In November of 2011, when the Financial Stability Board and International Monetary Fund published a list of 29 systematically important financial institutions (SIFIs), the metrics they used didn’t properly consider the complexity within the corporation, a new study concludes. Read the story in the "New Scientist" and "ValueWalk."
[more]A new quantitative analysis of Supreme Court opinions using linguistic software will be published next year in the Washington University Law Review. This is co-authored by Daniel Rockmore, along with Keith Carlson, computer scientists at Dartmouth College, and Michael A. Livermore, a law professor at the University of Virginia.
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An exhibition of prints based on mathematical expressions produced by eminent scientists and mathematicians is a “sampling of beautiful mathematics,” says Professor Daniel Rockmore, who curated the collection. The exhibit, which has been to Zurich, Portland, Ore., and Seattle, is now at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Conn.
[more]Dartmouth College is pleased to announce that it is searching for a 2015-2016 academic year postdoctoral fellow in the area of quantitative social science. The fellow will be formally affiliated with the Program in Mathematics and Social Sciences (MSS), an interdisciplinary program that integrates modern statistical and computational research techniques with contemporary social science questions. The successful fellow should have a research record that demonstrates independence and initiative and is grounded methodologically in statistics or other computational techniques.
[more]During Tuesday’s midterm elections, researchers from Dartmouth and the University of Florida were tracking how long it took voters—in Hanover, N.H., and in several precincts in Florida’s Miami-Dade County—to cast their ballots, reports the Valley News. “We are interested in basic precinct processes and the time voters take to vote,” Michael Herron, a professor of government, tells the newspaper. “Wait times are important because when you wait, you are paying a tax, a time tax.”
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