Seminars

• Seminars by Invited Speakers:

  • Digital Architectures

  • Linux: A Practical Introduction

  • Emergence: A Property Of Complex Systems

• Seminars by Students

Seminars by Invited Speakers

We have invited some speakers to give talks on some topics relating to our course.

Digital Architectures
by Mr. Firas Thalji

Mr. Thalji's talk was about some new uses of computers in recent years in carrying out designs that hitherto have been thought undoable.

Mini Resume of Mr. Thalji:

Education:

• 1996–2001: Bachelor of Architecture, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
• 2002-2005: MSc. in Architecture, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.

    Firas Thalji is an Architect, working with a leading company in engineering and architecture named Omrania & Associates, over may last 4 years my main interests were toward using computers more powerfully in architecture and not just for enhancing the exterior or interior appearance. In other words how to use computers as a tool of thinking.

The seminar was based on a slide show by Dr. Marc Aurel Schnabel.

You can get that slide show here.

Linux: A Practical Introduction
by Mr. Bilal al-Qassem

    Mr. al-Qassem gave a practical introduction to Linux, he talked about installing the system, and doing basic things with it. Mr. al-Qassem is doing a PhD in computational solid state physics at the department, and he's in the final stages of his research. In his talk, he demonstrated the use of a sophisticated programme, which he uses in his work. The programme runs on Linux.

Click here to get a transcript of the presentation made by Mr. al-Qassem.

Emergence: A Property of Complex Systems
by Dr. Khaled al-Bodoor

    Dr. Bodoor talked about complex systems in terms of defintion and properties of a complex system, examples from different disciplines and contexts, significance, and potential for new powers of understanding and explanation.

Following are some resources on the web proposed by Dr. Bodoor:

• From the Wikipedia free encyclopedia, the articles on complexity, and on emergent properties.
• A lecture on complexity.
• And finally, some philosophical aspects of the significance of complexity theory.

Mini Resume of Dr. Bodoor:

Education:

• 1993: Bachelor of Physics, Yarmouk University of Jordan, Irbid, Jordan.
• 2001: PhD in Physics, University of Virginia, USA.

    Dr. Bodoor's main areas of interest and topics of immediate research include: Nucleon form factors, light-front quark models, gauge theories.

Other areas of interest: complex systems, game theory, molecular biology, chaos theory, intillegence theories, nature of consciousness, philosophy, etc

Seminars by Students

Click to view the slide show of the seminar: