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Data Science Nights - FEBRUARY 2022 Meeting (Speaker: Emily Webber, Amazon)
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
5:30 PM
Details
FEBRUARY MEETING: Monday, February 28, 2022 at 5:30pm (US Central) via Zoom
DATA SCIENCE NIGHTS are monthly talks on data science techniques or applications, organized by Northwestern University graduate students and scholars. Aspiring, beginning, and advanced data scientists are welcome!
ZOOM: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/7199764864
RSVP: https://forms.gle/RkAdfHHLCEKQPsqp8
AGENDA:
5:15 - 5:30 p.m. Meet & Greet
5:30 - 5:45 p.m. Talk by Emily Webber from Amazon
5:45 - 6:15 p.m. Extended Q&A
6:15 - 7:15 p.m. Meeting of people interested in taking on the organization of DSN for the future.
SPEAKER: Emily Webber, Senior Machine Learning Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
TITLE: A day in the life of the Amazon SageMaker (machine learning) team
ABSTRACT: Machine learning specialists at Amazon Web Services help customers make the best use of machine learning resources on the cloud to solve business challenges, improve operations, and promote innovation. Join us for a look at the exciting tools and interesting problems data scientists get to work with, in a talk by Senior Machine Learning Specialist, Emily Webber. We will also hear about Webber's path to becoming a data scientist, while keeping connected to academia and providing mentorship.
BIO: Emily Webber is currently a Senior Machine Learning Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She is also an adjunct professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and a machine learning mentor at 1871, a startup incubator. Webber earned her MS from the University of Chicago in 2017, where she interned at Data Science for Social Good. Webber has worked for IssueVoter, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and simMachines (ML software company). She is a keynote speaker at Amazon Web Services, and has a YouTube video channel on SageMaker with 150,000+ views.
YOU can make a difference at DSN
The graduate students and postdocs organizing Data Science Nights (DSN) are evaluating the possibility of expanding the types of events comprising DSN and determining the optimal frequency for different types of events. In order to best understand what the Northwestern community needs, we have prepared a short survey to guide our decision making. If you know anyone potentially interested in DSN, please share this survey with them. Thank you for taking the time to help improve DSN!
For more info: data-science-nights.org
Supporting Groups:
This event is supported by the Northwestern Institute for Complex Systems and the Northwestern Data Science Initiative.
Thanks to our co-host in this talk, AI@NU!
Time
Monday, February 28, 2022 at 5:30 PM - 7:15 PM
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Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
WED@NICO SEMINAR: Lightning Talks w/ Northwestern Scholars!
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speakers:
Yessica Herrera, Visiting Scholar, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
Talk Title: The Body Speaks: Visual Patterns of Psychological Stress
Aakriti Kumar, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
Talk Title: Evaluating Elements of Empathic Communication with Experts, Crowds, and Large Language Models
Tingyu "Mark" Zhao, PhD Student, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Talk Title: Noise Filtering in Complex Networks
Sign Up:
Sign up to present at a future Lightning Talk session. NICO Lightning Talks are open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars.
Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/95387714084
Passcode: NICO25
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, data science and network science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. Please visit: https://bit.ly/WedatNICO for information on future speakers.
Time
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
WED@NICO SEMINAR: Rosemary Braun, Northwestern University "The Scale of Life"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speaker:
Rosemary Braun, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University
Title:
The Scale of Life
Abstract:
Living systems exhibit surprising and beautiful self-organization at all scales. At the atomic level, proteins self-assemble into macromolecular complexes. The function of these machines is orchestrated within the cell by regulatory networks, whose activity is in turn dictated by, and coordinated with, the cells environment. This coordination takes place across large spans of space and time: the size and lifetime of organisms as large as the blue whale. Populations and ecosystems of many organisms in turn exhibit remarkable emergent dynamics. Today, advances in single-cell assays enable us to probe the molecular state of every cell in a sample in high-dimensional detail. But is this the correct scale at which to probe living systems? What can we learn from this data, and how can we abstract from the microscopic details to macroscopic phenotypes? In this talk, I will discuss some of our recent work bridging the cell and tissue/organism scales, and discuss some challenges and opportunities for the future.
Speaker Bio:
Rosemary Braun is an Associate Professor of Molecular Biosciences, Applied Mathematics [ESAM], and Physics at Northwestern University. A theoretical physicist by training, she earned her PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois, followed by a Masters in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute (NIH) before joining Northwestern as a faculty member. Today, she works at the intersection of statistics, mathematics, and biology to develop computational tools for analyzing high-dimensional data. In addition to her Northwestern affiliations, she is also Associate Director of the National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology, as well as external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute.
Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/97015976754
Passcode: NICO25
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, data science and network science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. Please visit: https://bit.ly/WedatNICO for information on future speakers.
Time
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
Contact
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Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)