Presentations this week
Monday, October 18, 2021
DSG Seminar Series
Recent Advances in Transactional Concurrency Control
Goetz Graefe, Google, Inc.
10:30 a.m. • Online seminar
Please note: You must register to attend this virtual seminar on Zoom
Thursday, October 21, 2021
PhD Defence • Data Systems | Information Retrieval
Users, Queries, and Bad Abandonment in Web Search
Mustafa Abualsaud, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
8:00 p.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Mark Smucker
Friday, October 22, 2021
Seminar • Systems and Networking
Building Storage Systems for New Applications and New Hardware
Vijay Chidambaram, Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at Austin
2:00 p.m. • Online seminar
Upcoming presentations
Friday, October 29, 2021
PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics
Stippling: A Halloween-type Adventure
Gregory Philbrick, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Craig Kaplan
PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
Expressive Auditory Gestures in a Voice-Based Pedagogical Agent
Jessy Ceha, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Edith Law
Thursday, November 4, 2021
Distinguished Lecture Series
Active Inference
Karl J. Friston, Wellcome Principal Fellow
Scientific Director, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
Institute of Neurology, University College London
11:00 a.m. • Online distinguished lecture
