Month: November 2025

PGR Seminar: Ben Claydon and Joseph Loughney

You are warmly invited to the next PGR Seminar.  Monday 17/11/2025 14:00-15:00  JC 1.33A Speaker: Ben Claydon Title: Improvements to Space Partitioning Trees for Similarity Search Abstract: Searching large, unstructured collections of data for objects deemed of relevance to a user-provided query is an increasingly important task. For example, when a user inputs a query PGR Seminar: Ben Claydon and Joseph Loughney

PGR Seminar: Charis Hanna and Maria Andrei

You are warmly invited to the next PGR Seminar. Date & Time: Monday 10/11/2025 14:00-15:00 Location: JC 1.33A Speaker: Charis Hanna Title: Self-Supervised Learning for Efficient Ecological Monitoring Abstract: Cliff-nesting birds serve as valuable indicators of marine ecosystem health, yet dense populations and remote habitats present significant challenges for automated monitoring. With current state-of-the-art object PGR Seminar: Charis Hanna and Maria Andrei

Winter Graduation Reception

We invite our graduating students and their guests to join us for a celebration of their achievements. Please come along to a small reception with a glass of fizz and some Fisher & Donaldson cakes. The event will take place on Tuesday 2nd December between 12.30pm and 2.30pm in the Jack Cole coffee area. We Winter Graduation Reception

School Seminar: Jon Rogers, “There’s plenty of room in our communities: Rethinking computational scale through open hardware”

You are warmly invited to the third School Seminar: Speaker: Jon Rogers Title: There’s plenty of room in our communities: Rethinking computational scale through open hardware Abstract: The dominant business model of Big Tech is built on scale. Scale to outpace competitors, capture global markets, and consolidate control. Today, just a handful of companies mediate School Seminar: Jon Rogers, “There’s plenty of room in our communities: Rethinking computational scale through open hardware”