University of Hertfordshire

Computer Science Research Colloquium

Wednesdays 3-4 pm
Lecture Theatre E350
Hatfield, College Lane Campus

Schedule for 2008-2009 *

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Next Lecture:
• 20 May 2009 in Lecture Theatre E351
  "Agents, Teamwork, and Verification - from formal logics to human-robot cooperation"
  Prof. Michael Fisher (Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool)

  SUMMER & SEMESTER A

• 19 June 2008 Thursday (in Seminar Room F315)
  "Causal Information Flows and the Common Cause Principle"
  Prof. Nihat Ay (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany & Santa Fe Institute, USA)

• 25 June 2008 Wednesday (Seminar Room LC108)
  "Using UAVs in Wilderness Search and Rescue: The Right Human to Robot Ratio"
  Prof. Michael A. Goodrich (Computer Science, Brigham Young University, USA)

• 5 August 2008 (Tuesday in Seminar Room D120 at 3 p.m.)
  "Towards Incremental, On-line Learning of Full Body Motion Primitives for Humanoid Robots"
  Dr. Dana Kulic (University of Tokyo, Japan)

• 8 October 2008 Wednesday
  "Gene Regulatory Information: Analysis and Models"
  Dr. Jan T. Kim (School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia)

• 15 October 2008 Wednesday
  "Mechanical Bodies, Mythical Minds"
  Dr. Mark Bishop (Department of Computing, Goldsmiths College, University of London)

• 22 October 2008 - no meeting

• 29 October 2008 Wednesday
  "Language Learning in Robots - the ITALK project"
  Dr. Joe Saunders (Centre for Computer Science & Informatics Research, University of Hertfordshire)

• 12 November 2008
  "Connecting Two Bi-directionsalisms of Grammars: Incrementality and Generation"
  Dr. Yo Sato (Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London)
  

• 20 November 2008 (Thursday - Seminar Room B166)
  "Facilitating Play between Children with Autism and an Autonomous Robot"
  Dorothée François (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)

• 26 November 2008
  "Giving Robots Emotions: Why? How Does This Affect Human-Robot Interaction"
  Dr. John C. Murray (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)

• 3 December 2008 [BSc Program Committee - No Meeting]
  

• 10 December 2008 - no meeting
  

• 17 December 2008
  "Bio-Computing and the Formalization of Self-Organization"
  Dr. Paolo Dini (Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science)

• 14 January 2009
  "An Overview of New Genomic Sequencing Methods"
  Dr. René te Boekhorst (Centre for Computer Science & Informatics Research, University of Hertfordshire)
  

• 21 January 2009 [Exams Week - no meeting]

  SEMESTER B

• 28 January 2009
  "Investigating Human Brain Responses to the Movements of Humanoid Robots"
  Dr. Ayse Pinar Saygin (City University and University College London)

• 4 February 2009
  "Understanding the Cube - Automatic Hierarchical Coordinatization of Permutation Groups"
  Dr. Attila Egri-Nagy (Wolfson Royal Society BioComputation Lab, University of Hertfordshire)

• 11 February 2009
  "Robotics for Neurorehabilitation"
  Dr. Farshid Amirabdollahian (School of Computer Science, Adaptive Systems Resarch Group, University of Hertfordshire)
  

• 18 February 2009 in Lecture Theatre B404
  "Planning for Human-Robot Interaction: Representing Time and Intention"
  Dr. Frank Broz (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)

• 25 February 2009
  "TouchStory: Interactive Software Designed to Assist Children with Autism to Understand Narrative"
  Megan Davis (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)

• 18 March 2009
  An Artificial Life Perspective on Olfactory Systems
  Nicolas Oros (Biological & Neural Computation Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)

• 25 March 2009 (11 am in Seminar Room D120)
  Information-Driven Structuring of Perception-Action Loops and Collective Behaviours
  Philippe Capdepuy (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)

• 1 April 2009
  "You have a high-performance computer too --- On the utilisation of graphics cards for parallel computing"
  Dr. Jeyan Thiyagalingam (University of Hertfordshire & Oxford University)

  
  [3 weeks Spring Holiday]
  
  

• 29 April 2009
  "Why Should You Care?" - - Attachment Bonds for Autonomous Robots
  Antoine Hiolle (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire & The FEELIX GROWING Project)

• 20 May 2009 in Lecture Theatre E351
  "Agents, Teamwork, and Verification - from formal logics to human-robot cooperation"
  Prof. Michael Fisher (Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool)

* This schedule is subject to modification in case of the arrival of external invited speakers on short notice and possibly due to other circumstances.

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