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Ian Dangerfield Lectures
The Ian Dangerfield lecture is the Hamilton Institute's annual public talk. The talk typically focuses on applications of mathematics and numerate sciences in different areas and is given by an invited speaker each year.
The talk is named after Ian Dangerfield, who was a student at the institute from 2006-2010. Ian passed away suddenly in 2010 and with the support of Ian's family, the institute has run the talks in Ian's memory.
October 15, 2020
Speaker: Robert Cuffe, BBC News, Head of Statistics
Title: "Numbers in the newsroom"
Abstract: After twenty minutes putting you in the shoes of a journalist responding to a breaking story based on numbers, Robert will talk about fitting numbers and uncertainty in news.
Previous:
Oct 2019 The Perils (and Potential) of Fitness Tracking Systems, Professor Paul Patras, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Oct 2018 - Nanomaterials for energy and the environment: though they be but little they are fierce,
Professor Serena Corr, Departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, University of Sheffield
Oct 2017 - It's All a Game,
Dr Tuvana Pastine, Maynooth University Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting
Oct 2016 - Deep Learning and its exciting impact on computer vision,
Prof. Josephine Sullivan, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Sep 2015 - Cybercrime & the internet user: If things are so bad how come they're so good?,
Dr Cormac Herley, Microsoft Research
Sep 2014 - Users can help make the internet greener!,
Prof. Saleem Bhatti, School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews, UK
Oct 2013 - The story of antibody: A scientific journey from vaccines to blockbuster new therapies,
Prof. Phil Hodgkin, Immunology Division, WEHI, Australia
Oct 2012 - Was it a car or a cat I saw: Fixed assumptions and fresh evidence,
Prof. Richard Abad, Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK