Past Seminars

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Over the years, CIM has hosted a significant amount of seminars featuring researchers around the globe. CIM members have also organized and participated in seminars at McGill and other universities. Recently, most of the events have taken place online. In prior years, CIM members would gather in the Zames Room in McConnell Engineering, named after CIM founding member George Zames, to share knowledge and collaborate with peers. Please find below a record of these events over the past several years.

2023

Date Name Title
July 20, 2023 Steven Zucker Toward a manifold encoding neural responses in the visual system
July 11, 2023 Marcus Friedel Towards Fully Tangible Immersive Virtual Environments
July 5, 2023 Raghav Mehta Integrating Bayesian Deep Learning Uncertainties in Medical Image Analysis
May 25, 2023 Manfred L. Husty Multiple Solutions of Direct Kinematics of 3-RPR Parallel Manipulators
April 27, 2023 Seyyedreza Madani Investment in Vehicle to Grid and Distributed Energy Resources: Distributor versus Prosumer's Perspectives and the Impact of Applicable Rates
April 20, 2023 Can Baris Cetin Strategic Pricing and Investment in Environmental Quality by an Incumbent Facing a Greenwasher Entrant
April 6, 2023 Victor Shi Partial Centralization in a Durable-Good Supply Chain
March 30, 2023 Benteng Zou How Do Coalitions Break Down? An Alternative View
March 28, 2023 Tamas Haidegger Autonomy in Applied Robotics - Case Studies in Surgical and Agrifood Robotics
March 23, 2023 Dominika Machowska Open-Loop Nash Equilibrium in Games with Time-Varying Delays
March 16, 2023 Wesley L. Passos Deep-Learning Detection of Aedes aegypti Breeding Grounds Based on Drone Images
March 6, 2023 Steffen Schneider Closing the identifiability gap: Interpretable and reproducible scientific inference across modalities, scales and time
March 6, 2023 Laurent Lessard Robust control perspectives on algorithm analysis and design
March 6, 2023 Iulian Radu Learning with Augmented Reality in Maker Spaces
March 2, 2023 Julia de Frutos Cachorro Stackelberg Competition in Groundwater Resources with Multiple Uses
February 23, 2023 Anna Tur Cooperative Differential Games on Networks
February 16, 2023 Maria Carmela Ceparano Asymptotic Behavior and Selection of Subgame Perfect Nash Equilibria in Stackelberg Games
February 15, 2023 Bora Yongacoglu Policy Revision Dynamics and Algorithm Design in Stochastic and Mean-Field Games
February 6, 2023 Alexandre Pacheco Real-world robots are not eusocial ants: Byzantine-resistance in swarm robotics systems using blockchain technology
January 26, 2023 Vladimir Mazalov Equilibrium in Queueing System with Strategic Users
January 25, 2023 Utsav Sadana Nash Equilibria in Two-Player Differential Games with Impulse Control
January 19, 2023 Mark Broom Modelling evolution in structured populations using multiplayer interactions

2022

Date Name Title
December 16, 2022 Niloofar Tarighat Domain Adaptation for Demand Prediction in Retail
December 14, 2022 Nymisha Bandi Data science for socially responsible food choices
December 8, 2022 Jorge Navas Regime Switching in Dynamic Games with Hyperbolic Discounting
December 7, 2022 Léo Milecki Data-driven methods for renal transplantation monitoring
December 2, 2022 Zahra Jalali Planogram optimization
December 1, 2022 Nils Wilde Customizing Robot Behaviour through Interactive Learning
December 1, 2022 Alessandro Tampieri On the Interplay between Environmental CSR Practices and Emission Permits
November 24, 2022 Bertrand Crettez On the Existence of Equilibrium in a Dynamic Supply Chain Game with Vertical Coordination, Horizontal Competition and Cournot Complementary Goods
November 17, 2022 Francesco Caruso Relaxations of the Best Response Algorithm in Ratio-Bounded Games
November 11, 2022 Yue Li Federated learning
November 11, 2022 Tabish Syed Cellular Geometry and Tissue Organization in the Heart and the Brain
November 11, 2022 Roxana Dimitrescu Optimal stopping mean-field games: a linear programming formulation and applications to entry-exit games in electricity markets
November 10, 2022 Jon Sporring Characterisation of Stochastic Geometry in Microscopy
November 10, 2022 Rita Ferreira Mean-Field Games Through Monotone Methods
November 4, 2022 Abhishek Halder A Distributed Algorithm for Wasserstein Proximal Operator Splitting: Theory & Applications
November 2, 2022 Gnana Praveen Rajasekar Joint Attention for Dimensional Emotion Recognition using Audio Visual Fusion
October 20, 2022 Francisco Cabo Environmental and Economic Consequences of a Market with Green and Brown Firms
October 6, 2022 Dena Firoozi Optimal Design of Renewable Energy Certificate markets: A Principal-Agent Mean Field Game Approach
September 29, 2022 Martino Bardi An Eikonal Equation with Vanishing Lagrangian Arising in Global Optimization
April 21, 2022 Javier de Frutos On discrete-time approximations to infinite horizon differential games
April 14, 2022 Lucia Sbragia Self-image and the stability of international environmental agreements
April 7, 2022 Konstantin Avrachenkov Zero-Sum Stochastic Games over the Field of Real Algebraic Numbers
March 31, 2022 Hassan Benchekroun On the Optimal Taxation of the Commons
March 24, 2022 Andrea Seidl The Digital Economy and Advertising Diffusion Models: Critical Mass and the Stalling Equilibrium
March 17, 2022 Michael Kopel Information Acquisition, Strategic Ignorance, and Manufacturer Encroachment
March 10, 2022 Mahsa Mahboob Ghodsi Omnichannel fulfillment strategies and sales credit allocation
February 24, 2022 Steven Dahdah Data-Driven Modelling and Control with the Koopman Operator
February 17, 2022 Fabio Lamantia Hybrid dynamics of a resource exploitation game
February 17, 2022 Yoshua Bengio Conscious processing, inductive biases and generalization in deep learning
January 27, 2022 Massimiliano Ferrara Evolutionary optimized Padeě approximation scheme for analysis of Covid-19 model with crowding effect
January 20, 2022 Mabel Tidball Positional effects in public good provision. Strategic interaction and inertia
January 13, 2022 Georges Zaccour Coordination in closed-loop supply chains: A stochastic dynamic games perspective

2021

Date Name Title
December 16, 2021 François Pomerleau Résultats de la première participation canadienne au prestigieux DARPA Subterranean Challenge
November 25, 2021 Fatemeh Zand Impacts of government direct limitation on pricing, greening activities and recycling management in an online to offline closed loop supply chain
September 29, 2021 Joelle Pineau et al. Homecoming: AI and the Future of Public Policy
June 24, 2021 Peter M. Kort Double marginalization and external financing: Capacity investment under uncertainty
June 17, 2021 Artem Sedakov A model of river pollution as a dynamic game with network externalities
June 10, 2021 Ping Sun Stable networks and dynamic network formation with group partitioning
June 3, 2021 Arka Mukherjee The impact of product recall on advertising decisions and firm profit while envisioning crisis or being hazard myopic
May 27, 2021 Jesús Marín Solano Groundwater extraction for irrigation purposes: The case of asymmetric players
May 20, 2021 Vivek Borkar Graph-constrained dynamic choice
May 13, 2021 Ratul Lahkar Affirmative action in large population contests
May 6, 2021 Xiao Huang Buyer direct financing under supplier disruption risk
April 22, 2021 Margarida Carvalho Interdiction games on graphs
April 22, 2021 Catherine Laporte Ultrasound imaging: let's talk
April 15, 2021 Guiomar Martín-Herrán Investment in cleaner technologies in a transboundary pollution dynamic game. A numerical investigation
April 8, 2021 Doina Precup Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Reason
April 8, 2021 Alessandra Buratto Optimal adaptation of lockdown measures upon the introduction of a COVID-19 vaccination campaign
April 1, 2021 Jafar Chaab Dynamic pricing and advertising in the presence of strategic consumers and social contagion: A mean-field game approach
March 25, 2021 Anna Jaśkiewicz Quasi-hyperbolic discounting in Markov decision processes
March 18, 2021 Marc G. Bellemare Autonomous navigation of stratospheric balloons using reinforcement learning
March 15, 2021 Alexander L. Fradkov and Boris R. Andrievskii Synchronization and State Estimation of Nonlinear Physical Systems under Communication Constraints
March 11, 2021 Michèle Breton The impact of safety covenants in syndicated loan agreements
March 4, 2021 Marie Laclau Robust communication on networks
February 25, 2021 Katerina Stankova Improving treatment of metastatic cancer through game theory
February 18, 2021 Kaiqing Zhang Provable reinforcement learning for multi-agent and robust control systems
February 16, 2021 Maxime Descoteaux A journey on your brain highways: diffusion MRI and connectomics of the future
February 11, 2021 Régis Chenavaz Advertising, goodwill, and the Veblen effect
February 4, 2021 Pegah Rokh Foroz Incentive mechanism design using linear matrix inequality approach
January 28, 2021 Massimiliano Ferrara Fuzzy fractional-order model of the novel coronavirus: The impact of delay strategies on the pandemic dynamics model with nonlinear incidence rate
January 22, 2021 Asuman Ozdaglar Analysis and Interventions in Large Network Games
January 21, 2021 Fouad El Ouardighi Control of an epidemic with endogenous treatment capability under popular discontent and social fatigue
January 14, 2021 Florian Wagener All symmetric equilibria in differential games with public goods

