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We are currently hosting the fall 2021 session of the CSE/SHARCNET seminar series.
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We hope to see you all in our upcoming events. Please see seminar announcements for locations.
CSE Seminars, The Goals
The Scientific Computing Seminar is an interdisciplinary, student-oriented event which serves as a venue for dissemination of information about various aspects of scientific computing such as:
- applications of scientific computing to various disciplines, including some non-traditional ones,
- technical aspects of high-performance computing,
- tutorials concerning practical aspects of computing (hardware/software issues, code development, parallelization, debugging, etc.).
The selection of topics highlights both the breadth and depth of research in scientific computing at McMaster.
Upcoming Seminars
2023 Seminars
- Speaker: Graham Taylor
- Topic: Machine Learning for Biodiversity
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday February 15, 2023
- Location: McMaster University, T13, room 127
- Speaker: Ben Bolker
- Topic: Estimating state-dependent evolutionary rates: parental care, sperm competition, and fish accessory glands
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday February 1, 2023
- Location: DSB AB103
- Speaker: Yunfei Ma
- Topic: Identifying, Ranking, and Visualizing Long-term Freight Bottlenecks Based on Parallel Connected Components Algorithm
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, Jan 18, 2023
- Location: KTH B107 & Zoom
Past Seminars
2022 Seminars
- Speaker: Hassan Chehaitli
- Topic: Robustness of repo markets with full rehypothecation
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, Dec 7, 2022
- Location: BSB 121 & Online
- Speaker: Amir-massoud Farahmand
- Topic: Accelerated Planning and Reinforcement Learning Algorithms
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, Nov 23, 2022
- Location: IWC 224 & Online
- Speaker: Yicheng Chen
- Topic: Sensitivity Analysis of Macroeconomics Models on Climate Change
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, Nov 9, 2022
- Location: BSB 121 and Online
- Speaker: Venkata Pydimarri
- Topic: DYNAMICS OF ENTANGLED PAIR OF SPIN-1/2 PARTICLES IN THE PRESENCE OF RANDOM MAGNETIC FIELDS
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, Nov 9, 2022
- Location: BSB 121 and Online
- Speaker: Mohammad Norouzi
- Topic: Text to image synthesis and the path ahead
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, October 26, 2022
- Location: BSB 121 and Online
- Speaker: Mike Branch
- Topic: Data and AI to enable the Connected Vehicle
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, October 12, 2022
- Location: BSB 121 and Online
- Speaker: Eman Rezk
- Topic:Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Improve Skin Color Diversity in Cancer Detection
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, September 28, 2022
- Location: BSS 121 and Online
- Speaker: Steve Cygu
- Topic: Computational inference and prediction in public health
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, September 28, 2022
- Location: BSB 121 and online
- Speaker: Prof. Pratheepa Jeganathan
- Topic: A statistical perspective on the challenges in microbiome multi-domain data
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, March 30, 2022
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Prof. Jonathan Dushoff
- Topic: Measuring, exploring and estimating biodiversity
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, March 16, 2022
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Dr. Steve Walker
- Topic: Refactoring a pandemic modelling tool for computational speed and methodological flexibility
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, February 09, 2022
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Dr. Jamie Foster
- Topic: Mathematical modelling of brewing espresso
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, March 02, 2022
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Dr. Mehmet Erdem Coskun
- Topic: Retail Reverse Supply Chain Management and Optimization, Managing Retailer's Inventory via Reverse Logistics
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, February 16, 2022
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Prof. Sander Rhebergen
- Topic: Exactly divergence-free finite element methods for incompressible flows
