Program
Boot Camp runs from 12:00 pm Wednesday, May 23rd through 2:00 pm Friday, May 25th
Program
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
11:30 - 12:00: Registration
12:00 - 1:15: Lunch
1:15 - 1:30: Welcome and opening remarks
1:30 - 2:45: Using AI to Empower System Development and Operations Teams, Wahab Hamou-Lhadj, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University
2:45 - 3:15: Refreshment break. Access granted to the Grey Nuns garden.
3:15 - 4:30: Environmental Architecture and Public Spaces as Hinges between Knowledge and Action for Sustainable Urban Living, Carmela Cucuzzella, Associate Professor, Design and Computation Arts, Concordia University and Concordia University Research Chair in Integrated Design, Ecology, And Sustainability for the Built Environment
4:30 - 5:30: Free time. Access granted to the Grey Nuns garden. Optional tour (20 minutes) of the Grey Nuns Reading Room.
5:30 - 8:30: Boot Camp Banquet
- 5:30 - 6:30: Drinks
- 6:30 - 6:45: Words of welcome
- Guylaine Beaudry, Vice-Provost, Digital Strategy, and University Librarian, Concordia University
- Colleen Cook, Trenholme Dean of Libraries, McGill University
- 6:45 - 8:30: Dinner
Thursday, 24 May, 2018
Meakins Auditorium (5th floor, McIntyre Medical Sciences Building), McGill University
7:00 - 9:00 Places to have breakfast near Concordia University
9:00 - 10:15: The journey of an HIV self-testing App: from innovation to public health & global social impact, Nitika Pai, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, McGill University
10:15 - 10:45: Refreshment break
10:45 - 12:00: Game Clinic: Towards A Ludic Paradigm for Stress Research and Prevention, Najmeh Khalili-Mahani, A PERFORM Scientist, Concordia University.
12:00 - 1:30: Lunch / Break. Optional tour (30 minutes) of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine.
1:30 - 1:55: From Seed to Fruit: The First Year of the Macdonald Campus Seed Library, Dana Ingalls, Liaison Librarian, McGill University
1:55 - 2:20: Digital humanities and STEM librarianship, or why I stopped rolling my eyes at word clouds, Holly Hendrigan, Faculty Liaison Librarian, Simon Fraser University
2:20 - 2:45: Text Mining & AI for Knowledge Synthesis, Erica Lenton, Medical Librarian, University of Toronto
2:45 - 3:15: Refreshment break
3:15 - 4:30: Sounds in the city: Applying the soundscape approach to urban noise management, Catherine Guastavino, Associate Professor, William Dawson Scholar, School of Information Studies, McGill University
4:30 - 6:00: 5 à 7 at McGill's Thomson House
6:00 - 9:00: Dinner on your own; some suggestions on your way to the Ghost Tour: https://tinyurl.com/y7vxguhu
9:00 - 10:00: Old Montréal Ghost Tour
Friday, May 25, 2018
7:00 - 9:00 Places to have breakfast near Concordia University
9:15 - 9:40: Developing an Open Source DNA Data Visualization Application, Tomasz Neugebauer, Digital Projects & Systems Development Librarian, Concordia University
9:40 - 10:05: From Book Stacks to Technology Stack: Creating an Artificial Intelligence lab in URI’s University Libraries, Harrison Dekker, Associate Professor and Data Services Librarian, & Angelica Ferria, Media Curator, University of Rhode Island
10:05 - 10:30: Plants, Pancakes, and Penguins! Partnering with the STEM Community to Promote Innovative Science Literacy, Laura Hamonic, Academic Library Resident, Quincy Hiscott, LIS Graduate Student, Christina Hwang, Faculty of Science Librarian, & Victoria Wong, Academic Library Resident, University of Alberta
10:30 - 11:00: Refreshment break, Friends of the Library Room (LB-361)
11:00 - 12:15: Bitcoin & Blockchains: Landscape and Future Directions, Jeremy Clark, Assistant Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University
12:15 - 2:00: Boxed lunch, Friends of the Library Room (LB-361)
12:15 - 1:15: Optional tour (40 minutes) of the newly renovated Webster Library
2:00 - 3:00: Optional tour (30 minutes) of the Concordia Greenhouse