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  1. Oh man, wish i was in #Halifax #NovaScotia today for this.


    Dr. Thomas Trappenberg, Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, will deliver a seminar titled “AI and the Cognitive Brain: Have We Uncovered the Ingredients for Intelligence?”

    Given the recent mind-blowing abilities of AI agents, I will review some of their theoretical underpinnings. This includes the Modern Hopfield Model (MHM) and Vector Symbolic Architectures (VSA).

    I will aim to illuminate the ideas behind these concepts in a non-mathematical way, although I cannot promise that no formulas will be shown for illustrative purposes. While these mechanisms may be implemented with transformers, I will also explore whether they are realized in the brain at a cognitive level, and where gaps may exist in such a cognitive architecture.

    events.dal.ca/event/5815-semin

    #AI #ComputerScience #LLM #DalhousieUniversity

  2. Early-career researcher at Wednesday:

    PC5 – Rumbles from the deep: On Alaskan megatsunamis, active submarine volcanoes, and the seismoacoustic signals of blue whales.

    06 May 2026, 14:00 CEST

    **Eva Goblot
**, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Christian Hübscher
, University of Hamburg

    Benedikt Haimerl
, University of Hamburg

    Stephen Hicks
, University College London

  3. Early-career researcher at #EGU26 Wednesday:

    PC5 – Rumbles from the deep: On Alaskan megatsunamis, active submarine volcanoes, and the seismoacoustic signals of blue whales.

    06 May 2026, 14:00 CEST

    **Eva Goblot
**, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Christian Hübscher
, University of Hamburg

    Benedikt Haimerl
, University of Hamburg

    Stephen Hicks
, University College London

    #DalhousieUniversity #BlueWhales #Seismology #EarthSystemScience

  4. Early-career researcher at #EGU26 Wednesday:

    PC5 – Rumbles from the deep: On Alaskan megatsunamis, active submarine volcanoes, and the seismoacoustic signals of blue whales.

    06 May 2026, 14:00 CEST

    **Eva Goblot
**, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Christian Hübscher
, University of Hamburg

    Benedikt Haimerl
, University of Hamburg

    Stephen Hicks
, University College London

    #DalhousieUniversity #BlueWhales #Seismology #EarthSystemScience

  5. Early-career researcher at #EGU26 Wednesday:

    PC5 – Rumbles from the deep: On Alaskan megatsunamis, active submarine volcanoes, and the seismoacoustic signals of blue whales.

    06 May 2026, 14:00 CEST

    **Eva Goblot
**, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Christian Hübscher
, University of Hamburg

    Benedikt Haimerl
, University of Hamburg

    Stephen Hicks
, University College London

    #DalhousieUniversity #BlueWhales #Seismology #EarthSystemScience

  6. The Ocean Frontier Institute (Oceanography 🌊)

    The Ocean Frontier Institute is a non-profit research and higher education organization dedicated to ocean-based research and data. Established in 2016, the institute focuses its research on achieving net zero, protecting ocean biodiversity and sustaining ocean bioresources. OFI is based at Dalhousie University in the Ocean S...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ocea

    #TheOceanFrontierInstitute #Oceanography #DalhousieUniversity

  7. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

    Symmetries and anomalies of Kitaev spin-S models: Identifying symmetry-enforced exotic quantum matter

    Ruizhi Liu, Ho Tat Lam, Han Ma, Liujun Zou
    SciPost Phys. 16, 100 (2024)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhys.16.4.1

    #PI #DalhousieUniversity #MIT
    #Ontario #InnovationScienceEconomicDevelopmentCanada #PerimeterInstitute #MCU

  8. In a positive outlook for 2024, #universities across #Canada are introducing more #PlantBased or #vegan food options. Many of the universities have stated this is due to ongoing demand from students for more variety - and a larger push for more sustainable practices.

    A number of universities are taking the lead, notably:

    -#WesternUniversity. The university set a goal of having a 40 per cent plant-based menu at all dining halls by the new year, but it hit the target — and at some points even surpassed it — this year. A fully vegan outlet will open in 2024, and the school wants to reach a 50 per cent target in 2025.
    -#TheUniversityOfBritishColumbia. 55 per cent of the food in dining halls is plant-based, and the Vancouver school hopes to reach a goal of 80 per cent by 2025.
    -#ConcordiaUniversity in Montreal plans to reduce its purchase of meat, dairy and eggs by 30 per cent.
    -#DalhousieUniversity in Halifax aims to offer a menu with at least 50 per cent plant-based food options by 2030.
    -#UniversityOfToronto. Plant-based options represented less than half of the universities food services offerings two years ago, but now account for 61 per cent.

    Vegan Australia is advocating for Australian universities* to gain inspiration from these progressive examples, and embrace a fully vegan food system for the benefit of the planet, humanity, and for the animals.

    www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/

    *Such as: #UniversityOfMelbourne, #RMIT, #VictoriaUniversity, #LaTrobe, #Deakin, #MonashUniversity, #ACU, #UQ, #UniversityOfSydney, #ANU, #UniversityOfAdelaide, #TheUniversityOfWesternAustralia, #UniversityOfTechnologySydney, #CurtinUniversity #QUT, #UniversityOfWollongong, #SwinburneUniversity, #MacquarieUniversity, #GriffithUniversity

    #vegans #veganisn #AnimalRights

  9. In a positive outlook for 2024, #universities across #Canada are introducing more #PlantBased or #vegan food options. Many of the universities have stated this is due to ongoing demand from students for more variety - and a larger push for more sustainable practices.

    A number of universities are taking the lead, notably:

    -#WesternUniversity. The university set a goal of having a 40 per cent plant-based menu at all dining halls by the new year, but it hit the target — and at some points even surpassed it — this year. A fully vegan outlet will open in 2024, and the school wants to reach a 50 per cent target in 2025.
    -#TheUniversityOfBritishColumbia. 55 per cent of the food in dining halls is plant-based, and the Vancouver school hopes to reach a goal of 80 per cent by 2025.
    -#ConcordiaUniversity in Montreal plans to reduce its purchase of meat, dairy and eggs by 30 per cent.
    -#DalhousieUniversity in Halifax aims to offer a menu with at least 50 per cent plant-based food options by 2030.
    -#UniversityOfToronto. Plant-based options represented less than half of the universities food services offerings two years ago, but now account for 61 per cent.

    Vegan Australia is advocating for Australian universities* to gain inspiration from these progressive examples, and embrace a fully vegan food system for the benefit of the planet, humanity, and for the animals.

    www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/

    *Such as: #UniversityOfMelbourne, #RMIT, #VictoriaUniversity, #LaTrobe, #Deakin, #MonashUniversity, #ACU, #UQ, #UniversityOfSydney, #ANU, #UniversityOfAdelaide, #TheUniversityOfWesternAustralia, #UniversityOfTechnologySydney, #CurtinUniversity #QUT, #UniversityOfWollongong, #SwinburneUniversity, #MacquarieUniversity, #GriffithUniversity

    #vegans #veganisn #AnimalRights

  10. In a positive outlook for 2024, #universities across #Canada are introducing more #PlantBased or #vegan food options. Many of the universities have stated this is due to ongoing demand from students for more variety - and a larger push for more sustainable practices.

    A number of universities are taking the lead, notably:

    -#WesternUniversity. The university set a goal of having a 40 per cent plant-based menu at all dining halls by the new year, but it hit the target — and at some points even surpassed it — this year. A fully vegan outlet will open in 2024, and the school wants to reach a 50 per cent target in 2025.
    -#TheUniversityOfBritishColumbia. 55 per cent of the food in dining halls is plant-based, and the Vancouver school hopes to reach a goal of 80 per cent by 2025.
    -#ConcordiaUniversity in Montreal plans to reduce its purchase of meat, dairy and eggs by 30 per cent.
    -#DalhousieUniversity in Halifax aims to offer a menu with at least 50 per cent plant-based food options by 2030.
    -#UniversityOfToronto. Plant-based options represented less than half of the universities food services offerings two years ago, but now account for 61 per cent.

