Second week schedule



Date
Event
BC Data Science Workshop
Location
UBC Robson Street campus

Schedule

The second week material will take place downtown at the UBC Robson Street campus. Event rooms at this location will be clarified in the tables below. Though it should be straightforward to find event rooms, a UBC Robson floor plan is available. For more information on the advanced lecture material, visit the abstracts linked to in the schedule below. For lecture notes and associated materials, visit the GitHub repository for the workshop.

Day 1: Monday August 21

Start End Location Title Speaker
10:20 10:24 Outside Solar eclipse!
10:30 11:30 C680 Industry Mentor Presentation Soyean Kim
11:30 12:30 C680 Industry Mentor Presentation Nathan Vadeboncoeur
12:30 13:30 Lunch
13:30 14:30 C680 Industry Mentor Presentation Roger Donaldson
14:30 15:30 C680 Industry Mentor Presentation Borhan Sanandaji
15:30 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 17:00 C680 Industry Mentor Presentation Cory Simon

Day 2: Tuesday August 22

Start End Location Title Speaker Description
10:00 11:00 C680 Advanced Lecture Paul Tupper Data Science in Linguistics: Extracting Phonotactics from Word Lists
11:00 12:00 C680 Advanced Lecture Sally Otto Inferring the Past for Traits that Alter Speciation and Extinction
12:00 C010, C671, C673, C675, C677 Capstone Group Projects

Day 3: Wednesday August 23

Start End Location Title Speaker Description
10:00 12:00 C680 Advanced Lecture Ben Adcock An Introduction to Compressed Sensing and Sparse Recovery Techniques
12:00 C010, C671, C673, C675, C677 Capstone Group Projects

Day 4: Thursday August 24

Start End Location Title Speaker Description
10:00 14:00 C010, C671, C673, C675, C677 Capstone Group Projects
14:00 15:00 C680 Advanced Lecture Bhushan Gopaluni Sequential Monte Carlo for Statistical Inference
15:00 C010, C671, C673, C675, C677 Capstone Group Projects

Day 5: Friday August 25

Start End Location Title Team Project
09:00 12:00 C010, C671, C673, C675, C677 Capstone Group Projects
12:00 13:30 Lunch
13:30 14:00 C680 Group Project Presentation BC Safety Authority A Risk-Based Platform for Accident Prevention
14:00 14:30 C680 Group Project Presentation Smart Shores High-Resolution Shoreline data for Flood Protection and Environmental Conservation
14:30 15:00 C680 Group Project Presentation Midvale Data-Driven Modeling of Video Compression
15:00 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 16:00 C680 Group Project Presentation Mojio Data Insights from Vehicle Time Series Messages
16:00 16:30 C680 Group Project Presentation Altius Institute Elucidating Enhancer-Promoter Gene Expression Using ConvNets
17:00 19:00 Reception