Weekly Announcements

Presentations and events this week

Monday, June 17, 2019

PhD Seminar • Symbolic Computation
A Survey on the Polynomial Approximate Greatest Common Divisor Problem
Joseph Haraldson, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • DC 1304

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering
Learning Timed State-Transition Models for Software Product Lines
Rafael Olaechea, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:30 a.m. • DC 2310

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering
Trace Checking for Dynamic Software Product Lines
Rafael Olaechea, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:30 p.m. • DC 2310

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
State Complexity of Square of Star-Free Languages
Sylvie Davies, Department of Pure Mathematics
University of Waterloo
1:30 p.m. • DC 1304

Thursday, June 20, 2019

PhD Defence • Human-Computer Interaction
Dynamic Personalization of Gameful Interactive Systems
Gustavo Fortes Tondello, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • DC 2310

Friday, June 21, 2019

NSERC Alliance Grants
Workshop to learn about the new NSERC Alliance Grants
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. • EC 5 1111 (Enterprise Theatre)
Free workshop but registration is required to attend in person or by livestream

William Tutte Colloquium
Finding Perfect Matchings in Random Regular Graphs in Linear Expected Time
Michael Anastos, Carnegie Mellon University
3:30 p.m. • MC 5501

Upcoming presentations and events

Saturday, June 22, 2019

Next Waterloo Local ICPC-style Programming Contest
All members of the Waterloo community are invited to try their programming skill in Scheme, C, C++, Java, Pascal, Python, or Scala
10:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. • MC 3003

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Mostly Human-Computer Interaction with some Artificial Intelligence
Applying Fair Reward Divisions to Collaborative Work
Greg d’Eon, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:00 a.m. • DC 2314

PhD Seminar • Artificial Intelligence (Deep Learning)
Robust Locally-Linear Controllable Embedding
Ershad Banijamali, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • M3 3001

Thursday, June 27, 2019

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Human-Computer Interaction
Longer Delays in Rehearsal-based Interfaces Increase Expert Use
Blaine Lewis, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 2310

Friday, June 28, 2019

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering
Retrieving Curated Stack Overflow Posts from Project Task Similarities
Gláucia Melo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • DC 2310

PhD Seminar • Systems and Networking
Nessie: A Decoupled, Client-Driven Key-Value Store Using RDMA
Ben Cassell, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:30 p.m. • DC 1304

July and August 2019 (several sessions)

Get STARTed: SSHRC Grant Writing Sessions
Tools and strategies to help improve the success of a SSHRC grant application
All sessions run from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. • HH 373
These workshops are free but registration is required

Friday, July 5, 2019

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering
AgileCritPath: Identifying Critical Tasks in Agile Environments
Gláucia Melo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • DC 2310

Monday, August 26, 2019

Waterloo Workshop on ML + Verification + Security
Week-long workshop on machine learning for grad students, postdocs and early-stage professors
Hosted by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
EIT 3142
Free workshop but applicants need to register, submit a CV and letter of recommendation

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Compilation Techniques for Actively Secure Mixed Mode Two Party Computation
Alex Norton, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
3:00 p.m. • DC 2310

Thursday, September 12, 2019

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Data Systems
A+ Lists: Highly Flexible Adjacency Lists in Graph Databases
Shahid Khaliq, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • DC 2310