Topical Research In Computer Science
UWO Computer Science Departmental Seminars
Learn some TRICS!
Location
The 2012-13 seminars are held in MC 320 at 1:30-2:30 every other Wendesday.
Volunteers Welcome!
If you would like to give a talk in this series, please contact Stephen Watt <watt@csd.uwo.ca>.
New TRICS
Past TRICS
- Wed 16 Jan: Steven Beauchemin
"The Visual Behaviour of Drivers"
- Wed 30 Jan: Helmut Jurgensen
"Automata and Codes"
- Wed 13 Feb: Liangliang Wang
"Phylogenetic Inference using Particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods"
- Wed 27 Feb: Nazim Madhavji
"Impediments to Requirements-Compliance"
- Wed 13 Mar: Sylvia Osborn
"Is It Privacy or Is It Access Control?"
- Wed 27 Mar: John Barron
"The Analysis of Severe Weather Data" CANCELLED
- Wed 12 Sep: Olga Veksler
"Automatic Extraction of Salient Objects"
- Wed 26 Sep: Mark Daley
"Big Data, Big Models, Big Trouble"
- Wed 10 Oct: Kamran Sedig
"An Introduction to Information Visualization"
- Wed 24 Oct: Yuri Boykov
"Image Segmentation with Constraints on Geometry and Complexity"
- Wed 7 Nov: Mahmoud El Sakka
"Recent Progress in Lossless Image Compression"
Wed 21 Nov: Steven Beauchemin
"The Visual Behaviour of Drivers" CANCELLED
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 18 Jan: Stephen Watt
"Dependent Types and Categorical Programming"
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 1 Feb: Nazim Madhavji
"Celebrating 40 years of M.M. Lehman's Research"
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 15 Feb: Charles Ling
" Two 'Killer' Applications of Data mining"
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 29 Feb: Hanan Lutfiyya
"Forming Trust in Distributed Systems"
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 14 Mar: Mark Perry
"Internalising Externalities of Computing Architectures"
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 28 Mar: Roberto Solis Oba
"Delivering messages ... with forwarding. Breaking inapproximability barriers"
- Wed 14 Sep: Olga Veksler
Tiered scene labeling
- Wed 28 Sep: Kaizhong Zhang
Glycan Structure De Novo Sequencing with Tandem Mass Spectrometry
- Wed 12 Oct: Mark Daley
This is your brain on graphs: a story of neuroscience,
graph theory and high-performance computing
- Wed 26 Oct: Andy Szilard
Stars, Snakes and Dragons and other recursive monster TRICKS
for Halloween
- Wed 9 Nov: Kamran Sedig
Human-Information Interaction: What is this?
- Wed 30 Nov: Yuri Boykov
Model-fitting in computer vision
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 5 Jan: Rob Corless
Benoit's Roots
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 19 Jan: Nazim Madhavji
Why Ph.D. students should not write a thesis
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 2 Feb: Eric Schost
Silhouettes and roadmaps
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 16 Feb: John Barron
Computing 3D Optical Flow in a Gated Cardiac MRI Sequence
using a Functional Heart Model
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 2 Mar: Roberto Solis Oba
Solving hard scheduling problems
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 16 Mar: Lucian Ilie
Error correction in high-throughput sequencing data
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 30 Mar: Steven Beauchemin
Advanced Driving Assistance Systems
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 15 Sep 2010: Stephen Watt
The Mathematics of Mathematical Handwriting Recognition
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 29 Sep 2010: Hanan Lutfiyya
Indoor Positioning Systems
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 13 Oct 2010: Peter Rogan
Interpreting Human Genome Variation
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 27 Oct 2010: Mahmoud El Sakka
Two-Dimensional Dictionary-Based Lossless Image Compression
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 10 Nov 2010: Yuzhen Xie
Parallel Generation of Transversal Hypergraghs
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 24 Nov 2010: Jamie Andrews
Applications for Everyone
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 13 Jan 2010: Robert Mercer
Finding all of the information that you need without the junk
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 27 Jan 2010: Michael Katchabaw
Gaming the System: The Value in Video Games Research
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 10 Feb 2010: Charles Ling
Active and Cost-sensitive Learning
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 24 Feb 2010: David Doty
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Theory of Computation in Nanoscale Self-Assembly
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 10 Mar 2010: Thomas Margoni
Network Neutrality in Canada: a missed opportunity?
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 24 Mar 2010: Rong Xiao
Solving Parametric Polynomial Systems
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 16 Sep 2009: Eric Schost
Counting Problems in Cryptology
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 30 Sep 2009: Sylvia Osborn
Roles
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 14 Oct 2009: Mark Perry
Software Patents
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 28 Oct 2009: David Stoutemyer (CS Colloquium)
How to justifiably round and underflow approximate floating-point coefficients
in formulas
and
How to magically simplify rational expressions without actually doing any algebra
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 11 Nov 2009: Kamran Sedig
Design of Tools for the Mind
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 25 Nov 2009: Sheng Yu
Regex
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 14 Jan 2009: Mahmoud El Sakka
"On Utilizing Ultrasound Images"
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 28 Jan 2009: Kaizhong Zhang
"On the Similarity Metric"
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 11 Feb 2009: Roberto Solis Oba
"Packing Boxes n'Other Stuff"
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 25 Feb 2009: Nazim Madhavji
"The Impact of Software Architectures on Requirements Engineering"
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 11 Mar 2009: Michael Bauer
"Experiments, Remote Instruments and Web Services"
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 25 Mar 2009: Steven Beauchemin
"Auto21: Driving Real-Time Computer Vision"
1:30-2:30, Wed 10 Sept 2008: Mike Katchabaw
"Creativity Assistive Tools for Games: Characters, Story and More" CANCELLED
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 24 Sept 2008: Mark Daley
"Life by the Numbers: Molecular Systems Biology in Protists"
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 8 Oct 2008: Hanan Lutfiyya
"Back to the Future: Evolution of Distributed Systems Management Research"
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 22 Oct 2008: John Barron
"Applications of 2D/3D Optical Flow"
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 5 Nov 2008: Stephen Watt
"Computer Algebra's Dirty Little Secret"
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 19 Nov 2008: Yuri Boykov
"How to Fit a Surface to a Cloud of Points? A Survey"
- 1:30-2:30, Wed 3 Dec 2008: Lila Kari
"The Many Facets of Natural Computing"
- 3:30-4:30, Wed 30 Jan 2008: Lucian Ilie
"Alignment of Long Genomic Sequences"
- 3:30-4:30, Wed 13 Feb 2008: Daniel Cremers (U Bonn)
"Continuous and Discrete Optimization Methods in Computer Vision"
- 3:30-4:30, Wed 27 Feb 2008: No Talk
Conference Week
- 3:30-4:30, Wed 12 Mar 2008: Jamie Andrews
"What's Wrong With My Programs?"
- 3:30-4:30, Wed 26 Mar 2008: Olga Veksler
"Recovering Approximate Scene Geometry from a Single View
through Learning and Optimization"
- 3:30-4:30, Wed 9 Apr 2008: Marc Moreno Maza
"Fast Linear Algebra versus Fast Polynomial Arithmetic: Who Will Win?"