Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

WID Seminar Series - Schloss Visual Reasoning Lab
2025-04-29 13:00 - 14:15 (America/Chicago) | 3rd Floor Orchard View Room, Discovery Building (Also offered online)
Perceptual Semantics for Visual and Haptic Communication. Join us for our final WID Seminar of the year with:
Kushin Mukherjee and Anna Chinni from the Schloss Visual Reasoning Lab as they present "Perceptual Semantics for Visual and Haptic Communication." Special introduction by Claudia Solís-Lemus, Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology. Light refreshments served.
CONTACT: 316-4325, lredeagle@wisc.edu
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/96326864622

Text Analysis Workshop
2025-04-30 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-01 09:00 - 12:30
Practical introduction to text analysis, designed for those with Python experience. Join this 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. Students and researchers working in the digital humanities are especially encouraged to attend!
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-04-28-uwmadison-textanalysis/

Sci-prov
2025-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, De Luca Forum, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
Science Meets Improv Comedy

Join the Illuminating Discovery Hub and Amalgam Improv for an evening fusing science and spontaneous improv comedy like no other at Sci-Prov!
Sci-prov combines science and improv in creative, funny, and never before seen ways. Scientists Laura Hernandez and Leslie Holland will present their work in short, digestible presentations followed by brief Q&A, all of which can become fodder for the improv scenes. The improv scenes are created on the fly & unique to each show.
Light refreshments and cash bar available. Tickets are free and registration is requested to ensure adequate seating.

Parking: The closest parking ramps to the Discovery building are Lot 80 (Union South), lot 20 (Medical Science Center), and Lot 17 (Engineering/Camp Randall). Additional surface lots are also available. Please see the campus parking and transportation map for complete options.

Bus: The closest bus stop westbound is University & North Orchard (A, C, D, F, J, O, R), and eastbound is Campus at Babcock (A, C, F J, R). Free campus route 80 also stops at University & North Orchard

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.

Generative AI From Multiple Perspectives
2025-05-06 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://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepL9Gzq3brXGRdKO8_OqVr5hmX4oTHD31tjfLl_Uvur8ONiA/viewform?usp=sharing
ONLINE: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/92639425571?pwd=[REDACTED]

ML+Coffee: Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) & SQLDeps
2025-05-07 09:00 - 11:00 | 1145 Discovery Building
CONTACT: endemann@wisc.edu
URL: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepL9Gzq3brXGRdKO8_OqVr5hmX4oTHD31tjfLl_Uvur8ONiA/viewform?usp=sharing

Intro to Deep Learning with Keras
2025-05-19 09:00 - 12:30 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, De Luca Forum, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-05-19-uwmadison-DeepLearningKeras/

Intro to Deep Learning with Keras
2025-05-19 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-20 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-21 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-05-22 09:00 - 12:30 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
Hands-on introduction to the first steps in deep learning. This introduction covers 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 the model. We start with explaining the basic concepts of neural networks, and then go through the different steps of a deep learning workflow.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-05-19-uwmadison-DeepLearningKeras/

UW Research Software Engineering (RSE) Community town hall
2025-05-27 09:00 - 10:30 | Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, DeLuca Forum
Join the community and connect with others interested in Research Software Engineering (RSE) at the first UW RSE community town hall.
The goal of the UW RSE community is to share ideas, methods, and best practices to improve the way we do and share research. The UW RSE community is open to anyone at UW–Madison engaged in, or interested in, research software engineering.
CONTACT: rbemowski@wisc.edu

REU/Undergrad only Data Carpentry
2025-06-02 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-06-03 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-06-04 09:00 - 12:30, 2025-06-05 09:00 - 12:30 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
Fundamental Data Skills Workshop. Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners' existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. 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/2025-06-02-uwmadison-reudc/

REU / Undergrad Only - Data Carpentry
2025-06-02 09:00 - 12:30 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, De Luca Forum, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-06-02-uwmadison-reudc/

Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research. Its target audience is researchers who have little to no prior computational experience, and its lessons are domain specific, building on learners’ existing knowledge to enable them to quickly apply skills learned to their own research. Participants will be encouraged to help one another and to apply what they have learned to their own research problems.

Geospatial Data Carpentry Workshop
2025-06-02 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-03 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-04 13:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-05 13:00 - 17:00 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
Fundamental Data Skills Workshop. The goal of this workshop is to provide an introduction to core geospatial data concepts and dive into working with raster/vector data, including how to open, work with, and plot vector and raster-format spatial data in R. Additional topics include working with spatial metadata (extent and coordinate reference systems), reprojecting spatial data, and working with raster time series data. This lesson assumes you have some knowledge of R.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.ed
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-06-02-uwmadison-dc-geospatial/

Geospatial Data Carpentry Workshop
2025-06-02 13:00 - 17:00 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, De Luca Forum, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-06-02-uwmadison-dc-geospatial/

The goal of this workshop is to provide an introduction to core geospatial data concepts and dive into working with raster/vector data, including how to open, work with, and plot vector and raster-format spatial data in R. Additional topics include working with spatial metadata (extent and coordinate reference systems), reprojecting spatial data, and working with raster time series data. This lesson assumes you have some knowledge of R. If you’ve never used R before, or need a refresher, start with our Introduction to R for Geospatial Data lesson webpage.

REU / Undergrad Only - Software Carpentry
2025-06-09 09:00 - 16:30, 2025-06-10 09:00 - 16:30 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
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/2025-06-09-uwmadison-reuswc/

REU / Undergrad Only - Software Carpentry
2025-06-09 09:00 - 16:30 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, De Luca Forum, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-06-09-uwmadison-reuswc/

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.

Introduction to Machine Learning
2025-07-30 09:00 - 14:00, 2025-07-31 09:00 - 14:00 | Orchard View Room, Discovery Building
Get started with core machine learning concepts using Python and Scikit-Learn. This hands-on Carpentries-style workshop covers regression, clustering, ensemble methods, dimensionality reduction (PCA/t-SNE), and a brief intro to neural networks. We’ll also discuss the ethical implications of machine learning in research. Python experience required (e.g., familiarity with pandas, writing functions, for loops, and using libraries).
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-07-30-uwmadison-IntrotoML/

Introduction to Machine Learning
2025-07-30 09:00 - 14:00 | Discovery Building, 330 North Orchard Street, De Luca Forum, Madison, WI, 53715, United States
https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-07-30-uwmadison-IntrotoML/

Genomics Data Carpentry
2025-08-04 09:00 - 13:00
Fundamental Data Skills Workshop. Data Carpentry’s aim is to teach researchers basic concepts, skills, and tools for working with data so that they can get more done in less time, and with less pain. This workshop teaches data management and analysis for genomics research including: best practices for organization of bioinformatics projects and data, use of command-line utilities, use of command-line tools to analyze sequence quality and perform variant calling, connecting to and using cloud computing, and using R for analysis.
CONTACT: facilitator@datascience.wisc.edu
URL: https://uw-madison-datascience.github.io/2025-08-04-uwmadison-dc/

Genomics Data Carpentry
2025-08-04 09:00 - 2025-08-12 13:00
Data Carpentry develops and teaches workshops on the fundamental data skills needed to conduct research.
