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2016
May
April
March
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Computing Science Seminar. Moncur on"The role of digital technologies in transitional life events"
-Abstract: Digital technologies are now used across the human lifespan. In this seminar, I'll discuss my HCI research that explores the current roles of digital technologies across transitional human life events (becoming an adult, becoming a parent, breaking up, retiring, end of life ), and the ways in which digital technologies could be designed...
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Computing Science Seminar. de Ruiter on "How Not to Study Interaction"
-Abstract: In this talk I will argue that human interaction cannot be studied properly using the standard experimental methods that have been successful in other areas of the cognitive sciences. Of the many problems with these methods, I will focus on two important ones: (a) the trade-off between experimental control and ecological validity, and (b) profound...
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Computing Science Seminar. Rovatsos on "Diversity-Aware AI - the next frontier?"
-Abstract: Recently, AI has produced impressive advances mostly by following a "standard model" based on data-driven exploration of large solution spaces and optimisation toward a well-defined objective function. Arguably, this process model has little in common with human intelligence, where objectives are often vaguely defined and conflicting, satisficing behaviour is often...
January
2015
December
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Computing Science Seminar. Oren on "Demand Responsive Pricing of Taxi Services"
-Abstract: Traditional taxi services commonly charge a fixed price for their services based on a combination of travel distance and time. However, services such as Uber and Lyft seek to use market mechanisms (i.e., by considering changes in supply and demand) to compute trip pricing. Such pricing has several potential benefits,...
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Computing Science Seminar. Vasconcelos on "Group Norms for Multi-Agent Organisations"
-Abstract: Normative multi-agent systems offer the ability to integrate social and individual factors to provide increased levels of fidelity with respect to modelling social phenomena, such as cooperation, coordination, group decision making, and organization, in both human and artificial agent systems. An important open research issue refers to group norms, i.e. norms...
November
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Computing Science Seminar. Harrison on "A 5 question framework to help you think, conceptualise, develop, assess and strengthen a venture concept"
-Abstract: “So What, Who Cares, Why You, Why Now, and Why Me?” – A 5 question framework to help you think, conceptualise, develop, assess and strengthen a venture concept. Designed to help you escape the “nodding head” syndrome and instead develop relationships and commercial opportunities to help bring your venture from...
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Computing Science Seminar. Gray and Runcie on "Data Tables and Logical Inferences"
-Abstract: Many people fail to realise the variety of situations that data tables can represent, and also what we can infer from them. A recent paper in AIEDAM Journal (Gray, Runcie & Sleeman (2015)) includes a description of how many kinds of table used in describing Configuration problems can be used efficiently in inference and constraint...
October
July
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Computing Science Seminar. Rat-Fischer on "Physical problem-solving competences in birds and human infants"
-Abstract: The ability to solve physical problems –from simple ones such as opening a box containing a reward to more complex ones such as manufacturing ad-hoc tools– is under intense scrutiny in humans, other animals, and artificial systems. However, the cognitive and evolutionary processes underlying the emergence of such capacities remain...
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Chemistry Department Seminar - Dr Tim Hele
-How to combine quantum Boltzmann statistics with classical mechanics
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Computing Science Seminar. Toniolo on "Supporting Reasoning with Different Types of Evidence: The CISpaces toolkit"
-Abstract: In this talk, I will present the CISpaces toolkit, a collaborative virtual space for intelligence analysis. CISpaces has been developed in collaboration with UCLA and Honeywell within the International Technology Alliance programme. The aim of intelligence analysis is to make sense of information that is often conflicting or incomplete, and to...
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Computing Science Seminar. Wang on "Zhishi.me: Building up the Chinese Linked Open Data"
-Abstract: Linked Open Data (LOD) has become one of the most important community efforts to publish high-quality interconnected semantic data. Such data has been widely used in many applications to provide intelligent services such as entity search and personalized recommendation. While DBpedia, one of the LOD core data sources, contains resources...
June
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Computing Science Seminar. Studer on "Rule-based Programming with Linked-Data-Fu"
-Abstract: Linked Programs are designed for the declarative specification of applications based on web-accessible APIs to data and functionality. Linked-Data-Fu provides a general-purpose engine that allows to perform Linked Programs (describing interactions with web resources) combining data integration, communication and interaction, reasoning and query processing. Linked Data-Fu executes such specifications by orders...
