ISU invites early-career researchers to free Midwest Big Data Summer School

Registration is due by June 1; Travel support applications due by May 24
Monday, May 16, 2016

The Iowa State University Department of Computer Science invites UI faculty to the Midwest Big Data Summer School for Early Career Researchers. This summer school will be held from June 20-24, 2016 in Ames, and is designed as a one-week, intensive curriculum aimed at early career researchers to get them started in data-driven research.

The school will include full-day lectures on topics ranging including data acquisition, data preprocessing, exploratory data analysis, descriptive data analysis, data analysis tools and techniques, visualization and communication, ethical issues in data science, reproducibility and repeatability, and understanding of domain/context. The summer school is partially supported by the Midwest Big Data Hub, the ISU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the ISU Office of the Vice President of Research, and the ISU Department of Computer Science.

There is no cost to attend but you must register by 5:00 pm on Wednesday, June 1, to reserve your space. There is limited space so send your registration soon.

The sponsors have limited amount of travel support available for non-ISU participants. To be considered for travel support, please register by 5:00 pm on May 24th, and apply for travel support.

Application details are available from http://mbds.cs.iastate.edu.

Midwest Big Data Summer School
June 20-24, 2016
Morrill Hall, Iowa State University
Ames, IA
http://mbds.cs.iastate.edu

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.