Acadia ALERT - Campus Closed (Hazardous Conditions)

Today, Monday January 19, 2026, Acadia University will remain closed, with the exception of residences and Wheelock Dining Hall, due to the hazardous campus conditions. Wheelock Dining Hall may adjust their hours and any change in hours will be communicated through Residence Life.

Employees and students are not expected to come to campus and only employees deemed essential are required to report to work. Non-essential employees are not expected to work during the closure. Any events scheduled for today will be postponed or cancelled.

Updates will be posted on www.acadiau.ca and pre-recorded on Acadia’s Information Line: 902-585-4636 (585-INFO) and on 585 phone system voicemail. If you need emergency-related information, please contact the Department of Safety and Security by dialing 88 on all 585-phone systems, or by calling 902-585-1103.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Acadia University

Department of Safety & Security

902-585-1103

security@acadiau.ca

(Monday January 19, 2026 @ 10:52 am)

2013 Joint Rough Set Symposium

Acadia University in collaboration with St. Mary's University and Dalhousie University will co-host the 2013 Joint Rough Set Symposium (JRS-2013)  on October 10-13, 2013 - http://cs.smu.ca/jrs2013/.   JRS-2013 will bring together 75 of the worlds top researchers in the area of rough set mathematics and computer science theory and its application to problems in Data Mining, Data Analytics and Big Data.

JRS-2013 is a joint conference of the 14th International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing (RSFDGrC13) and the Eighth International Conference on Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology (RSKT2013). It will also host the workshops on Rough Set Theory (RST 2013) and Rough Set Applications (RSA 2013). 

 

The Acadia portion of the conference on October 12 will feature two invited speakers - 

Vijay Raghavan (University of Louisanna at Lafayette) who willl present work on Representations for Large-scale Sequence Data Mining: A Tale of Two Vector Space Models; and 

Jian Pei (Simon Fraser University) who will discuss Some New Progress in Analyzing and Mining Uncertain and Probabilistic Data for Big Data Analytics.

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