Distinguished Lecture Series 2014: Luca Cardelli

The 2014 Distinguished Lecture Series took place on Tuesday in Lower College Hall. This year’s speaker Prof Luca Cardelli of Microsoft Research and the University of Oxford, delivered three lectures involving Morphisms of Reaction Networks that Couple Structure to Function. Slides from the lectures are now available: http://lucacardelli.name/indexTalks.html Abstract The mechanisms underlying complex biological systems … Distinguished Lecture Series 2014: Luca Cardelli

PhD Viva Success

Congratulations to Dr Lei Fang, who passed his PhD viva yesterday. He is pictured below with Supervisor Professor Simon Dobson, External Examiner Dr Iain Bate from York University and Internal Examiner Dr Adam Barker.

Christianne Fahey: Debut Cap for Scotland

Congratulations to undergraduate student Christianne Fahey who made her rugby debut for Scotland in L’Aquila at the weekend. Scotland Women took on their Italian counterparts as a warm up for the 6 Nations. Read more about the game on the Scottish Rugby Website.

Movember: Tash on a Stick Cookies

Delicious and for a great cause. Brynja and Rosa visited Computer Science to raise money for Movember. They have raised approximately £1,000 so far, so keep on buying. Find out more on Facebook.

School Seminar: Cloud Platform in Financial Services – Allan Beck, J.P. Morgan

Title: Cloud Platform in Financial Services Presenter: Allan Beck, Cloud Platform and Strategy Lead from JPMorgan Chase Abstract: Cloud Computing is revolutionising the delivery of compute services and driving the next generation of web-scale application design. This presents enormous opportunities but also challenges, particularly in heavily regulated sectors such as Financial Services. Allan Beck, Cloud … School Seminar: Cloud Platform in Financial Services – Allan Beck, J.P. Morgan

Thursday Seminar from Japan – Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura – Interactive Content Design and 3D Interactions

Date: 2014-11-13 Time: 14:00 to 15:00 Location: Maths Lecture Theatre A, North Haugh, University of St Andrews. Title: Interactive Content Design and 3D Interactions Abstract: Good media content has the power to enrich our lives. We focus on non-traditional content other than movies, music and games, conducting comprehensive research on a variety of interactive content … Thursday Seminar from Japan – Prof. Yoshifumi Kitamura – Interactive Content Design and 3D Interactions

Computer Science: Semester One

Semester one so far has seen new arrivals in the fish tank, great minds at the think tank, a thank you from MacMillan and a cake for Ada Lovelace Day (supplied by Ishbel Duncan).

Fun and Fireworks

Some stunning pictures of the North Haugh and recent Guy Fawkes Night fireworks at the East Sands. Images courtesy of MSc student Xu Zhu.

Distinguished lecture 2014

The first of this academic year’s distinguished lectures will be given by Prof Luca Cardelli of Microsoft Research and the University of Oxford, 0930–1600 on Tuesday 25 November in Lower College Hall.

Supporting the Design of Shape-Changing Interfaces by Jason Alexander, Lancaster University

Abstract: Shape-changing interfaces physically mutate their visual display surface to better represent on-screen content, provide an additional information channel, and facilitate tangible interaction with digital content. The HCI community has recently shown increasing interest in this area, with their physical dynamicity fundamentally changing how we think about displays. This talk will describe our current work … Supporting the Design of Shape-Changing Interfaces by Jason Alexander, Lancaster University