epid@work would like to invite you to join us for our fall epid talks, scheduled for thursday, september 22nd, 12:00 -1:15 pm et (via zoom). see the poster or visit our website for more details on speakers and presentations.

please visit our website, //www.hsbcwebinars.com/centre/epid, to find the zoom link for the event.

participants are encouraged to make themselves a cup of tea (or coffee) and join with other instructors as we discuss the topic of academic integrity at lakehead. academic integri-tea is a collaborative space to talk about the common academic integrity issues you are experiencing in the classroom and share helpful tips with your peers.

academic integri-tea is a small, informal community of practice that exists to help facilitate conversations and positively influence the academic integrity culture at 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 .

the topic for this gathering will be: "new beginnings: lessons learned from the pandemic" and will provide us with an opportunity to both reflect on our experiences from the past few years while also looking ahead at the new academic year.

zoom - https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/99835296790

registration for fall 2022 intramurals is open and we want to see you participate this year!

intramural sports offers the lakehead community an opportunity to stay involved in the sports they love, or to try a new sport while they attend university. all intramural sports are designed so that each participant can have fun in a safe recreational setting, regardless of their skill level or experience!

want more details? visit our website at thunderwolves.ca/intramurals for information about all the leagues, and for registration instructions!

join us at any of our intramural drop-ins to try a new sport, or get some extra practice time in before the intramural registration deadline! open to all, no prior experience or admission fee required! for more information on which specific sports are running each night visit http://thunderwolves.ca/campus-rec/events/.

the department of computer science graduate seminar 2022
guest speaker series presented by:

dr. akriti jindal
"mathematical modelling of driven diffusive transport processes: analyses and simulations"

friday, september 16, 2022
11:30 am

abstract:
transport is a universal phenomenon that has been perceived in physical and biological processes ranging from intracellular transport to ant trails and vehicular flow. the movement of motile elements is triggered by actively converting some other forms of energy into mechanical energy. a predominant class of models that received a paradigmatic status to study the nonequilibrium stochastic transport mechanisms is totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (tasep). the analyses of the collective dynamics of such systems are done using mean-field theories and monte carlo simulations.

in this talk, i will present a tasep model motivated by the extensive organisation of interconnected linelike pathways for transport mechanisms that forms a network-like structure. furthermore, this structure is coupled to a finite pool of particles that restricts the number of particles in the overall system. the results will allow us to address analytically how the particles compete on these intersecting pathways and leads to jam situation on filaments. i will mainly discuss about two important phenomenon occurring in the system 1) symmetry breaking 2) shock dynamics.

dr. akriti jindal received her ph.d. in mathematics from indian institute of technology, ropar in december 2021. during ph.d., she worked on mathematical modelling and computational analysis of various non-equilibrium transport processes. she has eight publications in reputed peer reviewed international journals. before that, in 2016 she completed her master’s degree mathematics and computing from thapar institute of engineering and technology. for her sustained excellence during two years of masters, she was awarded a gold medal. now, she has currently joined 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 , thunder bay, on as a post-doctoral fellow in computer science department. she will be working with dr. vijay mago on computational linguistics that reasonably requires well-defined mathematical framework to provide a theoretical basis for various computational techniques and algorithms to evaluate semantic measures.

to register for this virtual event, please email grad.compsci@lakeheadu.ca and a zoom link will be shared.

everyone is welcome.

please join us for abbey radford's, ma clinical psychology, final m.a. thesis defense on september 9th, 2022 beginning at 2pm via zoom.

thesis title: substance use motives and personality traits in a first nations treatment-seeking population

supervisor: dr. chris mushquash
supervisory committee member: dr. aislin mushquash
external examiner: dr. dwight mazmanian
gsc rep: dr. gordon hayman

please email grad.psych@lakeheadu.ca for the zoom link and passcode.

the canadian foundation for economic education (cfee) has partnered with 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 to offer a virtual workshop designed to help improve the financial education and capability of university and college 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 .

investing without a plan can lead to serious risk of loss, something a wise investor likes to avoid. join us to learn about tax efficient investing, strategies to manage your overall investment risk, and methods to evaluate and understand stock purchasing decisions. building a solid investment portfolio can help keep your money safe, so you can watch it grow for years to come.

the goal of “building an investment portfolio” is to cover the basics of diversification and managing investment risk. you will learn about methods to decrease or even eliminate the tax burden offered by your investments; different strategies to manage investment risk and build a more stable asset portfolio; and methodologies to review and evaluate stocks, which can be a driving force behind a balanced portfolio. “the best offence is a good defense”—by building a balanced portfolio, you can reduce your risk of loss, putting your money to work for you.

