University of Hertfordshire

Computer Science Research Colloquium

Wednesdays 1-2 pm
Location: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all talks will be held over Zoom
(See email for details)

Schedule for 2020-2021 *

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Next Talk:


• 2 June 2021
  "A direct blockchain for IoT devices: protocols and architecture"
  Prof. Alex Shararenko (University of Hertfordshire)
  

  SEMESTER A 2020/2021

• 7 October 2020
  "Heterogeneous models of large-scale resting-state networks in health and disease"
  Dr. Christoph Metzner(Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany)
  

• 21 October 2020
  "Decoding Turbulent Chemical Plumes with Improved Signal Processing and Machine Learning"
  Dr. Javier Burgues Calderon (Signal and Information Processing for Sensing Systems, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain)
  

• 11 November 2020: NOTE SLIGHTLY EARLIER START TIME 12:00 - 13:00
  "Air Pollution and How AI can help fill the gaps"
  Robin Bradley and Annabel Pan(University of Hertfordshire)
  

• 2 December 2020
  "Computational modelling of neural development: from basic principles to functional circuits"
  Dr. Roman Bauer (Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey)
  

  SEMESTER B 2021

• Spring 2021
  

• 10 February 2021
  "Trustworthy AI in Speech and Language Processing: Reliability, Transparency and Privacy"
  Prof. Dorothea Kolossa (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany)
  

• 17 February 2021
  "Supercomputers are ready to simulate human-scale brain models"
  Prof. Tadashi Yamazaki (University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan)
  

• 24 February 2021
  "Tensor Modelling and Computing: A Survey of methods, applications and performance evaluations"
  Dr. Manal Helal (University of Hertfordshire)
  

• 10 March 2021 (to be rescheduled)
  "TBA"
  Dr. Marcus Scheunemann (University of Hertfordshire)
  

• 21 April 2021
  "Inhibitory plasticity and optimal encoding at the cerebellum input layer"
  Dr. Sergio Solinas (Institute of Neuroinformatics, University of Zurich/ ETH Zurich)
  

• 5 May 2021
  "Open Source Brain: enabling collaborative model development in computational neuroscience"
  Dr. Padraig Gleeson (Department of Neuroscience, Physiology, and Pharmacology, University College London)
  

• 12 May 2021
  "Globally Distributed Development during COVID-19"
  Dr. John Noll (University of Hertfordshire)
  

• 19 May 2021
  "When are Mortality and Reachability Problems Decidable?"
  Dr. Olga Tveretina (University of Hertfordshire)
  

• 26 May 2021
  "A toolchain for safe development of distributed software"
  Dr. Raymond Hu (University of Hertfordshire)
  

• 2 June 2021
  "A direct blockchain for IoT devices: protocols and architecture"
  Prof. Alex Shararenko (University of Hertfordshire)
  

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