The annual welcome reception for the new evening degree students took place last night in the Gateway brasserie. The familiar but extremely useful Meet Your Tutor session followed shortly afterwards. Tuesday evening sessions for IT begin next week.
Graduate Claire Gorgan was singled out for her achievements. Congratulations Claire.
Evening Degree Programme website
After much anticipation and excitement, the School welcomes 12 new African Cichlids for the start of a new semester.
Students undertaking the pre-sessional language course before entering our taught Masters programme, had the opportunity to try out their programming skills this afternoon, in a fun and enjoyable context using Java to write programmes that control robots.
Jan de Muijnck-Hughes and Lars Kotthoff led the session in the John Honey Building.
The Basilica reconstruction was a collaborative project between the School of Classics and the School Computer Science. Research Blog
A reconstruction of St Andrews Cathedral has also taken place.
The reconstruction was a research topic for successful computer science and information technology MSc. dissertations in the summer of 2010 and 2011.
Technical support was available in regular laboratory sessions; in addition students had input from experts in the history and architecture of the cathedral and direct access to the physical site.
A key innovative aspect of this project was to situate the reconstruction within the immersive 3D virtual world OpenSim. This allows visitors to explore the reconstruction through the proxy of an avatar.
A small celebratory cake for Angus.
The MSc poster presentations and project demonstrations took place this afternoon. We wish all of our MSc students good luck as they finish their dissertations and move closer to graduation!
Mirco Musolesi leaves the School today to start his new post in Birmingham. Thank you for the cakes from a local Royal supplier. Good luck and we will hopefully see you in St Andrews in the future.
Research by Tom Kelsey and colleagues from Glasgow and Edinburgh into normative models of hormone levels has been featured in the Daily Telegraph, the Scotsman, and the Express. Read the original paper here.
St Andrews PhD student Lars Kotthoff has won the Best Student Paper award at the Fourth Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search. His paper, co-authored by Ian Gent and Ian Miguel, has the title “A Preliminary Evaluation of Machine Learning in Algorithm Selection for Search Problems” and compares the performance of different Machine Learning techniques on several Algorithm Selection problems from the literature.
More information, including the paper, can be found on Lars’ website here.
Research by Ian Gent and Lars Kotthoff into the suitability of virtualised hardware for computational experiments is featured in a recent article of the HPC in the cloud site. The article contains a description of the research and an interview with Lars Kotthoff.
Read more at HPC in the cloud.
