Past Colloquiums

The table below lists the past Colloquiums at the IRMACS Centre.
You can also view the extensive list of upcoming colloquiums at the IRMACS Centre.
View videos of past Interdisciplinary Colloquiums at the IRMACS Centre.
View videos of past CSMG Colloquiums at the IRMACS Centre.
View videos of past MoCSSy Colloquiums at the IRMACS Centre.

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Apr 16, 2010
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IMC Colloquium Series: Jump Detection with Wavelets for High-Frequency Financial Time Series
Dr. Ramazan Gençay
Department Of Economics, Simon Fraser University
Apr 15, 2010
13:30 - 14:30
ASB10900Dean of Science Office: Liber Ero Chair Candidate Colloquium
 
Apr 12, 2010
14:30 - 15:30
ASB10900IRMACS Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Tiling n-space by cubes"
Dr. Peter Horak
University of Washington - Tacoma
Apr 12, 2010
13:00 - 14:15
ASB10900Dean of Science Office: Liber Ero Chair Candidate Colloquium
 
Mar 19, 2010
10:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IMC Colloquium Series: "Modeling to Estimate Weight Gain from Energy Imbalances"
Dr. Diane Finegood and Penny Deck
Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University
Mar 05, 2010
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IMC Colloquium Series: "From the Unbounded to the (Artificially) Bounded"
Dr. Nilima Nigam
SFU Department of Mathematics
Feb 05, 2010
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IMC Colloquium Series: "Geographic Injury Surveillance"
Dr. Nadine Schuurman
Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University
Jan 22, 2010
12:30 - 13:30
ASB10900IMC Colloquium Series: "Engineering Security: A Formal Approach"
Dr. Uwe Glasser
SFU IRMACS Centre and School of Computing Science
Dec 02, 2009
14:30 - 15:30
ASB10900IRMACS Visiting Scholar Lecture Series: "Calculating Surge Impedance of Transmission-Line-Towers"
Dr. Koshi Okumura
Hiroshima Institute of Technology
Nov 27, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IMC Colloquium Series: "A Particle Filter Approach to Identification of Discrete Stochastic Nonlinear Processes Under Missing Observations"
Dr. Bhushan Gopaluni
Department Of Chemical & Biological Engineering, University Of British Columbia
Nov 13, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IMC Colloquium Series: "Measuring Social Influences on Health"
Dr. Brian Krauth
Department of Economics, SFU
Nov 04, 2009
13:30 - 14:30
ASB10900IRMACS Visiting Scholar Lecture Series: "Quantum Gravity and Effective Action"
Dr. Yuri Gusev
The IRMACS Centre
Oct 30, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IMC Colloquium Series: "Recent Advances in Medical Imaging"
Dr. Joe Qranfal
Department of Mathematics, SFU
Oct 16, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IMC Colloquium Series: "Simple questions with difficult answers: Modelling the HIV epidemic in BC"
Dr. Robert Hogg
Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU
Oct 02, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IMC Colloquium Series: "The Arithmetic of Sentencing"
Dr. Pierre Tremblay
School of Criminology, University Of Montreal
Sep 18, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IMC Colloquium Series: "Systems Thinking for Health Systems Renewal"
Dr. Allan Best
Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver General Hospital
Apr 03, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900CSMG/MoCSSy Colloquium Series: "Modeling the Role of Fear of Crime in Pedestrian Navigation"
Dr. Andrew Park
MoCSSY, SFU
Mar 20, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900CSMG/MoCSSy Colloquium Series: "Modeling the Role of Fear of Crime in Pedestrian Navigation"
Dr. Andrew Park
MoCSSY, SFU
Mar 19, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS Visiting Scholar Lecture Series: Cultural Paths and Bridges - Unraveling a Medieval Musical Mystery
