Presentations this week
Monday, March 8, 2021
PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics
Constructing Smooth Surfaces with Continuous Curvatures for Triangular Scattered Data
Xiang Fang, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisor: Professor Stephen Mann
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Seminar • Machine Learning
Integrating Machine Learning into Algorithm Design
Ellen Vitercik, Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
12:00 p.m. • Online seminar
Thursday, March 11, 2021
PhD Seminar • Natural Language Processing
UmlsBERT: Clinical Domain Knowledge Augmentation of Contextual Embeddings Using the Unified Medical Language System Metathesaurus
Georgios Michalopoulos, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:30 a.m. • Online PhD seminar
Supervisors: Professors Ian McKillop and Helen Chen
Seminar • Machine Learning
Steps Towards Making Machine Learning More Natural
Mengye Ren, Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
12:00 p.m. • Online seminar
Upcoming presentations
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
PhD Defence • Computer Graphics | Scientific Computing
Efficient Liquid Animation: New Discretizations for Spatially Adaptive Liquid Viscosity and Reduced-Model Two-Phase Bubbles and Inviscid Liquids
Ryan Goldade, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
9:00 a.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Christopher Batty
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
PhD Defence • Data Systems
Energy-Efficient Transaction Scheduling in Data Systems
Mustafa Korkmaz, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:00 p.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Ken Salem
Monday, March 29, 2021
CrySP Speaker Series on Privacy
When Models Learn Too Much
David Evans, Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia
1:30 p.m. • Online talk
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
PhD Defence • Human-Computer Interaction
Designing Persuasively using Playful Elements
Rina R. Wehbe, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:30 p.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor Edward Lank
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
PhD Defence • Data Structures and Algorithms
Efficient Data Structures for Partial Orders, Range Modes, and Graph Cuts
Bryce Sandlund, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • Online PhD defence
Supervisor: Professor J. Ian Munro
Monday, May 17, 2021
Distinguished Lecture Series
Origins of the Internet
Leonard Kleinrock, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
University of California, Los Angeles
1:30 p.m. • Online distinguished lecture
