This workshop will explore the just-released reports from the ARDC, the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) and the five Learned Academies to help build a more coherent data policy and uplift our national data capabilities for researchers. CLICK HERE FOR ZOOM LINK If asked, passcode is 038636 QUT Centre for Data Science Director Kerrie Mengersen will moderate the discussion. Our guests for the workshop are: Shannon Callaghan, Senior Policy Advisor for the ADRC. Shannon was the program manager for the…

This is a meeting of the South Australian Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia. Guest presenter: Chris Brien, Adjunct Associate Professor, UniSA STEM, The University of South Australia; Senior Biostatistician, The Australian Plant Phenomics Facility, University of Adelaide Two-phase experiments were introduced in 1952 by the Australian statistician George McIntyre. Their use has been most prevalent in agriculture experiments, especially plant breeding experiments. However, there is the potential for their application to be much more widespread. This potential is…

This is presented by the Bayesian Section of the Statistical Society of Australia Guest speaker: Dr Marina Riabiz, King's College, London Abstract: Calcium is the end-point intracellular signal driving cardiac myocyte contraction, and its dynamic is described through coupled ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) can be used to characterize the posterior distribution of the parameters of the cardiac ODEs, which can then serve as an experimental design for multi-scale models of the whole hearth. However, MCMC…

Change in the skills space has always been fast paced but never more so than now and with such specificity to the research workforce. Within research, there is an imperative to explore cutting-edge innovation, employ new methods and technologies and forge new skills in the process. As the criticality of digital research skills emerges there is at the same time acknowledgment that the research sector along with its industry counterparts is tackling a significant and growing skills gap. This need…