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Global Congress

on randomness

1, 2, 3 july 2021
Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, Paris

Sydney

UTC+1000

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TimeWorld in a nutshell

90 conferences et 7 roundtables
500 m² of exhibition
3 exceptional shows

TimeWorld 2022 Montréal

Measured chance

Physics, Mathematics, Astrophysics, Cryptology, Industrial Risk, Cybersecurity, Finance

The chance of the living

Biology, Medicine, Ecology, Evolution, Paleontology, Geology, Climatology, Meteorology

Perceived chance

Neurosciences, Sociology, Economics, Addictology Ethology, Psychology, Mythanalysis

Chance in art

Literature, Science Fiction, Philosophy, Games, Music, Cinema, Sculpture, Dance, Photography

"I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it". Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Probability and statistics

Probability has its origin in the study of gambling and insurance in the 17th century, and it is now an indispensable tool of both social and natural sciences.

TimeWorld in a nutshell

90 conferences et 6 roundtables
500 m² of exhibition
3 exceptional shows

"People believe the only alternative to randomness is intelligent design". Richard Dawkins

Chance versus Randomness

Randomness, as we ordinarily think of it, exists when some outcomes occur haphazardly, unpredictably, or by chance. These latter three notions are all distinct, but all have some kind of close connection to probability.