Awesome Asetin

A curated list of awesome groups, events, and survival resources. Made with love for the members of ASETIN, University Laval, Québec City.

Contents

• Student associations
• Student seminars, conferences and talks
• Programming contests and competitions
• Popular event groups for students
• Various Student Projects
• Research groups
• Other useful tools and resources

Student associations

• ASETIN - For all computer science students, also regroups the AEGLO and ASETIIG.
• AEGLO - For software engineering students.
• ASETIIG - For computer science management students.
• AESGUL - For all engineering students of the FSG.
• CADEUL - For all students.
• AEGSEG - For all Masters and Doctorate students of the FSG.
• AELIES - For all Masters and Doctorate students.

Student seminars, conferences and talks

• Machine Learning Québec - Machine Learning talks for students and developers. Talks can be jointly organized with the CFI-UL.
• CFI-UL - A motivated student group for CS competitions and related training. Manages talks for the CS Games and the CS Games.
• CS Games 2015 Seminars - Talks given for the students selection for the 2016 edition of the CS Games [see winners].
• CS Games 2016 Seminars - Talks given for the students selection for the 2017 edition of the CS Games. This group is now more general and accepts talks for everything.
• CS Games 2017 Seminars - Talks given for the students selection for the 2018 edition of the CS Games especially hosted at University Laval here this year!
• IGGG - IFT-GLO-GEL-GIF: Computer Vision & Applied Machine Learning Reading Group.

Programming contests and competitions

• Coveo Blits - Test your web and algorithmic skills [2016 Winners] [2017 Winners].
• CS Games - Computer Science Games is where teams from many universities compete for their programming skills.
• NorthSec - Security Training Conference Competition CTF is based in Montréal, taking place each year.
• Hackfest - A hacking competition.
• Jeux de Génie - Friendly Engineering Games.
• Startup Weekend Québec - Build a startup in 54 hours.

Popular event groups for students

• WAQ - Web At Québec the largest French-speaking digital event in North America.
• JIQ - Various IT and business talks.
• CUSEC - The Canadian University Software Engineering Conference, in Montréal.
• ITIS - Manages many research groups and related events.
• CFI-UL - A motivated student group for CS competitions and related training.
• Hacking ULaval - A group under the CFI-UL, for hacking.
• Game Development ULaval - A group under the CFI-UL, for game development.
• Machine Learning Québec - Machine Learning talks for students and developers.
• IEEE UL - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers's UL group for the professional student life of GEL-GIF-IFT-GLO.
• Quebec City Tech User Groups - A list of tech events and groups in Québec.

Various student projects and open-source student projects

• Formule Autonome - A self driving car project.
• RoboCup ULaval - Robots playing soccer.
• GAUL - Building a rocket.
• LSTM HAR - Activity recognition from phone sensors, demo/tutorial project.
• SUCH-Vim - A Super User's Configuration for Handling Vim.
• Casino2016 - Game for the annual FSG casino night.
• Deck swiper - Tinder-like react-native deck swiper UI.
• Smoothly Blend Image Patches - Make fancy predictions when analyzing satellite images.
• CNN CIFAR 100 - Optimize a humonguous neural network automatically: a tutorial.
• Signal Prediction - Interactive exercises to learn to predict signal with neural networks [WAQ 2017 slides: start here].
• MonPortail API - API for https://monportail.ulaval.ca

Research groups

• GRAAL - Machine Learning theory and applications research group.
• CRG - Geomatics Research Center.
• LVSN - Computer vision lab, FSG.
• REPARTI - Artificial intelligence research on perception, modelization/reasonning/learning and interaction.
• CRDM - Big Data Research Center.
• DAMAS - Brahim Chaib-draa's lab.
• UMR-SU - Joint Research Unit in urban sciences, research and innovation network.

Other useful tools and resources

• Student Developer Pack - "The best developer tools, free for students", by GitHub.
• LiberT - IT and Software Program for UL, free software awaits.
• JetBrains for Students - Free JetBrains products for students.
• Awesome Deep Learning Resources - A curated list resources for learning artificial neural networks (Artificial Intelligence).
• IFT-GLO Program Committees - Program Committees for IFT-GLO, by year.
• GLO Organizational Charts - Classes charts for planning your study schedule.