Working Groups

EPSCoR Track-2 Genome to Phenome (GenoPheno)

Working Group leader: Marty Ytreberg

Group members: Andreas Vasdekis, Craig Miller, Tanya Miura, Paul Rowley, Holly Wichman, Chris Marx, Jagdish Patel, JT Van Leuven, Jean-Marc Gauthier, Brian Clevely, Brenda Rubenstein, Dan Weinreich, Mandar Naik, Brent Lockwood, Melissa Pespeni

Originated: October 2018

Description:

The purpose of this working group is to discuss issues that are potentially important to all 50ish members of the EPSCoR Track-2 project. The goal of this group is to meet approximately bi-weekly during the academic year to discuss relevant topics to the project, e.g., publishing, grantsmanship, reporting, etc.

The full group met together for the first time in June, 2018.

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Reproducibility in Sciences Working Group Highlighted

The CMCI Working Group, Reproducibility in Sciences or SciRep for short, was recently highlighted in the Lewiston Tribune. The group is comprised of a marketer, a philosopher, a statistician and a computer scientist. They are looking for ways to improve traditional research methods by examining an emerging pattern that shows results from many scientific studies can’t be reproduced.

Group leader Berna Devezer is an associate professor of marketing who enjoys thinking about theoretical problems. “Science is not that linear,” says Devezer. “It progresses in a very chaotic manner. You cannot really trace where knowledge came from. It goes through so many different processes.”

Read the entire article here.

Devezer presented her work to university leadership and donors at the IRIC during Homecoming weekend.

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Machine Learning (ML)

Working Group leader: Fuchang (Frank) Gao and Audrey Fu

Group members: Audrey Fu, Min Xian, Aleksandar Vakanski, Linh Nguyen, Boyu Zhang, Esteban Hernandez Vargas

Originated: August 2018

Description:

This group studies various machine learning methods/models and their application with two primary goals:

Bring together researchers on machine learning and discuss the most recent models/algorithms/applications.
To facilitate research collaboration among participants from different disciplines.

Dr. Gao states, “It is important that CMCI continue to support this kind of working group which facilitates the collaboration among researchers from different disciplines. It also creates a learning and research atmosphere of data science on campus.”

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Seeking Summer Brown Bag Lunch Presenters and Talks

As summer begins, please note that the CMCI Brown Bag Lunches will continue on Mondays at 12:30pm in the Collaboratorium (IRIC 352).

BBLs are a great opportunity for Working Groups to present updates on what they’ve been doing during the academic year or what they plan on doing in the future. If you are the leader of a working group, please inspire someone to present such an update over the summer.

Also, if anyone has a presentation that they need to practice for a conference, or just wants to roll around a few ideas with a bunch of really smart people, please let Celeste Brown know and she will schedule you for a lunch talk.

Talks do not need to be more than 30 minutes, less if you think there will be a lot of good discussion around your topic.

Please contact Celeste if you are interested or if you have any questions. All dates starting June 4 are open!!

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CMCI Calendar Updates

If you have had recurring working group reservations in the Collaboratorium for the Spring 2018 semester, please be aware that most have ended and you will need to make a new reservation if you plan on meeting through the summer.

You can see all current working groups on the CMCI calendar.

If you would like to make a reservation for the Collaboratorium, please fill out this form.

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