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Time: 1100-1230 Place: LASR 102 (70 seats) Title: Stem cells, complexity and the science of being Abstract: Complexity theory  shows how systems of interacting individuals that fulfill basic criteria self-organize into larger scale structures. Such systems exist in hierarchies, e.g. cells self-organize into bodies, bodies self-organize into larger scale social structures (e.g. ant colonies, human [...]

Time critical from Sean Muir Frontline is pleased to announce their first project for Health Canada. It’s a comic book on bed bugs. Even if your skin is crawling, please try to read on if this topic interests you. As many of you know, the Healthy Aboriginal Network and Frontline edit their draft stories with [...]

The Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) is currently accepting proposals for both oral and poster presentations by undergraduate students participating in research activities at UBCV and UBCO.   The Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) is a one-day celebration of undergraduate research at UBC.  This is an excellent opportunity for students to present to an interested audience [...]

November 8th 2011, Tuesday. UCLL Room 107.  11:00-12:30 Abstract: Dr. Marcelo Mortensen Wanderley will discuss the achievements of the long-term project “McGill Digital Orchestra”- a 3-year project aimed at developing new digital musical instruments  and use them in real concert situations, allowing designers, performers and composers to work with and improve these instruments during extended [...]

Students registering for COGS 300 are also required to register for one of the lab sections. Please note however that COGS 300 L06 (Friday 15:00-17:00) may be amalgamated into one of the other two sections if registration remains low. Students who are currently registered in L06 for term 2 should be prepared to change to [...]

Come join the CSS for the 2nd annual Robot Party: RoboRave! Party is on November 18th in the Ladha Science Student Centre. Robot costume building fun begins at 6:30 and from 8:00 – midnight, the blacklight robot rave party begins. Free entry before 8pm, $2 after 8, all drinks are $2! Don’t miss out on [...]

Student Visual Analytics Contest 2011: Visualizing Risks We would like to invite you to help us on two data analysis challenges, and learn about Visual Analytics while you are at it! The best solution to each challenge will be awarded a special certificate and an honourarium of $500.00. The contest runs from October 15th – [...]

In today’s digitized world our ability to collect vast amounts of data on just about anything is only increasing.  But in order to be able to gain any useful insights into these vast datasets new techniques of analysis must be developed.  Visual Analytics (VA) is one of these techniques where analytic tools combine information visualization, [...]