Data Science Week 2024
December 2 @ 8:00 am - December 6 @ 5:00 pm
Purdue University Fort Wayne
Registration is completely free. Please use the link below to register no later than November 28th, 2024. If you have questions, please feel free to send an email to Prof. Alessandro Maria Selvitella (aselvite@pfw.edu) or Prof. Kathleen Foster (klfoster@bsu.edu). We look forward to seeing you at Data Science Week 2024!
Keynote Speakers
Keynote speakers will deliver talks live (from WebEx) at specific times (stay tuned). The list includes:
Bing W. Brunton | University of Washington
Dennis Lin | Purdue University
Mason Porter | University of California, Los Angeles
Posters and Short Talks
Students or researchers will have the opportunity to submit posters or pre-recorded short talks (5 minutes) that will be available during the entire duration of the conference on the website of the meeting and in our virtual rooms. Please, encourage your students to submit their work, as it is a good occasion for them to get broader recognition for their awesome skills!
Panel
The last day of the conference will see a panel discussion on the theme of data science with representatives from academia and industry.
Data Science for the Biological Sciences Workshop
During the conference, we will hold a workshop on the use of R to answer questions emerging in biology. The lectures are tailored for students in the biological sciences, but are open to the general audience.
Data-Driven Dynamical Systems Workshop
We will also hold a workshop on data-driven dynamical systems. The lectures are tailored for undergraduate and early graduate students.
The advancement of technology and specifically the availability of a greater than ever computational power have given rise in recent years to the conditions necessary for the birth of the new research area of Data Science.
Data Science is an interdisciplinary field which joins together ideas and tools from Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, and Software Engineering, among others, and which bases its most important conclusions on evidence coming from data.
Data Science has revolutionized research methodology in health science, biology, economics, social sciences, climatology, and several more of the social and hard sciences. The results produced by this new paradigm have been extraordinary and can be seen in our everyday life. Personalized Medicine, Self-Driving Cars, fingerprint/image recognition, and GPS navigation are all products of the Data Science revolution.
Beautifully enough, these exciting results and the remarkably effective techniques of Data Science are not only largely accessible to non-experts, undergraduate and graduate students, and practitioners, but also benefit from this interaction of researchers coming from academia, industry, government organizations, and local communities.
The Data Science Week 2024 is the 6th edition of the Data Science Week at Purdue University Fort Wayne and is intended to bring together the different populations in the metropolitan Fort Wayne region that work in Data Science and to demonstrate to our students the important role that Data Science plays in our everyday life and research.