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Office Hours with Nassim Nicholas Taleb at AUB

Dr. Nassim Nicholas Taleb will be holding an open session at the American University of Beirut, hosted by the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Event Details

Date: Monday, September 15, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM
Duration: 90 minutes (Open Q&A)
Location: Architecture Lecture Hall (ALH), Dar Al Handasah Architecture and Design Building, American University of Beirut
Admission: Open to the public

Friends, @AUB_Lebanon @MSFEA_AUB (Engineering) will be starting a comprehensive class on statistics of THICK TAILS. I will co-teach w/2 colleagues.

While we believe that there are courses on Fat tails here & there (mostly Stable dist & EVT), I could not find such a class taught…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) January 31, 2025

Public talk by Nassim Nicholas Taleb at the Jassim Al-Qatami Engineering Lecture Hall on December 9, 2024, exploring fragility, robustness, and antifragility with insights on Lebanon and Palestine.

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Office Hours with Nassim Nicholas Taleb at AUB

Event Details

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