School of Computing Science

[FATA Seminar] Fixing Tournaments Without Perfect Information

Group: Formal Analysis, Theory and Algorithms (FATA)
Speaker: Peter Strulo, University of Warwick
Date: 22 October, 2024
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Location: Sir Alwyn Williams Building, 422 Seminar Room

Abstract: Algorithms for the problem of designing a knockout tournament to manipulate the winner have been studied extensively over the last decade but the theoretical work has focused on the case where the designer knows exactly who will win every match. In this talk I will present an FPT algorithm for the probabilistic version of the problem where for some matches we do not know their outcome.

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This event is part of the FATA Weekly Seminar, which takes place every Tuesday from 3:00 - 4:00 PM in Room 422, Sir Alwyn Williams Building and on Zoom https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/83611964233?pwd=CgRyzxK8Z9fP2ULTb5ONWZeUYx2t2E.1

PHAWM Launch and Networking Event

Group: Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)
Speaker: SICSA Event, SICSA
Date: 25 October, 2024
Time: 15:30 - 17:30
Location:TBA

SICSA is looking forward to attending the PHAWM Launch and Networking Event next Friday – 25 October 2024. Join us for the launch of the Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies (PHAWM ) project. Led by a consortium of 7 academic institutions in collaboration with 24 partner organisations, PHAWM is set to transform AI auditing. We’re addressing the complex challenge of determining the benefits and harms of generative and predictive AI systems by involving a diverse group of stakeholders without AI expertise, including end-users, regulators, decision subjects, and domain experts. Our project spans four key areas: Health, Media Content, Cultural Heritage, and Collaborative Content Generation. Join us for drink and canapés and learn more about our vision for workbenches for AI assessment, comprehensive methodologies for participatory audits, and a certification framework for AI solutions. There will be an opportunity to network with leading figures from industry, cultural heritage, academia, and AI ethics as we share our plans, and opportunities to engage with our project and keep up to date with future developments. It promises to be a landmark occasion in AI ethics and governance, we do hope you’ll join us at the University of Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre. Reserve your place.

[FATA Seminar] Fixing Tournaments Without Perfect Information

Group: Formal Analysis, Theory and Algorithms (FATA)
Speaker: Peter Strulo, University of Warwick
Date: 22 October, 2024
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Location: Sir Alwyn Williams Building, 422 Seminar Room

Abstract: Algorithms for the problem of designing a knockout tournament to manipulate the winner have been studied extensively over the last decade but the theoretical work has focused on the case where the designer knows exactly who will win every match. In this talk I will present an FPT algorithm for the probabilistic version of the problem where for some matches we do not know their outcome.

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This event is part of the FATA Weekly Seminar, which takes place every Tuesday from 3:00 - 4:00 PM in Room 422, Sir Alwyn Williams Building and on Zoom https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/83611964233?pwd=CgRyzxK8Z9fP2ULTb5ONWZeUYx2t2E.1

PHAWM Launch and Networking Event

Group: Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)
Speaker: SICSA Event, SICSA
Date: 25 October, 2024
Time: 15:30 - 17:30
Location: TBA

SICSA is looking forward to attending the PHAWM Launch and Networking Event next Friday – 25 October 2024. Join us for the launch of the Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies (PHAWM ) project. Led by a consortium of 7 academic institutions in collaboration with 24 partner organisations, PHAWM is set to transform AI auditing. We’re addressing the complex challenge of determining the benefits and harms of generative and predictive AI systems by involving a diverse group of stakeholders without AI expertise, including end-users, regulators, decision subjects, and domain experts. Our project spans four key areas: Health, Media Content, Cultural Heritage, and Collaborative Content Generation. Join us for drink and canapés and learn more about our vision for workbenches for AI assessment, comprehensive methodologies for participatory audits, and a certification framework for AI solutions. There will be an opportunity to network with leading figures from industry, cultural heritage, academia, and AI ethics as we share our plans, and opportunities to engage with our project and keep up to date with future developments. It promises to be a landmark occasion in AI ethics and governance, we do hope you’ll join us at the University of Strathclyde Technology and Innovation Centre. Reserve your place.

