DSI Events for the 2526 Academic Year

[Matteo Riondato]

Dear All,

Welcome to a new year of DSI activities!

The DSI welcomes Prof. Sakeef Karim (Sociology) to its advisory board, and Annabelle Chen’27 and Val Gualdron’28 as DSI communication interns.

Below you find an (almost finalized) schedule of DSI events for this year. I’m extremely excited about talks by our faculty, staff, alumni, and parents, and by external speakers, on many different topics, from avalanche forecasting to studying galaxies, to museum metadata and Puerto Rico census data.

All talks are in SCCE A131, starting at 4pm with refreshments. We are working towards organizing child care in the SCCE, stay tuned.

I invite you to join us on Tuesday 9/9, 4-6pm, at the Powerhouse, for a year launch / networking event. If the weather cooperates, we can enjoy refreshments outside.

Please reach out to the DSI board at any time with feedback, suggestions, and questions, by writing to dsi-...@amherst.edu <mailto:dsi-...@amherst.edu> .

I hope to see you at some, if not all, the following events.

## DSI 2526 Schedule — All talks are in SCCE A131, starting at 4pm with refreshments

* Tue 9/9 at the Powerhouse: Year Launch & Networking event

* Tue 9/23: Andrew Wu (Computer Science) — Logical Reasoning with a touch of AI

* TBA (Tue 10/7 or Tue 10/21): Jeffrey Fongemie (Mount Washington Avalanche Center): Using data to forecast avalanches

* Thu 11/6: Haru Nazakawa’24 - The Amherst Course Catalog Project

* Tue 12/2: Tony Berkman: Unconventional data in finance

* Tue 2/10: Mia de Los Reyes (Physics and Astronomy) - Small galaxies, big data

* Tue 2/24: Mila Hruba (Mead Art Museum) - Improving the Mead Museum metadata with Machine Learning

* Tue 3/10: Serdar Kadioglu (Fidelity) - Prescriptive Analytics

* Tue 4/7: Kerry Ratigan (Poli Sci) - TBA

* Tue 4/21: Solsiree Del Moral (Am. St. and Black St.) - Digitizing and studying Puerto Rico census record


Thanks,
Matteo