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, January 26, 2022
- Location: Online
2021 Seminars
- Speaker: Prof. Hans De Sterck
- Topic: Nonlinear Convergence Acceleration for Computational Science and Data Science
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, November 24, 2021
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Dr. Mehmet Erdem Coskun
- Topic: Retail Reverse Supply Chain Management and Optimization
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, November 10, 2021
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Prof. John L. Gustafson
- Topic: Emerging Alternatives to IEEE Floating-Point
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, October 27, 2021
- Location: Online
- Recorded Talk: Link to the Recorded Talk
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- Speaker: Dr. Michael Li
- Topic: Modelling Infectious Disease Outbreak Groundhog Day
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, September 29, 2021
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Prof. Dong Liang
- Topic: The Conservative S-DDM Scheme for Multi-component Contamination Flows in Porous Media
- Date of Presentation:Wednesday, April 14, 2021, from 12:30pm to 1:30pm
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Prof. Paul McNicholas
- Topic: Clustering Higher-Order Data
- Date of Presentation:Wednesday, March 17, 2021, from 12:30pm to 1:30pm
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Prof. Jose Morales Escalante
- Topic: Inverse Problems in Electrochemistry
- Date of Presentation:Wednesday, March 3, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Prof. Vasily Vakorin
- Topic: Signal complexity and coordinated activity of neuromagnetic dynamics: a few examples, with theoretical and empirical considerations
- Date of Presentation:Wednesday, February 17, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Prof. Noah Forman
- Topic: A Markov chain on binary trees
- Date of Presentation:Wednesday, February 3, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Dr. Geoffrey Woodland
- Topic: Seeing Living Atoms, One Electron at a Time: the expectation-maximization algorithm with Poisson statistics for analyzing counting frames of direct electron detectors in electron cryomicroscopy
- Date of Presentation:Wednesday, January 20, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
- Location: Online
2020 Seminars
- Speaker: Dr. Dewan F. Wahid
- Topic: A Prioritized Fraud Detection Model for Subscription-Based Businesses Platform with a Minimal Labelled Data
- Date of Presentation:Wednesday, November 25, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Prof. David Earn
- Topic: 1918 vs 2020: Influenza vs COVID-19
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 12:30pm
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Dr. Sash Vaid
- Topic: Multiple Digital Sellers and Consumer Click Stream Behavior: Lead Generation in A.I. Driven Democratized Online Platforms
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 12:30pm
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Dr. Kamil A. Khan
- Topic: Obtaining insight into process models through operator overloading
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 at 12:30pm
- Location: Online
- Speaker: Dr. Oleksander Ramanko
- Topic: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Financial Risk Analytics and Portfolio Optimization
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 at 12:30pm
- Location: Online
2019 Seminars
- Speaker: Dr. Ben Bolker
- Topic: Ecological synthesis: a case study of West Nile Virus spread in Texas bird communities
- Date of Presentation: November 13th, 2019 at 12:30pm
- Location: HH 217
- Speaker: Dr. Manaf Zargoush
- Topic: Hypertension Management: A Value of Information Perspective
- Date of Presentation: November 27th, 2019 at 12:30pm
- Location: HH 217
- Speaker: Dr. Fei Chang
- Topic: Contextual and Spatio-temporal Data Cleaning
- Date of Presentation: December 11th, 2019 at 12:30pm
- Location: HH 217
- Speaker: Dr. Tim Field
- Topic: Dynamical theory of spin noise and relaxation - beyond extreme narrowing
- Date of Presentation: April 3, 2019 at 12:30pm
- Location: HH 102
- Speaker: Dr. Jeff Orchard
- Topic: Predictive-Coding Neural Networks
- Date of Presentation: March 20, 2019 at 12:30pm
- Location: HH 102
- Speaker: Dr. Manish Verma
