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MIDAS Data Science Fellow Elyse Thulin Awarded Best Poster by a Trainee at the UCSF Promoting Research in Social Media and Health Symposium 

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U-M partners with Cavium on Big Data computing platform

A new partnership between the University of Michigan and Cavium Inc., a San Jose-based provider of semiconductor products, will create a powerful new Big Data computing cluster available to all U-M researchers. The $3.5 million ThunderX computing cluster will enable U-M researchers to, for example, process massive amounts of data generated by remote sensors in ...

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Liza Levina, PhD, Chosen IMS Medallion Lecturer in 2019

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 ...

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Raising the next generation of data scientists at the MIDAS Summer Camp

This summer, 10 high school students from around the country gathered in Ann Arbor for the first annual Michigan Institute for Data Science Summer Camp on the campus of the University of Michigan. The weeklong camp, titled “From Simple Building Blocks to Complex Shapes: A Visual Tour of Fourier Series,” drew students from as far away ...

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Building a Community of Social Scientists with Big Data Skills: The ICOS Big Data Summer Camp

As the use of data science techniques continues to grow across disciplines, a group of University of Michigan researchers are working to build a community of social scientists with skills in Big Data through a week-long summer camp for faculty and graduate students. Having recently completed its fourth annual session, the Big Data Summer Camp ...

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UMHS – PUHSC Joint Institute 2016 Symposium: Call for Posters

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 ...

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

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 ...

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New on-campus data-science and computational research services available

Researchers across campus now have access to several new services to help them navigate the new tools and methodologies emerging for data-intensive and computational research. As part of the U-M Data Science Initiative announced in fall 2015, Consulting for Statistics, Computing and Analytics Research (CSCAR) is offering new and expanded services, including guidance on: Research ...

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New ARC-TS program offers unused cycles on Flux to undergraduates

Undergraduates working on research that requires high performance computing resources can now use the Flux HPC cluster at no cost. Flux is the shared computing cluster available across campus, operated by Advanced Research Computing – Technology Services (ARC-TS). Under ARC-TS’s new Flux for Undergraduates program, student groups and individuals with faculty sponsors can access unused ...