MIDAS Annual Activities Overview

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 event

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Fall 2025 Activities

September

4 Data and AI in Society Lecture Series – Merve Hickok

8 Research Pitch and Fall Welcome Reception

25 Data & AI in Society Lecture – Jason Corso

30 Postdoc Programs Application Deadline

October

TBD

Faculty Research Connection Meeting

7 Data & AI in Society Lecture – Barbara McQuade

15 Faculty-Student Research Connection – Submission Deadline for Winter Term Projects

16 Data & AI in Society Lecture – P. Anandan

November

TBD

Faculty Research Connection Meeting

6 – 7

Deep Math Conference

12 Data and AI in Society Lecture Series – Mosharaf Chowdhury

17 – 18

Annual Data Science & AI Summit 2025

December

TBD

Faculty Research Connection Meeting

Winter 2026 Activities

January

TBD

Welcome Back Faculty Social

TBD

Propelling Original Data Science (PODS) Town Hall

TBD

Data and AI Intensive Research with Rigor and Reproducibility (DAIR³) – Priority Application Deadline

February

TBD

Postdoctoral Programs – Acceptance Notifications

March

TBD

Faculty Research Connection Meeting

17 – 18

Annual AI in Science and Engineering Symposium

28 Faculty-Student Research Connection – Submission Deadline for Spring/Summer & upcoming Fall Term Projects

April

TBD

Summer Academy – Priority Application Deadline

Spring/Summer 2026 Activities

May 2026

TBD

Data and AI Intensive Research with Rigor and Reproducibility (DAIR³) -Training Bootcamp (U-M)

June 2026

TBD

Data and AI Intensive Research with Rigor and Reproducibility (DAIR³) -Training Bootcamp (UTSA)

July 2026

August 2026

1 Postdoc Programs – Call for Applications Opens

1 Postdoctoral Fellows 2026 Cohort – Arrive