The research platform "Data Science @ Uni Vienna" continues its lecture series, to which we would like to cordially invite you. Elaine Chew will give a talk and concert mix titled "The (Data) Science of Time: From Music to the Heart", Elaine Chew will present and discuss mathematical models of time, timing and temporal structure in music and heart data, with demonstrations at a Bösendorfer piano.

When: 17. January 2019, 16.30h Where: BIG Lecture Hall, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien Speaker: Elaine Chew, Queen Mary University Title: The (Data) Science of Time: From Music to the Heart

Abstract:

The explosion of data in the music industry and technological developments in musical instruments that can record performance nuances have made possible modern investigations into intangible properties of music such as expressivity. How do musicians shape performances? How are masterful interpretations crafted? What are the decisions that define a performance? What is the process of musicking: performing and listening? These have all become quantifiable and subject to scientific probing.The consequent ability to capture and model the rhythmic variations of performance transfers to other music-like systems like the human heart. This enables descriptions of individual experiences of cardiac arrhythmias, personalised diagnoses, and disease or risk stratification. Elaine Chew will present and discuss mathematical models of time, timing and temporal structure in music and heart data, with demonstrations at a piano.

We are looking forward to seeing you! Registration for the event is not mandatory, but it will help us with the organization. Please sign up here: https://datascience.univie.ac.at/lecture-series/registration/

About the lecture series: The lecture series introduces international scientists with talks about their views on the possibilities and challenges of data science in their respective fields. We aim to reach a broad audience from various scientific backgrounds as well as the industry – from students to lecturers right up to entrepreneurs and interested parties and individuals. The next lecturers will be Elaine Chew, professor for digital media from the Queen Mary University in London (January 17^th 2019) and Gudrun Gersmann, professor for history from the University of Cologne (April 4^th 2019).

About us : Data Science @ Uni Vienna is a new research platform at the University of Vienna that presents a hub on all activities in data science at the University of Vienna. Our primary focus is to bring researchers from different areas together to work on and solve several of the challenges that this new field presents. We specifically focus on problems arising in one of the following five domains, Astronomy, Digital Humanities, Finance, Industry 4.0, Medical Sciences. While these areas are broad, they have in common that they are data-driven and use similar methods from computer science, mathematics, and statistics.

Further information: https://datascience.univie.ac.at/lecture-series/

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