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SUMMARY:Performance:Vinson Lam & Mitty Ma\, carillon
DESCRIPTION:Vinson Lam & Mitty Ma perform on the Charles Baird Carillon\, an instrument of 53 bronze bells located inside the Burton Memorial Tower. Mitty Ma will be performing her arrangements of Chinese *bianzhong* music.\n\nThirty-minute recitals are performed on the Charles Baird Carillon at noon every weekday that classes are in session\, followed by visitor Q&A with the carillonist. The bell chamber may be accessed via a combination of elevator and stairs. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8)\, and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10). Hearing protection earmuffs are available for visitors. Be prepared to walk on ice and snow in the bell chamber during winter. Built in 1936\, the Charles Baird Carillon is not ADA accessible. Visitors with mobility concerns are invited to visit the Lurie Carillon: https://smtd.umich.edu/facilities/ann-and-robert-h-lurie-carillon/
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/126372
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Music,Talk
LOCATION:Burton Memorial Tower
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DTSTAMP:20241121T150539
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:DREAM Challenges Info Session
DESCRIPTION:Co-Director\, Dr. Adi L. Tarca will deliver a talk: Crowdsourcing-based Assessment of Machine Learning in Genomics followed by Q & A with MDS students Yikun Han and Zehua Wang (and faculty advisor Prof. Ambuj Tewari)\, who placed top (in a remarkable 4-way tie for 1st place) in the international DREAM Challenge this year.\n\nDREAM Challenges use crowd-sourcing to solve complex biomedical research questions. Questions can be in any field as long as they are of broad interest to the research community and finding solutions can have a high impact on human health or understanding biological questions. Researchers from around the world can propose questions\, which the DREAM Challenge Directors then evaluate. Over 30\,000 individuals from around the world – with vastly diverse backgrounds and multi-disciplinary interests – have participated in or benefited from our Challenges.\n\nDr. Adi L. Tarca’s research interests lie at the intersection of computational biology\, machine learning\, and maternal-fetal medicine. He serves as a tenured Professor in the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics at Wayne State University (WSU). Previously\, until 2023\, he was the founding Head of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Unit at the Perinatology Research Branch (NICHD/NIH). Dr. Tarca earned his PhD from Laval University\, Quebec\, where he developed methods for integrating qualitative prior knowledge into neural network training. After transitioning to bioinformatics\, he developed several methods and R/Bioconductor software packages for omics data preprocessing\, pathway analysis\, and predictive modeling. \n\nDr. Tarca’s machine learning pipelines for genomics have achieved top rankings in several prestigious competitions\, including the sbv IMPROVER Diagnostic Signature Challenge (2012)\, Species Translation Challenge (2013)\, Systems Toxicology Challenge (2016)\, and DREAM Single-cell Transcriptomics Challenge (2018). More recently\, he led the DREAM Preterm Birth Prediction Challenge: Transcriptomics (2019) and the Placental Clock DREAM Challenge (2024)\, pioneering efforts to develop predictive tools for obstetrical diseases. This year\, he joined the board of directors of DREAM Challenges\, supporting the community in advancing machine learning applications in biology. Dr. Tarca has published over 225 articles and patents\, with his work receiving more than 16\,000 citations (h-index 66).
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/129373
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:statistics
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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