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Newsletter November 2018
Newsletter November 2018
RESEARCH: CWI & Foundation 113 Using Data Science for Suicide Prevention

The organisations have joined forces to optimise the quality of suicide prevention services. Research lead Rob van der Mei (CWI) says, “We are very motivated to use our knowledge and expertise in the field of data analysis and forecasting models in order to help reduce the number of suicides and improve online assistance. This collaboration gives us the opportunity to have a substantial impact on a societal issue with our research, something we find very important at CWI.”


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EDUCATION: Applications open for the Digital Society School

Recruitment is now open for an internship at the Digital Society School, a 20-week programme. The DSS is hands-on learning at its best, involving practice-based work with a touch of research. You’ll be part of a vibrant interdisciplinary group during a semester and enjoy unique exposure to a network of experts within the field. Deadline 01 Nov (outside EU) / 01 Dec (EU).

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Calling all Companies: Want to Meet our Students?

SAVE THE DATE: ADS & Big Data Alliance Career Fair11 March 2019 at VU, more info: info@amsterdamdatascience.nl

Join the Connect Career Day of the Faculty of Technology, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (14 Nov), see HERE

Sign up for the UvA Informatics Thesis Fair (22 Nov), see HERE


Sign up to meet VU Digital Business & Innovation Master students (03 Dec), see HERE
Calling all Companies: Want to Meet our Students?
ADS Researchers in the Media

Announcing a new Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI) Lab

NWO funding for Distributed ASCI Supercomputer (DAS-6), led by Henri Bal (VU)

Elsevier is Expanding in Amsterdam - 200 Data Scientists in the next 2-3 years
VACANCIES: Want to Join our Network?

ADS has a range of vacancies, including the following from our Gold Partners:

Internship in Optimization/Machine Learning on Energy Flexibility Trading (CWI)

PhD Position in AI and Information Retrieval (UvA)

Chair in Machine Learning, Full or Associate Professor (UvA)

Assistant Professor, Human Computer Interaction (VU) 

CALLS

ICT with Industry - Call for participation in the January 2019 workshop. The workshop brings together scientists and professionals from industry and governments to work on five exciting case studies. Deadline: 16 November

NWO Crossover - Call for public-private partnerships (PPP), aimed at societal challenges in which the research themes connect several top sectors. The call is open to all scientific disciplines and the target is broadly composed interdisciplinary consortia (consisting of researchers, public and private partners). Deadline: 15 November

NWO Women in Science Excel - Our Gold Partner CWI is participating in the NWO’s WISE programme. The programme will provide four Tenure Track positions for talented female scientists, with an opportunity to develop or expand their own research group at one of the NWO's institutes. Deadline: 04 December


Events
ADS Meetup - Festive Edition

We would like to invite you to our Festive Drinks & Data afternoon on Thursday 06 December where we will celebrate our 2018 highlights and share our plans for 2019. After we will have drinks & snacks.

Date: Thursday 06 December 2018
Time: 15:00-18:00
Amsterdam Science Park

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ADS, ACE & Qualogy Hackathon Report

On 12-13 October, alongside ACE & Qualogy we organised a Hackathon! In seven teams, 38 Data Science & AI hackers competed to help the Neurodiversity Foundation solve a complicated puzzle: How to build digital support systems for autism spectrum disorders. Although only one winning team was expected, the huge effort (through the night!) meant that there were three winning teams & ten holidays won!

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Save the Dates for our Events & our Partners!

15 November (12PM) - Privacy & Security - CWI Lectures (Science Park)

15 November (5:30PM) - X+Y: Research and Freelance for Data Scientists

23 November (12:30PM) - Internet of People Event - Digital Society School (AUAS)

30 November (3PM) - Workshop on Database Management & Elasticsearch by Damian Trilling (UvA) 

11 March 2019 (3PM) - Amsterdam Data Science & Big Data Alliance Annual Career Fair (VU). For more information email: info@amsterdamdatascience.nl
Data Science Events Around the Country

08 November - Qualogy will be at J-Fall, Dutch Java User Group (Ede)

21 November - The National Algorithm Debate (Amsterdam)

27 November - Data Science Summit (Eindhoven)

27 November - Digital Society Conference (Amersfoort)

28-29 November - Making the Smart City Safe for Citizens (Heerlen)

04 December - EIT Digital Innovation Day (Eindhoven)

12 December - FAIR Data Science for Green Life Sciences (Wageningen)

21-25 January 2019 - Syntax meets Semantics (Amsterdam)

12 March 2019 - Big Data Analytics Europe (Rotterdam)
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