SPEAKER: David Aldous, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley

TITLE:  Reflections on devising a "probability in the real world" course.

ABSTRACT:   Undergraduate textbooks on probability deal with "things that are like
dice" and hypothetical stories that have little connection with our
experience of chance outside the classroom.  As part of a broader project
to articulate critically what mathematical probability says about the real
world, I give an occasional course at Berkeley in the following format.  I
give 20 lectures on different, maximally diverse, topics, and students
choose some project involving new real data.  In this talk I will describe
some of the content not found in other courses.