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We are currently hosting the fall 2021 session of the CSE/SHARCNET seminar series.
We hope to see you all in our upcoming events. Please see seminar announcements for locations.

-Seminar chairs

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.

Seminar Chairs

  • Shima Rafiei, Ph.D. Student
  • Jennifer Freeman, Ph.D. Student
  • Michael Agronah, Ph.D. Student
  • Avesta Ahmadi, Ph.D. Student
  • Steve Cygu, Ph.D Student
  • Olena Skalianska, MSc Student
  • Chiamaka Okeke, MSc Student
  • Pritpal Matharu, Ph.D. Student
  • Ramsha Khan, Ph.D. Student
  • Adam Sliwiak, M.Sc.
  • Kiret Dhindsa, Ph.D.
  • Ehsan Taghavi, Ph.D.
  • Mehdi Fatemi, Ph.D.
  • Ashkan Amiri, Ph.D.

Upcoming & Past Seminars

Events Listing

Machine Learning for Biodiversity

2023 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Robustness of repo markets with full rehypothecation

2022 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Data and AI to enable the Connected Vehicle

2022 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Text to image synthesis and the path ahead

2022 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Measuring, exploring and estimating biodiversity

2022 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Mathematical modelling of brewing espresso

2022 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Emerging Alternatives to IEEE Floating-Point

2021 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Clustering Higher-Order Data

2021 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Inverse Problems in Electrochemistry

2021 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

A Markov chain on binary trees

2021 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

1918 vs 2020: Influenza vs COVID-19

2020 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Contextual and Spatio-temporal Data Cleaning

2019 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Predictive-Coding Neural Networks

2019 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Active learning in Mobile Computing

2019 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Differentiation Matrices for Fun & Profit

2018 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Quantum Machine Learning

2018 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Modelling Wind-Driven Oceanic Gyres

2017 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Linear Algebra on GPU

2017 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Simulating Lagrangian Mechanics Directly

2017 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

On optimization problems in step-stress life testing

2017 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Solving Advanced Research Problems with Maple

2017 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Power Optimization of Wind Turbines Affected by Wake

2016 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

The Rescheduling Arc Routing Problem

2016 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Optimization with Big Data

2016 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Mixture Model-Based Clustering

2016 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Coulomb Explosions as a Molecular Imaging Technique

2016 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Visual Perception: The Ultimate Big Data Problem

2015 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Debugging and profiling of MPI programs

2015 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Finite Automata Approaches for Bioinformatics

2014 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Image processing for medical applications

2014 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Why Would I Use GPUs?

2014 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Explorations in Bioinformatics

2014 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Computing Patterns in Very Long Strings

2013 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Sharcnet Tricks

2013 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

A Jacobi Method for Lattice Basis Reduction

2013 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Parallel Debugging

2013 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page

Building a Model for Self-Replicating RNAs

2012 Seminars, CSE Seminars Page