Clayton School of Information Technology

Seminar series for students

Semester 1, 2011

Once again, the Clayton School of IT is running a series of seminars, to introduce our students to some exciting computing research areas. This seminar series will lead into our second semester Advanced Projects unit, FIT1016 and FIT2044.

 

When: Wednesdays, 12noon

Location: Room 135, Building 26.

 

Week

Date

Speaker

Topic (follow links for details of talk)

3

16 March

Prof. David Green

Natural computation - or why is a starfish like an atomic bomb?

4

23 March

Professor Geoff Webb

Data Mining

 

5

30 March

A/Prof. Ann Nicholson

Bayesian Poker

6

6 April

Dr. David Albrecht

Monte Carlo, and Quasi-Random approaches for Integrating.

7

13 April

Dr. David Squire

Medieval Latin and Plagiarism detection using Damocles

8

20 April

Dr. Alan Dorin

Artificial Life

Midsemester Break

9

4 May

Prof. David Abramson

e-Science: Are we there yet?

10

11 May

Dr. Arun Konagurthu

Genome Assembly Problem: A puzzle with a billion pieces