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Undergraduate Summer Research Awards
The School of Computer Science at McGill University offers undergraduate students the opportunity to work on research projects supervised by a faculty advisor, under the auspices of the NSERC summer undergraduate research award program. Undergraduate research is often the highlight of a student's learning experience. The student is paid to stretch their imagination, and test their ingenuity and creativity. At the same time, they learn valuable problem formulation and presentation skills which will be useful in any career. The diversity of the areas in which a student can work are indicated by the abstracts below.
The school is fortunate to be able to offer the following supplemental award:
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The $2500 Undergraduate Research Excellence Prize, awarded to
the best project by a student holding
a summer undergraduate award.
At the end of each summer we hold an "Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium" where undergraduate students present their research, and have the opportunity to meet the other students and faculty members involved in the program. The prize mentioned above is awarded at this time, by a committee of three SOCS faculty.
2004 Undergraduate Summer Research Awards
This year there were 14 summer students working with 8 faculty members.
The winner of the Courtemanche prize was Alexandre Bouchard-Côté
The two runner ups were Zhentao Li and Jean-Sébastien Légaré
Henry Leighton (Associate Dean) together
with Zhentao Li (U2, Runner up), Denis Thérien (Chair, SOCS),
Jean-Sébastien Légaré
(U3, Runner up),
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté
(U3, Courtemanche Scholarship winner).
More pictures of the presentations and the award ceremony can be found here.
Schedule:
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| 9:50 am | Welcome! | Organizers | ||
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| 10:00 am | Layout in Domain-Specific Visual Modelling | Denis Dubé | ||
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| 10:20 am | Memory Management in McXML | Jean-Sébastien Légaré | ||
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| 10:40 am | Reinforcement learning using Cascade-Correlation Neural Networks | Marc Gendron-Bellemare | ||
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| 11:00 am | Short Break | |||
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| 11:20 am | RedAgent: a supply-chain management agent | Philipp Keller | ||
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| 11:40 am | RedAgent Continued | François Plamondon | ||
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| 12:00 pm | Recommendz | Alexandre Elias | ||
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| 12:20 pm | Lunch | |||
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| 1:20 pm | Pseudorandom Generation in a Quantum Computing Setting | Danny Castonguy | ||
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| 1:40 pm | Pseudorandom Generation continued | Jean Raymond Simard | ||
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| 2:00 pm | Ancestral Genome Reconstruction | Leonid Chindelevitch | ||
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| 2:20 pm | Heap building bounds | Zhentao Li | ||
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| 2:40 pm | Coffee Break | |||
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| 3:00 pm | Discovery and Learning in Predictive State Representations | Adrian Ghizaru | ||
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| 3:20 pm | Feature selection for the game of Tetris | Louis-Francois Handfield | ||
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| 3:40 pm | Behaviour of Stock Markets | Ararat Harutyunyan | ||
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| 4:00 pm | Sparse Distributed Memories in a Bounded Metric State Space | Alexandre Bouchard-Côté | ||
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| 4:20 pm | Reception and Prize Announcements in MC321 | Organizers | ||
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Judges:
- Prof. David Avis
- Prof. Brigitte Pientka
- Prof. Denis Therien
Organizers:
- Prof. Brigitte Pientka
- Prof. Bruce Reed
Location and Time:
- Presentations took place in MC103 from 10:00am to 4:30pm on August 31 2004.
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