Past Canada Research Chairs Seminars

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The table below lists the past Canada Research Chair Seminars held at the IRMACS Centre. In order to view more information about these talks, including viewing the video archives, either follow the links for each talk below or visit the CRC Seminar Series abstract page.

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Apr 08, 2010
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Advancing Population Health in Canada: What We Can Learn from Children's Mental Health"
Dr. Charlotte Waddell
Canada Research Chair in Children's Health Policy, Faculty Of Health Science
Mar 25, 2010
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Increasing Risk from Natural Disasters in the Twenty-first Century"
Dr. John J. Clague
Canada Research Chair in Natural Hazard Research, Department of Earth Sciences
Mar 11, 2010
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU 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"
Dr. Glen F. Tibbits
Canada Research Chair in Molecular Cardiac Physiology, Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology
Feb 11, 2010
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Ten Paradoxes of Technology"
Dr. Andrew Feenberg
Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, School of Communication
Jan 28, 2010
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Glycobiology: Recent Advances and the Development of Chemical Tools"
Dr. David Vocadlo
Canada Research Chair in Chemical Glycobiology, Department of Chemistry
Nov 26, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "What is the Point of Cultural History?"
Dr. Mary-Ellen Kelm, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples of North America,
Department Of History
Nov 12, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Investigating the Origin and Evolution of Culture with Phylogenetic Techniques"
Dr. Mark Collard, Canada Research Chair in Human Evolutionary Studies
Department of Archeology
Oct 29, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "We Are Impatient Because We Die. But Why Do We Die?"
Dr. Arthur Robson, Canada Research Chair in Economic Theory and Evolution
Department of Economics
Oct 15, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chair Seminar Series: "Combinatorial Algorithms for Structural Variation Detection in High-throughput Sequenced Genomes"
Dr. S. Cenk Sahinalp, Canada Research Chair in Computational Genomics
School Of Computing Science
Oct 01, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "New Product Development: From Linear To Chaos And Back Again"
Dr. Ian P. McCarthy, Canada Research Chair in Technology & Operations Management
Segal Graduate School of Business
Sep 17, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Why Education is Difficult and Contentious"
Dr. Kieran Egan, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Development and the Curriculum
Faculty Of Education
Apr 09, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "The Challenge of Putting Ecological Stressors in Context; Three Stories from the Conservation of Freshwater Species"
Dr. Wendy Palen, Canada Research Chair in Aquatic Conservation
Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Mar 26, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "To Be (Attended) or Not To Be (Attended): Recent research on attention capture from the SFU Human Electrophysiology Lab"
Dr. John McDonald, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Psychology
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University
Mar 12, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Research for improving the understanding, conservation, and management of Pacific salmon populations"
Dr. Randall M. Peterman, Canada Research Chair in Fisheries Risk Assessment and Management
School of Resource and Environmental Management
Feb 26, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "How to draw with small number of crossings"
Dr. Bojan Mohar, Canada Research Chair in Graph Theory
Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
Feb 12, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Efficient Emulators of Computer Simulators of Photometric Red-shifts Using Compactly Supported Correlation Functions "
Dr. Derek Bingham
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Jan 29, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Materials for New Semiconductor Technologies"
Dr. Patricia M. Mooney, Canada Research Chair in Semiconductor Physics
Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
Dec 04, 2008
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series "Heterogeneous Microsystems and Enabling Technologies"
Dr. Bozena Kaminska, Canada Research Chair in Wireless Sensor Networks
School Of Engineering
Nov 20, 2008
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series "Fingerprinting Digital Documents"
Dr. Gabor Tardos, Canada Research Chair in Computational Complexity and Geometric Arrangements
School Of Computing Science
Nov 06, 2008
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series "Glacier and ice-sheet dynamics in a warming world"
Dr. Gwenn Flowers, Canada Research Chair in Glaciology
Department of Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2008
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series "On-Command Control of Molecular & Nanomaterials Using External Stimuli"
Dr. Neil Branda, Canada Research Chair in Materials Science
Department of Chemistry
Oct 09, 2008
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series "Balancing acts, safe landing responses, and impact dynamics: how to avoid injury in the event of a fall"
Dr. Stephen Robinovitch, Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering
School of Kinesiology and School of Engineering Science
Sep 25, 2008
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series "Vaccination and the challenge of highly-mutable pathogens for vaccine design"
Dr. Jamie K. Scott, Canada Research Chair in Molecular Immunity
Faculty of Health Science and Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry