Seminars

1.             During 1974-82, delivered numerous invited lectures (that I have not documented here) in India at research laboratories (e.g. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Bombay; Institute for Design of Electrical Measuring Instruments, Bombay), Industries (e.g. Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers, Bombay; Peico Electronics and Electricals Ltd., Pune; Toshniwal Instruments Ltd., Bombay) and others (e.g. IEEE Student Branch, I. I. T. Bombay; IEEE Hyderabad Chapter, India; CSA/CSI Bombay), 1976-83.  Topics for the lectures/seminars included:  Microcomputer System Applications in Instrumentation and Control, Operating Systems, Parallel Computer Architectures and their applications.

2-11.       Visited and delivered seminars at the following universities during visit to Canada/U.S.A. in August‑Sept. 1982:  Concordia University, Montreal; University of New Brunswick, Fredericton; Northeastern University Boston; University of Wisconsin, Madison; University of Illinois, Urbana‑Champaign; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Los Angeles; University of Texas, Austin; Rice University, Houston; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge.

12.          Delivered invited seminars on Supercomputers at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John (February 1985) and DPMA/CIPS Fredericton Section Meeting (May 2, 1985).

13.          Delivered a seminar on Vectorization and Parallelization of Monte Carlo Codes at the Center for Supercomputing Research and Development, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, U.S.A., April 28, 1986.

14.          Delivered invited lectures on Supercomputers and Their Applications at the Jawaharlal Neharu University, New Delhi, India, Dec. 21‑24, 1987 and Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, Dec. 28‑29, 1987.

15.          A seminar on Fractals and Their Applications at Thadomal Shahani Engineering College, Bombay, Nov. 1989.

16.          Gave a talk on Parallel Computing, Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, India, March 1-4, 1990.

17.          A seminar at the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, India     on Fractals and Their Applications, March 21, 1990.

18.          A seminar at the College of Engineering, Shivaji University, Sangli, M.S., India, on Supercomputers and Supercomputing, August 10, 1990.

19.          Gave a talk on High Performance Computing, Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune, India, August 17-19, 1990.

20.          Gave a seminar on Artificial Neural Networks at UNB, Fredericton, March 17, 1993.

21-22.    Gave two seminars Evolving Tree Transformation Systems and Incremental Communication for Artificial Neural Networks at the Dept. of Computer and System Sciences, Jawaharlal Neharu University, New Delhi, December 1993.

23.          A seminar on Parallel and Distributed Intelligent Systems: Multi-Agent Systems for e-Commerce at the National Research Council, Ottawa, January 4, 2001.

24.          Gave talk on Canadian Potato Genomics at the Bioinformatics Group meeting, Dept. of Computing Science, University of Alberta, June 27, 2001.     

25.          Gave talk on Parallel/Distributed Intelligent Systems: Multi-Agent Systems for e-Commerce at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Kaiserslautern, Germany, June 27, 2002.

26.          Gave a seminar entitled Parallel/Distributed Intelligent Systems at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Powai, Mumbai, India, on July 17 2002.

27.          Gave a seminar on Parallel/Distributed Intelligent Systems at I2IT International Institute of Information Technology (I2IT), Pune, August 16, 2002. 

28.          Gave a seminar on Bioinformatics Related Research at the University of New Brunswick at the Bioinformatics Center, University of Pune, Pune, India, August 16, 2002.

29.          Gave a seminar on The Canadian Potato Genomics project at the Dept. of Biology, University of Pune, Pune, India, August 17, 2002.   

30.          Invited talk entitled High Performance Computing at the University of New Brunswick at the IEEE New Brunswick Biennial General Meeting, Fredericton, NB, Nov. 12, 2003.

31.          Invited talk entitled Weighted Tree Similarity and Applications, June 29, L3S Research Center (www.l3s.de), Leibniz Universität Hannover, Deutscher Pavillon, Expo Plaza, 30539, Hannover, Germany, (host: Prof. Dr. techn. Wolfgang Nejdi), June 29, 2004. 

32.          Invited talk entitled Semantic Similarity Matching in e-Business Environments at the International Institute of Information Technology, Pune, India, December 19, 2005.

33           Invited seminar entitled PaGrid: A Mesh Partitioner for Computational Grids at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Feb. 23, 2006.

34.          Seminar at the Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt on  Weighted Tree-Based Similarity for e-Business Environments, May 7, 2006.

