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December 2011
High on the northwest wall, ground floor of Concordia’s Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex (EV Building) hangs a new art installation alongside a literal fragment from the past. The latter — two severed stone lintels from the former D’Arcy McGee house — depicts a row of shamrocks, perhaps reflecting the Irish roots of the assassinated father of Confederation. The former — a pair of beautifully patterned textiles — constitutes The Generative Design Project, a collaboration of members of the university’s Faculties of Fine Arts and Engineering and Computer Science.
The long, colourful textiles, called jacquards after the inventor of the Jacquard loom, feature contemporary designs of geometric motifs found in African Kuba textiles and 16th century Islamic Zillij mosaics. Completed in November 2011, after nine years of research, development and production, the project brings together the work of scientists and artists alike. Spearheaded by Principal Investigator Cheryl Kolak Dudek (Studio Arts) along with Sudhir Mudur (Computer Science), Lydia Sharman (Design), Fred Szabo (Mathematics) and Thomas Fevens (Computer Science), significant contributions were also made by students Eric Hortop (Communication Studies/Mathematics, 2003-07) and Sushil Bhakar (Computer Science, 2004-06), among many others.
Full story here
The Generative Design Project now on disply in the EV building
December 2011
This seminar series in university teaching will prepare graduate students for an academic teaching career. The estimated time commitment is 32 hours in-class with approximately 10 hours for preparation of readings and assignments. Participants receive a certificate on successful completion of all of the requirements. There will be a modest charge for materials. Participation is limited to 25 students per section per semester.
Further details here
December 2011
The department of Computer Science & Software Engineering invites all ENCS employees to help make this a memorable holiday for hundreds of disadvantaged families in Montreal. Kindly drop off any non perishable food items at the reception area of EV 3.139, anytime between 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. between November 28th and December 16th.
Each year, hundreds of families benefit from food baskets distributed during the holidays by community organizations such as Sun Youth. The organization gives out food hampers to approximately 18,000 people throughout the year, and with each passing year, the need for food assistance continues to grow. The mission of Sun Youth is to provide a highly personalized service and programs to improve the current situation of its clientele through education, awareness and material assistance. Sun Youth is committed to the entire community, without discrimination by a dedicated commitment and an acute awareness of the continuing challenges.
The CSE department thanks you in advance for any and all contributions.
November 2011
Khoa Luu, doctoral student in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, currently carrying out his research at Carnegie Mellon University, has achieved outstanding recognition for his work at the recent International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2011) in Washington DC, Oct. 10-13.
The event is one of the world's most selective conferences on the evolving subject of biometrics, with only 10% of papers and 23% of posters submitted being accepted. Luu not only had two submissions accepted to the conference papers, his oral paper was nominated for the competition's Best Paper Award, and his poster entitled "Investigating Age Invariant Face Recognition Based on Periocular Biometrics" (pictured below), won the Best Poster Award for this category.
Full story here
October 2011
On October 3rd and 4th, CSE Professor Brigitte Jaumard co-organized a colloquiem entitled "Information and Communication Technologies: Are They Green?" held at Concordia University. This colloquiem was part of the 24th edition of the Entretiens Jacques Cartier symposium held from September 29 to October 7 in Montreal, Quebec City and Ottawa, bringing together researchers and industry leaders preoccupied with contemporary issues under the broad themes of economic, socio-political, scientific and cultural challenges.
Montreal's Le Devoir newspaper covered the event here.
October 2011
Two of Computer Science & Software Engineering Professor, Brigitte Jaumard's, papers were recently nominated for the best paper award at the 3rd International Workshop on Reliable Networks Design & Modelind (RNDM) held in Budapest. Jaumard's paper titled "A New Flow Formulation for FIPP p-cycle Protection subject to Multiple Link Failures," co-authored by PhD candidate Hai Anh Hoang, won the award. Another of Jaumard's papers titled "Maximizing Access to IT Services on Resilient Optical Grids," co-authored by PhD candidate Ali Shaikh, was nominated.
RNDM 2011 was the third meeting in the series of RNDM workshops. Following the success of the first two events that took place in St. Petersburg (2009) and Moscow (2010), accordingly, RNDM 2011 is aimed at attracting world-class participants from both academia and industry working in the area of reliable networks design and modeling.
Further details here
Hai Anh Hoang (right) accepting best paper award at RNDM 2011
September 2011
On September 23, 2011, first-year Computer Science & Software Engineering undergraduate students crowded together in the EV atrium to build mascots out of discarded computer parts generously donated by AITS. Many students, faculty members, and curious onlookers dropped by throughout the morning to cheer them on.
A group of distinguished judges assembled in the afternoon to select a winner. However, due to tough competition, a tie was announced. The members of the two winning teams were each awarded $200 gift certificates to the Concordia bookstore for their mascots, who were named "Duck Tape" and "Angry Bird." Runners up received $50 gift certificates.
Distinguished judges assemble
to evaluate the students' mascots
The event, supported by the Office of the Vice Provost of Teaching and learning, was organized by Nancy Acemian, Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering as well as the Faculty's new First Year Director. She hopes that this year's Mascot Challenge will be the first of many.
See a photo slideshow of the competition.
September 2011
A collection of articles entitled "Combinatorial Optimization: Methods and Applications" edited by
Vašek Chvátal was published as Volume 31 of the NATO Science for Peace and Security Series - D: Information and Communication Security.
This book is a collection of six articles arising from the meeting of the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) “Combinatorial Optimization: Methods and Applications”, which was held at the University of Montreal in June 2006. This ASI consisted of seven series of five one-hour lectures and one series of four one-hour lectures. It was attended by some sixty students of graduate or postdoctoral level from fifteen countries worldwide. Topics include: integer and mixed integer programming, facility location, branching on split disjunctions, convexity in combinatorial optimization, and VLSI design.
September 2011
Eusebius Doedel received an honourary award in recognition of his significant contributions to the computational dynamics area from a subdivision of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), a society founded in 1880 with the goal of promoting the art, science and practice of mechanical and multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences to the diverse communities throughout the world.
The award was officially presented at the Eight ASME International Conference on Multi-Body Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, and Control, held in Washington DC August 28-31 2011 and attended by leading researchers in the field. Contratulations, Professor Doedel!
May 2011
The Senate's Research Committee met on April 20, 2011 and unanimously agreed to recommend to Senate that the Centre for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (CENPARMI) be granted University-recognized status. Committee members were especially impressed with the amount of external funding that CENPARMI has been able to secure over the years, the high level of research productivity and training of graduate students, the impressive publication record and the strong industrial partnership collaborations. As a result, CENPARMI has officially been granted University-recognized status as per the Policy on Research Units (VPRGS-8). This policy is adminstered on behalf of Senate by the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies (OVPRGS).
For further information about CENPARMI, please visit their website.
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