Probability for engineers 4/4. Hypothesis testing is rigorous in that sense that <if the confidence interval is precise then> the interval either includes the unknown mean or else it does not contain the unknown mean ... one or the other is definitely true.

Probability for engineers 5/4. If our experiment is repeated multiple times with new samples of the data and associated sample means and confidence intervals are computed, 95% of the confidence intervals will contain the true mean. Interpretation is key here ...

Nick Higham is no longer with us. He was a unique human being and a special person. We have been academic pals since starting out our careers together in 1985. Nick will be missed by his colleagues in Manchester and his friends across the world.

This week, Mathematics has lost one of its finest minds and best expositors. He was a key-note speaker at many conferences, because he always had something new to say, some new insights to share. He seemed to view discovery and communication as a vital as each other...

There is no US bias in this list. Springer must be the biggest publisher of mathematics books and have the most extensive set of online books available in UK universities. Just saying …

Congrats to Jonas Latz, The University of Manchester, the 2024 SIAM Activity Group on Uncertainty Quantification Early Career Prize recipient! 👏 Dr. Latz was recently recognized at the 2024 SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification. Read more ➡️ sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/f…

Excellent talks … lively discussions … the section is going strong thanks to the endeavour of the elected officers

Some days you are just happy to reach the fairway … this was one such day

Fabulous invited talk from Gabriel Peyré just now at SIAM ALA 23 .. I learned that my favourite shallow neural network with ReLU activation has special properties ..

… here is Gabriel in full flow #SIAMLA24

Hot off the press… assessing stability without tracking eigenvalues arxiv.org/abs/2407.09572

Despite media reports to the contrary, I am happy to confirm that the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences is still alive and kicking. The force is strong.

#OnThisDay in 1950: Alan Turing, The University of Manchester professor and father of modern computing, published "Computing Machinery and Intelligence," introducing the Turing Test. #UoM200

The impact of Turing's work extends far beyond academia, inspiring generations of computer scientists and AI researchers. It has even permeated popular culture, as seen in the 2014 film "The Imitation Game," where Turing is portrayed by UoM alumnus Benedict Cumberbatch.

A PhD in Numerical Analysis clearly opens the door to well paid employment -> personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/david.si…

Hard to see the connection between these photos taken on Monday 1/2

2/2 … the marble structure weighs 1000 tons

Bendigedig

No golf possible today at Withington. I hate floody January …