2017 Seminars

• Speaker:  Dr. Douglas Stebila
  • Topic:  Understanding the Impact of Quantum information on Information Security
  • Date of Presentation: December 13, 2017
  • Location:  BSB B103
    
    
• Speaker:  Dr. Francis Poulin
  • Topic: Modelling Wind-Driven Oceanic Gyres
  • Date of Presentation: November 15, 2017
  • Location:  BSB B103

• Speaker: Dr. Pawel Pomorski
  • Topic:  Linear Algebra on GPU
  • Date of Presentation: November 8, 2017
  • Location:  JHE A101

• Speaker: Ned Nedialkov
  • Topic:  Simulating Lagrangian Mechanics Directly
  • Date of Presentation: October 25
  • Location:  BSB B103

• Speaker: Farouq Alamq Alam
  • Topic:  On optimization problems in step-stress life testing
  • Date of Presentation: April 19th
    

• Speaker: Jürgen Gerhard
  • Topic:  Solving Advanced Research Problems with Maple
  • Date of Presentation: April 5th
• Speaker: Jennifer Stearns
  • Topic:  Microbial community succession in the infant gut: An integrated approach to microbiome research
  • Date of Presentation: Wednesday March 22nd
• Speaker: Zahra Keshavarz Motamed
  • Topic:  Development of advanced numerical algorithms to create noninvasive patient-specific diagnostic and predictive methods for cardiovascular disease
  • Date of Presentation: March 8th
    
• Speaker: Kai Huang
  • Topic: Vehicle Routing Problem with Interdiction
  • Date of Presentation: February 8th
• Speaker: Diogo Pocas
  • Topic:  Computational models for noise in differential equations
  • Date of Presentation: January 25th
    

2016 Seminars

• Speaker: Spencer Smith
  • Topic:  The Drasil Framework for Literate Scientific Software
  • Date of Presentation:  November 23rd

• Speaker: Yousef Akhavan
  
  • Topic:  Power Optimization of Wind Turbines Affected by Wake
  • Date of Presentation:  November 9th
• Speaker: Nasser Abukhdeir
  • Topic:  Computational characterization of ordered nanostructured surfaces
  • Date:  October 26th

• Speaker:  Ingrid Marcela Monroy Licht
  • Topic:   The Rescheduling Arc Routing Problem
  • Date of Presentation:  September 28th
• Speaker:  Elkafi Hassini
  • Topic:  Optimization with Big Data
  • Date of Presentation:  September 14th
• Speaker: Gary Guangning Tan
  • Topic:  Conversion methods for improving structural analysis of differential-algebraic equation systems
  • Date of Presentation:  March 23rd

• Speaker: Dr. Paul McNicholas, McMaster University

  • Topic:  Mixture Model-Based Clustering
  • Date of Presentation:  March 9th

• Speaker: Dr. Ionut Danaila, University of Rouen

  • Topic: Vortices in classical fluids and superfluid Bose-Einstein condensates: a numerical investigation
  • Date of Presentation: March 2nd
• Speaker: Dr. C. Sean Bohun
  • Topic:  Coulomb Explosions as a Molecular Imaging Technique
  • Date of Presentation:  January 13th

2015 Seminars

• Speaker: Dr. James Elder

  • Topic: Visual Perception: The Ultimate Big Data Problem
  • Date of Presentation: November 18th
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• Speaker: Dr. Nedialko Nedialko

• • Topic: Structural Analysis and Numerical Solution of High-Index Differential-Algebraic Equations
  • Date of Presentation: October 21st
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• Speaker: Dr. Sergey Mashchenko

  • Topic: Debugging and profiling of MPI programs
  • Date of Presentation: October 7th
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• Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Stone

  • Topic: Developing A Computational Model to Test Ideas about Sea Urchins and Make Sense of Sand Dollars
  • Date of Presentation: April 8th
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• Speaker: Dr. Christopher Anand

  • Topic: High Performance Medical Image Reconstruction. What could go wrong?
  • Date of Presentation: February 4th
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2014 Seminars

• Speaker: Prof. Tim Davidson
  • Topic: Downlink beamforming in cellular wireless communications: A case study of optimization in the presence of uncertainty
  • Date of Presentation: November 19th
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• Speaker: Prof. Li Xi
  • Topic: A dynamic perspective of viscoelastic turbulence: new insights into a decades-old question
  • Date of Presentation: November 5th
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• Speaker: Prof. Simon Haykin
  • Topic: The Cognitive Dynamic System for Information Management and Control
  • Date of Presentation: Ocotber 28th
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• Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey Racine

