Events and Presentations
Workshops and conferences organised by the Centre
The following three workshops and conferences were organised or co-organised by the Centre and its members in 2020.
| Title | Location |
|---|---|
| 20th Biennial Computational Techniques and Applications Conference (CTAC2020) | Online |
| The 3rd ACEMS Workshop on Challenges of Data and Control of Networks (ACDCN) | Adelaide |
| The 30th International Biometric Conference (2020 IBC) | Online |
Joint ACEMS-industry, government and end-user workshops
The following six joint ACEMS-industry, government and end-user workshops and conferences were held or co-organised by the Centre and its members in 2020.
| Title | Location |
|---|---|
| ACEMS-ABS-National Statistical Offices (NSO) Workshop on New and Emerging Research in Population Size Estimation in National Statistics | Sydney |
| ACEMS ARDC Australian Data Partnerships Workshop | Online |
| ACEMS COVID-19 Workshop | Online |
| ACEMS Human Performance Research & Ideas Symposium | Online |
| Combining computer vision and data science to improve river monitoring and prediction workshop | Brisbane |
| Data Science Workshop for Industry, Government & Academia | Online |
Training workshops and presentations
The following 11 training workshops and presentations were delivered by ACEMS Members in 2020.
| Title | Members Involved | Location |
|---|---|---|
| ACEMS 2020 Virtual Retreat | Over 184 Members Involved | Online |
| ACEMS Student and Early-Career Researcher Retreat | Over 105 Members Involved | Online |
| ARC Centres Joint Media & Presentation Training (Dec) | Tim Macuga | Online |
| ARC Centres Joint Media & Presentation Training (Nov) | Tim Macuga | Online |
| Developing Good Research Habits | Rob Hyndman | Online |
| Grants & Funding Opportunities | Over 47 Members Involved (Part of virtual retreat) | Online |
| Peers & Pizza - HDR peer to peer wellness event series | Joshua Bon, Owen Forbes & Rex Parsons | Brisbane |
| R for Agriculture Training | Miranda Mortlock | Brisbane |
| Sell Yourself and Your Research: Building a Researcher Reputation, Network & Stakeholder Relationships | Laura Boyle, Angela Dahlke, Rob Hyndman, Tim Macuga & Rachael Quill | Virtual |
| The Thesis Whisperer: So you are graduating with your PhD in a pandemic - what next? | Over 47 Members Involved (Part of virtual retreat) | Online |
| Tidy Time Series and Forecasting in R | Rob Hyndman | San Francisco (USA) |
Mentoring, technical and equity and diversity seminar presentations
The following nine talks were delivered as part of the Centre’s mentoring and technical talk series, and equity and diversity awareness campaign.
| Presenter/s | Title |
|---|---|
| Adrian Barnett, Gunilla Burrowes, Jessica Purcell & Rachael Quill | Career impacts of COVID-19 on researchers |
| Puwasala Gamakumara & Caitlin Gray | Advantages of an industrial internship during the journey of a PhD program |
| Jesper Ipsen | Everything that you ever wanted to know about random matrices (but were afraid to ask) |
| Emma Lawrence, Sybille McKeown & Burton Wu | Life Outside University |
| Christopher Matthews | Teaching Culture = Deep Learning. Teaching mathematics from an Aboriginal perspective |
| Kerrie Mengersen, Louise Ryan & Ian Turner | ACEMS Health and Wellbeing Session |
| Matias Quiroz | Recent advances in subsampling MCMC |
| Matthew Roughan | Network Tomography or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Traffic Matrices |
| Louise Ryan & Peter Taylor | Career Advice – Drop-in Session Q&A |
ACEMS Public Lecture Series
The ACEMS Public Lecture Series included nine virtual lectures that were delivered from May until November 2020
| Presenter/s | Title |
|---|---|
| David Balding | How to evaluate evidence in a criminal courtroom |
| Ellen Broad | The lives and deaths of ethical AI |
| Stephanie Clarke & Louise Ryan | Just how much water is down there, and will it last? |
| Shane Henderson | Analytics and Bikes: Riding Tandem with Motivate to Improve Mobility |
| Andrew Leigh | The Second Convict Age: Explaining the Return of Mass Imprisonment in Australia |
| Xihong Lin | Learning from COVID-19 Data in Wuhan, the USA and the World |
| Juan Ortiz | Looking at the Great Barrier Reef from organisms to ecosystems: how maths can help translate observed patterns into management-ready information |
| Gatil Shmueli | "Improving" Prediction of Human Behavior Using Behavior Modification |
| Kate Smith-Miles | When mathematics becomes art... the unexpected beauty of self-evolving mathematical functions |
Other Public talks
Centre members delivered ten presentations that were open to the public to attend or delivered to a virtual audience.
| Members Involved | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Susanna Cramb | Mighty maps: Showcasing estimate uncertainty | Online |
| Susanna Cramb | The Australian Cancer Atlas: through the looking glass | Canberra |
| Angela Dahlke | Harnessing Life-Sciences and Bioinformatics to Discover, Understand and Protect Life | Online |
| Angela Dahlke | Navigating Private Rights and the Public Good: Trademark Law and Education | Brisbane |
| Simon Denman | Neural Memory Networks for Long Term Prediction | Brisbane |
| Nicholas Fisher | Measuring performance | Online |
| Kerrie Mengersen & Miranda Mortlock | Reflection on Water | Online |
| Kerrie Mengersen | Supercomputing to fight COVID-19 | Online |
| Robert Salomone | Monte Carlo Secrets Revealed | Online |
| Emi Tanaka | The Advent of "Grammar": Bridging Statistics and Data Science for the Design of Experiments | Online |
MathsCraft
MathsCraft Student Sessions
| Location | Students Present | Teachers Present |
|---|---|---|
| Woodcroft College, Adelaide | 30 | 10 |
MathsCraft Teacher Professional development Sessions
| Location | Teachers Present |
|---|---|
| Virtual | 16 |
Note: The MathsCraft program has shifted its focus to a new MathsCraft Curriculum, which has been carefully designed to augment the Australian Curriculum by providing the opportunity for students to engage with deep mathematical thinking. After the successful conclusion of the 2019 trial of the MathsCraft Curriculum, the aim for 2020 was to make the Curriculum widely available starting from Term 2, and to run more professional development events for teachers and promote the Curriculum. However, the effect of COVID-19 on schools and teachers meant that the launch of the Curriculum had to be postponed until 2021, and the cancellation of workshops and conferences also interfered with both the professional development plans and promotional efforts. Instead, work focussed on improving and adding to the materials and structure of the curriculum, and for 2021 it is to launch the Curriculum in Term 2 and run a series of professional development events throughout the year, the majority of which will be delivered virtually.