Events tagged with Current students

Wednesday, September 22, 2021 — 12:00 PM EDT

PhD Seminar • Data Systems • On Sampling From Data With Duplications

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Alireza Heidarikhazaei, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Ihab Ilyas

Wednesday, September 22, 2021 — 2:00 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Programming Languages • Exception Handling in Cforall

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Andrew Beach, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Peter Buhr

The Cforall programming language is an evolutionary refinement of the C programming language, adding modern programming features without changing the programming paradigms of C. One of these modern programming features is more powerful error handling through the addition of an exception handling mechanism (EHM).

Wednesday, September 22, 2021 — 2:45 PM EDT

PhD Defence • Human-Computer Interaction • Understanding Mode and Modality Transfer in Unistroke Gesture Input

Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.

Jay Henderson, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Edward Lank

Friday, September 24, 2021 — 3:00 PM EDT

PhD Defence • Computer Graphics | Scientific Computing • Novel Paradigms in Physics-Based Animation: Pointwise Divergence-Free Fluid Advection and Mixed-Dimensional Elastic Object Simulation

Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.

Jumyung “JC” Chang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Christopher Batty

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 — 12:00 PM EDT

PhD Seminar • Scientific Computation | Quantitative Finance • Bootstrap Methods in Quantitative Finance

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Chendi Ni, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Yuying Li, Peter Forsyth

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 — 1:00 PM EDT

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence • Robust Embeddings Via Distributions

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Kira Selby, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Pascal Poupart

Tuesday, September 28, 2021 — 3:00 PM EDT

PhD Seminar • Natural Phenomena Simulation • An Assessment of Light Penetration into Snow with Implications Leading to the Prediction of Avalanche Conditions

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Petri Varsa, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Gladimir Baranoski

Thursday, September 30, 2021 — 3:00 PM EDT

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) • A Deep-dive into the LegRoast Signature Scheme

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Edward Eaton, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Douglas Stebila

Thursday, October 7, 2021 — 12:30 PM EDT

DLS: Raquel Urtasun

Raquel Urtasun
Founder and CEO, Waabi Innovation Inc.
Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Co-founder, Vector Institute for AI

Tuesday, October 12, 2021 — 1:30 PM EDT

PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity • Geodesic Convex Analysis of Group Scaling for the Paulsen Problem and Tensor Normal Model

Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.

Akshay Ramachandran, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Lap Chi Lau

Thursday, October 21, 2021 — 8:00 PM EDT

PhD Defence • Data Systems | Information Retrieval • Users, Queries, and Bad Abandonment in Web Search

Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.

Mustafa Abualsaud, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Mark Smucker

Thursday, November 4, 2021 — 11:00 PM EDT

DLS: Karl J. Friston — Active Inference

Professor Karl J. Friston MB, BS, MA, MRCPsych, FMedSci, FRSB, FRS
Wellcome Principal Fellow
Scientific Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
Institute of Neurology, University College London