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2012/13 seminar archive
Autumn 2012
17 October , No seminar due to cancellation by the speaker. Rescheduled for the 21st of November.
24 October , Inaugural Seminar from Daniel Franks (University of York), "The Leeds digital pathology workstation: designing, developing and evaluating for diagnostic use "
31 October , Distinguished International Speaker: Tobias Nipkow (Technical University Munich, Germany), "Continuous-Variable Quantum Cryptography with Entanglement in the Middle " - Hosted by Detlef Plump
7 November , Roundhouse Public Lecture: Darrel Ince (Emeritus Professor of Computing at The Open University) "The Cracks in Science" at 6.30pm in RCH/037
12 November (Monday - 2.15pm - CSE/083), Peter Wellstead (Hamilton Institute, NUIM, Maynooth), "A Fresh Look at Parkinson’s Disease " - Hosted by Jim Austin
21 November , Coffee-Table Book Seminar: Alan Frisch (Artificial Intelligence Group, University of York), "A Decade of Research on Constraint Modelling and Reformulation: The Quest for Abstraction and Automation " - Chaired by Ana Cavalcanti.
28 November, No seminar due to APR meeting.
5 December, Helen Sharp (Open University) - last minute cancellation. Rescheduled for the 1st of May.
12 December, Ulrike Hahn (University of Cardiff) "What makes things similar?" - hosted by Edwin Hancock
Spring 2013
16 January, Distinguished International Speaker: Barry O'Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland), "Monte Carlo Tree Search " - Hosted by Alan Frisch
23 January , No seminar. Academic Staff meeting.
30 January, Viv Kendon (University of Leeds), "Quantum walks and algorithms " - Chaired by Susan Stepney
6 February , Mauro Paternostro (Queen's University of Belfast), "A route to quantumness in mesoscopic systems: Through the (quantum) looking glass, and what Alice found found there " - Hosted by Sam Braunstein
13 February, Roundhouse Public Lecture: Sam Braunstein (University of York) at 6.30pm in LMB/030 & 031 (free tickets sold out), "Teleporting to the Future "
20 February , No seminar.
27 February , Inaugural Seminar from Paul Cairns (University of York), "Immersion in digital games "
06 March , Darren Treanor (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust), "The Leeds digital pathology workstation: designing, developing and evaluating for diagnostic use " - Hosted by Alistair Edwards
13 March, Christian Weedbrook (University of Toronto, Canada), "Continuous-Variable Quantum Cryptography with Entanglement in the Middle "
Summer 2013
01 May , Helen Sharp (Open University), "Novice interaction designer behaviour: a comparison of UK and Botswana participants " - hosted by Paul Cairns
08 May , Distinguished International Speaker: Arend Rensink (University of Twente, Netherlands), "Graph-Based State Spaces " - Hosted by Richard Paige
15 May , Distinguished International Speaker: Horst Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland - RAEng disinguished visitor at York), "Towards Bridging the Gap between Structural and Statistical Pattern Recognition " - Hosted by Edwin Hancock
22 May , Netta Cohen (University of Leeds), "Neural control of behaviour: Lessons from a worm "
29 Ma y, Martyn Amos (Manchester Metropolitan University), "Population-based microbial computing " - Hosted by Susan Stepney
5 June, Inaugural Seminar from Mike Dodds (University of York), "Taming Concurrency by Thinking Locally " - Chaired by Detlef Plump
12 June , Peter Cowling (University of York), "Monte Carlo Tree Search " - Chaired by Alan Frisch