Fall 2017 Seminar Series


Data Carpentry – Geospatial Analysis Workshop dates: Thursday and Friday, March 26-27, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Instructors: Erich Seamon and Travis Seaborn Description: This hands-on workshop will focus on managing and understanding spatial data formats, understanding coordinate reference systems, and working with raster and vector data in R for analysis and visualization. An introductory knowledge to R…
Linda Allen, a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Texas Tech University, will speak at 12:30 p.m. today, Aug. 30, in EP 122 as part of the IBEST/CMCI Seminar Series. Her talk is titled “Probability, Duration and Final Size of an Epidemic in Stochastic Multistage or Multigroup Models.”
The IBEST/CMCI Seminar Series for the Spring 2019 semester has been finalized. All seminars will be held in LSS 277, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Jan 24 – Aaron King, University of Michigan“Efficient Scientific Inference for Stochastic Dynamical Systems” Feb 07 – Bruce Rannala, UC Davis“The Species Delimitation Dilemma” Mar 28 – Peter Ralph, University of…
Software Carpentry: Unix, Git, and Python for Novices Workshop dates: Thursday and Friday, January 30-31, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Instructors: Amanda Stahlke, Breanna Sipley, Salvador (Chava) Castaneda Barba, and Clint Elg Description: 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…
The Office of Research and Economic Development is sponsoring Short and Sweet Talks from 4-7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 4, in the IRIC Step Auditorium. Faculty from across campus will present on a variety of internationally-focused research projects. Each talk will include 20 easy-to-understand slides and each of those slides will be timed to 20 seconds. The…
Dr. Aaron King, a professor at the University of Michigan, will present the first IBEST/CMCI Seminar of the semester on Thursday, January 24 at 12:30 p.m. in LSS 277. Dr. King is interested in studying evolution and ecology at long temporal and spatial scales using stochastic approaches. He’s done work on disease modeling and method/model/software…