Taking a break from revision before exams commence, students and staff enjoyed a very welcome visit from Rod Stoddart and his therapy dogs Clova, Mia and new friend Buddy. Interaction with dogs can lower stress levels and increase happiness and motivation. Rod has been helping people with his therapy dogs for 10 years and is … Therapy Dogs visit to CS
On behalf of the School of Computer Science, we would like to congratulate all of our graduating students. We wish you all the very best of luck! 🎓
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
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
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
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”
Please join us for an in-person event entitled ‘Symbolic reasoning’ on Wednesday 29 October 2025 between 1:30pm and 3pm. To help monitor attendance, please register using the link below. This event is open to all members of the community at the University of St Andrews. Speaker: Dr Ruth Hoffman, School of Computer Science, University of St … AI Seminar – Symbolic reasoning with Dr Ruth Hoffmann Wednesday 29 October
You are warmly invited to the next PGR Seminar. Date & Time: Monday 20/10/2025 14:00-15:00 Location: JC 1.33A Speaker: Erdem Kus Title: Frugal Algorithm Selection for Combinatorial Search Abstract: Solvers for combinatorial search and optimisation problems often exhibit highly complementary performance: instances that are hard for one solver may be easy for another. The Algorithm Selection … PGR Seminar – Erdem Kus & Junyu Zhang
The Inaugural Lecture showcase takes place at Buchanan Lecture Theatre on Wednesday 15th October at 4:00pm. Professor Richard Connor ‘Finding New Dogs with Old Tricks’ Professor Juliana Bowles ‘The Temporality of Formal Reasoning: As it was, as it is and as it could be’ Professor Susmit Sarkar ‘Peering Inside the Box: Making Modern Computing Safer … Inaugural Lecture showcase Wednesday 15th October
Congratulations to Zihan Zhang (supervised by Dr Blesson Varghese) who has passed his PhD viva subject to minor corrections. Thanks to Dr Poonam Yadav (University of York) for serving as the external examiner.