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1 November 2021	15:00	Presenting the Turing Fellow Research Projects - Prof Tim Lenton and Prof Gavin Shaddick: Data Science for Sustainable Development: Environment, Climate and Health PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK TO REGISTER. Full details	Add event
11 October 2021	15:00	Presenting the Turing Fellow Research Projects - Prof Sabina Leonelli: The Evidence Base of Artificial Intelligence: Supporting Data Fairness to Enhance Research Quality PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK TO REGISTER. Full details	Add event
28 June - 2 July 2021	9:30	IDSAI Data Science Week 2021 PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK FOR FULL DETAILS AND TO REGISTER. Full details	Add event
14 June 2021	13:00	University of Exeter Workshop on Media and UK Elections The British Election Longitudinal News Study 2015-2019 (BELNS) covers campaign coverage relating to three general elections: 2015, 2017, 2019. Full details	Add event
26 May 2021	15:00	Joint IDSAI / Egenis Seminar - "From blind optimism to complete rejection: Lessons from the UK’s exams algorithm experience" Join us for this seminar with Ed Humpherson, Head of the UK’s Office for Statistics Regulation. The seminar is hosted by the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences. Full details	Add event
24 May 2021	15:00	Presenting the Turing Fellow Research Projects - Prof Peter Challenor: Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) for Black-Box Computational Models with Application to Machine Decisions PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK TO REGISTER. Full details	Add event
12 April 2021	14:00	Causality@Exeter: Seminar Series - Individualised Treatment Effect in Educational Interventions Join us for the final seminar in this series looking at Causality research at Exeter.. Full details	Add event
29 March 2021	14:00	Causality@Exeter: Seminar Series - Causal Effects in Economics Join us for the third in this series of seminars looking at Causality research at Exeter.. Full details	Add event
26 March 2021	14:00	Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Global Challenges for Food Security and Governance - Session 4 & Conclusion: Social challenges of data linkage The social implications of plant and agricultural biotechnologies have been the focus of much debate in recent decades. Data production, sharing and linkage raise new issues concerning the inclusion of diverse stakeholders and ensuring that data works for them, practically and equitably. Building plural knowledges into plant data infrastructures, through the inclusion of practical and traditional knowledge from farmers and breeders, the recognition of diverse (e.g. gendered, but also professional) expertise and the implementation of multilingual systems, will be an important facet in establishing the relevance of those infrastructures to a wide range of stakeholders. Ensuring that global circulations of plant data are fair as well as FAIR, moreover, requires sustained attention to the distribution of scientific and computing resources that facilitate access to and effective use of data resources. Throughout all of this, ensuring that key subjects of food security and end-users of data. Full details	Add event
19 March 2021	14:00	Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Global Challenges for Food Security and Governance - Session 3: Governance Challenges of Data Linkage New flows and intersections of big data from -omics research in plant science, including field-based phenomics as well as genomics, to various types of socioeconomic and environmental data, pose distinct challenges for governance. Data access and ownership for the common good and/or scientific advancement remain areas of considerable contestation, especially given the distinctive intellectual property landscape of plant science, which is marked by the predominance of transnational corporations on the one hand and regimes of national sovereignty on the other. Moreover, longstanding challenges of implementing Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) schemes in regard to biological materials are renewed by the increasing availability of digital data, while the integration of biological with socioeconomic data raises new questions of privacy. This session will address these and other governmental issues raised by plant data linkage, from open science policy through legal and political regulation. Full details	Add event
15 March 2021	14:00	Causality@Exeter: Seminar Series - Combining Mendelian randomization with Pharmacogenetics Join us for the second in this series of seminars looking at Causality research at Exeter.. Full details	Add event
12 March 2021	14:00	Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Global Challenges for Food Security and Governance - Session 2: Technical Challenges of Data Linkage Making plant data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) has been the subject of much effort. Extensive semantic tools are now available, including the multiple, intersecting ontologies that comprise the Planteome project, as are metadata standards such as the Minimum Information About a Plant Phenotyping Experiment (MIAPPE). Such tools nevertheless require collective work to develop and maintain. Beyond ensuring data themselves are FAIR, actively linking and circulating data poses further challenges. These include finding ways to link biologically, experimentally or geographically related yet heterogeneous datasets consistently, and to make data usable in practice to potential users with divergent aims and resources, not only reusable in theory. This session will address the technical challenges of data linkage, including the development of standards and infrastructures; epistemic issues; and the organizational requirements of this work.. Full details	Add event
