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New Student Perspectives blog post by #CompassCDT Student Henry Bourne . How do you learn a probability model when you can't normalise it? How can you learn general informative representations from data? How about just avoiding your problems! lnkd.in/ecRBmD-3

APERIODIC is a two-week festival exploring the realm of aperiodic patterns, from 1st-14th of July at Kit Form Gallery, Stokes Croft. With public talks, music, dance, performances, and an open gallery, the festival is intended for everybody. Find out more: tinyurl.com/ycxyjfrz

Today at 6pm: Logarithms: Mobile Phones, Modelling & Statistics? Watch: gres.hm/logarithms Prof Oliver Johnson of Bristol Mathematics shows how #logarithms underpin much of modern life, from modelling pandemics to explaining crazy follower numbers on Instagram London Mathematical Society

New Student Perspectives blog post by Compass CDT Student Qi Chen on Variational inference, which is a popular method for finding approximate posterior distributions in Bayesian settings. Read the full article here: lnkd.in/ewnUr3Vn.

APERIODIC, a festival of art, science, music and performance, taking place in Bristol from 1- 14 July, is featured in Bristol24/7 Read more: ow.ly/ETFT50Smvtc

New blog post by Compass CDT Student Rachel Wood on how can we spot anomalies in networks. In this blog post, Rachel explains how we can do this to identify changes between networks observing the same subjects (e.g. snapshots of the same graph over time).lnkd.in/eV85SUnr

New Student Perspectives blog post by Compass CDT Student Dylan Dijk! The vector autoregressive model is popular for fitting multiple time series. This post highlights the need for a factor adjustment step when dealing with a large number of series. lnkd.in/ekH5TdVf

NEW Student perspectives blog post by Compass CDT student Sam Bowyer: How can we efficiently finetune a pretrained AI model (which is too large for us to train from scratch) on a downstream task whilst accurately estimating the model's uncertainty? lnkd.in/dR3zibpT

New Student perspectives blog post by Compass CDT Student Sam Perren. This blog highlights Sam's research on network meta-analysis, addressing challenges in disconnected networks and single-arm studies, and extending the multinma package. lnkd.in/ez-TFWDW

Compass CDT student Xinrui Shi's blog: How to optimally allocate a fixed participant number across trials in a pairwise meta-analysis, to achieve the most precise estimates, considering a trade-off between the precision/quantity of individual observations: lnkd.in/efVU8Bds

Our Compass Conference took place in #Bristol recently, enabling our students, alumni, #industry partners and #research colleagues to explore 'The Future of Data Science'. Read a student perspective of the event: bit.ly/CompCon24 #AI #machinelearning #datascience #maths

Compass student Cecina Babich Morrow's blog on regional sensitivity analysis: a method for understanding how #uncertainty in model input affects uncertainty in output, particularly in settings with continuous inputs and discrete outputs: bit.ly/3ZimGjK #datascience #statistics

'Stories about Hollywood's hippest mathematics: celebrating women in STEM.' Join us on 12 February 2025 for this public event showcasing female contributions to STEM! Tickets here: ow.ly/q80e50Uzc4f

Our paper "Function-Space Learning Rates" is on arXiv! We give an efficient way to estimate the magnitude of changes to NN outputs caused by a particular weight update. We analyse optimiser dynamics in function space, and enable hyperparameter transfer with our scheme FLeRM! 🧵👇

Go read our paper on arXiv! arxiv.org/abs/2502.17405

School of Maths is hosting INFORMED AI Summer School 16-19 June 2025: current research in the mathematics underpinning AI and Machine Learning. Applications welcome from early career & established researchers in academia and industry. Info & registration: ow.ly/8XIh50VuvWE

Join us at the School of Maths for a seminar with leading expert in category theory Emily Riehl : "A conversation on professional norms in mathematics". Monday 7 July, 4-5pm, followed by a drinks reception - for more info and to register: ow.ly/mu7r50VXFQT

📣 Public Lecture- Group Testing: The Mathematics of “Twenty Questions” 🗓️ 17 June 2025, 3.30–4.30pm📍LG.02, Fry Building, School of Maths, Uni of Bristol Prof. Sidharth Jaggi explores finding rare things in big groups! Free, open to all & drinks after 🍷 ow.ly/f2re50W44zf