Sarah Palin | 2008 Republican Convention- Accepts VP Nomination 1 of 4We often hear politicians complain that they were misquoted, quoted out of context, or just simply ignored by the media. That's not possible tonight, because so many of the world's eyes were personally transfixed on Sarah Palin speaking at the Republican National Convention.Tonight we heard the truth, unfiltered, directly from our GOP Vice-Presidential nominee.Governor Palin's speech was that of someone who knows how to win, how to encourage, and how to make her point forcibly. She sure did that tonight.She's tough, she's proud, and she is completely ready to take on one of the toughest jobs in America. She'll be a great Vice-President. [ More Detail ]
Muchachada Nui, los miércoles a las 23:30 horas en La 2 de TVE. Y todos los vídeos, más grandes y más contenidos exclusivos en la nueva web oficial http://muchachadanui.rtve.es Las enseñanzas de Marcial Ruiz Escribano, en su sección 'Al Fresco'. Hoy nos ilustra sobre "Los listos". [ More Detail ]
Esta semana Muchachada Nui tiene como celebrity invitada a Paris Hilton. Conocerás todos sus secretos ocultos, sube en su limousina y brinda con champán. Muchachada Nui, los miércoles a las 23:30 horas en La 2 de TVE. Y todos los vídeos, más grandes y más contenidos exclusivos en la nueva web oficial http://muchachadanui.rtve.es [ More Detail ]
Chemistry 3B: Chemical Structure and Reactivity. Spring 2006. Professor Peter Vollhardt.Chemistry 3B represents the second semester of the standard organic chemistry series at UC Berkeley. It covers conjugation, aromatic chemistry, carbonyl compounds, carbohydrates, amines, carboxylic acids, amino acids, peptides, proteins, and nucleic acid chemistry. Ultraviolet spectroscopy and mass spectrometry will be introduced.Organic chemistry is a specific discipline within the subject of chemistry. It is the scientific study of the structure, properties, composition, reactions, and preparation of chemical compounds of carbon and hydrogen, which may contain any number of other elements, such as nitrogen,... [ More Detail ]
Nassim Nicholas Talem PhD is an essayist, belletrist, &researcher only interested in one single topic, chance (particularly extreme &rare events, the "Black Swans" i.e. outliers); but it falls at the intersection of philosophy/epistemology (skepticism; knowledge about the dynamics of history; inferential claims), philosophy/ethics (stoicism facing random events; theories of nonhedonic happiness), mathematical sciences (probability theory, statistical physics), social science/finance (opacity &decision making under incomplete information), and cognitive science (the mental biases making us "fooled" by randomness). He mainly derives his intuitions from a 2-decade long and intense practice of derivatives trading ("nondull" activities with plenty of randomness. Academic &Teaching: Starting September 2007, London Business School (visiting 3 months a year while living mostly in NY) : Professor of ... Marketing (sic!) &co-director of the Decision Science Laboratory (Black Swans are mainly positive "hits"). Dan Goldstein ( also Wiki) and I are starting the "ecological uncertainty" project running a family of experiments on the intuition of randomness. On leave as the Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Fellow &Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University (since 1999), and affiliated faculty, Wharton School Financial Institutions Center. My most enjoyable teaching experience is the 2 --day seminar I co-teach with Paul Wilmott twice a year. Trading/Finance: Currently Founder, Empirica LLC, which owns interests in hedge funds, and operates a research laboratory in London Empirica Laboratory Limited and a Hedging operation (no, it is not a "hedge fund" in the common accepted sense as the bulk of the business consists in portfolio protection packages. We only called it a HF in May-October 2001). Was inducted in the Derivatives Strategy Derivatives Hall of Fame (Feb 2001). I was mostly a prop trader until 1993, then became more arbitrage oriented. I held positions of managing director and head trader at Union Bank of Switzerland, worldwide chief derivatives trader for currencies, commodities and non-dollar fixed income at CS-First Boston, chief currency derivatives trader for Banque Indosuez (age 25), Managing Director and worldwide head of financial option arbitrage at CIBC-Wood Gundy, derivatives arbitrage trader at Bankers Trust, proprietary trader at BNP-Paribas, as well as independent option market maker on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (...). Current Editorial Boards and Scientific Committees (that I remember): U.S. Secretary of Defense's Cross-Disciplinary Highland Panel, Journal of Alternative Investments, Warsaw Institute of Psychology in Business, Université Paris-Dauphine DESS 203, etc. Current Corporate Boards: Centaurus Capital LP Alpha Fund, Centaurus Kappa Fund. Education: includes an MBA from Wharton, and a Ph.D. from the University of Paris (Paris 9 Dauphine). The Ph.D. committee included: Hélyette Geman, Marco Avellaneda, Nicole Elkaroui, Dilip Madan, &Jacques Hamon. [ More Detail ]