Dr. Gregory Myers
Mar 06, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900CSMG/MoCSSy Colloquium Series: "Modeling the Role of Fear of Crime in Pedestrian Navigation"
Dr. Andrew Park
MoCSSY, SFU
Mar 04, 2009
15:30 - 17:00
ASB10900Advances in Dose Calculations, Image Processing and Dose Measurements in Radiation Therapy
Dr. L. Beaulieu
Laval University
Feb 20, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900CSMG/MoCSSy Colloquium Series: "Modeling the Role of Fear of Crime in Pedestrian Navigation"
Dr. Andrew Park
MoCSSY, SFU
Feb 06, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900CSMG/MoCSSy Colloquium Series: "Modeling the Role of Fear of Crime in Pedestrian Navigation"
Dr. Andrew Park
MoCSSY, SFU
Jan 23, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900CSMG/MoCSSy Colloquium Series: "Modeling the Role of Fear of Crime in Pedestrian Navigation"
Dr. Andrew Park
MoCSSY, SFU
Jan 09, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900CSMG/MoCSSy Colloquium Series: "Modeling the Role of Fear of Crime in Pedestrian Navigation"
Dr. Andrew Park
MoCSSY, SFU
Nov 28, 2008
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900MoCSSy/CSMG Colloquium: "Modelling Surgical Wait-lists with Queuing Theory"
Dr. Bojan Ramadanovic
CSMG, SFU
Nov 14, 2008
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900MoCSSy/CSMG Colloquium "Ambulance Location and Relocation"
 Shane G. Henderson
Cornell University
Oct 31, 2008
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900MoCSSy/CSMG Colloquium "A complex systems perspective on obesity research, policy and practice"
Dr. Diane Finegood
Simon Fraser University
Oct 28, 2008
14:30 - 15:30
ASB10900Department of Mathematics: The Alan Mekler Department Colloquium "Combinatorics with Gaussian Integrals"
Dr. David Brydges
University of British Columbia at Okanagan
Oct 17, 2008
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900MoCSSy/CSMG Colloquium "Computational Criminology and the Possibility of "Best Practices"
 Bryan Kinney
Simon Fraser University
Oct 03, 2008
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900MoCSSy/CSMG Colloquium "Prisoner Positive: Providing outreach support to prisoners living with HIV/AIDS in BC"
Mr. Terry Howard
Coordinator, Prison Outreach Program
Mar 27, 2008
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Physics at the large hadron collider (LHC)
Dr. K.S. Viswanathan
Simon Fraser University
Mar 14, 2008
11:00 - 13:00
ASB10900Contemporary Arts Faculty Colloquium: "Interrogating Narrative"
Prof. Patricia Gruben
SFU
Mar 13, 2008
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Mining Traffic Data"
Dr. Ljiljana Trajkovic
Simon Fraser University
Feb 28, 2008
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Visualizing the Scientific World and its Evolution"
Dr. Chi-Ming Chen
National Taiwan Normal University
Feb 14, 2008
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Geometry of Image Processing"
Dr. Andrei Frolov
Simon Fraser University
Jan 31, 2008
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Phylogenetics and Conservation Management"
 Klaas Hartmann
University of Canterbury
Jan 17, 2008
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "The Molyneux Globes: Mathematical Instruments, Practice, and Community in 16th century England"
Dr. Lesley Cormack
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Nov 29, 2007
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "The World Premiere of Math Girl Episode 3 - Rationalize this!"
Dr Veselin Jungic
IRMACS/Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
Nov 22, 2007
14:30 - 15:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium - Special Session: "Diversity and Ethnicity - It's in the Genes: Pharmacogenetics in Drug Development
Dr. Jonathan Willmer
Cantest Clinical Research Inc.
