Note: Updated November 30, 2022 Chateaubriand Fellowship The Chateaubriand Fellowship allows PhD students registered in an American university the opportunity to spend 4–9 months in France. The fellowship aims to initiate or reinforce collaborations or join projects between French and American research teams. US citizenship is not required (see eligibility (slow archived link) and guidelines.) …
New classroom, computers, workshops New Apple Macintosh M1 computers are ready for hosting new workshops in person again. Apple M1 Macintosh The classroom is now equipped with Macintosh mac-mini computers with the new M1 chip. These are attached to Dell 4K display monitors providing a crisp image and easy connections. New workshops While there are many …
Cryo-Electron Microscopy Cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a cryomicroscopy technique applied on samples cooled to cryogenic temperatures (i.e. very cold!.) For biological specimens, the structure is preserved by embedding in an environment of vitreous ice. (See more on the Wikipedia article Cryogenic electron microscopy.) The following links are videos meant to present cryo-EM visually. Unfortunately, …
Becoming a Data Scientist If you are interested to become a data scientist, the following free resources and books would be very helpful. Free books using R These and other books aan be accessed for free on bookdown.org (Note: bookdown is the software used to edit them.) Free books on using Python Free books on …
UW personnel has access to Box, a cloud drive to store documents. While the older “Box Sync” application kept a copy of every file and folder on the local computer, the newer “box drive” software keeps only chosen folders or files on the local machine, everything else stays in the “cloud.” The location of …
Summary Check the Calendar listing for data analysis workshops links and registration forms. Below are workshop dates for SSCC, Madison chapter of Software Carpentry, and Steenbock Library series. Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) The table below shows only the R and Python courses. See complete listing at https://sscc.wisc.edu/sscc_jsp/training/ Title Date Time Instructor Introduction to Python …
Virusworld. was hosted since its inception at the Institute for Molecular Virology in 1993/1994 at the dawn of the World Wide Web and was retired on the first week of July 2022. I was the main author and curator of the web site which was started to disseminate virus depictions based on X-ray crystallography …
The Carpentries The University of Wisconsin–Madison is a Platinum Member Organization of the THE CARPENTRIES that comprise 3 communities: the Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry, and Library Carpentry. There is a lot of enthusiasm around the Caprentries at UW Madison as reported by this carpentry blog by UW–Madison Lauren Michael, now Lead Research Computational Facilitator at …
w3schools: Learn to Code On the w3schools site I was surprised to find a lot more than informational tutorial for Web coding such as CSS or PHP. The site offers a large number of well organized, self-paced tutorials on a much larger scale. Coding languages Here are a few that I find particularly useful to …
Learn X in Y minutes In the past we had “flash cards” to memorize and review materials. This site Learn X in Y minutes has one-page reminders that can be used to re-learn material or get some idea of what the subject is about. For example I wrote a series of 4 posts titled Do …