Objectives:
• Motivating among teachers the updating in all disciplines.
• Promoting Data Science and its multiple applications nowadays.
• Ameliorating the knowledge of students regarding the educational offer of Data Science.
Contents:
- Introduction to the multidisciplinary study of data science: mathematics, statistics, computing, artificial intelligence, law, health and business.
- Secondary education in science and technology as previous academic basis for the study of data science.
- Applications of data science in medicine, ecology, environment, industry, economy, etc.
- Job opportunities and future of data science.
Programme:
This is a classroom activity and it will take place on 25th and 26th April (3:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.) at the School of Engineering of the Universitat de València (ETSE-UV, Burjassot Campus-Paterna).
Wednesday, 25th April
3:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Opening of the conference
Isabel Vázquez (Vice-Principal for Undergraduate Studies and Language Policy of the UV)
Paula Marzal (director of the ETSE-UV)
4 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
El dato que hay en ti
Emilia López (Statistics Professor of the UCV)
4:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Job opportunities and future of data science
Emilio Soria (Director of the Master’s Degree in Data Science of the UV)
5 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Mathematics and statistics for data science
Paco Montes (Professor of the Department of Statistics and Operations Research of the UV)
5:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Break
6 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Musical composition and data science
Vicente Liern (Professor of the Department of Business Mathematics of the UV)
6:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Recovery of visual information: bytes and pixels defying human interpretation
Xaro Benavent (Tenured Professor of the Department of Computer Science of the UV)
7 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Personalised medicine: from sequencing to treatment
Vicente Arnau (Director of the Master’s Degree in Biocomputing of the UV)
Thursday, 26th April
3:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Round table: Secondary education in science and technology as previous academic basis for the study of data science
Francisco Grimaldo (Subdirector of the ETSE-UV)
Elena Thibaut (Director of the CEFIRE CTEM)
Emilio Soria (Director of the Master’s Degree in Data Science of the UV)
4 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Studies on Data Science
Marcelino Martínez (Coordinator of the Undergraduate Degree in Data Science of the UV)
Ramón Álvarez (Coordinator of the first year of the Undergraduate Degree in Data Science of the UV)
4:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Law and data protection
Javier Plaza (Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law of the UV y Member of the IA Group of Experts of the Spanish Government)
5 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Neural models and applicability
Antonio J. Serrano (Tenured Professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering of the UV)
5:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Break
6 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
IoT, IoE & Wearables
Jesús Soret (Tenured Professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering of the UV)
6:30 p.m. - 7 p.m.
The role of biostatistics in health, ecology and environment
David Conesa (Director of the Master’s Degree in Biostatistics of the UV)
7 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Experimental data and big data: Understanding Economics
Penélope Hernández (Director of the Laboratory of Experimental and Behavioural Economics of the UV)
More information: https://t.co/anxIpbQCCH
