Past Events

This ACEMS Public Lecture aims to provide an overview of how data science and in particular statistical modelling can be used to inform a more effective criminal justice system.  Dr Suzanne Poynton, Acting Director of the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, will open the session with some introductory remarks to set the context.  Dr Joanna Wang, who is a Research Statistician at the Bureau, will go into a more detailed description of how statistical modelling is used to help extract actionable insight from the Bureau's extensive database on criminal offenders in NSW.  She will go into some depth on one recent specific project that compares the recidivism rates of offenders who received an intensive correction order with those sentenced to short prison sentence.

ACEMS would like to invite all our Melbourne collaborators and members to an informal Meet & Greet at The University of Melbourne. This is an opportunity for all ACEMS friends, colleagues, collaborators and friends to connect. Please feel free to bring along colleagues even if they are not currently collaborating with ACEMS.

ACEMS Chief Investigator Dirk Kroese will present a public lecture on randomness, and how we can better understand it through mathematics.

ACEMS is proud to be a sponsor of the Women in Mathematics Day event at Swinburne University of Technology.

ACEMS is proud to be a sponsor for the International Womens in Maths Day event at The University of Melbourne

ACEMS is proud to support a celebration of women in maths day event in South Australia.

ACEMS is proud to support a special event celebrating women in mathematics. The event is being held at Monash University

ACEMS invites all QLD collaborators and colleagues to an informal Meet & Greet at QUT. This is an opportunity for our local partners to meet each other and the wider ACEMS academic network in Brisbane.

We look forward to seeing you on 28 March at 4pm.

RSVP: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/acems-qld-meet-greet-tickets-58040366298

This is an ACEMS Public Lecture at The University of Adelaide. The talk will explore problems that we have encountered in the energy and public health sectors, and show how mathematics is used to help make informed decisions in the face of uncertainty.

In this talk, Monash Business School’s world-renowned econometrician and ACEMS Associate Investigator Professor Dianne Cook will discuss how accessing this data can help you understand the world you live in.

Models of processes are the foundation of the physical sciences. In contrast, in health - with little prospect for developing a deep mechanistic insight of complex human health conditions - statistical approaches, and in particular the use of Randomised Controlled Trials, are the norm.

This workshop will explore if/how models (variously termed mechanistic, causal or process models) can fundamentally change the validity of and utility of certain types of data, with implications for how we synthesise knowledge and argue for decisions across different areas of science.

Presentations will be given by academics from a number of disciplines: mathematics, statistics, history and philosophy of science, epidemiology and ecology.

The ACEMS/MATRIX Conference on Functional Data Analysis will be held from Saturday 08 December to Sunday 09 December 2018 at The University of Melbourne.