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Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Postgraduate Student Seminar Series, 2006

Seminars are free and open to all postgraduate students in the Department of Computing and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. No booking is necessary and biscuits, tea and coffee are provided. Seminars are as informal as the speaker desires. If you are not a postgraduate student and wish to attend a seminar you may only do so with the express permission of the relevant speaker(s).

If you are interested in giving a presentation in this seminar series, or to make suggestions for speakers, please contact Simon Puglisi (Computing): sjp at cs dot curtin dot edu dot au or Christina Burt (Maths): christina.burt at postgrad dot curtin dot edu dot au the seminar co-ordinators. Seminars are normally held at 300.217 (building 300, level 2, room 217) - you can find where this is exactly using the Bentley campus map.

Date/Day

Time/Location

Presenter

Topic

Tip of the week
Wednesday
4th October		3:00pm-4:30pm
300.217		Mark Grigoleit,
Dept. of Mathematics		Applying Lagrangian Relaxation to the Submarine Transit Problem
Wednesday
11th October		3:00pm-4:30pm
300.217		David Cooper,
Dept. of Computing

Kristy and Margarite,
Careers at Curtin		The Implications of Cognitive Theories for Software Inspection

Skills for Graduates
Wednesday
18th October		3:00pm-4:30pm
300.217		Kyle Chow,
Dept. of Mathematics

Steven Webb,
Dept. of Computing		Applying Tree-based Regression Methods to Australian Wool Auction Data

Tips for productive computing/mathematics research
Steven Webb: Using a Wiki for research collaboration and simple synchronisation/backup techniques.
Wednesday
25th October		3:00pm-4:30pm
300.217		Thorsten Kuehnapfel,
Dept. of Computing

Graeme Burton,
Dept. of Physics		Calibration of Audio-Video Sensors for Multi-Modal Event Indexing



SigmaPlot

Thorsten Kuehnapfel: JabRef Bibtex reference manager.
Wednesday
1st November		3:00pm-4:30pm
300.217		Christina Burt,
Dept. of Mathematics

Dr. Volker Rehbock,
Dept. of Mathematics		The structure of the coefficient matrix in an integer program



Maple

TBA
Wednesday
8th November		3:00pm-4:30pm
314.239		Steven Webb,
Dept. of Computing

Prof. Geoff West,
Dean of Science		NGS: An Application Layer Network Game Simulator



Tips for Obtaining ARC Funding

TBA
Wednesday
15th November		3:00pm-4:30pm
301.116		Tiffany Jones,
Dept. of Mathematics		Mathematical Modelling of Cancer Growth