Symposium 2018

Symposium on Big Data, Human Health and Statistics

July 26-27, 2018

Overview

The Big Data Summer Institute's concluding symposium and workshop serves as a CAPSTONE event for the six-week-long program. The symposium is open to the public. The registration fee is $25 for students and $50 for non-students. Breakfast and lunch are provided. Those interested in applying for graduate school are encouraged to attend the professional development workshop on July 27.

 

July 26

University of Michigan School of Public Health

Room 1680 and 1690

1415 Washington Heights

Ann Arbor, MI 48109

 

Time	Activity
8:30am	Breakfast
9:00am	Welcome & Opening Remarks
9:15am	Big Data + Models of Human Choice Applied to Online Dating Fred Feinberg, PhD - Joseph Handleman Professor and Chair of Marketing; Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan
9:45am	Big Data in the Social Sciences Rocio Titunik, PhD - James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan
10:15am	Coffee Break
10:30am	Calibration Concordance: using a common "pair of glasses" to explore the Universe Yang Chen, PhD - Assistant Professor of Statistics; Research Assistant Professor of MIDAS, University of Michigan
11:00am	Detecting epistasis in large-scale genetic mapping studies Xiang Zhou, PhD - Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
11:30am	Linking Tumor-derived Phenotype information with Genetics for Personalized Medicine Arvind Rao, PhD - Associate Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics; Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan
12:00pm	Data Science & Predictive Health Analytics Ivo Dinov, PhD - Professor, Nursing; Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics; Associate Director for Education and Training, MIDAS, University of Michigan
12:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Undergraduate Poster Session
2:30pm	Tea Break
2:45pm	Undergraduate Lightning Talks
4:15pm	A Humanist Approach to Data Science Keynote Speaker Rachel Schutt, PhD - Managing Director, Data Science at BlackRock
5:30pm	Conference Dinner (by invitation only)

July 27

University of Michigan School of Public Health
Room 1680 and 1690
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

 

Time	Activity
8:30am	Breakfast
9:00am	Preparation for Graduate School Workshop Conducted by Princeton Review
11:00am	Statistics Department Admissions Panel
12:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Biostatistics Admissions Panel
2:00pm	Evaluations
2:30pm	Journey Lecture by Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD and Concluding Ceremony (BDSI cohort only)