Clayton School of Information Technology

Seminar series for students

Semester 1, 2008

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 to our second semester Advanced Projects unit, FIT1016 and FIT2044.

 

When: Tuesdays, 12noon

Location: Room 135, Building 26.

 

Week

Date

Speaker

Topic (follow links for details of talk)

2

4 March

Dr. David Squire

Plagiarism detection using Damocles

3

11 March

Dr. Sarah Boyd

What's bioinformatics?  It depends who you ask ...

4

18 March

A/Prof. John Hurst

Form and content in Computer Science

Mid-semester break

5

1 April

A/Prof. Bernd Meyer

Natural Computation

6

8 April

Dr. Linda McIver

'Walk up and use' or 'Walk up and abuse' ? Writing software that doesn't drive users crazy.

7

15 April

A/Prof. Ann Nicholson

Bayesian networks: or ‘do the right thing’

8

22 April

Professor David Abramson

eResearch: what is it and why does it matter?

9

29 April

Professor Mark Wallace

Constraint Programming

10

6 May

Professor Geoff Webb

Data Mining

11

13 May

Dr. David Squire

The GIFT: CBIR, MRML and benchmarking

12

20 May

A/Prof. John Hurst

Python

13

No seminar (students switching to exam mode!)