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Thursday, March 8, 2018 11:30 am - 1:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

International Women’s Day Celebration

The HeForShe Mathematics Committee invites you to participate in the celebration of International Women’s Day.

Drop by MC third floor, outside Math C&D for photo opportunities with Professor Stephen M. Watt, Dean of Mathematics, and other Math faculty members to commemorate supporters of the HeForShe campaign.

Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. (or until the cupcakes last!)

Show your commitment and join the movement ... #COUNT ME IN

Free cupcakes for participants.

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Winning students: Thomas Arab Alexander, Pranav Barot, Ryan Kinnear, Richard Wu
Monday, March 5, 2018

Waterloo students win $20,000 at Citadel and Citadel Securities datathon

A team of four Waterloo students took first prize in the first Citadel and Citadel Securities Data Open datathon competition of 2018. The event drew 80 competitors from Waterloo, University of Toronto and University of Montreal. The winning team, which included Waterloo computer science student Richard Wu, will compete in the championship against approximately 20 other teams later this year.

Monday, April 9, 2018 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Data Systems: Web Data Integration for the Non-Expert

Ahmed El-Roby, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Today, there is an abundance of structured data available on the web in the form of RDF graphs and relational (i.e., tabular) data. This data comes from heterogeneous sources, and realizing its full value requires integrating these sources so that they can be queried together. Due to the scale and heterogeneity of the data sources on the web, integrating them is typically an automatic process.

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 1:30 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity: Succinct Color Searching in One Dimension

Hicham El-Zein, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

We present succinct data structures for one-dimensional color reporting and color counting problems. We are given a set of $n$ points with integer coordinates in the range $[1,m]$ and every point is assigned a color from the set $\{\,1,\ldots,\sigma\,\}$. A color reporting query asks for the list of distinct colors that occur in a query interval $[a,b]$ and a color counting query asks for the number of distinct colors in $[a,b]$.

Wednesday, April 4, 2018 12:00 pm - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Defence • Artificial Intelligence / Computational Neuroscience: Spaun 2.0 — Extending the World's Largest Functional Brain Model

Feng-Xuan Choo, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Tuesday, March 20, 2018 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction: Left Them 4 Dead — Perception of Humans versus Non-Player Character Teammates in Cooperative Gameplay

Rina Wehbe, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Why do we care if our teammates are not human? This study seeks to uncover whether or not the perception of other players as human or artificial entities can influence player experience. We use both deception and a between-participants blind study design to reduce bias in our experiment.