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Departmental Seminars
Departmental Seminars are
usually held Friday afternoons
from 3:30 to 4:30.
Organizers: Hugh Chipman (hugh.chipman), Eva Curry (eva.curry), Richard Kasten (richard.karsten) and Pritam Ranjan (pritam.ranjan) [@acadiau.ca]
Winter 2010 Seminar Schedule
| Date and time |
Speaker |
Title |
| Friday Feb 12, 5:30 pm, HSH 141 |
Hugh Chipman, Acadia University |
Mixed Membership Stochastic Block Model for Email Networks |
| Friday March 5, HSH 141 |
Ryan Lukeman, St. Francis Xavier University |
Using field data to infer rules governing animal collective motion |
| Friday March 19, HSH 141 |
Joel Culina, PDF, Acadia University |
Stochastic Climate Modelling Based on Rigorous Limit Theorems |
| Friday March 26, HSH 141 |
Angela Vogels, M.Sc. candidate, Acadia University |
TBA |
Fall 2009 Seminar Schedule
| Date and time |
Speaker |
Title |
| Tuesday Sep. 8, 2:30pm, HSH 141 |
Dr. Francesco Sica, Mount Allison University |
Striding Towards a New Subexponential Factoring Algorithm |
| Tuesday Sep 15, 2:00pm, HSH 141 |
Flavia Moser, Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, SFU |
Data mining for feature vector networks
(offered by videoconference) |
| Friday Sept. 18, 3:30pm HSH 141 |
Derek Bingham, SFU |
Efficient Emulators of Computer Experiments Using Compactly Supported Correlation Functions |
| Wed. Sept. 23, 4:00pm HSH 141 |
Coop students, Acadia University |
Coop experience during Summer 2009 |
| Friday Oct 02, 3:30pm HSH 141 |
Mark Franey, M.Sc. candidate, Acadia University |
An Introduction to MapReduce for Mathematicians |
| Tue. Oct. 6, 3:30pm HSH 141 (presented by ACMMaC via videoconference) |
Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer, University of Alberta |
Computer (and Human) Perfection at Checkers |
| Friday Nov 13, 1:30pm HSH 143 |
Alex Traikov, M.Sc. candidate, Acadia University |
Efficient Global Optimization of Expensive Black-Box Function using Multiple Resolution Simulators |
| Friday Nov 13, 3:30pm HSH 141 |
Zengjing Chen, Shandong University, China |
Strong Law of Large Number and Central Limit Theorem for Nonlinear Expectations |
| Friday Nov 20, 3:30pm HSH 141 |
Michael Dowd, Dalhousie University |
Ensemble Data Assimilation in Ocean Biogeochemical Models |
Seminars from previous years:
2008-09 |
2007-08 |
2006-07
| 2004-5
| 2003-4
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