Posts Tagged "neuroscience"

RSVP now Wednesday, January 22, 2020  |  12:00-1:30 PM Shalala Student Center, Vista Room 308 Speaker:  Michael Mannino, PhD  |  CCS Director of Programs In this session, Dr. Michael Mannino will describe and show how  “The Virtual Brain,” a neuroinformatics package, simulates the human brain, using a computational model that explores the dynamics of large-scale brain networks, and information flow between different brain regions...

New Technology that Rapidly Sifts Through Video to Identify if Paralyzed Mice are Able to Regain Movement with Experimental Drugs A Computer Program able to Simulate Chemical Reactions that Could Help Eliminate Harmful Solvents from Polluting the Earth These are just two projects completed by students in the computer science undergraduate research program wrapping up this week at the University of Miami. Funded by the National Science...

On Friday, September 21st, the CCS Social Systems Informatics program hosted graduate students and postdocs from across the University for an afternoon of networking and flash presentations of their research, at an event titled "Connections, Connections: Student Research in Social Systems @ UM". A program created in 2015, Social Systems Informatics is about modeling (big) behavioral data to understand human and non-human social...

CCS is excited to host the Machine Learning Meetup Group for a hands-on workshop on extracting information from scientific publication metadata. Join us on Saturday, January 20th, for a deep dive into a subset of the Semantic Scholar dataset:  labs.semantic scholar.org/corpus, which represents papers in computer science, neuroscience and biomedical sciences. The meetup will start with an open discussion of the types of questions that...

Computational data analysis skills have crossed over from niche to mainstream. Join us Friday, January 6, 2017,  from 12:00 to 1:00 PM in the Lois Pope 7th floor auditorium, for a seminar by William Grisham, formerly at NSF and currently at UCLA, who developed the iNeuro Project, an effort to prepare a workforce to meet the challenge of large-scale data in neuroscience. LOCATION Lois Pope Life Center, 1095 NW 14th Terrace (map),...