School of Mathematics and Physics

Industry seminar series

The industry seminar series aims to better connect industry and academia by providing a forum for speakers from industry to present challenges and opportunities  in industry, and their insights.

To recieve news on the seminar series, subscribe to the mailing list by joining with a UQ email address here, or by sending an empty message to maths-industry-seminar-join@lists.science.uq.edu.au.   

Contacts

Dr Nan Ye
+61 7 3346 9095
Dr Adrian Dudek

Maths for fun and profit (but mostly profit)

16 October 2024 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speakers: Yannik Rist and Robin Pearce
Affiliation: Biarri Optimization

Language Inclusivity with Foundation Models

10 October 2024 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series

Data science at Atlassian: leveraging behavioural data to build better software

19 September 2024 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series

The Critical Role of Mathematical Optimisation in the Energy Transition

5 September 2024 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Justin Xiao
Affiliation: Endgame Economics

A Mixed Frequency Bayesian Vector Autoregression Model for the Australian Economy

29 August 2024 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Kelly Trinh
Affiliation: Data61, CSIRO

Multi-physics simulations in industry and a journey with open-source finite element method software

22 August 2024 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Arkadiy Matsekh
Foucault Dynamics

The How is ≥ to The What: Ways of working in the modern public service, and the value of not fitting in

15 August 2024 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Ruth Farrell
Affiliation: Queensland Health

Building a platform for mathematical optimization in the real world

24 April 2024 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Andy Ferris
Affiliation: Elara AI

Why is it so hard to get computers to count things? Examples from a Career in Applied Mathematics

10 April 2024 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Paul Bellette
Affiliation: Plotlogic

You did what? A walk through the application of Maths and Physics at the Australian Signals Directorate

20 March 2024 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Kyla Quinn
Affiliation: Australian Signals Directorate

AI for improving productivity in work, learning and research

13 March 2024 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Brent Richards
Affiliation: Gold Coast HHS/QLD AI Hub

Quantitative Research at Optiver

6 March 2024 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Jeffrey Tan
Affiliation: Optiver

Industrial Mathematics at Deswik: What Makes a Good Optimisation Problem in Heavy Industry?

25 October 2023 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Rob Lucas
Affiliation: Deswick

Analytics at Quantium: Promotional planning in supermarkets and general insurance pricing in Australia

18 October 2023 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Ryan Lim and Ryan Starkey
Affiliation: Quantium

Life and Times of a Data Scientist

11 October 2023 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Virginia Wheway
Affiliation: Optiver

Use of mathematical modelling to support sustainable marine ecosystems and industries

4 October 2023 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Dr Eva Plaganyi-Lloyd
Affiliation: CSIRO

Igniting Innovation: How Queensland's AI Hub Fuels Growth and Opportunity

20 September 2023 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Toni Peggrem
Affiliation: QLD AI Hub

(Not) Communicating Analytics

13 September 2023 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: David Issacs
Affiliation: Synestia Analytics

Machine learning guided scientific experiments

6 September 2023 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Dr Cheng Soon Ong

What applying your degree looks like in industry

24 August 2023 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Dr Evan Shellshear

Time between events monitoring for syndromic surveillance

1 June 2022 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
David Evans
CSIRO

A fishery biologist’s journey with industry and management

25 May 2022 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Ian W Brown

Point Cloud Feature Engineering for Undersea Pipelines

27 April 2022 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Amir Rastar

Beyond Unknown Unknowns

6 April 2022 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Speaker: Ross McKinnon GAICD

Security Operation Centre (SOC) and Next Generation User and Entity Behavioural Analytics (UEBA)

16 March 2022 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Miao Xie
AARNET

Bringing clarity to a complex world: Applying mathematics and statistics to the world of insurance

26 October 2021 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Eu-Gene Lee (Auto & General)

Commercial applications of AI/ML

14 September 2021 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Brooke Jamieson
Blackbook.ai

From Number Theorist to Options Trader

31 August 2021 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Mr Adrian Dudeck (Optiver)

Life-saving data: predicting mine collapses using world-leading technology

4 March 2020 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Lachlan Campbell

Open research challenges in inspection robotics - Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay (CSIRO)

15 October 2019 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay

How can we make better decisions with mathematics? (Mr Evan Shellshear - Biarri Optimisation)

24 September 2019 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Mr Evan Shellshear - Biarri Optimisation

Buffer overflow detection for C programs is hard to learn

10 September 2019 1:00pm
 
in Industry seminar series
Presenter: Cristina, Director of Oracle Labs Australia and Architect