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SUMMARY:CPAR Seminar Series - Necmiye Ozay
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars are held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nDate: November 2\, 2020\nSpeaker: Necmiye Ozay\nAffiliation: U Penn
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201104T120000
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SUMMARY:Scientific Natural Language Processing and the Fight Against COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: Scientific Natural Language Processing and the Fight Against COVID-19 \nSpeaker(s): Oren Etzioni\, Chief Executive Officer\, Allen Institute for AI \nBio: Dr. Oren Etzioni has served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2) since its inception in 2014. He has been a Professor at the University of Washington’s Computer Science department since 1991\, and a Venture Partner at the Madrona Venture Group since 2000. He has been the founder or co-founder of several companies\, including Farecast (sold to Microsoft in 2008) and Decide (sold to eBay in 2013). \nAbstract: This talk will describe the dramatic creation of the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19) and the broad range of efforts\, both inside and outside of the Semantic Scholar project\, to garner insights into COVID-19 and its treatment based on this growing corpus of research papers. \nRegister to attend >
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/scientific-natural-language-processing-and-the-fight-against-covid-19/
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CATEGORIES:CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T160000
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SUMMARY:CPAR Seminar Series - Russ Taylor
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars are held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nDate: November 9\, 2020\nSpeaker: Russ Taylor\nAffiliation: JHU
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/cpar-seminar-series-russ-taylor/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201111T170000
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SUMMARY:Complementarity: Work in an Age of Anxiety about AI and Automation
DESCRIPTION:Complementarity: Work in an Age of Anxiety about AI and Automation\nNovember 11\, 2020 (Rescheduled\, originally scheduled for November 4\, 2020)\n5:00 pm – 6:00 pm \nCOVID-19 has radically transformed teleconferencing\, telemedicine\, and our work in general. Join us for a special presentation by Ken Goldberg and hear more about how assumptions of AI and Automation are shifting and revealing how these technologies can be complementary to our unique human abilities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is part of Virtual Wednesdays\, a weekly YouTube broadcast bringing you unique viewpoints exploring diversity\, resilience\, and creative spirit in the arts as we aim to reframe our exhibitions and collections. View upcoming Virtual Wednesdays programs. \nWatch on our YouTube Channel \nAbout the Speaker\nKenneth Yigael Goldberg is an American artist\, writer\, inventor\, and researcher in the field of robotics and automation. He is professor and chair of the industrial engineering and operations research department at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and holds the William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering at Berkeley\, with joint appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)\, Art Practice\, and the School of Information. Goldberg also holds an appointment in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of California\, San Francisco. \n\nPhoto courtesy of Ken Goldberg \nTicket Information\nFree Virtual Event. No registration required. \nContact Information\nPublic Programs\npublicprograms@famsf.org \n(415) 750-7624\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDe Young museum: Golden Gate Park \ 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive\, San Francisco\, CA 94118 \ 415.750.3600 \ Hours: Tuesdays – Sundays\, 9:30 am–5:15 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/complementarity-work-in-an-age-of-anxiety-about-ai-and-automation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201118T120000
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SUMMARY:CITRIS COVID-19 Response Seed Award Outcomes
DESCRIPTION:Talk Title\nCITRIS COVID-19 Response Seed Award Outcomes \nPanelists\nSimo Makiharju\, UC Berkeley\nExperimental Investigation of Droplet transport of Infectious Diseases \nLiwei Lin\, UC Berkeley\nAt-Home COVID-19 Detection on Face Mask \nColleen Naughton\, UC Merced\nIntegrated Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and Geospatial Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in Wastewater for Vulnerable Populations \nLydia Sohn\, UC Berkeley\nAn Ultra-Sensitive Method to Determine Viral Load of COVID-19 Patients for Patient Stratification and Care \nModerator\nDavid Lindeman\, Ph.D.\, is the Director of CITRIS Health. Lindeman has worked in the fields of health care and long-term care for nearly 40 years as a health services researcher and gerontologist\, conducting research related to health care technology\, assistive technologies\, chronic disease management\, healthy aging\, disabilities\, dementia\, community-based and residential services\, health care workforce\, and family caregiving. \nAbstract\nIn March 2020\, in response to the COVID-19 crisis\, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute launched a competition for seed funding to support projects addressing the pandemic with technological innovation. Within days of the application deadline\, CITRIS was awarded a grant of $1.6M which enabled the funding of 31 projects. See the full list of awarded projects here. Projects were funded at an average of $50\,000 each and selected with an eye towards cost\, scalability\, and impact. All are centered in one of four CITRIS-affiliated UC campuses: UC Berkeley\, UC Davis (including UC Davis Health)\, UC Merced\, and UC Santa Cruz. Projects are designed to show research results within three to six months. \nThis panel highlights five of the funded projects and PIs will discuss progress and discovery to date. \nRegister to attend > \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/citris-covid-19-response-seed-award-outcomes/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T130000
