WID Seminar Series: The Gradual Emergency of Complexity During Origins of Life
2024-10-22 13:00 - 14:15 (America/Chicago) | 3rd Floor Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
Presented by the David Baum Lab, with into by John Denu. The Gradual Emergency of Complexity During Origins of Life
Presented by the David Baum Lab, with introduction by John Denu
Discovering simplicity in complex systems at the intersection of digital and natural worlds. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments served. Online also available.
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96326864622

Docker Workshop
2024-10-23 09:00 - 13:00, 2024-10-24 09:00 - 13:00
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, for example.
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2024-09-25-uwmadison-mini/

AWS SageMaker Immersion Day
2024-10-23 09:30 - 11:30 | 1240 Computer Sciences
Train and Tune ML Models in the Cloud.
CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu
URL: https://forms.gle/9FEQ2EXfqk334Mj76

Indigenous Art: Reclaiming Space, Reclaiming Stories Opening Reception
2024-11-01 18:30 - 20:00 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
Join us for Native November Art Gallery Opening on Nov 1, 6:30-8 PM at Hub Central. Art, food, and music celebrating Indigenous voices!

You’re Invited: Native November Art Gallery Opening
Join us on November 1, 2024, for a groundbreaking celebration at Hub Central, First Floor of the Discovery Building, from 6:30 – 8:00 PM.

Meet the Artists
Enjoy Food and Non-Alcoholic Refreshments
Free Admission – RSVP Encouraged

This year, Native November kicks off with a public art gallery opening, featuring incredible student art, live music, and delicious food. Indigenous students across UW have created culturally informed art as part of their mental health and wellness journeys, and now they are ready to share it with the broader UW and public communities.

With the generous sponsorship of University Health Services, Native Nations UW, and the Illuminating Discovery Hub at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, we are honored to offer this unique experience. This event creates a space for reflection, healing, and celebration of the Indigenous experience on ancestral homelands. By turning land acknowledgments into tangible action, we proudly contribute to a deeper recognition of history, culture, and resilience, offering a place for voices to be heard and stories to be shared in the spirit of community and healing.
Featured artists include:
Wrigley BastianWould You Understand?2024Poetry
Jami BalickiSplit Ends2024Digital Photograph
Ava Belislethey love each other (teyutatnolúkwa’)2024Digital Art
Julia GnadtMusic as Medicine2024Gouache on Vinyl
Wylie KnightUntitled2024Acrylic on Canvas
Jada JamesUntitled2022Prisma Color Pencil on paper
Isabella Escobar-AvilesTBA
Ana Gabriela Escobar-AvilesWhat We Share2024Drawing on paper
Julien FrancourKunolúkwah2024Acrylic paint on canvas

Help us celebrate Indigenous students as they bravely share their heritage, stories, and mental health journeys through their artwork.
We look forward to seeing you there!

Reclaiming Space, Reclaiming Stories
2024-11-01 18:30 - 20:00 | Hub Central, Discovery Building
Native November Indigenous Art Gallery Opening. As part of Native November, this gallery opening features 11 student-created art pieces that explore how Indigenous students across UW–Madison have found grounding and purpose through culturally informed art to enhance their mental health practices. By sharing their work, these students are indigenizing space on campus, celebrating their heritage, and inviting the larger UW and public community to engage with the powerful connection between culture and mental well-being.
CONTACT: lredeagle@wisc.edu
URL: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indigenous-art-reclaiming-space-reclaiming-stories-opening-reception-tickets-1031338841237

AI for Music and the Humanities: Insights and Impacts
2024-11-05 12:00 - 13:00 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
ML+X: Machine Learning Beyond Traditional CS Fields.
CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu
URL: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/forms.gle/RPM3fNhz98RzVaq3A__;!!Mak6IKo!LxsjxXXtgFEgc_E5u9evQwc7rsRhD9oqC4kpCcw7tYLIoyLWzUZTnRbqyT4I1kUZZRV_Q27gIc5KdNCZLv46nmIZzYvmL3IPA0k_Yw$
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92639425571?pwd=Z0tCaWZxK0dDcWs2dm51dXZpcy9mQT09

ML+Coffee
2024-11-06 09:00 - 11:00, 2024-12-11 09:00 - 11:00 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
Machine Learning Community Event.
CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu

Interactive Data Visualizations in Python
2024-11-06 09:00 - 13:00
Creating Data Dashboards with Streamlit. This workshop lesson is an introduction to making interactive data visualizations in Python. Learners will create a new environment using conda, wrangle data into the proper format using pandas library, create visualizations using the Plotly Python library, and display these visualizations and create widgets using Streamlit.
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2024-09-25-uwmadison-mini/

2024 WID Symposium
2024-11-13 08:00 - 17:00 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
Annual Symposium for Wisconsin Institute for Discovery resident working groups and affiliates. Portions open to the public.

The WID 2024 Symposium, scheduled for November 13th at the Discovery Building, is a day-long event dedicated to the exploration of change in complex systems in digital and natural environments. This gathering serves as an opportunity for researchers at every career stage, to showcase their ongoing work, foster relationships, strengthen WID’s internal network, and promote collaboration in pursuit of our interdisciplinary research goals.
The event will include breakfast, lightning talks, Wiley Award ceremony, lunch/workshop, poster session, music, and a celebratory reception to acknowledge our collective achievements. Furthermore, we will continue to support WID’s focus on embodying our outward-facing direction and core values: Interdisciplinary Research, Inclusive Engagement, Global Impact, and Grand Challenges.
With participation from our entire 200-member WID team, this event offers an excellent platform to highlight our partnerships.

SCHEDULE
8:00 – 8:30 AM – Breakfast (Open Court Central)
8:25 – 8:30 AM – Introduction by MC’s Martel DenHartog and Natalia Rosario-Meléndez
8:30 – 9:00 AM – Jo Handelsman, Director of Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
9:00 – 9:05 AM – MC introduction of lightning talks
9:05 – 10:10 AM – Lightning talks
10:10-10:20 AM – Em Craft, Generative Artificial Intelligence @ UW–Madison
10:20 – 10:30 AM – Break
10:30 – 11:20 AM – Climate Change, Fire, and the Uncertain Future of Yellowstone’s ForestsKeynote Speaker: Monica Turner, Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology and Vilas Research Professor, Department of Integrative Biology
11:20 – 11:30 AM – Break
11:30-11:35 AM – Group Photo
11:35AM-12 PM – MC introduction of Wiley Awards, Andrew Hanus, Director of Illuminating Discovery Hub
12-12:55 PM – Lunch (Open Main Court, Open Wall 5)
1:00 -2:00 PM – Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session 1: VR/AR demos up can only do 1:00 – 1:50 with CAAV, Orchard View
Breakout Session 2: AI and Art Facilitated by Bryce Spencer, DeLuca Forum
Breakout Session 3: Working with an Editor, Michelle Wildgen, Room 1145

2:10 – 2:30 PM – Musical Performance: The Lab Notes (a WID ensemble)
2:30 – 2:35 PM – MC ending remarks and introduction of afternoon Poster Sessions and Reception
2:35 – 2:45 PM – Break/Poster Session A (Odd) set-up
2:45 – 3:30 PM – Poster A session
3:30 PM – Reception begins
3:45-4:30 PM -Poster B (Even) session begins
4:30 – 5:00 PM- Clean up

WID Symposium Public Expo
2024-11-13 15:00 - 17:00 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States

Data Science Hub Fall 2024 Mini-workshop series
2024-11-20 09:00 - 13:00
A series of 4 computational workshops on various topics

Intro to Machine Learning
2024-11-20 09:00 - 13:00, 2024-11-21 09:00 - 13:00
An introduction to machine learning in python using sklearn
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2024-09-25-uwmadison-mini/

Crossroads of Ideas: Growing Without Gravity
2024-11-21 19:00 - 20:00 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
Can plants thrive amid the zero-gravity chaos of space? Could the stars themselves hold the recipe for life? Join Crossroads to find out!

Ready to leave Earthly bounds behind? Join us for an absolutely out-of-this-world Crossroads of Ideas, where astrobiology and astrochemistry come together in cosmic fashion! Plant biologist Dr. Simon Gilroy and astrochemist Dr. Susanna Widicus Weaver are your guides for an evening of star-studded discovery, diving into everything from the surprising resilience of plants in space to the chemistry that could hint at life beyond our planet. Moderated by Eric Wilcots, this event will tackle cosmic questions like: How do plants handle the zero-gravity chaos of space? Could the stars themselves hold the recipe for life? With Gilroy’s upcoming plant experiment on the International Space Station and Weaver’s quest to uncover the secrets of interstellar molecules, this is more than a talk—it’s an invitation to explore life’s mysteries among the stars!

Guest presenters Simon Gilroy, Susanna Widicus Weaver, and moderated by Eric Wilcots.
Dr. Simon Gilroy is a plant biologist whose research seeks to understand how plants and microbes respond to the alien world of spaceflight. He received his bachelor’s degree in botany from the university of Cambridge in England and a Ph.D. in plant biochemistry from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He pursued postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley before becoming a faculty member at PennState and then moving to his current position in the Department of Botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007. He is a fellow of the American Society for the Advancement of Science and a recipient UW-Madison’s Bassam Shakashiri Public Science Engagement Award. He serves on NASA’s Biological and Physical Sciences Advisory Committee and is currently preparing to send his seventh plant experiment to the International Space Station in March 2025.

Susanna Widicus Weaver, Vozza Professor of Chemistry and Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin, is an expert in prebiotic astrochemistry. Her research, combining laboratory spectroscopy, observational astronomy, and chemical modeling, is aimed at understanding the mechanisms driving interstellar chemistry and the pathways for the formation of life. She received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Illinois Wesleyan University (2000) and her Ph.D. in chemistry at Caltech (2005). She was a postdoctoral fellow in Chemistry and Astronomy at the University of Illinois from 2005-2008. Before moving to Wisconsin in 2020, she was a Professor of Chemistry at Emory University. She is the Provisional Director of the Wisconsin Center for Origins Research at UW-Madison. She is also a member of the Chemical Sciences Roundtable at the National Academy of Sciences.

We value inclusion and access for all participants. If you would like to request reasonable accommodations to enhance your participation experience, please email idhub@wid.wisc.edu no later than 2 weeks prior to the event. This event is wheelchair accessible.

A Fireside Chat with American Family Insurance, Data Science Team
2024-11-21 19:00 - 20:00 | 1240 Computer Sciences
AmFam is coming to campus!. AI@UW is hosting an exciting Fireside Chat with 5 guest speakers from American Family Insurance.
This event is open to all students interested in data science, AI, and career insights from industry professionals.
What: Fireside Chat with AmFam – Explore AI & Data Science Careers
Guest speakers
Zachary Rottier | Enterprise Data Science Director
Jason Giesler | Senior Data Science Manager
Kevin D Burke | Lead Data Scientist
Olson Pokie | Data Science Manager
Tekin Ender | Principal Data Scientist
CONTACT: 425-766-7355, debojp@wisc.edu
URL: https://forms.gle/BvpuDYLWqZJSDXAb6

SoundWaves: Developing Ideas, Part 2
2024-11-22 19:30 - 21:00 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
Explore how trends, plans, viewpoints, projects, materials, and sounds develop. Where we are and where we might be headed in the future.

How do babies develop language? How are new drugs developed? How did we go from no universe to the universe we know and love? And how does cancer develop in our bodies? How does a musician write a piece of music for himself to play? Find out as SoundWaves continues its yearlong exploration of Development: where are we now, how did we get here, and where might we go?
SoundWaves combines scientific lectures about the world with live classical music performances. Each event revolves around a theme, exploring it first from many scientific angles and then through the lens of music. The program concludes with a live performance of music related to the evening’s theme.
This episode, our musical guest is Tom Curry, Mead Witter School of Music Teaching Faculty, Tuba and Euphonium. Curry is currently the tubist in the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, a faculty ensemble-in-residence at the Mead Witter School of Music, and has performed with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the Madison Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Joffrey Ballet, the Chicago Philharmonic and many other orchestras.
Join him and our scientific experts as we continue Developing Ideas, Part 2:
Jennifer Golden, pharmacy
Jenny Safran, psychology
Peter Timbie, physics
Jose Ayuso, dermatology
Daniel Grabois, music and host
This event will take place in the DeLuca Forum in the Discovery Building. This is a free event, however registration is requested to ensure adequate seating.

