Weekly Announcements

An event this weekend

Saturday, October 19, 2019

Cybersecurity Higher Education Contest 2019
A competition open to current university and college students in Canada
8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. • RBC WaterPark Place Auditorium
88 Queens Quay West, Toronto
Registration is $99 + 13% HST

Presentations and an event this week

Monday, October 21, 2019

PhD Seminar • Data Systems
System for a Market Place Data Science Platform that is Scalable, Modular and Interoperable
Hassan Mousaid, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • DC 2314

Seminar • Health Informatics | Artificial Intelligence
Active Inference Across Scales: From the Brain to the Body and Culture
Maxwell Ramstead, McGill University
12:00 p.m. • CPH 4335

Refresher Talk
Accessing Papers and More: Using the Library’s Services so you Don’t Have to Pay
Rebecca Hutchinson, Librarian
Information Services and Resources, Davis Centre
2:00 p.m. • DC 2310

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Summit for Responsible Innovation and Technology
Help define Waterloo’s culture of responsible innovation and technology
Registrants are welcome to attend all or part of the day
8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. • Federation Hall

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Online Computation with Untrusted Advice
Spyros Angelopoulos, CNRS Researcher
Laboratoire d'informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6)
Sorbonne Université
1:30 p.m. • DC 1304

Thursday, October 24, 2019

CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy
Are We Susceptible to Rowhammer? An End-to-End Methodology for Cloud Providers
Stefan Saroiu, Mobility and Networking Research Group
Microsoft Research
11:00 a.m. • DC 1302

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
Expression of Curiosity in Teachable Robots: Design, Perception, and Effects on Behaviour
Jessy Ceha, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 2314

Refresher talk
LaTeX Made Easy
Siddhartha Sahu, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • DC 2310

Friday, October 25, 2019

Data Systems Seminars
Connected Data: Pushing the Envelope of Data Analytics Systems
Marco Serafini, College of Information and Computer Sciences
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2:00 p.m. • DC 1302

Upcoming presentations and events

Sunday, October 27 to Wednesday, October 30, 2019

27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
Please visit the ACM SOPS 2019 site for more info
Deerhurst Resort, Huntsville, Ontario
Regular registration by October 15, 2019

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

Refresher Talk
Searching for a Literature Survey: Expert Search Methods so You Don’t Miss What’s Important
Rebecca Hutchinson, Librarian
Information Services and Resources, Davis Centre
2:00 p.m. • DC 2310

Thursday, October 31, 2019

PhD Seminar • Data Systems
Majority is Not the Answer: A Think-Aloud Study to Understand Factors Affecting Online Health Search
Amira Ghenai, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:00 p.m. • DC 2314

Friday, November 1, 2019

PhD Defence • Data Systems
Health Misinformation in Search and Social Media
Amira Ghenai, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:30 a.m. • DC 2314

Thursday, November 7, 2019

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
Understanding Expert Disagreement in Medical Data Analysis through Structured Adjudication
Mike Schaekermann, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:15 p.m. • DC 2314

Refresher Talk
Critical Appraisal: Evaluating Sources and Spotting Predatory Publishers/Conferences
Rebecca Hutchinson, Librarian
Information Services and Resources, Davis Centre
2:00 p.m. • DC 2310

Monday, November 11, 2019

PhD Defence • Programming Languages
A Path to DOT: Formalizing Scala with Dependent Object Types
Marianna Rapoport, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:30 p.m. • DC 2314

Friday, November 15, 2019

Refresher Talk
Tracking Research Impact: How to Calculate Your H-index
Rebecca Hutchinson, Librarian
Information Services and Resources, Davis Centre
2:00 p.m. • DC 2310

Saturday, November 16, 2019

Inter-University Workshop 2019
An annual student-run workshop for research students, professors and industry members of the human factors and ergonomics community
8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. • E7
Submit an abstract by October 20, 2019
Download the IUW19 brochure

Friday, December 6, 2019

PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning
Likelihood-based Density Estimation using Deep Architectures
Priyank Jaini, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • DC 2310