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Science at Pandemic Speed: The Clinical Trial that Changed COVID Care - with Professor Thomas Jaki
Academia or Industry? Why Professor Roslyn Hickson Chose Both
The Algorithm that Transformed Optimisation - with Dr Sophie Huiberts
From DNA to Discovery: How Statistics Brings the Ancient Past to Life - with Dr Adam "Ben" Rohrlach & Dr Simon "Jono" Tuke
From Granular to Nano: Big Science at Small Scales – with Prof Natalie Thamwattana
Tracking the Spread of Vaccine Hesitancy - with Prof Stacey Smith?
What Maths can tell us about Women's Health - with Prof Alys Clark & Dr Claire Miller
Game Theory: The Mathematics of Strategic Choices - with Dr Maria Kleshnina
The Kalman Filter: The Mathematics of Knowing Where You Are
Maths Meets Biology: Inside the Mission to Model a Living Cell - Part 2
Maths Meets Biology: Inside the Mission to Model a Living Cell - Part 1
From Surveys to LLMs: The New Era of Social Data – with Professor Frauke Kreuter
Multi-Source Data & the Evolution of Official Statistics - with Dr Anders Holmberg
Making the Invisible Visible: The Global Hackathon Against Modern Slavery
Data We Can Trust
ReefCloud: Connecting Scientists to Save Coral Reefs – with Dr Manuel Gonzalez-Rivero
Taylor Swift, Pesto the Penguin, and… Statistics?! - with Heather Lansdowne
Patterns in Chaos: Exploring Complex Systems - with Professor Michael Small
Indigenous Data Governance & Sovereignty - with Levi-Craig Murray
Bridging the Interdisciplinary Gap with Stats & Data Science - with Prof Galit Shmueli
Driving Change: The Maths Behind Autonomous Vehicles - with Prof Michael Milford
Designing the Tools that Shape Data Science - with Dr Hadley Wickham
From Silo to Solution: Unlocking climate & social data that can drive change
Beyond ChatGPT: The Rapidly Evolving Landscape of AI - with Professor Simon Angus
The Many Hands of AI: Responsibility and Regulation - with Dr Henry Fraser
The New Reality of AI and the Law - with A/Prof Michael Guihot
Mathematics, creativity & connection: Rethinking maths education in Australia
Maths Models Shed New Light on Hidden Heart Risks – with Professors Helen Byrne & Mary Myerscough
Shaping the Equation: The 2024 WIMSIG Conference
The Publication Puzzle: Navigating the World of Academic Publishing - Pt 3
The Publication Puzzle: Navigating the World of Academic Publishing - Pt 2
The Publication Puzzle: Navigating the World of Academic Publishing - Pt 1
Trailer: The Publication Puzzle - Navigating the World of Academic Publishing
Grapes & Algorithms: the Data Science of Sustainable Winemaking
Coping with Climate Anxiety - with Dr Alexandra Knight
Scientific Graphic Design for Communicating Research - with Dr Jess Jopf
The Mathematics of Bushfires - with Professor Jason Sharples
Understanding Maths Struggles - with Dr Jacob Paul
Building Blocks of the Universe - with Professor Alessandro Sfondrini
Using maths to explore the music of Taylor Swift - with Dr Nathan Garland
Why Host a Podcast?!
The Maths of Wi-Fi with Professor David Skellern
Emerging Leaders in Statistics
Superstars of STEM
What you need to know about Referendum Polling with Professor Simon Jackman
Communicating Statistics & Probability with Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal
Cracking the Code on the Spread of Mis-and-Disinformation on Social Media
Can Water Compute? With Professor Eva Miranda
Industry PhDs
On the Road at the ISI World Statistics Congress
Open-sourcing Data Science Education with Professor Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
Talking Maths & Conservation with Professor Hugh Possingham
Law & Stats: What's a Statistician Doing in Court
Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Discovery
Optimisation: The Intelligence Behind AI
The Future is Now: Building Better Climate Models
Large Language Models & ChatGPT
The WiDS Global Movement
The AMSI-ANZIAM Distinguished Lecturer: Prof Konstantin Avrachenkov
Future Proofing as Data Changes the World
Unpacking the Sphere Packing Problem
The Statistical Society Celebrates its 60th
A Deep Dive on the Great Barrier Reef
The Story of ACEMS
Teaching with MathsCraft
Software as a First Class Research Output
Using Stats to Crowdsource the Weather
Innovation in Data Visualisation
Talking Stats with Aurore Delaigle
Maths at MATRIX
The Maths Behind Movie Magic
OPTIMA Centre
Experiment in Lockdown
Clearing the Air on COVID-19
Predicting What the Clouds are Covering Up
Success, Luck, & Second Chances
The 2021 Australian Census
The future of statistics is in good hands: the Early Career & Student Statisticians Conference
A Chat with Professor Cheryl Praeger
The "Wondrous Worlds" of Maths
The Road Ahead for Women in STEM
The Maths & Stats Behind Testing Vaccines
A Pint of Maths & Stats
Australian Women of Mathematics Exhibit
A Mathematical Approach to the Issue of Gender Inequality
Significance & the Replication Crisis
The International Prize in Statistics
Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Maths & the Power of Perseverance
Bubbles, Maths & a World Record
Open Data Opens Doors to Answers
Driven by Data: Statistics in Sports
Living & Playing Together in Moreton Bay
Making a Connection to Culture
Why Study Maths & Stats?
From Maths to the Media
A Chat with Professor Kerry Landman
Hacking Your Lower Brain to Improve Predictions
Fact vs Fake: Targeting Misinformation on Social Media
Bayes' Theorem: The Past & the Future
From Cells to Systems: the Maths of Biology
The Maths Behind Australia's Response to COVID-19
Forecasting the Future & the Future of Forecasting
The Random Sample samples Randomised Trials
Hospital Hesitancy
COVID Clues in Dirty Water Data
Safe Blues
Antarctic Outreach
The Maths Behind Mining the Blockchain