35.          Seminar at the National Technical Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece, on Weighted Tree-based Similarity for e-Business Environments, May 9, 2006.

36.          Seminar on “Semantic Matching and Applications” at the Dept. of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, July, 28, 2008.

37.          Seminar “Semantic Matching and Applications” at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, August 12, 2008.

38.          Seminar “Semantic Matching and Applications” at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, September 17, 2008.

39.          Seminar on “Semantic Matching and Applications” at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, October 2008.

40.          Seminar on “Semantic Matching and Applications: at the Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune University Campus, Pune, India, Dec. 2009.

41.          Seminar on “Semantic Matching and Applications: at the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, India, Dec. 2009.

42.          Invited talk on “Semantic Matching” at the Business Collaboration Workshop, organized by MonctonConnect.com, sponsored by ACOA, NSERC, MITACS, Faculty of Computer   Science, UNB, and Others, Le Teraz, Moncton, NB, June 9, 2010. 

43.          Seminar on “Bioinformatics: Challenges and Opportunities” at the Universitas Indonesia, UI Depok Campus 16424, Indonesia, September 22, 2010. Discussions with Prof. Eko K. Budiardjo, Prof. Wisnu Jatmiko, and several other faculty members.

44.          Seminar on “Bioinformatics: Challenges and Opportunities” at the Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia, September 23, 2010. 

45.          Seminar on “Bioinformatics: Challenges and Opportunities” at the Padjadjaran University, Jatinangor Campus, Indonesia, September 24, 2010. 

46.          Seminar on “Bioinformatics - An Overview” at a workshop, as a part of the 6th International Conference on Information & Communication Technology and Systems (ICTS), Dept. of Informatics, Faculty of Information Technology, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya,  Indonesia, Sept. 27, 2010.

47.          Invited Lecture on “Semantic Tree Matching” to the participants of the study of tour (of more than 30 graduate students and Dr. S.K. Singh) of the North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong-22, India at C-DAC, Pune, January 19, 2011.

48.          Gave a talk on ‘Research and Innovation’ at the Workshop on ‘Research Methodology’, jointly sponsored by C-DAC and Gujarat Technological University, June 9-10, 2011, Ahmadabad, GJ, India, June 2011.

49.          Gave a seminar on “Parallel Computing: Past, Present and Future”, Minzu University,          Beijing, May 16, 2012.

50.          Seminar on “Parallel Computing: Past, Present and Future”, Tsinghua University, Beijing, May 18, 2012.

51.          Gave a seminar on “Parallel Computing: Past, Present and Future”, East China New University, Minhang Campus, Shanghai, China, May 23, 2012.

52.          Seminar on “Semantic Matching and Applications”, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Minhang campus), Shanghai, China, May 24, 2012.

53.       Invited Talk, “Computing: Selected Research Frontiers”, Jayawant Shikshan Prasarak Mandal’s Institutes (Education, Management, Engineering, and Pharmacy), Tathawade campus, Pune, India, November 21, 2013.

54.      Invited Plenary Talk, “Parallel Computing and Signal Processing,” International Conference on ‘Industrial Applications of Signal processing (ICIASP 2013)’, Nov. 25-27, 2017, Karad, MH, India, organized by Dr. Daulatrao Aher College of Engineering of Shivaji University, Karad, MH, India, November 26, 2013.  Abstract, ICIASP-2013

55.       Invited Plenary Talk, “Parallel Computing: Past, Present and Future,” 4th Nirma University International Conference on Engineering (NUiCONE 2013), organized by the Institute of Technology, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, Gujrat, India, Nov. 28-20, 2013. IEEE Gujrat section Technical Sponsor. Nov. 28, 2013.

56.      Invited Expert Lecture, “Parallel Computing: past, Present and Future,” Government College of Engineering, Amravati, MS, India, the lecture was given as a part of the Golden Jubilee Year Celebrations, December 23, 2013.

57.     Invited seminar, “Similarity of Weighted Tree Structures and Applications” at the Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, June 11, 2014.

58.     Invited seminar, “Supercomputing – Past, Present and Future”, Indira College Of Engineering & Management, Parandwadi, Pune 410 506, India, June 29, 2015.

59.     Invited talk, “Research and Innovation in Advanced Computing”, C-DAC, Pune, India, June 29, 2015. 

Updated Nov. 25, 2015.