Date & Time: Tuesday, 29 October 2024, 9.30 AM - 12.30 PM
Location: Learning Lab 3 & 4, Kwa Geok Choo Library Level 3
Instructor: Ruslan Khafizov, Senior Research Engineer, Symbolic AI, Center for Computational Law
In this final workshop, we'll explore how to leverage Quarto Pub and GitHub Pages to create engaging websites for your research. Learn how to transform your Quarto documents into web content for free. This session will cover the basics of hosting static websites on GItHub, site organization, and customization options. By the end of the workshop, you'll have the skills to create a professional online presence for yourself or your research lab.
Pre-requisite: Basic familiarity with Quarto, QuartoPub and GitHub accounts(free). Participants are required to bring their laptop with Quarto installed to the workshop.
Date & Time: Tuesday, 22 October 2024, 9.30 AM - 12.30 PM
Location: Learning Lab 1, Li Ka Shing Library
Instructor: Bella Ratmelia, Senior Librarian, Research & Data Services Team, SMU Libraries
Building up on the previous workshop, this session will explore Quarto's features specifically for academic writing and presentation. Learn to manage citations efficiently, utilize Quarto templates for academic journal submissions, and create dynamic RevealJS presentations. This workshop will introduce skills to efficiently produce publication-ready manuscripts and engaging research presentations, streamlining your academic communication workflow.
Pre-requisite: basic familiarity with R is highly recommended for this workshop. Participants are required to bring their laptop to the workshop.
Date & Time: Tuesday, 16 October 2024, 2.30 - 4.00 PM
Location: Learning Lab 2, Li Ka Shing Library
Instructor: Samantha SEAH, Librarian, Digital Innovation, SMU Libraries
Always wanted to learn how to use LaTeX? In this workshop, we'll use Overleaf to show you the basics of formatting text, writing mathematical formulae, inserting figures and tables, and adding references to create your first LaTeX document. Beginners and non-coders welcome!
Date & Time: Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 9.30 AM - 12.30 PM
Location: Learning Lab 1, Li Ka Shing Library
Instructor: DONG Danping, Senior Librarian, Research & Data Services, SMU Libraries
This hands-on workshop introduces researchers to Quarto in RStudio. Participants will learn Markdown and Quarto basics, enabling seamless integration of narrative text, R code, and citations into a single document. By the end of this session, you'll be able to produce polished documents in HTML, DOCX, or PDF formats that weave your narrative and code into reproducible research documents for your intended audience. This workshop is suitable for beginners and those who would like to refresh their skills.
Pre-requisite: basic familiarity with R is highly recommended for this workshop. Participants are required to bring their laptop to the workshop.
Date & Time: Tuesday, 20 August 2024, 10:00am - 12:00pm,
Location: Learning Lab 1 & 2, Li Ka Shing Library
The talk aims to help faculty and researchers understand the process of bringing their research results from the university to the society and businesses where the results are developed into new products and services that bring benefit to all. It offers insight into the pathway from research to discovery, invention to invention disclosure, intellectual property (IP) protection to commercialisation or licensing to established companies or through a start-up. The talk will introduce the Knowledge Transfer & Commercialisation (KTC) unit at IIE and how IIE/KTC can support faculty and researchers to navigate this path from academic discovery to successful commercialisation including resources and funding to accelerate this journey.
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Date & Time: Tuesday, 25 June 2024, 2.30 PM to 4.00 PM, Read the recap of this event
Venue: Learning Lab 1 @ Li Ka Shing Library, Level 5
The journey of academic research is fraught with challenges, and one of the most common and disheartening experiences for researchers is the rejection of their academic papers by journals. This panel discussion explores the issue of paper rejection, focusing on the impacts on researchers and strategies to move forward while preserving and optimising their work.
Featuring a panel with varied experiences (academics, journal editors, and early-career researchers), this event seeks to provide insights on how researchers can turn rejection into a stepping stone for future success.
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This session is jointly organized with SMU Libraries as part of AI for Research Week 2024
Date & Time: Wednesday, 29 May 2024, 10:45 - 11:30 AM
Venue: Online via Zoom , Watch the recording here.
Many researchers would agree that writing the research manuscript is one of the most time-consuming aspects in the research project. AI could certainly help speed up this process, but to what extent and at what cost?
In this session, researchers from various disciplines will share how they have used AI to augment their manuscript writing and other parts of their workflow, including best practices and things to watch out for.
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Date & Time: Tuesday, 30 April 2024, 2.30 PM to 4.00 PM
Venue: Learning Lab 1 @ Li Ka Shing Library, Level 5
A physics paper with 5,154 authors has — as far as anyone knows — broken the record for the largest number of contributors to a single research article. While this is an extreme case, research nowadays is increasingly collaborative, and the list of authors for a published work gets longer.
In this session, we explore what it takes to be an author, whether you should be listed as an author, and how to negotiate your authorship.
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Date & Time: 2 April 2024 (Tuesday), 2.30 to 4.00pm, Read the recap of this event
Venue: SOSS/ CIS Classroom 1-2
As knowledge sharing and research becomes increasingly fast-paced and interdisciplinary, we need to regularly evaluate the venues where we can reference and publish our research. These venues could be in journals, in conferences and proceedings, and even on platforms such as GitHub or Twitter. In this session, we discuss some ways for us to evaluate these venues, and the considerations that our panelists account for when doing so.
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This 3-part webinar features 3 AI-powered research tools: Scispace, Elicit, and Scite.
Date: Wednesday, 27th March 2024, 12PM - 1PM
Presented by Sean Rife, co-founder of scite.ai and Head of Academic Relations for Research Solutions, IncGiven the large number of text-generative AI tools, which is best suited for scholarly research? In this webinar, scite co-founder Sean Rife will demonstrate the power of scite.ai for the discovery and evaluation of scholarly literature. He will focus in particular on scite Assistant, an AI-based text-generative tool designed with researchers in mind and highlight a number of new features added to Assistant over the past year.
Date: Thursday, 29th February 2024, 12PM - 1PM
Presented by Jungwon Byun, Cofounder and COO of Elicit. an AI research assistant using language models to scale high-quality reasoning. Over 200,000 researchers from universities like Stanford, Yale, University of Cambridge, and HKUST use Elicit every month to search more than 125 million papers in natural language. Researchers use Elicit to extract data for systematic literature reviews, to find datasets or techniques commonly discussed in literature, and to map concepts across papers.
Date: Thursday, 18th January 2024, 12 PM - 1 PM
Presented by Saikiran Chanda, Cofounder and CEO of Scispace, a new AI-powered discovery tool that can generate direct answers to questions with citations, answer specific questions posed to individual articles and even extract information to create a research matrix of studies.