See how women leaders are using data science to advance personalized medicine, entertainment, marketing, cybersecurity, and more. https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/how-data-analytics-going-transform-all-industries
See how women leaders are using data science to advance personalized medicine, entertainment, marketing, cybersecurity, and more. https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/how-data-analytics-going-transform-all-industries
Hear from just a few of the members of ICME's amazing community of students, faculty, and alumni about what's happening in ICME.
ICME, in conjunction with Microsoft Research, will offer a free hands-on workshop on Microsoft Azure at Stanford University on January 20, 2016. This event is open to Stanford students, faculty, researchers, and staff. The workshop will familiarize researchers and data scientists with the services Azure offers to aid research projects, especially with regard to high-performance computing, big-data analysis, and analyzing data streaming from Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices.
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ICME is pleased to share videos featuring the 2015 Women in Data Science Conference: Click to check out highlights and view all talks.
We are also thrilled to announce the return of the Women in Data Science Conference to Stanford in 2017, which will again feature world-class speakers and panelists discussing the latest in data science. More...
Autumn quarter 2015 draws to a close this week, after what has been an extraordinary fall for ICME-- full of fantastic seminars, incredible events, exciting new developments, and so many wonderful new and returning students. Take a look back: Recent event photos are avialable for viewing on the ICME Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ICMEStanford/photos_stream.
Join the ICME community! At Stanford ICME, we do Big Math. Apply now to become a part of our small cohort of highly-qualified students from all over the world for MS & PhD programs starting in 2016. Interdisciplinary coursework and research in distributed computing, data visualization, optimization, discrete math, financial mathematics, data science, matrix computations, PDEs, and more.
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ICME invites applications for a faculty appointment at the assistant professor or untenured associate professor level, in all areas of foundational computational mathematics and scientific computing. Applications should include a research plan (max. 4 pages), teaching plan (max. 2 pages), a detailed resume including a publications list, and the names and addresses of at least five references.
Candidates should apply online at...
ICME will host our second annual Xtend event on November 12-13, 2015. This one-of-a-kind event brings ICME students and faculty together with our partners from industry and national labs for two days of networking and recruiting, discussions on current trends in our fields, workshops, and mixers. View the event website at http://icme.stanford.edu/events/icme-xtend-2015. An invitation-only event, please email...
ICME's recent conference was today featured in the Stanford Report article: Needed: More women in data science. The inaugural Women in Data Science Conference took place at Stanford University on November 2, 2015. Four hundred Data Scientists packed the Arrillaga Alumni Center for a day full of tech talks, inspiring keynotes, panel discussions, and networking conversations....
For those of you who won't join in-person for Monday's sold-out Women in Data Science Conference, we have great news! The conference will be available via livestream here:
http://stanfordvideo.stanford.edu/stream/widsconference.htm
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Mark your calendars to attend the innagural Women in Data Science Conference on Monday, November 2, 2015. This one-day technical conference is expected to draw guests from industry and academia along with students from Stanford and other Bay Area universities. Featuring the highest-caliber industry experts from around the world as technical speakers,...
Registration is NOW OPEN for the inaugural Women in Data Science Conference, to be held at Stanford University on Monday, November 2, 2015.
Click here to view the official event site and to register today: http://widsconference.org/
Early bird registration rates are available now through September 20th.
The HIVE Xperience is your chance to see the HIVE in action
Registration is NOW OPEN for this year's NVIDIA Tech Talks event and Hands-On Labs.
This year's theme is End to End Analytics in Research, Industry, and Business-- the event takes place on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at Stanford University's Huang Engineering Center.
Brought to you by NVIDIA and ICME (a NVIDIA CUDA Center of Excellence), each year we get together in the Huang Engineering Center for a morning full of tech talks and activities and an afternoon with...
Announcing the launch of the Stanford Data Lab website: https://datalab.stanford.edu/. A new ICME initiative, the data lab includes the challenge lab and the impact lab, both led by Bill Behrman, Ph.D. '98.
The Challenge Lab is new and experimental, hands-on learning where students solve real-world problems as data detectives. Impact Lab students tackle important, high-impact problems with external partners on...
Stanford's fall quarter begins on Monday, September 21. A warm welcome (or welcome back) to all of our students!
