Events

We have an industry guest lecture coming up this term! This lecture will be given by Lars Lynne Hansen who is an AI Technical Expert and Khyla Kadeena-Miller who is a Data Scientist and they both work at AstraZeneca. AstraZeneca is one of our Capstone Project partners and Professor Milan Vojnović will be chairing this fantastic lecture!

Title: Data Science and AI in the pharmaceutical industry. 

Abstract: Data Science and AI are increasingly becoming an integrated part of the pharmaceutical industry. Applications cover widely - from discovery of new molecules and creating tools for better diagnosis of patients, all the way to running efficient commercial and manufacturing operations. We will give examples of how AI is used in the pharmaceutical industry, as well as the typical career opportunities within data science and AI in AstraZeneca. 

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Are you an enthusiastic junior who would like to explore the field of Data Science? Or are you a more intermediate learner looking to upskill and try your first datathon? Or maybe you'd just like to learn something new and meet like-minded people?

LSESU Data Science Society is proud to announce its first flagship event: “Data Science Weekend - Navigating a Data-Centric World”.

Supported by the new LSE Data Science Institute, this 2-day event will include panel discussions by data scientists from the finance and consulting industries, beginner-friendly workshops and a 24-hour data science challenge open to all skill-levels.

Join us for a weekend of learning and professional growth you won't forget!

EXPLORE . PRACTICE. NETWORK.

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We're delighted to announce that for our second industry guest lecture this term, we'll be joined by employees from Facebook. This lecture will be presented by Dima Karamshuk (Research Scientist) and Tiago Schmidt (University Recruiter). Facebook is one of our Capstone Project partners and Professor Milan Vojnović will be chairing.

Title: Popularity Prediction for Social Media 

Abstract: Predicting the popularity of social media content in real time requires approaches that efficiently operate at global scale. Popularity prediction is important for many applications, including detection of harmful viral content to enable timely content moderation. The prediction task is difficult because views result from interactions between content features, resharing, feed ranking, and network structure. In this talk we will discuss the problem of accurately predicting popularity both at any given prediction time since a content item's creation and for arbitrary time horizons into the future.

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Course description: Graphs provide versatile abstraction for modelling, visualising and analysing rich and heterogeneous datasets. They offer a fundamental toolbox for modeling social, technological, biological systems and more. 

In this course, we will focus on the challenges and opportunities specific to the analysis of large graphs. The goals is to introduce students to the computational, algorithmic, and modeling foundations of the burgeoning area of machine learning ton graphs. We will study algorithms, programming frameworks and tools, and applications.

We will cover areas such as node and edge embeddings, representation learning and Graph Neural Networks; algorithms for the web, Knowledge Graphs, social network analysis, biological networks, and more.

Course lecturer: Moez Draief, Visiting Professor in Practice

Course content:

• Lecture 1 (16/03/21) - Challenges and Opportunities 
• Lecture 2 (23/03/21) - Shallow Graph Machine Learning
• Lecture 3 (30/03/21) - Deep Graph Machine Learning
• Seminar 1 (06/05/21) - Graph Machine Learning in Practice
• Seminar 2 (07/05/21) - Graph Machine Learning in Theory

Register for the three lectures here
Register for the two seminars here

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Hear from Statistics’ alumnae about their successes in the workplace, how they got to where they are today and any advice they might have for you in your job search.

This is an essential event for students interested in a career in statistics and data science. Panellists will discuss their own education, recruitment processes, their experiences, and more. 

There will be the opportunity to ask the panellists questions throughout the discussion, so bring your questions along with you!

The panel will be chaired by Sara Geneletti, Associate Professor in Statistics at LSE.

Panellists include:
Alyssa Staats, Economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (MSc Statistics, 2020)
Dr Christine Yuen, Assistant Professorial Lecturer at the LSE Department of Statistics (PhD Statistics, 2021)
Malika Malik, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft (MSc Data Science, 2018)
Phoenix Feng, Divisional Strats at Deutsche Bank (PhD Statistics, 2018)
Sonal Shah, Education Actuary at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (BSc Actuarial Science)

This event is open to all and will be particularly useful if you:
     •  are interested in the work and responsibilities of jobs in different sectors,
     •  would like to hear about the experiences of women with statistics degrees,
     •  would like to get advice for your job search.

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Speaker: John Burn-Murdoch is the Financial Times’ senior data visualisation journalist, and creator of the FT’s coronavirus trajectory tracker charts. He has been leading the FT’s data-driven coverage of the pandemic, exploring its impacts on health, the economy and wider society. When pandemics are not happening, he also uses data and graphics to tell stories on topics including politics, economics, climate change and sport, and is a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics. 

Title: Tracking Covid-19 with the Financial Times.

