CoDEx Agenda

Computation and Data Exchange (CoDEx) will occur on April 2, 2024, in the Norris University Center on the Evanston Campus. Registration/check-in will be in the Louis Lobby from 8 a.m. to noon.

Visit the Research Computing and Data Services table from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. (by the registration table) to meet our team and learn about our services portfolio. Our experts will be available to answer any of your computing, data management, and data science questions in our consult room.

CoDEx agenda
Time	Event
8–8:45 a.m.	Workshop Registration and Continental Breakfast - Louis Lobby
8:45–9:45 a.m.	Concurrent Workshops CANCELLED: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming for Parents of Young Children and Other Fans of “Bluey” - Lake Room Colby Witherup Wood, Manager, Data Science Services, Northwestern IT How to Code with ChatGPT - McCormick Auditorium efrén cruz cortés, Data Scientist, Northwestern IT; Aaron Geller, Senior Data Visualization Specialist, Northwestern IT; and Emilio Lehoucq, Data Scientist, Northwestern IT Version Control and Collaboration on GitHub from the Web (Without Learning Git) - Big Ten Room Tobin Magle, Lead Data Management Specialist, Northwestern IT; John Lee, Data Scientist, Northwestern IT Beyond the Defaults: Elevating Your Data Visualizations - Louis Room Christina Maimone, Associate Director, Research Data Services, Northwestern IT
9–10 a.m.	General Registration and Coffee - Louis Lobby
10–10:15 a.m.	Opening Address - McCormick Auditorium Jackie Milhans, Director, Research Computing and Data, Northwestern IT
10:15–11 a.m.	Guest Keynote - McCormick Auditorium Introduction: Sumit Dhar, Associate Provost for Faculty, Office of the Provost Navigating the Dynamic Landscape of Computational Research: Artificial Intelligence, Open Science, and Reproducibility Beth A. Plale, Michael A. and Laurie Burns McRobbie Bicentennial Professor of Computer Engineering and Executive Director, Pervasive Technology Institute, Indiana University
11–11:10 a.m.	Break
11:10–11:35 a.m.	Parallel Sessions: Understanding and addressing gun violence with a data-driven and community-engaged approach - Arch Room Su Burtner, Scientific Director, Center for Neighborhood Engaged Research & Science (CORNERS) Following Data from Telescopes to Publication: Observing our Colorful and Transient Universe - Big Ten Room Wen-fai Fong, Associate Professor, Physics and Astronomy, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences Paradigms and Hierarchies: Linking Knowledge Structures and Social Order in Science - Lake Room Silvan Baier, Research Fellow, Kellogg School of Management Lightning Talks - McCormick Auditorium
11:40 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.	Parallel Sessions: Widespread misidentification of SEM instruments in the peer-reviewed materials science and engineering literature - Arch Room Reese Richardson, PhD Student, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Detecting Gender Embodiment Using 3D Video Analysis - Big Ten Room Doron Shiffer-Sebba, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences Computational and Data-Driven Exploration of the Impact of Metal-Organic Framework Topology on Cryogenic Hydrogen Storage -Lake Room Kunhuan Liu, PhD Student, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Lightning Talks - McCormick Auditorium
Noon–1 p.m.	Luncheon – Louis Room for those who pre-registered
Noon–2 p.m.	Poster Session - Wildcat Room
1–1:25 p.m.	Parallel Sessions: A digital archive enables quantitative studies about how scientific communities engage with a funding agency - Arch Room Spencer Hong, PhD Student, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Predicting impact of malaria interventions to inform resource prioritization in Guinea - Big Ten Room Jaline Gerardin, Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology), Feinberg School of Medicine
1–1:55 p.m.	Panel: The Future of AI-aided Research: The Confluence of Human, Artificial, and Collective Intelligence - McCormick Auditorium Ken Forbus, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education, Director of the Qualitative Reasoning Group Elizabeth Gerber, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science; Professor of Communication Studies, School of Communications; co-Director of the Center for Human Computer Interaction + Design Kristian Hammond, Bill and Cathy Osborn Professor of Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science; Director, Center for Advancing Safety for Machine Intelligence; Director, Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence Data Visualization Challenge - Armadillo Room
1:30–1:55 p.m.	Parallel Sessions Beyond the Lenses: The AI-Driven Transformation of Electron Microscopy in Multi-User Facilities - Arch Room Roberto dos Reis, Research Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Non-Negative Tensor Factorization for Multi-omics Integration - Big Ten Room David Katz, Postdoctoral Scholar, Feinberg School of Medicine
1:55–2:10 p.m.	Break
2:10–3 p.m.	Keynote - McCormick Auditorium Introduction: Eric J. Perreault, Vice President for Research, Office for Research Illuminating the Determinants of Health at the Interface of the Social and Biological Sciences Thomas McDade, Carlos Montezuma Professor & Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, Department of Anthropology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University
3–3:30 p.m.	Closing Remarks and Poster Competition and Data Visualization Awards - McCormick Auditorium Jackie Milhans, Director, Research Computing and Data, Northwestern IT; efrén cruz cortés, Data Scientist, Northwestern IT; John Lee, Data Scientist, Northwestern IT
3:30–4:30 p.m.	Reception - Louis Lobby

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