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Senior Teaching Qualification certificates awarded

On Thursday 14 March, the Senior Teaching Qualification certificates were awarded during a festive ceremony. Dr. Zhiming Zhao from MNS together with the other fifteen UvA lecturers received the certificate.

UvA receives grant for OSCARS (Open Science Clusters’ Action for Research & Society)

The EU Horizon Europe project OSCARS (Open Science Clusters’ Action for Research & Society) has been successfully kicked off 13/March 2024 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Coordinated by CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), the project aims to bring together European Research Infrastructures (RIs) organized into five “Science Clusters” along the ESFRI thematic research domains1.

UvA receives grant for EVERSE (European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence)

The project has 18 partners from 8 countries and will last three years; the consortium includes five clusters of European research infrastructures, including environmental earth science, life science, particle physics, Photon and neutron, and social science.

Prof. Paola Grosso is the new director of the Informatics Institute. She passes the baton of the MNS group leader to dr. Zhao.

From March 01st prof. Grosso (Paola) is the new director of the Informatics Institute. She passes the baton of the MNS group leader to dr. Zhao.

Na Li gave a talk: Ocean Data Quality Assessment through Outlier Detection-enhanced Active Learning

Title: Ocean Data Quality Assessment through Outlier Detection-enhanced Active Learning BLUECLOUD 2026 partner CNR, 29th Jan 2024 This work has been partially funded by the European Union’s Horizon research and innovation program by the CLARIFY (860627), BLUECLOUD 2026 (101094227), ENVRI-FAIR (824068) and ARTICONF (825134), by the LifeWatch ERIC, and by the NWO LTER-LIFE project.

Na Li had an accepted paper in WWW2023 conference

Abstract: A computational notebook search system called CNSVRE has been proposed to address shortcomings in existing solutions for Virtual Research Environments (VREs). Existing approaches lack focus on the specific information needs of scientific researchers and struggle with relevance evaluation due to the mixed nature of text and code in computational notebooks.

Na Li had an accepted paper in 19th e-Science conference

Abstract: The discovery and reuse of scientific codes are essential in research, with computational notebooks proving effective for sharing such codes. However, locating relevant computational notebooks poses challenges due to their multi-modal nature and lack of evaluation datasets for fair assessments.

Na Li had an accepted paper in IEEE BigData conference 2023

Abstract: The Argo network, dedicated to ocean profiling, generates a vast volume of observatory data. However, data quality issues from sensor malfunctions and transmission errors necessitate stringent quality assessment. Existing methods, including machine learning, fall short due to limited labeled data and imbalanced datasets.

UvA receives grant for EU Horizon-Europe ENVRI-Hub Next project

Grant: EU Horizon-Europe ENVRI-Hub Next (ENVironmental Research Infrastructures delivering an open access Hub and NEXT-level interdisciplinary research framework providing services for advancing science and society). UvA receives 360K from total 5M.

Yuandou Wang gives a talk for the final CLARIFY meeting. A Decentralized Virtual Research Environment for Data-centric Sciences

Yuandou Wang gives a talk for the final CLARIFY meeting. The title of the talk was: “A Decentralized Virtual Research Environment for Data-centric Sciences”. Venue and date: CLARIFY final meeting, Valencia, Spain, 25 Jan 2024