GLACSIL - Topic TBC

Group: Glasgow Computing Science Innovation Lab
Speaker: TBC
Date: 29 October, 2024
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Location: Advanced Research Centre

At this Glasgow Computing Science Innovation Lab Session, we'll look again at research skills, but this time taking comparative views of research skills that are required in industry to those learned and used within academia. 

This session will be of interest to industry partners in innovation roles or with responsibility for growing and developing innovation teams.  It will also be of interest to PhD students and early career researchers considering their career direction. 

Further details on how to register to follow soon...

Location - Advanced Research Centre, Suite 2 and via Microsoft Teams

The Design of eXtended Reality Interfaces For Transport Passengers: a ViAjeRo Project Retrospective

Group: Human Computer Interaction (GIST)
Speaker: Graham Wilson, University of Glasgow
Date: 31 October, 2024
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Location: Sir Alwyn Williams Building, 423 Seminar Room

Summary:

The Viajero project is an ERC Advanced Grant led by Prof Stephen Brewster that has investigated the design of Virtual and Augmented Reality passenger experiences in relation to three topic areas: interaction design, motion sickness, and social acceptability. This talk will present an overview of the research that I led during my 3 years as a research fellow on the project, predominantly within the ‘interaction’ component, though touching on motion sickness too. My research covered topics such as: interacting in VR from constrained passenger spaces; detecting and utilising the motion of a vehicle for creating novel experiences; and manipulating the user’s sense of virtual motion to comfortably expand the range of experiences.

Bio:

I did my PhD in GIST between 2009 and 2013 following an MSc here and a psychology undergrad at Strathclyde. I then worked as an RA at Glasgow until 2018 when I took up a research fellow position in Digital Health at the University of Strathclyde. I then returned to Glasgow in 2021 to join the Viajero project. My research interests are broadly the beneficial and harmful effects of eXtended Reality experiences, with particular interests in immersive media, wellbeing and social interaction.

Scottish Programming Languages Seminar

Group: Programming Languages at University of Glasgow (PLUG)
Speaker: Various
Date: 06 November, 2024
Time: 12:00 - 17:30
Location: Sir Alwyn Williams Building, 422+423 Seminar Room

The Programming Languages Theme will be hosting the Scottish Programming Languages Seminar in SAWB422/423.

CENSIS Tech Summit 2024

Group: Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)
Speaker: SICSA Event, SICSA
Date: 14 November, 2024
Time: 00:00 - 00:00
Location: TBA

Join us in Glasgow for Scotland’s premier sensing, imaging and IoT event Whether you’ve been to every Summit or will be attending for the first time, you are warmly invited to join us at our CENSIS Tech Summits. Hear about new innovations, challenges and solutions Meet exhibitors showcasing new technologies and products Understand how businesses are delivering digitalisation across a range of markets Network and connect with key business people, policy makers and researcher

Title TBA

Group: Programming Languages at University of Glasgow (PLUG)
Speaker: Jan de Muijnck-Hughes, University of Strathclyde
Date: 20 November, 2024
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Location: F121 Lilybank Gardens and Online

Former PL-themer Jan de Muijnck-Hughes will give us a talk about Idris -- exact specifics to be confirmed nearer the time.

Grounded radiology report generation with large multimodal models

Group: Computing Technologies for Healthcare
Speaker: Stephanie Hyland, Microsoft
Date: 22 November, 2024
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Location: 423 SAWB

Abstract: (TBC)

Biography: As of 2019, Stephanie is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge in the Health Intelligence group. She works on machine learning for healthcare. In 2018, she received a PhD in Computational Biology and Medicine from the Tri-Institutional PhD Program of Cornell University. During her PhD she was situated at the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC, and later ETH Zürich. Prior to that, she studied theoretical physics at Trinity College Dublin, and applied mathematics (Part III) at the University of Cambridge.

This event is organised by the Biomedical AI and Imaging Lab.

The 35th British Machine Vision Conference

Group: Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)
Speaker: SICSA Event, SICSA
Date: 25 November, 2024
Time: 00:00 - 00:00
Location: Scottish Event Campus, Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow, United Kingdom

The British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) is the British Machine Vision Association’s (BMVA) annual conference on machine vision, image processing, and pattern recognition. It is one of the major international conferences on computer vision and related areas held in the UK. With increasing popularity and quality, it has established itself as a prestigious event on the vision calendar. Find out more details on the MBVC 2024 Conference Website.