ICME has a lot in store for the autumn quarter. Check out the events site, which has details on a few of the many events we'll host in the next few months.
Tickets for the Women in Data Science Conference, taking place at Stanford this autumn, sold out in just a few short days.
We're delighted with this amazing response and the widespread interest in the conference!
If you would like to receive wait list notifications, conference updates, and live streaming notifications, sign up for our mailing list.
Please join ICME in welcoming Professor Gianluca Iaccarino to his new post as Co-Director of ICME.
ICME's recent rapid growth and expansion into new initiatives has brought a number of exciting opportunities to focus on what's ahead for the Institute. In the role of Co-Director, ...
ICME faculty member Antony Jameson has earned the highest honor in his field, the Daniel Guggenheim Medal, for his lifetime of acheivement in aeronautics. Sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the American Helicopter Society, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Professor Jameson joins a distinguished group of Guggenheim Medalists including...
Registration is now open for the ICME Summer Workshop series. This summer, choose from seven different courses centered on the fundamentals of data science:
The 2015 SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences will take place at Stanford University this summer, June 29- July 2, 2015. The day before the conference, Sunday, June 28, 2015, Stanford will host a special series of short courses, the Summer Sunday Shortcourse Sensation, which are free of charge and open for registration now: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BQC92VS.
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Last month at the ICME Xpo, Stanford faculty shared an up-close look into their research in a series of Vision Talks. Recordings of these talks are now available for viewing on our studio channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCizxnsw19qcTOdJdIJVtl0Q.
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This Sunday, ICME looks foward to celebrating commencement with our graduates and their frineds and families.
Congratulations, Graduates!
Commencement information: https://commencement.stanford.edu/
Photos from commencement may be viewed on our Facebook page
ICME faculty member Charbel Farhat was featured in a recent issue of the Stanford Report for a rare computational accomplisment by his team through a partnership with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory. Using a "new, high-end, massively parallel computer to demonstrate the power of algorithms that instruct processors to work together to solve challenging problems,"...
May 22, 2015 marked the innagural ICME Xpo, an up-close and inside look at how computational mathematics, data science, scientific computing, and related fields are applied across a wide range of domain areas. Fifty plus research poster presentations kicked off the afternoon, which culminated with a series of faculty vision talks to highlight the work and resarch going on now across disciplines. Later that...
ICME congratulates Anil Damle, ICME PhD student, who was just selected as a recipient of a Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship.
The one-year fellowship supports doctoral students whose research accomplishments, teaching, and University service have demonstrated their potential for becoming academic leaders.
This fellowship is named in honor of one of Stanford’s most distinguished citizens, Provost Emeritus Gerald J. Lieberman. A member of the Department of Statistics...
The inaugural Bay Area Optimization Meeting will be held Saturday, May 2 from 9:15am-4:00pm at UC Berkeley.
To register for this event or to view the schedule, visit https://sites.google.com/site/bayopt2015/
ICME recently received a number of programs written by Gene Golub for the ILLIAC I in the 1960s, when he was a graduate student at the University of Illinois.
View these archives here: https://icme.stanford.edu/GolubArchives. These are just some of a set of the many routines that Gene wrote for the ILLIAC I that were widely used by the faculty and graduate students of the day. These documents describe the routines' use as well...
ICME congratulates Rujia Jiang, ICME Masters Student, on her recent election as Co-Chair of the 2015-2016 Graduate Student Council.
Infused with passionate students willing to work on important issues, the GSC serves as the student voice for issues that affect Stanford graduate students and the university as a whole. Recent GCS initiatives include hosting a free Thanksgiving dinner each year...
What's happening in Spring 2015 at ICME?
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In April 2015, ICME was pleased to host MIT researchers and Julia developers. Two of the visitors, Andreas Noack and Jiahao Chen, spoke in our Linear Algebra and Optimization seminar series. Their talks are now available to view on the ICME Studio YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/...
Please join Yousef Saad as he presents a talk about Parallel Multilevel Low-Rank Approximation Preconditioners for the ICME Distinguished Speaker Series on Monday, April 20.
This presentation will discuss a class of preconditioning methods for solving linear systems of equations that are based on exploiting low-rank approximations to certain matrices. These methods have a number of appealing features. Because they are essentially approximate inverse techniques,they handle...
Congratulations to Statistics grad student Lucas Janson, ICME PhD student Ed Schmerling, and ICME faculty Marco Pavone and Margot Gerritsen for being one of eight teams to win a 2015 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship!
The Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship focuses on recognizing, rewarding, and mentoring innovative PhD students across a broad range of technical areas. This program is open to students from a preselected variety of top US based and international schools. Qualcomm Research's...
This winter, the HIVE at Stanford has been humming with excitement as researchers and students from across campus discover the capabilities of this scientific...
What's happening in Winter 2015 at ICME?
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ICME Director Margot Gerritsen was presented the 2014 Richard W. Lyman Award in a special reception on the Stanford campus last week. The Award recognizes one outstanding faculty member for extraordinary service to the alumni community and Stanford Alumni Association programs. Recipients generously donate time to alumni, go beyond the expectations of University appointments and embody the mission of Stanford Alumni Association.
During the ceremony, Provost John...
ICME's recent entrepreneur panel is available to watch on our studio channel. "Big Math in Small Companies: A Quant Perspective on Entrepreneurship" was the topic of this special seminar on Friday, January 23, 2015. The panel talked about start-ups, big math, life as an ICME alum, and much more. View the entire seminar here: ...
Marco Pavone has been chosen to receive a NSF Career Award for his research proposal on "Driving the Future: Models and Control Methods to Coordinate Fleets of Self-Driving Vehicles in Future Transportation Networks."
The CAREER program is one of the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of education and research within the...
Wishing everyone the happiest of holidays and a joyus New Year.
Stanford University and ICME will be closed from Monday, December 22, 2014 through Friday, January 2, 2015. We'll reopen on the first day of winter quarter: Monday, January 5, 2014.
Professor Michael Saunders recently went to China and wanted to share this lovely photo of when he met President Xi. Pictured along with Michael is ICME alum, Linzhong Deng (PhD '10).
Whether it was through pictures of barbeques, costume parties, or Stanford events... or a captured moment from a study session, an internship, or a walk around the campus, ICME students shared some truly great photographs with us this quarter as a part of the 2014 student photo contest. A big thank you to all of the students who contributed their work to the contest, and a huge congratulations to all of the winners!
This year, Bay Area Scientific Computing Day will be at Stanford University on Saturday, December 13, 2014. Register now: http://bascd2014.rsvpify.com/.
An annual one-day meeting focused on fostering interactions and collaborations between researchers in the fields of scientific computing and computational science and engineering from the San Francisco Bay Area, BASCD provides junior researchers a venue to present their...
ICME will be celebrating our annual holiday party on Friday, December 5th at 2:00p.m. Join us in the ICME main lobby for an afternoon of food, drinks, and good conversation.
Margot Gerritsen, Director of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering and Professor of Energy Resources Engineering, is the winner of the 2014 Richard W. Lyman Award.
The Richard W. Lyman Award was established in 1983 in President Emeritus Richard W. Lyman's honor. The Award recognizes one outstanding faculty member for extraordinary service to the alumni community and Stanford Alumni Association programs. Recipients generously donate time to alumni, go beyond...
ICME Faculty member Emmanuel Candès will be awarded the 2015 AMS-SIAM George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics for his work on compressed sensing that has revolutionized signal processing and medical imaging and his related work on computational harmonic analysis, statistics and scientific computing. See more at: ...
This week's category is "My Summer Internship" with two fun photographs selected as finalists.
We need your help selecting the winner of this category. Go to the ICME Facebook page to view the entries. https://www.facebook.com/ICMEStanford.
The photo with the most “Likes” will receive a prize—voting is open until Friday and we’ll announce the winner on Monday, along with the entries for next...
ICME Xtend took place on the Stanford Campus November 6 & 7, 2014. The inaugural event of what will be an annual happening in ICME, Xtend 2014 included 221 total interviews in one day, taking place between 71 participating students and 14 companies and 3 national laboratories. Xtend 2014 also included short courses taught by ICME students and alumni; demonstrations of the HIVE visualization center; a keynote by Dean Persis Drell; faculty and industry panels; and social events during...
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