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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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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...
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...

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