Events

Observing the unobservable: a multi-messenger view of black holes in the Event Horizon Telescope era

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0100

[2024/10/2315:0016:30] Black holes are one of the strangest byproducts of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity: objects so compact that not even light can escape. However when they do manage to "harvest" nearby material, they can channel this energy into several new forms that emit particles and radiation across the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

Worshipful Company of Actuaries (WCA) Annual Lecture 2023

Wed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

[2023/02/2218:00] The School of Mathematical Sciences at the ��TV is pleased to be hosting the annual Worshipful Company of Actuaries lecture.

CORMSIS Recruitment and Networking Event

Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

[2018/11/0611:302018/11/0614:30] CORMSIS have invited a number of high profile companies for a recruitment and networking event.

Young Researchers in Mathematics (YRM)

Mon, 23 Jul 2018 00:00:00 +0100

[2018/07/2309:002018/07/2617:00] Young Researchers in Mathematics (YRM) is an annual conference bringing together communities of PhD students, postdocs, and other young researchers from all areas of mathematics. There will be a mixture of invited speakers, workshops, and contributed talks from a number of different topics within mathematics and related industry, as well as opportunities to meet and socialise with peers. This summer, we look forward to meeting you at the ��TV, 23 July-26 July 2018.

Workshop - (Bilevel) Optimization, Data Analysis & Forecasting

Mon, 03 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0100

[2017/07/0309:002017/07/0417:00] Optimization has proven to be a driving force behind the fast development of efficient tools for data analysis. Recently, bilevel optimization has also emerged as a useful tool to model a wide range of problems in this area. Also considering the strong links between forecasting and data science, the aim of the workshop on (Bilevel) Optimization, Data Analysis and Forecasting is to bring together a number of leading academic and industrial experts in these three areas, in order to discuss current advances, interfaces between the topics, and new modelling, theoretical and computational challenges.

Southampton Science & Engineering Festival (SOTSEF)

Sat, 18 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

[2017/03/1810:302017/03/1816:30] SOTSEF is the ��TV's annual festival that allows everyone to explore and discover what the world of science and engineering has to offer. In 2014 this event won best STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) Institution event in 2014.

STAG Lecture: Professor Brian Schmidt - The Accelerating Universe

Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

[2015/11/0414:302015/11/0416:30] In 1998, two teams traced back the expansion of the universe over billions of years and discovered that it was accelerating, a startling discovery that suggests that more than 70 per cent of the cosmos is contained in a previously unknown form of matter, called Dark Energy. The 2011 Nobel Laureate for Physics, Brian Schmidt, leader of the High‐Redshift Supernova Search Team, will describe this discovery and explain how astronomers have used observations to trace our universe’s history back more than 13 billion years, leading them to ponder the ultimate fate of the cosmos.

Taming Infinities Fields Medallist Professor Martin Hairer

Mon, 18 May 2015 00:00:00 +0100

[2015/05/1817:00] Mathematics event

Finding Ada in Southampton: who is your female scientist role model?

Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0100

[2014/10/1513:002014/10/1516:00] As part of the UK's Ada Lovelace Day celebrations hear Dr Honora Smith talk about how Ada, her great, great, great aunt, inspired her career in Mathematics.

How the Higgs Theory gives mass to particles

Wed, 01 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0100

[2014/10/0114:30] 2014 STAG public lecture by Physics Nobel Laureate Gerard ‘t Hooft

AI in Shipping Workshop

90% of world trade is seaborn and volumes are continuing to increase. The application of artificial intelligence within the shipping industry is a rapidly evolving field, for example in optimising ship operational performance or improving the efficiency of vessels to aid decarbonisation, informing on better shipping practices.

This event will explore the use of machine-learning techniques, autonomous and multi-agent-systems in the maritime industry. We will hear from industry professionals and academics during talks on the latest practices in AI usage for shipping to gain insight into what advancements are being made, and at what rate. Through discussion we aim to better understand the future challenges and opportunities of these applications, and the trustworthiness of the systems themselves.

Provisional Event Schedule

10.00: Arrivals
10.20 Welcome from the organisers
10.30: Introductions from industry
11.00: Discussion on AI in shipping
11.30: Main keynote talk
12.30: Lunch
13.30: An attempt to use AI for biofouling monitoring
14.00: Small groups discussion
15.00: Reflections and conclusion

The organisers

Zoe Abbott
Marah Thormann
Samuel Ward
Julian Wharton
Alain Zemkoho

This event is by invitation only, if you wish to find out more about this workshop please contact fss-kee-events@southampton.ac.uk

S3RI Special Seminar

Questionable Research Practices - From Small Errors to Research Misconduct

Given by Leonhard Held, University of Zurich

The pressure to 'publish or perish' increases the chances that researchers report results selectively, apply data dredging, or even try to cheat the system. It is helpful to consider such Questionable Research Practices (QRPs) as a spectrum of behaviours, ranging from honest errors and mistakes at one end, through to misconduct and fraud at the other (Kolstoe, 2024). I will give some recent examples of the spectrum of QRPs from the biomedical literature. As the number of research paper retractions currently on the rise, we can no longer dismiss QRPs as isolated problems of a small number of people behaving sloppily or dishonestly. Instead, every statistician may at times engage in QRPs (Wang, Yan, Katz, 2018) and hence should be aware of the various forms in their and others' research. Addressing QRPs should be a central part of our activities to facilitate rigorous, transparent, and reproducible research practices.

Simon Kolstoe (2024). Defining the Spectrum of Questionable Research Practices (QRPs). UK Research Integrity Office.

Min Qi Wang, Alice F Yan, Ralph V Katz (2018). Researcher Requests for Inappropriate Analysis and Reporting: A U.S. Survey of Consulting Biostatisticians. Ann Intern Med., doi:10.7326/M18-1230

Short biography

Leonhard Held is Department Chair and Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Zurich (UZH). He is Founding Director of the Center for Reproducible Science at UZH and Steering Committee Member of the Swiss Reproducibility Network (SwissRN). His current research focuses on statistical aspects of replicability and meta-research.

RSVP/Further Details

This seminar will be held on Highfield Campus in building 100 room 4011 from 2-3pm, this will be followed by refreshments in the MBA Suite from 3-4pm. To attend this seminar you must book a place, bookings close at 1pm on Thursday 24 April 2025.

Any questions or queries please email fss-kee-events@soton.ac.uk