Talks Etc.

UPCOMING:

Joint meeting, Canadian and American Statistical Associations' annual meeting, Montreal. Significance Magazine lecture. Aug. 3-8, 2013.

Royal Statistical Society. Significance Magazine's plenary lecture, Newcastle, England. Sept. 4, 2013.

Grolier Club Symposium. Extraordinary Women in Science and Medicine since 1600. New York City. Oct. 26, 2013. 12-5 p.m.

Celebrating 250 Years of Bayes, International Society for Bayesian Analysis Objective Bayes workshop. After-dinner banquet speech. Duke University, Durham NC. Dec. 17, 2013.

Sarah Crane Cohen Visiting Scholar in the Humanities, Roland Park Country School, Baltimore MD. March 20, 2013.

Breaking the Enigma Code. Nov. 28, 2012. At the 92nd St. Y, New York City. Second time!

RECENT:

Skype interview, Faculty Book Club, Keiser University, Florida. Nov. 8, 2012.

Oct. 15, 2012. Society of Actuaries, annual meeting. 1:45 pm-3 p.m. Washington DC.

NPR.org Interview: http:/​/​www.npr.org/​2012/​10/​12/​162813929/​is-the-nobel-prize-a-boys-mostly-club?sc=tw&cc=share
Oct. 2012.

June 12, 2012. AP Statistics Teachers Grading Exams, Kansas City, MO.

Temporary Contemporary Art Gallery. Sacramento CA. May 16, 2012.

Labyrinth Bookstore, Princeton NJ, March 15, 6 pm.

Breaking the Enigma Code. 7 p.m., 92nd St. Y, New York City. Great Discoveries lecture series. March 14, 2012.

Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. March 13.

Microsoft Research, Kirkland WA. Feb. 22, 2011
research.microsoft.com/​apps/​video/​default.aspx?id=159395

Nobel Prize Women in Science. Council of Scientific Society Presidents. Washington DC. Dec. 5, 2011.

Futureproof, Newstalk Science, Irish talk radio. Oct. 24, 2011. http:/​/​www.newstalk.ie/​programmes/​all/​futureproof/​podcasts/​ (click on 'Highlights')

George Washington University. Sponsored by statistics, physics, and decision sciences departments. Washington DC. Oct. 21, 2011.

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD. Oct. 21, 2011.

Metron, Inc. Reston, VA. Oct. 20, 2011.

Carnegie Mellon University. University Lecture Series. Oct. 17, 2011. Introduction by Robert Kass.
http:/​/​www.cmu.edu/​uls/​past-videos/​index.html

Singularity Summit. Annual meeting, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence. New York City. Oct. 16, 2011.
http:/​/​singularitysummit.magnify.net/​users/​?type=posts

Covington Library, Covington, WA. Oct. 9, 2011.

Bletchley Park, UK, filming interviews for Channel 4 bio of Alan Turing. Sept. 6, 2011.

The Art of the Tangent, interview with Gerald Cirrincione. http:/​/​www.The ArtoftheTangent.com. Aug. 22, 2011

"Bayes' Rule: The Theory That Would Not Die," Episode #124 with Desiree Schell, "Skeptically Speaking." Podcast at Skeptically Speaking.

Google, New York, July 25,2011
Authors@​Google: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne Youtube

Google, Mountain View, July 1, 2011

Town Hall Science Lecture Series, Seattle, May 9, 2011

Articles


Selected Works

Nonfiction
The non-mathematical story of the fight over Bayes' rule and its ultimate triumph.

"A rollicking tale of the triumph of a powerful mathematical tool."
—Nature
"If you are not thinking like a Bayesian, perhaps you should be." John Allen Paulos, New York Times Book Review.
Editor's Choice, New York Times Book Review.
Biographies of 15 women scientists who won a Nobel Prize—or came very close.

“Spellbinding, compelling.”
—The Science Teacher
Biographies of nine chemists whose discoveries solved serious social and technological problems.

“A compelling read… fascinating.”
—Nature

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