CfS Annual Conference 2024
This year's conference will feature a fantastic line up of speakers from across all three colleges at the University of Edinburgh, as well as industry. There will also be plenty of time for networking over lunch and posters.
Schedule
09:00-09:25: Registration with coffee/tea
09:25-09:30: Housekeeping and Welcome (Timothy Cannings, Director of Centre for Statistics)
09:30-10:05: Roger Halliday (Research Data Scotland)
Unlocking data for research in the public good
10:05-10:40: Elliot Crowley (School of Engineering)
Finding the right neural network for the job
10:40-11:10: Break
11:10-11:45: Cecilia Balocchi (School of Mathematics)
Improving uncertainty quantification in Bayesian cluster analysis
11:45-12:20: Edward Wallace (School of Biological Sciences)
Quantifying the messages that make cells tick: adventures in understanding regulation of messenger RNA in fungi
12:20-14:20: Posters and Lunch.
14:20-14:55: Xuebin Zhao (School of Geosciences)
Variational Prior Replacement in Bayesian Inference and Inversion
14:55-15:30: Roxanne Connelly (School of Social and Political Science)
Do You Like School? Social Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Pupils’ Educational Enjoyment
15:30-16:05: Mirella Lapata (School of Informatics)
Prompting is not all you need! Or why Structure and Representations still matter in NLP
16:05-16:10: Closing (Timothy Cannings, Director of Centre for Statistics).
16:10-17:00: Drinks Reception and Photo.
Registration
Registration is now closed, please contact DirectorCfS@ed.ac.uk if you would like to join.
CfS Annual Conference 2024
Elm Lecture Theatre and Foyer area, The Nucleus, King's Buildings