DLA
4 July 2016 to 21 December 2016
Public policy decisions and much scientific research hinge on accurate and comprehensive data about people. Commercial organisations base their success similarly on data describing how people behave. To support such exercises, increasing numbers of large databases describing people, their characteristics and their behaviour are being looked to for analysis. The opportunities afforded by linking different databases are of particular current interest. There is often, however, a tension between sharing the information in such databases so that public and private benefit can be gained from combining and analysing them, whilst at the same time protecting privacy and confidentiality for the individuals who make up the databases. In principle, one might hope to address this tension by anonymising the data to remove threats to privacy, whilst preserving the analytic value of the data. Experience shows, however, that such anonymisation is not so simple. The focus of this programme will be on contributions the mathematical sciences can make to enhancing opportunities for the analysis of data, especially obtained through linkage, whilst protecting privacy and taking account of related practical constraints.
A basic purpose of the programme will be to foster exchange between different parts of the mathematical sciences where these themes are being addressed in different ways, especially in statistics and computer science, as well as between researchers investigating data linkage and privacy protection, topics which have often been considered separately. More broadly, the programme will seek to promote exchange between the mathematical sciences and related disciplines, such as economics, as well as with practitioners and domain experts on the front line of enabling access to large databases: for example in official statistics, medical research and commerce. The programme will include five events designed to promote interchange between these different communities as well as to open these themes up to a wider spectrum of researchers in the mathematical sciences, including those at early career stages.
The Institute kindly requests that any papers published as a result of this programme’s activities are credited as such. Please acknowledge the support of the Institute in your paper using the following text:
The author(s) would like to thank the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, for support and hospitality during the programme Data linkage and anonymisation, where work on this paper was undertaken. This work was supported by EPSRC grant EP/K032208/1.
Click here to download the programme's final scientific report
Title | Year | Programme | Publication Date |
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Efficient cryptanalysis of bloom filters for privacy-preserving record linkageAuthors: Rainer Schnell, Dinusha Vatsalan, Thilina Ranbaduge, Peter Christen |
2016 | DLA | 26 July 2018 |
A note on using the F-measure for evaluating data linkage algorithmsAuthors: Peter Christen, David Hand |
2016 | DLA | 26 July 2018 |
5 July 2016 to 8 July 2016
12 September 2016 to 16 September 2016
28 October 2016 to 28 October 2016
5 December 2016 to 9 December 2016
Thursday 28th July 2016 | |||
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15:30 to 16:30 |
Anne-Sophie Charest |
Room 2 |
Thursday 11th August 2016 | |||
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15:30 to 16:00 |
Peter Christen Australian National University |
Room 2 | |
16:00 to 17:00 |
Peter Christen Australian National University |
Room 2 |
Thursday 8th September 2016 | |||
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15:30 to 16:30 |
David Hand Imperial College London ; Peter Christen Australian National University |
Room 2 |
Thursday 29th September 2016 | |||
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15:30 to 16:30 |
Grigorios Loukides Cardiff University |
Room 2 |
Thursday 20th October 2016 | |||
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15:30 to 16:30 |
Tom Dalton University of St Andrews |
Room 2 |
Monday 31st October 2016 | |||
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11:00 to 11:20 |
Robin Mitra University of Southampton |
Room 2 | |
11:20 to 11:40 |
Cong Chen |
Room 2 | |
12:00 to 12:20 |
Anne-Sophie Charest Université Laval |
Room 2 | |
12:20 to 12:40 |
Christine O'Keefe CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics |
Room 2 | |
12:40 to 13:00 |
Natalie Shlomo University of Manchester |
Room 2 | |
13:00 to 13:20 |
Peter Christen Australian National University |
Room 2 | |
13:50 to 14:00 |
Mark Elliot University of Manchester |
Room 2 | |
14:00 to 14:20 |
Gillian Raab University of Edinburgh |
Room 2 | |
14:20 to 14:40 |
Beata Nowok University of Edinburgh |
Room 2 | |
14:40 to 15:00 |
Joshua Snoke Pennsylvania State University |
Room 2 | |
15:00 to 15:20 |
Jörg Drechsler None / Other; University of Maryland, College Park |
Room 2 | |
16:40 to 17:00 |
Mark Elliot University of Manchester |
Room 2 |
Thursday 3rd November 2016 | |||
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15:30 to 16:30 |
Gillian Raab University of Edinburgh |
Room 2 |
Thursday 10th November 2016 | |||
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15:30 to 16:30 |
Graham Cormode University of Warwick |
Room 2 |
Tuesday 22nd November 2016 | |||
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15:30 to 16:30 |
Thomas Steinke IBM Research |
Room 2 |
Wednesday 30th November 2016 | |||
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16:00 to 17:00 |
Cynthia Dwork Microsoft (UK) |
Room 1 |
Thursday 1st December 2016 | |||
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15:30 to 16:30 |
Jörg Drechsler None / Other; University of Maryland, College Park |
Room 2 | |
16:30 to 17:30 |
Atikur Khan CSIRO |
Room 2 |
Friday 2nd December 2016 | |||
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14:00 to 15:00 |
Jordi Soria-Comas Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
Room 2 |
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