A new advanced class in Urban Science is available this Fall Quarter. It targets PhD and advanced Masters students interested in urban analytics. The course is both theoretical/methodological and applied. This year, it will explore opportunities to collaborate with the City of Seattle, Microsoft, and other organizations to develop pilot applications to real world problems. More details will be available on the website shortly.

Plan now to visit scenic Salt Lake City next May 2017 for the ninth biennial ICOET, the foremost interdisciplinary, interagency supported conference addressing ecological issues related to transportation systems in all modes.

Submissions for the Call for Abstracts are due by mid-November. Details for the Call, along with registration for Hotel, Sponsors / Exhibitors, and Attendees will be posted soon on the conference website.

The ICOET program includes podium and poster presentations, field trips, and exhibits addressing various topics of interest to researchers, biologists, engineers, planners, project managers, administrators, and policy makers. Professionals and students working in transportation development, related scientific study, policy issues, and administrative processes are invited to attend.

Please share this announcement with interested colleagues. Come to ICOET and share your current research, quality applications, and best practices that can enhance both the project development process and the ecological sustainability of all transportation modes.

The NSF Mathematical Sciences Institutes Diversity Committee is pleased to offer its annual Modern Math Workshop, Oct. 12-13, 2016, preceding the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) national conference in Long Beach, CA. Intended to invigorate the research careers of minority mathematicians and mathematics faculty at minority-serving institutions, the event features early career researcher sessions and undergraduate sessions.

The hosting NSF Mathematics Institutes Diversity Committee members are, as follows: American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM), Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI), Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), the National Institute for Mathematical & Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) and Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI).

Join faculty, students and representatives from the City of Auburn for an event celebrating the start of the inaugural UW Livable City Year, a partnership between the University of Washington and Auburn.

Livable City Year is a cross-university collaboration connecting local governments with University of Washington classes to address community-identified areas of need.  UW students and professors will work with Auburn throughout the upcoming academic year to advance the city’s goals for livability and sustainability.

Speakers will include Jennifer Otten, CSDE Affiliate and assistant professor in the School of Public Health, alongside many others. Faculty members leading Livable City Year courses during Fall Quarter will discuss the projects, followed by a Q&A period.

There will be light refreshments available.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its funding partners in the Grand Challenges family of grant programs are inviting innovators to apply for the following grant opportunities.

Grand Challenges Explorations fosters early-stage discovery research to expand the pipeline of ideas for solving our greatest global health and development challenges. Launched in 2008 with an initial $100 million commitment from the foundation, Grand Challenges Explorations grants have already been awarded to more than 1200 researchers in more than 65 countries.

They are accepting applications on the following four topics until November 9, 2016:

• Assess Family Planning Needs, Preferences and Behaviors to Inform Innovations in Contraceptive Technologies
• Develop Novel Platforms to Accelerate Contraceptive Drug Discovery
• Design New Solutions to Data Integration for Malaria Elimination
• Accelerate Development of New Therapies for Childhood Cryptosporidium Infection

You’re invited to participate in the third Oxford Symposium on Population, Migration, and the Environment. The symposium will be held 5 and 6 December 2016 at St Cross College, Oxford, U.K.

You are welcome to present a paper that encourages the exchange of interdisciplinary ideas about the main themes of the conference: world population increase, human migration, and environmental sustainability.  Alternatively, you may wish to attend as an observer or panel member. Papers presented at the meeting will be subsequently peer-reviewed by external readers for possible inclusion in Symposium Books or sponsored academic journals.

The Symposium seeks to cover a broad agenda that includes disciplines such as economics, education, environmental studies, agriculture, law, political science, religion, and social studies. Topics for presentation may reach beyond these areas, and our website contains an extensive list of suggested topics.

The UW’s Clinical Informatics Research Group is looking for graduate and undergraduate students interested in hourly or RA positions in software development. This is a great opportunity for students to gain experience with open-source software engineering and health informatics. The group designs, develops, and administers clinical, global, population, and consumer health information systems for both research and usual care.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated development experience with PHP or Python, and
  database experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Comfort working with Linux systems at the command line.
• 10-20 hours / week.

Desired experience:

• Python Flask, CakePHP.
• HTML5, CSS, Javascript.
• Development of consumption of RESTful APIs.
• Mobile dev.
• Health informatics.

For more information, please contact either Justin McReynolds
or Dr. Bill Lober.