Symposium 2017

Symposium on Big Data, Human Health and Statistics

July 13-14, 2017

Overview

The Big Data Summer Institute's concluding symposium and workshop serves as a CAPSTONE event for the six-week-long program. The symposium is open to the public. The registration fee is $25 for students and $50 for non-students. Breakfast and lunch are provided. Those interested in applying for graduate school are encouraged to attend the professional development workshop on July 14. Download the 2017 Symposium flyer.

Registration has closed

 

July 13 Agenda

Rackham Amphitheatre

915 E. Washington St.

Ann Arbor, MI 48109

 

Time	Activity
8:00am	Breakfast
9:00am	Welcome & Opening Remarks John D. Meeker, ScD, CIH - Senior Associate Dean for Research, School of Public Health, Professor of Environmental Health Science, University of Michigan
9:10am	Optimization in Medicine Keynote Speaker Brian Denton, PhD - Professor, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering & Department of Urology, University of Michigan
10:00am	Coffee Break
10:30am	Estimating Treatment Effects with Possibly Many Covariates Matias Cattaneo, PhD - Professor of Economics & Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan
11:00am	A High-Resolution Atlas of Human Germline Mutation Rates Sebastian Zöllner, PhD - Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan
11:30am	Leveraging Patient Data for Improved Clinical Decision Making Jenna Wiens, PhD - Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, University of Michigan
12:00pm	Removing Unwanted Variation with Negative Controls and Replicates Johann Gagnon-Bartsch, PhD - Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan
12:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	Poster Presentation by Undergraduate Participants
2:30pm	Oral Presentation by Summer Institute Participants
4:00pm	Tea Break
4:30pm	My Journey and Other Exaggerations Jack Kalbfleisch, PhD - Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics & Statistics, University of Michigan
5:45pm	Dinner (by invitation only)

July 14 Agenda

University of Michigan School of Public Health II

1420 Washington Heights, Room M1020

Ann Arbor, MI 48109

 

Time	Activity
8:30am	Breakfast
9:00am	Preparation for Graduate School Workshop conducted by Princeton Review
11:00am	Statistics Department Admissions Panel
12:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm	Biostatistics Department Admissions Panel
2:00pm	Information on SPH Graduate Admissions Process
2:30pm	Evaluations
3:00pm	Concluding Ceremony