October - Olivier Tremblay Savard, Emmanuel Noutahi, Assya Trofimov

Event Details

Date/Time:

Wednesday, October 7th, 2015 16h00 - 18h00

Location:

Location: Jacques-Genest auditorium, IRCM

Schedule:

16h00 - 16h05 — Introduction and open floor to participants for questions, comments or announcements (Alexis Blanchet-Cohen)
16h05 - 16h45 — Olivier Tremblay Savard, PhD (McGill) — "Collaborative solving in a human computing game"
16h45 - 17h05 — Snacks and beverages
17h05 - 17h30 — Emmanuel Noutahi (Université de Montréal) — Phylogenetic tree exploration and visualization made easy with ETE
17h30 - 18h00 — Assya Trofimov (IRIC) — Shiny: A web application framework for R

We're starting the autumn with three excellent presentations.

Keynote Speaker: Olivier Tremblay Savard, PhD

Affiliation: McGill

Talk Title: Collaborative solving in a human computing game

Abstract:

Our keynote speaker will be Dr Savard, who will be presenting his research on human-computing games, illustrating how "computer games are not just fun, they also provide us amazing tools to harness the computational power of crowds on the web."

Speaker: Emmanuel Noutahi

Affiliation: Université de Montréal

Talk Title: Phylogenetic tree exploration and visualization made easy with ETE

Abstract:

Since he wasn't able to present in September, Emmanuel Noutahi, PhD candidate in Dr El-Mabrouk's laboratory at the Université de Montréal, will be presenting at this meeting the ETE toolkit.

Speaker: Assya Trofimov

Affiliation: IRIC

Talk Title: Shiny: A web application framework for R

Abstract:

Assya Trofimov, MSc student in Dr Lemieux's laboratory at IRIC, will be presenting the R library Shiny, a web application framework for R.