The Alan Turing Institute Data Study Groups: Applications Open

The Alan Turing Institute is now accepting applications for the next Data Study Group, which starts in January 2025. The Data Study Groups are intensive ‘collaborative hackathons’ hosted by Turing, which bring together industry, government and the third sector, with talented multi-disciplinary researchers from academia. Organisations act as Data Study Group ‘Challenge Owners’, providing real-world problems and datasets to be tackled by small groups of highly talented, carefully selected researchers. Researchers brainstorm and engineer data science solutions, presenting their work at the end of the week.

The Data Study Group will be hosted online, starting from Monday 20 January 2025 until Friday 7 February 2025. In the second stage (starting 27 January), the core working hours will be 09:00 – 17:00 GMT every week day.

There are four challenges to address for the event starting in January, created collaboratively with organisations including Artificial Intelligence for Decarbonisation’s Virtual Centre of Excellence (ADViCE), British Geological Survey (BGS), The Centre for Postdoctoral Development in Infrastructure, Cities and Energy (C-DICE), and ScotRail. The topics are:

• Understanding Heat Pump Performance: Improving Efficiency and Adoption.
• Detecting shallow gas from seabed seismic images.
• Re-purposing and decommissioning energy assets to maximise the impact on net zero carbon emissions.
• Understanding rail and road user behaviour to reduce car miles in Scotland.

C-DICE Data Study Group

C-DICE is excited to be part of the Turing Data Study Group as a challenge owner. In collaboration with industry partners through the C-DICE Grand Challenge, the Data Study Group will draw on data from two decarbonisation scenarios for the UK energy system, developed by the Energy Systems Catapult (ESC), along with open-access data on power plants. This data will be used to gain insights into how decommissioning and repurposing energy-related assets can best support progress towards the net-zero target. 

Application closes 23:59, Wednesday 20 November 2024.