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2003-2004 Seminar Series

Date
Speaker
Title

Thursday, June 24, 2004, 3:30 p.m.
Agriculture 2E25

Aurora Vizcaino
Associate Professor
University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Using Knowledge Management in the Software Maintenance Process through Agents

Thursday, June 17, 2004, 3:30 p.m.
Agriculture 2E25

Silvio Cazella
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
A Recommender System Based on a Multi-Agent System to Create Virtual Academic Web Communities

Monday, May 17, 2004, 3:30 p.m.
2E25 Agriculture

Kym Wittal
CTO
SaskTel
IP Based Services: Is Voice the Killer App?

Friday, May 14, 2004, 11:00 a.m.
2E25 Agriculture

Byron Bashforth
Technical Director
Pixar Animation Studios
RenderMan, Ichthyology, and the Cinema

Wednesday, March 10, 2004, 3:30pm
Arts 146 (Updated)

Dr. Paul Sorenson
Professor University of Alberta
Putting the Theory into Practice: Issues and Challenges in Applying Software Product Line Approaches

Monday, March 1, 2004, 3:30 p.m.
2E25 Agriculture

Dr. Mark Eramian
Assistant Professor
University of Saskatchewan
Histogram Equalization using Neighborhood Metrics

Monday, February 23 2004, 3:30 p.m.
Agriculture 2E25

David Pinelle
Ph.D. Student
University of Saskatchewan
Groupware Design for Loose Coupling: Lessons from Home Care

Monday, January 26, 2004, 3:30 p.m.
Agri 2E25

Dr. David Mould
Assistant Professor
University of Saskatchewan
Approximately Shortest Paths in Terrains

Monday, January 19, 2004, 3:30 p.m.
Agri 2E25

Dr. Winfried Grassmann
Professor
University of Saskatchewan
The Variance of Time Averages in Markovian Event Simulation

Monday, December 1, 2003, 3:30 p.m.
Agri 2E25

Yanping Zhao
Ph.D. Student
Department of Computer Science
Scalable On-Demand Streaming of Non-Linear Media

Monday, November 24, 2003, 3:30 p.m.
Agri 2E25

Dr. Gord McCalla
Professor
Department of Computer Science
The Ecological Approach: Purpose-based Capture and Use of Information about Learners

Monday, November 17, 2003, 3:30 pm
Agri 2E25

Dr. Joseph Konstan, University of Minnesota Recommender Systems: User Experience and System Issues
Friday, October 24, 2003, 3:30 pm
Agri 2E25

Dr. Julita Vassileva
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Can Peer-to-Peer Filesharing be of Help for Research Communities?
Friday, October 3, 2003, 3:30 pm, Agriculture 2E25 Dr. Mark Daley
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Modelling Genetic Gymnastics: The mathematics of gene scrambling in ciliates
Monday, September 15, 2003, 3:30 pm, Agriculture 2D77 Tzvetalin Vassilev, PhD Student
University of Saskatchewan
Optimal Triangulation of Area
Monday, August 11, 2003, 11:00 pm

Carey Williamson
University of Calgary

Quantifying the Properties of SRPT Scheduling

 

2002-2003 Seminar Series

Date Speaker Title 
     
Monday, May 26, 2003 Jingxiang Luo
Department of Computer Science
University of Saskatchewan
Rare event simulation methods -- the advantages and the curses
Friday, April 25, 2003 Sriram Subramanian
User-centered Engineering Group
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
The Visual Interaction Platform
Monday, March 31, 2003 John Cooke
Department of
Computer Science
University of Saskatchewan
Why Soft Skills Are Essential for Software Development
Monday, March 24, 2003 Klaus Keimel
Department of
Computer Science
Technical University, Darmstadt, Germany
Ordered cones, finitary approximation, semantics of probabilistic phenomena in programming.
Friday, March 14, 2003 Zaheer Baber
Department of
Sociology (Canada Research Chair)
University of Saskatchewan
Digital Democracy: The Internet and Civil Society in Singapore
Monday, March 10, 2003 Anirban Mahanti
Department of
Computer Science
University of Saskatchewan
Scalable On-Demand Media Streaming with Packet Loss Recovery
Monday, March 3, 2003 Jeremy Pfeifer
Department of
Computer Science
University of Saskatchewan
Compiler Construction
Thursday, January 30, 2003 Ray Spiteri
Faculty of
Computer Science
Dalhousie University
The case for implicit-explicit solvers
Friday, January 24, 2003 David Callele
Department of
Computer Science
University of Saskatchewan
Virtual Reality Application Development:
A Survey and Demonstration
Monday, November 25, 2002 Ellen Liu
Department of
Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Deadline-based Network Resource Management
Friday, November 22, 2002 Martha L. Escobar-Molano
Asgard Systems
San Jose, California
Storage Systems for Multiple Media Types
Monday, October 7, 2002 Andrew Robinson
Oxford Glycosciences (UK)
Proteomics, Mass Spectrometry, Data Analysis Algorithms and all that...
Friday, September 27, 2002 (10:30 A.M.) Christoph Sensen
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
4D Bioinformatics
Monday, September 23, 2002 Carl McCrosky
Principal Engineer
PMC-Sierra
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Architectural and Algorithmic Issues in the Design of TDM Grooming Fabrics
Friday, September 6, 2002 Juan Diego Zapata Rivera
Department of
Computer Science
University of Saskatchewan
Learning Environments based on Inspectable Student Models

