Past Events

Title: Privacy Sensitive Environment Decomposition for Hypertree Agent Organization Construction by Abdulrahman Alshememry Advisor: Dr. Yang Xiang Advisory Committee: Dr. Charlie Obimbo Abstract: 

Brought to you by the School of Computer Science, the School of Engineering, and sponsored by Dell EMC, Guelph Hacks for Mental Health is a 36-hour hackathon/design jam that will challenge undergraduate and graduate students to design tools to support positive mental health on campus.  More details, rules, and specific challenges will be released in the coming weeks.

In this talk, Dr. Pena-Castillo will discuss her work on deciphering transcriptional regulation. Specifically, how pathway analysis is applied to find out which biological processes are regulated by a given transcription factor, and how she is computationally identifying and characterizing bacterial non-coding RNAs from RNA-seq data.

Title: Protein Secondary Structure Prediction Evaluation and a Novel Transition Site Model with New Encoding Schemes Abstract:

Join Dr. Daniel Gillis and Dr. Shoshanah Jacobs (Department of Integrative Biology) to learn more about the innovative Ideas Congress (ICON) Transdisciplinary Classroom. ICON returns in Fall 2017. 

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a competition for graduate students in which participants present their research and its wider impact in three minutes or less to a panel of non-specialist judges. The challenge is to present complex research in an engaging, accessible and compelling way using only one slide. The 2017 competition will begin with seven college heats starting March 1. Participants will compete within their college to advance to the University of Guelph 3MT finals.

Title: Data Integration from Mulitple Historical Sources to Study Canadian Casualties of WW1 Abstract:

A collaborative effort between the University of Guelph, University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and Conestoga College , Partnerships for Employment (P4E) was created in 1994 to better serve our students, alumni and employers through a sponsorship of annual Career Fairs and Job Fairs.    

Recursive Feature Addition for Synthetic, Real-World and Intrusion Detection Data Sets Chair: Dr. Mark Wineberg Advisor: Dr. Stefan Kremer Co-Advisor: Dr. Rozita Dara Non-Advisory Committee Member: Dr. Charlie Obimbo External Examiner: Dr. Uyen Trang Nguyen [York University]

Join us for the defence of MSc Candidate Corey Alexander on Thursday, January 5, 2017 at 10:30 am in MacKinnon 304.  Title: Gamification of Online Surveys for Public Health Data Collection Abstract: