Home/Events/MIDAS Annual Activities Calendar MIDAS Annual Activities Calendar 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 events. View Events Calendar MIDAS Annual Events U-M Annual Data Science & AI Summit Learn More AI in Research Symposium Learn More Data and AI in Society Lecture Series Learn More Faculty Research Connections Learn More Hands-On Tutorials Learn More MIDAS Data Science and AI Mini-Symposium Series Learn More Spring/Summer Fall Winter Spring/Summer 2026 Activities MAY 13 Faculty Research Connection MIDAS NIH & DARPA Research Priorities Debrief Meeting MAY 19 AI Sandbox Session AWS AI for Research: Tools & Techniques (Central Campus) MAY 20 MIDAS Certificate MIDAS Certificate Drop-In Hour MAY 20 AI Sandbox Session AWS AI for Research: Tools & Techniques (North Campus) MAY 23 Data and AI Intensive Research with Rigor and Reproducibility (DAIR³) – Training Bootcamp (U-M) MAY 31 U-M Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) Incubator: Building Trustworthy AI for Science and Engineering JUNE 2 AI Sandbox Session AI Maturity & Readiness on AWS: From Zero Experience to Scaled, Responsible AI (Central Campus) JUNE 3 AI Sandbox Session AI Maturity & Readiness on AWS: From Zero Experience to Scaled, Responsible AI (North Campus) JUN 8 Data and AI Intensive Research with Rigor and Reproducibility (DAIR³) -Training Bootcamp (UTSA) JUN 23 Commun-AI-ty: Building Science Communication Skills for Explaining AI in Science AUG 1 Postdoctoral Programs – Call for Applications Opens Fall 2027 Activities SEP 14 Faculty Research Connection Welcome Back Faculty Social SEP 17 Hands-On Tutorial Claude Code for R Users: Getting Started with Agentic Coding Elle O’Brien SEP 17 Data & AI in Society Lecture How Might AI Make and Break America’s Justice System Vivek Sankaran & Bridgette Carr OCT TBD Hands-On Tutorial Data Accessibility OCT 5 AI and Mental Health Symposium 2026 OCT 15 Data & AI in Society Lecture Can AI Help Us Build Better Connections? How Social Robots Are Transforming Human Experiences Patricia Alves-Oliveira NOV 9 Hands-On Tutorial Data Cleaning Ali Bolcakan NOV 19 Data & AI in Society Lecture Can AI Reason Through Zoning? Vivek Sankaran & Bridgette Carr DEC 2 Annual Data Science & AI Summit 2026 DEC 10 Data & AI in Society Lecture FA DAS Lecture Todd Hollon TBD Data & AI in Society Lecture FA DAS Lecture Chad Jenkins Winter 2027 Activities FEB TBD Hands-On Tutorial Baseline Analysis MAR 24 Hands-On Tutorial Results Validation Nikola Banovic APR 8 Hands-On Tutorial Knowledge Sharing Paige Bowling TOP