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COMBINE 2025

Pyle Center 702 Langdon Street, Madison

Computational Modeling in Biology (COMBINE) 2025 will be a workshop-style event hosted by the University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA.

Intro to Docker/Podman

Learn Skills for Research Software Engineering. This session aims to introduce the use of Docker containers with the goal of using them to effect reproducible computational environments. Such environments are useful for ensuring reproducible research outputs. CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-10-01-uwmadison-mini/

Michelle Thaller: Cosmic Treasures

Discovery Building 330 North Orchard Street, Orchard View Room, Madison

Chasing Asteroids for Clues to the Origins of LifeJoin Michelle Thaller, former NASA science communicator, for an evening exploring the origins of life. Thaller, in conversation with Eric Wilcots, Dean of the College of Letters & Sciences and Professor in the Dept of Astronomy, will talk about the OSIRIS-REx mission – an audacious project to return a sample from an asteroid. No problem, right? Just chase down a small rock 200 million miles away, traveling literally faster than a speeding bullet, vacuum up a sample of its surface, and shoot it back to Earth. The story turned out to be more [...]