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05
Jun
2025

Factfulness and Metalinguistic Agency in Humans and Language Models

Seminar

Language models (LMs) are known to suffer from a variety of infelicities of language such as hallucinations, inconsistencies, continuity and coherence problems, etc. Some of these difficulties suggest that LMs have no idea what they are saying when they “speak”. And yet LMs often also behave in…

EU Members
11
Jun
2025

30 Years in the EU

Panel discussion

2025 marks three decades since Austria, Finland, and Sweden became valued members of the European Union.To celebrate this milestone, join an evening of discussion with the Ambassadors of Austria, Finland, and Sweden to Australia. This will be followed by a Q&A, joined by the Ambassador of the…

Diagram on a Board
12
Jun
2025

Population Projections

Continuing education

This 2-day course introduces the basic elements of population projections. Predicting the future population is one of the most frequently requested outputs from clients:Governments on future for roads, schools, medical personnel, tax policies, etc.;Businesses: future market size;Demography: to…

13
Jun
2025

GOTAT | GUTHATH | 時代の潮目 | TIDES : An exhibition of archival photographs of Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait) from the National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka, Japan)

Exhibition

An exhibition of archival photographs from Zenadth Kes (Torres Strait) from the National Museum of Ethnology (Japan). Curated by the ANU Japan Zenadth Kes Project (JZK), GOTAT | GUTHATH | 時代の潮目 | TIDES, will showcase never-before-exhibited photographs in a…

13
Jun
2025

Bungee jumping on election night - A conversation with Antony Green

Lecture

Australia’s electoral system has a level of complexity and results reporting unknown overseas. Election night is like leaping into the void with little safety equipment apart from a thin stream of data from the Electoral Commission. Tonight, we hear reflections from ABC Chief Election Analyst…

Intelligence (BI) and business analytics (BA), data analysis concept. Businessman working on laptop in office with financial graph, analytic dashboard
16
Jun
2025

Analysing Time to Events

Continuing education

This 2-day course introduces the foundation for understanding how and why certain events do or do not occur, such as when young people leave home, length of employment, or time to first home ownership.The skills learned are widely applicable to demographic, health, and social science and policy…

Gideon Rosen
17
Jul
2025

Explanatory Realism

Lecture

The cement of the universe is not causation: it is explanatory dependence. Reality is a network of facts connected by a single, irreducible, mind-independent “because”. It is widely held that explanation is a sort, interest-sensitive practice that aims to provide information only about other things…