- Topic: An infrastructure investment methodology to risk mitigation from rail hazmat shipments
- Date of Presentation: March 6, 2019 at 12:30pm
- Location: HH 102
- Speaker: Dr. Rong Zheng
- Topic: Active learning in Mobile Computing
- Date of Presentation: February 13, 2019 at 12:30pm
- Location: HH 102
2018 Seminars
- Speaker: Dr. Yun Zhou
- Topic: Price, wage and fixed commission in on-demand matching
- Date of Presentation: November 28, 2018 at 12:30pm
- Location: LSB B130E
- Speaker: Dr. Robert M. Corless
- Topic: Differentiation Matrices for Fun & Profit
- Date of Presentation: November 14, 2018 at 12:30pm
- Location: LSB B130E
- Slides available here
- Speaker: Dr. Tyler Wilson
- Topic: Quantum Machine Learning
- Date of Presentation: October 31, 2018 at 12:30pm
- Location: LSB B130E
- Speaker: Dr. Jose Morales Escalante
- Topic: Stochastic Galerkin Methods for the Boltzmann-Poisson system
- Date of Presentation: October 3, 2018 at 12:30pm
- Location: JHE 329
2017 Seminars
- Speaker: Dr. Douglas Stebila
- Topic: Understanding the Impact of Quantum information on Information Security
- Date of Presentation: December 13, 2017
- Location: BSB B103
- Speaker: Dr. Francis Poulin
- Topic: Modelling Wind-Driven Oceanic Gyres
- Date of Presentation: November 15, 2017
- Location: BSB B103
- Speaker: Dr. Pawel Pomorski
- Topic: Linear Algebra on GPU
- Date of Presentation: November 8, 2017
- Location: JHE A101
- Speaker: Ned Nedialkov
- Topic: Simulating Lagrangian Mechanics Directly
- Date of Presentation: October 25
- Location: BSB B103
- Speaker: Farouq Alamq Alam
- Topic: On optimization problems in step-stress life testing
- Date of Presentation: April 19th
- Speaker: Jürgen Gerhard
- Topic: Solving Advanced Research Problems with Maple
- Date of Presentation: April 5th
- Speaker: Jennifer Stearns
- Topic: Microbial community succession in the infant gut: An integrated approach to microbiome research
- Date of Presentation: Wednesday March 22nd
- Speaker: Zahra Keshavarz Motamed
- Topic: Development of advanced numerical algorithms to create noninvasive patient-specific diagnostic and predictive methods for cardiovascular disease
- Date of Presentation: March 8th
- Speaker: Kai Huang
- Topic: Vehicle Routing Problem with Interdiction
- Date of Presentation: February 8th
- Speaker: Diogo Pocas
- Topic: Computational models for noise in differential equations
- Date of Presentation: January 25th
2016 Seminars
- Speaker: Spencer Smith
- Topic: The Drasil Framework for Literate Scientific Software
- Date of Presentation: November 23rd
- Speaker: Yousef Akhavan
- Topic: Power Optimization of Wind Turbines Affected by Wake
- Date of Presentation: November 9th
- Speaker: Nasser Abukhdeir
- Topic: Computational characterization of ordered nanostructured surfaces
- Date: October 26th
- Speaker: Ingrid Marcela Monroy Licht
- Topic: The Rescheduling Arc Routing Problem
- Date of Presentation: September 28th
- Speaker: Elkafi Hassini
- Topic: Optimization with Big Data
- Date of Presentation: September 14th
- Speaker: Gary Guangning Tan
- Topic: Conversion methods for improving structural analysis of differential-algebraic equation systems
- Date of Presentation: March 23rd
- Speaker: Dr. Paul McNicholas, McMaster University
- Topic: Mixture Model-Based Clustering
- Date of Presentation: March 9th
- Speaker: Dr. Ionut Danaila, University of Rouen
- Topic: Vortices in classical fluids and superfluid Bose-Einstein condensates: a numerical investigation
- Date of Presentation: March 2nd
- Speaker: Dr. C. Sean Bohun
- Topic: Coulomb Explosions as a Molecular Imaging Technique
- Date of Presentation: January 13th
2015 Seminars
- Speaker: Dr. James Elder
- Topic: Visual Perception: The Ultimate Big Data Problem
- Date of Presentation: November 18th
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- Speaker: Dr. Nedialko Nedialko
- Topic: Structural Analysis and Numerical Solution of High-Index Differential-Algebraic Equations
- Date of Presentation: October 21st
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- Speaker: Dr. Sergey Mashchenko
- Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Stone
- Topic: Developing A Computational Model to Test Ideas about Sea Urchins and Make Sense of Sand Dollars
- Date of Presentation: April 8th
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- Speaker: Dr. Christopher Anand
- Topic: High Performance Medical Image Reconstruction. What could go wrong?
