Prof. Dr. Didier Sornette Dynamical risk management and dragon-kings: prediction and response to wild world  Farewell lecture at 17.15 - 18.30 Location Zürich Zentrum, HG F30    

New discoveries, inventions, and innovations — ideas — are at the heart of scientific progress and economic growth. But that means a growing economy depends on an accelerating production of new ideas. In this week’s episode of “Political Economy,” I’m joined by Didier Sornette to talk about where these ideas come from, why they’ve been in decline, and what we can do to foster greater scientific knowledge and a growing economy.

From 1966 to 1976, four large earthquakes shook the Bohai Bay rift basin of Northeast China. This prompted the Chinese to launch one of the world’s largest social and science experiments into earthquake prediction that would engage tens of thousands of common people. 

Didier Sornette in an Interview with the Financial Times China