Presentations | Scholar | University of Waterloo

Building Bridges: How Research Changes in Multi-Disciplinary Patient Inclusive Settings , at CAPT 2017, Monday, October 23, 2017

Mercer K, Waked K, Burns C, Dogba J, Dolovitch L, Guenette L, Guirguis L, Jenkins L, Legare F, McKinnon A, Grindrod K.

Objective: To describe how engaging patients and other disciplines can change conclusions in qualitative health services research. Approach/Methods: A recent qualitative research project included a multi-disciplinary research team of health care professionals, engineers, information specialists, health systems specialists and patients. From this, two papers are being developed: 1) patient perspective on shared decision making; 2) healthcare professionals and...

The extended BFN category and shifted Yangians, at Fields Institute, University of Toronto, Friday, October 6, 2017:

toronto-2017.pdf

An extended category for the BFN construction, at Perimeter Institute, Monday, September 25, 2017:

pi_talk.pdf

Video available here.

A to Z of AI/ML: A Quick Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Capabilities and Tools, at University of Waterloo, Saturday, September 23, 2017:

engcon2017_-_finalpresented.pdf

I presented the following talk for EngCon 2017 to help our undergraduate engineers prepare for their big Fourth Year Design Project.

Representation theory and the Coulomb branch, at AMS Eastern Sectional, Buffalo, Saturday, September 16, 2017:

buffalo-2017.pdf

BIRC Workshop On Deep Learning In Medicine, at University Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada, Monday, August 28, 2017:

deeplearningmedprez_-_final.pdf

This all-day workshop brough together researchers, students and medical professionals from medical imaging, image processing and machine learning to discuss what the new class of machine learning algorithms known collectively as Deep Learning are, how they are and could be used for medicine and what the impacts for medicine as a whole are of this technology. The workshop was hosted by the Biomedical Imaging Research Centre (BIRC) at the University of Western Ontario. I gave an introductory...

Designing Exams to Test Higher Levels of Learning, at Atlanta GA, Friday, July 28, 2017

Presentation at Actuarial Research Conference on designing assessments Read more about Designing Exams to Test Higher Levels of Learning

Interactive Tutorials and Case Study, at Pittsburgh PA, Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Invited talk at Actuarial Teaching Conference on interactive tutorials and case study for deeper learning Read more about Interactive Tutorials and Case Study

Representation theory and the Coulomb branch, at "Quantum topology and categorified representation theory," Newton Institute, Cambridge, Tuesday, June 27, 2017:

cambridge-2017.pdf

Academic librarians and systematic reviews: An emerging role in the social sciences, at CAPAL17, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Authors: Stapleton, J. & Brown, S.

Systematic review support is expanding beyond health and medical librarianship. The rise of knowledge translation in the social sciences has resulted in a corresponding increase in the number and type of review studies conducted by researchers and supported by granting agencies such as SSHRC. Academic librarians in the social sciences are poised to position themselves as collaborators in the research process, providing guidance and...

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