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Chemistry Department Seminar - Dr Olivier Toulemonde
-Magnetic properties of SrFe1-xCoxO3-y (x= 0.75 ; 0.5) upon oxidation and reduction in relation with a heterogeneous distribution of oxidation states
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Computing Science Post-Graduate Research Workshop
-Presentations by Computing Science postgraduates about their research.
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Computing Science Seminar. Prof. van Deemter on "Computational Models of Referring: some Aberdonian themes"
-Abstract: In this talk I will, firstly, review the state of the art of Referring Expressions Generation, viewed as computational models of human reference production. I will ask how successful existing algorithms are from this theoretical perspective, and discuss some recent improvements, for instance relating to the modelling of variation between...
May
April
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Computing Science Mini-workshop "Student and Faculty Research on Law and Computing Science"
-In this mini-workshop, students and faculty at the University of Aberdeen and University of Edinburgh will present their research projects on topics in law and computing. Initial list of presenters and topics. Ruta Liepina. Arguing about evidence in law. Law School, University of Aberdeen. Jesus Niebla. Copyright enforcement and AI: an automated approach....
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Computing Science Seminar. Booth on "Trust-sensitive belief revision"
-Abstract: Belief revision is concerned with incorporating new information into a pre-existing set of beliefs. When the new information comes from another agent, we must first determine if that agent should be trusted. In this talk, we define trust as a pre-processing step before revision. We emphasise that trust in an...
February
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Computing Science Seminar. Wyner leading discussion on "The Computing Science Seminar"
-At this meeting, we will discuss the Computing Science Seminar. Topics: What role could it/should it play in the life of the department? Suggestions for improvement, change, development? How can Lecturers, ..., Professors contribute? How can Post-docs and Post-grads contribute? How can Undergrads contribute? Invitations for seminars? Ideas for 'mini-workshops'? What is the state of the budget? Time/place? Receptions? Other? Everyone...
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Computing Science Seminar. Thomas on "Users versus models: What observation tells us about effectiveness metrics"
-Abstract: Retrieval system effectiveness can be measured in two quite different ways: by monitoring the behaviour of users and gathering data about the ease and accuracy with which they accomplish certain specified information-seeking tasks; or by using numeric effectiveness metrics to score system runs in reference to a set of relevance...
2014
December
November
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Computing Science Seminar. Caminada on "A Discussion Game for Grounded Semantics"
-Abstract: We present a discussion game, based on the concept of strong admissibility, where the ability to win the game for a particular argument coincides with the argument being in the grounded extension. Our game is an improvement to the previously stated Standard Grounded Game (SGG) and Grounded Persuasion Game...
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Remembrance Sunday Service
-The University Chapel leading an Act of Remembrance
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Computing Science Seminar. du Boulay on "Motivation in Learning"
-Abstract: Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Intelligent Learning Environments have traditionally focused on adapting the content of the material that their students undertake according to the individual needs of each student. For the most part this has meant adapting to the intellectual progress that the students are making through whatever domain...
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Computing Science Seminar. Baader on "Ontology-based Monitoring of Dynamic Systems"
-Abstract: Our understanding of the notion “dynamic system” is a rather broad one: such a system has states, which can change over time. Ontologies are used to describe the states of the system, possibly in an incomplete way. Monitoring is then concerned with deciding whether some run of the system or all of its...
October
September
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Cafe Scientifique Explorathon Special
-Hear from our researchers about their favourite scientists of all time and have your say!
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European Corner at Union Square
-Science busking throughout the day and exhibition stalls from 3pm.
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Computing Science Seminar. Curé on "WaterFowl: a Compact, Self-indexed RDF Store based on Succinct Data Structures
-Abstract: This talk will start with an introduction of the main strategies for storing and indexing RDF data sets. This will consider solutions based on a native RDF approach but also approaches using a relational or NoSQL storage backend. Then, I will present the main features of an on-going work that...
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Student vs. Alumni Sports Day
We are inviting alumni to take part in the inaugural Student vs. Alumni Sports Day.
