Seminar Archive

2025

March

• Trustworthy AI in Orthopedic Imaging: Advancing Responsibility and Explainability in Clinical Decision-Making

  06 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:00

  Artificial intelligence (AI) is making a big leap in medical imaging analysis, offering a great deal of advancements in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment planning. However, the deployment of AI in clinical practice demands not only technical excellence but also adherence to principles of responsibility and explainability to ensure trust and reliability....

February

• Memorization or Generalization? Exploring Transformer-based Large Language Models and, possibly, novel approaches

  26 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Transformer-based Large Language Models demonstrate extraordinary capabilities and, thus, change the approach of the ML/NLP/NN communities when conducting research. Large chunks of research topics are neglected as Transformer-based LLMs seem to be the ultimate solution. However, it is already emerging that a large part of the capabilities of LLMs depends...

2024

November

• ACES seminar from Hydrogen Capability Network

  28 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:00

  Please join us in Meston Lecture Theatre 6 (MT6) at 14:00. Our speaker will be a representative of the Hydrogen Capability Network from the Aerospace Technology Institute. The Hydrogen Capability Network aims to ensure that there is collaboration, coherence and efficiency for the aerospace sector to enable hydrogen...

• Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Thomas Hiscock

  20 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Thomas Hiscock (University of Aberdeen). Topic: How does a finger get its knuckles? Reaction diffusion models in the tetrapod limb and beyond  

• BDI Agents in Natural Language Environments

  15 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00

  Developing autonomous agents to deal with real-world problems is challenging, especially when developers are not necessarily specialists in artificial intelligence. This poses two key challenges regarding the interface of the programming with the developer, and the efficiency of the resulting agents. In this talk, we cover a recent work to...

• Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Scott Doyle

  06 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Scott Doyle (University of Aberdeen). Topic: Beyond Sparks: Plasma Science at Aberdeen

October

• Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Victoria Volodina

  23 October 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Victoria Volodina (University of Exeter): The importance of uncertainty quantification for model credibility

• Interdisciplinary seminar by Dr Daniel Chaves

  09 October 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  Interdisciplinary seminar by Dr Daniel Chaves (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil). Topic to be confirmed.

• Summer student presentations for projects supported by the Worthington Fund

  02 October 2024, 13:00 - 14:30

  Presentations by 3rd year undergraduate University of Aberdeen Physics and Mathematics students on their 3-month summer research projects carried out in the Department of Physics. These projects were supported by the Worthington Fund.  Anticipated schedule:  1305-1325: "Inference or Gene Regulatory Networks from RNA-seq data"; 1325-1345: "Dynamics of coupled logistic maps"; 1345-1405: "Androgen Receptor Signalling".

July

• Towards understanding 3D poses and gestures of multiple hands

  24 July 2024, 14:00 - 15:00

  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...