2001-2002 Seminar Series

Date Speaker Title 
Wednesday, August 21, 2002 Peter Forbrig
Department of
Computer Science
University of Rostock
Rostock, Germany
Model-Based Software Development and Transformations
Monday, June 17, 2002 Carlos de Carpio
Department of
Ecological Engineering,
Toyohashi University of Technology
Toyohashi, Japan
Bioinformatics in the Post-Genome Era: New Frontiers in S & F of the Molecules of Life.
Friday, June 7, 2002 Mark Daley
Computer Science,
University of Western Ontario
At the Intersection of Bioinformatics and Biocomputing: Models and Applications of Gene Descrambling in Hypotrichous Ciliates
Thursday, May 16, 2002 Nadeem Jamali
Computer Science, UIUC
Cyborgs: A model for complex resource-bounded mobile agents
Monday, May 13, 2002 Kori Inkpen
Computer Science, DalTech
Rescheduled from April 15
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Friday, May 10, 2002 Mark Eramian
Computer Science,
University of Western Ontario
Texture Analysis of Images using Weighted Finite Automata
Friday, May 3, 2002
NOTE: Special Time of 2:30 p.m.
James Cordy
Computer Science, Queens University
HSML: Design-Directed Source Code Hot Spots
Monday, April 22, 2002 Jose Segovia-Juarez
Department of Computer Science,
Wayne State University
Applications and properties of the hypernetwork model of biological information processing
Monday, April 15, 2002 Kori Inkpen
Computer Science, DalTech
Postponed
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Monday, April 8, 2002 Tuan Pham
Canberra, Australia
Computing Responses of Multi-Input Decision Rules with Information Gain and Fuzzy Integral
Monday, March 25, 2002 Abdullah Arslan
UCSB
Normalized local sequence alignment
Monday, March 18, 2002 Mike Feeley
Computer Science, UBC
Mammoth: A Robust and Confederated Global File System
Monday, March 11, 2002 Barry Brown
Department of Computer Science
University of Glasgow,
Glasgow, U.K.
Exploring tourism as a collaborative activity
Monday, February 25, 2002 Bernhard Plattner
ETH Zurich
A Service Deployment Architecture For Heterogeneous Active Network Nodes
Monday, February 11, 2002 Kui Wu
U of Alberta
Routing in Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Friday, February 8, 2002 David Mould
U of Toronto
Textures from Iterated Nonlinear Systems
Monday, February 4, 2002 F. V. Kuhlmann
Mathematical Sciences Group,
U of Sask
Cryptography
Thursday, January 17, 2002 Stephen Wismath
University of Lethbridge
Straight-Line Drawings on Restricted Grids in 2 and 3 Dimensions
Monday, January 7, 2002 Joanna McGrenere
U of Toronto
The Design and Evaluation of Multiple Interfaces: A Solution for Complex Software
Monday, December 3, 2001 Kay Wiese
Technical University of BC
Bioinformatics and Biocomputing - Intersections in the Structure Prediction Domain
Monday, November 26, 2001 Rick Bunt
Assoc. VP of ITS, U of S
An IT Strategy for the U of S: A progress report 
Friday, October 19, 2001
(rescheduled from Sep. 14)
Igor Jurisica
Ontario Cancer Institute
Managing Microarray Data: From Pre-Processing to Analysis
(Avoiding paralysis of analysis by building an intellectual prosthesis)
Friday, September 28, 2001 Ognen Duzlevski
U of S Summer Student
clustalw-smp and clustalw-cluster:
Multi-processor Distributed Tools for Producing Gene Sequence Alignments
Monday, September 17, 2001 Susan Bull and Gord McCalla User Modelling in I-Help: What, Why, When and How
Friday, September 14, 2001
(cancelled due to WTC Attack)
Igor Jurisica
Ontario Cancer Institute
Managing Microarray Data: From Pre-Processing to Analysis
(Avoiding paralysis of analysis by building an intellectual prosthesis)

Previous Year's Seminars and Abstracts (where available):

2000-2001 Seminar Series

Date Speaker Title
Monday, May 28, 2001 Antonija Mitrovic Constraint-based tutors: a success story

 
 

1998-1999 Seminar Series

Date Speaker Title
Wednesday, March 10, 1999 Mary Vernon SWORD: Scalable Wide-area On-demand Delivery of Popular Data 
Thursday, March 4, 1999 Y. Xiang Multiply Sectioned Bayesian Networks for Distributed Equipment Diagnosis 
Monday, November 30, 1998 Carey Williamson Parallel Simulation Performance on Large ATM Network Scenarios 
Monday, November 23, 1998 M.R.Chinthamani
(PhD Candidate)
Future Effectiveness of Centralized and Distributed Memory Parallel Computing Systems 
Friday, November 20, 1998 David Nicol Scalable Parallel Simulation in Networking 
Monday, November 9, 1998 Berni Schiefer A Whirlwind Tour of the DB2 Universal Database 
Friday, November 6, 1998 Tom Steele Research Methods 
Monday, September 28, 1998 George Patrick Structure preserving algorithms for conservative partial differential equations 
Friday, September 11, 1998 Jim Spohrer From Authoring Tools to Authoring Communities and Beyond... 
Tuesday, September 1, 1998 Srinvas Palthepu
(PhD Candidate)
Scalable Program Recognition for Knowledge-Based Reverse Engineering
Monday, August 31, 1998 Utpal Mukhopadhyaya
(PhD Candidate)
Deflection Routing in Buffered Binary Hypercube Switches
Monday, August 31, 1998 W. Lewis Johnson The Virtual Reality of User Modeling

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