THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATE SEMINAR 2021
Guest Speaker Series Presented By:

Dr. Jörg Bornschein
"Minimum Description Length and Principled Model Selection for Modern Neural Networks"

Friday, November 5th, 2021
11:30 am

To register for this virtual event, please email Mr. Andrew Fisher at afisher3@lakeheadu.ca and a zoom link will be shared.

Everyone is welcome.

THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATE SEMINAR 2021
Guest Speaker Series Presented By:

Dr. Parmit Chilana
"Beyond "One-Size-Fits-All": Designing for User Diversity in Software Learning and Help-Seeking"

Friday, November 5th, 2021
1 pm

To register for this virtual event, please email Mr. Andrew Fisher at afisher3@lakeheadu.ca and a zoom link will be shared.

Everyone is welcome.

During this 90 minute session, we will introduce you to a variety of research strategies and library tools, to help you succeed with graduate level research at Lakehead University.

By the end of this session, you will be familiar with:

- Selecting databases
- OMNI and Interlibrary loan options
- Zotero Citation Manager
- Free research tools (Unpaywall, Lazy Scholar)
- Google Scholar - pros and cons
- Lakehead Knowledge Commons & finding theses and dissertations
- Copyright - some things to keep in mind
Register Here: https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3642970

This workshop will introduce you to the OMNI search system, which enables you to find the books, articles, documentaries, and other resources which you need for your essays and assignments.

After attending this workshop, you will be able to use OMNI to:

- find books on your topic, and how to request books from other Ontario universities

- how to find peer reviewed scholarly articles

- how to follow "citation trails"

- how to request that a small section of a print item be scanned and emailed to you

- how to login to OMNI, and create lists of favourite items

Register Here: https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3642100

Come HOWL with us! Join Lakehead University as we host our first Lakehead Sustainability Disruption Contest on November 5th at 1 PM Eastern Time.

Akin to popular TV shows like Shark Tank or Dragon’s Den, this online contest will feature the Wolf Pack, a panel of judges made up of exceptional Thunder Bay community leaders and disruptors, who invite you to join them as a live online audience.

Prepare to be engaged and entertained as our Wolf Pack judges choose the team with the best pitch as the first winners of the Lakehead Sustainability Disruption Contest. Lakehead University's International Office will work with the winning team to implement their idea at Lakehead, in alignment with Lakehead's commitment to sustainability as set out in Lakehead's 2019-2024 Sustainability plan. The Sustainability Disruption Contest is part of the Lakehead Makes Leaders Program where students develop key leadership skills focused on innovation, conflict resolution, disruption, flexibility, negotiations, managing uncertainty, and more.

The Lakehead Makes Leaders program, an initiative of Lakehead International, is made up of 5 online leadership modules that students can complete during their studies at Lakehead. Designed to address soft skills gaps often seen in post-secondary graduates, the program's 5 modules focus on building critical thinking skills, fostering self-reflection and emotional intelligence, and promoting innovation and disruption, all critical to success in the labour market

Each module is designed to build students’ soft skills and complement their academic learning. These modules are provided to students complimentary as part of Lakehead's commitment to producing the career-ready leaders of tomorrow. Successful completion of each module is recorded as a specific leadership completion certificate on the students’ co-curricular record. Lakehead University students who successfully complete all 5 modules are awarded an overall Lakehead Makes Leaders Completion Certificate. The Lakehead Makes Leaders Completion Certificate helps set students apart, and provides assurance to Ontario employers that our students are career-ready and positioned to be leaders in the workplace.

James Aldridge, Vice-Provost, International and member of the Wolf Pack judges panel, says: "Competitions like the Lakehead Sustainability Disruption Contest offer students opportunities to engage with community leaders and help foster meaningful change. This is part of our commitment to producing unconventional leaders prepared to make a difference in the North."

James will be joined by other community members as part of the Wolf Pack Judge's panel: Riley Burton, Chair, School of Business, Hospitality & Media Arts, Confederation College, and Board Chair, Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce, Lahama Naeem, President, Lakehead University Student Union (LUSU), Michael Nitz, District Vice-President, TD & Lakehead University Board of Governor Member, Richard Togman, CEO, Rent Panda, Dr. David Richards, Dean, Faculty of Business, Lakehead University, Ledah McKellar - Sustainability Coordinator, Lakehead University.

We hope you will join us for this fun event and support Lakehead students as they compete in the sustainability disruption contest.

For more information on our Lakehead Makes Leaders Program, please visit: www.lakeheadu.ca/lakeheadmakesleaders

To register for this LIVE event, click the link below:
https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ldOmprzIqHtYMZve-ywuN5YvEP...

You are Invited to the 5th Annual Rock Your Mocs!

Friday, Nov. 12

In the Lakehead University Faculty of Education’s Bora Laskin Gymnasium.

