Clayton School of Information Technology

Seminar series for students

Semester 1, 2012

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.

 

No seminars from Week 9 onwards.

 
When: Wednesdays, 12noon (Bring your lunch if you have a class afterwards!)

Location: Room 135, Building 26 (except for Week 3, in 115/63)

 

Week

Date

Speaker

Topic

3

14 March

(in 115/63)

Prof. David Green

Natural Computation: why is a starfish like an atomic bomb?

4

21 March

No seminar due to class with Student-Staff meeting

5

28 March

Dr. Alan Dorin

Artificial Life

6

4 April

Prof. David Abramson

e-Science: Are we there yet?

Midsemester Break

7

18 April

Dr. David Albrecht

Monte Carlo and Quasi-Random approaches for Integrating

(MULO recording (Week 8))

8

26 April

(10-11am

Thursday, due to Wed being Anzac Day)

Prof. Kim Marriott

Constraint programming for layout

9

Remainder of seminar series cancelled, due to lack of interest. We’ll consult with students when planning seminars for 2013.

 
2 May

Dr. Reza Raffari

Statistical Machine Translation: From Rosetta Stone to Google Translate

10

9 May

Dr. David Squire

Factotum: a tool for discovering similarities and relationships between texts

11

16 May

Dr. Arun Konagurthu

Genome Assembly Problem: A puzzle with a billion pieces

12

23 May

Professor Geoff Webb

We have data, can you read minds?

 

 

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http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~annn/SeminarSeries/2012SeminarSchedule.html