Activities

NINES Workshop in Digital Scholarship – July 22-29, 2008

Partial support provided by the Center for the Advancement of Computational Research (CACR) through a President's Academic Enrichment Award (PAEA).

 

 

Previous Activities

 

Miami University Workshop on Algorithms and Data Analysis for Bioinformatics

May 14-15, 2008

Location: Benton Hall

Sponsor: Center for the Advancement of Computational Research (CACR); President's Academic Enrichment Award (PAEA).

Presentations (with links to talks or sites where they're posted):

*General Introduction to Bioinformatics, Michael Raymer (Wright State U)

*Tutorial for Statisticians, Shyamal Peddada (NIEHS) [talk1, talk2, talk3, talk4]

*Tutorial for Computer Scientists & Graph Theorists, Dan Gusfield (UC Davis)

*Interdisciplinary Discussion of Miami U problems in Biology and local expertise in Statistics, Computer Science, & Math

 

Miami University Symposium on Computational Research - March 6-7, 2008

Principal theme: Dynamical Systems in Science, Arts and Engineering

Location: Marcum Conference Center, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Sponsor: Center for the Advancement of Computational Research (CACR); President's Academice Enrichment Award (PAEA).

Keynote speakers:  Mike Simpson (Oak Ridge Nat'l Lab), Bard Ermentrout (U Pittsburgh), Jerome R. Busemeyer (Indiana U, AFOSR), Douglas E. Adams (Purdue U), Scott Crass (Cal State U - Long Beach), William H. Warren (Brown U)

Abstracts for the Keynote Lectures are here.

Other invited speakers: Ashok Krishnamurthy (OSC), James Moller (MME, Miami U), Steve Gordon (OSC, Ralph Regula School), Xiaopeng Zhao (U Tennessee, Knoxville), Jaime Combariza (Dartmouth)

Organizer: Amit Shukla <shuklaa@muohio.edu>

 

Short Course on Data Mining in SAS – February 21, 2008

Sponsors: Research Computing Services (RCS) of ITS.

Organizer: David Woods <woodsdm2@muohio.edu>.

 

EEEB Workshop on Data Modeling in Biology (Ben Bolker; U Florida) – February 18, 2008

Sponsors: Center for the Advancement of Computational Research (CACR); President's Academice Enrichment Award (PAEA).

Organizer: Hank Stevens <hstevens@muohio.edu>.

 

Short Course on Spatial Statistics – November 16, 2006

A 6-hour course in lecture format with lots of examples; based mainly on the R software package.  Presented by Lance Waller (Emory University), co-author of a recent spatial stat book: “Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data,” by Lance A. Waller and Carol A. Gotway [Wiley].  Sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Computational Research (CACR); Research Computing Services (RCS) of ITS; President’s Academic Enrichment Award (PAEA); Statistical Consulting Center (SCC); Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics; King Library.

 

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