We value inclusion and access for all participants. If you would like to request reasonable accommodations to enhance your participation experience, please email https://mailto: idhub@wid.wisc.edu no later than 2 weeks prior to the event. This event is wheelchair accessible.

WID Seminar Series
2024-11-26 13:00 - 14:15 | 3rd Floor Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
Discovering simplicity in complex systems at the intersection of digital and natural worlds.
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96326864622

Trustworthy AI
2024-12-02 09:00 - 13:00
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2024-12-02-uwmadison-trustworthyai/

This lesson equips participants with trustworthy AI/ML practices, emphasizing fairness, explainability, reproducibility, accountability, and safety across three general data/model modalities: structured data (tabular), natural language processing (NLP), and computer vision. Participants will learn to evaluate and enhance the trustworthiness and reliability of models in each modality. Additionally, they will explore how to integrate these principles into future models, bridging ethical practices with practical applications in their research.
This is a pilot workshop, testing out a lesson that is still under development. The lesson authors would appreciate any feedback you can give them about the lesson content and suggestions for how it could be further improved.
Who: The course is aimed at graduate students and other researchers at UW Madison. Participants must have experience using Python and a basic understanding of machine learning (e.g., familiar with the concepts like train/test split and cross-validation) and should have trained at least one model in the past. Prior experience training neural networks is recommended to get the most out of this workshop.
Where: This training will take place online. The instructors will provide you with the information you will need to connect to this meeting.
When: Dec 2-4, 2024; 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Add to your Google Calendar.

Trustworthy AI
2024-12-03 09:00 - 13:00, 2024-12-04 09:00 - 13:00
Learn Responsible Machine Learning Practices.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2024-12-02-uwmadison-trustworthyai/

Crossroads of Ideas: Communicating through Creativity
2024-12-03 19:00 - 20:00 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
Explore how art and science intersect as experts reveal creative ways to deepen our understanding of culture, justice, and science!

Join us for Crossroads of Ideas: Communicating through Creativity, a dynamic fireside chat that explores the intersection of art and science in shaping perspectives and values. Featuring Nan Li, an expert in science communication who leverages art to inform and influence public opinion; Casey Fletcher, who focuses on culture, justice, and diversity through creative expression; and mural artist Sonya Sankaran, who bridges the gap by using art as a medium to illuminate scientific concepts. Together, they’ll dive into how creative approaches can deepen our understanding and appreciation of the world around us.

We value inclusion and access for all participants. If you would like to request reasonable accommodations to enhance your participation experience, please email idhub@wid.wisc.edu no later than 2 weeks prior to the event. This event is wheelchair accessible.

ML+X Forum: Applied Machine Learning
2024-12-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
Machine Learning Beyond Traditional CS Fields.
CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92639425571?pwd=Z0tCaWZxK0dDcWs2dm51dXZpcy9mQT09

WID Seminar Series: Yin Lab
2024-12-20 10:00 - 11:00 | 3rd Floor Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
Molecular information processing: from COVID to the chemical origins of life. Featuring: Nan Jiang, PhD candidate in Biophysics, Chung-Hui Hsu, PhD Candidate in Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Dr. John Yin. Special introduction by Dr. Tim Rogers, Psychology. Light refreshments will be served and an online option is available.
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96326864622

Software Carpentry
2025-01-13 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-14 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-15 09:00 - 13:00, 2025-01-16 09:00 - 13:00
Learn Skills for Research Software Engineering. Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-01-13-uwmadison-swc/

Software Carpentry
2025-01-13 09:00 - 2025-01-16 13:00
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-01-13-uwmadison-swc/
