Presentations

Dr Richard Bean · academic conferences, seminars and industry talks.

Academic conference presentations

  1. New records for Playfair solutions (with L. Helm). HistoCrypt 2025, Poznań, 17 June 2025.
  2. The cipher of Emperor Rudolf II's Alchemical Handbell (with C. Gannon and S. Lang). HistoCrypt 2023, Munich, 21 June 2023.
  3. Forecasting and optimizing a microgrid for the IEEE-CIS Technical Challenge. AUPEC 2022, Adelaide, 26 September 2022.
  4. Cryptodiagnosis of Kryptos K4. HistoCrypt 2022, Amsterdam, 21 June 2022.
  5. Solving an alchemical cipher in a shared notebook of John and Arthur Dee (with S. Lang and M. Piorko). HistoCrypt 2022, Amsterdam, 20 June 2022.
  6. Eavesdropping on the Biafra–Lisbon link: breaking historical ciphers from the Biafran war (with G. Lasry). Cryptologic History Symposium, 11 May 2022. Video.
  7. IEEE-CIS Predict+Optimize Technical Challenge. IEEE SSCI 2021, 5 December 2021. Video.
  8. Using solar and load predictions in battery scheduling at the residential level (with H. Khan). 8th Solar Integration Workshop, Stockholm, 16–17 October 2018.
  9. Calculation of minimum reserve levels for the Australian National Electricity Market (with B. Vanderwaal). 17th Power Systems Computation Conference, Stockholm, 22–26 August 2011.
  10. Cluster analysis of high-dimensional data: a case study (with G. J. McLachlan). IDEAL 2005, University of Queensland, 6–8 July 2005.
  11. Latin trades. International Workshop on Combinatorics, Linear Algebra and Graph Coloring, IPM, Tehran, 9–14 August 2003.
  12. Integer programming and critical sets. 19th British Combinatorial Conference, University of Wales, 30 June – 4 July 2003.
  13. Subsquare-rich Latin squares and their critical sets (with I. Wanless). 34th Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Computing, Florida Atlantic University, 2003.
  14. A census of critical sets in the Latin squares of order at most six (with P. Adams and A. Khodkar). 25th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, Christchurch, 4–8 December 2000.
  15. On the size of the largest critical set in a Latin square (with E. S. Mahmoodian). Combinatorics 2000, Gaeta, 28 May – 3 June 2000.
  16. Closing a gap in the spectrum of critical sets (with D. M. Donovan). 24th Australasian Conference on Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, Darwin, 6 July 1999.

Industry, invited and seminar presentations

  1. Explaining bike share use worldwide by environmental and sociodemographic factors. Hunter Data Analytics Meetup, University of Newcastle, 21 September 2023.
  2. Electrification — managing energy data. Hatch, Newcastle, 24 October 2022.
  3. Methodology for IEEE-CIS Technical Challenge on Predict+Optimize for renewable energy scheduling. University of Newcastle, 6 October 2022.
  4. Methodology for IEEE-CIS Technical Challenge on Predict+Optimize for renewable energy scheduling. UQ ITEE seminar, 17 February 2022.
  5. Phase identification and load forecasting with home energy data. Energy Queensland EDS Series, 19 March 2020.
  6. Data for networks: new insights for network operations using big data. Australian Power Institute Summer School, 26 February 2020.
  7. Phase identification and load forecasting with home energy data. UQ ITEE seminar, 30 October 2019.
  8. Aspects of data science at Redback Technologies. IEEE Queensland PES Chapter, Brisbane, 2 April 2019.
  9. Data science at Redback. DATA7001 lecture, University of Queensland, 10 October 2018.
  10. Using solar and load prediction in battery scheduling at the residential level. IEEE Queensland PES Chapter, Brisbane, 27 June 2017.
  11. Bike-sharing scheme research. Queensland Health, Preventive Health Branch, 22 June 2016.
  12. The Merit Order Effect (with J. Gilmore). Clean Energy Week, Sydney, 27 July 2012.
  13. Weibull and lognormal distributions for TTR and TTF modelling. ROAM Consulting, Brisbane, 18 March 2011.
  14. New statistical approaches for detecting differential expression. Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, 5 October 2006.
  15. Tight single-change covering designs. IPM, Tehran, 1 October 2003.
  16. Fast generation of cubic graphs. IPM, Tehran, 30 October 2002.
  17. On the largest size of the critical sets in Latin squares. Zanjan, 5 May 2002.

Teaching

  1. Declassified Cold War code-breaking manual has lessons for solving impossible puzzles. MATH3302 lecture, UQ, 10 March 2022.
  2. Kryptos. MATH3302 lecture, UQ, 2 April 2019.