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Seminars in Statistics Dan Roy (University of Cambridge)

The combinatorial structure underlying the beta process is that of a continuum of Blackwell-MacQueen urn schemes We uncover a novel urn scheme underlying conditionally independent sequences of Bernoulli processes that share a common beta process hazard measure. As shown by Thibaux and Jordan (2007), in the special case when the underlying beta process has a…

Monday Lunch Seminars Maria Laura Di Tommaso

"Measuring Welfare: Random Scale Models for capabilities. An application to freedom of movement of Italian women." (Note: the seminar is on Thursday) abstract Sen’s capability approach distinguishes between what people are free to do and to be (their ‘capabilities’) and what they do and who they are (their ‘functionings’). In the capability approach, individuals’ well-being…

Seminars in Politics and Society Anna Leander (Copenhagen Business School)

"Value Neutral Research: Methodological Challenges of Ethnographic Research in Critical Security Studies" abstract This paper grown out of a recurring practical concern for critical approaches to security broadly understood as including the full range of post-linguistic turn approaches to security. Work in these traditions appears to violate one of the most fundamental principles of work…

Seminars in Politics and Society Shiri M. Breznitz (Georgia Institute of Technology)

"Industrial Agglomeration vs. Clusters – “Real” Communication or is it all “in the air”?" Abstract The phenomenon of industrial concentration has many names: agglomeration, industrial districts, and clusters are but a few. Industrial clusters have maintained their importance in today’s economy, but the definition of clusters is vague and inclusive. With two decades of research…

Seminars in Politics and Society Piero Tortola (Collegio Carlo Alberto)

"N=2: The comparative study of the EU and the US as a research programme" abstract EU-US comparisons have proliferated in the past two decades or so. Yet by and large this scholarship so far has proceeded without a serious reflection on its own nature, raison d’être, and key characteristics—a lack of ‘self-awareness’ which in turn hampers mutual…