22 November 2016       University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ
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9.20 - 9.30 Welcome
9.30 - 10.30 Thomas Lumley (University of Auckland)
Data Science: Will Computing and Informatics Eat Our Lunch Now?
10.30 - 11 Break with tea, coffee and biscuits
11 - 11.45 Golbon Zakeri (University of Auckland)
Analytics, optimization and economics of rain, wind and weather for the NZEM
11.45 - 12.30 Tim Robinson (University of Wyoming)
A Case Study in Data Science: Mobilizing Data for the Monitoring of Native Grass Composition in the Prairie Pothole Region
12.30 - 2.00 Lunch
2.00 - 2.30 Miriam Hodge (Lincoln University)
Avoiding extreme outcomes in transport
2.30 - 3.00 Blair Robertson (University of Canterbury)
Connections between local non-smooth optimization and global optimization
3.00 - 3.30 Kourosh Neshatian (University of Canterbury)
Which learning algorithm is best?
3.30 - 4.30 Poster session with tea and coffee