Mathematical Biology

Speaker: 
Shelby M. Scott
Speaker Affiliation: 
University of Tennessee at Knoxville

February 16, 2022

Zoom - contact Katie Faulkner for link
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Canada

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Abstract: 

Models become notably more complex when stochasticity is introduced. One of the best ways to add frustrating amounts of randomness to your model: incorporate humans. In this talk, I discuss three different ways in which humans have made things messy in my mathematical models, statistical models, and data science work. Despite the fact that humans do, indeed, make things messy, they also make our models so much more realistic, interesting, and intriguing. So while humans make things messy, it is so worth it to bring them into your work.

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