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NASEM Webinar: Data Science for Undergraduates – Opportunities & Options

By | Al Hero, Educational, News

As our economy, society, and daily life become increasingly dependent on data, new college graduates entering the workforce need to have the skills to analyze data effectively.

At the request of the National Science Foundation, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a study to explore what data science skills are essential for undergraduates and how academic institutions should structure their data science education programs.

We invite you to join us for a report release webinar on May 2, 2018 at 11am ET.

During this webinar, study co-chairs Laura Haas and Alfred Hero will discuss the report’s findings and recommendations, followed by a question and answer session with webinar participants.

Register

MDST – NFL Free Agency Value Prediction Competition Kick-Off – Nov. 9, 6pm

By | Data, Data sets, Educational, Events, Happenings, MDSTPosts, MDSTProjects, News

In this competition, student teams at the University of Michigan will use historical free agent data to predict the value of new contracts signed in the 2018 free agency period. These predictions will be evaluated against the actual contracts as they are signed. This competition is organized by the Michigan Data Science Team (MDST), in collaboration with the Baltimore Ravens and the Michigan Sports Analytics Society (MSAS).  Food will be provided. This is an initial kick-off meeting of the competition.

RSVP

Date, Time

Thursday, November 9 at 6:00 PM EST to Thursday, November 9 at 7:00 PM EST
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Location

Weiser Hall 10th Floor Auditorium
500 Church St, 48104, MI

Host

Michigan Data Science Team

 

 

Call for Proposals: Amazon Research Awards, deadline 9/15/17

By | Data, Educational, Funding Opportunities, News, Research

The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) program offers awards of up to $80,000 in cash and $20,000 in AWS promotional credits to faculty members at academic institutions in North America and Europe for research in these areas:

  • Computer vision
  • General AI
  • Knowledge management and data quality
  • Machine learning
  • Machine translation
  • Natural language understanding
  • Personalization
  • Robotics
  • Search and information retrieval
  • Security, privacy and abuse prevention
  • Speech

The ARA program funds projects conducted primarily by PhD students or post docs, under the supervision of the faculty member awarded the funds. To encourage collaboration and the sharing of insights, each funded proposal team is assigned an appropriate Amazon research contact. Amazon invites ARA recipients to speak at Amazon offices worldwide about their work, meet with Amazon research groups face-to-face, and encourages ARA recipients to publish their research outcome and commit related code to open-source code repositories.

Submissions are to be made online and details including rules and who may apply are located here.

Liza Levina, PhD, Chosen IMS Medallion Lecturer in 2019

By | Events, Feature, General Interest, Happenings, News, Research

Professor Liza Levina has been selected to present an Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Medallion Lecture at the 2019 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM).

Each year eight Medallion Lecturers are chosen from across all areas of statistics and probability by the IMS Committee on Special Lectures. The Medallion nomination is an honor and an acknowledgment of a significant research contribution to one or more areas of research. Each Medallion Lecturer will receive a Medallion in a brief ceremony preceding the lecture.

Intelligent Transportation Systems: IEEE ITSS Newsletter, July 2016

By | Uncategorized

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
https://www.ieee-itss.org/

IEEE ITS Society Newsletter, Vol. 18, No. 3, July 2016
The latest issue of the ITSS Newsletter is now available for download.

In This Issue: 

Society News and Announcements:

- Message from the Editor
- Message from the IEEE ITS President
- Join the IEEE ITS Society
- 2016 IEEE ITS Award Announcement
- 2016 IEEE ITSS Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award Call for Application
- IEEE ITSS Educational Activities Website launching!
- ITS Podcast New Episodes and Information
- Job Announcement

 

Conferences and Call for Papers:

- IEEE ITSC2016 Workshops - CFP
- IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles — CFP
- S. Issue on “Autonomous Cooperative Driving” — CFP IEEE ITS

 

Magazine:

