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Friday, January 21, 2022 9:00 am - 9:00 am EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Defence • Algorithms and Complexity • Related Orderings of AT-Free Graphs

Please note: This PhD defence will be given online.

Jan Gorzny, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jonathan Buss

An asteroidal triple (AT) is a triple of independent vertices x, y, z such that between every pair of vertices in the triple, there is a path that does not intersect the closed neighbourhood of the third. A graph without an asteroidal triple is said to be AT-free.

Thursday, January 6, 2022 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Software Engineering • Hubble Spacer Telescope

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Aishwarya Ramanathan, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Richard Trefler, Arie Gurfinkel

Friday, December 17, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering • A Graph-based Analysis Approach to Cluster Lifetime Dynamics

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Ivens Portugal, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Paulo Alencar, Donald Cowan, Daniel Berry

Friday, December 17, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Machine Learning • Parlez-vous le hate?: Examining Topics and Hate Speech in the Alternative Social Network Parler

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Ethan Ward, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Jesse Hoey

Thursday, December 16, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Scientific Computation • A Scalable Method for Many Object Fluid-Structure Interaction Simulations

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Connor Tannahill, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Justin Wan

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Monday, December 6, 2021

Former CS student Vitalik Buterin named in Forbes ‘30 under 30 hall of fame’

Former computer science student Vitalik Buterin, founder of the cryptocurrency Ethereum, has been named in the recent Forbes ‘30 under 30 hall of fame.’

photo of Vitalik Buterin
On this tenth anniversary of the Forbes 30 under 30 lists, the publication included a best of the best from the past ten years, noting those who had been named the most times or consistently in the lists.

Tuesday, December 7, 2021 3:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Artificial Intelligence • Dynamic-Occlusion-Aware Risk Identification for Autonomous Vehicles Using Hypergames

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Maximilian Kahn, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Krzysztof Czarnecki

Friday, December 10, 2021 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

PhD Seminar • Software Engineering • Computational Analysis to Capture Cluster Lifetime Dynamics

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Ivens Portugal, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisors: Professors Paulo Alencar, Donald Cowan, Daniel Berry

Friday, December 10, 2021 2:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking • In the New Era of the Internet of Things Even Your Breathing Rate is Not Private

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Zihan Chen, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Supervisor: Professor Omid Abari

This thesis shows a new type of attack that can secretly gather private measurements from the target. Wi-sneak is a stealthy reconnaissance attack which utilizes the ambient WiFi signal and ubiquitous WiFi-enabled devices without compromising any packets or WiFi networks.