What’s New in the ADSN – March 2024
As part of International Women’s Day, the ADSN is hosting a special online event that will introduce you to 25 of Australia’s Rising Stars in Data Science.
The event is part of the worldwide Women in Data Science (WiDS) movement. Over five hours, we will introduce you to five different women every hour. Each woman will share their ‘Data Science Journey’ story on why and how they are where they are. We hope you can carve out some time on the day to spend some time with us and hear a few of those stories!
SCHEDULE:
- 12 pm to 5pm AEDT (Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra)
- 11:30 am to 4:30 pm ACDT (Adelaide)
- 11 am to 4 pm AEST (Brisbane)
- 9 am to 2 pm AWDT (Perth)
The full list of speakers is on the ADSN website. They come from 17 different universities and organisations around the country.
Join us when you can – and stay for as long as you’d like! Click on the button above to register to get your zoom link.
Welcome to the ADSN
The ADSN is proud to welcome La Trobe University’s School of Computing, Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences as its newest partner organisation. Comprising three departments – the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, the Department of Engineering and the Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences – the School’s goal is to offer innovative cross-disciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate programs that meet the needs of industry.
Sydney Precision Data Science Centre – Statistical Bioinformatics Seminar: The featured speaker this month is Prof Daniel MacArthur from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in New South Wales. His talk is titled, “Leveraging natural genetic variation to understand human biology”.
- Monday, 4 March
- 1 pm AEDT
- ONLINE
Data Management Plans Interest Group Meeting 1, 2024: Join the ARDC online for the first Data Management Plans (DMPs) Interest Group meeting of 2024 for a presentation on the DMP Course for Librarians.
- 28 March, 12 pm – 1 pm AEDT
- Online
- REGISTER
22nd Research Data Alliance (RDA) Plenary: Join the fully virtual 22nd RDA Plenary, where you can explore collaboration and engagement with the global community through sharing local experiences, best practices, and recommendations.
- 14-24 May
- Online
- REGISTER
ARDC Digital Research Skills Summit 2024: Find out how digital infrastructure providers and research communities are upskilling researchers in emerging research technologies.
- 21-21 May
- Melbourne/Naarm
- REGISTER
Award & Event-related Announcements
2024 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software – Open for Entries: The 2024 Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software, sponsored by the ARDC, recognises software as a critical part of research and innovation. Enter now. Entries close 12 April.
AMSI-AustMS Scientific Workshop Funding: Are you organising a mathematical sciences workshop to be held before 31 July 2025? You can apply for AMSI-AustMS funding. Early-career researchers and first-time organisers are encouraged to apply. Organisers may nominate a keynote speaker to visit SMRI for one week before or after the proposed workshop. Applications must be submitted by Monday, 15 April.
Joint meeting of the NZMS, AustMS and AMS – Call for Special Sessions: The Australian Maths Society, American Maths Society and New Zealand Maths Society are holding a joint conference in December in Auckland. There is currently a call for special sessions. Proposals should have a participant from each of Australia, New Zealand and the USA to demonstrate collaboration. The deadline is 24 March.
ARDC: Project Manager (x2) in Sydney | Fixed-term, 4 years – Closes 11 March
Australian Football League (AFL): Senior Data Analyst | Fixed-term, 1 year – Closes 17 March
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) – 3 jobs listed below
- Professor in Artificial Intelligence | Full-time, Continuing Position – Closes 1 April
- Professor in Health AI | Full-time, Continuing Position – Closes 1 April
- Lecturer in Mathematical Modelling | Fixed-term, 3 years – Closes 31 March
UTS Data Science Institute: Associate Professor | Full-time, Continuing Position – Closes 4 April
20+ HDR Scholarships with QUT Data Science for research projects at the intersection of Data Science, AI, Sports and Sports Tech
Risk and Reward: Can Australia thrive in the AI era? – In this story in Cosmos, The Director of the Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML) says the pace of development in artificial intelligence should be a “wake-up call” for Australian governments and media organisations.
Summer School Shares Computational Skills for HASS and Indigenous Research – Over 100 early-career researchers and managers of Indigenous data from across Australia participated in the ARDC’s second annual HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons Computational Summer School in February 2024.
Data Science Shown to Expedite Return of Ancestral Indigenous Remains – The return of the ancestral human remains of Australian and other Indigenous peoples held in anthropological collections could be sped up using machine-based deep learning according to a new study led by QUT Centre for Data Science researchers.
Shaping Research Software: An Interview with Ryan Wick – The ARDC spoke with Dr Ryan Wick, a postdoctoral researcher at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, who develops genomics software.
“Second-order Optimization Methods for Machine Learning” – ARC DARE Centre Seminar Series: Associate Professor Fred Roosta-Khorasani from UQ and the ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience (CIRES)
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