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CCF Division of Computing and Communication Foundations |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 9, 2016 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | August 9, 2016 |
| Award Number: | 1654106 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Jack S. Snoeyink
CCF Division of Computing and Communication Foundations CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | September 1, 2016 |
| End Date: | August 31, 2017 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $8,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $8,000.00 |
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240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG PULLMAN WA US 99164-0001 (509)335-9661 |
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14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave Vancouver WA US 98686-9600 |
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| NSF Program(s): | Algorithmic Foundations |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
Topological data analysis (TDA) is rapidly developing as a way of finding structure in data that can bring analytical insights. It has great potential in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics -- both of which need ways to distill the essence form the sea of data that threatens to drown conventional analysis.
This project provides travel support for students to attend a workshop on Topological Data Analysis at the 7th ACM-BCB, the conference for ACM SigBIO, on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics. As such, it will increase exposure of students in BCB to the tools and researchers in TDA, and students in TDA to the rich and varied data sets in BCB. Thus, this project, and the workshop in general, will facilitate new collaborations between the TDA experts and BCB researchers that can lead to new analyses for increased understanding in medicine and health.
Priority will be given to supporting student applicants from groups that are underrepresented in science. Slides from presentations as well as videos of the talks will be made available to the public on the conference web page.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
Disclaimer
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The specific objective of the project was to to support the travel of up to eight graduate students to attend the International Workshop on Topological Data Analysis (TDA) in Biomedicine held as part of the ACM Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) 2016 (ACM-BCB '16) conference. The workshop as well as availability of travel support were widely advertised to the community through email announcements as well as personal communications to several colleagues of the organizers.
After reviewing the applications, we made eight awards of $1000 each. Five of the awardees are female, and one is disabled. Three are US citizens. All awardees participated in the discussion following many of the talks in the Workshop. They also participated in discussions with the invited speakers during the breaks and at the lunch. This project was crucial in exposing the awardees to many more research presentations from the area of BCB
This was the first workshop on the topic of TDA in any of the leading bioinformatics and computational biology (BCB) conferences. The PI recorded all talks given at the workshop, and made the videos available to the general public (at the URL http://www.sci.utah.edu/~beiwang/acmbcbworkshop2016/). The PI received messages and feedback about the videos from several researchers not attending the Workshop in person, including a group of graduate students and faculty from India. As such, the BCB community itself was given a formal introduction to the emerging area of TDA through this Workshop. Several attendees as well as remote participants who watched the talks on the videos (posted publicly) expressed interest in trying TDA tools for analyzing their biomedical data sets.
Last Modified: 01/14/2018
Modified by: Bala Krishnamoorthy
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