- Plenary Talk
Michael Dorff
Michael Dorff
Brigham Young University
The world is becoming more data driven with cell phones, GPS, Google, and social media. Over 90% of all the data in the world was created in the past 2 years. This data can be used to improve things from the performance of athletes to predicting disease outbreaks. This area is known as data science, and it is growing fast. Mathematics, statistics, and computer science form the foundation of data science. In this talk we will give an overview of this topic with online resources to begin to learn more about data science and some examples of problems that can be investigated.
Michael Dorff is the past President of the MAA and a professor of mathematics at Brigham Young University. He earned his Ph.D. in complex analysis from the University of Kentucky. He is interested in promoting mathematics to the general public, in math careers in industry, and in undergraduate research. He co-directs the MAA PIC Math program (Preparation for Industrial Careers in the Mathematical Sciences), was the founder of CURM (Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics), and is currently the executive director of TPSE Math. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), a CUR Fellow (Council on Undergraduate Research), a Fulbright Scholar in Poland, and a member of the steering committee for the East African Centre for Mathematical Research in Uganda.