The Webinar on Mathematics and Big Data took place on Thursday, September 30th, 2021 from 2 pm until 3:30 pm, with Dr. Pablo Groisman, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, as our invited speaker. This virtual event was free and open to the general public.
The invited speaker started the virtual event with interactive questions like “What do a wet stone and a car that drives itself have in common? How about a cat and a shotgun? A person who doesn’t lie and the number 999? A wiring and a mathematician? Koningsberg and TikTok? A geometric figure and an equation?” Dr. Pablo Groisman mentioned that we are living through a data revolution and presented on how we can measure distances between points in high dimension in such a way that they reflect the geometry (that we do not know) of the data. The speaker also highlighted in his virtual event Rene Descartes, Pythagoras, Hammersley and Broadbent.
