BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:77@escience.washington.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240327T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240327T172000 DTSTAMP:20240312T221458Z URL:https://escience.washington.edu/events/uwdss-incubator-1/ SUMMARY:UW Data Science Seminar: Winter Incubator DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a UW Data Science Seminar on Wednesday\, Mar ch 27th from 4:30 to 5:20 p.m. PST. The seminar will feature two projects from Diane Xue and George Brencher\, who participated in our 2024 Data Sci ence Incubator program at the eScience Institute.\n2024 Spring Quarter sem inars will be held in PAA A118 - campus map\n \;\n"Polygenic and Conte xtual Determinants of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias"\nAbstract : The goal of this project is to model multi-level macro- and meso- enviro nmental factors including ambient pollutants\, socioeconomic status\, dens ity of physical activity facilities and social engagement destinations. al ongside polygenic scores that summarize individual-level genetic risk for AD in order to determine what social and environmental factors remain sign ificantly associated with dementia risk and/or cognitive decline after con trolling for PRS.  Additionally\, we want to investigate whether effects of social and environmental factors differ for high- and low- genetic risk groups. Social\, built\, and physical environmental variables that are as sociated with healthy controls who are at high genetic risk can be further investigated as population-level solutions for promoting AD resilience. F urthermore\, early prediction of AD is key to prevention. The results of t he proposal will prepare us to integrate genetic and non-genetic factors f or risk prediction\, moving us close to precision treatments.\n\n\n"Charac terizing glacial lake outburst flood hazard at a regional scale using fuse d InSAR-speckle tracking surface displacement time series"\nAbstract: Usin g satellite synthetic aperture radar remote sensing\, we have developed a workflow allowing us to quantify surface changes that can contribute to gl acial lake outburst flood (GLOF) likelihood\, including landslide movement and moraine dam subsidence. Our approach fuses interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) and SAR speckle tracking data to accurately capture deformation as fast as hundreds of meters per year and as slow as <\;1 cm per year. During this incubator project\, we developed infrastructure t o deploy our workflow on the cloud using Github Actions\, allowing us to q uickly and efficiently process large radar datasets and create surface dis placement time series. We applied this processing pipeline to measure surf ace displacement from 2017-present day with high spatial and temporal reso lution for the areas surrounding selected hazardous glacial lakes in Nepal \, India\, and China. The resulting multi-year displacement time series al low us to detect and track intra- and inter-annual changes of dynamic land slide\, permafrost\, and glacial features and precisely quantify rates of moraine dam subsidence\, significantly improving our understanding of GLOF hazard and providing a critical missing input to existing risk analysis f rameworks. We use radar data acquired in two orientations to decompose sur face displacement into vertical and horizontal components\, allowing us to understand the contribution of ice melt\, ice flow\, and other processes to ground movement and to quantify how those processes change on seasonal and yearly time scales. These results have implications not only for GLOF hazard\, but also alpine geomorphology and glaciology\, as we learn about processes associated with thinning and retreat of debris-covered glaciers. \n\n\n\n\nThe UW Data Science Seminar is an annual lecture series at the U niversity of Washington that hosts scholars working across applied areas o f data science\, such as the sciences\, engineering\, humanities and arts along with methodological areas in data science\, such as computer science \, applied math and statistics. Our presenters come from all domain fields and include occasional external speakers from regional partners\, governm ental agencies and industry.\n\n \;\n\nThe 2023-2024 seminars will be held in person\, and are free and open to the public.\n\n\n\n LOCATION:Physics/Astronomy Auditorium\, room A118\, Seattle\, WA\, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Seattle\, WA\, ;X-APPLE-RAD IUS=100;X-TITLE=Physics/Astronomy Auditorium\, room A118:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR