Vocalist Shahida Nurullah and guitarist Vaughn Klugh, instructors in the School of Creative Arts, will headline an evening of jazz Friday, February 16.

UWindsor music students and alumni are also on the playbill that includes the Coffee House Combo, Soul Brother Mike, and Crissi Cochrane.

The show opens at 7:30 p.m. in All Saints’ Church’s Scott Hall, 330 City Hall Square. Tickets are $15, with discounted rates of $10 for seniors and $5 for students.

Tubamania! recital set for Friday

A recital by tubist Travis Scott is set for 7:30 p.m. Friday, February 16, in the Multimedia Studio in the SoCA Freedom Way Building. It’s a new date for “Tubamania,” rescheduled due to last week’s inclement weather.

Scott teaches tuba and euphonium in the School of Creative Arts. He will be accompanied Friday by pianist Hyekyung Lee.

Tickets are $20, with a student rate of $5. Find more information, including brief performer biographies and a full concert program, on the event website.

Short films highlighting issues around missing or murdered Indigenous women and girls are the subject of a free public screening on the University of Windsor campus Thursday, February 15.

The Aboriginal Education Centre and the Arts Council Windsor & Region will show:

• Souvenir, a series of four films by First Nations filmmakers that remix archival footage to address Indigenous identity and representation, reframing Canadian history through a contemporary lens; and
• This River, a documentary that offers an Indigenous perspective on the devastating experience of searching for a loved one who has disappeared.

The event is set for room 1100 of the Ed Lumley Centre for Engineering Innovation at 7 p.m.

It follows on campus activities to call attention to the issue of violence towards Indigenous woman and children, says Aboriginal outreach co-ordinator Kathryn Pasquach.

“This River will carry the same theme about Indigenous women and Canada’s need to do justice for them,” she says.

Learn more on the centre’s website.

Lancer men’s hockey will open a best-of-three series against the Guelph Gryphons on Thursday, February 15, in the first round of the 2018 playoffs.

Windsor rode a three-game winning streak to qualify for the post-season; Guelph finished atop the Ontario University Athletics west division.

Thursday’s contest will be webcast live starting at 7:30 p.m. The series will come to Windsor for game two, Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Capri Pizzeria Recreation Complex. Game three, if necessary, will be back in Guelph on Sunday at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets for the Lancers’ home game Saturday are $10, $8 for youth and seniors, $3 for UWindsor students, available at the gate or at www.goLancers.ca/tickets. Note: All-Sport passes, LYFE tickets, and guest tickets are not valid for the post-season.

Lancer basketball is on the home court this weekend, with games against Waterloo on Friday and Brock on Saturday. The women will tip off at 6 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday; the men at 8 p.m. Friday and 6 p.m. Saturday. All games are in the Dennis Fairall Fieldhouse.

Saturday is senior’s day for men’s and women’s basketball teams; both squads will honour their graduating players at the game.

Track and field athletes will compete in two Michigan meets this weekend — Friday in Ann Arbor for the Silverston Invitational, and Saturday in Hillsdale for the Hillsdale Tune-Up.

Find details on all the varsity action at goLancers.ca.

A competition offering cash prizes challenges UWindsor students interested in computational intelligence, data mining, machine learning, and cybernetics domains to exercise and improve their problem solving, analytical, programming, and technical writing skills.

The IEEE Joint Chapter of Computational Intelligence Society and Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Windsor Section, is hosting its first IEEE CIS/SMC Challenge.

Competitors will solve a problem using a classification algorithm including, but not limited to: neural networks, probabilistic classifiers, fuzzy networks, support vector machines, decision trees. Entries must include a report describing the implementation procedure, main steps, and the attained results.

Three prizes will be awarded, valued at $300, $200, and $100. Submissions are open now, with a deadline of April 18.

Find details, as well as the challenge dataset, on the Windsor Engineering website.

With the help of medical doctors, researchers, and consumer advocates, filmmaker Kip Andersen exposes the collusion and corruption in government and big business that is costing trillions of healthcare dollars and keeping people sick.

What the Health, the follow-up film to his 2014 documentary Cowspiracy, will enjoy a free public screening at 5 p.m. Friday, February 16, at the Green Bean Café, 2320 Wyandotte Street East.

Andersen promises a surprising, and at times hilarious, investigative documentary that will be an eye-opener for everyone concerned about health and how big business influences it. With heart disease and cancer the leading causes of death in America, and diabetes at an all-time high, he seeks to reveal possibly the largest health cover-up of our time.

A discussion with cardiologist and author Joel Kahn will follow the film. The event is hosted by Windsor Animal Allies. To RSVP, email WindsorAnimalAllies@gmail.com. Find more info on the Facebook event page.

Argument mining is the automatic detection or, especially, extraction of arguments from natural language texts.

Waleed Mebane, a doctoral candidate in argumentation studies, will explore the topic in a free public lecture Friday, February 16.

“In this talk I will give an overview of standard approaches to argument mining, especially approaches presented in seminal papers, and I will also give an overview of some recent promising approaches,” he says.

The event begins at 3 p.m. in room 105, Memorial Hall. It is sponsored by the argumentation studies program and the Centre for Research in Reasoning, Argumentation, and Rhetoric.

Friends and colleagues of UWindsor staff members Nancy and Peter Steeves will gather to offer congratulations on their retirements at an open house reception Friday, February 16.

Nancy Steeves is an admissions and recruitment specialist in the faculty of Graduate Studies and Office of Quality Assurance. Peter Steeves is a computing consultant in the Department of Information Technology Services. The two will retire at the end of the month.

Friday’s reception will run 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in room 4108, Leddy Library.