2020

Date Name Title
December 10, 2020 Ozgen Karaer Supplier development in a multi-tier supply chain
December 10, 2020 Dena Firoozi Belief Estimation by Agents in Major-Minor LQG Mean Field Games
November 26, 2020 Mehdi Salimi Winning strategy for pursuers in pursuit-evasion differential games
November 25, 2020 Archana Venkataraman Deep Learning for Multimodal and Dynamic Functional Neuroimaging
March 20, 2020 Archana Venkataraman Generative-Deep Hybrid Models to Decipher Brain Functionality
February 28, 2020 Maxime Laborde Systems of Evolution Equations Coupled Through Optimal Transport and Application to Urban Planning
February 20, 2020 Francois Hogan Towards Reactive Manipulation Skills
February 12, 2020 Ahmed Farooq Analyzing Haptic Feedback: "Haptic Mediation"
January 27, 2020 Laurent Dinh A RAD approach to deep mixture models
January 24, 2020 Ryad Benosman What is Neuromorphic Event-based Computation and Why it is the future of AI?
January 24, 2020 Louis Collins Image guided neurosurgery at the MNI

2019

Date Name Title
December 5, 2019 Fania Mokhayeri Domain-Specific Face Synthesis for Video-based Face Recognition
October 18, 2019 Sylvain Bouix Imaging Brain Disorders
October 18, 2019 Morteza Rezanejad Medial measures for recognition, mapping and categorization
October 10, 2019 Matthew Harker Control of Complex Systems: Inverse Problems in Collaborative Robotics
October 3, 2019 Ioannis (Yiannis) Rekleitis Autonomous Marine Robotic Exploration
May 29, 2019 M. Alex O. Vasilescu Representing Cause-and-Effect in a Tensor Framework
May 24, 2019 Eric Heitz Procedural Stochastic Texturing in Unity
May 24, 2019 Steven Fraser Agile Innovation: Strategic Company-University Collaborations
May 22, 2019 Ye Zhao Towards Robust and Intelligent Robot Motions in Unstructured Environments: Planning and Decision-making
May 21, 2019 Donald Dansereau Robotic Imaging: Teaching Robots to See Through Different Eyes
May 10, 2019 Karthik Kashinath ClimateNet: Bringing the power of Deep Learning to the climate community via open datasets and architectures
March 29, 2019 Hugh H.T. Liu UAS Navigation and Control Fire and Water Applications
February 7, 2019 Manfred L. Husty Algebraic Geometry and Robotics - Recent Results and Applications

2018

Date Name Title
November 23, 2018 Christian Desrosiers Medical image segmentation: going beyond standard CNNs
November 6, 2018 Kenny Erleben Simulators and solvers for fast (and maybe more accurate?) rigid body dynamics with frictional contact
October 23, 2018 Bernard Brogliato Rigid-Body Multiple Contact/Impact Models in Granular Materials
October 19, 2018 Kurt S. Anderson Adaptive Multibody Methods Using a Divide and Conquer Framework (with Application to Biopolymers)
August 24, 2018 Vicente Ordonez Overcoming the Next Challenges in Vision and Language Research
August 4, 2018 Paul Zsombor-Murray Geometric Thinking and the Geometry of Conics and Quadrics
May 25, 2018 Sylvain Baillet Computational approaches for multimodal electrophysiology and imaging
April 12, 2018 Narges Armanfard Dimensionality Reduction, Classification and Applications in Healthcare
April 4, 2018 Berk Calli Closing the Loop in Robotic Manipulation with Vision Feedback and Compliance
March 27, 2018 Aditya Mahajan Sequential Dynamic Teams: State of the Art and Future Directions
March 23, 2018 Abhinoy Kumar Singh Kalman Filter-Based Real-Time Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems
March 22, 2018 Leila Bridgeman Advancing Control Theory to Advance Robotics
March 12, 2018 Katherine Driggs-Campbell Human-Centered Autonomy: Uncovering Structure in Multi- Agent Systems
February 22, 2018 Yanyan Mu Optical flow estimation by complex factorization over quadrature feature pairs
February 20, 2018 Kei Nakatsuma Arbitrary-shaped and flexible piezoelectric skin sensor based on Sol-gel spraying technique
February 13, 2018 Simon Blackmore Farming with Robots
January 30, 2018 Alex Daskalov “A Journey through Blockchains” or How Not to Miss the Forest for the Merkle Trees
January 26, 2018 Benjamin Van Roy Deep Exploration via Randomized Value Functions
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