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Join us for the 2019 Ihaka Lectures
Following on from the success of 2018, this year's theme is 'Rise of the machine learners: Statistical learning in the computational era'. The series will run from 13 March to 3 April. Find out more.
Confronting social media
Social media must confront its role in terrorism says Dr Paul Ralph in an open letter written on behalf of students enrolled in Computer Science 345: Human-Computer Interaction. Read more.
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Catching up with the kids | CensusAtSchool 2019
21 February 2019How much time do New Zealand kids spend with digital devices? How much time do they spend doing scheduled activities outside school hours? -
Educator and philanthropist awarded Honorary Doctorate
23 January 2019German-born scientist and education philanthropist Dr Beate Schuler will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Auckland. -
Misinfodemic | When fake news costs lives
10 January 2019Dr Paul Ralph contributes to a Listener magazine article on fake news and what to do about it. Read his tips for detecting fake science, using social media and more. -
Meet the new Science Scholars director
06 December 2018Dr Rhys Jones of the Department of Statistics has been named director of the innovative Science Scholars programme at the University of Auckland. -
Kathleen Curtis Atrium naming ceremony
30 November 2018The Faculty of Science proudly renames the plaza atrium of the Science Centre after prestigious alumna Kathleen Curtis to commemorate 125 years of Women’s Suffrage in New Zealand.
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Equity Initiative Grant open for applications
18 March 2019The Faculty of Science is seeking applications for the Equity Initiative Grant. Applications close 15 April 2019. Read more and download an application form. -
Funded Doctoral Internships in Mumbai and Medellín
12 February 2019PhD candidate Shohin Aheleroff is in Colombia building international networks and using his expertise to solve real-world industry problems. You could be too with a funded doctoral internship in Mumbai or Medellín. There are still places remaining (NZ citizens and permanent residents only). -
Apply now for a 2019 graduate teaching assistant opportunity
01 January 2019The Faculty of Science invites expressions of interest from postgraduate students for Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) positions in 2019.
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Public lecture | Seeing is Believing? Media Integrity in a Post-Truth World Event as iCalendar
25 March 2019, 6pmThe emergence of “fake news” along with sophisticated techniques using machine learning to create realistic looking media such as Deep Fakes, has led to a resurgent interest in digital media forensics. In this talk, Professor Nasir Memon will broadly discuss how media has traditionally been generated and detected. -
Public lecture | What do mathematicians do now that machines can “do (all) the maths”? Event as iCalendar
26 March 2019, 6:15pmFor thousands of years, calculation (numerical and symbolic) was the price we had to pay to do or use mathematics. But now we have machines that can handle far more variables than a human ever could, they never make mistakes, and they do it in a fraction of a second. Join Professor Keith Devlin from Stanford as he explains what math professionals do and how we teach the next generation to live and work in this world. -
Ihaka Lecture Series | Three | Algorithmic fairness: Examples from predictive models for criminal justice Event as iCalendar
27 March 2019, 6:30pmIn the third of the 2019 Ihaka lecture series, Dr Kristian Lum will demonstrate how – if considerations of fairness and bias are not explicitly accounted for – predictive models could perpetuate and, under some circumstances, amplify undesirable historical biases encoded in the data. -
Ihaka Lecture Series | Four | Statistical learning and sparsity Event as iCalendar
03 April 2019, 6:30pmIn the last of the 2019 Ihaka lecture series, Professor Robert Tibshirani will review the lasso method for high dimensional supervised learning and discuss some new developments in the area. he will also describe some applications of these methods to his own collaborative work. -
Inaugural lecture | Reinventing reinforcement Event as iCalendar
03 April 2019, 6:15pmProfessor Douglas Elliffe from the School of Psychology will present his recent research that suggests reinforcement signals future successful behaviour, as well as some thoughts about the place of teaching and leadership in an academic's career.