5 March 2021	14:00	Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Global Challenges for Food Security and Governance - Introduction & Session 1: Experiences from The Trenches How is data managed in practice? To start the workshop, this session will discuss case studies of plant data use and linkage in the context of particular research projects and breeding programs, drawn from contemporary experience as well as historical research. Consideration of these cases will ground the thematic discussion of the following sessions, and provide an opportunity to reflect on the practical dimensions of the various challenges of data linkage and their solutions. This session will also begin with a general introduction to the online workshop goals and format by the organisers. Full details	Add event
1 March 2021	14:00	Causality@Exeter: Seminar Series - Assessing the impact of violence reduction units. Join us for the first in this series of seminars looking at Causality research at Exeter.. Full details	Add event
22 February 2021	15:00	IDSAI Seminar: Using ensemble meteorological datasets to overcome limitations in a Bayesian volcanic ash inverse modelling system Join Dr Helen Webster, lecturer in Global Systems and Senior Scientist at the Met Office, as she discusses using ensemble meteorological datasets to overcome limitations in a Bayesian volcanic ash inverse modelling system. Full details	Add event
21 January 2021	15:00	Turning on a DyME: Incorporating time-use and health datasets into a Dynamic Microsimulation Epidemiological model for COVID-19 Speakers: Professor Gavin Shaddick, Chair of Data Science & Statistics Professor Karyn Morrissey, European Centre for Environment & Human Health Dr Fiona Spooner, Research Fellow, IDSAI / ECEHH Dr Jesse Abrams, Research Fellow, IDSAI / GSI. Full details	Add event
17 - 18 December 2020	13:00	2020 Online Conference on Environmental Intelligence The University of Exeter and the Met Office invite you to join a national conference on Environmental Intelligence. Full details	Add event
11 December 2020	13:00	Urban Analytics: Progress and Prospects Mark will introduce the Urban Analytics programme at Turing and discuss the definition and scope of urban analytics, illustrate its importance using some contemporary and topical examples (including Covid), and highlight some of the main opportunities and challenges for the future. Full details	Add event
23 September 2020	15:00	IDSAI Seminar: Carly Kind, Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute Carly Kind leads the delivery of the Ada Lovelace Institute’s ambitious agenda to promote informed public understanding of the impact of AI and data-driven technologies on different groups in society. She was appointed Director of the Institute in July 2019.. Full details	Add event
3 July 2020	15:30	Book Launch: Data Journeys in the Sciences This event features the official launch of the Springer Open Access volume Data Journeys in the Sciences, edited by Sabina Leonelli and Niccolo Tempini and appearing in July 2020. The volume is a key output of the ERC project DATA_SCIENCE (led by Sabina Leonelli from 2014 to 2019, see www.datastudies.eu) and brings together leading thinkers in the history, philosophy and social studies of science to reflect on the challenges and conditions for mobilizing and (re)using research data. Full details	Add event
29 June - 3 July 2020	9:30	Data Science Week 2020 From 29th June - 3rd July the IDSAI showcased and celebrated the best of data science and AI at Exeter by hosting a series of seminars, workshops, presentations and training opportunities. Full details	Add event
19 June 2020	15:30	POSTPONED. EGENIS seminar series / book launch: Prof Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter) To be rescheduled. Full details	Add event
18 June 2020	7:00	Mathematical Modelling for the COVID-19 Pandemic Professor Alex Cook from the National University of Singapore discusses mathematical modelling and its role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Full details	Add event
10 June 2020	15:00	IDSAI Seminar: Dr Ana Beduschi - International Migration Management in the Age of AI Join us for an online seminar from Dr Ana Beduschi, Associate Professor of Law at Exeter. Full details	Add event
4 June 2020	9:30	Opportunities for Collaboration in Data-Driven Engineering Applications are invited to attend a half-day virtual workshop to explore opportunities for collaborations between engineering researchers and data scientists.. Full details	Add event
26 May 2020	15:00	IDSAI Seminar: Professor Deborah Ashby - Florence Nightingale, pigeonholes and mustard seeds: using data to improve health from the time of the Crimea to the time of the coronavirus Watch the recording of Professor Deborah Ashby's seminar here: https://universityofexeteruk.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/IDSAI/EZFNxla3L-1Girx76ho62O4BDBVKyGLPMbWeVPgXuIv4lg?e=pghLBe. Full details	Add event
13 May 2020	15:00	IDSAI Seminar: Professor Tim Dodwell - Learning to Solve: Scalable Data-Driven Model Order Reduction for Digital Twins Watch the recording of Professor Tim Dodwell's seminar here: https://universityofexeteruk.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/IDSAI/EWCSwtBXBOxKmP3Y4ifCfhsBcpt9LHwj_WEKJ4qrIz6Jrw?e=hg3bhJ. Full details	Add event
