How the COVID pandemic is changing global science collaborations

The role of data science in encountering COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic started in China and quickly spread throughout the world. This pandemic has affected the health of millions of people, the global economy and has challenged the majority of scientists and politicians to find effective medical treatments and intelligent policies to reduce the side effects of this pandemic as soon as possible. Technological advancements have enabled us to co...

The COVID-19 Pandemic: Is It A Wolf Consuming Fertility?

The Big Mechanism Program: Changing How Science Is Done

The talk will describe details of actively evolving research conducted by the UChicago consortium of the Big Mechanism program, funded by the US DARPA agency. The consortium’s work focuses on: (1) probabilistic reasoning across cancer claims culled from literature which uses custom-designed ontologies; (2) the computational modelling of cancer mechanisms and pathways to automatically predict th...

How to Minimize the Impact of Pandemic Events: Lessons From the COVID-19 Crisis

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the current pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This pandemic is characterized by a high variability in death rate (defined as the ratio between the number of deaths and the total number of infected people) across world countries. Several possible explanations have been proposed, but it is not clear whe...

How is Precipitation Changing?

Observations show that changes are occurring in the amount, intensity, frequency and type of precipitation. These aspects of precipitation generally exhibit large natural variability, and El Niño and changes in atmospheric circulation patterns such as the North Atlantic Oscillation have a substantial influence. Pronounced longterm trends from 1900 to 2005 have been observed in precipitation amo...