2009-2010 Seminar Series

For a description of the seminar and information about the speaker please click on the title of the seminar. Seminars from other years can be accessed, above, by clicking on a year.

Date

Speaker

Title

Tuesday, June 29, 2010
1:30 pm
Thorvaldson 159 
Dr. Anders Madsen
HUGIN Expert
Belief Update in Bayesian Networks - Improvements to Message Computation in Lazy Propagation
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
3:30 pm
Thorvaldson 124
Jeff Smith
Ph.D. Candidate
Dept of Computer Science
Supporting Human Creativity in Music Composition Software
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
3:30 pm
Thorvaldson 124  
Dr. Yang Xiang
Univeristy of Guelph
Graphical Models: From Single Agent to Multiagent
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
3:30 pm
Thorvaldson 124  
Dr. Prakesh Shenoy
Univeristy of Kensas
Inference in hybrid Bayesian networks with deterministic variabl

Tuesday, June 8, 2010
3:30 pm
Thorvaldson 159

Dr. Thomas Kunz
  Carleton University
Clocks and Networks of Clocks in Wireless Communication Systems 
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
1:30 pm
Thorvaldson 105   
Dr. Glenn Shafer 
Rutgers University
Game-theoretic probability and its applications

Thursday, May 13, 2010
3:30 pm
Thorvaldson 105       

Dr. Eugene Santos Jr. 
Dartmouth College
On Bayesian Knowledge Representations and the Fusion of Knowledge from Multiple (Conflicting) Sources
Friday, March 12, 2010
3:30 pm
Thorvaldson 124
Dong Zhang
Ph.D. Candidate
Dept of Computer Science
Performance Issues in Cellular Wireless Mesh Networks
Friday, February 26, 2010
3:30 pm
Thorvaldson 124
Jie Feng
Ph.D. Candidate
Dept of Computer Science
Performance of Data Aggregation for Wireless Sensor Networks
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
4:00 pm
Thorvaldson 105
Dr. Steven Woods
Director at Google Waterloo
Google, Waterloo and You
Friday, February 12, 2010
3:30pm
Thorvaldson 124
Dr. Sandra Zilles
Dept of Computer Science
University of Regina
The Sample Complexity of Learning from Carefully Chosen Examples
Friday, January 29, 2010
3:30pm
Thorvaldson 124
Dr. Lennart Nacke
Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Affective Ludology:  Reflecting on Fun, Physiological Measurement, and User Experience in Interactive Entertainment
Friday, January 8, 2010
3:30pm
Thorvaldson 124
Dr. Melanie Tory
Dept of Computer Science
University of Victoria
An Empirical Approach to Visualization Design

Monday, November 30, 2009
3:30pm
Thorvaldson 105

Indratmo
Ph.D. Candidate
Dept of Computer Science
Supporting Exploratory Browsing with Visualization of Social Interaction History 
Friday, November 27, 2009
3:30pm
Thorvaldson 105
Dr. Sriram Subramanian
Interaction & Graphics Group
University of Bristol, England
Expressive User Interactions Beyond Multi-Touch
Friday, November 20, 2009
3:30pm
Thorvaldson 110

Derek Corneil      Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto

The Power of Graph Searching

Friday, November 13, 2009
3:30 pm
Thorvaldson 105
Miso Cilimdzic
IBM, Toronto
Implementation and Performance of Scalable Clustered Databases

Monday, November 2, 2009
3:30 pm
Thorvaldson 105

Mark Watson
Department of Computer Science
University of Saskatchewan

Learning From Matapalo:  Negotiating Design in Guanacaste
Wed, September 28, 2009
3:30pm
Thorvaldson 105
Olaf O. Storaasli
Computer Science and Mathematics Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
High Performance Computing at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Monday, September 30, 2009
3:30 pm
Thorvaldson 105

Holger H. Hoos
Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia

Taming the Complexity Monster