Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

SIAM/ACMS Seminar
2024-07-03 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | TITU, Memorial Union
Sebastien Reich (Potsdam University): The Mathematics of Nurturing a Digital Twin. Mathematically speaking, a DT can often be described as a partially observed Markov decision process (POMDP). Solving POMDPs computationally constitutes one of the most challenging problems around. Still, tremendous progress has been made in closely related fields such as data assimilation, uncertainty quantification, control and optimisation, and model reduction. A key emerging question is thus how we can successfully synthesise these advances into a tool broadly applicable to DT.

Intro to Deep Learning with Keras
2024-05-31 08:30 - 12:30, 2024-05-30 08:30 - 12:30, 2024-05-29 08:30 - 12:30 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
This is an hands-on introduction to deep learning and its implementation in Keras, intended for anyone familiar with machine learning.. The use of deep learning has seen a sharp increase of popularity and applicability over the last decade. While deep learning can be a useful tool for researchers from a wide range of domains, taking the first steps in the world of deep learning can be somewhat intimidating. This introduction aims to cover the basics of deep learning in a practical and hands-on manner, so that upon completion, you will be able to train your first neural network and understand what next steps to take to improve th
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-deep-learning-with-keras-tickets-887885337947?aff=oddtdtcreator

WID Seminar Series
2024-05-21 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-04-30 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-03-26 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-02-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Orchard View Room 3280, Discovery Building
Resilience, Robustness and Adaptability. Wisconsin Institute for Discovery's second year exploring resilience, robustness and adaptability in complex systems through faculty and guest seminars.

Indigenous Language Table
2024-05-15 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-05-08 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-05-01 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-04-24 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-04-17 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-04-10 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-04-03 13:00 - 14:00, 2024-03-27 13:00 - 14:00 and 5 more dates | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
Open Language Table for Indigenous Languages. Most Wednesdays on the first floor of the Discovery Building and hosted by the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery ID Hub in Room 1145. An Indigenous Language Table is designed to enable language learners to develop spoken language skills outside of the classroom setting, build community, strengthen language purpose, and normalize indigenous language with representation. All learners are welcome to attend!
CONTACT: lredeagle@wisc.edu
URL: https://illuminatingdiscovery.wisc.edu/indigenous-language-table/

EVIL Reading Group
2024-05-10 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-04-19 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-03-29 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-03-08 12:00 - 13:00, 2024-02-16 12:00 - 13:00 | (Online)
The Ethics, Values, Information, and Law (EVIL) reading group pursues scholarship in the intersections of ethics, law, and data and information technologies. The EVIL Reading group meets every three weeks (roughly), Fridays, online, and is hosted in collaboration with the iSchool and ML+X.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://go.wisc.edu/7319a8
ONLINE: https://go.wisc.edu/7319a8

Text Analysis Workshop
2024-03-28 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-03-27 09:00 - 12:30, 2024-03-26 09:00 - 12:30
Practical Introduction to Text Analysis using Python. Join this recently developed Carpentries workshop for a practical Introduction to Text Analysis, designed for those with Python experience (how to create functions, for loops, conditional logic, use the pandas library, etc.). The workshop covers Natural Language Processing (NLP) basics, API usage, data preparation, document/word embeddings, topic modeling, Word2Vec, Transformer models using Hugging Face, and ethical considerations.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2024-03-26-uwmadison-textanalysis/

Crossroads of Ideas:
2024-02-29 19:00 - 20:00 | H.F. DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building
URL: https://illuminatingdiscovery.wisc.edu/crossroads-of-ideas/
