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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

This event is hosted by the Information Technology Services. More info coming soon.

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, […]

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 […]

This event is hosted by the Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI). This talk explores the persistent concern about sustainable digital projects in the context of Black DH theory and praxis. Dr. Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the […]

This event is hosted by SickKids.  “The future of maternal & child health globally: challenges and opportunities” World-renowned expert in the field of global maternal and child health research and public policy Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta, Co-Director of the Centre for Global Child Health at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), has been awarded the 2023 […]

This event is hosted by SciNet. Learn how to write bash scripts, use environment variables, how to control process, and much more. Requires some Linux basic command line experience.