MIDAS Annual Activities Overview

MIDAS offers many events, programs and activities year-round. To help our community plan ahead, we publish our annual activity overview. We will update this overview as more information for some of our programs becomes available.

Please also see our event listings at Happening@Michigan, as well as webpages for individual event

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Sept. 2024

6: “Generative AI for Scientific Machine Learning: From Theory to Practice”, research mini-symposium
16: Research Pitch and Fall Welcome Reception (1 -4 pm)
16-20: Postdoc Programs Orientation and Bootcamp
The 2025 round of applications to our postdoc programs opens

Oct. 2024

7-8: “Vesuvius Scrolls: From Ancient Manuscripts to Artificial Intelligence”, research mini-symposium
10: “Introduction to Generative AI Tools for Research” (Generative AI for Research tutorial series)
15: Submission deadline for winter term projects for Faculty-Student Research Connection Program
22: “An Introduction to Generative AI Governance and Sensitive Data Use Guidelines at Michigan Medicine” (Generative AI for Research tutorial series)
28-31: The Academic Data Science Alliance annual meeting, hosted by MIDAS in place of our usual annual data science and AI Summit

Nov. 2024

7: “GenAI Tools for Writing and Presentation” (Generative AI for Research tutorial series)
20: “GenAI Tools for Data Visualization and presenting information” (Generative AI for Research tutorial series)
Postdoc applications to join the 2025 cohort closes
Generative AI for Research tutorial series continues (and will run through May, 2025)

Dec. 2024

9: “Medical Text Data and GenAI Tools”(Generative AI for Research tutorial series)
16: “Data Analysis with Generative AI” (Generative AI for Research tutorial series)

Jan. 2025

Welcome back social

Feb. 2025

Propelling Original Data Science (PODS) pilot grant program call for proposals released
Postdoc program acceptance notifications
15: Submission deadline for spring/summer term projects for Faculty-Student Research Connection Program

March, 2025

18-20: Annual AI for Research Symposium
Propelling Original Data Science (PODS) pilot grant program letters of intent due

April, 2025

Annual Ethical AI Symposium
Propelling Original Data Science (PODS) pilot grant program full proposals due

May, 2025

12-17: Data- and AI-Intensive Research with Rigor and Reproducibility bootcamp

June, 2025

16-21: Data- and AI-Intensive Research with Rigor and Reproducibility bootcamp
Introduction to Data Science and AI Summer Academies start (will run through Aug. 2025)
Propelling Original Data Science (PODS) pilot grant awards announced