Opening prayer and teaching begin at 11 am

Closing prayer and song at 12:30 pm

Join us for the launch of Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan's new book WE ARE 'NATURE' DEFENDING ITSELF: ENTANGLING ART, ACTIVISM & AUTONOMOUS ZONES, now out from the VAGABONDS series of Pluto Press.
Info --> http://vagabonds.xyz/wandi

November 25 - 1 PM Eastern (10am Pacific, 7pm Central Europe)

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REGISTRATION
To join the Zoom room or watch live on YouTube, register here --> https://forms.gle/iVTLczcajZRu52W78
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In early November, so-called leaders from around the world will gather in Glasgow . . . to do precious little to prevent the worldwide calamity of climate chaos. They will no doubt claim their hands are tied by the invisible handcuffs of the market, which insists that the wealth of the privileged must come before the needs of the earth.

In the streets outside the convention, you will find Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan of the Laboratory for the Insurrectionary Imagination: veteran social movement coordinators, educators and strategists and co-authors of the newly published **We Are ‘Nature’ Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones.**
(http://vagabonds.xyz/wandi)

In that book they detail their exodus from capitalist complicity through the struggle for the ZAD: a fierce autonomous zone in Western France that, for forty years, has been a beacon for the radical imagination.

One part revolutionary memoire, one part manual of subversive art, one part love letter to the land itself, We Are ‘Nature’ Defending Itself shows us that there is an alternative to hopelessness when we overcome our fear and build real solidarity with one another and with the earth of which we are part.

Hosted by RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab (http://reimaginingvalue.ca) and Lakehead University's Social Justice Studies program Symposium.
Facilitated by Tina Munroe and Dr. Max Haiven of RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab.
Part of Lakehead University's Year of Climate Action (https://www.lakeheadu.ca/yoca)

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ABOUT THE BOOK
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We Are ‘Nature’ Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones
By Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan

Published as part of the VAGABONDS series by Pluto Press, in cooperation with the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest

In 2008, as the storms of the financial crash started to blow, Isabelle Fremeaux and Jay Jordan deserted the metropolis and their academic jobs, embarking on a journey across Europe in search for postcapitalist utopias. They wanted their art activism to no longer be uprooted.

They arrived at a place French politicians had declared “lost to the republic”, known by those who inhabited it as la ZAD (the ‘zone to defend’): a messy but extraordinary canvas of commoning, illegally occupying 4,000 acres of wetlands where an international airport was planned.

In 2018, the 40-year struggle snatched an incredible victory, defeating the infrastructure project through a powerful cocktail that merged creation and resistance.

More information: http://vagabonds.xyz/wandi

Join RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab and special guest Dr. Eunsong Kim for a discussion of the most popular show ever to be broadcast on Netflix and what it means for the state of the world.

Squid Games + Capitlaism: A facilitated Discussion - November 10, 1 pm
Eastern, on zoom
Special guest: Dr. Eunsong Kim (Northeastern)

Register to participate here: https://forms.gle/Bor6G3je2rAnwrzq8
This event will NOT be streamed or archived.

The Korean drama Squid Game, which tells the story of heavily indebted people locked in a lethal competition for the chance to win a fortune, has become the most popular series ever in over 90 national markets on the dominant streaming service Netflix. It has also been framed as a trenchant critique of capitalism in a moment when that global system appears especially exploitative, extractive, uncaring and even sadistic.

How do we make sense of the fact that Squid Game is both a critique of capitalism and, at the same time, a profoundly successful product of capitalism's culture industry? Does the recent fascination with Korean films depicting capitalism (eg. Parasite) in the Anglophone world distract us from recent efforts to contend with the racist and colonial patterns of capitalism?

Do shows like Squid Game move us towards or away from mobilizing for a world beyond capitalism?
RiVAL: The ReImagining Value Action Lab (in cooperation with Lakehead University's Social Justice Studies program) is pleased to invite the public to a facilitated discussion of this enigmatic but important show.

We will be joined by special guest Dr. Eunsong Kim of Northeastern University. Participants are welcome to watch the discussion or offer their views and questions. Facilitated by RiVAL's Dr. Max Haiven and Tina Munroe.

Register to participate here: https://forms.gle/Bor6G3je2rAnwrzq8

THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE GRADUATE SEMINAR 2021
Guest Speaker Series Presented By:

Dr. Pawan Lingras
"Advances in Conventional and Soft Clustering: Hands-on Demonstration"

Friday, October 29, 2021
11:30 am

To register for this virtual event, please email Mr. Andrew Fisher at afisher3@lakeheadu.ca and a zoom link will be shared.

Everyone is welcome.

Jeopardy game night! Teams of five will compete in their knowledge in the following categories: My Home, My City; Groovin' and Movin'; Students First; Study Prep; and Join the Family.