Agenda and Program
Agenda and Program

Mind Bytes will offer a diverse array of activities and presentations throughout the afternoon. Please see below for a detailed schedule of events and browse the sub-navigation menu for more in-depth information about speakers.

[cardboard][cardboard]:3[cardboard] pm

Registration opens

[cardboard][cardboard]:3[cardboard]—[cardboard]:3[cardboard] pm

Poster Viewing; Coffee and Snacks; IBM’s Watson Demonstrations; RCC's Interactive Touch Workbench Demonstrations; Attendee Voting

[cardboard]:3[cardboard]—[cardboard]:[cardboard]5 pm

Opening remarks

Don Levy, Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories

[cardboard]:[cardboard]5—3:[cardboard][cardboard] pm

Faculty Lightning Talks

Juan de Pablo, Institute for Molecular Engineering
"Directed Self Assembly in Biology, in Synthetic Materials, and in Industrial Processes"
Andrey Kravtsov, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
 "Modelling formation of Milky Way-like galaxies"
Burhaneddin Sandikci, Chicago Booth
 "A massively parallel approach to solving large-scale stochastic optimization problems"
John Goldsmith, Departments of Linguistics and Computer Science
"Words of a feather flock together"
David Biron, Department of Physics and James Franck Institute "Homeostasis during worm sleep"

3:[cardboard][cardboard]—3:3[cardboard] pm

Swami Chandrasekaran, Executive Architect and Technical Leader, IBM Watson CTO Office
"Innovation and Inspiration through Cognitive Computing"

3:3[cardboard]—3:[cardboard]5 pm

Break

3:[cardboard]5—[cardboard]:[cardboard]5 pm

Big Data Panel Discussion

Sema Barlas, Director of Master of Science in Analytics program, University of Chicago Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies, moderator

Michelangelo D'Agostino, Senior Data Scientist, Civis Analytics; former Senior Analyst, Obama for America [cardboard][cardboard][cardboard][cardboard]
Nick Kadochnikov, Data Scientist, Educator and Business Analytics Consultant, International Business Machines
Joe Kleinhenz, Director, Big Data Analytics and Product Intelligence, Allstate Corporation
Andrei Broder, Distinguished Scientist, Google

[cardboard]:[cardboard]5—5:[cardboard][cardboard] pm

Closing Remarks and Award Ceremony

5:[cardboard][cardboard]—5:3[cardboard] pm

Event Reception; Hors d'oeuvres and Drinks; Poster Viewing; IBM’s Watson Demonstrations; RCC's Interactive Touch Workbench Demonstrations