please join the computer science department for the upcoming thesis defense:

presenter: brandon mossop

thesis title: hybrid deep learning with stacked dilated causal convolutions for health forecasting using multivariate time-series data

abstract: health forecasting using time-series data facilitates preventive medicine and healthcare interventions by predicting future health events. this thesis introduces a novel hybrid deep-learning architecture for health forecasting that combines the stacked-dilated-causal convolutional neural network and bidirectional long short-term memory (scnn-bilstm). stacked-dilated-causal convolutional neural networks provide full history-coverage of the input window while maintaining the causal structure such that each output in a temporal sequence depends on all previous elements. two use-case scenarios were studied to examine the effectiveness of the proposed scnn-bilstm architecture: (1) infectious disease forecasting and (2) hospital admission forecasting for mental health patients.

the infectious disease experiment utilized covid-19 data and google mobility data in ontario, canada, to predict the spread of new daily covid-19 cases for a long forecasting horizon of 28 days. various configurations of convolutional neural networks (cnn) with recurrent neural networks (rnn) were tested to determine whether: (1) the full history coverage provided by the scnn performed better than a standard cnn (2) the multivariate or univariate approach has superior performance; (3) the lstm, bidirectional lstm (bilstm) or the gated recurrent unit (gru) was the optimal rnn for the hybrid model. the experiments revealed that scnn outperformed standard cnn, the multivariate approach was superior to the univariate even in the presence of an incomplete dataset, and bilstm was the optimal rnn. these results all support the effectiveness of the proposed multivariate scnn-bilstm.

in hospital admission forecasting, the number of admissions for mental health patients at the thunder bay regional health sciences centre was predicted using multivariate time-series data. in the one-step forecast, initially the cnn-bilstm hybrid model outperformed various statistical and neural network techniques for one-step forecast. consequently, this hybrid model involving a standard cnn was compared with the proposed scnn-bilstm to determine if having full history-coverage improved forecasting performance for long-term forecasting. this experiment revealed that the scnn-bilstm outperformed the standard cnn-bilstm hybrid model for multi-step forecasting. experiments conducted in this thesis using two use cases demonstrate that the proposed scnn-bilstm deep-learning architecture may potentially be utilized to train generalizable hybrid models that are effective in multivariate health forecasting.


committee members:
dr. quazi abidur rahman (supervisor, committee chair), dr. zubair fadlullah, dr. farhana zulkernine (queen's university)

please contact grad.compsci@lakeheadu.ca for the zoom link.
everyone is welcome.

the canadian foundation for economic education (cfee) has partnered with 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 to offer a virtual workshop designed to help improve the financial education and capability of university and college 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 .

investing may sound like an activity for the wealthy, but it plays an important role in your financial journey at all levels of income. join us to learn about why having an investors mentality for finances is important, the main asset classes available, and the accounts that can protect your investments from taxes. developing investment habits early will make a big difference in your long-term financial health.

the goal of “getting started with investing” is to provide the foundational knowledge necessary to de-mystify investing and give you the confidence to make longer-term financial decisions. you'll learn about inflation and why it’s important to invest your money to stay ahead of it; the basic asset classes available and the relative risk of each; and the tax implications of various investment accounts and how you can use them to your advantage. investing isn't a get rich quick scheme, it’s a way to use the money you don’t need right now to work for your future, offering peace of mind for years to come.

register for the webinar at https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/webinar/register/wn_tvya25zns2skkzktnxqseg.

the canadian foundation for economic education (cfee) has partnered with 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 to offer a virtual workshop designed to help improve the financial education and capability of university and college 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 .

finances are an unavoidable and important part of life. join us to examine the foundational skills of budgeting, goal setting, saving, and effective spending. with these concepts under your belt, you’ll be ready for the next stages of your financial journey.

the goal of “living a financially healthy life” is to help you develop a healthy attitude towards money. coming out of this workshop you will be able to make more informed decisions about purchases, be able to create a budget that includes savings and can help reduce your financial stress and know how to apply the magic of compound interest to increase your savings. you'll learn how to take control of your money by setting goals and creating a budget that emphasizes paying yourself first; how to recognize the difference between a need and a want; and why it’s important to make savings an integral part of your life, not an afterthought.

register for the webinar at https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/webinar/register/wn_rwkt4z7urhyf-prv8mkrxa.