FYI
On January 23, 2017 at 2:01:18 PM, Federer, Lisa (NIH/OD/ORS) [E] ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) wrote: The National Institutes of Health will hold the third annual Pi Day Celebration on the NIH main campus (Building 35A, the Porter Neuroscience Research Center) on Pi Day, 3/14/17. The goal of the NIH Pi Day Celebration is to increase awareness across the biomedical science community of the role that the quantitative sciences play in biomedical science. As part of the Pi Day Celebration, NIH staff will have the opportunity to give short presentations called “PiCo Talks” or posters/demos. If you want to share information about an interesting project or idea related to the role of the quantitative sciences in the biomedical sciences, please submit a proposal for a talk or poster/demo by visiting http://nihpiday.nih.gov. Proposals will be accepted through February 10, 2017, and acceptance decisions will be sent by February 17, 2017. Attendees will vote for their favorite poster and talk, and the winners will be invited to give a talk in the fall at a joint meeting of the Data Science in Biomedicine and Bioinformatics Special Interest Groups. Pi Day will also feature a keynote address by Dr. Bonnie Berger, who is the Simons Professor of Mathematics at MIT, holds a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and serves as head of the Computation and Biology group at MIT's Computer Science and AI Lab. For more information about the day’s events and to submit your proposals for talks and posters, please visit the Pi Day website: http://nihpiday.nih.gov/. NIH Pi Day is a joint effort of multiple ICs and the NIH Office of the Director, including the National Institutes of Health Library and the Office of Intramural Research, and the former Office of the Associate Director for Data Science. Additional support is provided by the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) and the NIH Bioinformatics Special Interest Group. For all events, sign language interpreters can be provided. Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this event should contact Jacqueline Roberts, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>, 301-594-6747, or the Federal Relay, 800-877-8339.