Upwards x GWiCS seminar: Effective Time, People, and Project Management

Group: School of Computing Science
Speaker: Professor Simone Stumpf and Dr Matthew Barr, University of Glasgow
Date: 27 November, 2024
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Location: SAWB 423, Sir Alwyn Williams Building

Topic: Effective Time, People, and Project Management

Speakers:

- Professor Simone Stumpf (Computing, GIST Section lead)

- Dr Matthew Barr (Computing, EAP Section lead)

Location:

- in Room SAWB 423

- and on Zoom (to join remotely): https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/83133204070?pwd=pGhpQIgXyjebI0xKhRv0U4tI5ZF6Qb.1

This is a joint Upwards and GWiCS seminar.

 
What is Upwards?
 
Upwards is the School’s research culture seminar, covering all facets of developing, conducting, and disseminating research and related topics (e.g. managing a research team, time management to do research, connections between research and teaching). It is open to everyone in the School, but a specific aim is to support ECR development and some sessions are aimed mainly at PGRs and/or PDRAs.

How are the seminars held?

Upwards seminars are held in person in the School to bring people together. However, the sessions are also streamed on Zoom to allow people to join remotely, if they cannot attend in person. The seminars are not recorded and slides are not shared to preserve the off-the-record atmosphere of the seminars, which allows speakers to share personal experiences.

What will this session be about?
 
It is up to the speakers to set the agenda for their Upwards talks, but the idea for this joint Upwards/GWiCS seminar is to hear, for example, about best practices and useful strategies for: how to organise one's weekly and daily schedule, how to protect time set aside for research development, how to manage postdocs and PhDs as their supervisor, how to keep small and large research projects on track, and how to keep a healthy balance between the many tasks one has to do and life outside of the job.

ACI 2024 - The Eleventh International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction

Group: Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)
Speaker: SICSA Event, SICSA
Date: 02 December, 2024
Time: 00:00 - 00:00
Location: TBA

ACI is the leading International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction. It is a highly multidisciplinary event drawing researchers and practitioners from diverse backgrounds to share and discuss work and topics related to the research and design of computing-enabled and interactive technology for and with animals. We are keen to be as inclusive as possible. We wish to welcome a wide range of contributions and participants to the conference, promote a constructive dialogue around the animal-centred research and design of computing-enabled systems, and foster the development of ACI as a discipline. The conference is open to contributions from researchers and practitioners in a wide range of fields, including (but not limited to) ethics, behavior analysis, psychology, veterinary behavior, zoology, ethology, interaction design, computer science, and electrical engineering. Find out more about the conference and submission deadlines.

1st International Workshop on Low carbon Computing (LOCO 2024)

Group: Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)
Speaker: SICSA Event, SICSA
Date: 03 December, 2024
Time: 00:00 - 00:00
Location: Advanced Research Centre (ARC), 11 Chapel lane, Glasgow, G11 6EW, United Kingdom

The 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO 2024) will bring together researchers and practitioners with a keen interest in low carbon and sustainable computing. The workshop will provide a forum for sharing new ideas, for presenting ongoing work and early results, as well as for bringing forward well-founded criticism. LOCO 2024 is an initiative of the Scottish Programming Languages Institute (SPLI), supported by the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA), and was inspired by the Programming for the Planet (PROPL) workshop. View more information and register online.

1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO)

Group: Low Carbon and Sustainable Computing
Speaker: Anne Currie, Ayse Cuskun, and others
Date: 03 December, 2024
Time: 09:00 - 18:00
Location: 423 SAWB

GLACSIL Industrial Studentship Showcase

Group: Glasgow Computing Science Innovation Lab
Speaker: TBC
Date: 03 December, 2024
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Location: Advanced Research Centre 237C

At this event we'll celebrate the work and achievements of the industrial research students sponsored by GLACSIL partners via talks, technology demonstrations, plus festive drinks and nibbles. 

Further details will be added in due course.