Month: May 2015

June 2nd, Seminar by John Stasko: “New Approaches for Information Visualization: Rethinking Existing Notions”

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The School of Computer Science welcomes the opportunity to hear from Professor John Stasko of Georgia Tech,who will be delivering his talk on “New Approaches for Information Visualization: Rethinking Existing Notions” remotely. Abstract: As the field of information visualization matures, researchers are able to reflect on, and perhaps even question,     some long-accepted notions from the … June 2nd, Seminar by John Stasko: “New Approaches for Information Visualization: Rethinking Existing Notions”

PhD Viva Success

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Congratulations to To Chris Schneider, who has successfully defended his PhD thesis. Chris is pictured celebrating with supervisor Prof Simon Dobson, external examiner Dr Radu Calinescu from the University of York, and internal examiner Dr Graham Kirby.

Scottish Programing Languages Seminar

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The School of Computer Science of the University of St Andrews is organizing the next Scottish Programing Languages Seminar which will be held on Monday 15th June 2015 in Lecture Room 2 of the Gateway. In the meantime you can keep up-to-date by following the SPLS website. For further enquiries please contact Frantisek Farka.

Teachers Together

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The School is welcoming teachers and representatives of Local Education Authorities to a departmental visit as part of the Teachers Together Conference. Attendees will hear about our computer science degree programmes, access routes and outreach activities.

First Chances

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Secondary School pupils from across Fife are given a taste of what studying computer science at university involves. They will take part in an interactive lecture and a programming activity. These sessions are part of First Chances at St Andrews.

S4 Summer School

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S4 pupils take part in fun, hands-on activities themed around Computer Science and Medicine. They will have the opportunity to work in groups to build and deploy their own Android application. This session is run in collaboration with Reach Scotland, Access for Rural Communities (ARC), and the Academic Mentoring Project (AMP).

First IDIR Summer of V’s workshop

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Computer Science was well represented at a workshop on the challenges of variability in data-driven research that was held earlier this week.

Visualizing and writing variable-free compositional relational programs

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Abstract: Representing argument binding in compositional relational programs is an issue due to the syntactic problems. We first present our former research on using visualization to overcome this problem, and relevant user studies, and go on to discuss our recent work on syntactic improvements in solving the same problem. We are looking forward to feedback … Visualizing and writing variable-free compositional relational programs

PhD Scholarship in Data Science

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Potential PhD students with a strong background in Computer Science are encouraged to apply for this three-year studentship funded by the Research Council of the European Commission (ERC). The student will work within an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Computer Science and Geography in the WORKANDHOME project (ERC Starting Grant 2014), which investigates how home-based … PhD Scholarship in Data Science

Scott Lang Dinner 2015

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Peter Redford Scott Lang (1850-1926) was a Professor of Mathematics at St Andrews University from 1879 until his retirement in 1921. He had studied at Edinburgh University, and taught there before being appointed to St Andrews. Having seen the “ordinary student fare of the mid nineteenth century and menus of term time dinners” he instigated … Scott Lang Dinner 2015