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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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Introduction to GIS & Spatial Analysis in R -
Learn the basics of GIS and spatial analysis using R About this Event: Date And Time Mon, April 26, 2021 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM PDT   About This Event This workshop is an introduction to the...
VanBUG Seminar: How to build a high-performance & user-friendly language for data science & bioinformatics -
Description coming soon... Speaker Bio:Dr. Ibrahim Numanagić is exploring new algorithmic and data science methods that can help alleviate the scale and ambiguity issues that are inherent in...
VanBUG Seminar: Learning about evolutionary dynamics from molecular phylogenies -
A central challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand why some lineages contain so much diversity while others have so few; ultimately this means estimating and explaining variation in rates...
VanBUG Seminar: Raymond Ng (UBC) -
One of the most exciting developments from machine learning in the past decade has been deep learning. In the first half of the talk, we will give an overview of neural networks and deep networks. We...
VanBUG Seminar: Sam Aparicio (UBC & BC CRC) -
Dr. Sam Aparicio’s research program encompasses the fields of cancer genomics, mouse genetic models, high throughput screens, small molecule chemical probes and translational breast cancer research....
VanBUG Seminar: Denise Daley (UBC/St. Paul’s) -
Dr. Daley is studying the genetic susceptibility to asthma and other allergic conditions and the complex epigenetic mechanisms that may be involved. She is working to determine what contribution...
VanBUG Seminar: Anshul Kundaje (Stanford University) -
Anshul Kundaje is an Assistant Professor of Genetics and Computer Science at Stanford University. His primary research area is large-scale computational regulatory genomics. The Kundaje lab...
VanBUG Seminar: Jeff Joy (HIV Centres of Excellence, Vancouver) -
*Note: This session was rescheduled from its original date of February 07* Dr. Jeffrey Joy is a research scientist (evolutionary genetics and bioinformatics) at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/...
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...

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