May 2022 Newsletter

Upcoming Activities

2022-23 Programs

Fall 2022: Confronting Global Climate Change

Climate change is already seriously impacting our lives in many ways. Threats to human and natural systems will increase as our planet continues to warm. This program will explore mathematical, statistical and computational strategies to better understand both the changes to the climate system and the associated impacts. A series of workshops will focus on climate models, detection and attribution of climate change, extreme weather and climate events, remote sensing, machine learning, and the economic consequences of climate change. This program aims to foster new multidisciplinary collaborations and integrate young scientists and researchers into industry, private sector, and academic research through these workshops and embedded research projects with affiliated universities, national laboratories, and private industry.

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January 9-February 3, 2023 Interdisciplinary and Critical Data Science Motivated by Social Justice

This research collaborative is partnering with the Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity and Equity (QSIDE), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that sits at the intersection of social science, humanities research, data science, and social justice. A hallmark of QSIDE work is interdisciplinary teamwork, which fosters collaboration between data scientists, social scientists, and community experts. This working group will gather the interdisciplinary expertise needed for current QSIDE projects together for data science for social good effort to 1) explore new statistical, computational, and qualitative approaches for analyzing social justice data, 2) to incorporate current scholarship on critical digital and data, and 3) to create infrastructure for and document these interdisciplinary collaborative efforts. We will open with a public minisymposium on critical data science practices and introduce data science for social justice work. We will then work to identify projects within our goal areas and create research teams. Throughout the program, we engage in discussions on the interdisciplinary and critical data science process and invite guest speakers related to the context areas of our explorations and/or to the methodologies we are using. The end of the program will conclude with a closing online minisymposium where participants will present work some, future directions, and open problems for the community.

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Spring 2023: Mathematics, Statistics, and Innovation in Medical and Health Care

The quantification of medical and health care has brought a revolution to our lives with strong and long-lasting social and economic positive impact. This quantification stems from an exemplary synergy among mathematics, statistics, data science, medicine, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI), and has been prompting the creation of new interdisciplinary areas across the various fields. While there has been an unprecedented growth and development in many scientific directions, there is a continuing need to further develop existing areas and set the foundations for new ones, as the underlying issues and challenges are evolving in rather complex and interlinked ways. Indeed, creating new therapies has experienced a fast growth already but efficiently funding such innovations and, in turn, making them available at large-scale has its own distinct challenges and demand for new business models and novel decision-making mechanisms. Furthermore, personalized medicine is rapidly becoming a main component of medical care but many issues directly related to the patients’ attitude, risk communication and individual treatment decisions have not been neither extensively studied nor quantified.

The long-term program aims at creating an interdisciplinary platform for knowledge exchange and debate among the various stakeholders: mathematicians, statisticians, physicians, economists, computer scientists, policy makers and researchers in decision science, data science, ML, AI, business, operations research and engineering. The focus will be more on newer interdisciplinary themes like risk management, funding and R&D of biomedical innovation, health care system design, health care delivery, insurance coverage, personalized diagnostics and treatments, telemedicine, medical cyber-physical systems and others.

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Summer 2022

June 6-8, 2022: Data Value: Assessment and Evolution

July 11-15, 2022: Mathematical Methods for Quantum Hardware

August 8-12, 2022: AI+Science Summer School

August 29-September 2, 2022: Expressing and Exploiting Structure in Modeling, Theory, and Computation with Gaussian Processes

IMSI Seeks Proposals by September 15, 2022

IMSI is currently seeking proposals for long programs, workshops, and other scientific activity with a deadline of September 15, 2022. Information about how to submit proposals can be found on the proposal overview page and the resources linked therein.

Math Communications Bootcamps

IMSI offers several bootcamps to help graduate students and early career researchers develop their communication skills. The bootcamps build skill sets applicable to both academic careers and broader communication goals. This summer, there will be six bootcamps offered.

Storytelling & Narrative Structure

• Wednesday, June 15, 2022, 12:00-14:30 CDT
• Tuesday, July 12, 2022, 16:00-18:30 CDT

How to Write for a General Audience

• Wednesday, June 22, 2022, 12:00-14:30 CDT
• Tuesday, July 19, 2022, 16:00-18:30 CDT

Job Talks & Stage Presence

• Wednesday, June 29, 2022, 12:00-14:30 CDT
• Tuesday, July 26, 2022, 16:00-18:30 CDT

Anyone who completes all three bootcamp topics is eligible for recognition of their work through a LinkedIn badge. For more information, and to register, please see the Math Communications Bootcamps page on our website.

Spring Long Program Concludes

IMSI's long program on Decision Making and Uncertainty recently concluded with a workshop on Machine Learning and Mean Field Games. It was gratifying to finally have something approaching a full house after launching IMSI near the beginning of the COVID pandemic, so we decided a celebration was in order.

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