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Tuesday, January 12, 2021 11:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Natural Phenomena Simulation — Data Acquisition for Simulation: With Applications to Computer Graphics and Remote Sensing

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, January 14, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

DLS: Mary Czerwinski — Using Technology for Health, Wellbeing and Empathy

Please note: This Distinguished Lecture Series Presentation will be given online.

Mary Czerwinski
Partner Research Manager
Human Understanding and Empathy (HUE) Research Group
Microsoft Research

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How can we create technologies to help us reflect on and change our behavior if needed and improve our health and overall wellbeing both at work and at home?
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 11:00 am - 11:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Mathematics Education Seminar • Remote Teaching Adventures Inspired by COVID-19

Please note: This seminar will be given online.

Petra Bonfert-Taylor
Dartmouth College

While teaching remotely is more common in other parts of the world, at Dartmouth College and its Thayer School of Engineering all classes used to be taught in person. Until March of 2020 that is when COVID-19 gave us 2 weeks’ notice to switch to 100% remote instruction.

Monday, December 14, 2020 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence — Approximating Dynamical Systems in Neural Networks: Constructing a Biologically Plausible Adaptive Filter Model of the Cerebellum

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Andreas Stöckel, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Chris Eliasmith

Monday, December 7, 2020 10:00 am - 10:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Waterloo Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute • UC Non-Interactive, Proactive, Threshold ECDSA with Identifiable Aborts

Please note: This Waterloo CPI seminar will be giving online.

Nikolaos Makriyannis, Cryptography researcher
Fireblocks

Building on the Gennaro & Goldfeder and Lindell & Nof protocols (CCS '18), we present two threshold ECDSA protocols, for any number of signatories and any threshold, that improve as follows over the state of the art: 

Tuesday, December 1, 2020 9:00 am - 9:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Symbolic Computation — Solving Structured Determinantal Systems using Homotopy Methods with an Application to Computing Isolated Critical Points for Invariant Systems

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Thi Xuan Vu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors George Labahn, Éric Schost, Mohab Safey El Din

Monday, December 7, 2020 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics | Scientific Computing — Divergence-Free and Boundary-Respecting Velocity Interpolation Using Stream Functions

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

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

Supervisor: Professor Christopher Batty