>>The Role of Statistics in Corporate America
Speaker: Dr. Qiwei Liang, from Virginia, USA
Organizer: PKU Guanghua School of Management
Place: Room 1303, No.1 Science Building
Date: Dec. 2, 2010
Time: 15:00-16:00
Intro:
1. Examples of large American companies that have to use statistics
2. Examples of large American companies that also use statistics
3. Statistical issues and challenges in large pharmaceutical companies
4. Statistical issues and challenges in large consumer goods companies
5. What a typical day look like for a statistician in a large pharmaceutical company
6. What a typical day look like for a statistician in a large consumer goods company
7. In-house statisticians often are not enough
8. The number of statisticians is still growing in Corporate America
>>Are There Any Gains from Social Security Privatization?
Speaker: Li Shiyu
Organizer: PKU School of Economics
Place: Conference Room 302, School of Economics
Date: Dec. 3, 2010
Time: 10:00-11:30
Speaker Info: Li Shiyu, PhD candidate of the Department of Finance, the School of Economics, visiting scholar of Boston University during 2009 to 2010, and his research area is Social Security & Economic Growth.
>>The Application of Training in Temporal Processing in Neurorehabilitation: from Behavioral Studies to Bioimaging
Speaker: Prof. Szelag (Polish Academy of Sciences, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology
Organizer: PKU Department of Psychology
Place: Room 103, Philosophy Building
Date: Dec. 3, 2010
Time: 12:30-14:00
>>The European View of China since the 17th century
Speaker: Sabine Dabringhaus (Department of History, University of Freiburg, Germany)
Organizer: PKU Department of History
Place: No. 2 Courtyard, PKU Department of History
Date: Dec.10, 2010
Time: 14:30-16:30
Translated by: Zhang Hao
Edited by: Chen Miaojuan
Source: Peking University Lecture Hall
