Archive of all posts before the year 2020.
CSGS was delighted to host George Bryson (CSTE, CBAP, ITIL, PSM, BSAC; Senior Business Analyst and co-founder, MontGuide Inc. and VP – IIBA Chapter Montreal), and Betty Graff-Chechin (Betty Graff-Chechin (CBAP, LSS, ITIL) Senior Business Analyst at the National Bank of Canada and member of Secretary – IIBA Montreal Chapter). Read more…
CSGS is working on an initiative aimed at providing an exclusive space for CS grads (master, PhD and postdoc students) to meet up, socialize relax and maybe some a bit of reading too! There is shortage of space McGill-wide, but CSGS is trying to work with the department to secure Read more…
We were excited to host Alessandro Ricottone, PhD Candidate at McGill Physics working on theoretical condensed matter, to deliver a seminar at SOCS. Talk abstract: Quantum annealers are a class of (non-universal) quantum computers devised to quickly find the minimum of a function by exploiting the quantum tunneling and entanglement. Read more…
Thanks to all CSGS grads for great support at our first seminar of this fall. Speaker: Carlos G. Oliver Title: In silico molecular evolution and Boltzmann sampling: implications in origin of life and molecular design. Abstract: RNA is a class of molecules present in all living organisms that counts on two Read more…
Amendment 1: Add the following point to the constitution. CSGS execs have to appoint one executive the task of supervision and guardianship of CSGS-owned equipments which must be listed on the CSGS webpage. This list shall be kept up-to-date and all the documents/receipts must be with the current CSGS accountant. (Suggested Read more…
Date: April 7 Time: 1:00-2:00pm Location: McConnell Room 320 Speaker: Rohan Jacob-Rao Title: Solving the Halting Problem (One Language at a Time) Abstract: In the CompLogic group, we study the design of programming languages that can enforce safety properties at compile time. In this talk, I will describe a small language in which program termination is Read more…
CSGS is proposing the following changes to constitution. The voting period will be March 28th – April 4th. Amendment 1: Add the following point to the constitution. CSGS execs have to appoint one executive the task of supervision and guardianship of CSGS-owned equipments which must be listed on the CSGS webpage. Read more…
Date: March 17, 2016 Time: 1:00-2:00pm Location: McConnell Room 320 Speaker: Florence Clerc Title: The dual view of Markov Processes Abstract: I will describe how to view a probabilistic transition system as a transformer of functions rather than as a transformer of probability distributions. A Markov process is normally viewed as a Markov kernel i.e. Read more…
Date: February 18 (next Thursday) Time: 1:00-2:00pm Location: McConnell Room 320 Speaker: Pierre-Luc Bacon Title: Time, bounded rationality and representations in reinforcement learning Abstract:In this talk, I will tell about some of the research that I’ve been conducting with Prof. Doina Precup over the last couple years. The main topic will be the problem Read more…