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Computing Science Mini-Workshop on Natural Language Processing
-Computing Science Mini-Workshop on Natural Language Processing This is a mini-workshop on Natural Language Processing with talks by several visitors and department colleagues. Speakers: Hailong Cao on "Soft Dependency Matching for Hierarchical Phrase-based Machine Translation" Abstract: In this talk, I would like to present a soft dependency matching model for hierarchical phrase-based (HPB) machine translation. When...
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Cognitive Science Meeting
-This is an occasional, informal Cognitive Science get together to hear who is doing what, to learn about new topics, and to strengthen/forge collegial networks. There will be a series of short talks by participants, which will give us an opportunity to get acquainted. We will order pizza to be delivered...
August
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Computing Science Seminar. Pérez on "When History Matters - Assessing Reliability for the Reuse of Scientific Workflows"
-Abstract: Scientific workflows play an important role in computational research, as the essential artifacts for communicating the methods used to produce the research findings. We are witnessing a growing number of efforts of treating workflows as first-class artifacts for sharing and exchanging scientific knowledge, either as part of scholarly articles or...
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Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference 2014
-The University of Aberdeen is delighted to host this prestigious conference. The 13th Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference will be a forum that brings together an international interdisciplinary group involving physicists, engineers, mathematicians, chemists, biologists, and neuroscientists focused on various aspects of experimental Chaos and Complexity. This meeting will focus...
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Computing Science Mini-Workshop "Perspectives on Text Readability"
-A Mini-Workshop on Perspectives on Text Readability Speakers: Hitoshi Nishikawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, Tokyo) - Learning to Generate Coherent Summary with Discriminative Hidden Semi-Markov Model Tadashi Nomoto (National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo) - Exploration in Memory Based Topic Detection (Or Concept Generation with Distributional Semantics) Itsumi Saito (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, Tokyo) - Morphological Analysis...
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Cafe Scientifique Inverness - Can Computers Think for Themselves?
-Coffee and a slice of science at Waterstones Eastgate Centre Inverness.
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Cafe Scientifique - Family Day Special
-Get the whole family together for an afternoon of fascinating, hands-on science.
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Computing Science Seminar. Pipes on "Emerging Technologies at IBM"
-Abstract: Based at IBM's Hursley Labs in the UK, the Emerging Technology team works with clients to bridge the divide between new technology and mainstream software products. The team combines direct customer experience with innovation and first-of-a-kind technology to produce solutions that solve real business challenges. This talk will introduce the...
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Computing Science Seminar. Elsner on "Visual complexity and referring expression generation"
-Abstract: An observer's perception of a visual scene influences the language they use to describe it--- which objects they choose to mention and how they characterize the relationships between them. In this talk, I will discuss some experiments on the relationship between visual perception and reference. Using a corpus of descriptions...
July
June
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Cafe Scientifique - Danger High Voltage!
-Learn more about inventor Nikola Tesla and enjoy a thrilling demonstration of a Tesla coil.
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Prof. Shieber, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Survey: Synchronous grammar applications in language processing
-Abstract: Concluding the series on synchronous grammars, I describe how synchronous grammars, and in particular probabilistic versions, can be applied to a variety of natural-language processing problems such as generation, machine translation, and sentence compression. Bio: Stuart Shieber is a Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. His primary research field is computational...
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Prof. Shieber, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Seminar: What's so great about compositionality?
-Abstract: Compositionality is the tenet that the meaning of an expression is determined by the meanings of its immediate parts along with their method of combination. The semantics of artificial languages (such as programming languages or logics) are uniformly given compositionally, so that the notion doesn’t even arise in that literature....
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Prof. Shieber, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Tutorial: Synchronous Grammars Introduced
-Abstract: Just as grammars are formal models of languages, synchronous grammars are formal models of relations between languages. They have applications in natural-language interpretation and generation, machine translation, sentence compression, and other areas. I will introduce and motivate the design of synchronous grammars, showing how a particular base grammar formalism, tree-adjoining...
May
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Royal Society of Edinburgh inductee Prof. Barbara Grosz on "Health Care Coordination and Health Literacy: The Need for Smart Multi-agent Systems"
-Distinguished Visitor: Prof. Grosz will be inducted at the Royal Society of Edinburgh as a Corresponding Fellow The RSE has 1600 Fellows, of which 66 are Corresponding Fellows. Prof. Grosz will be the fifth woman Corresponding Fellow. Abstract: I recently argued that Turing, were he alive now, would conjecture differently than he did in...
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Chemistry Departmental Seminar
-Dr Jan-Willem Bos (Heriot-Watt University)
April
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Computing Science Seminar. Everson on "Visualising and understanding multi-objective solutions and league tables"
-Abstract: Recent advances in evolutionary optimisation algorithms mean that it is possible to find approximations to the optimal trade-off between several objectives. With only two or three objectives visualising the trade-off and relations between solutions is straightforward, but with more objectives understanding the solutions and available trade-offs is difficult. This talk will briefly...
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Computing Science Seminar. Elsenbroich on "Modelling Extortion Rackets"
-Abstract: Extortion is a different kind of crime to other property crime such as burglary, robbery or even fraud. What makes extortion unique is a) the long-term relationship of the criminal with the victim and b) the reliance on the threat of future punishment rather than actual punishment. The two...
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Computing Science Seminar. Alexopoulos on "Detecting, Analyzing and Representing Vagueness in Ontologies for Facilitating Reuse"
-Abstract: The emergence in the last years of initiatives like the Linked Open Data (LOD) has led to a significant increase of the amount of structured semantic data on the Web. Nevertheless, the wider reuse of such data isinhibited by a variety of factors, ranging from the quality of the...
March
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Natural Language Generation Seminar. Unger on "Conceptually scoped, modular natural language interfaces"
-Abstract: Natural language plays an increasingly important role as interface to existing services and data. However, a number of characteristics of today’s language technology make it hard to be adopted by non-linguistically skilled developers. I present an architecture that supports the easy adoption of language technology into existing applications, building...
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Computing Science Seminar. Unger on "Question answering over RDF data"
-Abstract: While more and more RDF data is available, the question of how typical web users can access this body of knowledge becomes of crucial importance. There is thus a growing amount of research on natural language interfaces that allow end users to profit from the expressive power of Semantic...
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A mini-workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontologies
-There is increasing research around the integration of natural language processing and ontologies. Speaking at this mini-workshop: Invited speaker: Christina Unger "Ontology-based interpretation of natural language" Abstract: Christina will present an approach to interpreting natural language with respect to specific domain knowledge captured in ontologies. It puts ontologies at the center of...
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Computing Science Seminar. Lecue on "STAR-CITY: Semantic Traffic Analytics and Reasoning for CITY"
-Abstract: This presentation outlines STAR-CITY, a system supporting semantic traffic analytics and reasoning for city. STAR-CITY, which integrates (human and machine-based) sensor data using variety of formats, velocities and volumes, has been designed to provide insight on historical and real-time traffic conditions, all supporting efficient urban planning. Our system demonstrates...
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Chemistry Departmental Seminar
-Prof. Olivia Corcoran (University of East London)
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Computing Science Seminar. Power on "Ontology authoring through dialogue"
-A presentation with demos of dialogue applications to build ontologies.
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Computing Science Seminar. van Gijzel on "A principled approach to the implementation of argumentation models"
-Abstract: Argumentation theory is an area that combines both philosophical concepts and computational models to deliver a practical approach to reasoning that is able to deal with uncertain information and possibly conflicting viewpoints. Structured argumentation in particular can model domain specific knowledge and argumentation schemes. However, despite these practical components, there is...
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Computing Science Discussion. van Gijzel on "Haskell and Argumentation"
-A conceptual presentation about implementing formal argumentation in Haskell, a functional programming language
February
January
2013
December
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Chemistry Seminar - ChemSoc Mystery Lecture
-ChemSoc Mystery Lecture
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Chemistry Seminar - Prof Graeme Paton
-Prof Graeme Paton, IBES, University of Aberdeen Two decades of microbial biosensors; analytical tools still seeking adoption.
November
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Chemistry Seminar - Dr. Angel Cuesta Ciscar
-Dr. Angel Cuesta Ciscar, Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen Atomic ensemble effects and non-covalent interactions at the electrode-electrolyte interface (Electrocatalysis and Surface Nanostructuring)
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Chemistry Seminar - Prof Roger Linington
-Prof Roger Linington, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Connecting Form and Function: Image-Based Screening in Natural Products Drug Discovery .
