University of Hertfordshire

Computer Science Research Colloquium

Wednesdays 1-2 pm
Location: Room C152
Hatfield, College Lane Campus

Schedule for 2013-2014 *

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(Regular Talks Resume in Semester A, October 2014. Other Talks will be organized in Summer for special visitors.)

SEMESTER A
• 9 October 2013
  "Artists, Actors and Human Robot Interaction: A Research Perspective on Co-operating with Visual, Installation and Performing Artists"
  Dr. Michael L. Walters (Adaptive Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 16 October 2013
  "Holonomy Decomposition of the N-Queens Puzzle"
  Dr. Paolo Dini (Royal Society Wolfson Biocomputation Research Lab, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 23 October 2013
  "DeeChee: A Humanoid Robot that Acquires Words through Interaction"
  Dr. Joe Saunders (Adaptive Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 30 October 2013
  "Mathematical Modelling of Persistent Splicing Systems in DNA Computing"
  Dr. Fariba Karimi (Royal Society Wolfson Biocomputation Research Lab, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 6 November 2013
  "Learning to Say "No": From Toddlers to Robots and back"
  Frank Foerster (Adaptive Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 20 November 2013
  "Dynamic Causal Modelling (DCM), Electrophysiology and Biophysical Modelling"
  Dr. Dimitris A. Pinotsis (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Institute of Neurology, University College London)

• 21 November 2013 (Thursday) in Seminar Room B154 for 11 am -12 noon
  "Robots, Innovation Risk and Tort Liability"
  Joseph Savirimuthu (The Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool)

• 27 November 2013
  "Making and Controlling the Physical Contact between People, Robots and Haptic Devices"
  Prof. William Harwin (Cybernetics Research Group, University of Reading)

• 4 December 2013
  (no meeting)

  11 December 2013 (Wedneday 1 pm, in Room C152 as usual)
  "It Takes Two to Err. On the Enactivist Account of Normativity"
  Manuel Heras Escribano (Universidad de Granada, Spain)

• 12 December 2013 ** (Thursday) 1 pm in Room ** F321 ***
  "Making MPSoCs Time-Predictable -- A Preplanning Approach"
  Prof. Peter Puschner (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

  SEMESTER B

• 30 January (Thursday) 1 pm in Room LC108
  "Some Examples on How Algebra Can Relate to Other Areas of Mathematics and Computer Science"
  Prof. Gábor Horváth (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

• 5 February (Wednesday) 1 pm in Room C152
  "Human-robot Interactions from the Ethological Perspective: How can dog-human companionship inform social robotics"
  Dr. Gabriella Lakatos (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire; Comparative Ethology Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
  

• 11 Febraury (Tuesday) 10 am in Room B200
  "Invertebrate Robots: The Next Generation"
  Prof. Ian Walker (Clemson University, USA)

• 19 February (Wednesday) **11 am** in Room D120
  " Bayesian Machine Learning for Controlling Autonomous Systems"
  Dr. Marc Deisenroth (Department of Computing, Imperial Collge London)

• 5 March, Wednesday 1pm in Seminar Room C152
  "Consistent Distribution Regression via Mean Embedding"
  Dr. Zoltán Szabó (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London)

• 7 March, Friday, 1 pm (Seminar Room D102)
  Prof. Cindy L. Bethel (Mississippi State University, USA)
  "Human-Robot Interaction - Exploring the Use of Robots for Use with Law Enforcement and for Therapeutic Support"

• 19 March, Wednesday 1 pm in C402 NOTE ROOM CHANGE!
  Dr. Alexandra Penn (University of Surrey)
  "Steering Complex Adaptive Systems: From Biofilms to Industrial Ecology"

• 26 March, ** POSTPONED ***
  

• [No Meeting 23 April ]

• 30 April 2014 in Seminar Room 2B05 (Film & Media Building)
  "Social Perceptions of Robots and Responses to Robot Behaviour"
  Dag Syrdal (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)
  

  (Regular Talks Resume in October. Other Talks will be organized in Summer for special visitors.)