29 April 2020	15:00	IDSAI Seminar: Dr. Pier Luigi Buttigieg - The art and science of knowledge representation for Earth and Environmental Science Watch the recording of Dr Pier Luigi Buttigieg's seminar here: https://universityofexeteruk.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/IDSAI/EaMO2heaL_xBqMfrVpUsHDIBdgJmoJhBZr0fjTWhqqZ8GQ?e=jlmjfX. Full details	Add event
22 April 2020	15:00	IDSAI Seminar: Dr Edmond Awad - The Moral Machine Experiment Watch the recording of Dr Eddie Awad's seminar here: https://universityofexeteruk.sharepoint.com/:v:/s/IDSAI/EXSj1N4TeepPmIO8hMR0ue0BysSlhHxOQunWYR03k0RVBQ?e=ebn9qh. Full details	Add event
23 March 2020	13:00	POSTPONED: The ethical implications of AI and data science research THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED Join a panel of colleagues from the Institute for Data Science and AI for an opportunity to consider and discuss the ethical implications when undertaking AI and data science research.. Full details	Add event
17 March 2020	13:15	Professor Helen Margetts OBE: Re-thinking Government with AI: The Alan Turing Institute Public Policy Programme The IDSAI are delighted to announce that Professor Helen Margetts OBE will be giving an open talk to Exeter staff and students on Tuesday 17th March.. Full details	Add event
29 January 2020	15:00	IDSAI Seminar - Dr Adam Sobey: The underrated importance of diversity in Genetic Algorithms Watch the recording of the seminar from Dr Adam Sobey, lecturer at the University of Southampton.. Full details	Add event
22 January 2020	15:00	IDSAI Seminar - Sharing your data story: how to get the most impact from your data and research Watch the recording of the seminar from Dr Sarah Callaghan, Editor-in-Chief, Patterns.. Full details	Add event
19 December 2019	14:30	IDSAI Seminar and Christmas Reception: Professor Steve Roberts Please join us for this IDSAI Seminar and Christmas Reception to hear from Professor Steve Roberts, Director of the Oxford-Man Institute and Professor of Information Engineering, plus poetry from special guest Judy Brown. Full details	Add event
16 December 2019	9:30	"AI between Plant and Agricultural Science: Green Paths towards Environmental Intelligence" The workshop seeks to bring together experts in the plant and agricultural sciences who are working with computational methods of analyses, the integration of diverse datasets spanning biological and environmental data, and the management of plant data infrastructures, in order to discuss what possibilities might be offered for the field by the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and the Environmental Intelligence initiative based at the University of Exeter. The Environmental Intelligence initiative seeks to develop new ways to understand complex interactions between climate, ecosystems, and human social and economic systems through the application of data science tools. Full details	Add event
4 December 2019	16:00	CANCELLED - Digital Humanities Seminar: For Everyone: the Participatory Archive Postponed due to UCU planned strike action. Read more at https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/research/digital/events/. Full details	Add event
28 November 2019	14:30	Programming with Models: Statistical Algorithms for Hierarchical Model Structures using NIMBLE. This is a talk not to miss for anyone interested in statistical modelling and/or MCMC. Drinks and refreshments will be served from 15:30 after the seminar. Full details	Add event
20 November 2019	16:00	Digital Humanities Seminar: Visual AI & the Digital Humanities: critical and ethical issues Digital Humanities Lab seminar series. Dr Giles Bergel (University of Oxford) & University of Exeter Art History and Visual Culture: "Visual AI & the Digital Humanities: critical and ethical issues". Join us for drinks and nibbles following the paper!. Full details	Add event
23 October 2019	16:00	Digital Humanities Seminar: An introduction to the ‘Living with Machines’ project Digital Humanities Lab seminar series. Dr Katie McDonough (The Alan Turing Institute) and Prof Jon Lawrence (University of Exeter): "An introduction to the ‘Living with Machines’ project". Join us for drinks and nibbles following the paper!. Full details	Add event
11 October 2019	15:30	Professor Xiao-Li Meng: AI, Beatles, and Elections - A Nano Tour of Data Science Professor Xiao-Li Meng is the Whipple V.N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard University and the Editor in Chief of the Harvard Data Science Review. Professor Meng received his BS in mathematics from Fudan University in 1982 and his PhD in statistics from Harvard in 1990. He was on the faculty of the University of Chicago from 1991 to 2001 before returning to Harvard, where he served as the Chair of the Department of Statistics (2004-2012) and the Dean of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2012-2017). Full details	Add event
8 October 2019	15:00	Professor Dong Nguyen: Natural Language Processing (NLP) for computational social science Professor Dong Nguyen is assistant professor at Utrecht University. She was previously a research fellow at the Turing Institute. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Twente having received a master's degree from the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Twente.. Full details	Add event
23 September 2019	9:45	IDSAI: Health Data Day The IDSAI will be hosting a Health Data Day on 23rd September to bring together researchers from across Exeter with interests in health and data science approaches to address health challenges. Full details	Add event
4 September 2019	9:30	IDSAI Politics and Policy Theme Workshop The Politics & Policy theme at the IDSAI brings together researchers in the social sciences and computer sciences interested in the use of large-scale data to understand governance, comparative politics, social mobility, (in)equality, social networks, communication, digital services design, public economies, and technologies in the defence and security sector.. Full details	Add event
