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Registration is now open for the 2nd workshop on “Understanding complex, large and industrial data” (UCLID 2016) which will be held at Lancaster University on 12th-14th September 2016. This workshop is supported by Lancaster's Data Science Institute and the EPSRC funded STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together a number of researchers from both industry and academia to discuss the challenges faced by "Big Data" and the emergence of Data Science. We have an excellent line-up of academic and industrial researchers from statistics, machine learning and operational research covering four main streams: Foundations of Data Science & Big Data, Defence & Security, Health & Bioinformatics and Data Science in Industry. Speakers include:

    - Mark Girolami (University of Warwick)
    - Christine Currie (University of Southampton)
    - Patrick Rubin-Delanchy (University of Oxford)
    - Magnus Rattray (University of Manchester)
    - John Reid (MRC)
    - Rob Johnson (Lloyds Banking Group)
    - Chris Williams (University of Edinburgh)
    - Sumeetpal Singh (University of Cambridge)
    - Shreena Patel (Dunnhumby)
    - Phillippa Spencer (DSTL)
    - Tim Park (Shell)
    - Nick Heard (Imperial College)
    - Jak Marshall (SEGA)
    - Brian McWilliams (Disney Research)

As well as the invited talks, the workshop will also include a wine reception, conference dinner and poster session.

The attendance fee is £100 per attendee, which includes payment for the conference dinner as well as lunches and coffee breaks. To register you attendance please visit http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/uclid2016/index.html. Deadline for registering is 30th August 2016.