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03
Dec
2021
CECS Inspiring Seminars: Towards creating a resilient carbon neutral electricity grid
In recent years, a dramatic increase in electrical power generation from renewable energy sources has been observed in many countries. The grid-integration of customer-owned solar photovoltaics (PV) has been driven by government incentives...
25
Nov
2021
ANU Computing Leadership Seminar Series: Prof David Hawking: Things I’ve Learned in 50 Years of Computing
Did you know 2021 marks the 50th year of computing at ANU? Our special guest for this golden anniversary is a man who witnessed and took part in a lot of them!
Professor David Hawking (BSc Hons’75, PhD’99) is the author of the book, The...
23
Nov
2021
Afnan Hannan (BEc, BEng '14) says his time at ANU taught him “there is no single ultimate truth or right answer, but there is always room for going forward, and every step forward is a step worth taking."
In this webinar, the 2021 ANU...
19
Nov
2021
CECS Inspiring Seminars: Graphs - Algorithms and Learning
Graphs are everywhere - but how can we reveal meaningful structure in graphs? Nowadays, in many real-world applications, the underlying data is modelled as graphs to represent complex objects and their relationships: cities in a road...
09
Nov
2021
This talk is about the optimization of the active noise control system over a three-dimensional (3D) region using more feasible control systems. Active noise control (ANC) reduces the unwanted acoustic noise by generating an anti-noise...
05
Nov
2021
CECS Inspiring Seminars: Tandem Cells: The next big thing in Photovoltaics?
Solar Photovoltaics has become arguably the cheapest method ever to generate electricity. The story of the development of photovoltaics over the last three decades is an incredible success story - and one that could not be more timely...
26
Oct
2021
The 2020s are going to be a defining decade for the next century.
Not only are we at the cusp of a climate change turning point, but the way we think about community, economy, and innovation is also changing fast.
There is a bit of urgency...
22
Oct
2021
CECS Inspiring Seminars: Towards Efficient 3D Geometric Scene Understanding with Humans
Efficiently understanding the 3D geometry of a scene from visual data, such as images and videos, is critical for real-world applications. Intelligent agents, such as robots or self-driving cars, use this information to navigate and...
20
Oct
2021
Award winning online educator, Tom Worthington, has been learning about, and teaching, online at ANU for ten years. He will provide some tips and tricks to survive teaching in these uncertain times, in a classroom, online, or both at the...
08
Oct
2021
CECS Inspiring Seminars: Are ground truths really necessary for model accuracy evaluation?
Evaluating model accuracy is an indispensable lecture in machine learning. To do that, we need a test set comprised of test samples and their ground truths. Whilst standard datasets (e.g., ImageNet) satisfy this requirement, many real...
