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Pragmatic Partnerships: Collaborations in Cyberspace
ACCELERATING AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT: RESEARCH & DISCOVERY
Monday, November 3
1:30 - 2:45 pm
Twenty-first century research is networked, collaborative, data driven, iterative, and integrative. New tools ranging from grid and cloud computing, to data-mining to social networking all bring a new set of capabilities to researchers. Hear from a group of researchers in several different disciplines how the digital revolution and web 2.0 technologies have transformed their investigations.
Session Chair: Dr. Ted Hewitt, Vice-President (Research & International Relations), University of Western Ontario
Dr. Ted Hewitt has served as Vice-President (Research & International Relations) at The University of Western Ontario since February 2005. First appointed Western’s Associate Vice-President (Research) in May 2001, Hewitt spearheaded efforts to develop the University’s Strategic Research Plan and its Strategic Plan for Internationalization, both of which were approved by the Senate and Board of Governors in 2003. He currently sits on the Boards of the Canadian Language and Literacy Network, and the London TechAlliance, and recently completed a two-year term on the Board of the London Economic Development Corporation. He is Chair of the Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network, and the Ontario High Performance Computing Council, and was elected to serve as the Vice-Chair of the Ontario Council on University Research for 2007-2008. A sociology professor, Hewitt recently completed terms as the Editor and Managing Editor, respectively, of the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies and is a leading Canadian authority on Brazil. He completed his PhD degree at McMaster University, and attended university in São Paulo, Brazil as a special student in 1984. In 2003, he led negotiations with the University of Calgary, York University, the Université du Québec à Montréal, and the Embassy of Brazil in Ottawa to establish the Canada Visiting Research Chair in Brazilian Studies. The first of its kind in the country, the Chair program has undertaken to promote Brazilian Studies in Canada by hosting a number of distinguished Brazilian scholars at the partner universities and by organizing widely-attended events on topics of national interest in both Canada and Brazil. He has published extensively on issues related to social movements and population health, local government, and international cooperation for urban development in Latin America. His work has appeared in a range of academic journals including Cities, Journal of Latin American Studies, Journal of Developing Areas, Third World Quarterly, and Habitat International. In 2002, he was named Commander of the Order.
Panelists:
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Grant Campbell, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information & Media Studies, University of Western Ontario
- Alan Evans, Professor, Neurology and Neurosurgery; Biomedical Engineering; Medical Physics, McGill University
Professor Alan Evans was originally trained in physics at Liverpool University in the U.K. He completed his PhD in biophysics, studying the 3D folding patterns of protein structure and the binding of co-factors and substrates to enzymes. He then spent five years at Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. in Ottawa, working on the physics and biochemical analysis of positron emission tomography (PET) data. In 1984, he moved to the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) at McGill University in Montreal to continue his PET research. His research interests include multi-modal brain imaging with PET and MRI, image processing and large-scale brain database analysis. He is currently the director of the Montreal Consortium for Brain Imaging Research (MCBIR), a $35M multi-center initiative to network the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre with six other institutions engaged in research in psychiatry, neurology, development and aging, cognitive neuroscience, brain development and drug addiction and large-scale brain data processing.
- Martin Taylor, President and CEO, Ocean Networks Canada
Martin Taylor is President and CEO of Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), a not for profit organization responsible for the governance and management of the NEPTUNE Canada and VENUS cabled ocean observatories. Before assuming this position, role he served for nine years (1998-2007) as the University of Victoria’s (UVic) first Vice-President Research. During his term, the research programs grew rapidly with annual grant and contract income more than tripling to over $100M. He was directly accountable to the Board of Governors for the major research platforms established at the University, including the VENUS and NEPTUNE Canada observatories, and the national proteomics centre supported by Genome Canada and Genome BC. He also had executive responsibility for the University’s 15 interdisciplinary research centres, including the Centre for Earth and Ocean Research that was an early catalyst for the development of the ocean observing facilities. Under his leadership, UVic, in partnership with Memorial University, was successful in securing the largest ever NSERC/SSHRC jointly funded program ($6.2M) for the Coasts under Stress project examining the impacts of environmental and socio-economic restructuring on Canada’s coastal communities. His professional service on national and provincial Boards includes: the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Science and Technology Advisory Board, the Michael Smith Health Research Foundation, and the Tri-University Meson Facility (TRIUMF) Board of Management. Before joining UVic, Martin Taylor held teaching, research and senior administrative positions at McMaster University in Ontario (1974-98) including Chair of the Department of Geography and Founding Director of the Institute of Environment and Health. He holds degrees in geography from Bristol University (BA) and the University of British Columbia (MA and PhD). He is the author of two books and over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of environmental and community health.
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