We would like to invite all of our first year and direct entry students for snacks and refreshments in the Jack Cole Coffee Area tomorrow ( Wednesday 11th September) from 5-6pm.
This is a great opportunity to meet staff and fellow students.
News
WICS Coffee Break is back!
Women in Computer Science is back and are excited to invite you to the first coffee break of the academic year. This is a perfect opportunity for incoming students and returning students to meet each other and academic staff in the School.
Event Details:
- Date: Wednesday 11th September
- Time: 14:00-15:00
- Where: Jack Cole Coffee Area
Chat, coffee and snacks available!
Orientation 2024
We look forward to welcoming all our students to the School for the new academic year.
Details of the events for staff and students scheduled for the week commencing 9th September are in the Computer Science Orientation Programme.
More information on the University Orientation and Induction Events provides students with an overview of the University, and important dates to mark in your calendar.
GAP Days Summer 2024 @ St Andrews
The School of Computer Science hosted this years Summer GAP Days between 26th August and 30th August.
GAP Days are workshops where developers and users with programming experience are invited to influence the future development of [GAP] by initiating and contributing to discussions and coding sprints.
These GAP Days have been special as we celebrated 10 years of the [Digraphs] package as well as 10 years of [GAP Days] (to the week!).
We had a great selection of speakers and attendees from varied backgrounds, which cumulated in the release of the re-vamped GAP webpage, and over 30 new versions of packages!
PhD Viva Success: Di Wu
On behalf of the school, we would like to congratulate Di Wu supervised by Blesson Varghese, who has passed his PhD viva with minor corrections.
Thanks to Professor Graham Kirby who was internal examiner and Dr Chris Anagnostopoulos from Glasgow as external examiner.
PhD Viva Success: Yuheng Wang
On behalf of the school, we would like to congratulate Yuheng Wang supervised by Juan Ye, who has passed his PhD viva with minor corrections.
Thanks to Dr Kasim Terzic as internal examiner and Dr Stuart King from Edinburgh, as external examiner.
Graduation 2024
On behalf of the School of Computer Science, we would like to congratulate all of this year’s graduating students.
We wish you all the very best of luck!
First Away Day between Constrained Programming group and Statistical Ecology group held over the summer
The first Away Day between Constrained Programming group from the Computer Science department and Statistical Ecology group from the Centre for Research into Ecological and Environmental modeling (https://www.creem.st-andrews.ac.uk/) was organized over the summer on May 7th, 2024 from 9:30 to 3:00 p.m. It was organised by Ian Miguel and Özgür Akgün from the constraint programming group and by David Borchers and Chris Sutherland from the statistical ecology group. The event was attended by 20 people including faculty members and PhD students from both the departments. The title of the Away Day was “Exploring the connection between constraint programming and statistical ecology”.
This was the first event from the School of Computer Science to be held in the Boiler Room, House Education Centre in the Botanic Gardens in St Andrews. It makes a beautiful location for an Away Day. The room used to be a storage house but has recently been converted to a meeting room that can be booked for free by all students and staff.
The Away Day was opened by two talks from the constraint programming group. The first one was delivered by Özgür Akgün with the title “A short survey of work on Statistics & Constraint programming”. The second talk was “A quick introduction on automated algorithm configuration and selection” by Nguyen Dang.
These were followed by two talks from the statistical ecology group. The first speaker was Prof. David Borchers who was recently awarded the RSS Barnett Award for 2024 by the Royal Statistics Society (RSS) for his work in developing new methodologies and spatial capture-recapture. He presented a talk on “Dealing with recapture uncertainty in spatial capture-recapture”. The second speaker was Chris Sutherland who talked about “Optimal sampling in ecological monitoring”.
The event concluded by open discussions on opportunities for collaboration between the two groups and funding opportunities. The Away Day was a success since it confirmed statistical ecology as a potential application area for constraint programming. On the other side, it identified the potential of constraint programming for providing computational efficiency in dealing with spatial capture-recapture problems for statistical ecology.
Blog post written by science communicator Qurat Ul Ain Shaheen
CS Graduation Reception
On behalf of the school, we would like to invite our Graduating Students and your guests to our upcoming graduation reception.
Please join us in celebrating your achievements and marking this significant milestone in your academic journey with a glass of bubbly and some cakes from Fisher and Donaldsons
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- Date: Wednesday, 12th June
- Time: 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM
- Location: Jack Cole Coffee area
We look forward to seeing you there.
Best Wishes,
The Admin Team
Distinguished Lecture series 2024
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 and far future. These include the practical application of existing algorithms in the face of the need to explain decision-making, mechanisms for improving the quality and availability of data and dealing with large unstructured datasets.
