by U-M MICDE | Mar 16, 2017 | General Interest, Happenings, News
Three University of Michigan professors have been named Simons Fellows in Mathematics by the Simons Foundation: Anna Gilbert, the Herman H. Goldstine Collegiate Professor of Mathematics, core faculty member at the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS), and...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 14, 2017 | Al Hero, Educational, General Interest, Research
The National Academies Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics has released proceedings from its June 2016 workshop titled “Refining the Concept of Scientific Inference When Working with Big Data,” co-chaired by Alfred Hero, MIDAS co-director and the John H...
by U-M MICDE | Mar 7, 2017 | General Interest, News, Research
The most complex crystal designed and built from nanoparticles has been reported by researchers at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. The work demonstrates that some of nature’s most complicated structures can be deliberately assembled if...
by U-M MICDE | Feb 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Scientific Computing Student Club (SC2) and NVIDIA are presenting a Visualization Challenge, with prizes including two NVIDIA and sponsorship to enter present your results at the Scientific Visualization Showcase at Supercomputing ’17. If you are an U-M student...
by U-M MICDE | Jan 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
Five research projects — three in health and two in social science — have been awarded funding in the second round of the Michigan Institute for Data Science Challenge Initiative program. The projects will receive funding from MIDAS as part of the Data Science...
by U-M MICDE | Jan 25, 2017 | Educational, General Interest, News, SC2
MICDE is pleased to announce its support of the Michigan Biological Software Team (MiBioSoft), for its attendance at the 2017 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition in Boston. Founded in 2014, MiBioSoft is a student-run organization at the...
by U-M MICDE | Jan 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS) will hold a faculty meeting at noon on Thursday, January 19 (Suite 7625, School of Public Health I, 1415 Washington Heights) for the NSF 17-534 “Critical Techniques, Technologies and Methodologies for Advancing...
by U-M MICDE | Jan 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Sharon Broude Geva, the Director of Advanced Research Computing at the University of Michigan, has been elected vice-chair of the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC). Founded in 1989, CASC advocates for the use of advanced computing technology to...
by U-M MICDE | Dec 21, 2016 | Educational, Events, General Interest, News
Learn about graduate programs that will prepare you for success in computationally intensive fields — pizza and pop provided The Ph.D. in Scientific Computing is open to all Ph.D. students who will make extensive use of large-scale computation, computational methods,...
by U-M MICDE | Nov 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
Several University of Michigan researchers and research IT staff made presentations at the SC16 conference in Salt Lake City Nov. 13-17. Material from many of the talks is now available for viewing online: Shawn McKee (Physics) and Ben Meekhof (ARC-TS) presented a...
