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Every day, more data about our lives is being generated than ever before. As technology has advanced, so have the ways scientists are using it. But what do we do with this big data and how can it affect our lives? Join us for a series of talks looking at how these magic numbers can help us understand sleep problems, create musical compositions and unravel the mysteries of the genome.
Insights from High-Dimensional Biological Data
Professor Magnus Rattray
(Professor of Computational and Systems Biology)
Prof Rattray's group develops methods for analysing large and high-dimensional datasets in biology. The detail in which biological systems can be viewed is constantly improving and can now measure the activity of thousands of genes in individual cells. This is very challenging for the data analyst, because this generates vast datasets with numerous and uncertain measurements. At the same time, this is also a very powerful approach, because every individual cell provides new information (like carrying out the same experiment thousands of times), providing new insights into biology and disease.
The Sound of the Sea
Prof David Berezan
(Professor of Electroacoustic Music Composition)
Prof Berezan is a composer and Professor in Electroacoustic Music at The University of Manchester. Since 2003, he has served as Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studios and MANTIS (Manchester Theatre in Sound), and works with diverse technologies and media in the creation and performance of his own work. He will be speaking about his recent sound installation Sea Lantern that uses real-time data from sea buoys for dynamic sound and music creation, and its relationship to the cycle of nautical-related compositions.
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