Category: Events
LV Datathon for Compass and IAI CDT
DataScience@work seminars 2022 announced
We are delighted to announce the confirmed DataScience@work seminars for 2022. Huge thanks to our invited speakers who will be joining us in person and online over the coming months!
The Compass DataScience@work seminar invites speakers from industry, government and third-sector to provide our PhD students with their perspective on the realities of being a data scientist in industry: from the methods and techniques they use to build applications, to working as part of a wider organisation, and how to build a career in their sector.
Find out more on our DataScience@work seminar here.
Compass Guest Lecture: Dr Kamélia Daudel, Postdoctoral researcher Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Virtual event: Funded PhDs in Data Science, AI & Digital Health
DataScience@work: British Geological Survey
We’re excited to welcome Dr Kathryn Leeming for our first DataScience@work seminar of the academic year and our first in-person talk for this seminar!
Access to Data Science: start your PhD journey with Compass
Want to find out what a modern PhD in Statistics and Data Science is like?
Access to Data Science provides an immersive experience for prospective PhD students. This fully-funded, two-day event will be hosted by Compass academics and PhD students in the Fry Building, home to the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol.
Application deadline: Monday 18 October 2021
Event dates: Monday 8 November – Tuesday 9 November
Find out more about the event here
The purpose of this event is to increase all aspects of diversity amongst data science researchers. We particularly encourage applications from women and members of the LGBTQ+ and BAME communities to join us.
What to expect from the Access to Data Science event:
- attend seminars and guest lectures
- take part in a hands-on workshop
- have exclusive access to an application writing workshop
- work with the current Compass PhD students
- option to attend the Women and non-binary people in mathematics event.
Who can attend
We welcome participants from a range of numerate academic backgrounds, with undergraduate degrees in subjects such as computer science, economics, epidemiology, mathematics, statistics and physics.
We welcome applications from across the UK. Access to Data Science participants will be offered hotel accommodation, reimbursement of travel costs and meals for each day of the event.
Apply to Access to Data Science here
Compass Away Day
At the end of July 2021, Compass students and staff travelled together to the Brecon Beacons National Park in Wales for a day full of adventure, which was carefully planned by Call of the Wild.
Activities on the day started with some fun team tasks called the ‘Mini Olympics’. Some of the tasks tested logical thinking, the ability to do a task under time pressure, or simply work as a team to complete a certain objective but ultimately to have fun and a laugh.
The tasks were a great opportunity to work together and get to know each other better. Some of them have been more difficult to complete than our students and staff initially expected, but very enjoyable.
After lunch Compass students and staff started a 3-hour Canyoning adventure, guided by the very well trained Call of the Wild team.
The best way of describing this canyoning activity is white water rafting but without the raft. With qualified guides, our students and staff descended a stunning steep sided gorge by various ways and means. This involved sliding down rapids, swimming down rapids, floating down fast flowing chutes and waves, walking behind some breathtaking waterfalls and of course jumping off some jaw dropping waterfalls.
After this thrilling adventure, Compass students and staff travelled to the Vale Resort where they enjoyed dinner together and leisure time until the day after when it was time to come back to Bristol.
It was wonderful to be able to spend time together after the long months of working from home.
Data Science Visualisation Seminar
DataScience@work seminar: Improbable
We’re excited to welcome speakers from Improbable to the next DataScience@work seminar.