SEMINAR: Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium
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Title: Mathematics and Statistics of Scuba Diving
Abstract:
Scuba divers are trained to follow procedures that keep them safe
while diving and afterward. Surprisingly, these safety measures
are based on just a handful of simple mathematical and statistical principles,
which will be explained in this colloquium.
Better public understanding of these basic principles
would dispel many common misconceptions about scuba safety.
Modern diving practices also pose some challenging mathematical problems,
with interesting solutions, which are often treated as an industrial secret by
the manufacturers of safety devices.
About the speaker: Adrian Baddeley PhD DSc FAA is Professor of Computational Statistics at
Curtin University in Perth, Australia. He is a former UWA professor and
head of department, and now adjunct professor.
Adrian is a keen diver with over 1100 scuba dives logged.
He has recently published 3 journal papers on scuba decompression theory and
scuba accident statistics.
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