Topical Research In Computer Science

UWO Computer Science Departmental Seminars

The 2011-12 seminars are held in MC 320 at 1:30-2:30 every other Wendesday.

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
"Network Optimization Problems"

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"

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?"

1:30-2:30, Wed 10 Sept 2008: Mike Kachabaw
~~"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"

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 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 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 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 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

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

If you would like to volunteer to give a talk, please contact Stephen Watt.