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Breaking News: Model Release for SECRET Competition

Model Release: to access go to link

SECRET Overview 

Statistical Emulation for Computational Reverse Engineering and Translation

Welcome to the SECRET international competition in cardiac modelling

This competition aims to assess computational tools for accurate, robust and computationally efficient inference of unknown parameters in complex cardiovascular biophysical models from physiological data.  We would expect most of the submitted techniques to be based on surrogate modelling and emulation. We will provide two state-of-the-art computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models of the pulmonary and systemic circulation, respectively. These models will serve as benchmark examples to assess your methods for fast model parameter inference and uncertainty quantification (UQ). To evaluate the performance of your method, we will provide synthetic data simulated from the aforementioned CFD models with pre-set parameter values, subject to additive observational noise. The true parameter values will be revealed after all participants have submitted their answers.

You will be invited to submit (i) estimates of the biophysical parameters, (ii) the corresponding “best” data prediction and (iii) a measure of estimation uncertainty (standard deviation). The assessment of your method will be based on accuracy and UQ in parameter and function space.  

The competition consists of two stages.

Stage one: you will be given the opportunity to familiarise yourselves with the model and construct a statistical emulator for the quantity of interest well in advance of the data being released.

Stage two: after the data have been released, you will be given a limited time interval  (one week) to conduct the parameter estimation and UQ analysis and submit your predictions. This limitation is with clinical translation in mind, to mimic clinical practice and decision support.

The participants with the best three entries for each model will be invited to disseminate their work in a one-day conference hosted at the University of Glasgow. The best three entries for each model will also receive a certificate and a financial award, details of which will be announced later. The final goal of the competition is a research publication in a high-impact journal with all six selected submissions, which will provide a platform to disseminate the statistical methods and results obtained. The independent assessment of your method by the competition organisers based on an objective gold standard will be an opportunity for you to promote your work and increase its visibility.

Please refer to the timeline below for all important dates.

Timeline:

16th January – Competition announcement call out

20th March – Release of the models and the challenge description

1st September – Release of the data

8th September – Deadline for participants to submit their predictions

18th September – Organisers make the correct answers available and release the best three entries for each model

23rd October – Conference day

23rd October onwards – Work towards a joint publication

We will reimburse  international travel costs for the winners (separately for both models) and will provide further travel support, though capped at UK national travel cost levels, for the 2nd and 3rd places (again separately for both models).  We will also provide accommodation for the participants with the best six entries (places 1-3, for both models). 

IMPORTANT: Could all interested participants record their interest via the Eventbrite link on the right

This competition is organised as part of the SofTMech Statistical Emulation and Translation Hub: https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/T017899/1.

• Event Organiser: Mihaela Paun from the University of Glasgow
• Co-organisers: Dirk Husmeier, University of Glasgow, Mitchel Coleback, University of California,Mette Olufsen and Alyssa LaPole, North Carolina State University

What happened at the PhD Poster Competition on the 31st May

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: A SYMPOSIUM ON CONTINUUM QUESTIONS: 12th and 13th May 2022

The Schools of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Glasgow is organizing the 

International Workshop: "A symposium on Continuum Questions"

The workshop is aimed at providing a two-day symposium where the state of the art and future perspectives concerning continuum mechanics and its applications will be discussed.

 See link on right for full details and how to register

Attending an academic conference and networking

Attending an academic conference and networking: 24.03.22

Our first informal training event discussed academic conferences, covering:

• what actually happens at an academic conference?

• what can I hope to get out it?

• how do I network effectively?

The event also included a practical exercise on preparing an elevator pitch for networking with senior academics.

A recording of the event can be accessed from the link on the right hand side of the screen.