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The table below lists the past Canada Research Chair Seminars held at the IRMACS Centre. In order to view more information about these talks, including viewing the video archives, either follow the links for each talk below or visit the CRC Seminar Series abstract page.

If you want to see the list of upcoming CRC Seminars at the IRMACS Center, please visit the Upcoming CRC Seminars page.

If you want to view video archives from other events held at the IRMACS Centre, please visit the IRMACS Video Archive page.

DateLocationInformationVideo
Nov 24, 2011
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "The Psychology of Improving Relations between Groups: Friendship, Prejudice Reduction, and Social Change"
Dr. Stephen Wright
Canada Research Chair in Social Psychology, Department of Psychology
Nov 10, 2011
13:00 - 14:30		ASB10900Canada Research Chairs Special Session: Les Ecologistes Seminar "Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: How linking societal concerns, theory and experiments is transforming ecology"
Dr. Michel Loreau, Biology
Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Ecology, McGill
Nov 10, 2011
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "China's Quest for "Soft Power": Imperatives, Impediments, and Irreconcilable Tensions?"
Dr. Yuezhi Zhao
Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Global Communication, School of Communication
Oct 27, 2011
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs: Seminar Series "Saving Nemo: The science of ocean conservation"
Dr. Nicholas Dulvy
Canada Research Chair in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Department of Biology
Mar 24, 2011
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Controlling the Surfaces of Matter"
Dr. Byron Gates
Canada Research Chair in Surface Chemistry, Department of Chemistry
Mar 10, 2011
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "The Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, and Unknown Unknowns of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide through the Ice Ages"
Dr. Karen E. Kohfeld
Canada Research Chair in Climate, Resource, and Global Change, School of Resource and Environmental Management
Feb 24, 2011
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "At the confluence of exterior calculus, approximation theory and numerical analysis: high-order FEM approximation on pyramids"
Dr. Nilima Nigam
Canada Research Chair in Applied Mathematics, Department Of Mathematics
Feb 10, 2011
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Organizing space and time inside simple cells"
Dr. Eldon Emberly
Canada Research Chair in Materials and Structural Biology, Department of Physics
Jan 27, 2011
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Vectors and Parasites: What Can We Learn from Insects to Treat Human Diseases?"
Dr. Carl Lowenberger
Canada Research Chair in Parasitology and Vectors of Disease Entomology, Department of Biology
Nov 25, 2010
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "How to Improve Education with Educational Research that Focuses on Each Learner"
Dr. Philip H. Winne
Canada Research Chair in Self-Regulated Learning and Learning Technologies , Faculty of Education
Oct 28, 2010
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Beyond Pain"
Dr. Diane Gromala
Canada Research Chair in Multidisciplinary and Multimedia Arts , School of Interactive Arts & Technology
Oct 14, 2010
11:30 - 12:20		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "The New Complex Patient? Diseases, Systems, and Interventions"
Dr. Cynthia K. Patton
Canada Research Chair in Community, Culture and Health, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Sep 30, 2010
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Fantastic voyage: To nano and back"
Dr. Erol Girt
Canada Research Chair in Condensed Matter Physics, Department of Physics
Sep 16, 2010
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "From Distance to Diversity: Extending the Concept of a Metric Space"
Dr. Paul Tupper
Canada Research Chair in Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics
Apr 08, 2010
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Advancing Population Health in Canada: What We Can Learn from Children's Mental Health"
Dr. Charlotte Waddell
Canada Research Chair in Children's Health Policy, Faculty Of Health Science
Mar 25, 2010
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Increasing Risk from Natural Disasters in the Twenty-first Century"
Dr. John J. Clague
Canada Research Chair in Natural Hazard Research, Department of Earth Sciences
Mar 11, 2010
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "The Molecular Basis of Myocardial Function: Novel Designs to Meet Physiological Challenges and Inherited Errors in Design which Result in Congenital Heart Disease"
Dr. Glen F. Tibbits
Canada Research Chair in Molecular Cardiac Physiology, Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology
Feb 11, 2010
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Ten Paradoxes of Technology"
Dr. Andrew Feenberg
Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, School of Communication
Jan 28, 2010
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Glycobiology: Recent Advances and the Development of Chemical Tools"
Dr. David Vocadlo
Canada Research Chair in Chemical Glycobiology, Department of Chemistry
Nov 26, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "What is the Point of Cultural History?"
Dr. Mary-Ellen Kelm, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples of North America,
Department Of History
Nov 12, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Investigating the Origin and Evolution of Culture with Phylogenetic Techniques"
Dr. Mark Collard, Canada Research Chair in Human Evolutionary Studies
Department of Archeology
Oct 29, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "We Are Impatient Because We Die. But Why Do We Die?"
Dr. Arthur Robson, Canada Research Chair in Economic Theory and Evolution
Department of Economics
Oct 15, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chair Seminar Series: "Combinatorial Algorithms for Structural Variation Detection in High-throughput Sequenced Genomes"
Dr. S. Cenk Sahinalp, Canada Research Chair in Computational Genomics
School Of Computing Science
Oct 01, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "New Product Development: From Linear To Chaos And Back Again"
Dr. Ian P. McCarthy, Canada Research Chair in Technology & Operations Management
Segal Graduate School of Business
Sep 17, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Why Education is Difficult and Contentious"
Dr. Kieran Egan, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Development and the Curriculum
Faculty Of Education
Apr 09, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "The Challenge of Putting Ecological Stressors in Context; Three Stories from the Conservation of Freshwater Species"
Dr. Wendy Palen, Canada Research Chair in Aquatic Conservation
Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Mar 26, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "To Be (Attended) or Not To Be (Attended): Recent research on attention capture from the SFU Human Electrophysiology Lab"
Dr. John McDonald, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Psychology
Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University
Mar 12, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Research for improving the understanding, conservation, and management of Pacific salmon populations"
Dr. Randall M. Peterman, Canada Research Chair in Fisheries Risk Assessment and Management
School of Resource and Environmental Management
Feb 26, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "How to draw with small number of crossings"
Dr. Bojan Mohar, Canada Research Chair in Graph Theory
Department of Mathematics, Simon Fraser University
Feb 12, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Efficient Emulators of Computer Simulators of Photometric Red-shifts Using Compactly Supported Correlation Functions "
Dr. Derek Bingham
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences, Simon Fraser University
Jan 29, 2009
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series: "Materials for New Semiconductor Technologies"
Dr. Patricia M. Mooney, Canada Research Chair in Semiconductor Physics
Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University
Dec 04, 2008
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series "Heterogeneous Microsystems and Enabling Technologies"
Dr. Bozena Kaminska, Canada Research Chair in Wireless Sensor Networks
School Of Engineering
Nov 20, 2008
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series "Fingerprinting Digital Documents"
Dr. Gabor Tardos, Canada Research Chair in Computational Complexity and Geometric Arrangements
School Of Computing Science
Nov 06, 2008
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series "Glacier and ice-sheet dynamics in a warming world"
Dr. Gwenn Flowers, Canada Research Chair in Glaciology
Department of Earth Sciences
Oct 23, 2008
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series "On-Command Control of Molecular & Nanomaterials Using External Stimuli"
Dr. Neil Branda, Canada Research Chair in Materials Science
Department of Chemistry
Oct 09, 2008
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series "Balancing acts, safe landing responses, and impact dynamics: how to avoid injury in the event of a fall"
Dr. Stephen Robinovitch, Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Engineering
School of Kinesiology and School of Engineering Science
Sep 25, 2008
11:30 - 12:30		ASB10900SFU Canada Research Chairs Seminar Series "Vaccination and the challenge of highly-mutable pathogens for vaccine design"
Dr. Jamie K. Scott, Canada Research Chair in Molecular Immunity
Faculty of Health Science and Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry