Past TRICS

Winter 2013

• 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

Fall 2012

• 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

Winter 2012

• 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"

Fall 2011

• 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

Winter 2011

• 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

Fall 2010

• 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

Winter 2010

• 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

Fall 2009

• 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

Winter 2009

• 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"

Fall 2008

• 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"

Winter 2008

• 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?"