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Image of the speakers and moderator for the Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 1:00 to 2:00pm ET "Working with Physicists on Quantum ML" NISS-CANSSI Webinar w/ Martin T. Wells (Cornell), Luca Candelori (Qognitive Inc.), & Emily Casleton (Los Alamos).
Image of the speaker for the Monday, October 13, 2025 - 2:00 to 3:30pm ET NISS Virtual Short Course: "Data-Driven Problem Solving and Neural Computing: From Prediction to Prescription, No-Code to High-Code" with Padmanabhan Seshaiyer (George Mason University)
Images of the speakers for the Thursday, September 18, 2025 - 1:00 to 2:00pm ET "Collaborative Data Science in Statistical Ecology" NISS-CANSSI Collaborative Webinar with speakers Laura Cowen (UVictoria), Patrick O'Hara (Inst. of Ocean Studies) and Saman Muthukumarana (UManitoba), and moderator Saman Muthukumarana (UManitoba).
Tuesday, August 26, 2025 - 12:00 to 1:30pm Webinar "Sequential causal inference in experimental or observational settings" with Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon) and Will Wei Sun (Purdue) See more and register at: https://www.niss.org/events/sequential-causal-inference-experimental-or-observational-settings-ai-statistics-data-science
Monday, October 20 to Friday, October 24, 2025 - IMSI and NISS "Data Science at the Intersection of Public Health & the Environment" Workshop at IMSI in Chicago. Fully funded by NSF, apply by August 25th.
Pictures for the Thursday, August 21, 2025 - 12:00pm-2:00pm ET IMSI and NISS "Virtual Thought Summit: Data Science at the Intersection of the Environment and Public Health" with Jonathan Hobbs (JPL), Chris Wikle (UMissouri), and Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou (Columbia University). In preparation for October 20-24 workshop in-person ideas lab at IMSI. Fully funded by NSF, apply for that workshop by August 25th.
Speaker photos for: "Data Science Techniques for Control of Assistive Devices After Neurological Injury" NISS-CANSSI Data Science Webinar with Lauren Wengerd (Ohio State), Dave Friedenberg (Battelle), and Nancy McMillan (Battelle).
Pictures of speakers for "COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar: Leadership in Statistics and Societal Impact" with Sir Bernard Silverman FRS (Oxford), Peter Song (U Michigan), and Anru Zhang (Duke).
Graphic of three people working collaboratively and information on the 2025 NISS Writing Workshop for Junior Researchers. https://www.niss.org/events/writing-workshop-junior-researchers-2025-day-1-online
NISS Virtual New Researchers Conference - Friday, June 6 from 12-5ET - for early career researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates. Abstract submissions due May 12th.
Image of AmyMcGovern and Moderator Nancy McMillan for "Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography" NISS AI, Statistics and Data Science in Practice Webinar with Amy McGovern (AI2ES and Univ. of Oklahoma) - online Tuesday, May 13 from 12-1pm ET.
Pictures of the speakers for "From MPEG-4 to Deep Learning: Transforming Audio-Visual Analytics for Healthcare and Beyond" NISS-CANSSI Data Science Webinar with An-Chao Tsai (National Pingtung University) and Anand Paul and Qingzhao Yu (LSU Health) - online Thursday, May 8 from 1-2pm ET.
Pictures of the speakers for the "Leadership in Trustworthy AI" COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar with David Donoho (Stanford), Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley), and Tracy Ke (Harvard) - online Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 12-1pm ET.
Images of the speaker and moderator for "ML and Bayesian Geospatial Approaches for Prediction of Opioid Overdose Deaths" AI, Statistics and Data Science in Practice Webinar with featured speaker Soledad Fernández (Ohio State) and moderator Nancy McMillan (Battelle ) - online Tuesday, April 22, 2025 from 12-1:30pm ET.
Speaker pictures and logos to go with "Astronomy & Cosmic Emulation - NISS-CANSSI Collaborative Data Science Webinar": with Kelly Renee Moran (Los Alamos), Katrin Heitmann (Argonne), and Emily Castleton (Los Alamos) - online Thurs., April 10, 2025 from 1:00pm-2:00pm ET.
Pictures of the speakers at: COPSS-NISS Webinar: "Leadership in Statistical Research: Pivoting for Impact and Success" with Qi Long (UPenn Biostat), Nicole Lazar (Penn State Statistics), and Sandra Safo (UMinn Biostats & Health DataSci) - online Thursday, March 27, 2025 from 12-1pm ET.
NISS New Researchers Network Short Course: "From Code to Products - Software Engineering for Data Science" by Alex Reinhart from the Department of Statistics & Data Science at Carnegie Mellon University - online Thursday, April 3, 2025 from 1-3pm ET. Register at https://www.niss.org/events/short-course-alex-reinhart-code-products-software-engineering-data-science
Pictures of the speakers and some graphics for: "NISS-CANSSI Collaborative Data Science Webinar: Changing Climate, Changing Data: A Journey of Statisticians and Climate Scientists" with Claudie Beaulieu (UC-Santa Cruz), Rebecca Killick (Lancaster University), and Emily Casleton (Los Alamos) - online Thursday, March 20, 2025 from 1:00pm-2:00pm ET. Register at https://www.niss.org/events/niss-canssi-collaborative-data-science-webinar-changing-climate-changing-data-journey
"NISS AI, Statistics and Data Science in Practice Webinar: Machine Learning for Airborne Biological Hazard Detection" by Jared Schuetter, Principal Data Scientist at Battelle -online Tuesday, March 11, 2025 at 12-1:30pm ET. Moderated by Nancy McMillan. Register at https://www.niss.org/events/niss-ai-statistics-and-data-science-practice-webinar-jared-schuetter-machine-learning
Pictures of panelists Bhramar Mukherjee (Yale) and Thomas Fleming (University of Washington) and moderator Jennifer Bobb (Kaiser Permanente) for "Making an Impact on Public Health Through Statistical Leadership". Online, Tuesday, February 25, 2025 from 12pm-1pm ET. See the link in the post for more and registration information.
Picture of Speaker Frank Wei (General Motors) and Moderator Nancy McMillan (Battelle) for "Large Language Models: Transforming AI Architectures and Operational Paradigms" - Tuesday, February 18, 2025 from 3-4PM ET. See link in post for more and registration.
Pictures of Francesca Dominici (Harvard) and David Spiegelhalter (Cambridge) in ad for the COPSS-NISS seminar on February 6, 2025. See link in post.
NISS Webinar on Causal AI in Business Practices - Victor Lo (Fidelity) and Victor Chen (Amazon)