    Vegan Australia is advocating for Australian universities* to gain inspiration from these progressive examples, and embrace a fully vegan food system for the benefit of the planet, humanity, and for the animals.

    www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/

    *Such as: #UniversityOfMelbourne, #RMIT, #VictoriaUniversity, #LaTrobe, #Deakin, #MonashUniversity, #ACU, #UQ, #UniversityOfSydney, #ANU, #UniversityOfAdelaide, #TheUniversityOfWesternAustralia, #UniversityOfTechnologySydney, #CurtinUniversity #QUT, #UniversityOfWollongong, #SwinburneUniversity, #MacquarieUniversity, #GriffithUniversity

    #vegans #veganisn #AnimalRights

  11. In a positive outlook for 2024, #universities across #Canada are introducing more #PlantBased or #vegan food options. Many of the universities have stated this is due to ongoing demand from students for more variety - and a larger push for more sustainable practices.

    A number of universities are taking the lead, notably:

    -#WesternUniversity. The university set a goal of having a 40 per cent plant-based menu at all dining halls by the new year, but it hit the target — and at some points even surpassed it — this year. A fully vegan outlet will open in 2024, and the school wants to reach a 50 per cent target in 2025.
    -#TheUniversityOfBritishColumbia. 55 per cent of the food in dining halls is plant-based, and the Vancouver school hopes to reach a goal of 80 per cent by 2025.
    -#ConcordiaUniversity in Montreal plans to reduce its purchase of meat, dairy and eggs by 30 per cent.
    -#DalhousieUniversity in Halifax aims to offer a menu with at least 50 per cent plant-based food options by 2030.
    -#UniversityOfToronto. Plant-based options represented less than half of the universities food services offerings two years ago, but now account for 61 per cent.

    Vegan Australia is advocating for Australian universities* to gain inspiration from these progressive examples, and embrace a fully vegan food system for the benefit of the planet, humanity, and for the animals.

    www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/

    *Such as: #UniversityOfMelbourne, #RMIT, #VictoriaUniversity, #LaTrobe, #Deakin, #MonashUniversity, #ACU, #UQ, #UniversityOfSydney, #ANU, #UniversityOfAdelaide, #TheUniversityOfWesternAustralia, #UniversityOfTechnologySydney, #CurtinUniversity #QUT, #UniversityOfWollongong, #SwinburneUniversity, #MacquarieUniversity, #GriffithUniversity

    #vegans #veganisn #AnimalRights

  12. Talk this afternoon by Kathryn Smith, Dalhousie University at :
    Creating groundwater-sourced thermal refuges in rivers to adapt to a warming world
    191: T21. Environmental and Engineering Geology Division II
    Tues., 17 Oct. 2023, 1:35–1:50 p.m.
    gsa.confex.com/gsa/2023AM/meet

    Smith and coauthor Barret Kurylyk added cold pumped groundwater to a Nova Scotia stream to aid spawning salmon and trout.

  13. A PhD student at #DalhousieUniversity is growing a trendy new wheat she says could be an option for #Maritime farmers looking to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. 

    #Kernza is a wheatgrass that has attracted the attention of celebrities and chefs around the world, inspiring new products including beer, whiskey, pasta and pancakes. There was even a "Kernza-Con" conference in Minnesota last month.

    cbc.ca/amp/1.6917114

  14. Looking at the wildfires in #Halifax, Nova Scotia and staggered at how close they are to where we were in the city. A sports club has just burned down which is just a few streets away. We were there in 2005 for me to give a talk at the #SHARP #bookHistory #conference at #DalhousieUniversity. #NovaScotia #NSFire #Canada #Wildfires

  15. A re-#introduction as I recently moved instances.

    I am a legal theorist, working at #DalhousieUniversity in Halifax, Canada. This year, I am teaching #TortLaw and #Jurisprudence. I am also a member of Dal’s #HealthLaw Institute.

    My research is in #LegalTheory, particularly as that relates to the lawful use and disposal of living and dead human bodies and body parts. In doing so, I often draw on cultural legal studies, legal and political philosophy and social theory.