School of Computer Science and Information Technology
Computer Science and
Information Technology

RMIT University, Computer Science and IT
2011 Seminar Series

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 Sebastian Sardina, the seminar co-ordinator. Here are some suggestions made by James Harland (RMIT CS&IT access only). Seminars are normally held at 10.08.04 (building 10, level 8, room 4) in the first semester and at 10.08.03 (building 10, level 8, room 3) in the second one, generally on Fridays from 11:30am to 12:30pm. You can find where we are from the RMIT city campus map.

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

Note: if the "Topic" column is blank, it means that the slot is free and can be booked. The disciplines codes (IS/DSN/ISAR/SE) in the "Presenter" column are just suggestions for each discipline group to provide a talk on that date, but they do not mean the slots are currently booked.


Next
Date & Day
Time & Location
Presenter
Topic


Friday 4
February
11:30-12:30

IS Common Area
Building 14, Floor 8
Staff Meeting Staff Meeting

Friday  18
February
11:30-12:30

10.08.04
Various students
Summer Project Presentations


Friday 4
March
11:30-12:30

IS Common Area
Building 14, Floor 8

Staff Meeting

Staff Meeting

Friday 11
March
11:30-12:30

10.08.04
Various students
Confirmation of candidature presentations

Friday 18
March
11:30-13:00

IS Common Area
Building 14, Floor 8
Staff only
Staff meetings with new HoS

Friday 25
March
11:30-12:30

10.08.04
Dhirendra Singh
PhD Completion Seminar


Friday 1
April
11:30-12:30

IS Common Area
Building 14, Floor 8
Staff Meeting Staff Meeting
(cancelled)

Friday 8
April
11:30-12:30

10.08.04
Steffen Walz
VC senior fellow
Media & Communication
When Everyday Life and Gaming Intersect: Design Issues for Creating
Next Generation Entertainment Services

Friday 15
April
11:30-12:30

IS Common Area
Building 14, Floor 
Staff Meeting Staff Meeting

Friday 22
April
NO SEMINAR
Good Friday

Thursday 28

April
11:30-12:30

10.08.04
Andrew Alexander
Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS)
The Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS): supporting national e-Research services

Friday 29
April
11:30-12:30

10.08.04
Mohammad Omidvar and
William Raffe
Confirmation of candidature presentations I


Friday 6
May
11:30-12:30

10.08.04
Amir Rouhi and
Lida Ghahremanloo
Confirmation of candidature presentations II

Friday 13
May
11:30-12:30

10.08.04
Mikko-Jussi Laakso
University of Turku
(Finland)
Enhance you teaching with "less" work
- utilize automatic assessment with immediate feedback


Friday 20
May
11:30-12:30

10.08.04
Rui Zhang
Melbourne Unversity
A Mapping Based Approach for Indexing Multidimensional Data

Friday 27
May
11:30-12:30

10.08.04
DSN



Friday 3
June
11:30-12:30

IS Common Area
Building 14, Floor 8
Staff Meeting Staff Meeting

Friday 10
June
11:30-12:30

10.08.04
Disciplines Leaders Orientation Seminar
(Disciplines Overview)

Friday 17
June
11:30-12:30

10.08.04
Angela Carbone
Monash University
PATS: Teachers helping Teachers. Building Quality in Higher Education Units

Friday 24
June
11:30-14:10

10.08.03
Various
yoursoftware Presentations
SECOND SEMESTER SEMINARS

Friday 1
July
11:30-12:30

IS Common Area
Building 14, Floor 8
Staff Meeting Staff Meeting

Friday 29
July
11:30-12:30

10.08.03
Research students 3 minute thesis competition - School heat


Friday 5
August
11:30-12:30

IS Common Area
Building 14, Floor 8
Staff Meeting Staff Meeting

Friday 12
August
11:30-12:30

10.08.03
Prof. Bruce Croft
Unviersity of Massachusetts, Amherst
Creating Queries from Documents

Friday 26
August
11:30-12:30

10.08.03
Mr. Anshuman Mukherjee Verification of Communication Protocols in Web-Services
(PhD Completion Seminar)


Friday 2
September
11:30-12:30

IS Common Area
Building 14, Floor 8
Staff Meeting Staff Meeting

Friday 23
September
11:30-12:30

10.08.03



Friday 30
September
11:30-12:30

10.08.03
Shaahin Madani
Heshan Dhanushka Kumarage
Christopher Meli

others
Confirmation of Candidature Presentation


Friday 7
October
11:30-12:30

IS Common Area
Building 14, Floor 8
Staff Meeting Staff Meeting

Friday 14
October
11:30-13:00

10.08.03



Friday 21
October
11:30-12:30

10.08.03
Prof. Marc Cavazza
Teeside University
TBA

Monday 24
October
15:00-16:00
IS Common Area
Building 14, Floor 8
Prof. Marc Cavazza
Teeside University
Advances in Interactive Narratives: Balancing Story, Interaction and Characters

Friday 28
October
11:30-12:30

10.08.03

Confirmation of Candidature Presentation


Friday 4
November
11:30-12:30

IS Common Area
Building 14, Floor 8
Staff Meeting Staff Meeting

Friday 11
November
11:30-12:30

10.08.03
Inger Mewburn Digital Identity Management

Friday 18
November
11:30-12:30

10.08.03

Confirmation of Candidature Presentation

Friday 25
November
11:30-12:30

10.08.03
Mr. Tohari Ahmad PhD Completion Seminar


Friday 2
December
10:00-11:30

IS Common Area
Building 14, Floor 8
Staff Meeting Staff Meeting

Friday 9
December
11:30-12:30

10.08.03
Fabio Patrizi
Sapienza Universita di Roma
Rome, Italy
Verification of Artifact Systems via Data Abstraction

Friday 16
December
11:30-12:30

10.08.03



Friday 23
December
11:30-12:30

10.08.03
Malith Jayasinghe PhD Completion Seminar
END OF YEAR





Note: Slots with discipline names are not yet taken unless there are specific talk titles listed.