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Thematic Event: 8th Annual IRMACS Day

IRMACS Open House, Presentations, Demonstrations and Refreshments
April 12, 2013 - 2:15 pm

Mathematical models: Uses, abuses, and non-uses
April 12, 2013 - 1:15 pm

Andrew Odlyzko,
Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota 

Welcome / Opening Remarks
April 12, 2013 - 12:15 pm

Veselin Jungic, IRMACS Deputy Director
Mario Pinto, Vice President Research 

MoCSSy Student Presentations: Closing Remarks

April 12, 2013 - 12:00 pm

MoCSSy Semester End Presentations: "Complex social systems: Creating coherence using mathematical and computer models"
April 12, 2013 - 11:30 am

 

11:20-11:40: Hilary Kim Morden (School of Criminology, SFU)
"Complex social systems: Creating coherence using mathematical and computer models"

 

MoCSSy Semester End Presentations: "Pursuing Complexity in Social Systems"
April 12, 2013 - 11:00 am

 

11:00-11:20: Piper Jackson (School of Computing Science, SFU) 
"Pursuing Complexity in Social Systems"

 

MoCSSy Semester End Presentations: "The MoCSSynergies of interdisciplinary research"
April 12, 2013 - 10:30 am

 

10:40-11:00: Philippe Giabbanelli (Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, SFU)
"The MoCSSynergies of interdisciplinary research"

 

Using Mathematical Modelling and Optimization to Mitigate Earthquake Damage
April 12, 2013 - 10:00 am

Warren Hare,
Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, University of British Columbia, Okanagan 

Thematic Event: SFU Royal Society of Canada Seminar Series

Catastrophism as a Medieval Issue: The Problem of Plato's Atlantis Myth
April 4, 2013 - 11:30 am

Dr. Paul Dutton
The Jack and Nancy Farley University Professor in History, Department of Humanities 

Learning in Depth: A simple innovation that can transform education
March 21, 2013 - 11:30 am

Dr. Kieran Egan
Faculty of Education 

Novel Synthetic Nanomotors that Mimic Biological Motor Properties: A Wonderful Activity for Retired Researchers
March 7, 2013 - 11:30 am

Dr. Martin Zuckermann
Department of Physics 

Thematic Event: Coast to Coast Seminar Series

Visual Analytics as a Cognitive Science
March 26, 2013 - 11:30 am

Brian Fisher
School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University 

Text Mining, Dreams and Elections
March 12, 2013 - 11:30 am

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.

Thematic Event: IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium

The Mathematics of Atmospheric Pollutant Dispersion
March 15, 2013 - 11:30 am

John Stockie
Department of Mathematics 

Chasing the tail of a cellular curiosity
March 1, 2013 - 11:30 am

Lynne Quarmby
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry