Lucas K. Wagner lkwagner@illinois.edu
Assistant professor of physics
I have an office, but I don’t go to it and you shouldn’t either. Maybe in future semesters!
This course is a multidisciplinary introduction to topics at the intersection of materials and data science. Corresponding to this, it brings in speakers and activities from 6 different departments (computer science, information science, statistics, physics, materials science, and mechanical engineering) to provide their own perspectives on this subject.
Each unit, noted below in the schedule, will involve hands-on sessions. You will turn in a PDF report on each of your hands on activities. The report should include a narrative about what you are doing and why. Learning how to do this is an important part of doing science.
Weeks 1-5 focus on tools that will be used in the remaining weeks. Weeks 6-15 will be hands-on applications, each led by a different faculty member.
| Week | Tuesday | Thursday | Topic | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1/26 | 1/28 | Introduction, python basics | Lucas Wagner |
| 2 | 2/2 | 2/4 | Python for data science day1 and day2 | Luke Olson |
| 3 | 2/9 | 2/11 | Visualization Hands-on activity | Matthew Turk |
| 4 | 2/16 | 2/18 | Generalized linear models (1), Bayesian models (2) | Bo Li |
| 5 | 2/23 | 2/25 | Intro to material science for non-experts Day 2 | Lucas Wagner |
| 6 | 3/2 | 3/4 | Band alignment Day 2 | Andre Schleife |
| 7 | 3/9 | 3/11 | Defect ID using statistical learning methods Notes | Harley Johnson |
| 8 | 3/16 | 3/18 | Image processing for TEM | Pinshane Huang |
| 9 | 3/23 | 3/25 | 4CeeD, Bracelet, Senselet | Klara Nahrstedt |
| 10 | 3/30 | 4/1 | 4CeeD, Bracelet, Senselet | Klara Nahrstedt |
| 11 | 4/6 | 4/8 | Uncertainty quantification Slides / Exercise | Dallas Trinkle |
| 12 | 4/13 | 4/15 | BREAK, Computing resources | Lucas Wagner |
| 13 | 4/20 | 4/22 | Graphene ResQ Exercise 1/Slides/ Image pack | Elif Ertekin |
| 14 | 4/27 | 4/29 | Graphene ResQ (T) Neural network/(H) Bayesian search | Elif Ertekin |
| 15 | 5/4 | N/A | Q&A | Johnson, Schleife, Huang, Turk, Li, and others |