The Seventh Annual University of Regina Graduate and Undergraduate Research Conference will take place on March 16th and 17th, 2012 at the University of Regina and all are welcome to attend and submit abstracts via this website or by e-mailing the abstract to urgsa@uregina.ca.
The conference is entitled Putting Theory into Practice: Creating Community Sustainability and will bring together the ideas and research being conducted within universities in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba.
Currently we are looking for abstracts and volunteers. If you would like to volunteer or submit an abstract please apply through the tabs on the right hand side of the screen. Please note: the deadline for submitting an abstract is February 3rd, 2012!
We are very excited to announce this year's keynote speakers!
The first keynote speaker is Dr. Mark Roseland. Dr. Mark Roseland is Director of the Centre for Sustainable Community Development (www.sfu.ca/cscd) and Professor of Resource and Environmental Management (www.rem.sfu.ca) at Simon Fraser University. Dr. Roseland lectures internationally and advises communities and governments on sustainable development policy and planning. The 4th edition of Dr. Roseland’s Toward Sustainable Communities will be published in Spring 2012 (www.newsociety.com) and released at the ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability 2012 World Congress and International Researchers Symposium, associated with the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Dr. Roseland is also leading development of a Sustainable Communities Research Network, to be launched as well in Spring 2012. At SFU, he is a founding member of the SFU Community Trust’s Board of Directors, responsible for the award-winning UniverCity sustainable community development project (www.UniverCity.ca).
Our second keynote speaker is Dr. Eric Grimson who graduated from the University of Regina with a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and physics in 1975. Dr. Grimson is now a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds the Bernard Gordon Chair of Medical Engineering at MIT. He also holds a joint appointment as a Lecturer on Radiology at Harvard Medical School and at Brigham and Women's Hospital and has held the position of MIT's Chancellor. Dr. Grimson is a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and his group has pioneered state of the art systems for activity and behavior recognition, object and person recognition, image database indexing, image guided surgery, site modeling and many other areas of computer vision. Dr. Grimson is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a Fellow of the IEEE, and was awarded the Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching in the School of Engineering at MIT.
Don't miss out on this great experience! See you all in March!
