Next year - 2024 - will mark the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at Stanford. ICME's vision came from numerical analysts like George Forsythe and Gene Golub. Over time its scientific computing focus came to encompass data science. As part of its broader educational mission, ICME has offered a series of short data science workshops every summer since 2016.
This year's schedule includes 14 workshops offered live on Zoom between July 24 and August 11. Topics range from basic (statistics, linear algebra, Python) to intermediate (optimization, NLP) to advanced (search and recommendation, generative models). Details are available at https://icme.stanford.edu/icme-summer-workshops-2023-fundamentals-data-science.
The workshops are short - each is six hours long, delivered live over two days. The two modal attendee groups are students (both undergraduate and graduate) and professionals (often faculty and mid-career practitioners). For students they're a type of low-pressure supplementary or introductory knowledge gathering. For professionals, the workshops are a low-investment opportunity to learn interactively from a researcher, usually an ICME associate actively engaged with the topic they're teaching.
Discounts are available for students, academic faculty and staff, and ICME partner institutions.
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Sanjay Saigal
Executive Director, ICME
Stanford University
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