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Past Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series at the IRMACS Centre

The table below lists the past Canada Research Chair Seminars held at the IRMACS Centre. In order to view more information about these talks, including viewing the video archives follow the links for each talk below.

If you want to see the list of upcoming CRC Seminars at the IRMACS Center, please visit the Upcoming CRC Seminars page.

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Date Location Information Video
Feb 11, 2010
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Ten Paradoxes of Technology"
Dr. Andrew Feenberg
Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, School of Communication
Jan 28, 2010
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Glycobiology: Recent Advances and the Development of Chemical Tools"
Dr. David Vocadlo
Canada Research Chair in Chemical Glycobiology, Department of Chemistry
Nov 26, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "What is the Point of Cultural History?"
Dr. Mary-Ellen Kelm, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples of North America,
Department Of History
Nov 12, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Investigating the Origin and Evolution of Culture with Phylogenetic Techniques"
Dr. Mark Collard, Canada Research Chair in Human Evolutionary Studies
Department of Archeology
Oct 29, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "We Are Impatient Because We Die. But Why Do We Die?"
Dr. Arthur Robson, Canada Research Chair in Economic Theory and Evolution
Department of Economics
Oct 15, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 SFU Canada Research Chair Seminar Series: "Combinatorial Algorithms for Structural Variation Detection in High-throughput Sequenced Genomes"
Dr. S. Cenk Sahinalp, Canada Research Chair in Computational Genomics
School Of Computing Science
Oct 01, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "New Product Development: From Linear To Chaos And Back Again"
Dr. Ian P. McCarthy, Canada Research Chair in Technology & Operations Management
Segal Graduate School of Business
Sep 17, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Why Education is Difficult and Contentious"
Dr. Kieran Egan, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Development and the Curriculum
Faculty Of Education
Apr 09, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "The Challenge of Putting Ecological Stressors in Context; Three Stories from the Conservation of Freshwater Species"
Dr. Wendy Palen, Canada Research Chair in Aquatic Conservation
Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Mar 26, 2009
11:30 - 12:30
Rm10900 SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "To Be (Attended) or Not To Be (Attended): Recent research on attention capture from the SFU Human Electrophysiology Lab"
Dr. John McDonald, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Psychology
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University