The Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Foundations of Data Science are pleased to welcome attendees to a series of presentations from the 2022 cohort (first-years). These group projects are designed and mentored by CRT Named Supervisors in each of the three institutions (UL, UCD, MU).

Venue: O’ Reilly Hall, UCD. Virtual attendance is possible; a link will be sent out in January prior to the Winter Symposium.

09:00 : Registration

09:30- 10:00 : Opening Address: Professor Philip Nolan, Director General, Science Foundation Ireland

10:00 – 10:30 : Modelling the effect of an invasive species of shrew in Ireland – Beatriz Barbero Lucas, Pádraig Ryan, Jack McNicholl (UCD)

10:30 – 11:00 : Statistical and machine learning methods to classify galaxies – Zahraa Abdulhussein, Toheeb Jimoh, Nancy Fosua Boakye, Eamonn Organ (UL)

11:00 – 11:30 : Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00 : Learning-based image compression: A comparison between the JPEG standard and neural network alternatives – Patrick Gorry, Melat Tecle (MU)

12:00 – 12:30 : Fundamentals of partial differential equations – theory, modelling, and applications – Brian Hassett, Hannah Kane, Yinshen Xu (UCD)

12:30 – 13:00 : Greener anomaly detection – Nahia Martinez Iturricastillo, Aoife Flood, Maira Rubab (MU)

13:00 – 14:30 : Lunch

14:30 – 15:00 : What could go wrong? – employing a worst case approach to measure model risk in finance – Lapo Santi, Pedro Araujo, Saeedeh Mohammadi (UCD)

15:00 – 15:30 : Physics informed neural networks – Mirza Akhi Khatun, Howard Caulfield, Jessica Crosse, Sean Kelly (UL)

15:30 – 16:00 : Coffee Break

16:00 – 16:30 : Analysis of label free quantitative mass spectrometry data for Escherichia coli (E. coli) – André Menezes, Beatrice Tropea, Cormac Monaghan (MU)

Additional Links:

Winter Symposium (Day 1)

Winter Symposium (Day 3)