Takis Tackles
Takis Konstantopoulos, University of Liverpool, is joined by George Kesidis, Pennsylvania State University, for the first column in a series on the impact of AI on academia. They write:
In a previous Takis Tackles article ([4] in the December 2021 issue) one of us [TK] claimed…
Takis Tackles
IMS Contributing Editor Takis Konstantopoulos writes:
Pandemics, we learn by studying a bit of history, have been game changers. For example, H.G. Wells wrote in A Short History of the World in 1922:
“In the second century A.D. a great misfortune came upon the Roman and Chinese…
Takis Konstantopoulos writes:
We live in extraordinary times. Even though there have been several warnings about the dangers of a pandemic, as, for example, Bill Gates’ warning in 2016, many world leaders did not take them into account. Moreover, some countries like the United States reduced their budgets related…
Modern Applied Probability: a workshop in celebration of Sergey Foss’s 65th birthday, was held May 15–17, 2019, at the International Center for Mathematical Sciences, at The Bayes Centre in Edinburgh, UK. Takis Konstantopoulos reports:
This workshop was organized by two former students (Denis Denisov, University of Manchester, and Seva…
Introducing Takis Konstantopoulos, one of our Contributing Editors.
Takis did his basic studies at NTUA in Greece where he learned a lot about many subjects (“from complex analysis to quantum mechanics, signal processing, control…”) and his MSc (on Lévy’s Brownian motion) and PhD (in stochastic networks) at UC Berkeley.…