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Apr
21
2026

Biology Seminar

The Mathematics of Human Population Growth and CO2 Emissions
Victor M. Yakovenko
10:30am|Bloomberg Hall Biology Conference Room (1st Floor, Room 113)

As a postdoc at Rutgers University, I attended a physics colloquium presented by Sergei Kapitza in the fall of 1992.  His talk argued that human population growth is hyperbolic with a singularity in the year 2026.  Actually, this claim was first...