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SAVE THE DATE: MIDAS Annual Symposium, Oct. 11

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Please join us for the 2017 Michigan Institute for Data Science Symposium.

The keynote speaker will be Cathy O’Neil, mathematician and best-selling author of “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.”

Other speakers include:

  • Nadya Bliss, Director of the Global Security Initiative, Arizona State University
  • Francesca Dominici, Co-Director of the Data Science Initiative and Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
  • Daniela Witten, Associate Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, University of Washington
  • James Pennebaker, Professor of Psychology, University of Texas

More details, including how to register, will be available soon.

MIDAS Annual Symposium: “Big Data: Advancing Science, Changing the World” (Day 2)

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Please join us the Michigan Institute for Data Science Annual Symposium, “Big Data: Advancing Science, Changing the World,” at the Michigan League. The symposium will feature preeminent data scientists from around the world, and will highlight U-M researchers whose work is on the leading edge of innovation and discovery in data-intensive science.

Registration is required.

Day 2 speakers :

  • KEYNOTE: Sudip Bhattacharjee, Chief, Center for Big Data Research and Applications, US Census Bureau
  • Deen Freelon, School of Communications, American University
  • Chris Vargo, Communications, University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Lynn Vavrek, Political Science, UCLA; contributor to The Upshot blog, New York Times
  • Carol Flannagan, U-M Transportation Research Institute
  • Pascal Van Hententryck, U-M College of Engineering
  • Jipeng Yi, Didi Chuxing
  • Michelle Aebersold, U-M School of Nursing
  • Rada Mihalcea, U-M College of Engineering
  • Stephanie Teasley, U-M School of Information

The symposium will also feature a student poster session, and opportunities for students to meet with potential employers interested in data scientists.

For a detailed schedule including talk titles and abstracts, and speaker bios, visit http://midas.umich.edu/2016-symposium/agenda/.

MIDAS Annual Symposium: “Big Data: Advancing Science, Changing the World” (Day 1)

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Please join us the Michigan Institute for Data Science Annual Symposium, “Big Data: Advancing Science, Changing the World,” at the Michigan League. The symposium will feature preeminent data scientists from around the world, and will highlight U-M researchers whose work is on the leading edge of innovation and discovery in data-intensive science.

Registration is required.

Day 1 speakers:

  • KEYNOTE: Robert Groves, Georgetown University, former head of the Census Bureau and former U-M faculty member
  • Michelle Dunn, National Institutes of Health
  • Tom Luo, Shenzhen University, Hong Kong
  • Patrick Wolfe, University College, London
  • Christos Cassandras, Boston University
  • Katherine Ensor, Rice University
  • Dexter Fletcher, Institute for Defense Analysis
  • Todd Coleman, University of California, San Diego
  • Xihong Lin, Harvard University
  • Jonathan Schildcrout, Vanderbilt University
  • Brian Athey & Al Hero, MIDAS C0-Directors
  • Eric Michielssen, Associate Vice President, Advanced Research Computing

The symposium will also feature a student poster session, and opportunities for students to meet with potential employers interested in data scientists.

For a detailed schedule including talk titles and abstracts, and speaker bios, visit http://midas.umich.edu/2016-symposium/agenda/.

Transportation Research Board symposium on transformational technologies — Oct. 31-Nov. 1, Detroit

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The Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine is sponsoring the “Partners in Research Symposium: Transformational Technologies” on October 31-November 1, 2016, in Detroit, Michigan.

Registration is open and Patron opportunities are available.

Additional details can be found under the “Program” tab in the symposium website.

New technologies have the potential to transform transportation as we know it. Public agencies are being challenged to facilitate the deployment of these technologies in a manner and timeframe that will lead to improved safety, reduced congestion, enhanced sustainability, and economic development. This TRB symposium will bring leaders from the public and private sectors and academia together to help generate research and innovations to enable agencies to meet this challenge. The symposium will lay the foundation for research roadmaps and partnerships.

Technologies that are expected to be addressed include connected and automated vehicles, shared-use mobility services, smart cities and the internet-of-things, unmanned aircraft systems, NextGen, big data and cybersecurity, and alternative fueled vehicles.