University of Hertfordshire

Computer Science Research Colloquium

Wednesdays 1-2 pm
Location: Room D102
Hatfield, College Lane Campus

Schedule for 2014-2015 *

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Next Talks: INFORMATION METHODS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE on July 8th 2015

• 8 July 2015 (Wednesday) 10 am -11 am Seminar Room B154
  "From Uninformed to Informed Exploration in Partially- observable Time-varying Spaces "
  Allan Max Axelrod (Oklahoma State University, USA)

• 8 July 2015 (Wednesday) 1 pm - 2 pm Seminar Room B154
  "Hypothesis testing, Linear threshold functions, and Information Bottleneck Phase Transitions - What can they tell us about Deep Learning?"
  Prof. Natali Tishby (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)

  SEMESTER A

• 8 October 2014
  "Using Multi-modal Bio-digital Technologies to Support the Assessment of Cognitive Abilities of Children with Physical and Neurological Impairments (PNI)"
  Hock Gan (Biocomputation Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 15 October 2014
  "Towards a Formal Agent Definition for Artificial Universes"
  Martin Biehl (Adaptive Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 22 October 2014
  [no meeting]

• 29 October 201 at 11 am in Room 1A159
  "The Power of Structured Data in the Message-Passing Interface"
  Prof. Jesper Larsson Traeff
  (Research Group Parallel Computing, Institute for Information Systems Vienna University of Technology, Austria)

• 5 November 2014
  "Relay-Proof Channels"
  Prof. Bruce Christianson (Algorithms Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 10 November 2014 (Monday at 1 pm ** 1F392 **)
  "Feature Weighting in Data Clustering"
  Dr. Renato Cordeiro de Amorim (School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 19 November 2014 (** 11 am ** in Seminar Room ** LC108 ** )
  "Creating Game Creators - Present and future of procedural content in games"
  Dr. Tobias Mahlmann (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

• 25 November 2014 (Tuesday at 11 am, Seminar Room *** B400 ***)
  How Social are "Social" Robots? Philosophical reflections on the social in dialogue with robotics
  Prof. Mark Coeckelbergh (Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University)

• 3 December 2014
  "Parsing Romanian Addresses with Ruby: Agile Hill Climbing"
  Dr. Peter Lane (Algorithms Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)
  joint work with W. S. (Bill) Metcalf (Geo Strategies, Ltd.)

• 9 December 2014 (Tuesday, 10-11 am, Seminar Room F309)
  "A Matter of Mind: An overview of recent developments in the CHREST cognitive architecture"
  Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Kelly (Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, University of Liverpool)

• 17 December 2014
  "Exploiting Abstract Syntax Trees to Extract Code Constructs Associated with Software Faults"
  Thomas Shippey (School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• Two Talks on Social Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction:

  20 and 21 January 2015 (12:00 noon on Tuesday 20th and Wednesday 21st January 2015, both in Lecture Theatre A161)
  

  First lecture: "Social Robotics - Introduction and Challenges"

  Second lecture: "Companion Robots as Assistive Devices"

  Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn (Adaptive Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 28 January 2015 (Seminar Room D102)
  "Robot-Mediated Interviews: A Robotic Intermediary for Facilitating Communication with Children"
  Luke Wood (Adaptive Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 11 February 2015 (Seminar Room D102)
  "Efficiency of Propositional Proof Systems"
  Dr. Olga Tveretina (School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

  25 February 2015 (Seminar Room D102)
  "Breaking Bad. Or: When do you think it stops?"
  Dr. René te Boekhorst (School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 11 March 2015 (Seminar Room D102 at 11 am to 12 noon)
  "Cognitive Humanoid Robots Interacting with Humans: Adaptive Real-time Synchronization and Communicative Imitation"
  Konstantinos Theofilis (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)

• 18 March 2015 (Seminar Room D102)
  "TheatreBot"
  Julian Mauricio Angel Fernandez (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
  

• 25 March 2015 (Seminar Room D102)
  "Human-Robot Interaction in the Robot-Era Project: Multimodal Feedback, Dialog and Planning, and Social Presence"
  Dr. Frank Broz (Adaptive Behaviour & Cognition Lab, Plymouth University)

• 1 April 2015 (Seminar Room D102)
  "The Goofy Effect: Why We Could Love a Flawed Robot but not Trust it with our Lives"
  Dr. Maha Salem (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)

• 23 April 2015 *THURSDAY* (**Seminar Room F326**)
  "Animat Control by Spiking Neural Networks Evolved with a Genetic Algorithm"
  Prof. Borys Wrobel (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)

• 4 June 2015 (Thursday) 11 am -12 noon in Seminar Room F323
  "Sparse Coding and Sensing"
  Prof. Thomas Martinetz (Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics, Lübeck University, Germany)

  Next Talks: INFORMATION METHODS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE on July 8th 2015

• 8 July 2015 (Wednesday) 10 am -11 am Seminar Room B154
  "From Uninformed to Informed Exploration in Partially- observable Time-varying Spaces "
  Allan Max Axelrod (Oklahoma State University, USA)

• 8 July 2015 (Wednesday) 1 pm - 2 pm Seminar Room B154
  "Hypothesis testing, Linear threshold functions, and Information Bottleneck Phase Transitions - What can they tell us about Deep Learning?"
  Prof. Natali Tishby (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)

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