Speaker: Louise Ryan Seminar Date: Tuesday February 28 2017 12.00pm Brief abstract: The statistics profession is in a period of disruptive change, heralded by explosive growth in information technology and the “big data” revolution. New specialties such as machine learning, data science and analytics seem to go from strength to strength and sometimes it seems like statistics is being
Speaker: Anthony Huxley Seminar Date: Tuesday February 21 2017 12.00pm Abstract: Anthony Huxley is the founder and managing director of Hale. Prior to focusing on the establishment of Hale, he was the founder and CEO of Covad (as in “covered”), which was a health insurance aggregator packaging and offering health based health insurance evaluation, assessment and sale, done only through
Speaker: Christopher Pearce Seminar Date: Thursday (not the usual Tuesday) February 16 2017 12.00pm Abstract: 85% of the Australian population see a GP every year, which makes general practice the largest and most comprehensive information source available. Yet it is rarely used, and policy decisions (and research) are based on many proxy measures. Utilising the POLAR program as an
Speaker: Nicholas Glozier Seminar Date:Tuesday February 7 2017, 12.00pm Abstract: Nicolas will explore time trends in sleep over the decades that technology has intruded into our lives and examine data from laboratories, developed, developing and pre-industrialised societies about how we sleep. Nick Glozier is the Professor of Psychological Medicine at the Brain and Mind Centre, Sydney Medical School and
Speaker: Stuart Corner Seminar Date: Tuesday November 15 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: What does the Internet of Things mean to you? Wearables? Connected washing machines? Video cameras and remote control of your home? These are the popular views of IoT, but IoT is much more than communicating ‘things’. There’s a whole ecosystem of interconnected and interdependent technologies. And beyond these
Speaker: Kim Bell-Anderson, USYD Seminar Date: Tuesday November 8 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: Obesity and related diseases are recognised as wicked problems with many contributing factors. Metabolic disease emerges from the interaction between our genes and the environment. Arguably, the main environmental factor is diet, and nutritional genomics is starting to characterize the effect of food on our genes and the
Speaker: Andrew Cottrill, HCF Seminar Date: Tuesday October 24 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: The presenter will focus on what is happening in the industry and how HCF is responding. It will be a discussion with plenty of time for interaction.
Speaker: Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney Seminar Date: Tuesday October 18 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: Recent technological advances have led to the production of a big data and complex networks in many domains. Examples include biological networks such as phylogenetic network, gene regulatory network, metabolic pathways and protein‐protein interaction networks. Other examples are social networks such as Facebook network, twitter network,
Speaker: Liz Moore, Telstra Seminar Date: Tuesday April 19 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: We explore why there has been so much hype associated with machine learning techniques in recent times. We look at a range of commercial and practical examples of using machine learning techniques in modelling customer behaviours. We compare the outcomes obtained using machine learning techniques vs traditional statistical
Speaker: Chris Hammang, Garvan Institute of Medical Research Seminar Date: Tuesday September 27 2016, 12.00pm Abstract: In this presentation, Christopher will present some of the animations he has produced and give a special behind the scenes look at the production of his videos. He will dissect the processes and creative choices which result in engaging and insightful work.