Seminar Archive

2024

November

• 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...

• A journey of the adoption of Blockchain in IoT Environments: Opportunities and Challenges

  18 July 2024, 15:00 - 16:00

  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

• Human Interactions and the Implications for Ethical and Responsible RAI (Robotics and AI)

  29 May 2024, 14:00 - 15:00

  Increasing deployment of advanced technology in daily lives - from embodied robotics to AI algorithms - continues to raiseever more complex questions about the ethical implications of their use, and what that means in practical terms.  One approach is to frame the debate around what we mean by Responsible Robotic and AI (RAI) use. In this talk, Dr. Collins will...

April

• Safety in conversational AI: Meaning is massively influenced by context

  24 April 2024, 12:00 - 13:00

  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...