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Fire trackers: how can we use modelling techniques to predict where wildfires will occur?

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It involves not just fire behaviour but also animal ecology, human ethics, social science, engineering, politics, environmental law, health science and mathematics.” A good knowledge of statistics and coding is vital for analysing data. “We How can the next generation of bushfire researchers be successful?

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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

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Most people suffered no more than a bad cough, a lack of energy, and a loss of taste and smell. Min also recommends learning computer programming (“Python is the best programming language to learn,” he says), as this is a key skill for statistically analysing data and building probabilistic models. What is a network? “A

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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Because computational methods originated in the natural sciences, some disciplines, such as chemistry and physics, have lots of research software at their disposal. Joanna is working with Nicole and Stuart on a project that involves an analytic technique called Energy-Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX).