Past Colloquiums

The table below lists the past Colloquiums at the IRMACS Centre.

You can also view the extensive list of upcoming colloquiums at the IRMACS Centre.

  • View videos of past Interdisciplinary Colloquiums at the IRMACS Centre.
  • View videos of past CSMG Colloquiums at the IRMACS Centre.
  • View videos of past MoCSSy Colloquiums at the IRMACS Centre.
Date Location Information Video
Jan 17, 2014
15:00 - 16:30
Rm10900 President's Dream Colloquium: "Introduction to Entrepreneurship"
Mike Wright
Professor of Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School and Director of the Centre for Management Buy-out Research
Nov 15, 2013
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Von Neumann, RNA and the challenges inherent in building and understanding self-replicating machines"
Dr. Peter Unrau
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SFU
Oct 04, 2013
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "DNA in the modern world: biology and beyond"
Dr. Dipankar Sen
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, SFU
Sep 20, 2013
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Pareto optimal machine translation: multiple objectives are better than one"
Dr. Anoop Sarkar
School of Computing Science, SFU
Jul 12, 2013
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "Knowledge Discovery for Computational Intelligence"
Dr. Dharmendra Sharma
Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics, University of Canberra Australia
May 03, 2013
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 Department of Mathematics: The Alan Mekler Lecture Series
Dr Bruno Buchberger, Professor of Computer Mathematics
Johannes Kepler University, Linz Austria
May 02, 2013
14:00 - 16:00
Rm10900 Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences Colloquium: "What are Hypergeometric Functions"
Prof Frits Beukers
Utrecht University
Apr 11, 2013
15:30 - 17:00
Rm10900 President's Dream Colloquium: Is Democratization the Most Effective Means to Help the World's Poor?
Anke Hoeffler
Senior Associate Member at the International Peace Research Institute
Mar 21, 2013
15:30 - 17:00
Rm10900 President's Dream Colloquium: "What Kind of Special Consideration Should Aboriginal Peoples Receive In a Theory of Global Justice?"
Rob Williams
E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and American Indian Studies, University of Arizona
Mar 15, 2013
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 IRMACS: The Interdisciplinary Colloquium: "The Mathematics of Atmospheric Pollutant Dispersion"
Dr. John Stockie
Department of Mathematics, SFU