18 July 2019	15:00	IDSAI Summer Seminar & Reception: Professor Richard Everson All University of Exeter staff and students are invited to join the IDSAI for the inaugural seminar by its Director, Professor Richard Everson. The seminar will run from 3-4pm and will be followed by a summer drinks reception. Full details	Add event
16 July 2019	14:30	Statistical Challenges in Cyber Security Open to all University of Exeter Staff and Students - tea, coffee and networking available after the seminar. Full details	Add event
16 July 2019	13:30	Defence & Security at Turing Professor Briers will provide an overview of the Defence & Security programme at Turing, the partners, current research activities (ranging from security in the cloud, scalable MCMC, to Arabic sentiment analysis), and ways to get involved. There will be an opportunity for tea, coffee and networking after the talk.. Full details	Add event
26 June 2019	14:00	IDSAI Seminar: Novel Machine Learning Methods for Cancer Research IDSAI Seminar given by Dr Colin Campbell, Reader in Mathematics for Information Technology at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of Bristol. Full details	Add event
18 - 21 June 2019	9:00	42nd Research Students’ Conference in Probability and Statistics (RSC 2019) The University of Exeter is proud and excited to host the 42nd Research Students’ Conference in Probability and Statistics (RSC 2019) on the 18th-21st June 2019 sponsored by the Alan Turing Institute. Full details	Add event
4 June 2019	13:00	IDSAI: Data Governance, Algorithms and Values Workshop This IDSAI research theme, led by Professor Sabina Leonelli, addresses the social embedding of data across different settings, from business to policy and government, from biology to health and climate change, and the implications of such embedding brings both for the governance and regulation of data flows and for the technical management and use of data and related analytic tools. Responsible data management, the role of values in algorithms and questions of data ethics are key to this theme. Rather than considering these issues in isolation, we study their role within real-world challenges for - and both current and future applications of - data science and artificial intelligence. All colleagues whose research is concerned with the theme are invited to join this workshop on 4th June to discuss the theme and future research in this area at the University. There will be a budget for the theme and funding opportunities for seed projects and Turing Institute connections.. Full details	Add event
22 May 2019	10:00	Environmental Intelligence Summit Our interaction with the natural environment plays a crucial role in all aspects of society: our health, wealth, safety and future development. Environmental Intelligence represents the use of cutting edge Data Science & AI technology to integrate multiple complex data sources, along with Environmental Research outputs, to create transformational research and tools that enable informed decision making. Full details	Add event
15 May 2019	15:00	IDSAI SEMINAR: Getting to the 2015 US 0.070ppm standard for ozone: The statistician’s story. Hear from Professor Jim Zidek, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, on the journey to new US ozone standards announced on Monday, October 26, 2015 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Agency responsible for monitoring the Nation’s air quality standards under the Clean Air Act of 1970. Jim will talk about his experiences as a member of the EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) for Ozone and his perspectives on the process as well as the results it produced. Full details	Add event
1 - 3 May 2019	9:00	DPUK Datathon at the University of Exeter Clinical trials are moving earlier to intervene before the onset of dementia itself. As the amount of data that we have available to us increases rapidly, it is becoming vital to innovate in order to make sense of it and gain new insights. At the Exeter Datathon, you will work with others in the DPUK Data Portal. You will focus on predicting dementia risk; conversion from mild cognitive impairment to dementia; and the potential of transfer learning to facilitate predictions between different datasets.. Full details	Add event
4 April 2019	8:30	Workshop on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) In many real-world problems, several conflicting criteria need to be optimized simultaneously. Therefore, it is crucial to properly structure and solve the problem with relevant tools for supporting a decision maker. The purpose of the workshop is to provide knowledge and basic concepts, an overview of different methods and tools in solving multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) problems. MCDM methods and tools have been found to be useful in several such applications e.g. health care, education, environment, transportation, business, and production. Full details	Add event
3 April 2019	16:00	IDSAI Seminar: Estimating Sea Ice Parameters with Satellite Data Synergy Shiming Xu is currently an associated professor at Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University. His major research interests include numerical model development for geophysical fluid dynamics, sea ice parameter retrieval, and polar climate change. His recent works involve the development of physical data synergy methods that utilizes multiple sensor and multiple satellite data for Arctic sea ice. Full details	Add event