- S. Issue on “'High Performance Computing in Simulation and Optimization
of Dynamic Transportation Networks” — CFP IEEE ITS Magazine
- S. Issue on “Holistic approaches for Human-Vehicle Systems: combining models, interactions and control” — CFP IEEE Transactions on HMS
- 1st EAI Int. Conf. on Security & Privacy in Vehicular Networks — CFP
- Workshop on ITS and Smart Mobility—Call for Ext. Abstracts
- Special Session on Intelligent Cooperative Driving, and Autonomous

 

Connected Vehicles (ICD & ACV 2016) — CFP

Conference Calendar

Forthcoming papers at Transactions on ITS

Forthcoming papers at ITS Magazine

Most popular papers/episode at T-ITS, ITS Magazine and ITS Podcast

Officers and Committee Chairs

Editorial Board

NL Archive and Subscription
Editor-in-Chief
Javier Sanchez-Medina
javier.sanchez.medina@ieee.org
Associate Editors
Haluk Eren
Conferences Workshops and Journals
heren@firat.edu.tr
The IEEE ITS Society Newsletter is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October. In each month without a full Newsletter you will receive a Digest like this one.
All past issues of the Newsletter may be downloaded at no charge from the Society’s web site:
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NSF Program Solicitation: Quantitative Approaches to Biomed. Big Data (QuBBD)

By | Events, Funding Opportunities, General Interest, Happenings, News, Paper/Presentation Solicitation

The NIH Big Data to Knowledge Initiative (BD2K, https://datascience.nih.gov/bd2k), together with the Division of Mathematical Sciences at NSF, announces the release of a new program solicitation (NSF 16-573)

This program is designed to support novel mathematical, statistical, or computational approaches to biomedical big data challenges. Collaborative efforts that bring together quantitative scientists and biomedical researchers are a requirement for this program and must be convincingly demonstrated in the proposal. The program is designed to foster and support new inter- and multi-disciplinary teams of investigators. The due date for full proposals is September 28, 2016.

BD2K is a trans-NIH initiative that aims to support advances in data science, other quantitative sciences, and training that are needed for the effective use of big data in biomedical research. Interested applicants are encouraged to join the BD2K listserv (https://list.nih.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=bd2kupdates&A=1) to receive the most up-to- date information about BD2K events and funding opportunities. Please share this opportunity with your interested scientific communities.

Great Lakes Observing System Data Challenge: Call for Issue Experts, Sponsors

By | Educational, Feature, General Interest, Happenings, News

CALL FOR ISSUE EXPERTS AND SPONSORS

The Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) is hosting the Great Lakes Data Challenge in summer of 2016. As part of our 10 year anniversary, GLOS will be taking open data to the next level by using open innovation to broaden our community and create new partnerships to engage people in problem solving for the Great Lakes. GLOS is currently soliciting support for sponsors and issue experts.

GOALS

  • Inspire a wider audience to engage with Great Lakes issues
  • Use technologies, innovation and creativity to solve Great Lakes problems
  • Encourage the use of open data resources from GLOS and beyond

TIMELINE

  • Late May 2016: Launch challenge
  • June: Kick-off event(s), including IAGLR
  • August 15: Submissions due. Submissions can include an app, data “mash-up”, visualization, story, or other innovative idea for using, collecting, analyzing, visualizing, and/or communicating Great Lakes data.
  • August 15-31: Judging
  • September 15: Winners notified
  • October 12-13: Award presentation at GLOS Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor, MI

GLOS PROVIDES

  • Baseline prize money: $5,000
  • Data, technical support, and resources for developer guidelines, rules, etc.
  • Data Challenge(s) coordination

WE NEED YOU

Sponsors: by May 20 The Great Lakes Data Challenge is a unique opportunity to network the region’s
environmental, governmental and non-profit sectors with the information technology sector. Sponsors must commit by May 20 to ensure inclusion in event promotions.

Consider sponsoring the challenge at one of our suggested levels (see next page) to help support prize
money, event costs, and promotional giveaways. This is a great way to promote your business/organization to a diverse audience of environmental data and technology stakeholders.

Issue Experts: by June 1 We are looking for volunteers with expertise in areas including invasive species, nutrients and algae and boater safety, among others. You would agree to be a resource to teams who have specific questions about the topic at hand. The commitment could be flexible according to your interest and availability.

