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<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A">Dear colleagues<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="color:#0E101A">I</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A">t is our great pleasure now to invite you to the first stage of the 1st International Symposium on the Science of Data Science. The meeting will take place as
a satellite workshop of the 8th Swiss Conference on Data Science, SDS 2021 (</span><span lang="DE-CH" style="color:#0E101A"><a href="https://www.sds2021.ch/"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.sds2021.ch/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A">)
on June 8, 2021 (either online or physically/hybrid).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A">This first workshop aims to bring together interested researchers and initiate a discourse around (also preliminary) thoughts and hypotheses. Our focus is on overarching and foundational data science
aspects (see the attached flyer for more details). We aim to gain a more unified view, leading to a future <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">second symposium</span></strong> to solicit a more extensive community's participation
and include <strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">published proceedings</span></strong><b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A">If you think you could be interested but are not sure yet, you would help us immensely with planning if you could register yourself here as "preliminary interested" (not binding, of course): <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="DE-CH" style="color:#0E101A"><a href="https://forms.gle/LkJk1BKRhUJ9uXXJ8"><span lang="EN-US">https://forms.gle/LkJk1BKRhUJ9uXXJ8</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A">Please feel free to forward this invitation to interested parties!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A">Looking forward to the discussion with you, with best regards, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0E101A;font-weight:normal">Thilo Stadelmann</span></strong><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A"> (Prof. AI/ML, Scientific Director ZHAW digital)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0E101A;font-weight:normal">Frank-Peter Schilling</span></strong><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A">(Senior
Researcher Deep Learning)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0E101A;font-weight:normal">Rudolf Fuechslin</span></strong><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#0E101A">(Prof.,
Head of Applied Complex Systems Science)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0E101A;font-weight:normal">Dandolo Flumini</span></strong><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#0E101A"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#0E101A">(Applied
Complex System Science)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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