Hello SUMS members, I must say that Ivan’s talk last week was a resounding success, by my standards anyway. Apologies to Ivan and everyone else for the interruptions made by me halfway through the talk, I think for future talks we will have a pre-organised intermission halfway through. Speaking of future talks, we have another one this week, this time by a statistics PhD student, Jenny Zhu. Jenny is no stranger to SUMS, having given talks in past years, although this week will be a new one. Her abstract: "Asking embarrassing questions and shooting your friends are common problems we all face. Studying Statistics helps. In this talk, we motivate the problem of estimating the success probability from a Binomial random variable when the number of trials is random. Also we give an example of when we might prefer to obtain a solution to a problem computationally." Feel free to come along, eat some food and have a good time! Talk: Embarrassing questions and GUNS Speaker: Jenny Zhu Location: Carslaw 452 Date/Time: Wednesday March 18, 1-2pm Hope to see you there. SUMS President "I would never kill somebody. Unless they pissed me off." - Eric Cartman