Updated list of summer undergraduate research opportunities in statistics and data science for 2026: github.com/peteragao/St... Please feel free to share and let me know if you have updates/information on other programs!
📣 Job alert! 📣 Harvard Kennedy School is running 2 open-rank faculty searches in technology & public policy. One position is specifically for scholars using data science to address public problems. Please help us spread the word! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15561
#Highered – #datascience:
"...I think the biggest thing I would say is just involve students in real work as early as possible....
I think it’s just about teaching thinking, not tools."
datascienceeducation.substack.com/p/faculty-an...#highereducation#research#STEM#STEMeducation#dataforgood
Google invites applications for the 2026 Student Researcher Program, offering hands-on research experience in AI, data science & emerging tech across Europe & Africa.
🗓 Deadline: Feb 26, 2025 (rolling)
🔗 Apply: wp.me/p23f03-h9u#GoogleResearch#Fellowship#AI
Grant writing workshop – ECRs and PhD students in data science and AI
Fri, 16 Jan 2026 1:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Are you thinking about applying for a grant or fellowship?
www.c2d3.cam.ac.uk/events/grant...
We are hiring! Come work with me!
Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Alaska Fairbanks
2 courses/semester + research & service
careers.alaska.edu/jobs/531493
We have a great department, and Fairbanks is actually a pretty great place to live.
#mathsky#statsky
Honoring excellence in Data Science research! 🏆📊 The SIAG Data Career Prize recognizes a lifetime of achievement in the Mathematical, Statistical, and Computational foundations of Data Science. Nominations due on October 15.
Learn more: www.siam.org/programs-ini...#SIAM#DataScience#CareerPrize
Calling all early-career data scientists! 🏆📊 Don't miss the deadline for the SIAG Data Early Career Prize, recognizing outstanding contributions to data science. Submissions due on October 15.
Learn more: www.siam.org/programs-ini...#SIAM#DataScience#EarlyCareer
Celebrate women in stats & data science! Join the 4th International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science on Oct 14. Free, virtual, and open to all! magazine.amstat.org/...#WomenInStats#DataScience#IDWSDS2025#STEM#Mentorship
Know a dataset making an impact for people, planet, or prosperity?
🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured!
🔗: buff.ly/XLFfYqM#ImpactfulData#EarthScience
Vector's Winter 2026 Applied Internship applications are now open.
This isn't a typical internship. You'll contribute to active AI implementation projects and work within Canada's premier AI research ecosystem. Six roles available across fields.
Apply by Sept 22: vectorinstitute.ai/programs/int...
Save the Date!
The SIAM Activity Group on Data Science (SIAG/DATA) invites you to join us for a panel on the topic:
Careers in Mathematics of Data Science
Tuesday, August 12, 2025 | 9:00 AM PT | Zoom Webinar
Panelists: Marta D’Elia, Elizabeth Newman, David Uminsky
Save the Date!
The SIAM Activity Group on Data Science (SIAG/DATA) invites you to join us for a panel on the topic:
Careers in Mathematics of Data Science
Tuesday, August 12, 2025 | 9:00 AM PT | Zoom Webinar
Panelists: Marta D’Elia, Elizabeth Newman, David Uminsky
SIAG/DATA is at the SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meeting in Montreal this week! If you are around, consider attending the events in the track organized by our SIAG!
Guido Montúfar (UCLA) speaking on "Geometry and convergence of natural policy gradient methods" at our #MachineLearning#Math seminar back in February 2023. #MathSky
Ever wondered what convolution is all about? 🤔📐
Check out 3Blue1Brown's YouTube video to learn about this fundamental concept in math and signal processing.
New textbook by Carlos Fernandez-Granda (@nyucourant.bsky.social@nyudatascience.bsky.social): Probability and Statistics for Data Science!
- 📝 200 exercises w/ solutions
- 📓 102 Python notebooks using 23 real-world datasets
- 🎥 115 YouTube videos w/ slides
- 📘 *free* preprint
www.ps4ds.net
AMS Announces $1M in Backstop Grants for Mathematical Community. Recent federal funding cuts stand to significantly impact the mathematical sciences. AMS leadership recognizes these impacts, and to help mitigate these challenges, is launching the AMS Backstop Grant program.
📐 🎉 Happy Women in Mathematics Day!
Women in math have made — and continue to make — incredible contributions to science, technology, and our understanding of the universe.
Let’s honour the pioneers who’ve paved the way and cheer on the next generation of brilliant minds shaping the future!
Final reminder: this panel is TOMORROW at 9 am PT! We hope you will join us for this interesting conversation. Register in advance and submit your questions for our panelists!
Call for Questions: WebMDS Panel on Teaching the Mathematics of Data Science
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM PT
Submit your questions by Friday, May 2, 2025
We’d love to include questions from our community!
Share your questions by replying here or submitting them at siam.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
Save the Date!
SIAG/DATA is thrilled to announce the launch of our new webinar series: Webinar on the Mathematics of Data Science (WebMDS)!
Join us for the inaugural event – a panel on:
Teaching the Mathematics of Data Science
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | 9:00 AM PT | Zoom Webinar
Call for Questions: WebMDS Panel on Teaching the Mathematics of Data Science
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM PT
Submit your questions by Friday, May 2, 2025
We’d love to include questions from our community!
Share your questions by replying here or submitting them at siam.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
The SIAM Activity Group on Data Science (SIAG/DATA) is launching a new webinar series: Webinar on the Mathematics of Data Science (WebMDS)! Our inaugural Event is a panel, Teaching the Mathematics of Data Science.
This panel will explore how we teach the mathematical foundations of data science—through effective textbooks, engaging course design, and innovative, cross-institutional curricula. Panelists will share their experience building rigorous and inspiring educational content for data scientists.
Save the Date!
SIAG/DATA is thrilled to announce the launch of our new webinar series: Webinar on the Mathematics of Data Science (WebMDS)!
Join us for the inaugural event – a panel on:
Teaching the Mathematics of Data Science
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | 9:00 AM PT | Zoom Webinar
Panelists: Nathan Alexander, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Tammy Kolda, Rachel Levy
This is a free, one-hour virtual panel open to all. Advance registration is required. Stay tuned for the registration link!
Announcing : The 2nd International Summer School on Mathematical Aspects of Data Science
mathsdata2025.github.io
EPFL, Sept 1–5, 2025
Speakers:
Bach @bachfrancis.bsky.social
Bandeira
Mallat
Montanari
Peyré @gabrielpeyre.bsky.social
For PhD students & early-career researchers
Apply before May 15!
SIAM has announced the 2025 fellows and we are happy that among them there are the six member of SIAG/DATA
David Gleich, Lior Horesh, Youssef Marzouk, Jonathan Mattingly, Stefan M. Wild, Mohammed J. Zaki
Congratulations!
www.siam.org/publications...
Gain valuable mentoring experience and grow your network within the UChicago data science ecosystem by supporting our 2025 Data Science for Social Impact Summer Experience!
Priority application review for open roles begins Monday, March 31st
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Priority application deadlines for open roles to support the 2025 Data Science for Social Impact Summer Experience are quickly approaching!
Submit your application by Monday, March 31st for priority review
🔗👇
I'm super happy to see that several of my data visualisation projects were long-listed at the 2024 Information is Beautiful Awards! 📊
#RStats#DataViz#ggplot2#RSpatial#TidyTuesday
👋 The SIAM Activity Group Data Science is here!
The group is run by the officers (row wise top to bottom)
Jamie Haddock (secretary)
Dirk Lorenz (vice chair)
Rebecca Morrison (program director)
Lars Ruthotto (chair)
(www.siam.org/get-involved...)