Workshop Program
Sunday, December 16
7:00 - 9:00pm: Reception at La Posada
Monday, December 17
7:00 - 9:00am: Breakfast
9:00 - 9:55am: Theodore Hill, Benford's Law: Empirical Evidence, Theory, and
Applications
9:55 - 10:10am: Break
10:10 - 11:05am: Mark Nigrini, The Logarithmic Link Between Economic, Hydrologic, and
Seismic Statistics
11:05 - 11:20am: Break
11:20 - 12:00pm: Open Discussion Session
12:00 - 1:30pm: Lunch
1:30 - 2:25pm: Lawrence Leemis, Benford's Law Geometry
2:25 - 2:40pm: Break
2:40 - 3:35pm: Klaus Schuerger, Extensions of Geometric Brownian Motion and
Benford's Law
3:35 - 3:50pm: Break
3:50 - 4:45pm: Fernando Perez-Gonazlez,
Benford's Law and Multimedia Signals
6:00 - 8:00pm: Dinner
Tuesday, December 18
7:00 - 9:00am: Breakfast
9:00 - 9:55am: Steve Miller, Poisson Summation and Benford's Law: From Values
of L-functions to the3x+1 Problem to Products of Random Variables
9:55 - 10:10am: Break
10:10 - 11:05am: David Hoyle, Benford's Law in Molecular Biology
11:05 - 11:15am: Break
11:15 - 12:10pm: Bala Ravikumar, Some Computational Problems and Their
Connection to Benford Distribution
12:10 - 1:40pm: Lunch
1:40 - 2:35pm: Arno Berger, Digits and Dynamics - Exploring Benford's Law for Dynamical Systems
2:35 - 2:50pm: Break
2:50 - 3:45pm: Walter Mebane, In Search of a Second-digit (but not First-digit) Law for Vote Counts
3:45 - 4:00pm: Break
4:00 - 4:55pm: Aaron Clauset, Terrorist Attacks and Power-law Distributions