Desmond Higham

🚨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 📍MS Teams Book here: rss.org.uk/training-event…

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!

Deceptive Diffusion: Generating Synthetic Adversarial Examples arxiv.org/abs/2406.19807

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

“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…

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/r…

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. . Listen now link in bio! . #maths #statistics #science #stem #sciencemedia @EdinUniMaths @BayesCentre

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/o…

Job posting...come and join us! Lecturer / Senior Lecturer / Reader in Applied Mathematics @UofGMaths_Stats @UofGlasgow jobs.ac.uk/job/DHF628/lec…

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 💡

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!

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/

"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

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/t…

New issue of SIAM Review recently published! Read the Book Reviews paper(s): epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/23… & remember, SIAM members get free access!

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.…

Excited to share a latest article published in @plosone: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… #plosoneauthor it shows how a thermodynamic cycle can be produced from a model of political discourse!

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

We won the @EquateScotland Student Society of the Year award! Thank you to everyone who has been involved with Piscopia since our founding 🥳 #Celebration

Congrats to @latzplacian, @OfficialUoM, the 2024 SIAM Activity Group on Uncertainty Quantification Early Career Prize recipient! 👏 Dr. Latz was recently recognized at the 2024 SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification. Read more ➡️ #Latz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/f…