University of Hertfordshire

Computer Science Research Colloquium

Wednesdays 3-4 pm
Lecture Theatre E351
Hatfield, College Lane Campus

Schedule for 2009-2010 *

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Next Scheduled Talk:
• 28 April 2010 in Lecture Theatre E351
  "The Impact of Bad Smells on Code"
  Min Zhang (Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK)
  

  Semester A

• 23 September 2009 in Lecture Theatre E351
  "Deep Learning for Object Recognition and Motion Generation"
  Prof. Geoffrey Hinton (Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada)

• 14 October 2009 in Lecture Theatre E351
  "Information-theoretic Modelling of Scaling in Communication Systems"
  Dr. Mikhail Prokopenko (CSIRO, Australia & Max Planck Institute, Germany)
  

• 21 October 2009 in Lecture Theatre E351
  "Adaptive Myoelectric Human-Machine Interface Applied for Rehabilitation and Assisting Robots"
  Dr. M. Reza Asghari Oskoei (Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)
  

• 28 October 2009 in Lecture Theatre E351
  "Giving Objects the Sense of Touch: A novel tangible interface based on acoustic localization techniques"
  Dr. Ze Ji (Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)
  

• 4 November 2009 in Lecture Theatre E351
  "Putting Automatic Differentiation into the NAGWare Fortran 95 Compiler"
  Dr. Jan Riehme (RWTH Aachen University, Germany & University of Hertfordshire, UK)
  [Joint work with Uwe Naumann, Bruce Christianson, Dimitrij Gendler]

• 11 November 2009 in Lecture Theatre E351
  "Life and its Close Relatives"
  Dr. Simon McGregor (Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)
  

• 18 November 2009
  NO MEETING (Graduation Ceremonies Week)

• 25 November 2009 in Lecture Theatre E351
  "Challenging Sociality? -- A Study of Robots and Autism"
  Dr. Kathleen Richardson (Anthropology Dept., University College London)
  

• 2 December 2009 in Lecture Theatre E351
  "The Security of Personal Knowledge"
  Joseph Bonneau (Cambridge University)

• 9 December 2009 in Lecture Theatre E351
  "Low Pain, High Gain - Parallelism Abstractions in Haskell"
  Dr. Jost Berthold (Datalogisk Institut, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
  

• 16 December 2009 in Lecture Theatre E351
  "The Cerebellum: A Temporal Integrator?"
  Dr. Reinoud Maex (Biological and Neural Computation Group, STRI, University of Hertfordhshire)

  Semester B

• 27 January 2010 (Institute of Physics Lecture - 7 pm in Lindop Building)
  "Robot Companions in Social and Healthcare Robotics"
  Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn (Adaptive Systems Reearch Group, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK)
  

• 10 February 2010
  "Referring to Objects: Verbal Reference, Pointing and Salience"
  Dr. Paul Piwek (Centre for Research in Computing, The Open University, UK)

• 17 February 2010
  "The CHREST cognitive architecture: Application to expertise and language acquisition"
  Prof. Fernand Gobet (School of Social Sciences, Brunel University, UK)

• 24 February 2010
  "Security Architecture for Distributed Social Networks"
  Jonathan Anderson (Cambridge Unviersity Computer Laboratory, UK)

• 3 March 2010
  "Informational Principles of Perception-Action Loops and Collective Behaviours"
  Philippe Capdepuy (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire, UK)

• 10 March 2010
  "An Artificial Life Perspective on Olfactory Systems: Evolving Neural Coding, Developmental Symmetry and Odour Recognition in Agents"
  Nicolas Oros (Bio- & Neural Computation Research Group, University of Hertfordshire, UK)

• 17 March 2010 - No Meeting
  

• 24 March 2010
  "According to the Text"
  Dr. Paul Wernick (Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK)

• 31 March 2010
  "Morphological Neuron Models as Robot Controllers"
  Dr. Ben Torben-Nielsen (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

• 21 April 2010
  [BioCrunch Talk]:
  "Identification of Sources of Error Affecting Base Calling in Next Generation Illumina/Solexa Sequencing"
  Dr. René te Boekhorst (Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK)
  with Irina Abnizova (Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK), and
  Imrana Sabir, Sandeep Brar and Sylvia Beka (BioInformatics MSc Programme, University of Hertfordshire, UK)

• 28 April 2010
  "The Impact of Bad Smells on Code"
  Min Zhang (Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK)

* 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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