Journal Club - 

Cancer Surveillance Activities from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2023, 9:00–10:00 a.m. ET
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Freddie Bray, M.Sc., Ph.D. (visiting in person)

Branch Head

Cancer Surveillance

International Agency for Research on Cancer, France

 
Isabelle Soerjomataram, M.D., Ph.D.

Deputy Branch Head

Cancer Surveillance

International Agency for Research on Cancer, France

Mr. Les Mery

Global Programme Manager

International Agency for Research on Cancer, France

Join us for a special presentation by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Cancer Surveillance Branch.

To fulfill IARC’s mandate from WHO to describe the occurrence of cancer, the IARC Cancer Surveillance Branch systematically collects, analyzes, interprets, and disseminates cancer data and statistics worldwide. The branch builds on its long-standing expertise and track record in cancer registration and descriptive epidemiology, aligning its activities with the evolving global cancer agenda.

Leadership of the IARC Cancer Surveillance Branch will present an overview and activities of the branch. There will be time at the end of the presentation for questions and discussion of potential areas of collaboration with NCI.

The NCI Global Cancer Research and Control Seminar Series, hosted by the NCI Center for Global Health (CGH), features talks by researchers and cancer control experts working in global oncology. The seminars provide opportunities for discussion and collaboration around impactful and innovative work that addresses cancer morbidity and mortality worldwide. For more information about the series and to learn more about the NCI CGH: visit our website, subscribe to the CGH Exchange Newsletter, and follow us on Twitter. For questions please contact Ms. Nina Ghanem.

Hackaton - 10:00-11:30 (or, more likely, 11:00)

National Cancer Institute  |   National Institutes of Health  |   U.S. Department of Health and Human Services  |   USA.gov

P2P [Praful]

new engine, separating WebRTC implementation from federated learning

NOAA aerosol data [Daniel] 

...

AI LLM in GCP Vertex.ai [preview Daniel?]

starting a large embedding job on GCP Vertex AI 57,000+ Job Titles, over 1,000,000 characters. expected cost ~$0.15.  All client side JS, I cache the job titles + embeddings so I never call the same job title twice. When the job is complete, I'll check into github.

Medicaid, census SDK [Lorena, Kunnal]

Kunnal

API / SDK discussion

everybody

Node dependencies are a preference?

See reviewer #3 in https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12859-023-05351-8

Quote of the week

"Humanity is just a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence", Geoffrey Hilton lecture at MIT 2023.
This repeats and advances the earlier Novacene argument by recently deceased James Lovelock (Gaia theory).