MEDIA ADVSORY: R00226 – 21 October 2016

Complex research takes the co-operation of a wide variety of scientists, statisticians, analysts and other experts.

As part of the 2016 Fields-Brock Transdisciplinary Distinguished Lecture Series, Dr. Fabrizio Ruggeri, Research Director, CRN-Imathi in Milano, Italy, will give a talk about the Bayesian Methods of Complex Problems.

Faculty of Mathematics and Science Dean Ejaz Ahmed is pleased to invite Ruggeri, who is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and was one of the first recipients of the Zellner Medal, the most prestigious award given by the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.

Ruggeri will present some of the work he and his co-authors have done in a number of different fields and discuss how complex systems arise in many disciplines such as environmental sciences, engineering, biology and medicine.

The talk will take place Monday, Oct. 24 at 6:30 p.m. in Brock University’s Pond Inlet.

For more information or for assistance arranging interviews:

* Dan Dakin, Media Relations Officer, Brock University ddakin@brocku.ca, 905-688-5550 x5353 or 905-347-1970

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