Nov 15, 2007
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Percolation and Rigidity in Disordered Networks"
Dr Mike Plischke
Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
Nov 06, 2007
14:30 - 15:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium - Special Session: "The Energy integral and Fourier transform"
 Kathryn Hare
University of Waterloo
Nov 01, 2007
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Fishin' for Genes: Teleosts as Models for Human Idiopathic Scoliosis"
 Kristen Gorman/Felix Breden
Department of Biology, Simon Fraser University
Oct 18, 2007
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Biomimetics, new paradigms for (space) robot design"
Dr Carlo Menon
School of Engineering, Simon Fraser University
Oct 04, 2007
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Queueing Network Analysis of the Provincial Acute Healthcare System"
Dr Alexander Rutherford
IRMACS, Simon Fraser University
Sep 28, 2007
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium - Special Session: "Experimental Mathematics in Action: Insight through Computation"
 Jonathan Borwein
Dalhousie University
Apr 05, 2007
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "The application of remote sensing as a tool for locating mass graves"
 Lynn Bell / Margaret Kalacska
School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University
Mar 22, 2007
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "IRMACS World Tour 2007 - In Search of Collaboration"
 Pam Borghardt / Brian Corrie
IRMACS, Simon Fraser University
Mar 08, 2007
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "New Technologies for Preventive Health Care"
Dr. Bozena Kaminska
School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University
Feb 08, 2007
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Human-information discourse in visual analytics or, What Friedrich Bessel can teach us about interaction design"
Dr. Brian Fisher
School for Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University
Feb 01, 2007
11:30 - 12:30
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "A multidisciplinary experience in nonlinear science: the case of FENOMEC"
Prof. Jorge Ize
IIMAS-FENOMEC, Mexico
Nov 30, 2006
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "A Town Hall Meeting: Building an Expert-to-Expert Communication Tool"
 Wendell Challenger, Matt Devos, and Jacob Groundwater
SFU
Nov 16, 2006
11:15 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Intelligent pixel architectures for digital imaging applications"
 Karim S. Karim
School of Engineering
Nov 02, 2006
11:15 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Analysis and the Emergence of Analytic Mechanics in the Eighteenth Century"
 Craig Fraser
School for the Contemporary Arts, SFU
Oct 19, 2006
11:15 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Spatial Patterns and Spatiotemporal Chaos"
 Ralf Wittenberg
Department of Mathematics, SFU
Oct 03, 2006
12:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Molecular Mimicry for Vaccine Design"
 Mario Pinto
Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, SFU
Sep 21, 2006
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Unit root and cointegration tests with wavelets"
 Ramo Gencay
Department of Economics, SFU
Apr 13, 2006
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Common Intervals and Comparison of Genomes"
 Cedric Chauve
Department of Mathematics, SFU
Apr 06, 2006
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Brownian Ratchets: A Short Introduction Plus Some Recent Results"
 M. Downton
Department of Physics, SFU
Mar 30, 2006
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium
 Andrej Vodopivec
Department of Mathematics, SFU
Mar 23, 2006
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "High Precision Quadrature"
 Greg Fee
CECM / IRMACS, Simon Fraser University
Mar 16, 2006
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium
 Peter Beerli
Computational Evolutionary Biology Group, School of Computational Science (SCS) and Biological Scien
Mar 09, 2006
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Medical Technology: Achieving Success in Today's Marketplace"
 Mark Thomson
Director, Marketing & Sales, Cogent Integrated Solutions
Mar 02, 2006
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium
 Karine Chemla
CNRS and University of Paris 7
Feb 23, 2006
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "The Slow Death of Centralization: The Ascension of a Distributed World"
 Dorian Sabaz
Feb 16, 2006
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "User Needs in Scientific Collaboration"
 Brian Corrie
Feb 09, 2006
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Introduction to Crossing Number of Graphs"
 Drago Bokal
Mathematics
Feb 02, 2006
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Improved Inference of Disease Associations with Genetic Factor and an Independent Non-Genetic Factor in a Case-Control Study"
 Ji-Hyung Shin
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Jan 26, 2006
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium - Special Session: People from IRMACS Wish List
 Andrew M. Odlyzko
Director, Digital Technology Center, University of Minnesota
Jan 19, 2006
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "A Whirlwind Tour of Vorticity, Vortices & the Patterns of Weather"
 David Muraki
SFU, Mathematics
Dec 08, 2005
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Paths in Strips: Exact and approximate enumeration"
 Andrew Rechnitzer
University of Melbourne
Dec 01, 2005
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Ramsey Theory: Old, New and Unknown"
 Thiago Machado de Castro Barros, Mohammad Ali Ebrahimi and Helen Zhai
Mathematics
Nov 17, 2005
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Mixed Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process Spline Models for the Analysis of Recurrent Event Panel Data"
 Jason Nielsen
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Nov 10, 2005
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Bioinformatics: The PSORTb Software for Protein Localization Prediction"
 Jennifer L. Gardy
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Nov 03, 2005
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Differential equations from Euler to Galois Theory"
 Alexa van der Waall
Mathematics
Oct 20, 2005
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Moving VS Fixed Sampling Designs To Detect Environmental Health Hazards"
 Steven Thompson
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Oct 13, 2005
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Mixed Markov Models for Spatio-temporal Multi-State Processes"
 Farouk Nathoo
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Oct 06, 2005
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Welcome to Inverse Problems"
 Kenji Amaya
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Sep 29, 2005
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Discrete Mathematics Problems Arising in Digital Communication"
 Petr Lisonek
Mathematics
Sep 20, 2005
11:30 - 
ASB10900IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium "Probability, Networks And Evolution"
 Mike Steel
New Zealand