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ECS Data Sciences Hack Week Application

ECS Data Sciences Hack Week

Source: https://www.electrochem.org/233/hack-week

May 14-19, 2018
Seattle, WA

Application Deadline: March 30, 2018

ECS Data Science Hack WeekBuilding on the success of the first ECS Data Sciences Hack Day (October 2017), ECS is pleased to offer another opportunity at the ECS spring meeting in Seattle. In May 2018, the program will be expanded to an entire week as the next stage in ECS supporting a growing electrochemical data science and open source community. The goal of this event is to increase awareness and impact of data science tools, open source software, and shared datasets in electrochemistry and solid state science and technology, by bringing together people from different backgrounds to collaborate.

Hack Week will again be led by the very capable and engaging team from University of Washington: Dan Schwartz, David Beck, and Matt Murbach. The program will kick off on Monday, May 14 and have sessions all day Wednesday through Friday, as well as optional software training tutorials during the week. The activities will culminate with project presentations and an optional clamming expedition on Saturday, a traditional activity in the Puget Sound area.

Meet the organizers

Daniel Schwartz is the Boeing-Sutter Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the Clean Energy Institute at the University of Washington, and brings electrochemistry and modeling expertise to the team. David Beck is a Sr. Data Scientist with the eSciences Institute at the University of Washington, and leads regular hackathons; he is Associate Director of the NSF Data Intensive Research Enabling CleanTech (DIRECT) PhD training program. Matthew Murbach is past-president of the University of Washington ECS Student Chapter, and an advanced data sciences PhD trainee; he has been leading the student section software development sessions on the UW campus, and has practical experience coaching electrochemical scientists and engineers in software development.

Who should attend?

All electrochemical engineers can benefit from this workshop, whether experimentally or theoretically focused. Learning how to create, share, use, and improve open source software tools and public datasets is one way to accelerate research progress in our field.

Travel Grants

A number of travel awards made possible by generous grants from the Army Research Office and the University of Washington Clean Energy Institute will be available. Please indicate your interest in being considered for a travel award when completing your ECS Hack Day application.

Schedule

Monday, May 14

  • 1300-1600h — (Optional Segment) Introduction to Data Science Tools #1 (using the shell/terminal, version control)
  • 1930-2030h — Hack Week Kickoff Event

Tuesday, May 15

  • 1300-1600h — (Optional Segment) Introduction to Data Science Tools #2 (introduction to Python using Conda and Jupyter)

Wednesday, May 16*

  • 0830-1200h — Intermediate Python Topics (documentation and testing)
  • 1200-1300h — Project Updates/Ideation and Team Formation (over lunch)
  • 1300-1800h — Project Hacking Time (1500h: breakout session for data visualization)

Thursday, May 17*

  • 0830-1200h — Advanced Topics (cloud computing and machine learning w/ Python)
  • 1200-1330h — Lunch Break
  • 1330-1800h — Project Hacking Time (1500h: breakout session on reproducibility)

Friday, May 18

  • 0830-1200h — Project Hacking Time
  • 1200-1330h — Lunch Break
  • 1330-1630h — Project Hacking Time
  • 1700-1900h — Project Presentations and Wrap Up

Saturday, May 19 (Optional)

  • 0900-1300h — (Optional) Social Event (clamming in the Puget Sound area)
  • 1300-1700h — (Optional) Social Event Continues (cooking the catch and socializing)

* Note: The session room will remain open until 2330h for continued project hacking on Wednesday and Thursday.

Selection of attendees

The goal of this event is to increase awareness and impact of data science tools, open source software, and shared datasets in electrochemistry by bringing together people from different backgrounds to collaborate. We expect to have 42 slots for attendees, and will seek to build a cohort comprised of people with a diverse mix of experimental and theoretical electrochemical expertise, as well as a range of prior experiences creating and using open source software and python programing.

Interested?

The attendees of Hack Week are innovators, leaders, and emerging leadership in their fields, all interested in accelerating research progress through data science. If you or one of your colleagues would like to learn more, please contact Mary.Yess@electrochem.org. If you would like to sponsor Hack Week, please contact Ashley.Moran@electrochem.org to learn about opportunities. To be considered for a spot at hack week, those interested should complete this application form. Application deadline is March 30, 2018.

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Outreach opportunity: Enumclaw Stem Expo

ECS@UW is participating in the Enumclaw Stem Expo on Thursday, February 8, from 4 to 7:30. Last year, we had an Enginearrings booth, and the event was super successful and fun. This year, we’re doing a new experiment by making a battery with our hands!  https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/hand-battery
We need volunteers to inspire children with the magic of electrochemistry, so if you’re available and interested, fill out this google form:
Cheers,
Caitlin
ECS Outreach Chair
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Introduction to Electrochemistry

To start off the Winter Quarter, we are going to be having our first bi-weekly meeting next Wednesday (1/24/2018) from 4:00 to 5:00 pm. The location is tentatively MolES 315.
We will be piloting our “Introduction to Electrochemistry” talk, led by our members Yanbo Qi and Caitlin Parke. In this meeting, we will be discussing the basic principles of electrochemical reactions, cells, thermodynamics, and kinetics. This talk is not meant to teach you everything there is, but rather a brief overview of major concepts that hopefully will give you ideas of where to start diving more in depth on your own time. I hope to get proper feedback and further questions after this session to see if we want to have a second talk about concepts that remained confusing, or if there was something that people wanted to go more in depth in.
As always, if you have any questions, problems, or want to provide feedback, you can always reach me at this address. Hope to see you all there!
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Most Popular Articles of 2017

UW covers 4 out of the top 10.

Source:

Most Popular Articles of 2017

7. Technical editor talks publishing

As part of our ongoing five questions segment, we sat down with Journal of The Electrochemical Society technical editor, Venkat Subramanian, to discuss the evolution of scholarly publishing and the importance of electrochemistry.

“The training of a future workforce of broadly educated engineers and scientists, with strong technical skills will be essential,” Subramanian said in the article. “In this important area of research, electrochemists and electrochemical engineers are needed to play an active role in addressing global challenges.”

9. Benefits in making graded electrodes

In October, “Is There a Benefit in Employing Graded Electrodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries?” was published in the Journal of The Electrochemical Society. The authors of the research further discussed their finding in a post, tackling a controversial topic and introducing a free electrode design tool that they had developed.

10. Successful ECS Data Sciences Hack Day

During the 232nd ECS Meeting, ECS held its first ECS Data Science Hack Day. The event was a foray into building an electrochemical data science and open source community from the ground up.

Matthew Murbach, co-organizer of the event, wrote an article in the wake of Hack Day summarizing what was accomplished and some of the projects that were developed during the time.

15. Mathematical modeling of electrochemical systems

In August, ECS published the Journal of The Electrochemical Society Focus Issue on Mathematical Modeling of Electrochemical Systems at Multiple Scales in Honor of John Newman. All 72 papers published in the issue are available open access in the ECS Digital Library.

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Thank you for coming to the “Online Presence” workshop.

Thank you for coming out to the workshop! We hope that you enjoyed it and that it was some combination of fun and useful!
A walk-through of the workshop can be found here.
Since this was the first attempt at a workshop like this, I’m sure a lot of things could be improved – if you have the time, we would really appreciate you filling out this evaluation form so that the next workshop can be even better!