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Research Seminars Archive

WestGrid often partners with research groups to leverage collaboration tools and technologies to expand the reach of their research seminars, either through multi-point videoconferences or online webstreams. Past seminars WestGrid has supported are listed below. For more information on any of these archived sessions, please contact us.

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VanBUG Seminar: Mike Famulare (Institute for Disease Modeling) -

Bio:Mike Famulare has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a Bachelor of Science in Physics Education from New York University. His doctoral thesis was in Computational...

VanBUG Seminar: Jared Simpson (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research) -

The Simpson lab develops algorithms and software for the analysis of high-throughput sequencing data. The lab, led by Dr. Jared Simpson, works primarily on de novo genome assembly, the detection of...

VanBUG Seminar : Faraz Hach (Vancouver Prostate Centre/UBC) -

Abstract:TBC - see http://www.vanbug.org/schedule/ for details Introductory Speaker: Faraz Hach Webcast Link: http://vidyoreplay.computecanada.ca/replay/webcastShow.html?key=TAKdbjoDvIqKdLn (This...

VanBUG Seminar: Microbial community assembly on seaweeds and seagrasses -

Laura Parfrey's lab studies communities of microbial eukaryotes (protists) with the goal of understanding their diversity and distribution across environments. Eukaryotes, which include the familiar...

2017 Gairdner International Symposium -

This free public lecture will feature: Dr. Huda Zoghbi Recipient of the 2017 Canada Gairdner International Award “For the discovery of the genetic basis of Rett syndrome and its implications for...

VanBUG Seminar: What do we mean by differential expression? -

Lior Pachter received a B.S. in Mathematics from Caltech in 1994, then went to MIT where he was awarded a PhD in applied mathematics in 1999. He then moved to the University of California at Berkeley...

VanBUG Seminar: Understanding the human genome through unsupervised machine learning -

Trainees are invited to meet with the VanBUG speaker for open discussion of both science and career paths. This takes place 4:30-5:30pm in either the Boardroom or Lunchroom on the ground floor of the...

Compute Canada Scientific Platforms Workshop -

This virtual workshop / information session hosted by Compute Canada is for any researcher involved with developing, supporting or accessing a Canadian scientific research platform or portal (RPP).

Blue Water's "Scaling to Petascale" Institute - Hosted by the University of Calgary -

This week-long institute will prepare participants to scale simulations and data analytics programs to petascale-class computing systems in support of computational and data-enabled discovery for all...

What's New and Exciting About Graham's GPUs -

The newest and largest Compute Canada and SHARCNET cluster, Graham, will shortly become available to Compute Canada users. Among its exciting features is a substantial number (320) of the newest HPC...

Research Seminars

Feb 7: VanBUG Seminar: Jeff Joy (HIV Centres of Excellence, Vancouver)

Mar 14: VanBUG Seminar: Sepideh Pakpour (UBC Okanagan)

Apr 11: VanBUG Seminar: Anshul Kundaje (Stanford University)

WestGrid Training Events

Jan 21: Software Carpentry Workshop: Focus on Python

Jan 23: Working with data objects in yt

Jan 28: Research Computing Winter Bootcamp @ University of Alberta