University of Hertfordshire

Computer Science Research Colloquium

Wednesdays 1-2 pm
Location: Seminar Room C408, Hutton Building
Hatfield, College Lane Campus

Schedule for 2017-2018 *

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Next Talk:


• 19 April 2018 (THURSDAY)
  "Adaptation and the Social Salience Hypothesis of Oxytocin: Early Experiments in a Simulated Agent Environment"
  Imran Khan (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)

  SEMSTER B 2018

• 24 January 2018
  "Dendritic Computation: Neural Networks beyond Point Neurons"
  Damien Drix (Royal Sociey Wolfson Biocomputation Research Lab, University of Hertfordshire)

• 31 January 2018 (No Meeting)
  

• 8 February 2018 (THURSDAY) in Lecture Theatre LC108, 1 p.m.
  "Mutation-Aware Defection Prediction"
  Dr. David Bowes (School of Comptuer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 15 February 2018 (THURSDAY) in Lecture Theatre A161, 1 p.m.
  "Closed Loop Computational Models to Explore Dynamic Structure-Function-Environment Interactions in the Brain"
  Dr. Peter Hellyer (Centre for Neuroimaging Science, King's College London)

• 21 February 2018
  "Active Dendrites Enable Strong but Sparse Inputs to Determine Orientation Selectivity"
  Dr. Arnd Roth (Royal Society Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London)

• 8 March 2018 (Thursday, 4 pm in Seminar Room D102)
  "IOT history, definition, key elements and applications"
  Dr. Hassan Soubra (ESTACA, Paris, France)
  [Seminar Organized by Dr. Salvatore Livatino, ECE]

• 19 March 2018 (MONDAY in F315)
  "Thermodynamics and Computation during Collective Motion near Criticality"
  Prof. Mykhailo Prokopenko (University of Sydney, Australia)

• 9 April 2018 (Monday, 1 pm in C408)
  "An Interneuron Circuit Reproducing Essential Spectral Features of Field Potentials"
  Dr. Reinoud Maex (Royal Society Wolfson Biocomputation Research Lab, University of Hertfordshire)

• 19 April 2018 (THURSDAY)
  "Adaptation and the Social Salience Hypothesis of Oxytocin: Early Experiments in a Simulated Agent Environment"
  Imran Khan (Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire)

• 25 April 2018
  "The dependence of arithmetic operations on input location in cerebellar nucleus and cortical pyramidal neurons"
  Maria Psarrou (Royal Society Wolfson Biocomputation Research Lab, University of Hertfordshire)

• 22 May 2018 [tentative]
  Dr. Patricia Milz (University of Zürich, Switzerland)

• Forthcoming: day and location to be announced
  [Title to be Announced]
  Dr. Clive Chandler (School of Comptuer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

  SEMESTER A 2017/2018

• 4 October 2017 - Joint Business School Research Seminar and Computer Science Research Colloquium

  Note Time and Location: 12-1pm, N205, N-Block, de Havilland Campus
  

  "Another Chapter in the Demystification of Money: Mutual Credit Blockchain for Sustainable Local Development "
  Dr. Paolo Dini (School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire & Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics)

• 11 October 2017
  "How Good Are My Software Tests?"
  Jean Petric (School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 18 October 2017
  "Simulation of Adaptive Cell Behaviour: Vascular Networks as Temporal Patterns"
  Dr. Katie Bentley (University of Uppsala, Sweden & Boston University, USA),

• 25 October 2017
  "Airplanes, Robots, and Stress -- Behavioral Science Research in the U.S. Air Force"
  Lt. Col. Christopher K. McClernon, Ph.D. (Air Force Office of Scientific Research, European Office of Aerospace Research & Development, London)

• 1 November 2017
  "Biophysical model of the olfactory system of honey bees predicts qualitatively different responses to mixtures"
  Prof. Thomas Nowotny (University of Sussex)
  

• 8 November 2017
  "Safety-Critical Systems Development and Safety Case Construction "
  Dr. Catherine Menon (School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)
  

• 15 November 2017
  "An Introduction to Blockchain as a Disruptive Technology"
  Dr. Giuseppe Destefanis (School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 22 November 2017
  "Visual Navigation with a Tiny Brain: Getting Home Without Knowing Where You Are"
  Dr. Andrew Philippides (Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex)

• 29 November 2017
  [No Meeting]

• 6 December 2017
  "The Cognitive Service Robotics Apartment - Interaction Concepts"
  Dr. Patrick Holthaus (Adaptive Systems Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire)

• 13 December 2017
  "Population Density Techniques: A Visual Way of Modelling Neural Circuits"
  Dr. Marc de Kamps (School of Computing, University of Leeds)
  

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