Giving a talk Giving a good talk is not an easy task, but with time and practice you get to learn how to communicate (hopefully I’ve learned too!!). There are a number of places on the web with advices to … ...
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#arcsin law #brownian motion #paradox #stochastic The probability of going through a bad patch We’ve heard it: people that invest on the stock market or that gamble in lotteries, casinos, etc usually say “I’m going through a bad patch” (or bad spell). That is, they have … ...
#journal #papers #self-advertising Being part of "best of 2008" I got wonderful news today. Our paper “Specialization and herding behavior of trading firms in a financial market” (pdf) has been selected by the Editorial Board of New Journal of Physics … ...
The use of statistics Mark Twain (1924) probably had politicians in mind when he reiterated Disraeli’s famous remark ("There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics"). Scientists, we hope, would never use … ...
#Fokker-Planck #Ito #Stochastic Differential Equations Itô calculus for the rest of us One of the areas of my research is stochastic differential equations (SDE). I posted about it several times before. One of the things students and collaborators keep asking me about SDEs is the weird … ...
Visualizing citation networks The Eigenfactor Project and Moritz Stefaner join efforts to visualize the citation network between different journals belonging to different research fields. It is amazing and a wonderful way to … ...
#Paradox #Queueing theory #Stochastic Waiting for the bus Although the public transportation system in Madrid is very good, I don’t usually take the bus or the train to move around. But sometimes my car decides I should take public transportation (bus … ...
Referee Reports I found an interesting presentation by Sami Mitra, associate editor of Physical Review Letters, about the editorial office and the editorial process at PRL. Among some interesting figures about the … ...
#Add new tag #impact factor #long tail #social networks Publish and... perish In the old days, research quality was measured by the number of papers you published. Publishing was a hard process and only few scientists were able to publish several papers per year. However, with … ...