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Chemistry Seminar - ChemSoc Mystery Lecture
-ChemSoc Mystery Lecture
October
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Caminada on "A Brief Overview of Formal Argumentation Theory"
-A presentation about formal argumentation theory.
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Villazon-Terrazas on "Linked Enterprise Data - Iterative and Incremental Life Cycle"
-A presentation about Linked Data.
June
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Social innovation: developing and maintaining relationships between the University and the Third Sector
-We are delighted to invite you to a workshop focusing on social innovation throughout the Third Sector.
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Computing Science Seminar by Ani Nenkova
-Emotion Analysis for Applications in Neuropsychiatry
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Computing Science Seminar by Ani Nenkova
-Identifying Elements of Text Quality Automatically
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Computing Science Seminar by Ani Nenkova
-Reassessing the state of the art in multi-document news summarization and its evaluation
May
April
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Computing Science seminar by Christopher Brewster
-Linked Data and Semantic Technologies in Disasters and Food: Opportunities and Challenges
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Chemistry seminar - Prof Peter Comba - Coordination chemistry of cyclic peptides: possible biological functions of the patellamides
-Coordination chemistry of cyclic peptides: possible biological functions of the patellamides
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Computing Science seminar by Panos Alexopoulos
-Modelling Vagueness in Ontologies and Semantic Data: a Methodological Perspective
March
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Computing Science seminar by Franz Berto
-Relevant Semantics and Inconsistent Representation
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It is All About the Money, or is it? Exploring Entrepreneurship as Value Creation
-For professional women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) new to or who have attended ABZWISE; this two day programme will work upon individual's capacities in personal effectiveness and entrepreneurship.
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Computing Science seminar by Mark Snaith
-Argument Revision and its Role in Dialogue
February
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UKBA - Why YOU should care
-Points-based immigration and UK Border Agency requirements for universities. All staff, students and members of the public welcome. This seminar will provide you with the opportunity to hear from those directly affected and ask them questions about their experiences.
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Computing Science Seminar by Chris Reed and Katarzyna Budzynska
-Recent advances in Inference Anchoring Theory
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Computing Science seminar by Felipe Meneguzzi
-Practical Normative Reasoning: Models and Challenges
January
2012
December
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Computing Science seminar by Sandra Williams
-Empirical studies in the SWAT project
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Computing Science Seminar by Richard Power
-Ontology Authoring in Controlled Natural Language
November
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I Want My Internet TV
Dr Colin Perkins from University of Glasgow will give a presentation titled I Want My Internet TV - Understanding IPTV Performance in Residential Broadband Environments
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Computing Science Seminar by Bipin Indurkhya
-Perceptual Similarity, Visual Metaphor and Creativity
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Dr M. Grazia Francesconi: Chemistry of Non-oxide Materials
-Chemistry Departmental Seminar
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Dr Tanja van Mourik: The role of solvent in quantum-chemical calculations on biological molecules
-Chemistry Departmental Seminar
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LA-ICP-MS - a new tool for development of methods for imaging of biological and clinical samples
-Chemistry Departmental Seminar: Prof Norbert Jakubowski
October
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Prof Ewa Bulska: Laser ablation ICP-MS for surface and sub-surface
-Chemistry Departmental Seminar
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ABZWISE: An Event For Female Researchers In Science, Technology, Engineering And Mathematics (STEM)
-This event is for PhD students, post graduate researchers, early career researchers and academics. There will be active workshops spanning over two weekends; 6th-7th and 27th-28th of October 2012.
September
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Computing Science seminar by Giorgio Satta
-Introduction to Grammatical Formalisms for Natural Language Parsing
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Topology Seminars
-The Topology Seminar typically takes place on Mondays at 4:15. For details visit http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/r.hepworth/pages/seminars.html
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Algebra Seminars
-The Algebra Seminar usually takes place at 16:15 on Thursdays. For details visit http://homepages.abdn.ac.uk/r.hepworth/pages/seminars.html
June
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Algebra Seminar by Olivier Brunat
-Image of the braid groups inside the finite Temperley-Lieb algebras.
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What do chemists know about energy?
-School Seminar (NCS)