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Should universities use differential treatment to admit students?

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How does economics combine mathematics and social science? On the other, we need good communication skills to write policy papers or communicate with stakeholders in government and in industry, and we also need a lot of creativity to develop novel approaches to solve problems.”

Economics 111
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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

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Dr Min Xu, a statistician specialising in network analysis at Rutgers University, has developed a probabilistic model that can determine how a network has grown, which not only has applications in epidemiology, but is also useful in social science, genetics and counter-terrorism efforts. What is a network? “A