RMIT University, Computer Science and IT
2013 Seminar Series

School seminars are free and open to the general public. No booking is necessary. If you are interested in giving a presentation in this seminar series, or to make suggestions for speakers, please contact Lawrence Cavedon the seminar co-ordinator. Seminars are normally held at 10.08.04 (building 10, level 8, room 4). You can find where we are from the RMIT city campus map.

Previous seminar series: 2012 seminars, 2011 seminars, 2010 seminars, 2009 seminars, 2008 seminars, 2007 seminars, 2006 seminars, 2005 seminars, 2004 seminars, 2003 seminars, 2002 seminars.

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Date/Day

Time/Location

 Presenter

 Topic

Thursday Feb 7

1:30pm-2:30pm

10.08.04

Dr. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, CSIRO
(Director of the Information Engineering Laboratory)

Open Big Data Solutions for the Internet of Things

Friday February 15

11:30-1:30pm

10.08.04

CSIT Summer Students Summer projects

Friday February 22

12:30-1:30pm

10.08.04

CSIT Summer Students
(commences after School staff meeting) 
Summer projects

Friday March 1

11:30-12:30

12.08.02
(NOTE LOCATION)

Prof. Pascal Van Hentenryck,
University of Melbourne and NICTA
(Research Group Leader: Optimisation)

Computational Methods for Disaster Management

Friday March 8

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Dr. Karin Verspoor, NICTA
(Research Director: Health and Life Sciences)

From Structured Data to Unstructured Text and Back:
Experiments in Text Mining for Biomedicine

Friday March 15

2:30-3:30pm
NOTE TIME

14.06.13
NOTE VENUE

Marina Drosou, University of Ioannina Search Result Diversification

Friday March 22

11:30-12:30

IS Meeting Area
(Bldg 14, Level 8)

Andrew Cain and Clinton Woodward
Swinburne University 
Using Portfolios to achieve Constructive Alignment in Computer Science Education

Friday March 29

Easter Friday -- no seminar 

Friday April 5

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Confirmation of Candidature presentations  Abdur Rahim Mohammad Forkan
A Cloud-based model for Context-aware Service Management
in Ambient Assisted Living
Supervisors: Ibrahim Khalil, Zahir Tari

Yoosef Bassam M Abushark -- Moved to 3.30pm (same room)
Agent Design Artefacts: Verification and Validation
Supervisors: John Thangarajah, James Harland

Monday April 8

NICTA/RMIT Discovery Lecture

Non-Standard Day/Time/Venue

5.45pm-6.45pm
(refreshments from 5pm)

80.07.01

Dr. Alon Halevy, Google Inc.
(Head, Structured Data Management Research group) 
Recent Advances on Structured Data and the Web

(audio-video recording) (pdf of slides)

Friday April 12

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Assoc. Prof. Tao Gu
School of CS&IT, RMIT University  
Infrastructure-free Floor Localization via Mobile Phone Sensing

Friday April 19

11.30-12.30

80.01.02
(enter by left-most door for stairs down)
NON-STANDARD VENUE

Dr. Cathal Gurrin
Dublin City University 
Lifelogging, an Information Retrieval Challenge

(TV project snippet describing Cathal's work)

(audio-video recording)

Friday May 10

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Mark Nottingham
Akamai; Chair of IETF Working Group on HTTP  
HTTP/2.0: Challenges and Opportunities

(slides)

Thursday May 16

CSIT/PTRI/IEEE Seminar

4.30pm-5.30pm
NOTE TIME

12.07.02
NOTE ROOM

Dr. Garrison Greenwood
Portland State University
(Editor-in-Chief IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computating) 
Introduction to Evolutionary Game Theory

(audio-video recording)

Friday May 17

CSIT/PTRI/IEEE Seminar

11:30-12:30

10.08.04
Prof. Zbigniew Michalewicz
University of Adelaide 
Some Thoughts on the Complexity of Real-World Problems

(audio-video recording)

Friday May 24

11:30-12:30

10.08.04
Confirmation of Candiature presentations  Uthpala Subodhani Premarathne
Telemedicine - A sustainable, efficient and reliable support system

Seyedasadollah Mohammadi
User-Preference Based Multi-Objective Optimization Through Decomposition

Ronny Sabapathee
Efficient Load Balancing in Topic Based Sharding

Friday May 24

12:30-13:30
NON-STANDARD TIME

12.05.02
NON-STANDARD VENUE
Laura Thomson, Mozilla
(formerly RMIT CSIT student and staff) 

(One of the 13 Secret Rock Stars of Silicon Valley)
Firefox Crash Reporting

(audio-video recording)

Friday May 31

11:30-12:30

10.08.04
Jian Zhong
(Completion Seminar) 
Enforcing Privacy via Access Control and Data Perturbation

Friday June 7

No seminar (staff retreat) 

Mon June 24 (TBC)

5.30pm-6.30pm

80.01.02
(enter by left-most door for stairs down)
NON-STANDARD VENUE

Prof. Terrence Masson
Northeastern University, Boston
(ACM Distinguished Speaker) 
Convergence and Collaboration in the Creative Industries

Friday July 12

11:30-12:30

10.08.04
Dr. Falk Scholer
School of CSIT, RMIT University 
TBD


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