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Towards Personal Visual AnalyticsTuesday, January 15, 2013 Sheelagh Carpendale Sheelagh Carpendale is a Professor in Computer Science at the University of Calgary where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Information Visualization and NSERC/AITF/SMART Technologies Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies. She leads the Innovations in Visualization (InnoVis) Research Group and has initiated the new interdisciplinary graduate- level specialization, Computational Media Design. Her research on information visualization, large interactive displays, and new media draws on her dual background in Computer Science (BSc. and Ph.D. Simon Fraser University) and Visual Arts (Sheridan College, School of Design and Emily Carr, College of Art). She has just been awarded a NSERC STEACIE Memorial Fellowship in recognition of her outstanding research. She is an internationally renowned leader in both information visualization and multi-touch tabletop interaction and has recently served in such roles as Papers, Program, or Conference Chair for IEEE InfoVis, and ACM Tabletop and has received both the IEEE and ACM recognition of service awards. Modern society demands that people manage, communicate, and interact with digital information at an ever-increasing pace. Even though most people...
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| 11:30 am - 12:30 pm |
Data Driven Design: New Perspectives on Visual AnalyticsTuesday, February 26, 2013 Sara Diamond This talk underscores the importance of design methods and practices in approaching challenges in the representation of big data. The talk will...
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Text Mining, Dreams and ElectionsTuesday, March 12, 2013 Stan Matwin Stan Matwin is a Professor and Canada Research Chair at Dalhousie University, and a Distinguished Professor at the University of Ottawa (on leave). Fellow of ECCAI and CAIAC and an Ontario Champion of Innovation. Internationally recognized for his work in text mining and in applications of Machine Learning, member of Editorial Boards of the leading journals in Machine Learning and Data Mining. Stan Matwin is one of the founders of Distil Interactive Inc. and Devera Logic Inc., and has significant experience and interest in innovation and technology transfer. In this talk, we will review some of the recent applied text mining work at Dalhousie. We will argue the need for a text representation that would...
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Visual Analytics as a Cognitive ScienceTuesday, March 26, 2013 Brian Fisher This talk explores the larger implications of visual analytics-- "the science of analytical reasoning facilitated by interactive visual interfaces...
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Energy and Bandwidth Optimization in Mobile Multimedia SystemsFriday, January 18, 2013 Mohamed Hefeeda In recent years, mobile devices have become powerful in terms of computing power, memory, screen size, and screen quality. This provides an...
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Ancient Metals in Advanced Materials: Cyanide-based Coordination PolymersFriday, February 1, 2013 Daniel B. Leznoff The rational increase of structural dimensionality is an important synthetic goal in supramolecular systems. The Leznoff group has been...
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Chasing the tail of a cellular curiosityFriday, March 1, 2013 Lynne Quarmby In 1676, the Royal Society questioned the credibility of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek when he reported single-celled organisms swimming about in a drop...
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The Mathematics of Atmospheric Pollutant DispersionFriday, March 15, 2013 John Stockie
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Biology and the Arguments of UtilityThursday, February 7, 2013 Dr. Arthur Robson Why did evolution not give us a utility function that is offspring alone? Why do we care intrinsically about food, for example? We answer these...
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Novel Synthetic Nanomotors that Mimic Biological Motor Properties: A Wonderful Activity for Retired ResearchersThursday, March 7, 2013 Dr. Martin Zuckermann Biological molecular nano-motors are MECHANO-ENZYMES which function by transducing chemical energy, often via the hydrolysis of ATP, to mechanical...
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Learning in Depth: A simple innovation that can transform educationThursday, March 21, 2013 Dr. Kieran Egan The Learning in Depth (LiD) program was introduced into a couple of local schools in 2009. Since then it has spread to many schools around the...
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Catastrophism as a Medieval Issue: The Problem of Plato's Atlantis MythThursday, April 4, 2013 Dr. Paul Dutton Plato believed that human society had been nearly wiped out at several points in the distant past, and that the few survivors who rebuilt their...
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Using Mathematical Modelling and Optimization to Mitigate Earthquake DamageFriday, April 12, 2013 Warren Hare, The damages observed from seismic pounding, i.e., heavy and repeated collision of buildings, are devastating. Earthquake-prone areas with...
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MoCSSy Semester End Presentations: "The MoCSSynergies of interdisciplinary research"Friday, April 12, 2013
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MoCSSy Semester End Presentations: "Pursuing Complexity in Social Systems"Friday, April 12, 2013
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