mathematics, computation, stochastics, AI, networks
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Desmond Higham retweeted
12 Jul 2024
🚨Event Announcement🚨
When does AI go wrong?
We'll be hosting @evepoole @DesHigham and @ShannonVallor for this online seminar discussing how and why AI goes wrong!
📆22 Jul
⏰1pm-2pm
đź“ŤMS Teams
Book here: rss.org.uk/training-events/e…
ALT Event advert for "when does AI go wrong?" An online seminar. Speaker details: Dr Eve Poole OBE, author of Robot Souls and Leadersmithing. Professor Desmond Higham, professor of numerical analysis, University of Edinburgh. Professor Shannon Vallor, Baillie Gifford Chair in the ethics of data and artificial intelligence, Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. Date: Monday 22 July, 1pm - 2pm. Location: Microsoft Teams.
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Desmond Higham retweeted
10 Jul 2024
Happy to share that I'll be joining the School of Maths @EdinUniMaths as a Chancellor's fellow (~tenure track assistant prof).
Will be continuing to apply probabilistic thinking to genomics. Very grateful for all support and encouragement I've received.
Come say hi if in town!
20 outstanding early career researchers @ColSciEng have received @EdinburghUni prestigious Chancellor’s Fellowships and will begin a 5-year tenure track that invests in researchers delivering cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and innovation edin.ac/4bpV1QS
ALT Photos of 20 University of Edinburgh early career researchers Chancellor's Fellows
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1 Jul 2024
Deceptive Diffusion: Generating Synthetic Adversarial Examples arxiv.org/abs/2406.19807
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Desmond Higham retweeted
21 Jun 2024
We are excited to share this opportunity to work alongside Dr Jacob Page. Find out more about the funded PhD project on 'Low-order modelling and control of turbulence using deep learning' via the following link:
edin.ac/4bdNSD5
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Desmond Higham retweeted
15 Jun 2024
“The standard error of a mean is famously known to be the standard deviation divided by the square root of the sample size, a formula that is valid, except, of course, when it isn't, which is nearly always.” See “Sum Mistake”
linkedin.com/pulse/standard-…
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Desmond Higham retweeted
14 May 2024
In this month's issue of SIAM News, a collection of colleagues, friends, and SIAM staff share their reflections and memories of applied #mathematician and former SIAM president Nicholas Higham, who passed away in January 2024. Read their tributes here: sinews.siam.org/Details-Page…
ALT Nicholas Higham poses in a group photo with some of his former Ph.D. students.
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Desmond Higham retweeted
13 May 2024
Ever wondered how population counts are done? Tune in to our new episode with @BayesRuth about the use of statistics and how it can be used to benefit our world.
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Listen now link in bio!
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#maths #statistics #science #stem #sciencemedia @EdinUniMaths @BayesCentre
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Desmond Higham retweeted
3 May 2024
Nicholas Higham—a leading researcher and communicator in computational and #AppliedMathematics and a former president of SIAM—passed away on January 20, 2024. @DesHigham and @tisseurf remember his extraordinary life in SIAM News. Read more: sinews.siam.org/Details-Page…
ALT A headshot of Nicholas Higham.
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Desmond Higham retweeted
19 Apr 2024
Job posting...come and join us!
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader in Applied Mathematics
@UofGMaths_Stats @UofGlasgow
jobs.ac.uk/job/DHF628/lectur…
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Desmond Higham retweeted
Quantum computers could help us to answer questions that can’t be solved by ordinary computers.
But what exactly is quantum, and how does it work?
For #WorldQuantumDay we asked @IBM for a simple explanation of the science behind this exciting technology đź’ˇ
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Desmond Higham retweeted
10 Apr 2024
This week we are at the British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC), Newcastle!
Visit our joint exhibition stand with @ICMS_Edinburgh and @KEHub_Maths to find out about all the organisations we work with to support KE in the mathematical sciences community!
ALT Lauren Hyndman (ICMS) and SofĂa Sanz Del Pino (Newton Gateway to Mathematics)
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Desmond Higham retweeted
7 Apr 2024
For those who know my book, Stochastic modelling for systems biology, third edition, but prefer #python to #rstats, there is now a full python/numpy port of the #smfsb R package on PyPI: pypi.org/project/smfsb/
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Desmond Higham retweeted
6 Apr 2024
"Usually, the optimality criterion is minimization of cost ... In fact, the whole point is to provide the drug regulators with less information than they would be given by a design that is not flexible." senns.uk/SIDD.html 3rd edition p385
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Desmond Higham retweeted
19 Mar 2024
In SIAM News, Ernest Davis reviews two recent #books about #FacialRecognition technology and associated implications for personal privacy and inequality: "Unmasking AI" by @jovialjoy and "Your Face Belongs to Us" by @kashhill. Read more: sinews.siam.org/Details-Page…
ALT The book covers of Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini and Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It by Kashmir Hill.
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Desmond Higham retweeted
18 Mar 2024
New issue of SIAM Review recently published! Read the Book Reviews paper(s): epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/2… & remember, SIAM members get free access!
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Desmond Higham retweeted
15 Mar 2024
Check out a new SIAM book, A Ramble Through Probability: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Measure Theory, by Samopriya Basu, Troy Butler, Don Estep, and Nishant Panda! #SIAMBooks
For more information and to order: epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/1…
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Desmond Higham retweeted
12 Mar 2024
Excited to share a latest article published in @plosone: journals.plos.org/plosone/ar… #plosoneauthor
it shows how a thermodynamic cycle can be produced from a model of political discourse!
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Desmond Higham retweeted
This year's Atiyah Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Caroline Series CBE FRS. Join us on 20th March for her talk on "Arranging Data in Hyperbolic Space", followed by a reception in the Bayes Centre.
More info: edin.ac/3v3rD3E
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Desmond Higham retweeted
22 Feb 2024
We won the @EquateScotland Student Society of the Year award! Thank you to everyone who has been involved with Piscopia since our founding 🥳 #Celebration
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Desmond Higham retweeted
4 Mar 2024
Congrats to @latzplacian, @OfficialUoM, the 2024 SIAM Activity Group on Uncertainty Quantification Early Career Prize recipient! đź‘Ź Dr. Latz was recently recognized at the 2024 SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification.
Read more ➡️ sinews.siam.org/Details-Page…
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