspects of counting, estimation, and forecasting, especially
in the context of producing such population figures and in census
taking. Most demographers have traditionally viewed census taking as a
counting exercise, but there has been a lively debate about combining
counting with forms of estimation, and the precision that would result.
In this presentation, Professor Fienberg will describe aspects of this
debate, including Keyfitz's contributions to and perspectives on it.

For more information, please visit
www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/keyfitz_lectures/fienberg.htm
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