Fixed and mobile access networks are still swamped by ever-increasing demand fueled from cloud computing and video.

Search algorithms on networks are important tools for the organisation of large data sets. A key example is Google PageRank, which assigns a numerical weight to each webpage, with the purpose of measuring its relative importance.

Biometrics concerns the study of automated methods for identifying an individual by measuring one or more physical or behavioral features.

In this non-technical talk, we discuss uncertainty – why it needs to be modelled – the role of probability theory, brief history of probability, and some of its popular applications.  We focus especially on modelling tail events - events that occu