An occasional seminar series for those interested in Data Science.
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Each talk has an organiser. Please contact them in the first instance if you have a query about a particular talk. Only contact one of the people below if you have a question about the list, such as whether your talk or series could be added.
Distinguished Lecture: Prof Dr Klaus-Robert Müller, 'Machine Learning and AI for the Sciences - Towards Understanding' |
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Professor Dr Klaus-Robert Müller |
Fri 16 Feb 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 |
G07, School of Informatics, Crichton Street |
Distinguished Lecture: Prof Sir John Curtice 'Can We Ever Trust Opinion Polls?' |
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Professor Sir John Curtice |
Thu 25 Jan 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 |
Lecture Theatre 5, Appleton Tower, Crichton Street |
Prof Dan Olteanu : 'In-Database Factorized Learning' |
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Prof Dan Olteanu (University of Oxford) |
Fri 17 Mar 2017, 10:00 - 11:00 |
MF2, School of Informatics |
Seminar Talk : Dr Kami Vaniea 'Ethical and Privacy Issues in Data Science |
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Dr Kami Vaniea, Human Factors of Security and Privacy Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh |
Wed 08 Feb 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 |
MF2, School of Informatics |
Distinguished Lecture: David Blei 'Probabilistic Topic Models and User Behavior' |
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David Blei, Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, Columbia University. Member of the Columbia Data Science Institute |
Fri 27 Jan 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 |
David Hume Tower Lecture Hall A, George Square |
Seminar Talk: Prof Ion Necoara (Bucharest) 'All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization' |
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Prof Ion Necoara |
Tue 24 Jan 2017, 12:15 - 13:30 |
School of Mathematics, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Kings Buildings, room 5323 (5th floor) |
Distinguished Lecture: Yann LeCun 'Predicting under Uncertainty: the Next Frontier in AI' |
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Yann LeCun, Director of AI Research, Facebook, Founding Director of the NYU Center for Data Science, Silver Professor of Computer Science, Neural Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, |
Fri 13 Jan 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 |
George Square Lecture Theatre |
Seminar Talk : Peter Pietzuch 'How Stream Processing Took Over The World: Combining Performance With Complex Algorithms' |
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Peter Pietzuch, Reader (Associate Professor) in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, |
Fri 25 Nov 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 |
School of Informatics |
Distinguished Lecture: Prof Serge Abiteboul, "Toward personal knowledge bases" |
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Prof Serge Abiteboul, Senior researcher, INRIA Saclay |
Fri 16 Oct 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 |
Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) |
John Quinn: Telecoms data analysis for disaster response and humanitarian planning |
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Dr John Quinn, UN Global Pulse Kampala, Uganda |
Tue 11 Aug 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Padhraic Smyth: Latent Variable and Temporal Event Models for Network Data |
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Prof Padhraic Smyth |
Mon 06 Jul 2015, 10:15 - 11:15 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |
Idris Eckley: Coherence analysis of locally stationary multivariate time serie |
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Prof Idris Eckley, Deputy Director of the STOR-i Doctoral Training Centre, Lancaster University |
Tue 21 Apr 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 |
Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) |