Lectures through 2009 | Professor Emeritus Yakov Ben-Haim

Info-Gap Theory and Applications: Four Lectures, Dept. of Mathematical Informatics, University of Tokyo. 4 August 2009.
Value at Risk, Info-Gaps, and Engineering Decision Making, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 13 July 2009.
An Overview of Info-Gap Theory for Design and Strategic Planning Under Severe Uncertainty, Iltam, Herzlya. 2 June 2009. In Hebrew.
Six Lectures on Info-Gap Theory: Decisions Under Severe Uncertainty, University of Franche-Comte, Besancon, France, October, November, 2008.
Robust-Satisficing in Engineering Design, ASME Engineering Systems Design Analysis Conference (ESDA 2008), Haifa, Israel, July 7-9, 2008.
Info-Gap Economics: An Overview, Bank of England Research Forum: Risk and Uncertainty in Monetary Policy, London, 9-11 June 2008.
Survival under Uncertainty: Is Optimization Really a Successful Strategy, The Prof. Yuval Neeman Symposium on Science, Technology and Security, University of Tel Aviv, 29 May 2008.
Info-Gap Modelling: Why More is Less, Non-deterministic Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Leuven, March 31 – April 2, 2008.
Can We Augment the Probability-vs.-Severity Risk Matrix? NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Resilience in Crisis, Belgrade, Serbia, November 28-December 2, 2007.
Info-Gap Methods for Decision Support, Keynote address, Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, Hobart, Australia, 21 August 2007.
Info-gap theory for strategic planning under severe uncertainty, Workshop on Uncertainty and Surveillance, Hobart, Australia, 12 August 2007.
1-Day Workshop on Info-Gap Theory and Its Applications in Biological Conservation, 2 August 2007, University of Melbourne.
Why We Design to Spec: Info-Gap Explanation for Satisficing Design Requirements, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, 2 July 2007.
Coleman-Cohen Distinguished Lectures:
- Parameter Estimation and Model-Based Decisions under Uncertainty: An Info-Gap Perspective, School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K., 9 July 2007.
- Why More is Less: Info-Gap Explanation for Robust-Satisficing Behavior, Institute for Advanced Study, Durham University, U.K., 12 July 2007.
- Why We Design to Spec: Info-Gap Explanation for Satisficing Design Requirements, Workshop on Uncertainty Modelling, Durham University, U.K., 13 July 2007.
- From Technological Design to Quantum Uncertainty: Info-Gaps and Indeterminism, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield, U.K., 16 July 2007.
- From Technological Design to Quantum Uncertainty: Info-Gaps and Indeterminism, University of Bristol, U.K., 19 July 2007.
Policy Evaluation Under Uncertainty: The Info-Gap Robustness Strategy, NATO Advanced Research Workshop on “Resilience to crises: Putting risk science and information technology to work,” Prague, 10-12 March 2007.
Info-Gap economics: Knightian uncertainty, modelling and monetary policy, Research Dept., Central Bank of The Netherlands, March 2007.
Info-Gap economics: Knightian uncertainty, modelling and financial risk management, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, 28 February 2007.
Allocating Security Expenditures under Knightian Uncertainty: an Info-Gap Approach, Michael Ben-Gad, Yakov Ben-Haim and Dan Peled, Economics of National Security, Samuel Neaman Institute, 14 December 2006, Herzlia, Israel.
Info-Gap Theory: Clinical Decisions Under Severe Uncertainty, with Dr. Cliff Dacso. Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, 14 September 2006.
Info-Gap Theory: Modelling and Managing Severe Uncertainty, University of Houston, 11 September 2006.
Estimating an uncertain probability distribution, International Workshop on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics, SMPS 2006, Bristol, UK, 5-7 September 2006.
Info-Gap Forecasting and the Advantage of Sub-Optimal Models, Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS), University of Melbourne, Australia, 14 July 2006.
How to Evaluate and Manage Risk When We Don’t Know Probabilities, Plenary lecture, Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Chapters of the Society for Risk Analysis, Melbourne, Australia, 17-19 July 2006.
Info-Gap Theory and Applications in Biological Conservation and Resource Management, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE), Canberra, 20 July 2006.
Info-Gap economics: Knightian uncertainty, modelling and policy, Faculty of Economics & Commerce, The University of Melbourne, 24 July 2006.
Intuitive Info-Gap Theory and Values at Risk, MASCOS / AMSI Breakfast on Risk: Managing Financial Risks with Uncertainty, Sponsored by The Australian Research Council & the NSW Department of State and Regional Development, 25 July 2006, Sydney, Australia.
