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…
The Statistical Society is pleased to announce the following event: Measuring Sex, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation 30 August 2022, 10:30 AM, AEST, held online via Zoom. We are pleased to present a panel consisting of US researchers who are members of the Committee on Measuring Sex, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation, and who conducted…
The Canberra Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia invites you to its August branch meeting, featuring an online talk by Dr Joanna Wang from the University of Technology Sydney. Abstract: The spread of COVID-19 has prompted Governments around the world to impose draconian restrictions on business activity, public transport, and public freedom of movement.…
Explore the Australian Economy in the next "Data Science in the News" from the QUT Centre for Data Science. In this session, the panel will explore economic issues that impact all of us including inflation, housing, jobs interest rates and more through the lens of data science. You will hear from: Catherine Smyth - Acting…
The Australian Data Science Network is pleased to welcome the Australian Data Research Commons (ARDC) for an online discussion to explore opportunities on how the ADSN and its organisations might work together with the ARDC. We will be joined by Ian Duncan, the ARDC’s Director of Outreach. He will give us a brief overview of…
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…
The second multi-continent workshop will be held over 20-22 September 2022 on the subject of the Management of Service Systems. Previously, in September 2021 we held an online workshop on Data-driven Queueing Challenges, comprising 18 talks across multiple time zones with 300 registrants from 25 countries. The objective of this workshop is to highlight and…
This brief introduction is designed to just get you up and running using R in RStudio to see if this is the package for you. The workshop will cover installing R, importing data, doing simple summary statistics, and producing a simple plot. The Data and Decision Science Initiative at the University of Wollongong is putting…
“Indigenizing University Mathematics 2: Indigenous Perspectives on Maths and Applications” will run online with some face-to-face components, hosted by First Nations University 26-29 Sept 2022 Canadian dates. This will be 27-30 Sept in Australia, mostly in the mornings, with some possible face to face components in Newcastle. The workshop will build upon IUM1, information about…