Postgraduate

PGR Seminar with Carla Davesa Sureda

The next PGR seminar is taking place this Friday 22nd November at 2PM in JC 1.33a Below is a Title and Abstract for Carla’s talk – Please do come along if you are able. Title: Towards High-Level Modelling in Automated Planning Abstract: Planning is a fundamental activity, arising frequently in many contexts, from daily tasks PGR Seminar with Carla Davesa Sureda

Fully funded PhD scholarship in Algorithms for Data Science

Lead supervisor: Dr Peter Macgregor Application deadline: 1 March 2025 Project description: Modern data science and machine learning applications involve datasets with millions of data points and hundreds of dimensions. For example, deep learning pipelines produce massive vector datasets representing text, image, audio and other data types. The analysis of such datasets with classical algorithms Fully funded PhD scholarship in Algorithms for Data Science

AI Seminar Tuesday 19th November – Francesco Leofante

The School is hosting an AI seminar on Tuesday 19th November at 11am in JCB1.33A/B Our speaker is Francesco Leofante from Imperial College London. Title: Robustness issues in algorithmic recourse. Abstract: Counterfactual explanations (CEs) are advocated as being ideally suited to providing algorithmic recourse for subjects affected by the predictions of machine learning models. While AI Seminar Tuesday 19th November – Francesco Leofante

PhD Viva Success: Yingxue Fu

On behalf of the school, we would like to congratulate Yingxue Fu supervised by Mark-Jan Nederhoff, who has passed their PhD viva with minor corrections. Thanks to Dr Alice Tonilo who was internal examiner and Professor Amir Zeldes from Georgetown University as external examiner. Many congratulations to Yingxue!

PGR Seminar with Ariane Hine

The PGR seminars for this academic year are beginning this Friday 8th November at 2PM in JC 1.33A/B Below is a title and Abstract for Ariane’s talk – Please do come along if you are able. Title: Enhancing and Personalising Endometriosis Care with Causal Machine Learning Abstract: Endometriosis poses significant challenges in diagnosis and management PGR Seminar with Ariane Hine

Week 1 Social Events

The following social events are being held in the School this week in the Jack Cole coffee area:- Monday 16 September – 17:00 – 18:00 – MSc and MSci welcome reception (TODAY) Wednesday 18 September – 16:00 – 17:00 – Honours (Junior & Senior) welcome reception Friday 20 September – 17:00 – 18:00 – Sub-honours Week 1 Social Events

STACS Welcome BBQ 🍔

If you are a new Undergraduate or Postgraduate Taught student to the School of Computer Science, you are invited to the STACS Welcome BBQ outside the Jack Cole Coffee Area on Friday 13th September 5.30pm-7.30pm. The usual BBQ favourites will be available from the grill and refreshments will be provided. We look forward to seeing STACS Welcome BBQ 🍔