10 events found.
Language, Accessibility & Ableism – Oct. 26, 2023
This session will provide participants with a foundational knowledge on how communication and language can create barriers to accessibility, and how to address these barriers. Participants will be (re-) introduced to AODA guidelines for accessible communication, language and terms that may be problematic, invited to consider how language changes over time, and to discuss how […]
Cyber Security at the Executive Level – Oct 26, 2023
This event is hosted by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. This event is part of their Cybersecurity Awareness Month Series.
Mitigating Racial Bias in AI Research – Oct. 27, 2023
Join us for the next workshop in the “Learning Together: Applying Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Concepts in Research Ethics Review (https://cris.utoronto.ca/related/learning-together-edi-reb/),” a monthly series bringing together experts from across the tri-campus on a range of research ethics topics from equity, diversity, and inclusion through a TCPS2 lens. Tentative topic: Bias in Image Understanding Algorithms Speaker and […]
Supporting Young Adults in Finding Belonging – Oct. 27, 2023
Join members of the Pathways to Belonging project team for a one-hour webinar sharing project findings and creative materials. The Pathways to Belonging project is a multi-year project which aims to understand how young adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) find their own pathways to belonging and meaning in their daily lives. This research […]
iSchool Crosstalks: Resiliency & Technology in Marginalized Communities
BL728, Claude Bissell Building 140 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe Faculty of Information has launched the ‘Crosstalk’ series, a collection of conversations on topics spanning multiple research areas and that may have been approached from different theoretical, conceptual, and methodological lenses. The goal is to tune our senses to seeing possible and ‘hidden’ connections between works and to engender disciplinary, multi/interdisciplinary, and/or cross-sectoral collaboration. […]
Multifactor Authentication for Researchers – Oct. 30, 2023
This event is hosted by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. This event is part of their Cybersecurity Awareness Month Series.
Reinforcement Learning in the Real World: Making Predictions Online for Water Treatment – Oct. 30, 2023
Join CANSSI Ontario at the Statistical Sciences Applied Research and Education Seminar (ARES) with Martha White, Associate Professor, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta. In this talk I will discuss how we used reinforcement-learning based prediction approaches for a real drinking-water treatment plant. I will first describe this dataset, and highlight challenges with seasonality, […]
NFRF-Exploration: Strategies for Success – Oct. 31, 2023
The Centre for Research & Innovation Support is hosting a webinar on the upcoming 2023 NFRF-Exploration competition for the University of Toronto community. The objective of the Exploration stream is to support high-risk, high-reward and interdisciplinary research. It seeks to inspire projects that bring disciplines together beyond traditional disciplinary or common interdisciplinary approaches by research […]
Getting Started with Intermediate R (Online)
Do you want to develop your R skills to advance your data science skills? R is a popular open-source statistical programming language that is popular in academia and industry. This workshop gently introduces users to intermediate level tools in R including the dplyr package for data manipulation, if statements, for loops and functions. It is […]
