Wild fluctuations in the stock prices and currency exchange rates of countries around the globe in the last few years have had a huge impact on the world economy and the personal fortunes of millions of us. Tobias Preis introduces the concept of “econophysics” and examines whether this burgeoning field can be used to extract a law describing exactly how such financial crashes occur.

Date: Thursday 12 May 2011

Speaker: Tobias Preis
Dr Tobias Preis is a statistical physicist at the Department of Physics, Boston University, US, and at the ETH Zurich in Switzerland. He is also founder and managing director of Artemis Capital Asset Management GmbH.

Moderator: Matin Durrani, editor, Physics World

The webinar runs for approximately 45 minutes plus a Q&A session at the end.