ACCDMi in-person meeting

Details

Date: Monday July 27 - Wednesday July 29.

Location: Core Science Facility (CSF), Memorial University and online (email ahurford@mun.ca for details)

We will first meet in the Cater Andrews Room, CSF 2342. This is on the second floor to the righthand side of the whale skeleton’s head. The whale’s name is Altum. We will have the small group sessions in nearby rooms in CSF.

Participants

On site

Sumit Jyoti JC Loredo-Osti Binod Shrestha
Amy Hurford Abdou Fofana Maheru Rahman
Chunhua Ou Jingyu Li Joshua Mack
Danhan Hu Yuan Yuan Francis Anokye

Online

Edward Susko Abdelmonem Mohamed Guanjie Lyu
James Watmough Ahsan Raquib

Meeting activities

To begin each day Amy Hurford will give a 30 minute overview of what we hope to achieve during the in-person meeting/topics we should learn more about. The meeting with be a combination of talks, small group collaborative activities, and talks reporting back the work completed in small groups.

Talks

All participants are invited to give a 5-10 min lightening talk about their research to introduce themselves to the group. This will be scheduled for all the participants listed above unless you email Amy Hurford to indicate you would like to opt out. You we welcome to use slides or not.

Anyone who has research/expertise that is valuable to ACCDMi’s future directions is welcome to give a 30 minute talk on this. As an example, Abdou Fofana could give a talk on AI4PH and its relevancy for ACCDMi’s future directions. Please email Amy Hurford if you are willing to give a 30 min research talk during the meeting.

Small group collaborations

Small group collaborations will occur in parallel and you can choose to work on the activities that you fit your interests. There will be documents on the Google drive where the small groups should document their work (link will be shared by email only). Small groups can set up video-conferencing on their own to facilitate collaboration with off-site participants.

The activities below are divided into principal investigators and trainees. Principal investigators are faculty who have status to be participants on grants. Postdoctoral fellows can choose to work with the Principal investigator or trainee group.

Please complete the small group sign-up document (shared by email) prior to the start of the meeting. Every participant should sign-up for at least one activity and you are welcome to sign-up for multiple.

Principal investigator activities

  1. Review website for missing deliverables that have been completed in year 1.
  2. Define directions of ACCDMi for year 2.
  3. Work on any of the 4 grant proposals that ACCDMi is submitting in the next 2 months.

Trainee activities

  1. Compile an annotated bibliography of references that can be used to cite the value of ACCDMi or should be read by ACCDMi to advance our research.
  2. Begin the R coding of an online Modelling education website that can host videos and administer quizzes hosted on github.
  3. Work on the SGNN or other figures that are appropriate for grants.
  4. Compile data that could be used to make graphs for use in grants.
  5. Establish a collaborative project with another group member.
  6. Update the ACCDMi-tools github repository.

Schedule

Activities and times refer to Newfoundland Time (NDT). Meetings occur in Cater Andrews (CSF 2342) and nearby breakout rooms.

() indicates the small group activity that Amy Hurford will be working on during this time.

Day 1: Monday, July 27

Time Session
09:00 - 09:30 Opening Overview: Amy Hurford (CSF 2342)
09:30 - 09:40 Introduction: Sumit Jyoti
09:40 - 09:50 Introduction: Ahsan Raquib
09:50 - 11:00 Small Group Work (CIHR project; CSF 2342 & CSF 2222)
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 11:25 Introduction: Binod Shrestha
11:25 - 11:35 Introduction: James Watmough
11:35 - 12:00 Small Group Work (NFRF Explorations; CSF 2342 & CSF 2222)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:30 Talk: Jingyu Li
13:30 - 13:40 Introduction: Maheru Rahman
13:40 - 13:50 Introduction: Chunhua Ou
13:50 - 14:45 Small Group Work (ACCDMi year 1 report/year 2 planning; CSF 2342 & CSF 2222)
14:45 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 15:10 Introduction: Danhan Hu
15:10 - 15:20 Introduction: Yuan Yuan
15:20 - 16:00 Daily Report Back (CSF 2342)

Day 2: Tuesday, July 28

Time Session
09:00 - 09:30 Morning Overview: Amy Hurford (CSF 2342)
09:30 - 09:40 Introduction: Joshua Mack
09:40 - 09:50 Introduction: Francis Anokye
09:50 - 11:00 Small Group Work (CIHR Project; CSF 2342 & CSF 2222)
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 11:25 Introduction: JC Loredo-Osti
11:25 - 11:35 Introduction: Edward Susko (Online)
11:35 - 12:00 Small Group Work (NLHRF; CSF 2342 & CSF 2222)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:30 Talk: Abdou Fofana
13:30 - 14:45 Small Group Work (NFRF Explorations; CSF 2342 & CSF 2222)
14:45 - 15:00 Break
15:00 - 15:10 Introduction: Abdelmonem Mohamed (Online)
15:10 - 15:20 Introduction: Guanjie Lyu (Online)
15:20 - 16:00 Daily Report Back (CSF 2342)

Day 3: Wednesday, July 29

Time Session
09:00 - 09:30 Morning Overview: Amy Hurford (CSF 2342)
09:30 - 11:00 Small Group Work (CSF 2342)
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 13:00 Small Group Work (CSF 2342)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Small Group Work (CSF 2208)
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 16:00 Daily Report Back (CSF 2208)