🗓 Thursday–Friday, April 20th – 21st, 2023

⏰ 8:30am-5:30pm MST

April 20 (Thursday) – Schedule of Sessions:

Time Session Title/Location Speaker(s)
8:30a-9:00a Opening

Light Breakfast

Student Union – Kachina

9:00a-9:45a Keynote

Using Data to Deliver Equitable Outcomes for the American People

Student Union – Kachina (also online in also in room A)

Denice Ross

U.S. Chief Data Scientist

9:50a-10:05a Morning Talks

Mood and Language: Insights from Brain Data

Student Union – Kachina (also online in also in room A)

Vicky Lai

Asst Prof, Psychology

10:10a-10:25a Morning Talks

Data mining and linguistics

Student Union – Kachina (also online in also in room A)

Heather Froehlich

UA Libraries

10:30a-10:45a Concurrent Morning Talks

Indigenous Data Governance

Online (room A)

Riley Taitingfong

Postdoc, NNI/Udal

10:30a-10:45a Concurrent Morning Talks

Open Science principles applied to the study of the gut microbiome, and inflammation after brain injury

Online (room B)

Luisa Maria Rojas

PhD candidate, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix

10:50a-11:15a Morning Data Blitz Online (room A)

Valeria Pfeifer

Kathleen J. Kennedy

Simona Merlini

Kapua Ioane

Bailie Wynbelt

Nimet Beyza Bozdag

11:20a-12:20p Morning Panels

Machine Learning vs. Statistics

Online (room A)

11:20a-12:20p Morning Panels

Data Science Training

Online (room B)

12:20p-1:00p Break
1:00p-1:15p Concurrent Afternoon Talks

Collaboration Networks and Career Trajectories

Online (room A)

Sarah Bratt

Asst Prof, iSchool

1:00p-1:15p Concurrent Afternoon Talks

Multi-functional, multi-millennial data series from tree-rings

Online (room B)

Charlotte Pearson

Associate Professor, Tree Lab

1:25p-1:40p Concurrent Afternoon Talks

Reading Between the Radiocarbon Lines - Determining the Ages of Archeological Sites

Online (room A)

Meaghan Wetherell

Asst Prof Practice, iSchool

1:25p-1:40p Concurrent Afternoon Talks

Theory and Application of BART: A Bayesian Machine Learning Model

Online (room B)

Danielle Van Boxel

PhD Student, Applied Math/DataViz

1:40p-2:00p Closing Closing (room A)
4:30p Social

Happy Hour

Snakes & Lattes (988 E University Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85719)

April 21 (Friday)

1:30p - 2:30p

Talk

Gould-Simpson 906

Designing to Disrupt: Creating space for the work that matters to you

As technology becomes more pervasive, it’s important to understand how identity impacts and is impacted by it. This talk discusses the importance of becoming disruptors in not only technology development, but also academic/professional environments.

Dr. Nicki Washington

Duke University