Ada Lovelace Discover Lecture - “The Power of Abstraction – Using Mathematics to Simplify the Digital World"

Description

Being smart comes at a price. A smarter phone is more expensive, but quickly needs upgrading. When your phone goes wrong, rather than fix it, we're often obliged to replace the whole thing, even if the defect is tiny. Now imagine a huge, highly digitalised manufacturing factory, generating, exchanging and processing terabytes of data amongst different machines every second, running 24 hours a day. What do we do when this breaks down? Replace the whole thing? Or just fix a part of it? Do we even need to get involved at all, or can we trust the machines to ‘fix’ themselves?

This Discover Lecture is set to give you a glance into a branch of new research led by Dr Qunfen Qi, who will demonstrate how mathematical modelling can help us design, control and manage complex digital systems in a simple and intelligent way.

Period	11 Oct 2022
Held at	University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom