Big Data: Impact on Our Lives
Overview of Big Data and Its Growing Impact
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Speakers
Luís A. Nunes Amaral, PhD
- HHMI Early Career Scientist
- Co-Director, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
- Professor of Chemical & Biological Engineering
- Professor of Physics & Astronomy (courtesy)
- Professor of Medicine (courtesy)
Rex L. Chisholm, PhD
- Vice Dean Scientific Affairs and Graduate Education
- Adam and Richard T. Lind Professor of Medical Genetics
- Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology and Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine
Creativity and Team Science
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Speakers
Abel N. Kho MD, MS
- Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics) and Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics)
Benjamin F. Jones
- Gordon and Llura Gund Family Professor of Entrepreneurship, Kellogg School of Management
Bruce Ankenman
- Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Resources
Neuroscience
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Speakers
Malcolm A. MacIver, PhD
- Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering
- Professor of Neurobiology (courtesy)
- NU Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Moran Cerf, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Marketing, Kellogg School of Management
- Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
Kristin Rae Swanson, PhD
- Professor, Neurological Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Professor, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
- Professor, Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine
Suggested Readings
- Article - Robots with Their Heads in the Clouds (Medium)
- Article - The Big Data Problem: Turning Maps into Knowledge (Neuron)
- Paper - Studying Consciousness Using Direct Recording from Single Neurons in the Human Brain (Springer)
- Paper - From patient-specific mathematical neuro-oncology to precision medicine (Frontiers in Oncology)
New Directions In Engineering
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Speakers
Karen Smilowitz
- Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Resources
Suggested Readings
- Paper - Acute Incident Rapid Response at a Mass-Gathering Event Through Comprehensive Planning Systems: A Case Report from the 2013 Shamrock Shuffle (Prehospital and Disaster Medicine)
- Paper - Humanitarian aid logistics: supply chain management in high gear (Journal of the Operational Research Society)
- Case Study - The Emerging Power of Big Data: The Chicago Experience (The Chicago Council on Global Affairs)
- Article - How can Illinois manufacturers help — and be helped by — the Chicago-based Digital Manufacturing & Design Innovation Institute?
The Universe – Earth and Sky
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Speakers
Seth Stein
- William Deering Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
Vicky Kalogera
- Daniel I. Linzer Distinguished Professor of Physics & Astronomy, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
- Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA)
- Vicky Kalogera wins 2018 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics
Suggested Readings
- Article - A Risky Business (Humboldt Kosmos)
- Paper - How much can we clear the crystal ball? (Oxford Journals: Astronomy & Geophysics)
- Article - How Much Natural Hazard Mitigation Is Enough? (Earth Magazine)
- Article - Astronomy with Black Holes (LIGO Magazine)
- Overview - Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Media and Communications
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Speakers
Larry Birnbaum
- Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Ed Malthouse
- Theodore R. and Annie Laurie Sills Professor of Integrated Marketing Communications, Medill School of Journalism
- Research Director, Spiegel Center on Database and Digital Marketing
Frank Mulhern
- Professor and Associate Dean, Integrated Marketing Communications Department, Medill School of Journalism
Resources
Transformation of Medicine
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Speakers
David W. Baker, MD, MPH
- Michael A. Gertz Professor in Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
- Deputy Director, Institute for Public Health and Medicine
Elizabeth M. McNally, MD, PhD
- Director, Center for Genetic Medicine
- Elizabeth J. Ward Professor of Genetic Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine
- Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Justin Starren, MD, PhD, FACMI
- Chief, Division of Preventive Medicine (Health and Biomedical Informatics), Feinberg School of Medicine
- Deputy Director, Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Science Institute (NUCATS)
- Director, Northwestern University Biomedical Informatics Center (NUBIC)
