Homecoming: Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the McGill School of Computer Science (Science)
Célébration du 50e anniversaire de l'École d'informatique de McGill

Friday, October 21, 2022 10 AM to Saturday, October 22, 2022 2 PM EDT

The School of Computer Science (SOCS) at McGill is celebrating this year its 50th anniversary and we are inviting our alumni to join the party! The two-day event, held in conjunction with the University's main bicentennial celebrations, will be a great opportunity to reconnect with old friends and professors, network with alumni, and have a good time recollecting memories of your time at McGill. It will feature talks by alumni (e.g. AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio), professors, and students, as well as a variety of mingling events. It will further put our students to the fore with an undergraduate research symposium and a programming competition.

October 21: Morning Session (free) - Centre Mont-Royal, Mont Royal Room, 4th Floor
9:30 a.m. - Registration and light breakfast
10:00 a.m. - Welcome words from SOCS Director Mathieu Blanchette
10:10 a.m. - Ron Bodkin, Founder+CEO of ChainML, Recent CIO at the Vector Institute and Technical Director of Applied AI at Google
10:45 a.m. - Networking Break
11:00 a.m. - Jin Guo, SOCS Professor - Towards  Developing Accountable, Usable, and Inclusive Software
11:25 a.m. - Jérôme Waldispühl, SOCS Professor - Crowdsourcing and gamification

Lunch (free) - Centre Mont-Royal
11:50 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.

October 21: Afternoon Session (free) - Centre Mont-Royal
1:15 p.m. - Carla Brodley, Dean of Inclusive Computing, Northeastern University - Broadening Participation in Computing by Opening New Pathways to the BS, MS and PhD
1:45 p.m. - Claude Crépeau, SOCS Professor  - Quantum Teleportation: from theory to a quantum internet
2:05 p.m. - Solmaz Shahalizadeh, Founding partner of Backbone Angels, Recently VP Data Science at Shopify
2:30 p.m. - Networking Break
3:00 p.m. - SOCS Student Talks
3:30 p.m. - Reihaneh Rabbany, SOCS Professor, CIFAR/MILA AI Chair - AI-driven network data analysis for the greater good
3:45 p.m. - David Becerra, SOCS Professor - Competitive programming at McGill
4:05 p.m. - Networking Break
4:30 p.m. - Yoshua Bengio, Professor at U. de Montréal and Scientific Director of Mila, 2019 Turing award winner - Extending Deep Learning to High-Level Cognition and Scientific Discovery with Amortized Bayesian Causal Modeling

Dinner Cocktail (free)
5:15 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Poster Session
SOCS Director's Word: 50 years back, 50 years ahead
Presentation of the SOCS Lifetime Contribution Award to Denis Thérien, long-time SOCS Director and all-around guardian angel of the School.

October 22: Saturday Session (free) - Trottier Building, room 0100
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

10:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - UCORE Symposium - Research presentations by SOCS undergraduates
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. - Lunch
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - SOCS Open Programming Competition



L'École d'informatique de McGill célèbre cette année son 50e anniversaire et nous invitons nos anciens à se joindre à la fête! Cet événement de deux jours, qui se déroulera en même temps que les principales célébrations du bicentenaire de l'Université, sera une excellente occasion de renouer avec d'anciens amis et professeurs, d'établir un réseau d'anciens et de passer un bon moment à se remémorer des souvenirs de votre passage à McGill. Des exposés seront présentés par des anciens (par exemple, Yoshua Bengio, pionnier de l'IA), des professeurs et des étudiants, et diverses activités seront organisées. Nos étudiants seront également mis en avant avec un symposium de recherche de premier cycle et un concours de programmation.

Details

Please register separately for each session that you are interested in attending. Registration for the dinner is on a different event page (please click on the link above).

Important Information on COVID-19: 
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Homecoming: Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the McGill School of Computer Science (Science)
Célébration du 50e anniversaire de l'École d'informatique de McGill

Friday, October 21, 2022 10 AM to Saturday, October 22, 2022 2 PM EDT

Admission

Morning Session FREE
October 21, 10:00 a.m. -
11:45 a.m.
Lunch FREE
October 21, 11:45 a.m. -
1:15 p.m.
Afternoon Session FREE
October 21, 1:15 p.m. -
5:15 p.m.
Cocktails and Poster
Session FREE
October 21, 5:15 p.m. -
7:00 p.m.
SOCS Old-Timers Lunch FREE
October 22, 12:00 p.m. -
2:00 p.m.
UCORE Symposium FREE
October 22, 10:00 a.m. -
1:00 p.m.
SOCS Open Programming
Competition FREE
October 22, 2:00 p.m. -
5:00 p.m.

Location

Centre Mont-Royal
2200 Mansfield Street
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 3R8
CANADA
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RSVP

Register from Sep. 7 to Oct. 14, 2022

Contact

School of Computer Science
Email: socs50@cs.mcgill.ca
 
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