Title: “Skeletal muscle adaptation in response to chronic oral corticosterone treatment in C57BL/6 mice”
Supervisory Committee
All are welcome to attend. Please contact biology@lakeheadu.ca for meeting ID and password.
The Canadian Foundation for Economic Education (CFEE) has partnered with Lakehead University to offer a series of virtual workshops, designed to help improve the financial education and capability of University and College students.
Coming out of this workshop you will be able to make more informed decisions about purchases, be able to create a budget that includes savings and can help reduce your financial stress and know how to apply the magic of compound interest to increase your savings.
The goal of this workshop is to help you develop a healthy attitude towards money. You will learn how to take control of your money by setting goals and budgeting as well as to emphasize paying yourself first to meet those goals. You will learn about a simple budgeting process and how to distinguish between needs and wants. This module will help you develop a plan for a healthy financial future by making saving an integral part of your life.
Registration required!
The Canadian Foundation for Economic Education (CFEE) has partnered with Lakehead University to offer a series of virtual workshops, designed to help improve the financial education and capability of University and College students.
Coming out of this workshop you will have learned the foundational skills to allow you to invest with confidence such as understanding why it’s important to invest for your future to help outpace inflation, what basic investment asset classes exist and the various account options there are to investing.
The goal of this workshop is to de-mystify investing and to also help you better understand the tax implications and benefits of various account options. Investing is not a get rich quick scheme, it’s a way of putting your money to work for you!. This module is designed to arm you with the tools and knowledge to invest effectively and with confidence for your future.
Registration required!
The Canadian Foundation for Economic Education (CFEE) has partnered with Lakehead University to offer a series of virtual workshops, designed to help improve the financial education and capability of University and College students.
Coming out of this workshop you will have a better understanding of how setting goals can help lead to more financial security, different methods to budget and how savings needs to be a key component of a budget. You will also have a better understanding of Canada’s tax system and possible ways to invest more tax efficiently. Another aspect will be learning some great tips to help you with your spending which will enable you to build a more effective budget and let you take more control of your money.
Registration required!
The Canadian Foundation for Economic Education (CFEE) has partnered with Lakehead University to offer a series of virtual workshops, designed to help improve the financial education and capability of University and College students.
Coming out of this workshop you will be much more comfortable managing your investment risks, be able to analyze and understand the potential value of the common stock of a company you choose to invest in and also know about some alternative investment opportunities.
There are a lot of layers and complexity to investing and this workshop will provide you the knowledge to invest for the long-term by applying techniques like dollar cost averaging and diversification to your portfolio. Also, you will learn the important metrics to research before investing in a company for the long-term as well as some additional ways to diversify and enhance your risk-adjusted returns.
Registration required!
Please join the Computer Science Department for the upcoming thesis defense:
Presenter: Mengze Li
Thesis title: Data-driven traversability estimation for mobile robot navigation
Abstract: Mobile robots have a promising application prospect as they can assist or replace humans to perform laborious, repetitive or dangerous tasks in various scenarios. There has been a large number of studies for mobile robot navigation since 1980s, while terrain traversability estimation is an important topic in this field — estimating if an area is traversable and how long will it take to drive through is necessary for navigating the robot and planning paths.
However, most existing terrain traversability estimation methods are designed based on simple fixed rules and manually tuned parameters, suffering low accuracy and poor generalization due to their simplicity of structure and biases to the environment where they are tuned. To address this problem, we proposed a set of data-driven traversability estimation methods based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), which are trained and tested them in different simulation environments.
There are 3 main goals for our methods: 1. High accuracy. Accuracy of the result is the core of an traversability estimation method. 2. Low computational cost. Since most mobile robots are equipped with very limited computing power and energy, a practical traversability estimation method should be able to work with a low computational cost. 3. Good generalization. A good traversability estimation method should generalize to different type of environments or provide a function to automatically fit to a new environment instead of manual tuning.
In this thesis, we first reviewed some representative conventional terrain traversability estimation methods and introduced several related fields including mobile robot path planning, localization and map building. Then we proposed our CNN based methods, demonstrated how to build the simulation framework and collect terrain samples with driving data. Finally we compared the performance of our work with benchmark methods in both classification and regression traversability estimation tasks on the collected datasets and proved the improvements made by our methods.
Committee Members:
Dr. Thiago E Alves de Oliveira (supervisor, committee chair), Dr. Yimin Yang, Dr. Thangarajah Akilan (Software Engineering)
Please contact grad.compsci@lakeheadu.ca for the Zoom link. Everyone is welcome.
Join us to learn more about Lakehead International's new program, Lakehead Global Certificate (LGC). The LGC rewards Lakehead students for demonstrating global and intercultural competencies. An LGC can be earned at no cost to the student but will be a valuable part of a student's exceptional Lakehead experience. You can read more about this program at www.lakeheadu.ca/lgc.
Register for the event at https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtcO2orjsiGtMlnnMdYVM7S_Bgz....
Join Dr. Kathy Kortes-Miller, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, and Director of the Centre for Education and Research on Aging & Health (CERAH) at Lakehead University, and her research team as she shares key findings from research conducted in Ontario.
We will be hosting a virtual exhibitor hall where you can interact with the organizations, including MAiD House, Bridge for You, Canadian Virtual Hospice, and Canadian Grief Alliance to name a few. We welcome you to connect with these organizations and others interested in learning more about MAiD.
Feature speaker: Sandra Martin, Author of A Good Death
This event WILL NOT be recorded.
Agenda
This event is funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant.
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This workshop will help youth develop strategies and learn tips on how to best build their LinkedIn profile, expand their network, and start connecting with professionals in their chosen career path.
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