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April 2021
GIS Fundamentals – (Map visualization – II)
This workshop will further develop the material covered on mapping in the first workshop a few weeks back. We will focus on basic cartography principles for map-making and explore the…
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Vicki Bogan, Economics and Management, Cornell University
Vicki Bogan Associate Professor, Economics and Management, Cornell University Director, Institute for Behavioral and Household Finance, Cornell University View Recording Financial Decision-Making and Mental Health We provide empirical evidence that…
CSCAR Workshop: Object Detection using Deep Learning with TorchVision
Like many image processing problems, deep learning has brought many effective solutions to the task of object detection. The TorchVision library is part of the PyTorch project, and it offers…
Women+ Data Science: Navigating Disciplinary Boundaries
Interdisciplinarity is necessary to address issues that are too complex to be dealt with sufficiently through a single discipline. Engaging across disciplines to learn and solve problems is critical to…
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Ben Wellington, Quantitative Analyst, Two Sigma
Ben Wellington Quantitative Analyst, Two Sigma View Recording Shaping a City with Open Data Abstract: Across the world, the Open Data movement is growing and more and more cities are releasing…
Data Science Coast to Coast: Data Equity and Open Science
View Recording The data science institutes at seven universities invite you to join the 2021 Data Science Coast-to-Coast seminar series. These data science institutes have been planning ways to foster…
MIDAS, Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, and the Smale Institute Co-Present: Lenore Blum and Manuel Blum
A Theoretical Computer Science Perspective on Consciousness Zoom Link The quest to understand consciousness, once the purview of philosophers and theologians, is now actively pursued by scientists of many stripes.…
Universidad Adolfo Ibañez and The University of Michigan launch Collaboration in Mathematics and Data Science
The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), and Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics (MCAIM) and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI) invite you to the launch of their alliance to…
May 2021
Advanced ML topics: Algorithms, writing ML code, comparing implementations
OVERVIEW This workshop is designed as a follow-up to the basic introduction to machine learning earlier in this series. We will cover several examples in Python and compare different implementations.…
Software Development For Research: Best Practices for Coding Styles
Software development and computer programming is increasingly a major part of scientific research. Having a consistent coding style and following basic best practices used in the industry can help make…
