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First session in 2025

AI for ecologists: a toolkit

This five-day training course, organized by the FRB-CESAB aims to initiate ecologists to AI concepts and tools.

AI for ecologists: a toolkit

Pre-registration for the 2025 session will open on the 25th of November 2024, and close on the 10th of January 2025.

The Cesab – Centre for the Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity – of the FRB is offering the training course «Artifical Intelligence for ecologists: a toolkit». This five-day training course aims to initiate ecologists to AI concepts and tools. The course will be a mix of lectures and hands-on practice based on different data types commonly encountered in ecology. The main objective of the course is to give to the participants the autonomy that will allow them to assess which algorithms are most adapted to their own research questions, where to find them and how to adjust them to the desired question. The training course, in English, and takes place in spring at the CESAB in Montpellier. The price is 250 € for the week, including lunches. Travel, accommodation and evening meals are at the expense of the participants.

 

 

Find the training course on GitHub

 

You must have a strong programming background, at least in R.

Familiarity with Python is preferred, but not mandatory.

 

List of speakers (in alphabetical order) :

USEFUL INFORMATIONS

The training course takes place in spring

 

• Pre-registration opening

winter

 

• Pre-registration deadline

winter

CESAB – FRB

5, rue de l’École de médecine

34000 Montpellier

 

Contact

 

Camille COUX 

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PROGRAMME EXAMPLE

This is a programme example

  • Introduction and overview of main AI concepts
  • Introduction to data science
  • Random forest and regression
  • Multilayer Perceptron
  • Convolutional Neural Networks
  • Symbolic AI