Robust Monetary Policy Under Knightian Uncertainty, Farooq Akram, Yakov Ben-Haim, Oyvind Eitrheim and Ragnar Nymoem, Oslo Workshop on Monetary Policy, Norwegian School of Management, 8 June 2006.
Fault Detection with Uncertain Priors, 47th AIAA Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials (SDM) Conference, Newport, Rhode Island, 1-4 May 2006.
Ellsberg, Foraging and Forecasting: The Advantage of Sub-Optimal Models, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, 27.3.2006.
Info-gap economics: Knightian uncertainty, modelling and policy, Central Bank of Norway (Norges Bank), Oslo, 24 October 2005.
Info-gap theory for engineering analysis and design, Workshop on Info-Gap Analysis of Engineering Systems, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K., 29-30 September 2005.
The fallacy of best-model design: Info-gap analysis of epistemic uncertainty in engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield, U.K., 23 September 2005.
The fallacy of best-model design: Info-gap analysis of complex dynamics, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Bristol, U.K., 20 September 2005.
Info-gap analysis of preparedness and response to bio-terrorism, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 15 September 2005.
Why the best engineers should study humanities, Penn State Great Valley, 13 September 2005.
‘Good’ is Better than ‘Best’: Strategic Decisions With Uncertain Scientific Models, Research Institute, Penn State Great Valley, 12 September 2005.
Clinical Decision Making Under Conditions of Severe Uncertainty, The Methodist Hospital, Houston Texas, 8 September 2005.
To Satisfice, Windfall or Maximize? That is the Question, European Economic Association 20th Annual Congress, Amsterdam, 24-27 August 2005.
Info-Gap Robust-Satisficing Monetary Policy: Modelling and Managing Ignorance, International Conference on Policy Modeling, Ecomod 2005, Istanbul, 29 June-1 July, 2005.
Panel on prevention of risk of terrorist attacks, International Conference on Structural Safety and Reliability, ICOSSAR, Rome, 19-22 June 2005.
Info-gap decision theory for nature-reserve selection, Specialist’s Workshop on Eco-System Management of Madagascar, University of Helsinki, 20-23 May 2005.
Model-Based Decisions Under Severe Uncertainty, Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems (MASCOS), University of Melbourne, Australia, 25 February 2005.
What Should We Optimize? The Info-Gap Case For Sub-Optimal Models And Structures, School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K., 16 December 2004.
Info-gap reliability of structures based on erroneous models and noisy data, Pseudospectra and Structural Dynamics, University of Bristol, U.K., 15 December 2004.
Design and Evaluation of Measurements With Info-Gap Uncertainty, Israel-Italy Bi-National Conference on Measurements and Uncertainty Evaluation in Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) and Scanners and their Implication on Design and Reverse Engineering, 29-30 November 2004. Technion.
What Should We Optimize? The Info-Gap Case For Sub-Optimal Models And Structures, Laboratory of Applied Mechanics, University of Franche-Comte, Besancon, France. September 2004.
What Should We Optimize? The Info-Gap Case For Sub-Optimal Models And Structures. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, 19 April 2004. Room 641, Lady Davis Building.
Info-gaps and Equity Premia, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 29 March 2004.
Model Estimation and Forecasting with Info-Gap Decision Theory. Workshop on Environmental Monitoring, National Center for Environmental Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Santa Barbara. 21-26 March 2004.
Info-Gap Theory For Environmental Monitoring. Workshop on Environmental Monitoring, National Center for Environmental Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), Santa Barbara. 21-26 March 2004.
An Info-gap Explanation of the Equity Premium Puzzle, Department of Economics, University of Haifa, 14:15-15:30, 4 March 2004. Rabin Building, room 7052.
Info-gap Decision Theory: Why Ecologists Should Care, Department of Botany, University of Melbourne, Australia. 2 September 2003.
Info-gap Decision Theory for Design and Planning, Department of Architecture, University of Tokyo, 22 July 2003.
The Micro-economics of Information-gaps, Department of Economics, University of Tokyo, 15 July 2003.
Info-gap Decision Theory for Modelling and Managing Uncertain Dynamic Systems, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, 9 July 2003.
Info-gap Decision Theory for Design and Planning, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, 7 July 2003.
Lectures on Info-gap Decision Theory at Los Alamos National Laboratory:
- Info-gap Decision Theory for Design and Planning, Uncertainty Quantification Group, 5 June 2003.
- Modelling a System Which We Don’t Understand, Summer Program in Mathematical Modelling, 9 June 2003.
- Info-gap Reliability of Dynamic Systems, Summer School on Dynamical Systems, 12 June 2003.
Home Bias in Financial Markets: Robust Satisficing with Info-Gaps, with Karsten Jeske, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 2 May 2003.
What Should We Optimize? The Info-Gap Case For Sub-Optimal Models And Structures. Civil Engineering Department, University of Waterloo, 15:30, Monday, 28 April 2003.
