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Women in HPC launches mentoring program

Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) has launched a year-round mentoring program, providing a framework for women to provide or receive mentorship in high performance computing. Read more about the program at https://womeninhpc.org/2019/03/mentoring-programme-2019/ WHPC was created with the vision to encourage women to participate in the HPC community by providing fellowship, education, and support to women ...

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Most CSCAR workshops will be free for the U-M community starting in January 2019

Beginning in January of 2019, most of CSCAR’s workshops will be offered free of charge to UM students, faculty, and staff. CSCAR is able to do this thanks to funding from UM’s Data Science Initiative.  Registration for CSCAR workshops is still required, and seats are limited. CSCAR requests that participants please cancel their registration if ...

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U-M approves new graduate certificate in computational neuroscience

The new Graduate Certificate in Computational Neuroscience will help bridge the gap between experimentally focused studies and quantitative modeling and analysis, giving graduate students a chance to broaden their skill sets in the diversifying field of brain science. “The broad, practical training provided in this certificate program will help prepare both quantitatively focused and lab-based ...

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MIDAS announces winners of 2018 poster competition

The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2018 poster competition, which is held in conjunction with the MIDAS annual symposium. The symposium was held on Oct. 9-10, 2018, and the student poster competition had more than 60 entries. The winners, judged by a panel of faculty members, ...

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New course for fall 2018: On-Ramp to Data Science for Chemical Engineers

Description: Engineers are encountering and generating a ever-growing body of data and recognizing the utility of applying data science (DataSci) approaches to extract knowledge from that data. A common barrier to learning DataSci is the stack of prerequisite courses that cannot fit into the typical engineering student schedule. This class will remove this barrier by, in ...

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NASEM Webinar: Data Science for Undergraduates – Opportunities & Options

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 ...

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Computational Data Science course accepting students for Fall 2018

The course, instructed by Prof. Raj Rao Nadakuditi (EECS), is an in-depth introduction to computational methods for identifying, fitting, extracting and making sense of patterns in large data sets. Read more…

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Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies (ICOS) Big Data Summer Camp, May 14-18

Social and organizational life are increasingly conducted online through electronic media, from emails to Twitter feed to dating sites to GPS phone tracking. The traces these activities leave behind have acquired the (misleading) title of “big data.” Within a few years, a standard part of graduate training in the social sciences will include a hefty ...

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U-M will hold “hackathon” for health communication, with help from Sanjay Gupta and family

Disease outbreaks. Medical discoveries. Natural disasters. The hope — and hype — that can come with new treatment options. Sanjay Gupta, M.D. has covered them all in his years as medical correspondent for CNN. He’s seen over and over the crucial role of communication in responding to the health effects of every kind of crisis. ...