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
This years Distinguished Lecture series was delivered yesterday ( Tuesday 1st April) by Professor Arthur Zimek, University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark. In his talk on, ‘Data Mining and the “Curse of Dimensionality”’ he considered the challenges of the “curse” from the perspective of data mining. In Talk 1, he discussed the “curse” in … Distinguished Lecture Series 2025
This years Distinguished Lecture series was delivered yesterday ( Tuesday 12th March) by Professor Neil Lawrence, University of Cambridge In his talk on, ‘The Atomic Human Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI’ he gave an overview of where we are now with machine learning solutions, and what challenges we face both in the near … Distinguished Lecture series 2024
Can a user write a good MIP model without understanding linearization? Modelling languages such as AMPL and AIMMS are being extended to support more features, with the goal of making MIP modelling easier. A big step is the incorporation of predicates, such a “cycle” which encapsulate MIP sub-models. This talk explores the impact of such predicates … MIP Modelling Made Manageable
Next Monday is the annual St Andrews Bioinformatics workshop in Seminar Room 1, School of Medicine. Some of the presentations are very relevant to Computer Science, and all should be interesting. More information below: Agenda: 14:00 – 14:15: Valeria Montano: The PreNeolithic evolutionary history of human genetic resistance to Plasmodium falciparum 14:15 – 14:30: Chloe Hequet: Estimation … St Andrews Bioinformatics Workshop 10/06/19
The School of Computer Science is delighted to announce the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Ian Miguel. Title: ‘Constraint Satisfaction and the Crystal Maze’ Abstract: In numerous contexts today we are faced with making decisions of increasing size and complexity, where many different considerations interlock in complex ways. Consider, for example, a staff rostering problem to … Inaugural Lecture: ‘Constraint Satisfaction and the Crystal Maze’ by Professor Ian Miguel
The first of this academic year’s distinguished lectures will be given by Prof Luca Cardelli of Microsoft Research and the University of Oxford, 0930–1600 on Tuesday 25 November in Lower College Hall.
Abstract: The talk discusses my experiences starting-up, running, and winding-down a company spun-out of a university. I’ll be concentrating on the business side rather than the technology.
Prof Simon Dobson will be giving a lecture for CS3053 about his experience as founder and CEO of a start-up company spun-out of a university. This will focus on the business aspects — getting the company started, running it, growing, funding it, and eventually winding it down — rather than on the technology, and try … Confessions of a start-up founder
Professor Aaron Quigley will be giving his Inaugural Lecture in School III on Wednesday 31st October at 5:15 p.m. Billions of people are using interconnected computers and have come to rely on the computational power they afford us, to support their lives, or advance our global economy and society. However, how we interact with this … Professor Aaron Quigley Inaugural lecture