Info-gap Decision Theory for Design and Planning. Or: Why `Good’ is Preferable to `Best’. Systems Design Engineering Department, University of Waterloo, Friday, 25 April 2003.
Safety and Uncertainty Assessment: The Info-gap Approach, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 2 April 2003.
What Should We Optimize? The Info-Gap Case For Sub-Optimal Models And Structures. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 15:30, Tuesday, 18 March 2003.
Info-gap Decision Theory for Design and Planning. Or: Why `Good’ is Preferable to `Best’. RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. 10:00, Friday, 21 February 2003.
Info-gap Theory: Why Ecologists Should Care. National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California at Santa Barbara. 4pm, 20 February 2003.
What Should We Optimize? The Info-Gap Case For Sub-Optimal Models And Structures. Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory, Georgia Institute of Technology, 13:00, Tuesday, 11 February 2003.
The Rationality of Information-gaps. Cognitive Science Colloquium, College of Computing, Georgia Tech. 24 January 2003.
Info-gap Analysis of System Identification: On the Antagonism Between Performance and Robustness. Workshop on Predictability of Complex Phenomena, DOE/MICS-NSF/DMS, Santa Fe, NM, 16-18 December 2002.
Info-gap Analysis of Economic Policy. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. 10 December 2002.
Info-gap Rationality: How to Decide (When Really You Can’t). Ivan Allen College Forum, Georgia Tech, 25 November 2002.
What Should We Optimize? The Info-Gap Case For Sub-Optimal Models And Structures. Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials Group, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Tech, 19 November 2002.
Info-gap Decision Theory for Design and Planning. Or: Why `Good’ is Preferable to `Best’. Engineering Systems Division, MIT. 5 November 2002.
What Should We Optimize? The Info-Gap Case For Sub-Optimal Models And Systems. Mechanical Engineering Colloquium, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech, 22 October 2002.
The Micro-economics of Information-gaps. School of Economics, Ivan Allen College, Georgia Institute of Technology. 18 October 2002.
Info-gap Decision Theory for Design and Planning. Or: Why `Good’ is Preferable to `Best’. Systems Realization Laboratory. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. Georgia Tech. 7 October 2002.
Uncertainty, Probability and Information-gaps. Epistemic Uncertainty Workshop, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, 6-7 August 2002.
Info-gap decision theory: Application to economic analysis and planning. Science, Technology and Economics Working Group, S. Neaman Institute, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. Venue: Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University, 21 March 2002.
Common knowledge, coherent uncertainties and consensus. Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics, 5 March 2002.
Info-gap reliability: A non-probabilistic theory, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea, U.K. 27 February 2002.
Info-gap decision theory: Applications in economics and management. Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC. 7 Sept. 2001.
Info-gap decision theory: Decisions under severe uncertainty, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. 6 Sept. 2001.
Info-gap reliability: A non-probabilistic theory, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, 4 Sept. 2001.
Four lectures on Info-Gap Decision Theory:
- Info-gap decision theory: Decisions under severe uncertainty.
- Info-gap reliability: A non-probabilistic theory.
- Info-gap decision theory: Applications in economics and management.
- Value judgments and analogical reasoning in engineering.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA, 29-31 August, 2001.
Two lectures on Info-Gap Decision Theory:
- Applications in Economics and Management.
- Value judgments and analogical reasoning in engineering.
Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 4 July 2001.
Info-Gap Decision Theory: Applications in Economics and Management. Department of Operational Research, London School of Economics, 13 June 2001.
Info-Gap Decision Theory: Applications in Economics and Management. Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University, 15 May 2001.
Why the best engineers should study humanities. Forum for the study of teaching at the Technion. 25 March 2001.
Robust non-probabilistic reliability in monitoring. University of Hannover, Germany. October 2000.
Information-gap uncertainty and technological decision-making. Laboratory of Applied Mechanics, University of Franche-Comte, Besancon, France. February 2000.
Value judgments and analogical reasoning in engineering. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Technion. January 2000.
Information-gap uncertainty and technological decision-making. Center for Rationality and Interactive Decision Theory, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. December 1999.
Value of information in engineering design. Euromech 401 Workshop on inverse methods in structural dynamics. University of Liverpool. September, 1999.
Robust reliability of a dynamically loaded beam on an uncertain foundation. 7th Intl. Conference on Civil and Structural Engineering Computing. Oxford University. September 1999.
Robust reliability of structures with severely uncertain loads. Eurodyn ’99, 7-10 June 1999, Prague.
The value of knowledge in engineering analysis and design. Laboratory of Solid Mechanics, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. 25 February 1999.
