Acknowledgement: This Summer school is partially funded by Science and research Fund at Sofia University (contract 80-10-189-27.04.2020).
Application: Deadline for application is July 10, 2020 by filling-in this application form: https://forms.gle/r1RAMQjYJqWaWDib9. Only some applications would be approved. The approved will be notified by e-mail and will recieve hyperlink.
Location: Online in Zoom sessions (Aproved participants would receive hyperlink)
Time: July 18-26, 2020
Main objectives:
Concept: Intensive training in methods (not so much applications) through lectures, workshops and team work on projects.
Cases: As part of the Summer school the participants would have to solve and present a case, out of several options, which will be given on the first day. See the cases here…
Certification: Certificates issued by Faculty of Economics and Business Administration will be issued to those who successfully pass the Summer school. The requirements are at least 70% active participation in the classes and participation in a team with a presented solution at the end. Participants who cannot take part fulltime can also join classes, but will not receive a certificate.
Target audience: PhD students in their first 18 months and advanced graduates (master students).
Official language: For written materials - English, for lectures - Bulgarian or English.
Technical requirements: Apart from concentrating during the online classes, the aproved participants should make sure to be equipped with a personal computer, webcamera, broadband internet connection, and installed with:
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/223483361788013/
Organizer: Faculty of Economics, Sofia University. For questions: angel.marchev@basaga.org
Lecturers:
(subject to change)
2020-07-18 Fundamentals
09:30 - 10:30 Organizational issues
11:00 - 13:00 Opening session: Angel Marchev, Sr. - The scientific method video
14:00 - 17:00 Alexander Efremov, Kaloyan Haralampiev - Data mining: methods & main tasks video, materials
17:00 - 19:30 Workshop: Explaining the cases
2020-07-19 Fundamentals
09:30 - 12:00 Angel Marchev, Sr. - General Systems Theory: a systematic approach to research video, materials
12:30 - 13:30 Workshop: Angel Marchev, Jr., Petar Nikolov - Introduction to Python & Jupyter notebook video, materials
14:30 - 17:00 Workshop: Julian Borisov - Introduction to KNIME video, materials
17:00 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments
2020-07-20 Fundamentals
09:30 - 11:30 Angel Marchev, Sr. - Cybernetics studying complex systems with feedback video, materials
12:00 - 13:00 Boryana Bogdanova - Introduction to R & R studio video
14:00 - 17:00 Workshop: Kaloyan Haralampiev - Introduction to Orange video, materials
17:00 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments
2020-07-21 Mathematical concepts
09:30 - 11:00 Mladen Savov - Introduction to probability video, materials
11:30 - 13:00 Kaloyan Haralampiev - Bayesian paradigm video, materials
14:00 - 15:00 Alexander Efremov - Introduction to Numerical Optimization video, materials
15:30 - 17:00 Pavel Nikolov - Fast Fourier Transform video, materials
17:30 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments
2020-07-22 Machine learning methods
09:30 - 11:00 Boryana Bogdanova - Data preparation video
11:30 - 13:00 Atanas Atanassov - How to prepare comparative time series video, materials
14:00 - 17:00 Workshop: Demir Tonchev - ML workflow video, materials
17:30 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments
2020-07-23 Applications
09:30 - 11:00 Evgeni Ovcharov - Introduction to sport rating systems video, materials
11:30 - 13:00 Evgeniy Marinov - Recommendation systems video, materials
14:00 - 16:00 Workshop: Alexander Efremov - Choice of model structure video, materials
16:30 - 17:30 Workshop: Angel Marchev - Image classification workflow with TensorFlow & TensorFlow.js video
17:30 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments
2020-07-24 Deep Learning
09:30 - 11:00 Stanimir Kabaivanov - Introduction to ANN video, materials
11:30 - 13:00 Yassen Kiprov - Hugingface: a platform for easy use of ANN video, materials
14:00 - 15:30 Mihail Motzev - Statistical Learning Networks video, materials
15:30 - 17:00 Mihail Motzev - KnowledgeMiner for Excel (Insights) video, materials
17:00 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments
2020-07-25 Artificial intelligence
09:30 - 11:00 Demir Tonchev - Reinforced learning video, materials
11:30 - 13:30 Angel Marchev, Jr. - Self-organization Concepts video, materials
14:30 - 17:00 Workshop: Angel Marchev, Jr. - Multi-stage selection procedure video, materials
17:00 - 19:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments
2020-07-26 Perspectives
09:30 - 14:30 Workshop: Teamwork on case assignments
15:00 - 17:00 Conference - presentation of the solutions to the case assignments video
17:00 - 17:30 Closing ceremony