Interface of the Natural Sciences and Data Sciences
DESCRIPTION: Data science offers new ways of looking at the world. At Columbia University and elsewhere, researchers are mining massive data sets to investigate the origins of our universe, the effects of climate change on our oceans and the structure of promising nanoscale materials. With support from the Moore and Sloan foundations, this work is part of a broader effort to bring the latest machine learning and statistical techniques to traditional scientific analysis. Researchers from Columbia, NYU, the University of Missouri and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies will discuss how data science is enabling discovery in their fields.