{"id":28,"date":"2016-07-23T09:23:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yanliu1\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2020-03-04T15:22:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T22:22:47","slug":"events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yanliu1\/events\/","title":{"rendered":"Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Statistics at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities in the Data Science Era<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Second Webinar<\/strong><strong>: October 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, 201<\/strong><strong>8\u00a01- 2 pm EDT<\/strong><br \/>\nSpeakers: Jianqing Fan (Princeton University),\u00a0 Michael Jordan (University of California, Berkeley), Cynthia Rudin (Duke University)<\/h4>\n<p>The workshop &#8220;Statistics at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities in the Data Science Era&#8221; will bring together leading researchers and educators to develop a 10-20 year vision for the field of Statistics taking advantage of the unprecedented opportunities and challenges in the era of data science.\u00a0 The second workshop will focus on<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0Short presentations on foundational research in statistics in the new era<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0Relationship between statistics and data science<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0\u00a0Community input on emerging research and educational opportunities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ideas submitted via the online meeting will inform the discussions at a subsequent 3-day workshop. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">For login details to the\u00a0webinar (available on the day of the webinar), as well as more information about the overall project, please go to <\/span><strong><a title=\"https:\/\/hub.ki\/groups\/statscrossroad\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mail.ubc.ca\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=43YVGKPzyMaP12AjKdIT8w56A4WgpA8asCRfAkoAkQBjkQ870ifWCA..&amp;URL=https%3a%2f%2fhub.ki%2fgroups%2fstatscrossroad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hub.ki\/groups\/statscrossroad<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quantitative Methods Society<\/strong><br \/>\nQMS aims to bring together graduate students and faculty members with an interest in quantitative methods to build a community fostering skills and exchanging ideas. During the academic year, we organize monthly events. Please check the\u00a0events <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/quantitativemethods\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. Anyone who is interested in our topics is welcome to join us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Collaborative International Undergraduate Workshop 2016: Quantitative Analysis of Behavior &amp; Neurobiology \u00a0(August 1-6, 2016)\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a collaborative educational project and my colleagues are from Harvard University, Stanford University,\u00a0University of Edinburgh, Tokyo Institute of Technology, okinawa institute of science and technology (OIST), etc.<\/p>\n<p>The objective of the workshop is to promote student collaborative learning and problem solving skills in an interdisciplinary context. The workshop includes several components, lectures on\u00a0neuronal cell biology, physics, and quantitative methods, hands-on data collection, challenging labs, team problem solving and analysis sessions, and career panel discussion. I am leading the assessment team to evaluate the effectiveness of the workshop and help to improve the workshop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/groups.oist.jp\/grad\/collaborative-international-undergraduate-workshop-2016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/groups.oist.jp\/grad\/collaborative-international-undergraduate-workshop-2016<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statistics at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities in the Data Science Era Second Webinar: October 2nd, 2018\u00a01- 2 pm EDT Speakers: Jianqing Fan (Princeton University),\u00a0 Michael Jordan (University of California, Berkeley), Cynthia Rudin (Duke University) The workshop &#8220;Statistics at a Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities in the Data Science Era&#8221; will bring together leading researchers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41823,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yanliu1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yanliu1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yanliu1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yanliu1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41823"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yanliu1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yanliu1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yanliu1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/yanliu1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}