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
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
You are warmly invited to the next PRG Seminar. Date & Time: Monday 13/10/2025 14:00-14:40 Location: JC 1.33A Speaker: Qurat ul ain Shaheen Title: A Framework for Uncertainty Sampling in Active Learning Abstract: Uncertainty sampling is an active learning paradigm where data instances representing maximum uncertainty for a machine learning model are selected for training. This … PGR Seminar – Qurat ul ain Shaheen
You are warmly invited to the next PRG Seminar. Date & Time: Monday 06/10/2025 14:00-14:40 Location: JC 1.33A Speaker: David Morrison Title: Synthetic Whole Slide Image Patch Embeddings for Multiple Instance Learning Abstract: Obtaining high-quality data is a persistent challenge for the training of computational pathology models. As medical data, Whole-slide images (WSIs) are often held … PGR Seminar – David Morrison
There will be a series of talks at the Global Research Centre for Diverse Intelligences which might be interesting to staff in the School. It will be a mix of discussions about how different fields (i.e., not just CS) think about intelligence and some talks about various sub-fields of AI presented by CS staff. Talks … Seminar series on computing intelligence
The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 3rd October 11:00-12:00 in JC 1.33A. Below are the Titles and Abstracts for Sharon and Mirza’s talks – Please do come along if you are able. Sharon Pisani Title: Building Sustainable Heritage Virtual Museums for Communities using Sociodata Abstract: Virtual museums are moving beyond simple digitisation … PGR Seminar – Sharon Pisani & Mirza Hossain
You are warmly invited to the second School Seminar: Speaker: Peter Macgregor Title: Fast Dynamic Algorithms for Modern Clustering Abstract: Spectral clustering and DBSCAN both have long histories as theoretically grounded, general-purpose clustering algorithms. However, they face practical challenges when scaling to large datasets which have limited their adoption in practice. In recent work, we … School Seminar – Peter Macgregor “Fast Dynamic Algorithms for Modern Clustering”