• • Topic: Nonparametric Kernel Estimation: An Exact Parallel kd-tree Approach
  • Date of Presentation: Ocotber 8th
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• Speaker: Prof. John Bandler
  • Topic: Space Mapping: A Technology for Engineering Modeling And Optimization Grounded In Common Sense
  • Date of Presentation: September 17th
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• Speaker: Jan Holub
  • Topic: Finite Automata Approaches for Bioinformatics
  • Date of Presentation: April 23rd
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• Speaker: Dr. Erik Sorensen
  • Topic: Exact diagonalizations and quantum Monte Carlo, what can they tell us about frustrated Magnets?
  • Date of Presentation: March 26th
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• Speaker: Dr. Pablo Cavalcanti
  
  • Topic: Image processing for medical applications
  • Date of Presentation: March 19th
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• Speaker:  Dr. Pawel Pomorski
  • Topic: Why Would I Use GPUs?
  • Date of presentation: Feb 26th
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• Speaker: Dr. Paul Ayers
  • Topic: Breaking the Curse of Dimension for the Electronic Schrödinger Equation
  • Date of presentation: Feb 5th
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• Speaker: Dr. Brian Golding
  • Topic: Explorations in Bioinformatics
  • Date of presentation: Jan. 22nd
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2013 Seminars

• Speaker: Prof. Sue Becker
  • Topic: How do we encode episodic memories? Evidence from computational models, rodent and human studies
  • Date of presentation: Nov. 27th
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• Speaker: Prof. Bill Smyth
  • Topic: Computing Patterns in Very Long Strings
  • Date of presentation: Nov. 13th
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• Speaker: Dr. Mihai Albu

• • Topic: From geographical locations to RNA-binding motifs via recording physical exercises
  • Date of presentation: Oct. 30th
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• Speaker: Prof. Ben Bolker

• • Topic: Statistics, computation, and software engineering: Development and maintenance of mixed modeling software in R
  • Date of presentation: Oct. 16th
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• Speaker:  Majid Taghavi
  • Topic: Transportation Logistics Network Capacity Expansion via Multi-stage Stochastic Programming
  • Date of presentation: Oct. 2nd
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• Speaker:  Dr. Weiguang Guan
  
  • Topic: Machine learning and its application in the next-generation vehicles
  • Date of presentation: Sept. 18th
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• Speaker: Mark Hahn
  
  • Topic: Sharcnet Tricks
  • Date of presentation: March 27th
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• Speaker: Dr. Peyman Setoodeh
  • Topic: Computational Systems Biology: An Interested Observer’s Perspective
  • Date of presentation: March 13th
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• Speaker: Dr. Allan Spence
  • Topic: High Performance Computing Applied To Manufacturing Engineering Geometry Problems
  • Date of presentation: February 27th
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• Speaker: Prof. Antoine Deza
  
  • Topic: Combinatorial, computational, and geometric approaches to the Peg Solitaire game
  • Date of presentation: February 13th
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• Speaker: Prof. Sanzheng Qiao
  • Topic: A Jacobi Method for Lattice Basis Reduction
  • Date of presentation: January 30th
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• Speaker: Dr. Sergey Mashchenko
  • Topic: Parallel Debugging 
  • Date of presentation: January 16th
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2012 Seminars

• Speaker: Prof. Nicholas Kevlahan
  • Topic: A Conservative Adaptive Wavelet Method for The Shallow Water Equations on Staggered Grids
  • Date of presentation: December 5th
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• Speaker:  Dr. Seshasai Srinivasan
  • Topic: Computational Optimization of DI Diesel Engines to Minimize Emissions and Fuel Consumption
  • Date of presentation: November 21st
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• Speaker: Prof. Paul Higgs
  
  • Topic: Building a Model for Self-Replicating RNAs
    
  • Date of presentation: November 7th
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Past Chairs

• Adam Sliwiak, M.Sc.
• Kiret Dhindsa, Ph.D.
• Ehsan Taghavi, Ph.D.
• Mehdi Fatemi, Ph.D.
• Ashkan Amiri, Ph.D.