- Date of Presentation: February 4th
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2014 Seminars
- Speaker: Prof. Tim Davidson
- Topic: Downlink beamforming in cellular wireless communications: A case study of optimization in the presence of uncertainty
- Date of Presentation: November 19th
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- Speaker: Prof. Li Xi
- Topic: A dynamic perspective of viscoelastic turbulence: new insights into a decades-old question
- Date of Presentation: November 5th
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- Speaker: Prof. Simon Haykin
- Topic: The Cognitive Dynamic System for Information Management and Control
- Date of Presentation: Ocotber 28th
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- Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey Racine
- Topic: Nonparametric Kernel Estimation: An Exact Parallel kd-tree Approach
- Date of Presentation: Ocotber 8th
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- Speaker: Prof. John Bandler
- Topic: Space Mapping: A Technology for Engineering Modeling And Optimization Grounded In Common Sense
- Date of Presentation: September 17th
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- Speaker: Jan Holub
- Speaker: Dr. Erik Sorensen
- Topic: Exact diagonalizations and quantum Monte Carlo, what can they tell us about frustrated Magnets?
- Date of Presentation: March 26th
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- Speaker: Dr. Pablo Cavalcanti
- Topic: Image processing for medical applications
- Date of Presentation: March 19th
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- Speaker: Dr. Pawel Pomorski
- Topic: Why Would I Use GPUs?
- Date of Presentation: Feb 26th
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- Speaker: Dr. Paul Ayers
- Topic: Breaking the Curse of Dimension for the Electronic Schrödinger Equation
- Date of Presentation: Feb 5th
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- Speaker: Dr. Brian Golding
- Topic: Explorations in Bioinformatics
- Date of Presentation: Jan. 22nd
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2013 Seminars
- Speaker: Prof. Sue Becker
- Speaker: Prof. Bill Smyth
- Topic: Computing Patterns in Very Long Strings
- Date of Presentation: Nov. 13th
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- Speaker: Dr. Mihai Albu
- Topic: From geographical locations to RNA-binding motifs via recording physical exercises
- Date of Presentation: Oct. 30th
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- Speaker: Prof. Ben Bolker
- Topic: Statistics, computation, and software engineering: Development and maintenance of mixed modeling software in R
- Date of Presentation: Oct. 16th
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- Speaker: Majid Taghavi
- Speaker: Dr. Weiguang Guan
- Topic: Machine learning and its application in the next-generation vehicles
- Date of Presentation: Sept. 18th
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- Speaker: Mark Hahn
- Topic: Sharcnet Tricks
- Date of Presentation: March 27th
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- Speaker: Dr. Peyman Setoodeh
- Topic: Computational Systems Biology: An Interested Observer’s Perspective
- Date of Presentation: March 13th
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- Speaker: Dr. Allan Spence
- Topic: High Performance Computing Applied To Manufacturing Engineering Geometry Problems
- Date of Presentation: February 27th
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- Speaker: Prof. Antoine Deza
- Topic: Combinatorial, computational, and geometric approaches to the Peg Solitaire game
- Date of Presentation: February 13th
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- Speaker: Prof. Sanzheng Qiao
- Topic: A Jacobi Method for Lattice Basis Reduction
- Date of Presentation: January 30th
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- Speaker: Dr. Sergey Mashchenko
- Topic: Parallel Debugging
- Date of Presentation: January 16th
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2012 Seminars
- Speaker: Prof. Nicholas Kevlahan
- Topic: A Conservative Adaptive Wavelet Method for The Shallow Water Equations on Staggered Grids
- Date of Presentation: December 5th
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- Speaker: Dr. Seshasai Srinivasan
- Topic: Computational Optimization of DI Diesel Engines to Minimize Emissions and Fuel Consumption
- Date of Presentation: November 21st
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- Speaker: Prof. Paul Higgs
- Topic: Building a Model for Self-Replicating RNAs
- Date of Presentation: November 7th
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Seminar Chairs
Seminar Chair
- Shima Rafiei, Ph.D. Student
- Jennifer Freeman, Ph.D. Student
- Michael Agronah, Ph.D. Student