Economic implications of information-gap uncertainty. Seminar on Risk, Uncertainty and Decision, University of Paris-I. 1 March 1999.
Robust reliability of structures with severely uncertain loads. AIAA SDM Conference, 14 April 1999.
The value of knowledge in engineering analysis and design. Faculty of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering. 16 April 1999. Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA.
The value of knowledge in engineering analysis and design. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Time: 14:30. Date: 11 January 1999. Lady Davis Building, Room 430. Technion. Haifa, Israel.
The value of knowledge in engineering analysis and design. Faculty of Engineering. Tel Aviv University. Time: 14:00. Date: 18 January 1999. Wolfson Building, Room 232. Tel Aviv. Israel.
Economic implications of information-gap uncertainty. Joint seminar in Economics, Business Administration and Mathematics. Tel Aviv University. Time: 16:00. Date: 19 January 1999. Recanati Building, Room 430. Tel Aviv. Israel.
Robust reliability in structural monitoring and fault diagnosis. Institute for Construction, Technical University of Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany. November 1998.
Three lectures on strategic decisions with uncertainty. Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. July 1998.
Uncertainty in the Age of Information: Axioms and Implications of Non-Probabilistic Uncertainty in Engineering, Economics and Management. Edelstein Center for History and Philosophy of Science, Medicine and Technology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 27 May 1998.
Robust rationality and decisions under uncertainty in economics. Seminar Series in Game Theory, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Technion. 4 June 1998.
Self-organizing systems with uncertainty: An economic model. Workshop on Modelling and Reality. Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany. 27-30 July 1998.
Robust reliability of structures: Implications for design and regulation. National Institute for Building Research, Technion, 3 May 1998.
Intuitions of uncertainty: Models and implications for structural reliability and regulation. U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA. 13 February 1998.
Robust rationality and decisions under uncertainty in economics and management. Department of Management Science, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 9 February 1998.
Reliability of mathematical models in mechanical decisions: Survey. Invited talk at the International Modal Analysis Conference, February 2-5, 1998.
Decisions From Uncertain Evidence. Seminar Series in Statistics, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Technion. 16 November 1997.
Robust Reliability of Mechanical Systems, Department of Systems Design Engineering and Division of Solid Mechanics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 14 August 1997.
Decisions From Uncertain Evidence, Department of Systems Design Engineering and Division of Solid Mechanics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 11 August 1997.
Robust Reliability of Mechanical Systems and Structures, George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. 23 July 1997.
Models of Uncertainty: Intuitions, Axioms and Inference Schemes, Laboratory of Applied Mechanics, University of Franche-Comte, Besancon, France. 2 April 1997.
Robust Reliability of Mechanical Systems. Design and Technology Development Division, Israel Electric Corporation, Haifa, Israel. 18 February 1997.
Reliability of Mathematical Models in Mechanical Decision Processes, Final Seminar of the Research Group on “Reliability of Modelling and Computation in Applied Mechanics”, University of Hannover, Germany. 26 November 1996.
(1) Fault diagnosis in uncertain dynamical systems. (2) Selective sensitivity in system identification and model-order reduction. Department of Nuclear Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology. 8 November 1996.
Fault diagnosis in uncertain dynamical systems. Korea Advanced Energy Research Institute. 9 November 1996.
Selective sensitivity in system identification and model order reduction. Korea Advanced Energy Research Institute. 11 November 1996.
Reliability of model-based decisions with uncertain evidence. Korean Advanced Energy Research Institute. 12 November 1996.
Robust Reliability in the Mechanical Systems and Structures, Laboratory of Applied Mechanics, University of Franche-Comte, Besancon, France. 20 September 1996.
The Restless Frontier: Uncertainty and the Age of Information, Laboratory of Applied Mechanics, University of Franche-Comte, Besancon, France. 26 September 1996.
Robust Reliability in the Mechanical Sciences, Israel Society for Quality, Israel Institution for Standards, Tel Aviv, Israel, 17 July 1996.
The Restless Frontier: Uncertainty and the Age of Information, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea, U.K., 1 July 1996.
Robust Reliability in the Mechanical Sciences, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Liverpool, U.K., 5 July 1996.
Robust reliability of structures. Departement Acoustique et Mechanique Vibratoire, Electricite de France, Clamart, France. 22 September 1995.
Robust reliability in mechanical systems. Institute for Applied Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany. 13 September 1995.
Non-probabilistic analysis of reliability based on expansion of convex models, presented at the Institute for Risk Analysis and the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. February 1995.
Convex models of uncertainty in reliability, presented at the Curt-Risch Institute for Dynamics, Acoustics and Measurement Technology, University of Hannover, Germany. October 1994.
Selectively sensitive identification of structures, presented at the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia. February 1994