Digits and Destinies

In this episode of Digits and Destinies, we have Dr. Forest Agostinelli - assistant professor of computer science and engineering and faculty member of the Artificial Intelligence Institute at the University of South Carolina- to talk about:

-His research projects at the University of South Carolina

-AI for solving Rubik's Cube and his results

-Different mathematical subjects which are useful for AI Pain point of being a researcher-struggle to switch off the brain

-Researchers are at the risk of mental health

-Playing music for fun

https://cse.sc.edu/~foresta/

In this episode of Digits and Destinies, we have Dr. Forest Agostinelli - assistant professor of computer science and engineering and faculty member of the Artificial Intelligence Institute at the University of South Carolina- to talk about:

-University majors which lead to a career in AI

-Why AI and what the future of AI will look like?

-AI for solving real-life problems

-Required skills to work in AI fields

-What’s creativity and why it’s needed

-Can computers become creative?

-C++, Python, R or Matlab? Which one is needed?

-Is Excel still useful?

Spend a bit of time to get to learn about a powerful statistical app which helps ecologists count animals. In this episode Robin Aldridge-Sutton will talk about:

-The importance of recording the number of animals practically endangered species, -Why ecologists need statistical tools for counting animals,

-His powerful app which helps ecologists counting animals

-His messages for maths/stats or data lovers.

Watch the video through this link:

https://youtu.be/6yOuhEFxV70

About the Speaker

Robin Aldridge-Sutton is a statistician and data-analyst. He likes maths, statistics, data analysis, philosophy, chess and running. He is from New Zealand and completed a bachelor's degree in maths and philosophy followed by honours and master's degrees in philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington.

After completing his degrees, he moved to South Korea and worked for 6 years as an English teacher. Life took him back home where he decided to start a new direction and become a data scientist. He ended up completing another bachelor's degree in data science followed by an honours in statistics at University of Auckland in New Zealand in 2020. In this episode, he will talk about his life journey and what a data analyst needs to build up a successful career!

In this episode Dr. Pooyan Jamshidi talks about the basics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning algorithms using a simple language. He also talks about the critical role of mathematics to build up a career in this space.

In this episode of Hi I Like Maths, Dr. Pooyan Jamshidi from the University of South Carolina talks about his breakthrough ideas in Artificial Intelligence for which he was awarded $1.2 million from National science Foundation.

Prof. Mary Myerscough from the University of Sydney talks about the way mathematics save honeybees.

In this episode Prof. Mary Myerscough talks about:

• Her background

• The importance of honeybee in our lives

• Why honeybee hives are collapsing and what are the consequences of it

• How mathematics can prevent honeybee hive from collapsing

Summary of the Talk

Spend 30 min to watch/listen this fun and useful episode of I Like Maths in which our guest speaker Dr. George Papadopoulos talks about

• His professional challenges as a mathematics educator

• Casualization system and its drawbacks

• His personal pains which has made him a great maths educator

• Advices and rituals

Spend 30 min to listen this fun and useful episode of Digits and Destinies in which our guest speaker Dr. George Papadopoulos talks about

• Mathematics as a great subject for upskilling students
• The way maths helps creating great job opportunities
• Mathematics mindset (its benefits and drawbacks)
• Disengagement as a major problem in Australian schools
• This is the time to change Australian culture towards mathematics
• Ongoing pandemic: insufficient mathematics foundation of students entering universities

About the speaker:

Mr. George Papadopoulos is Australian with Greek background. He completed, bachelor in advanced mathematics and master in Applied mathematics. In 2012 he started a Ph.D in mathematics education at the University of Sydney. He has great teaching experiences and has been teaching maths to children and university students for more than 10 years. He has a lot of stories related to maths, educations and his own journey to share with us.

In this episode of I Like Maths, Dr. Ran Fuchs talks about developing a right mindset which is based on logic and emotion in life. He also talks about his challenges as a scientist and some of his pain points during his journey so far.