The Michigan Institute for Data Science (MINDS) and the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE) are sponsoring a symposium bringing to campus several speakers at the forefront of data and computational science.

Speakers/schedule:

9:00 a.m. – Registration opens

9:20 a.m. – Usama Fayyad, Chief Data Officer at Barclays Bank

10:20 a.m.
Randomized matrix algorithms and large-scale scientific data analysis -- Michael W. Mahoney, ICSI and UC Berkeley

12:30 p.m.
The NEEShub: A Scalable and Reliable Cyberinfrastructure for the Earthquake Engineering Community -- Thomas Hacker, Purdue University

1:30 p.m.
The Web Changes Everything -- Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research

2:50 p.m.
Research support and data management challenges: Is there such thing as too much data? -- Sandra Cannon, Data Management Expert

For details on the talks and bios of the speakers, visit http://minds.umich.edu/seminar-series/2014-symposium/