Furman welcomes information science and Olympic luminaries analyzing information’s influence on swimming and past

Furman University is internet hosting two Olympic medalists and a world-class mathematician for a dialog about information analytics and the way it shapes the world – from expertise and synthetic intelligence to elite athletics.

Students are invited to “Swimming in Data,” a CLP occasion from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12, within the Watkins Room of the Trone Student Center at Furman. For Herman N. Hipp Professor of Computer Science Kevin Treu, “This my Holy Grail.”

Treu will wlecome mathematician Ken Ono and Olympic medalists Kate Douglass and Paige Madden of the University of Virginia. The CLP is a part of Furman’s Data Science Visiting Scholar Series and highlights the rising affect of analytics in sports activities and past.

The connection started with Treu’s personal background. A lifelong swimmer and present swim coach within the Greenville space, he typically travels to Charlottesville to look at meets at Virginia, one of the crucial profitable collegiate swim applications within the nation. There, he discovered about Ono’s pioneering work making use of mathematical and data-driven evaluation to elite swimming efficiency.

Over time, Treu constructed a reference to Ono and dreamed of welcoming him and his collaborators to Furman. The result’s a uncommon alternative for college kids to listen to immediately from a world-renowned mathematician alongside scholar-Olympians who’ve labored immediately with him analyzing information to sharpen their efficiency on the highest degree of competitors.

For Treu, the go to displays a bigger second for information science on campus.

“It’s so practical. It’s so applicable,” he defined.

At Furman, curiosity in information analytics has surged as college students notice how extensively the self-discipline applies throughout fields of research.

“You can fill in the blank,” Treu mentioned. “Data analytics is in business, philosophy, theater – just about anything.”

By bringing researchers and Olympic athletes collectively in a single room, Treu hopes college students see information science not as an summary idea however as a robust software for discovery and one that may form careers, analysis and efficiency throughout the liberal arts.