MEETING-DATE:July 29th, 2009 MEETING-LOCATION:DC 1304 MEETING-TIME:1:30 MEETING-CHAIR:Elodie Fourquet MEETING-CHAIRPIC:elodie.jpg COFFEE-HOUR-LAST-WEEK:Jingyuan COFFEE-HOUR-THIS-WEEK:Elodie, Steve COFFEE-HOUR-NEXT-WEEK:Volunteers? FORTH-DATE1:August 5th, 2009 FORTH-DATE2:August 12th, 2009 FORTH-DATE3:August 19th, 2009 FORTH-DATE4:August 26h, 2009 FORTH-LOCATION1:DC 1304 1:30 FORTH-LOCATION2:DC 1304 1:30 FORTH-LOCATION3:DC 1304 1:30 FORTH-LOCATION4:DC 1304 1:30 FORTH-CHAIR1:Eugene Greeene FORTH-CHAIR2:Richard Fung FORTH-CHAIR3:Marshall Hahn FORTH-CHAIR4:Matt Kay FORTH-CHAIRPIC1:edgreene.jpeg FORTH-CHAIRPIC2:fungr.png FORTH-CHAIRPIC3:mhahn.jpg FORTH-CHAIRPIC4:nopicture.gif FORTH-TP1:Bill Cowan FORTH-TP2:Gabriel Esteves FORTH-TP3:Elodie Fourquet FORTH-TP4:Richard Fung FORTH-TPPIC1:cowan_unflipped.gif FORTH-TPPIC2:rgesteve.jpg FORTH-TPPIC3:elodie.jpg FORTH-TPPIC4:fungr.png TPNAME:Steve Mann TPTITLE:The Ghost Map TPABSTRACT:In this talk, I will review the "Ghost Map" of John Snow thatmapped a cholera outbreak in 1854. In particular, I willinvestigate the map's significance, both with regards tothis particular outbreak and as a landmark in epidemiology. TPPIC:mann.jpg DIONE: DITWO: DITHREE: DIFOUR: AIONE:The freezer was defrost. Thanks Steve! AITWO:Think about reserving a room for next term.... AITHREE: AIFOUR: DMONE: DMTWO: DMTHREE: DMFOUR: SEMINARS:

2009 Jul 31, 14:00, DC 1331 - Database Research Group PhD Seminar: Patrick Kling, PhD candidate, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo; Optimizing distributed XML queries through localization and pruning

2009 Aug 05, 15:00, DC 1304 - Bioinformatics Group Master's Thesis Presentation: Daniil Golod, graduate student, David R. Cheriton School of Comp. Sci., Univ. Waterloo; The k-best Paths in Hidden Markov Models. Algorithms and Applications to Transmembrane Protein Topology Recognition