Decisions under risk and under uncertainity: are they different? Should they be? Seminar
- Date:
- 18 December 2014
- Venue:
- Building 02 room 3041
Event details
CORMSIS
A presentation on the demand forecasts developed for the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics. This process covered the London Underground, London Overground and Dockland Light Railway networks, bringing together multiple data sources to represent the overall transport system. With the Games now over, the presentation will also focus on the rare opportunity to use actual data to review the accuracy of a complex forecasting process. Finally, the presentation will outline the learning that has since been developed further by TfL.
Speaker information
Konstantinos Katsikopoulos, Max Plank Institute for Human Development. Dr. Konstantinos Katsikopoulos studied cognitive psychology and applied mathematics and obtained a Ph.D. in operational research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Then, he was a visiting assistant professor of engineering systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Now at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, he serves as the deputy director of the Centre for Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition. He is on the editorial board of the journal Judgment and Decision Making. He has received a German Science Foundation Fellowship for Young Researchers and also won a grant from the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study to organize the 2014 Blankensee Colloquium on the comparative analysis of nudge, boost and design.