Presentations

Event: SFU Royal Society of Canada Seminar Series

Catastrophism as a Medieval Issue: The Problem of Plato's Atlantis Myth Thursday, April 4, 2013 - 11:30am - 12:30pm Dr. Paul Dutton The Jack and Nancy Farley University Professor in History, Department of Humanities Watch video	Learning in Depth: A simple innovation that can transform education Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 11:30am - 12:30pm Dr. Kieran Egan Faculty of Education Watch video	Novel Synthetic Nanomotors that Mimic Biological Motor Properties: A Wonderful Activity for Retired Researchers Thursday, March 7, 2013 - 11:30am - 12:30pm Dr. Martin Zuckermann Department of Physics Watch video
Biology and the Arguments of Utility Thursday, February 7, 2013 - 11:30am - 12:30pm Dr. Arthur Robson Department of Economics Watch video

Event: Coast to Coast Seminar Series

Visual Analytics as a Cognitive Science Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 11:30am - 12:30pm Brian Fisher School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University Watch video	Text Mining, Dreams and Elections Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 11:30am - 12:30pm Stan Matwin Faculty of Computing Science, Dalhousie University 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. Watch video	Data Driven Design: New Perspectives on Visual Analytics Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 11:30am - 12:30pm Sara Diamond OCAD University Watch video
Towards Personal Visual Analytics Tuesday, January 15, 2013 - 11:30am - 12:30pm Sheelagh Carpendale Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary 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. Watch video

Event: IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium

The Mathematics of Atmospheric Pollutant Dispersion Friday, March 15, 2013 - 11:30am - 12:30pm John Stockie Department of Mathematics Watch video	Chasing the tail of a cellular curiosity Friday, March 1, 2013 - 11:30am - 12:30pm Lynne Quarmby Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Watch video	Ancient Metals in Advanced Materials: Cyanide-based Coordination Polymers Friday, February 1, 2013 - 11:30am - 12:30pm Daniel B. Leznoff Department of Chemistry Watch video
Energy and Bandwidth Optimization in Mobile Multimedia Systems Friday, January 18, 2013 - 10:00am - 11:00am Mohamed Hefeeda School of Computing Science Watch video

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