Dear IACS friends, Once again, IACS will present a special two-week program of events to build computational knowledge and skill. ComputeFest 2014 will take place January 13-24, culminating in a symposium focusing on the promise and challenges of data science. Please note the details and links below. We are pleased to invite you to the symposium; our annual ComputeFest workshops (Jan 13-17); and the Computational Science Ventures (CSV) mini-symposium (Thursday, Jan 23), focusing on entrepreneurship in computational science. Feel free to share this announcement with colleagues. All events are free and open to the community. Note that workshops (see below) are primarily intended to benefit the Harvard academic and research community; should interest in an event exceeds capacity, Harvard students, faculty and researchers and staff will be given priority. 1. SYMPOSIUM TITLE: "Weathering the Data Storm: The Promise and Challenges of Data Science" DATE: Friday, Jan 24 TIME: 9:00am- 5:30pm; continental breakfast 8:30-9am LOCATION: Science Center Hall B, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 EVENT WEBSITE: http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/data-storm REGISTRATION: Free; no registration required. SPONSORS: Liberty Mutual Insurance (platinum) and WMWare (gold) PROGRAM DETAILS: Industry leaders, researchers, and Harvard students will come together for a day of lively conversation about the sweeping advances in data science at the intersection of statistics, computer science, and various domains. Leading experts in data science will talk about the way organizations are using careful analysis of data to address important real-world issues, about the challenges of big data, and about the future of this exciting emerging field. This one-day symposium will bring together data analytics professionals, domain scientists, academic researchers and users, and fosters an exchange of ideas through invited talks, panels, and plenty of audience interaction. SPEAKERS: • Ryan Adams, Harvard University • Luke Bornn, Harvard University • Jeff Heer, University of Washington • Diane Lambert, Google • Fernando Perez, UC Berkeley • Claudia Perlich, Dstillery • Bonnie Ray, IBM • Cynthia Rudin, MIT • Rachel Schutt, Columbia University • Yuan Yuan, Dropbox *********************** 2. COMPUTEFEST WORKSHOPS DATES: Monday-Friday, Jan 13-17 (morning and afternoon sessions) TIME: Check website for details LOCATION: Harvard University, Northwest Building Level B, 52 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 EVENT WEBSITE: http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/workshops TOPICS: Matlab, Python, R, Julia, Unix, MPI, Amazon Web Services, high-performance computing, CUDA PROGRAM DETAILS: The week-long workshop program features instruction in software tools for modeling, analysis, scientific computing and visualization, as well as how to use cluster, grid and cloud resources available to Harvard faculty, students and staff. This year, we are offering an expanded program with additional sessions in Python, MATLAB, and high-performance computing. We are also pleased to welcome CUDA and Julia to the workshop line-up. PARTNERS: Mathworks, Continuum Analytics (Python), Amazon, FAS Research Computing, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Julia group (MIT), NVIDIA. NOTE: The workshops are intended to benefit the Harvard community; others are welcome as space permits. TO REGISTER: Please follow links at http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/workshops *********************** 3. COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE VENTURES DATE: Thursday, Jan 23 TIME: 9am-12 noon; continental breakfast 8:30-9am LOCATION: Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 EVENT WEBSITE: http://computefest.seas.harvard.edu/computational-science-ventures PROGRAM DETAILS: IACS's annual Computational Science Ventures mini-symposium explores the extraordinary entrepreneurial opportunities on the frontier of computational science. This year's theme is "Applications to Cyber-Physical Systems." Computational Science Ventures is organized by Alexander Wissner-Gross, a scientist, inventor and entrepreneur who is Institute Fellow at IACS. SPEAKERS: • Marija Ilic, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University • Ted Morgan, Founder and CEO, Skyhook • Sokwoo Rhee, Presidential Innovation Fellow & Founder/CTO, Millennial Net., Inc. ----------------- Natasha Baker Administrative Coordinator Institute for Applied Computational Science Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Tel: 617-496-2623 Email: nrbaker(a)seas.harvard.edu _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events