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SUMMARY:Tracking the Few and Far Between: Computational Strategies to Speed the Discovery of Low-frequency Genomic Variation in COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:The Colloquium on Digital Transformation is a series of weekly online talks on how artificial intelligence\, machine learning\, and big data can lead to scientific breakthroughs with large-scale societal benefit. The fall series focuses on COVID-19 mitigation research. \nSee details of upcoming and past talks at https://c3dti.ai/events/colloquium. \nUpcoming Events: \n\nNov 19\, 2020 01:00 PM\nNov 26\, 2020 01:00 PM\nDec 3\, 2020 01:00 PM\nDec 10\, 2020 01:00 PM\n\nTracking the Few and Far Between: Computational Strategies to Speed the Discovery of Low-frequency Genomic Variation in COVID-19\nDate: November 19\, 1 pm PT/4 pm ET\nSpeaker: Nancy Amato\, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering\, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign \nTo date\, the vast majority of COVID-19 genomic research has been focused on a high-level view of SARS-CoV-2 diversity\, overlooking the diversity of the viral population that exists within each COVID-19 positive patient. While viral load of SARS-CoV-2 in an individual can exceed hundreds of thousands of copies\, available genomic databases only contain a single consensus version of this diverse population\, discarding any low-frequency mutations. The goal of our project\, CoVariants\, is to develop novel computational approaches to recover these discarded variants and allow for rapid characterization of within-host diversity of SARS-CoV-2 across tens of thousands of samples. Commonly used computational tools either are not designed for the detection of low-frequency variants within viral populations\, or require significant computational resources per sample. In this talk\, we will describe how new parallelization strategies and approximate statistical methods can reduce the computational requirements of a widely used existing approach by up to 400 percent while preserving 100 percent of the low-frequency genomic diversity. We will end our talk by highlighting how we plan to use these improved computational methods to provide insight into the biological underpinnings of SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility and severity compared to other coronaviruses. \nNancy M. Amato is Abel Bliss Professor and Department Head of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. She received undergraduate degrees in Mathematical Sciences and Economics from Stanford\, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois\, respectively. Her research focuses on robotics motion planning\, computational biology and geometry\, and parallel computing. Amato received the 2019 IEEE RAS Leadership Award in Robotics and Automation\, the 2014 CRA Habermann Award\, and the inaugural NCWIT Harrold/Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award in 2014. She is a Fellow of the AAAI\, AAAS\, ACM\, and IEEE. \nLawrence Rauchwerger is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois. Previously\, he was the Eppright Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and co-Director of the Parasol Lab. He received an engineering degree from the Polytechnic Institute Bucharest\, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois. His approach to auto-parallelization\, thread-level speculation and parallel code development has influenced industrial products at corporations including IBM\, Intel\, and Sun. Rauchwerger is a Fellow of the AAAS and IEEE and has received an NSF CAREER Award\, awards from IBM and Intel. \nTodd J. Treangen\, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Rice University and co-lead of the COVID-19 International Research Team. Before joining Rice\, Dr. Treangen was a Research Scientist at the University of Maryland College Park. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2008 from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona\, Spain). His research group focuses on solving large-scale computational problems specific to computational biology\, with a focus on developing robust software tools targeted towards biothreat screening\, infectious disease monitoring\, and microbial forensics.
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/tracking-the-few-and-far-between-computational-strategies-to-speed-the-discovery-of-low-frequency-genomic-variation-in-covid-19/
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SUMMARY:Picture a STEMinist: Coded Bias
DESCRIPTION:Coded Bias\nLivestream Conversation\nMeredith Broussard\, danah boyd\, Valerie E. Taylor\, Seyi Olojo\, and Eden McEwen\nThursday\, November 19\, 6 PM PST\nMore information > \n“A deep dive into the ways algorithms repeat and reinforce the unconscious prejudices of their original programmers.”\n– STEPHANIE BUNBURY\, THE AGE \nJoin us for a live conversation and Q&A with data journalist Meredith Broussard\, associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and the author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World; danah boyd\, principal researcher at Microsoft Research\, founder of Data & Society\, and visiting professor at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program; Valerie E. Taylor\, director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division and distinguished fellow at Argonne National Laboratory; and Seyi Olojo\, PhD candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Information. Moderated by Eden McEwen\, a physics and computer science major at UC Berkeley and a contributor to the student organization STEMinist Chronicles. Access is included with rental of the streaming film program; you will receive an access link via email prior to the event. \n“The revolutionary research of scientist\, artist\, and activist Joy Buolamwini proved that the accuracy of commercially available facial recognition software from the likes of Microsoft\, IBM\, and Amazon declined as soon as it was applied to anyone not male and white. Centering on Buolamwini’s work\, Coded Bias explores how the fallibility of artificial intelligence due to the implicit bias of its creators can have damaging real-world consequences. In conversation with Buolamwini and other scientists and activists\, including mathematician Cathy O’Neil and Big Brother Watch director Silkie Carlo\, the documentary shows how the widespread adoption of machine learning and automated decision making in financial services\, human resources\, voter registration\, and law enforcement makes the racial and gender bias embedded in artificial intelligence an urgent civil rights issue.” – Kate MacKay \n  \n  \n \n 
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/picture-a-steminist-coded-bias/
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SUMMARY:CPAR Seminar Series - Lydia Kavraki
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars are held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nDate: November 23\, 2020\nSpeaker: Lydia Kavraki\nAffiliation: Rice University
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/cpar-seminar-series-lydia-kavraki/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201130T160000
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SUMMARY:CPAR Seminar Series - Vikash K. Mansinghka
DESCRIPTION:CITRIS People and Robots hosts a weekly seminar series every Monday afternoon jointly with UC Berkeley’s “Design of Robotics and Embedded systems\, Analysis\, and Modeling” Seminars (DREAMS). Seminars are held in room 250 Sutardja Dai Hall on Mondays from 4-5 PM and available online via webcast. \nDate: November 30\, 2020\nSpeaker: Vikash K. Mansinghka\nAffiliation: MIT
URL:https://citris-uc.org/event/cpar-seminar-series-vikash-k-mansinghka/
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