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Maths Meets Biology: Inside the Mission to Model a Living Cell - Part 2

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Maths Meets Biology: Inside the Mission to Model a Living Cell - Part 1

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From Surveys to LLMs: The New Era of Social Data – with Professor Frauke Kreuter

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Multi-Source Data & the Evolution of Official Statistics - with Dr Anders Holmberg

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Making the Invisible Visible: The Global Hackathon Against Modern Slavery

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Data We Can Trust

7

ReefCloud: Connecting Scientists to Save Coral Reefs – with Dr Manuel Gonzalez-Rivero

8

Taylor Swift, Pesto the Penguin, and… Statistics?! - with Heather Lansdowne

9

Patterns in Chaos: Exploring Complex Systems - with Professor Michael Small

10

Indigenous Data Governance & Sovereignty - with Levi-Craig Murray

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Bridging the Interdisciplinary Gap with Stats & Data Science - with Prof Galit Shmueli

12

Driving Change: The Maths Behind Autonomous Vehicles - with Prof Michael Milford

13

Designing the Tools that Shape Data Science - with Dr Hadley Wickham

14

From Silo to Solution: Unlocking climate & social data that can drive change

15

Beyond ChatGPT: The Rapidly Evolving Landscape of AI - with Professor Simon Angus

16

The Many Hands of AI: Responsibility and Regulation - with Dr Henry Fraser

17

The New Reality of AI and the Law - with A/Prof Michael Guihot

18

Mathematics, creativity & connection: Rethinking maths education in Australia

19

Maths Models Shed New Light on Hidden Heart Risks – with Professors Helen Byrne & Mary Myerscough

20

Shaping the Equation: The 2024 WIMSIG Conference

21

The Publication Puzzle: Navigating the World of Academic Publishing - Pt 3

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The Publication Puzzle: Navigating the World of Academic Publishing - Pt 2

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The Publication Puzzle: Navigating the World of Academic Publishing - Pt 1

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Trailer: The Publication Puzzle - Navigating the World of Academic Publishing

25

Grapes & Algorithms: the Data Science of Sustainable Winemaking

26

Coping with Climate Anxiety - with Dr Alexandra Knight

27

Scientific Graphic Design for Communicating Research - with Dr Jess Jopf

28

The Mathematics of Bushfires - with Professor Jason Sharples

29

Understanding Maths Struggles - with Dr Jacob Paul

30

Building Blocks of the Universe - with Professor Alessandro Sfondrini

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Using maths to explore the music of Taylor Swift - with Dr Nathan Garland

32

Why Host a Podcast?!

33

The Maths of Wi-Fi with Professor David Skellern

34

Emerging Leaders in Statistics

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Superstars of STEM

36

What you need to know about Referendum Polling with Professor Simon Jackman

37

Communicating Statistics & Probability with Professor Jeffrey Rosenthal

38

Cracking the Code on the Spread of Mis-and-Disinformation on Social Media

39

Can Water Compute? With Professor Eva Miranda

40

Industry PhDs

41

On the Road at the ISI World Statistics Congress

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Open-sourcing Data Science Education with Professor Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

43

Talking Maths & Conservation with Professor Hugh Possingham

44

Law & Stats: What's a Statistician Doing in Court

45

Gravitational Waves: From Theory to Discovery

46

Optimisation: The Intelligence Behind AI

47

The Future is Now: Building Better Climate Models

48

Large Language Models & ChatGPT

49

The WiDS Global Movement

50

The AMSI-ANZIAM Distinguished Lecturer: Prof Konstantin Avrachenkov

51

Future Proofing as Data Changes the World

52

Unpacking the Sphere Packing Problem

53

The Statistical Society Celebrates its 60th

54

A Deep Dive on the Great Barrier Reef

55

The Story of ACEMS

56

Teaching with MathsCraft

57

Software as a First Class Research Output

58

Using Stats to Crowdsource the Weather

59

Innovation in Data Visualisation

60

Talking Stats with Aurore Delaigle

61

Maths at MATRIX

62

The Maths Behind Movie Magic

63

OPTIMA Centre

64

Experiment in Lockdown

65

Clearing the Air on COVID-19

66

Predicting What the Clouds are Covering Up

67

Success, Luck, & Second Chances

68

The 2021 Australian Census

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The future of statistics is in good hands: the Early Career & Student Statisticians Conference

70

A Chat with Professor Cheryl Praeger

71

The "Wondrous Worlds" of Maths

72

The Road Ahead for Women in STEM

73

The Maths & Stats Behind Testing Vaccines

74

A Pint of Maths & Stats

75

Australian Women of Mathematics Exhibit

76

A Mathematical Approach to the Issue of Gender Inequality

77

Significance & the Replication Crisis

78

The International Prize in Statistics

79

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

80

Maths & the Power of Perseverance

81

Bubbles, Maths & a World Record

82

Open Data Opens Doors to Answers

83

Driven by Data: Statistics in Sports

84

Living & Playing Together in Moreton Bay

85

Making a Connection to Culture

86

Why Study Maths & Stats?

87

From Maths to the Media

88

A Chat with Professor Kerry Landman

89

Hacking Your Lower Brain to Improve Predictions

90

Fact vs Fake: Targeting Misinformation on Social Media

91

Bayes' Theorem: The Past & the Future

92

From Cells to Systems: the Maths of Biology

93

The Maths Behind Australia's Response to COVID-19

94

Forecasting the Future & the Future of Forecasting

95

The Random Sample samples Randomised Trials

96

Hospital Hesitancy

97

COVID Clues in Dirty Water Data

98

Safe Blues

99

Antarctic Outreach

100

The Maths Behind Mining the Blockchain