Thanks to The Random Sample podcast for featuring our Centre & our ambitious research mission to model a whole cell in a special 2-part series. To listen, just search for The Random Sample wherever you get your podcasts or head to the website: www.therandomsample.com.au
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You can catch the entire podcast episode by searching your podcast app for The Random Sample. The episode also features Deputy Director Jennifer Flegg and is hosted by Research Fellow Haripriya Sridharan. You can also watch the conversation on 📹MACSYS YouTube: youtu.be/plXmRoi5ydY
🎙️Why MACSYS & why now? In this clip from The Random Sample podcast, Centre Director Trevor Lithgow explains that as biology increasingly moves into a quantitative space, the ability to work across maths & biology isn’t optional - it’s essential:
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📢New episode alert! Bringing together the mathematical and computational sciences with biology🔬 to tackle one of science’s grand challenges - MACSYS leaders Trevor Lithgow & Jen Flegg explain why modelling a whole, living cell 🧬 matters.
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To listen to the podcast, just search for The Random Sample wherever you get your podcasts, or head to: www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/macs...
The first 2026 episode of The Random Sample podcast features Centre Chief Investigators Adelle Coster (UNSW) & Mat Simpson (QUT). They share how maths, combined with biological expertise, come together in MACSYS as our researchers work toward a predictive, computational model of a living cell.
🎙️We're launching a brand‑new season of our podcast this week & you’re invited to be part of the action! We're bringing a StudioPod recording booth straight to the Univ of Melbourne campus and will be recording new podcast episodes throughout our in-person launch event. Come watch the magic happen!
I am so excited for this! I'll be in Melbourne to launch another season of The Random Sample podcast - something I've been involved with since 2018. If you're in town, please stop by and say hello. Thanks to MACSYS for its support of the podcast.
🎙️Come See a Podcast Come to Life! MACSYS is launching a brand‑new season of The Random Sample podcast by bringing a StudioPod recording booth straight to the University of Melbourne campus - and will be recording new podcast episodes throughout the launch event. Come watch the magic happen!
📢We're hiring! Come join us in sunny☀️Brisbane. We are recruiting a postdoctoral Research Fellow to join us at QUT. This position is intended for applied mathematicians.
🔷Level A/B, Fixed-term, 2 years
📍Gardens Point (hybrid option available)
👉More info/apply: lnkd.in/gA_tJqHV
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A huge welcome to the organisers and participants of the Combinatorial*-Algebras research program at MATRIX, Creswick. www.matrix-inst.org.au/events/combi...
We look forward to hearing about the insights and developments that emerge from this excellent research program over the next two weeks.
MACSYS at ANZIAM!
This past week, members from three of our nodes represented the Centre at the Conference of the Australia & New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ANZIAM) held this year in Canberra. Among the highlights, PhD Student Yong See Foo winning the prize for best student paper.
We'd like to extend a huge thanks to all our brilliant guests & hosts who made 2025 so special. We released 12 new episodes showcasing the mathematical & data sciences. Of course, a podcast is nothing without its listeners - so thank you to everyone who tuned in, shared, and supported us!
Our latest episode explores how social data science is evolving in a digital age - driven by rapid advances in #AI & large language models. Our guest is Prof Frauke Kreuter, a global leader in social data science and Chair of Statistics & Data Science at LMU Munich.
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To listen, just search for The Random Sample wherever you get your podcasts. Or head to our website: www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/mult...
How are official statistics agencies dealing with the dramatic decline in survey response rates? In our latest episode - how official statistics agencies are evolving thanks to multi-source data. Our guest is Dr Anders Holmberg from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).
The @therandomsample.bsky.social podcast had a recent episode with @hadley.nz that was great
A global hackathon meets cutting-edge #AI to fight modern slavery in corporate supply chains. In our latest episode🎧, we meet the project lead for Project AIMS (AI for Modern Slavery) & the winning teams from the just-completed Project AIMS hackathon: www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/aims...
The panel discussion is now an episode of The Random Sample! If you missed it or want to listen again you can find it here:
www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/data...
This week on #WorldStatisticsDay, the Statistical Society of Australia & the Australian Data Science Network co-hosted a lively panel discussion on "trust in data". Since both are partner organisations of our podcast, we’re excited to share that discussion: www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/data...
To listen, just search for The Random Sample wherever you get your podcasts, or head to our website: www.therandomsample.com.au
Coral reefs are under threat - and the race to protect them depends on better data, smarter tools, and global collaboration. In our latest episode, we explore ReefCloud , a project that’s helping scientists monitor coral reef ecosystems using AI intelligence, statistics & shared data infrastructure.
Just out! Our new episode explores 'complex systems'- how mathematics reveals hidden patterns in our messy, chaotic world- from pandemics & social networks to psychiatric illness & engineering with guest Prof Michael Small from The Univ of Western Australia www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/comp...
🎙️New episode alert! We explore how #DataScience & #Statistics help bridge the gap between disciplines. Our guest is Prof Galit Shmueli from the Institute of Service Science at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan.
🎧 Listen:
www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/inte...
Host: @cynthiahqy.bsky.social
What a great initiative! It's so good to see MathsCraft getting the support it needs and deserves from @matrix-inst.bsky.social and the SA Dept for Education.
To listen, just search for The Random Sample wherever you get your podcasts, or head to our website: www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/auto...
In our latest episode🎧 of The Random Sample, we're talking autonomous vehicles (AVs). We explore how AVs gather & use data, and the complex mathematics that helps them navigate an unpredictable world. What are the challenges still standing in the way? Our guest is Prof Michael Milford from QUT.
In the latest episode🎧of The Random Sample, host Cynthia Huang catches up with Dr Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz! Hadley is Chief Scientist at Posit (formerly RStudio), where he leads the Tidyverse team. This team is behind some of the most widely used open-source packages in the R programming language.
To listen, just search for The Random Sample wherever you get your podcasts, or head to our website: www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/hadl...
#rstats #rstudio #datascience #statistics #opensource #programming #rstudio @robjhyndman.com @posit.co
In the latest episode🎧of The Random Sample, host Cynthia Huang catches up with Dr Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz! Hadley is Chief Scientist at Posit (formerly RStudio), where he leads the Tidyverse team. This team is behind some of the most widely used open-source packages in the R programming language.
