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Statistics is a way of seeing things. It is not really a subject, but a way of looking at the world

Professor Pauline Barrieu

Tuesday 6 May - Friday 9 May 2025 (Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge)
Uncertainty in multivariate, non-Euclidean, and functional spaces: theory and practice workshop

Contemporary sciences abound in various complex data types (beyond the classical vector description) including graphs, rankings, manifolds, time series, sets, probability measures, functions, or persistence diagrams, with numerous successful applications for instance in healthcare, bioinformatics, climate research, cosmology, manufacturing, computer vision, finance, economics, materials sciences, chemistry, or geosciences. This inherent heterogeneity calls for pushing the boundaries of statistical and machine learning methods to handle efficiently non-standard data by (i) designing computationally tractable, scalable and principled approaches, and understanding their statistical-computational trade-offs, (ii) leveraging the intrinsic data structure (e.g., invariant or multi-scale nature, using different notions of similarity), (iii) representing and quantifying the uncertainty of predictive models, and (iv) investigating the efficiency of the developed techniques in novel applications, with widespread social impact. 

The goal of this workshop is:

1. to bring together researchers from mathematics, statistics, data science, and computer science to discuss the latest techniques, theoretical considerations, and applications for structured data, and

2. to explore future research directions and application avenues, accelerating the advances of the field. 

We encourage contributed talks and posters in a variety of topics and methods both from theoretical and application point of view, including but not limited to:

- learning on graphs and networks,

- functional, topological, and object-oriented data analysis, shape analysis,

- analysis of distributional data, Bayes spaces, compositional data analysis,

- geometric learning, metric and kernel-based approaches, optimal transport,

- Bayesian inference, Gaussian processes, 

- group-theoretical methods, leveraging invariances,

- information theoretical measures, hypothesis tests,

- uncertainty quantification on multivariate and non-Euclidean data,  

- structured prediction, multi-task learning, surrogate losses,

- quantile measures and statistical depths,

- large-scale approximations, computational-statistical trade-offs,

- novel applications for learning on structured data. 

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Wednesday 22 January 2025 (6.30pm - 7.30pm, Sheikh Zayed Theatre)
PLP event with Sir David Spiegelhalter on 'The Art of Uncertainty: ‘Living with Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck'

David Spiegelhalter Photo 200x200

We have another amazing event in ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳’s popular Public Lecture Programme (PLP) series of events. Find out more about the event here. 

Sir David Spiegelhalter will be coming to ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ on 22 January 2025 to discuss the topic - The Art of Uncertainty: ‘Living with Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck' with Professor Tengyao Wang as our chair for the event. 

The event will take the structure of a 35/40 minute presentation by David followed by around 20 minutes of Q&A. The event will take place in the Sheikh Zayed Theatre from 6.30 – 7.30pm with a drinks reception in CKK Lower Ground Floor Reception Area until 9pm. 

A bio on David: Sir David Spiegelhalter is Emeritus Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, having previously held the posts of Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk, and Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication. He works on ways to improve the way that statistical evidence is used by health professionals, patients, lawyers and judges, media and policy-makers. He was knighted in 2014 for services to medical statistics. 

Please do save the date for this event! Entry will be on a first come first served basis.

The event will also be a book signing for David’s new book called ‘The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck’ so you will be able to meet David and purchase a signed copy of his book as well. 

For the in-person event: No ticket or pre-registration is required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For any queries see .

For the online event: Register for this event via ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Live at .