Canada Research Chair Seminar Presentations
| Date | Speaker | Title | High | Low | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 24, 2011 | Stephen Wright | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "The Psychology of Improving Relations between Groups: Friendship, Prejudice Reduction, and Social Change" | | | |
Nov 10, 2011 | Yuezhi Zhao | Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "China's Quest for "Soft Power": Imperatives, Impediments, and Irreconcilable Tensions?" | | | |
Oct 27, 2011 | Nicholas Dulvy | SFU Canada Research Chairs: Seminar Series "Saving Nemo: The science of ocean conservation" | | | |
Mar 24, 2011 | Byron Gates | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Controlling the Surfaces of Matter" | | | |
Mar 10, 2011 | Karen E. Kohfeld | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "The Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide through the Ice Ages" | | | |
Feb 24, 2011 | Nilima Nigam | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "At the confluence of exterior calculus, approximation theory and numerical analysis: high-order FEM approximation on pyramids" | | | |
Feb 10, 2011 | Eldon Emberly | SFU Canada Research Chairs: Seminar Series: "Organizing space and time inside simple cells" | | | |
Jan 27, 2011 | Carl Lowenberger | SFU Canada Research Chairs: Seminar Series: "Vectors and Parasites: What Can We Learn from Insects to Treat Human Diseases?" | | | |
Nov 25, 2010 | Philip H. Winne | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "How to Improve Education with Educational Research that Focuses on Each Learner" | | | |
Oct 28, 2010 | Diane Gromala | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Beyond Pain" | | | |
Oct 14, 2010 | Cynthia K. Patton | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "The New Complex Patient? Diseases, Systems, and Interventions" | | | |
Sep 30, 2010 | Erol Girt | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Fantastic voyage: To nano and back" | | | |
Sep 16, 2010 | Paul Tupper | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "From Distance to Diversity: Extending the Concept of a Metric Space" | | | |
Apr 08, 2010 | Charlotte Waddell | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Advancing Population Health in Canada: What We Can Learn from Children's Mental Health" | | | |
Mar 25, 2010 | John J. Clague | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Increasing Risk from Natural Disasters in the Twenty-first Century" | | | |
Mar 11, 2010 | Glen F. Tibbits | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "The Molecular Basis of Myocardial Function: Novel Designs to Meet Physiological Challenges and Inherited Errors in Design which Result in Congenital Heart Disease" | | | |
Feb 11, 2010 | Andrew Feenberg | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Ten Paradoxes of Technology" | | | |
Jan 28, 2010 | David Vocadlo | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Glycobiology: Recent Advances and the Development of Chemical Tools" | | | |
Nov 26, 2009 | Mary-Ellen Kelm, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples of North America, | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "What is the Point of Cultural History?" | | | |
Nov 12, 2009 | Mark Collard, Canada Research Chair in Human Evolutionary Studies | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Investigating the Origin and Evolution of Culture with Phylogenetic Techniques" | | | |
Oct 29, 2009 | Arthur Robson, Canada Research Chair in Economic Theory and Evolution | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "We Are Impatient Because We Die. But Why Do We Die?" | | | |
Oct 15, 2009 | S. Cenk Sahinalp, Canada Research Chair in Computational Genomics | SFU Canada Research Chair Seminar Series: "Combinatorial Algorithms for Structural Variation Detection in High-throughput Sequenced Genomes" | | | |
Oct 01, 2009 | Ian P. McCarthy, Canada Research Chair in Technology & Operations Management | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "New Product Development: From Linear To Chaos And Back Again" | | | |
Sep 17, 2009 | Kieran Egan, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Development and the Curriculum | SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Why Education is Difficult and Contentious" | | | |
Apr 09, 2009 | Wendy Palen | The challenge of putting ecological stressors in context; three stories from the conservation of freshwater species | | | |
Mar 26, 2009 | John McDonald | To Be (Attended) or Not To Be (Attended): Recent research on attention capture from the SFU Human Electrophysiology Lab | | | |
Mar 12, 2009 | Randall Peterman | Research for improving the understanding, conservation, and management of Pacific salmon populations | | | |
Feb 26, 2009 | Bojan Mohar | How to draw with small number of crossings | | | |
Feb 12, 2009 | Derek Bingham | Efficient Emulators of Computer Simulators of Photometric Red-shifts Using Compactly Supported Correlation Functions | | | |
Jan 29, 2009 | Patricia Mooney | Materials for New Semiconductor Technologies | | | |
Dec 04, 2008 | Bozena Kaminska | Heterogeneous Microsystems and Enabling Technologies | | | |
Nov 20, 2008 | Gabor Tardos | Fingerprinting Digital Documents | | | |
Nov 06, 2008 | Gwenn Flowers | Glacier and ice-sheet dynamics in a warming world | | | |
Oct 23, 2008 | Neil Branda | On-Command Control of Molecular & Nanomaterials Using External Stimuli | | | |
Oct 09, 2008 | Stephen Robinovitch | Balancing acts, safe landing responses, and impact dynamics: how to avoid injury in the event of a fall | | | |
Sep 25, 2008 | Jamie K. Scott | Vaccination and the challenge of highly-mutable pathogens for vaccine design | | | |
