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Yanchep Conference

 

1997 Postgraduate Research Conference

Details | Talks | Venue | Timetable | Aims

CONFERENCE DETAILS 
Venue:			Club Capricorn, Yanchep.
Date:			April 3rd - April 4th, 1997.
Paper Deadline:		March 17th - 24th, 1997.
Registration:		TBA
Coordinators:		Dr. Gordon Royle (venue, plenary speaker)
			Bruce Backman (papers, proceedings)

SCHEDULED TALKS

Plenary

  • Professor Norman Foo, University of New South Wales

Contributed

  • Bruce Backman and Nick Spadaccini, Applications of Differential Geometry in Non-Rigid Registration
  • Luigi Barone and Lyndon While, Evolving Computer Opponents to Play a Game of Simplified Poker
  • Jason Birch and C.P. Tsang, Fuzzy Control and Kinematic Constraints
  • Bernard Cena and Nick Spadaccini, Wavelet Based Volume Visualisation System
  • Rowena Cole and Nick Spadaccini, Adapting Genetic Algorithms for Clustering
  • Rowena Cole and Luigi Barone, The Game of Clustering
  • Kamran Kazemi, Opportunities for Optimisation by Detecting Parallel Programming Design Patterns
  • Matthew McDonald, A Valueless Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
  • Skot McDonald, Percussive Sound Identification using Spectral Centroid Trajectories
  • Bruce Mills, Special Case Second Order Matrix Multiplication
  • Bruce Mills, Wrapping Matrix Multiplication
  • Nicola Ritter and Robyn Owens, The Application of Mutual Information to Image Registration
  • Mike Robins, Surface Tracing of Local Energy Density Values

VENUE

 


The conference venue is at the beautiful Club Capricorn, which is a simple 1 hour drive from Perth. It's on the ocean so don't forget your bathers.


 


Accommodation will be in comfortable 6-bed chalets. You will need to provide your own bed-linen, towels and soap, but everything else is provided.


 


Dining will be in Club Capricorn's restaurant, Lindsay's, where fine food, elegance and computer science go hand in hand.



TIMETABLE

 

Thursday 3 April, 1997
Time Speaker Title
10.30 Welcome Coffee
11.00 Rowena Cole The Game of Clustering
11.30 Bruce Backman Applications of Differential Geometry in Non-Rigid Registration
12.00 Bernard Cena Wavelet Based Volume Visualisation System
12.30 Lunch
1.30 Rowena Cole Adapting Genetic Algorithms for Clustering
2.00 Luigi Barone Evolving Computer Opponents to Play a Game of Simplified Poker
2.30 Bruce Mills Special Case Second Order Matrix Multiplication
3.00 Afternoon Coffee
3.30 Matthew McDonald A Valueless Reinforcement Learning Algorithm
4.00 Lyndon While Bounding the Attractor of an Iterated Function System
5.00 Swim, tennis etc.
6.30 Buffet Dinner
8.00 (ish) Norman Foo Finite Model Theory and Reasoning about/with Diagrams




 

Friday 4 April, 1997
Time Speaker Title
7.30 Breakfast
9.30 Kamran Kazemi Opportunities for Optimisation by Detecting Parallel Programming Design Patterns
10.00 Jason Birch Fuzzy Control and Kinematic Constraints
10.30 Nicola Ritter The Application of Mutual Information to Image Registration
11.00 Morning Coffee
11.30 Bruce Mills Wrapping Matrix Multiplication
12.00 Mike Robins Surface Tracing of Local Energy Density Values
12.30 Skot McDonald Percussive Sound Identification using Spectral Centroid Trajectories
12.00 Lunch and Close

AIMS

In years gone by the Yanchep conference has been the focal point for the exchange of information regarding the substantial amount of research done by postgraduate students in the department.

Despite the considerable (financial) cost of the conference, we believe it is one of the most effective ways of fostering a sense of community and common purpose among the research students and staff of the department.

The aims of the conference can be summarised as:

  • to provide our postgraduate students with a serious "dry-run" of preparing and presenting a paper in a full conference atmosphere
  • to produce, as the proceedings, a document detailing the current state-of-research in the department for both internal and external use
  • to provide a deadline to stimulate the final completion of the many "almost finished" projects that we all have

The most important thing about the conference is that you get up and give it a go. The talk you present does not have to be perfect or even particularly polished - in fact, this is your opportunity to present imperfect or incomplete work and get some sympathetic yet serious feedback on either the presentation or the work itself.

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