All members of the department are welcome: undergraduates, postgraduates, postdocs, teaching staff, technical staff - anyone who would like to attend and learn a little bit about what our speakers do in their research career. Members from other disciplines within the School, and the wider University community, are also welcome to attend.
All PhD students in Chemistry are expected to attend as part of their PhD training.
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2024
July
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Towards understanding 3D poses and gestures of multiple hands
-Hands are primary interacting tools that provide humans an ability to interact with their outer environments. Therefore, recognizing poses and actions (gestures) of hands from images and videos is essential to comprehensively understand the daily human intentions. Challenges occur when more than one hand appear in an image, due to...
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A journey of the adoption of Blockchain in IoT Environments: Opportunities and Challenges
-Blockchain technology has emerged as a solution for providing transparency and trusted information in a decentralized and resilient manner. Particularly, there are significant potential benefits in integrating blockchain technology with the Internet of Things (IoT). However, adopting blockchain in hardware-constrained environments presents challenges. This integration introduces new issues, especially in...
May
April
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Safety in conversational AI: Meaning is massively influenced by context
-While the NLP community has traditionally explored the ethical issues of text-based models (such as hate speech detection, inherent biases of the system etc), real-world conversations and dialogues differ significantly from structured, written text documents, and this brings with it its own unique set of safety challenges. From an understanding...
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Multi-Agent Equilibria: From Verification to Modification and Beyond
-The classical notion of correctness in formal verification is not appropriate for multi-agent systems–-it does not capture the strategic behaviour of rational agents. As such, a different notion of correctness was proposed through the concept of rational verification. In doing so, we transform multi-agent systems into multi-player games and use...
March
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Exploring TransNational Education (TNE) with Aberdeen Institute as a case study
-For decades, TNE existed in one form or another with USA often leading the field in innovative and accessible education aligned to the home-country educational standards but provided locally. In recent years, this form of education has been recognised by many countries as strategic framework to collaborate in developing necessary...
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"A Day in the Life" of a digital forensics investigator
-Craig Porter from the OpenText company will present a talk about “A Day in the Life” of a digital forensics investigator. Delving into the captivating world of digital investigations, Porter will shed light on the methodologies, challenges, and pivotal role of a digital forensics investigator. Moreover, Craig will showcase their...
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On the Practices for Evaluating Generative AI
-Recent years have seen remarkable advancements in Generative AI, ranging from text-to-text models like ChatGPT, to text-to-image models like DALLE3, and most recently, text-to-video models like Sora. With groundbreaking innovations in unsupervised learning and scalable architectures, these generative models demonstrate wide-ranging capabilities in understanding textual instructions and producing responses in...
