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, Canada

The 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. […]

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 […]

Health, Equity, and Research Talks (HEaRT): Embedding EDI Principles into Biomedical and Health Research – Who, What, Where, When and Why? – Nov. 1, 2023

It is well established across a range of disciplines that more diverse research teams produce more impactful and higher-quality outputs. However, how to achieve inclusive excellence in research is not always obvious or easy, at either the individual group leader level or more broadly, within an organization. In the 4th lecture of the HEaRT series, […]

US/CA Community Call: FAIR, CARE, and Persistent Identifiers – Nov. 1, 2023

Join the ORCID US Community and ORCID-CA for a community discussion on how the FAIR Principles and the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance relate to Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) such as ORCID iDs and DOIs. The session will feature speakers Mike Nason (Open Scholarship & Publishing Librarian, University of New Brunswick Libraries) and Dr. Riley […]

SSHRC Partnership Grants: Proposal Development Information Session – Nov. 2, 2023

This session is designed to support researchers and divisional research support staff as they craft applications for future Partnership Grant (PG) competition. The content will build on the “SSHRC Partnership Program – Models and Strategies for Success (https://cris.utoronto.ca/event/sshrc-partnership-program-models-and-strategies-for-success-mar-30-2023-2/)" faculty panel webinar held in Spring 2023 and provide information and tools that will help applicants as they […]

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