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Past Coast to Coast Seminars

The table below lists the past Coast to Coast Seminars at the IRMACS Centre. In order to see more detail about these talks follow the links for each talk given below.

If you want to see the list of upcoming Coast to Coast Seminars hosted at the IRMACS Centre, please visit the future Coast to Coast Seminars page.

If you want to view video archives from these and other events held at the IRMACS Centre, please visit the IRMACS Video Archive page.

Date Location Information Video
Nov 17, 2015
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 Coast to Coast Seminar Series 2015: "Big Data and Big Water: Mining Ocean Vessel Trajectory Data"
Dr Stan Matwin
Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University
Nov 10, 2015
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 Coast to Coast Seminar Series Fall 2015: "Using Big Data in Healthcare"
Dr Muhammad Mamdani
Director, Applied Health Research Centre, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto Ontario
Nov 03, 2015
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 Coast to Coast Seminar Series 2015: "Context-aware Recommender Systems in the context of Cognitive Computing"
Dr Ayse Basar Bener
Professor and Director, Data Science Lab Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University
Oct 06, 2015
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 Coast to Coast Seminar Series 2015: "Visual Perception: The Ultimate Big Data Problem"
Dr James Elder
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Department of Psychology Centre for Vision Research, York University
Sep 22, 2015
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 Coast to Coast Seminar Series Fall 2015: "Recommender Systems: Exploiting Big User Feedback Data for Personalization"
Dr Martin Ester
Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
Mar 31, 2015
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10901 Coast to Coast Seminar Series: "Primary Health Care Utilization for Alcohol-Attributed Diseases in British Columbia"
Ms Amanda Slaunwhite
University of Victoria
Mar 17, 2015
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10901 Coast to Coast Seminar Series: "How do I love data? Let me count the ways: Using Linked Databases for Work and Health research"
Dr Mieke Koehoom
Faculty of Medicine, School of Population and Public Health, University of BC
Mar 03, 2015
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10901 Coast to Coast Seminar Series: "Quality and Costs of End-of-Life Cancer Care: The Effect of Home Care Nursing in Three Provinces"
Ms Reka Pataky
Data Linkage Coordinator, BC Cancer Agency and Hsien Seow, Associate Professor, McMaster University
Feb 17, 2015
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10901 Coast to Coast Seminar Series: "The Canadian Partnership for tomorrow Project: Canada's Platform for Chronic Disease Prevention Research"
Dr John Spinelli
Faculty of Medicine, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia
Feb 03, 2015
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 Coast to Coast Seminar Series: "From Late Effects Research to Quality Care: The Childhood, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivor Program (CAYACS)"
Ms Mary McBride
Program Leader, The Childhood, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivor Program (CAYACS), BC Cancer Agency