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2025
December
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Interdisciplinary seminar by Joseph Thomas
-Presenter: Joseph Thomas, University of Aberdeen. Title: Schrödinger’s Niche: Exploring Quantum Analogies in Ecological Modelling Abstract: The niche is a cornerstone concept in ecology and is paramount to understanding how species interact and respond to their environments. The Hutchinsonian definition of the niche, commonly used for modeling species' ecology, is a multidimensional geometry (hypervolume)...
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Understanding Modern Deep Learning from First Principles: Training Dynamics and Neural Scaling Laws
-The 2024 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry were awarded to pioneers of AI for their groundbreaking work in deep learning and its applications. Yet, a long-standing debate persists: Is deep learning an alchemy or science? Despite its remarkable successes, deep learning often depends on engineering heuristics and lacks a...
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Interdisciplinary Seminar by Iacopo Caporossi
-Presenter: Iacopo Caporossi, University of Siena. Title: A nonlinear dynamical approach to the symptoms graph. Abstract: This talk presents a theoretical and data-driven investigation into the temporal evolution of psychological disorders through the lens of dynamical systems and network theory. We first introduce a mathematical framework designed to capture the time-dependent behaviour of...
November
October
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Physics undergraduate summer student presentations
-Five undergraduate summer students who did summer research projects in the Department of Physics funded by the Worthington Fund will present their work. 1300-1305: Introductory remarks. 1305-1320: Ion and neutral uniformity in SF6 plasmas with tailored voltage waveforms (remote). 1320-1335: Electromagnetic control schemes for semiconductor processing plasmas using NF3. 1335-1350: Understanding Waveguide Grating Couplers...
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Cyber Security in Cyber-Physical Systems: A Journey
-Cyberphysical Systems (CPS) are transforming the way we interact with the physical world around us. However, CPS systems present unique challenges due to the complexity, constraints, and dynamic nature of the interactions. Cyber security is a major concern in CPS systems, particularly due to the large amount of sensitive data...
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Towards LLM-powered social assistants
-Research in multi-agent systems has a long history of borrowing social concepts from human society and developing computational counterparts, with the aim of promoting orderly social interactions in societies of autonomous agents. As human communication and coordination becomes increasingly mediated by software, this raises the question of whether we can...
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Interdisciplinary seminar by Dr Andrii Iakovliev
-Interdisciplinary seminar by Dr Andrii Iakovliev (University of Edinburgh). Title: Identifying putative drug targets via aggregated genetic effects on distant gene function. Abstract: Genetic studies have historically fallen short of their promise for drug target discovery due to an oversimplified understanding of disease mechanisms. Existing approaches typically assume that disease-associated genetic variants primarily affect nearby...