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SUMMARY:Prof David Spiegelhalter in conversation with Prof Baruch Fischhof
 f - Baruch Fischhoff
DTSTART:20180202T170000Z
DTEND:20180202T180000Z
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CONTACT:Dr. Sander van der Linden
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome Prof Baruch Fischhoff of Carnegie 
 Mellon University to Cambridge\, and in this event he will talk about his 
 life and work with Prof David Spiegelhalter\, the Winton Professor for the
  Public Understanding of Risk here at Cambridge. Professor Fischhoff is a 
 global leader in the field of risk perception\, and has a lifetime’s exp
 erience of researching and advising on communicating risk and scientific u
 ncertainty.\n\nWith a perceived decreased lack of trust in experts and exp
 ertise\, and the so-called 'post-truth' society\, the communication of fac
 tual evidence has perhaps never been more important. Whether it’s doctor
 s communicating medical risks and benefits to patients\, intelligence auth
 orities communicating terrorist threats to government\, or journalists rep
 orting scientific findings\, all need to consider how their audience will 
 perceive what they're saying and be aware of the effects of cognitive bias
 es that we all have.\n\nBoth Professors Spiegelhalter and Fischhoff have w
 orked with government bodies and national and international agencies to br
 ing their very different expertise to bear on these vital issues. \n\nTick
 ets are free\, but please reserve one here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/p
 rof-david-spiegelhalter-in-conversation-with-prof-baruch-fischhoff-tickets
 -42118093351\n \n\nSpeaker Biography: \n\nBARUCH FISCHHOFF\, Ph.D.\, is th
 e Howard Heinz University Professor in the Institute for Politics and Stra
 tegy and Departments of Social and Decision Sciences and of Engineering an
 d Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. A graduate of the Detroit P
 ublic Schools\, he holds a BS in mathematics and psychology from Wayne Sta
 te University and an MA and PhD in psychology from the Hebrew University o
 f Jerusalem. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the
  National Academy of Medicine. He is past President of the Society for Jud
 gment and Decision Making and of the Society for Risk Analysis\, and recip
 ient of its Distinguished Achievement Award. He was founding chair of the 
 Food and Drug Administration Risk Communication Advisory Committee and rec
 ently chaired the National Research Council Committee on Behavioral and So
 cial Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Securi
 ty and co-chaired the National Research Council Committee on Future Resear
 ch Goals and Directions for Foundational Science in Cybersecurity and the 
 National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium on “The Science of Scien
 ce Communication.” He is a former member of the Eugene\, Oregon Commissi
 on on the Rights of Women\, Department of Homeland Security's Science and 
 Technology Advisory Committee\, the World Federation of Scientists Permane
 nt Monitoring Panel on Terrorism\, and the Environmental Protection Agency
  Science Advisory Board\, where he chaired the Homeland Security Advisory 
 Committee. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)\
 , the Association for Psychological Science\, the Society of Experimental 
 Psychologists\, and the Society for Risk Analysis. He has received APA’s
  Award for Distinguished Service to Psychology and an honorary Doctorate o
 f Humanities from Lund University.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Mill Lane 
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