Hello Tux! We are very pleased to announce our exciting program of speakers for 2016/2017! You can always stay up to date, by adding our calendar of events to your calendaring application, and of course the Tux website contains all the details as well. Note that our first Sanders Series Invited Lecture of the year is a week from today; Prof. Ken Perlin of NYU. See below for the complete schedule. Schedule: All Sessions are Tuesdays @ 12:30-2:00pm As with last year, we will be meeting on alternating Tuesdays, *usually*. Note that, to enable us to use the MaRS space, we have juggled the schedule a bit, so that there will be only one week between two of the meetings in November. The complete schedule of meetings is below. As invited lecturers are confirmed, we will update the schedule. October 11: Sanders Series Invited Lecture: Professor Ken Perlin, Ph.D., New York University October 25: Internal: David Levin & Alec Jacobson, University of Toronto November 8: Sanders Series Invited Lecture: Professor Yvonne Rogers, Ph.D., University College London November 22: Internal: Roel Vertegaal, Queens November 29: Sanders Series Invited Lecture Andrew Wilson, Ph.D., Microsoft Research December 13: Internal: Daniel Wigdor, University of Toronto (holiday break) January 10: Sanders Series Invited Lecture: TBA January 24: Internal: Lennart Nacke, Waterloo February 7: Student Poster Day; Sanders Series Invited Lecture: TBA February 21: Internal: Azam Khan, Autodesk Research March 14: Sanders Series Invited Lecture: TBA March 28: Internal: Daniel Vogel, University of Waterloo Student Poster Session: February 7, 2016 February 7^th will be our student poster day. All are invited to attend! Stay tuned for details. -Ali, Daniel, Khai, Tovi
OUR SPONSORS: Tux is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders, Autodesk, University of Toronto Departments of Computer Science, and MaRS. About MaRS: MaRS is the one of the world’s largest urban innovation hubs—a place for collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship. Located in the heart of Toronto’s research district, MaRS provides the space, training, talent and networks required to commercialize important discoveries and launch and grow Canadian startups.