Please contact GLOS at kpaige@glos.us if you are interested in supporting the data challenge in any of these areas.

Be a part of the Great Lakes Observing System’s Data Challenge

  • SUPERIOR $5,000
    All lower level sponsorship benefits as well as…
    Top billing as Data Challenge co-sponsor in all event promotions and media releases
    Large, prominent logo on event giveaways, promotional signage, and website
  • MICHIGAN $2,500
    All lower level sponsorship benefits as well as…
    Acknowledgement as co-sponsor for a custom challenge category
    Logo on event giveaways
  • HURON $1,000
    All lower level sponsorship benefits as well as…
    Sponsorship acknowledgement at promotional events including kick-off and award presentation
    Logo on Data Challenge website and promotional signage
  • ONTARIO $500
    All lower level sponsorship benefits as well as…
    Sponsorship acknowledgement on promotional signage
    Complimentary individual (for 1 person) GLOS membership and registration to the GLOS Annual Meeting
  • ERIE $250
    Sponsorship acknowledgement and website link on Data Challenge website
    Acknowledgement in GLOS Annual Report

UMHS – PUHSC Joint Institute 2016 Symposium: Call for Posters

By | clinical, Events, Feature, Happenings, Paper/Presentation Solicitation, Translational

University of Michigan Health System & Peking University Health Science Center

Joint Institute for Translational and Clinical Research

2016 Symposium

Call for Posters

[Downloadable Directions]

Call for Poster Abstracts: Submission Information
Showcase your research to Peking University Health Science Center counterparts as the JI looks to expand by offering funding to non-medical school faculty for new health-related joint research projects. A great venue to meet potential collaborators, the poster session will be Thursday, Oct. 13. Details, including times, will follow poster acceptance.

How to submit
Abstracts should relate to clinical and translational research studies and should be submitted electronically in a Microsoft Word document.

Send abstracts to globalreach@umich.edu by September 9, 2016. Please include the following:
Title

  • Title should be brief but should not contain abbreviations.
  • Do not bold use letters in the title unless necessary.
  • Do not capitalize all letters in title, only the first word and key words.

Authors

  • Include all authors and their affiliations. To associate authors and their institutional affiliations, please place a number in parenthesis after each author’s name (if more than one author) and the corresponding number before each affiliated institution’s name (if more than one institution).
  • Put the submitting/presenting author’s name in bold.
  • Do not capitalize all letters in speaker information, only as appropriate.

Abstract

  • Abstracts are limited to 300 words. Use size 11 Arial or Calibri font.
  • Submit text only. Do not include tables, graphics, or charts.
  • Do not include title, authors, or author affiliations in the abstract text.
  • Abstracts may include background, methods, results, conclusions, and funding-source acknowledgements, if applicable.

Submitter contact information

  • First and last name, degrees
  • Email address

Please proofread carefully – information submitted with errors may be published as is. Use a word processing program to assist with checking for grammar and spelling errors, as well as word count.
The deadline to submit abstracts is Sept. 9, 2016. For more information, contact globalreach@umich.edu.

 

Engaging with DARPA, A Presentation by DSO Director Stefanie Thompkins – May 31

By | General Interest, News

Please join us for a presentation and overview of DARPA and the Defense Sciences Office by Dr. Stefanie Tompkins, Defense Sciences Office Director.

Date:  May 31, 2016
Time: 12:30 PM
Location: Room 1500 EECS, North Campus

DARPA’s mission is to make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for national security, thus catalyzing the development of capabilities that give the Nation new options for preventing and creating strategic surprise.

The Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is one of six technical offices at the agency.  DSO identifies and pursues high-risk, high-payoff fundamental research initiatives across a broad spectrum of science and engineering disciplines including materials science, computing and autonomy, engineering design and manufacturing, physics, chemistry, mathematics and social science.

This presentation will give an overview of DARPA, working with DARPA and the Defense Sciences Office, and description of some of the current activities DSO’s program managers are working on.