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Colloquium: Machine learning and big scientific data: What can AI do for the facilities?

Aeirial view of The University of Manchester at Harwell campus
Dates:2 April 2019
Times:15:00 - 17:00
What is it:Lecture
Organiser:Faculty of Science and Engineering
Who is it for:University staff, External researchers, Adults, Alumni, Current University students
Speaker:Professor Tony Hey
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Professor Tony Hey, the Chief Data Scientist at the Science and Technology Facilities Council at Harwell, presented at the second University of Manchester at Harwell colloquium.

There is now broad recognition within the scientific community that the ongoing deluge of scientific data is fundamentally transforming academic research. Turing Award winner Jim Gray referred to this revolution as 'The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery’.

Researchers now need tools and technologies to manipulate, analyse, visualize, and manage vast amounts of research data. This talk reviewed the challenges posed by the explosive growth of experimental and observational data generated by large-scale facilities such as the Diamond Synchrotron and its integrated CryoEM Facilities (eBIC and ePSIC) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Increasingly, scientists are beginning to use sophisticated machine learning and other AI technologies both to automate parts of the data pipeline and also to find new scientific discoveries in the deluge of experimental data. In particular, ‘Deep Learning’ neural networks have already transformed several areas of computer science and research scientists are now exploring their use in analysing their ‘Big Scientific Data’.

Event schedule

  • 15:00-15:45: Prof Tony Hey - Machine Learning and Big Scientific Data: What can AI do for the Facilities?
  • 15:45-16:00: Questions from the audience.
  • 16:00-17:00: Buffet and drinks while networking / posters from the The University of Manchester at Harwell - R-22 Coffee Lounge.

Speaker

Professor Tony Hey

Role: Chief Data Scientist

Organisation: Scientific Computing Department, STFC

  • https://www.scd.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Tony-Hey.aspx

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Pickavance Lecture Theatre
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Campus
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Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX

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