Abstract: One of the most impactful ways that data science can change public policy and community is the building of tools that help people discover for themselves how the world works. In the midst of the confusion and muddled public messages by governments and international organisations at the onset of the covid-19 pandemic, the Financial Times created such a tool with their daily visualisations tracking the spread of the coronavirus around the world and providing one of the most reliable global view of the unfolding tragedy.

Joining us in session 2 of the CIVICA Data Science Seminar Series will be John Burn-Murdoch, the key architect behind the massively popular data visualisation tool by the Financial Times. John will share his and the FT team’s experience in data collection and presentation to the general public, the importance of good and evolving data visualisation in informing public discourse, and how he managed to capture the attention of millions and raised the global awareness on the seriousness of the ongoing pandemic.

This seminar is run jointly between the LSE Data Science Institute and the CIVICA network.

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The EuroCIM 2021 conference will be held virtually this year and our Department of Statistics will host the third day of the conference! The invited speaker is Ingeborg Waernbaum from Uppsala University. 

The day is organised by our very own Dr Sara Geneletti and we have a dedicated webpage all about the event including what speakers will be attending and the timings of the day etc. If you have any questions about this virtual event then please get in touch at statistics.events@lse.ac.uk.  

Register for your place today! Places are free and all talks will be held during the daytime hours in Central Europe and will be broadcast live. Please note that no recordings will be made.

A conference is taking place at the University of Southampton on 7-9 July 2021 in honour of Chris Skinner and Fred Smith who both worked in the Department of Statistics and who both sadly passed away in 2019.  

The conference will be based around the themes that interested Fred and Chris during their research careers. This is a free event and you can register here. 

This open day is designed for aspiring PhD Statistics students who are keen to formulate authentic, cutting-edge research in Data Science, Probability in Finance and Insurance, Social Statistics, and Time Series and Statistical Learning. Academics from the Department will offer useful insights through research talks and seminars followed by one-to-one sessions and social activities.

Please register for this free event which states timings and an overview of the day. 

Open to all current students of the Department, join us as Dr James Abdey chairs our annual Department of Statistics alumni panel to discuss their career journey and advice to our students. Various sectors are represented during this popular event so you can learn about the variety of careers available to you.

To sign up, please log onto Career Hub. 

What is feminist data science? How are scholars in the humanities and social sciences bringing together data science and feminist theory in their research?

Drawing from their recent book, Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a set of principles for data science that are informed by decades of intersectional feminist activism and critical thought. To illustrate these principles, they will discuss a range of recent research projects including some of their own. Together, these examples demonstrate how feminist thinking can be operationalised into more ethical, more intentional, and more capacious data practices, in the digital humanities, computational social science, human-computer interaction and beyond.

This free event is part of the LSE Public Lecture Programme. Registration is required.

Find out all about the events that we held in 2019/20 for our Undergraduate and MSc students!

Please join us for an IBM guest lecture on 30 November from 12pm - 1.30pm via Zoom!

Title: Using AI for Business Problems

Speaker: Loek Vredenberg who is the Chief Technology Officer of IBM Norge.

Abstract: This lecture positions Artificial Intelligence in context of how IBM use AI to solve business problems. It focuses on the different types of technologies IBM make available to clients and shows a small number of actual client cases. The event will benefit anyone interested in the use of AI, a career in technology, or careers at IBM. There will also be a Q&A session, so please bring any questions you may have.

Biography: Loek Vredenberg is the Chief Technology Officer of IBM Norge, with experience of technical leadership roles within IBM internationally and for deliveries of complex IT solutions. In recent years he has focused on artificial intelligence and IBMs cognitive technologies. He is currently working on cloud-based industry platforms for digital transformation. He has contributed to public debate around AI and given lectures and key notes on AI in many different settings.

To attend please register online with your name and LSE email address.

We are very excited to announce our first PLP this year! This online public event will take place on 17 September from 6pm with author and Economist Tim Harford on the day his new book, How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers, is published! Chaired by our very own Professor Irini Moustaki, this looks to be a fantastic event and one not to be missed. You can register for the event from 10am on 3 September so set a reminder in your calendars!  

You can pre-order Tim's book How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers. 

We invite our final year BSc and MSc students to join us for  celebratory Zoom events to mark the end of teaching and assessments in the Department of Statistics! We are so proud of all of our students and their achievements and we are even more impressed given the circumstances and we know that they should be very proud of their accomplishments!

Please note that this event has been postponed.

Our annual Risk and Stochastics event is taking place on 30th April at LSE and we havd seven fantastic speakers lined up! Please take a look at our conference webpage for more information. 

This event marks the inauguration of the MSc Data Science programme run by the Department of Statistics at the London School of Economics.

For more information on this event, please have a look here.