TEACHING ACTIVITY 2019
Course: Statistical design of experiments, by Dr. Olivera Djuric.
Programme
| Date | Topic | Hours |
| Tuesday 21/5/2019 | Part I Lecture: Principles of causation: causal inference, directed acyclic graphs, relation between variables (bias, confounding, effect modification)
Part II Lecture: Overview of epidemiological study designs Group assignment - problem solving
Part III Lecture: Basics of experimental studies Theoretical exercise on types of experiential studies and types of clinical trials |
1h
45min 30min
1h 15min 30min |
| Tuesday 28/5/2019 | Part I Lecture: Principles of statistical inference Group assignment - statistical vs. clinical inference
Part II Lecture: Sample size and Power calculation Practical exercise on calculating power and sample size for experimental study
Part III Lecture: Choice of adequate statistical test Group assignment - problem solving
Part IV Practical exercise in SPSS or STATA |
1h 15min
30min 15min
45min 30min
45min |
| Wednesday 29/5/2019 | Part I Lecture: Basics of correlation – use and missuse Theoretical exercise – correlation
Part II Lecture: Regression – basic principles Lecture: Linear regression and multiple linear regression
Part III Practical exercise in SPSS or STATA |
40min 20min
45min 1h 30min
45min |
| Monday 3/6/2019 | Part I Lecture: Logistic regression – basic concepts Lecture: Single and multiple logistic regression
Part II Lecture: Logistic regression – variable selection and model building Lecture: Logistic regression – statistical adjustment – interaction and confounding Lecture: Logistic regression – diagnostics
Part III Practical exercise in SPSS or STATA |
30min 45min
45min 45min
30min
45min |
| Tuesday 4/6/2019 | Part I Lecture: Statistical analysis in experimental design - intention to treat analysis, primary and subgroup analysis
Part II Lecture: analysis of variance (ANOVA) and covariance (ANCOVA) Lecture: repeated measures analysis Lecture: time to event analysis – comparing survival curves
Part III Practical exercise in SPSS or STATA |
45min
45min 45min 1h
45min |
| Monday 10/6/2019 | Presentation and discussion of a protocol for the experimental study assigned in day one | 2h + 2h |
Course: La ricerca dell'informazione scientifica e La gestione delle citazioni bibliografiche nel lavoro scientifico, by the staff of the UniMoRe Libraries.
June 4, 9.00-13.00; June 6, 9.00-13.00: La ricerca dell'informazione scientifica online
June 11, ore 9.00-13.00, June 13, ore 9.00-13.00: La gestione delle citazioni bibliografiche nel lavoro scientifico
Course: Bioinformatics in Medicine. Introduction to Genomics , by Professor Jonathan Pevsner (Department of Neurology, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA)
June 24: The landscape of the human genome. Introduction to the UCSC Genome Browser
June 25: The human genome: resources at NCBI, Ensembl. Special topic: BioMart to annotate genomic data
Workshop organized by the PhD Program in Neurosciences: Brain-Inspired Computing: From Neuroscience to Artificial Intelligence, October 11, 2019
Program
10:00-10:15: Registration
10:15-10:30
Opening:
Angelo Oreste Andrisano - Magnifico Rettore (Universitą di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Carlo Adolfo Porro - Centro Interdipartimentale di Neuroscienze e Neurotecnologie (Universitą di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
10:30-12:15: Session 1 - Experimental and computational Neuroscience (Chair: Jonathan Mapelli, Universitą di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Sergio Solinas (Universitą di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, and Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI), Zurich) “Inhibitory plasticity and optimal encoding at the cerebellum”
Thierry Nieus (Universitą degli Studi di Milano, Milano) “Brain complexity measures and their extension to neural circuits and non-biological systems”
Alberto Mazzoni (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa) “Tactile information processing: from models to neuroprosthetics and back”
Stefano Vassanelli (Universitą degli Studi di Padova, Padova) “Connecting Brain and Silicon Neurons with memristive synapses”
12:15-13:30: Lunch
13:30-15:15: Session 2 - Neuro-inspired electronics and hardware (Chair: Paolo Pavan, Universitą di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Sabina Spiga (CNR-IMM, Agrate Brianza) “Emerging technologies and devices for neuroinspired architectures”
Francesco Maria Puglisi (Universitą di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena) “Physics-based Compact Models to investigate new brain inspired architectures”
Daniele Ielmini (Politecnico di Milano, Milano) “Hardware accelerators for computing and learning with memory arrays”
Giacomo Indiveri (Institute of Neuroinformatics (INI), Zurich) “Neuromorphic electronic circuits for building neuromorphic cognitive agents”
15:15-15:30: Coffee Break
15:30-17:15: Session 3 - Artificial Neural Networks (Chair: Simone Calderara, Universitą di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Concetto Spampinato (Universitą di Catania, Catania)“ AI for “reverse-engineering” computational patterns in the human brain”
Elisa Ricci (Universitą di Trento, Trento) “Learning to Adapt: Digging Deeper into Domain Adaptation for Visual Recognition”
Marcella Cornia (Universitą di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena) “Predicting Human Eye Fixations via Deep Learning-based Saliency Models”
Sabrina Conoci (ST Microelectronics, Catania, and Universitą di Messina, Messina) “Driver Drowsiness by Silicon-based Physiological Sensors coupled with Neural Networks”
17:15-17:30: Wrap-Up
Course: Valorizzazione dei risultati della ricerca. Corso di formazione complementare per dottorandi e assegnisti.
November 18, 9.30-13.00: Opportunitą e percorsi per la ricerca e l'innovazione nazionali e internazionali Barbara Rebecchi Coordinatrice della Direzione Ricerca, Trasferimento tecnologico e Terza missione (DRTTTM) – UNIMORE.
November 18, 14.30-17.00: Progettare la ricerca in Europa: il Ciclo del progetto, la struttura del Piano di Azioni, il Piano dei costi, gli Attori Ferdinando Di Maggio Irene Chini DRTTTM – UNIMORE.
November 19, 9.30-13.00: Progettare la ricerca in Europa: Valorizzazione dei risultati, Attivitą di Comunicazione e Disseminazione, Federica Manzoli Nadja Saendig DRTTTM – UNIMORE.
November 19, 14.30-18.30: Trasformare un progetto di ricerca in un’idea d’impresa Dott. Bernardo Balboni DEMB – UNIMORE.
November 20, 9.15-10.45: La negoziazione e la gestione nei progetti H2020 Valeria Goldoni DRTTTM – UNIMORE.
November 20, 10.45-11.30: Please cite my paper. Potenziarel'impatto della ricerca e sopravvivere alla bibliometria Simona Assirelli Ufficio bibliometrico – SBA.
November 20, 11.45-12.45: La valutazione della qualitą della ricerca tra bibliometria e peer review Andrea Solieri Ufficio bibliometrico – SBA.
November 20, 11.45-13.30: Open access vs paywalls. L'accesso (aperto) alla letteratura scientifica Andrea Solieri Ufficio bibliometrico – SBA.
November 21, 9.00-11.30: I diritti di Proprietą Intellettuale Giulia Catellani, Valeria Bergonzini DRTTTM – UNIMORE.
November 21, 11.30-13.00: L'ecosistema dell'innovazione in Emilia Romagna. Opportunitą formative, professionali ed imprenditoriali per ricercatori e dottorandi. Lara Porciatti ArtER, Responsabile AreaS3 Tecnopolo di Modena.
November 21, 14.30-16.00: Cittadinanza attiva: programmi europei e opportunitą di lavoro. Barbara Finessi Europe Direct, Modena Anna Maria Sansoni Uniser.