One of the primary goals of text mining is to group together, organize and summarize textual information. In social network analysis, we typically tie individuals together through social connections — can we connect documents and their contents in a similar fashion?  What can social network analysis tell us about the content of a document or…

Students are often given the impression that there is one way to have an academic career, the right way. Reality is much more complicated, but this can also be empowering. We will discuss such things informally, while drawing some examples from my own path: from particle physics at Fermilab and CERN to cancer research at…

The outgoing student chapter president Joey Hart will give a short presentation overviewing SIAM and the opportunities its provides for graduate student members. A discussion time will follow. Pizza will be served.