ISyE's January Seminar

(15-01-2026) Yesterday, we hosted our internal January seminar, featuring two inspiring contributions: a training on counter-intuitive statistics of permutations of sets and one warm introduction of one of our newest researchers.

Dr. Peter Ottoy presented "The great escape: on counter-intuitive statistics of permutations of sets" via "The 100 prisoner problem". The group received training on probability, a crucial topic for our area of research. This was done by investigating remarkable statistical results linked to permutations of sets, using Python to adopt a simulation-based approach.

Following up, we also warmly welcomed our new researcher Luca Forte. Luca shared insights into his background, research journey and personal story. A great way to get to know the people behind the research.

Many thanks to both speakers. See you at February's seminar!

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