Outreach & Events
IDIES researchers frequently attend science outreach events to demonstrate our exciting new approach to conducting research. Below are just a few places that you may find the IDIES team; if you see us, come by and ask us your big data questions!
Upcoming Events
2025 IDIES Annual Symposium
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Scott-Bates Commons, Salon B–C
Recurring Events
Annual Symposium
Every year during the fall semester, IDIES holds an annual symposium to showcase and share big data accomplishments, processes, and solutions and facilitate research networking.
Please check the IDIES Annual Symposium page to learn more about the event, symposia from years past, and what we have in store for this year. »
American Astronomical Society (AAS) Meeting
Beginning of January; location varies
These heavily attended biannual events held by AAS are hosted in different cities across North America. IDIES’ SciServer team are long-time attendees, promoting the platform to astronomers beyond Johns Hopkins.
For more details, visit the AAS Meetings page.
International #LoveDataWeek
In collaboration with Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries Data Services, IDIES annually participates in the annual International LoveDataWeek—taking place mid February or the week of Valentine’s Day—organized by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan.
Johns Hopkins University Physics and Astronomy Fair
End of April; JHU Homewood Campus, Baltimore, MD
IDIES participates in the annual Physics Fair at the JHU Department of Physics and Astronomy. A team of IDIES volunteers host an exhibit booth that is always a big hit at the event. Some of the past hands-on activities that we’ve demonstrated with the hundreds of young attendees have been a three-dimensional fly-through of the Universe created by former IDIES member Miguel A. Aragon-Calvo. Other activities included a scaled-model of the Earth and Moon, and a build-your-own spectrograph activity.
For more details on the event, visit the Physics and Astronomy departments Physics Fair page.
Other Big-data Events
Past Events
IDIES SEMINAR: Christine Borgman
February 16, 2023
ChatGPT, AI, and the Future of Higher Education
An International LoveDataWeek event
February 16, 2023
A Virtual Panel Discussion: Inaugural Event Of The Data-intensive Social Science Speaker Series
RECORDING AVAILABLE
Big Data without Big Headaches:
Introduction to SciServer Workshop
An International LoveDataWeek event
Monday, February 13, 2023
2–4pm EST
Learn how to use the SciServer online science platform to search through, visualize, and analyze Petabytes of data quickly and easily.
Data Science Coast to Coast
May 19, 2021
MedHacks
September 10-12, 2021