Seminar Archive for 2013
Ambient noise characterisation of compacted ground
Speaker: Chin Leo (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Tuesday 29/01/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Multilevel Modeling of large data structure with application in nursing research
Speaker: Kenan Matawie (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 25/02/2013 from 14:00 to 14:30
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
Fast linear mixed model computations for GWAS with longitudinal data
Speaker: Emmanuel Lesaffre (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Time: Monday 25/02/2013 from 14:30 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
Analysis & Design of electromagnetic devices using rare-earth magnets
Speaker: Mahmood Nagrial (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 04/03/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
RDL: Enhancing Description Logic with Rules
Speaker: Yi Zhou (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 18/03/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Big Data: the Curse of Dimensionality
Speaker: Er-Wei Bai (University of Iowa)
Time: Monday 25/03/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Flexible Modelling of the Cumulative Effects of Time-varying Covariates on the Hazard
Speaker: Michal Abrahamowicz (McGill University, Canada)
Time: Monday 08/04/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
A Practical Application of Cooperative Multi-Agent Technology: The DCAS Severe Weather Radar Detection and Tracking System
Speaker: Victor Lesser (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Time: Wednesday 10/04/2013 from 12:00 to 13:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
Mapping Interstellar Gas Clouds: NANTEN2 in 2013
Speaker: Graeme Wong (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 22/04/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Algebra in statistics: group majorization
Speaker: Andrew Francis (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 29/04/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
Mechanical behaviour of functionally graded carbon nanofibre/phenolic nanocomposites: numerical modelling and experimental validation
Speaker: Richard Yang (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 06/05/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Pricing Foreign Currency Options Under Levy Processes and Stochastic Interest Rates
Speaker: Rehez Ahlip (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 13/05/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
Drupal and Web 3.0
Speaker: Maneesh Mathai (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 27/05/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
Managing the interface between work and study in a construction management program
Speaker: Mary Hardie (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 03/06/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
State and Event Estimation of LTI Systems under Irregular and Random Sampling
Speaker: Le Yi Wang (Wayne State University, USA)
Time: Tuesday 11/06/2013 from 11:00 to 12:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Self-assembled Metal Oxide Nanomaterials for Energy Efficient Nanoelectronics and Future Energy Storage Nanodevices
Speaker: Dewei Chu (School of Materials Science and Engineering, UNSW)
Time: Monday 17/06/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Adaptive Accommodation of System Actuator Failures and Structural Damage for Aircraft Flight Control Applications
Speaker: Gang Tao (University of Virginia, USA)
Time: Monday 24/06/2013 from 13:00 to 14:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Discrete Particle Simulation of Particulate Flows
Speaker: Haiping Zhu (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 24/06/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Idempotent generators in partition monoids
Speaker: James East (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 08/07/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
Numerical Study of Pressure Distribution around Asymmetric Building Structures Subjected to Fire Enhanced Wind
Speaker: Yaping He (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 15/07/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Adoption of Building Information Modelling as a Project Management Tool
Speaker: Swapan Saha (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 22/07/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Analytical Solutions to Evaluate Bending Failure of Column Supported Embankments
Speaker: Namal Yapage (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 05/08/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Infinite partition monoids
Speaker: James East (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 12/08/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
Viz Package for the GAP Computer Algebra System
Speaker: Attila Egri-Nagy (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 26/08/2013 from 14:00 to 14:20
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
Cascade Product of Permutation Groups
Speaker: Attila Egri-Nagy (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 26/08/2013 from 14:20 to 14:40
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
Coordinatizing symmetry and biological applications of groups
Speaker: Attila Egri-Nagy (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 26/08/2013 from 14:40 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
Encounters with ICT for the Developing World
Speaker: Anthony Maeder (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 02/09/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Campbelltown (26.1.50), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Penrith (Y239).
Compressive sensing for structural health monitoring using wireless sensor networks
Speaker: Madhuka Jayawardhana (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 09/09/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
TabuVis: a Visual Analytic Tool for Multi-dimensional Data and my ADP Experience
Speaker: Quang Vinh Nguyen (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 16/09/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
HV substation earth grid commissioning using current injection test (CIT) method
Speaker: Mohamad Nassereddine (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 23/09/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
New Regional Flood Frequency Estimation (RFFE) method for the whole of Australia: overview of progress
Speaker: Ataur Rahman (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 30/09/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Climate change impact assessment on water resources in the Blue Mountains, Australia
Speaker: Md Mahmudul Haque (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Wednesday 09/10/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
An Ontological Approach to Meet Information Needs of Farmers in Sri Lanka
Speaker: Walisadeera Anusha Indika (University of Colombo)
Time: Monday 14/10/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
The ATCA-SPT Survey of the distant universe - I. The Project
Speaker: Nick Tothill (University of Western Sydney), Graeme Wong (University of Western Sydney), Miroslav Filipovic (University of Western Sydney), Ain de Horta (University of Western Sydney), Andrew O'Brien (University of Western Sydney), Jordan Collier (University of Western Sydney), Tim Galvin (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 21/10/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Representing and Reasoning about Game Strategies
Speaker: Dongmo Zhang (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 28/10/2013 from 12:00 to 13:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Behaviour of multi-span composite steel-concrete beams subjected to combined flexure and torsion
Speaker: Ee Loon Tan (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 28/10/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Voltage Robust Stability in Microgrid Power Management
Speaker: Michael P. Polis (Oakland University, USA)
Time: Thursday 31/10/2013 from 11:00 to 12:00
Venue: Conference Room Y343, Kingswood Campus
The AI Journey: The road traveled and the (long) road ahead
Speaker: Ramon Lopez de Mantaras (Spanish National Research Council)
Time: Thursday 31/10/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
Observations with NANTEN2
Speaker: Nick Tothill (University of Western Sydney), Graeme Wong (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 04/11/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
Stability Analysis of Turnouts in Continuous Welded Rail Track
Speaker: Ralph (Wei Zhang) Zhang (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 11/11/2013 from 13:00 to 14:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Optimizing Cepstral Features for Audio Classification
Speaker: Zhouyu Fu (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 18/11/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Vibration Study of Rotating Machines
Speaker: Helen Wu (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 25/11/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Penrith (Y239), accessible from Parramatta (EB.1.32) and Campbelltown (26.1.50).
Using visual computing tools to improve clinical engagement and group communication
Speaker: Joanne Curry (University of Western Sydney)
Time: Monday 09/12/2013 from 14:00 to 15:00
Venue: Access Grid UWS. Presented from Parramatta (EB.1.32), accessible from Campbelltown (26.1.50) and Penrith (Y239).
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