Brookhaven AIMS Tutorial: Statistics, Data, and the Philosophy of Science: Challenges for the 21st Century

US/Eastern
Description

In 2023, we have expanded the Brookhaven AIMS series to include also hands-on tutorials organized by the BNL Computational Science Initiative, which are aimed at researchers, educators and students new to machine learning and artificial intelligence. The tutorial presentations are designed for a general audience, and minimal prior experience will be required.

 

    • 12:00 13:00
      Statistics, Data, and the Philosophy of Science: Challenges for the 21st Century 1h

      Abstract: Statistics has become a critical tool for understanding data in the physical sciences, medicine, social sciences, economics, and many other disciplines. However, its central quantities, such as the p-value, are often poorly understood and occasionally misapplied. In this talk I'll use the evolution of the philosophy of science over the centuries to present a history of statistics, its relation to data, and a context for these central quantities. Challenges for science in the 21st century will be uncovered and discussed as ongoing topics for global consideration.

      Speaker Biography: Matt Reuter joined SBU in 2015 as an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Advanced Computational Science and in the Department of Applied Mathematics & Statistics. He received B.Sc. degrees in chemistry and mathematics from Michigan Technological University (2006) and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Northwestern University (2011), where he was a U.S. DoE Computational Science Graduate Fellow. Prior to coming to Stony Brook he was a Wigner Fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and a research associate at Northwestern University. Matt is the lead author of more than 20 peer-reviewed journal articles and was awarded the SBU College of Engineering and Applied Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award in 2017.

      Speaker: Matt Reuter (Stony Brook University)