Events

  • Graduate Studies in Computational & Data Sciences Info Session – North Campus

    Johnson Rooms, Lurie Engineering Center, 3rd Floor LEC 3213ABC 1221 Beal Ave., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    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, or algorithms for advanced computer architectures in their studies. It is a joint degree program, with students earning a Ph.D. […]

    Introduction to Stata

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001A

     Audience: Those who have never used Stata before but wish to learn. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to: Work with Stata, including using Do-files and using the help system Get data into Stata and manage your data files Establish familiarity with your data Clean the data to prepare it for […]

    Research Computing on the Great Lakes cluster

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001A

    This workshop will provide a brief overview of the the new HPC environment and is intended for current Flux and Armis users.  We will use the temporary Beta HPC cluster to demonstrate how jobs will be submitted and managed under the new Great Lakes, Armis2, and Lighthouse clusters available later this year. There are many […]

    Introduction to the Linux Command Line

    Modern Languages Building (MLB), Room 2001B

    This course will familiarize the student with the basics of accessing and interacting with Linux computers using the GNU/Linux operating system’s Bash shell, also generically referred to as “the command line”. Topics include: a brief overview of Linux, the Bash shell, navigating the file system, basic commands, shell redirection, permissions, processes, and the command environment. […]

    Open Source GIS

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    This workshop will provide a gentle introduction to open source GIS tools in R and QGIS. We will cover introductory GIS concepts and will explore the functionalities of R and QGIS for manipulating and analyzing vector GIS data. Familiarity with R is required.

    Stata 16 New Data Management Features

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Audience: Stata users familiar with data management who want an overview of the new data management features introduced in Stata 16. We'll cover the two main data management features introduced in Stata 16. 1) Frames - holding multiple data sets in memory simultaneously. 2) Variable lists - formalizing creation and storage of lists of variables.

    Data Visualization With 3D Graphics Using Unity3D and C#

    Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor East 915 E. Washington St., Ann Arbor, MI, United States

    Video game development is more accessible than ever before thanks to modern software tools, with many options free to download. These tools are also used to program more "serious" applications that require interactive 3D graphics, from mobile apps, virtual and augmented reality, computer vision and artificial intelligence, and real-time CGI film production.    Unity3D is […]