Seminar

“Scientists are very often consciously or unconsciously driven by agendas well outside science, even if they do not acknowledge them.”
—Neil Turok, Director, Perimeter Institute, 2012 CBC Massey Lectures

Seminar - Professor Emeritus John Bandler

WATERLOO / ENGINEERING

ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

SEMINAR

Dr. Paolo Rech
Associate Professor
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Reliability Issues in Current and Future Supercomputers

Invited by Associate Professor Sebastian Fischmeister

IEEE Kitchener - Waterloo Section

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ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Presents a Seminar on:
Utilizing Thermal Storage to Enable High Penetration of Renewables in Canada

Dr. Steven Wong
T&D Renewable Integration Specialist
CanmetENERGY – Natural Resources Canada

Invited by:
Professor Kankar Bhattacharya

IEEE Distinguished Lecture

STATE-OF-THE-ART MANY-OBJECTIVE EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS FOR OPTIMIZATION

Speaker:  Gary G. Yen, Regents Professor, FIEEE, FIET

Oklahoma State University, School of Elecrical and Computer Engineering, USA

Place:  University of Waterloo, EIT 3142

*Refreshments will be provided

Candidate

Mohammad Saleh Moonesan

Title

A Study of Medium Voltage Form-Wound Coil Turn-to-Turn Insulation of Converter Fed Rotating Machines

Supervisors

Sheshakamal Jayaram and Edward Cherney (Adjunct)

Candidate

Jingyun Bian

Title

Grammar-Based Representations of Large Sparse Binary Matrices

Supervisor

En-Hui Yang

Abstract

Large sparse matrices representation is a fundamental problem in big data processing and analysis. To reduce the requirement of memory bandwidth, it is important to develop alternative compact representations of large sparse matrices, while facilitating, if possible, matrix operations.

Candidate

Syeda Maryam

Title

Predictive Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Diffusion MRI

Supervisor

Oleg Michailovich

Candidate

Swapnil Kanabar

Title

Periodic Adaptive Control for Discrete-Time SISO Plant

Supervisors

Daniel Miller and Andrew Heunis

Candidate

Gangqiang Yang

Title

Hardware implementations and optimizations of the Warbler pseudorandom number generator

Supervisors

Guang Gong and Mark Aagaard

Speaker

Dr. Muhammad Ismail, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Topic

Green Heterogeneous Wireless Networks