[ECOLOG-L] FW: NSF Graduate Data Science Workshop Community Building, 2015

2015-06-17 Thread Teresa Mourad
From: David A. C. Beck [mailto:d...@uw.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2015 5:32 PM
Subject: NSF Graduate Data Science Workshop  Community Building, 2015

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
NSF Graduate Data Science Workshop  Community Building, 2015
Seattle, August 5-7th
http://depts.washington.edu/dswkshp/

Overview: The NSF-sponsored Graduate Data Science Workshop will bring together 
100 graduate students from diverse domain sciences and engineering with Data 
Scientists from industry and academia to discuss and collaborate on Big Data / 
Data Science challenges.

Participation: To participate in the workshop, submit a white paper in PDF 
format that describes a Big Data / Data Science challenge faced by your 
scientific or engineering discipline or an idea for a new tool or method 
addressing Big Data / Data Science problem. White papers will be reviewed using 
NSF scoring criteria and attendees will be selected based on the strength of 
their position papers. If you are selected for attendance, you must bring a 
poster to present on one of either of the two poster presentation sessions. The 
authors of the very highest scoring white papers will be invited to give 
lightning talks of a few slides during the plenary session to describe their 
challenges or methods. The white paper submission deadline is June 22nd, 2015. 
Invitees will be notified on July 1st, 2015.

Program: In addition to keynote presentations from high profile speakers, the 
participants will present posters covering their own research and work 
collaboratively to begin to solve some of the Grand Challenge problems facing 
Data Enabled Science  Engineering disciplines.

Community building: After the workshop, the output from the collaborative teams 
will be published in an open access environment. Through the shared work at the 
workshop and beyond, the participants will form lasting, collaborative 
relationships with their peers and the senior academia partners and industry 
participants including those from companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

Travel awards: If you are invited to participate, travel support of up to 
$1,000 will be available which can be used to cover the registration and 
lodging fees in addition to airfare. Most meals are included. Workshop 
registration is $200. Lodging is $123 (two beds), $195 (single) for two nights.

Organizers:

General Chair
David A. C. Beck, PhD, (University of Washington, Chemical Engineering)

Local Arrangements Chair
Jennifer Worrell

Steering Committee
Ginger Armbrust, PhD, (University of Washington, Oceanography)
Magdalena Balazinska, PhD, (University of Washington, Computer Science  
Engineering)
Andrew Connolly, PhD (University of Washington, Astronomy)


[ECOLOG-L] FW: NSF Graduate Data Science Workshop Community Building, 2015

2015-06-17 Thread Cliff Duke
Subject: NSF Graduate Data Science Workshop  Community Building, 2015

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 
NSF Graduate Data Science Workshop  Community Building, 2015
Seattle, August 5-7th
http://depts.washington.edu/dswkshp/

Overview: The NSF-sponsored Graduate Data Science Workshop will bring together 
100 graduate students from diverse domain sciences and engineering with Data 
Scientists from industry and academia to discuss and collaborate on Big Data / 
Data Science challenges.

Participation: To participate in the workshop, submit a white paper in PDF 
format that describes a Big Data / Data Science challenge faced by your 
scientific or engineering discipline or an idea for a new tool or method 
addressing Big Data / Data Science problem. White papers will be reviewed using 
NSF scoring criteria and attendees will be selected based on the strength of 
their position papers. If you are selected for attendance, you must bring a 
poster to present on one of either of the two poster presentation sessions. The 
authors of the very highest scoring white papers will be invited to give 
lightning talks of a few slides during the plenary session to describe their 
challenges or methods. The white paper submission deadline is June 22nd, 2015. 
Invitees will be notified on July 1st, 2015.

Program: In addition to keynote presentations from high profile speakers, the 
participants will present posters covering their own research and work 
collaboratively to begin to solve some of the Grand Challenge problems facing 
Data Enabled Science  Engineering disciplines.

Community building: After the workshop, the output from the collaborative teams 
will be published in an open access environment. Through the shared work at the 
workshop and beyond, the participants will form lasting, collaborative 
relationships with their peers and the senior academia partners and industry 
participants including those from companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
Travel awards: If you are invited to participate, travel support of up to 
$1,000 will be available which can be used to cover the registration and 
lodging fees in addition to airfare. Most meals are included. Workshop 
registration is $200. Lodging is $123 (two beds), $195 (single) for two nights.
Organizers:
General Chair
David A. C. Beck, PhD, (University of Washington, Chemical Engineering)
Local Arrangements Chair
Jennifer Worrell
Steering Committee
Ginger Armbrust, PhD, (University of Washington, Oceanography)
Magdalena Balazinska, PhD, (University of Washington, Computer Science  
Engineering)
Andrew Connolly, PhD (University of Washington, Astronomy)