Students and staff are pictured at the yearly PhD poster session, held last week. The dynamic session offers a perfect opportunity for supervisors and reviewers to catch up with student progress, and is a great venue for students to meet up and consider research ideas with their colleagues.
This Friday the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland is hosting a panel discussion and debate to celebrate the 60th anniversary of one of the most influential essays of all time. CP Snow’s “The two cultures” has passed into popular culture as the idea that arts and sciences are separated by an almost unbridgeable gap in understanding. But is this still true, as science and technology become ever more entwined with our everyday lives? Can we afford to tolerate mutual incomprehension between different groups, and how might we bridge the gap?
A small panel will discuss “The two cultures” and its relevance to modern times in the Studio Theatre at the Byre from 6pm on Friday 13th May, followed by a drinks reception. The panel includes Prof SimonDobson from the School of Computer Science, who also directs the St Andrews Institute for Data-Intensive Research that aims in part to bridge the two cultures by bringing data-driven computational techniques to both arts and science projects.
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An internship is available, working with Susmit Sarkar on theorem prover definitions for cache verification. More details below:
Detailed internship ad.
The deadline for applications is Friday 13 May.
Congratulations to School Administrator Alex Bain, who completed the London Marathon for worldwide cancer research. Alex, runner no 5089 is pictured below with his finisher’s medal. Donations to recognise his achievement and preparatory training, can still be made via his Justgiving page.
Our talented industrious senior honours students presented their posters and final year software artifacts to staff and students last week. The best poster accolade and coveted amazon voucher was presented to Thomas Morrell for his poster – Emotion Recognition from Gait Using Smartphone Accelerometer Data, supervised by Erica .
As Illustrated in the many pictures, the poster session is a perfect opportunity to share research ideas with their peer group. We wish them success with forthcoming exams and look forward to seeing them at June graduation.
Images courtesy of Lisa Dow and Saleem Bhatti
Our hard working and creative Junior Honours students finalised their team projects last week, and showcased the results of their year long endeavors at a project demo afternoon. This year’s JH projects involved implementing a system for online collaborative editing. Staff and students are pictured discussing the projects and testing out the various text, graphics and sound editing systems.
Two new internships for summer 2016 are available in the Artificial Intelligence Research Group.
Internship 1: “What did I just do and how can I do it again?”
Supervisors: Ian Gent & Chris Jefferson
Internship 2: “Mixed Integer Programming Backend for Savile Row”
Supervisors: Chris Jefferson & Peter Nightingale
The deadline for applying is Wednesday 4th May 2016.
More details in this pdf: Computer Science Internship Summer 2016
Another internship is available this summer, working with Ian Miguel on scheduling astronomical observations for detecting exoplanets. Details here:
The deadline for applications is Friday 6th May.
Two internships will be available this summer working with Dharini Balasubramaniam and Uta Hinrichs on developing an interactive teaching resource for learning programming language concepts.
Further details are available here.
The deadline for applications is Friday 22 April.
Tell us what you think of our videos and you could win a £20 Netflix or Amazon voucher!
You will be asked to watch and assess the video quality of four 1-minute online video clips, as well as complete a short questionnaire related to your regular video usage and your energy-saving awareness and preferences. Your participation should take around 20 to 30 minutes.
Optionally, you will be entered into a prize draw for a £20 Netflix or Amazon voucher.
You must be 18 years or over.
Please contact Oche Ejembi <ooe@st-andrews.ac.uk>
UTREC approval code: CS12016
Contact Details
Researcher: Oche Ejembi
email: ooe@st-andrews.ac.uk
Supervisor: Prof. Saleem Bhatti
email: saleem@st-andrews.ac.uk
