Online lecture series “Data Science in Action” from September 2024

For the third time, the Mannheim Center for Data Science (MCDS) and the European University ENGAGE.EU are organizing the lecture series “Data Science in Action” this fall. The lectures on application-related topics from data science will take place online via Zoom (in English) every Thursday from 12 to 1:30 p.m. starting 19 September 2024. All interested parties are cordially invited to participate.

19 September
Marta Sabou (Professor of Information Systems and Business Engineering, WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria)
Lecture topic: Combining Semantic Web and Machine Learning Techniques for Data Analysis Systems

26 September
Davud Rostam-Afschar (Professor at Collaborative Research Centre TRR 266, University of Mannheim)
Lecture topic: How to Run Adaptive Experiments

10 October
Steffen Eger (Heisenberg grant recipient of the DFG, leader of the Natural Language Learning Group (NLLG), University of Mannheim)
Lecture topic: LLMs for Social Science and the Humanities

17 October
Florian Keusch (Professor of Social Data Science and Methodology, University of Mannheim)
Lecture topic: Collecting individual-level digital behavioral data via data donation

24 October
Valentin Lang (Assistant Professor of International Political Economy and Development, University of Mannheim)
Lecture topic: The illiberal challenge: big-data and text-as-data evidence from the UN Human Rights Council

31 October
Paris Mavromoustakos Blom (Assistant Professor, Tilburg University, the Netherlands)
Lecture topic: Affective Computing and Games

7 November
Jana-Rebecca Rehse(Assistant professor for Management Analytics, University of Mannheim)
Lecture topic: Data-Driven Business Process Management by means of Process Mining and Predictive Process Monitoring

14 November
Leif Döring (Professor of Probability Theory, University of Mannheim)
Lecture topic: (Deep) reinforcement learning

21 November
Christian Langerfeld (Associate professor, NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway)
Lecture topic: Economic Signals in Deliberations of the Federal Open Market Committee: A Topic Model Approach

28 November
Nicole Altvater-Mackensen (Professor of Psycholinguistics, University of Mannheim)
Lecture topic: Statistical learning in language acquisition

5 December
Siegfried Handschuh (Professor of Data Science, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Lecture topic: tba

Further information and the registration form can be found on the MCDS homepage.