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2017 Computer and Information Science Seminar Series

This page provides a list of seminars that will be presented on the dates specified at 1:00 pm in Room G34 of the Owheo Building (133 Union Street East). Where available, an abstract of the seminar can be displayed by clicking on the title of the seminar.

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Semester 2

July

July 14
Point Pattern Analysis for a rare Alpine plant population
Peter Whigham, Department of Information Science

July 21
Measuring and Modeling Diffuse Scattering in Macromolecular Crystallography Diffraction Patterns
Michael Wall, Los Alamos National Laboratory

July 28
Energy harvesting modelling for self-powered fitness gadgets
Sophie Zareei, Department of Information Science

August

August 4
Association Mining and the Death of Dinosaurs
Richard O'Keefe, Department of Computer Science

August 11
Real-Time Shared Environments on Mobile Head-Mounted Displays
Matthew Cook and Jacob Young, Department of Information Science

August 18
Top-k Merit Weighting PBIL for Optimal Coalition Structure Generation of Smart Power Grids
Sean Lee, Department of Information Science

August 25
Introduction to Electronic Forensics
Hank Wolfe, Department of Information Science

September

September 1
No Seminar - Mid Semester Break

September 8
What are deep networks good for?
Brendan McCane, Department of Computer Science

September 15
Towards Trusting Autonomous Systems
Michael Winikoff, Department of Information Science

September 22
Probability learning based particle swarm optimization
Lizhi Peng, University of Jinan

September 29
Workload Management of a primary health centre through prediction using care-plans for LTCs
Manjula Devananda, Department of Information Science

October

October 6
Convolutional Neural Networks for Medical Image Semantic Segmentation
Russel Mesbah, Department of Computer Science

October 13
Understanding Timbre: Science and Music
Geoff Wyvill and Joshua La Pine, Department of Computer Science

End Of Semester Two

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