From RANKING to REPAIR!

well, some more self-promotion during this nerve-wracking times …

Ranking with Péter Érdi

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As coronavirus cases grow, hospitals adopt a system to rank patients for treatment

a point system calculating a patient’s likelihood to benefit from ICU care, based on two considerations: 1) saving the most lives and 2) saving the most life-years.

The lower the patient scores, the higher their prioritization for care. In the system’s eight-point scale, the first four points illustrate the patient’s likelihood to survive hospitalization, and the last four points assess whether, assuming they survive hospitalization, they have medical conditions associated with a life expectancy of less than one year or less than five years.

In any case, students who applied for  graduate studies in the US should get response from the programs by April 15.  Here is my OUP blog about the beauty and difficulties of

How to rate and rank potential doctoral students.

Confirmed Cases and Deaths by Country, Territory, or Conveyance

The coronavirus COVID-19 is affecting 150 countries and territories around the world and 1 international conveyance (the Diamond Princess cruise ship harbored in Yokohama, Japan). The day is reset after midnight GMT+0.

You can follow the dynamics, (and can make your own prediction).

Well. There is an emergency in New York state, and we decided to cancel/reschedule my talk.

Nearly 1.25 million people die in road crashes each year, on average 3,287 deaths a day.

It would have been a better chance to die while I am driving to Grand Rapids airport.

A book talk will be given at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University on March 9th noon,

Live stream will be available.

Ranking is ready to the London Book Fair (see page 2).

My former student Brad Fl. wrote me two weeks ago a mail:
Hi Dr. Erdi,
I saw you wrote a new book “Ranking”… Congrats! I’m working on reading War and Peace right now but that’s next on my list 🙂.
Two weeks later I asked him about his progress…
“Slow but steady” and attached this pic. Any guess, when he will read Ranking?

The contract for the the  German translation right with Münchner Verlagsgruppe GmbH now has  signed and countersigned contract.

Well, as my Publisher wrote: “These deals don’t really make any of us rich, but they disseminate your work throughout the world through our contacts at other foreign publishers.”

Stay tuned!

Well, it would be difficult to prove that it is “independent”. But it is… !

Review in the Reaction Kinetics, Mechanisms and Catalysis (Yes, I am a chemist, of course. Thank you, Gábor for the careful review.)