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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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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...

VanBUG Seminar Series: Melissa Wilson Sayres, Arizona State University -

Abstract: The human X and Y chromosomes evolved from a pair of homologous autosomes, but today have vastly different gene content and structure. Curiously, despite tremendous sex-bias in human...

VanBUG Seminar Series: Robin Dowell, University of Colorado -

Abstract: Transcription factors (TFs) exert their regulatory influence through the binding of enhancers, resulting in coordination of gene expression programs. Active enhancers are often...

VanBUG Seminar Series: Grace Zheng, 10X Genomics -

Trainees are invited to a pre-seminar gathering to meet with the VanBUG speaker for an open discussion about science and career paths. This takes place 5:00pm-5:45pm in the ground floor boardroom of...

VanBUG Seminar Series: Christoph Borchers & Yassene Mohammed, UVic Genome BC Proteomics Centre -

Trainees are invited to a pre-seminar gathering to meet with the VanBUG speaker for an open discussion about science and career paths. This takes place 5:00pm-5:45pm in the ground floor boardroom of...

VanBUG Seminar Series: Rob Beiko, Dalhousie University -

Talk Title: “A Coevolution-Based Approach to the Identification of Genes with Similar Phylogenetic Distributions” Abstract: Homologous genes in prokaryotes can be described using phylogenetic...

VanBUG Seminar Series: Jonathan Carlson, Microsoft Research -

Speaker Bio: I am a Senior Researcher in the Nature + Computing group at Microsoft Research in Redmond. Previously, I was with Microsoft Research in Los Angeles, where I joined after completing my Ph...

VanBUG Seminar Series: Amee Manges, University of British Columbia -

Abstract:Chronic malnutrition, termed stunting, is defined as suboptimal linear growth, affects one third of children in developing countries, and leads to increased mortality and poor developmental...

VanBUG Seminar Series: Martin Krzywinski, BC Genome Sciences Centre -

Abstract: “The great tragedy of science–the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact,” wrote Huxley, in a statement that is as much about how science works as about the irrepressible...

Research Seminars

Jun 26: Blue Water's "Scaling to Petascale" Institute - Hosted by the University of Calgary

Jul 5: Compute Canada Scientific Platforms Workshop

WestGrid Training Events

Jun 28: Introduction to Bioinformatics

Jul 12: Cedar Office Hours & July Town Hall

Jul 24: WestGrid Research Computing Summer School - UofS