2012/13 seminar archive

17 October, No seminar due to cancellation by the speaker. Rescheduled for the 21st of November.
24 October, Inaugural Seminar from Daniel Franks (University of York), "The Leeds digital pathology workstation: designing, developing and evaluating for diagnostic use"
31 October, Distinguished International Speaker: Tobias Nipkow (Technical University Munich, Germany), "Continuous-Variable Quantum Cryptography with Entanglement in the Middle" - Hosted by Detlef Plump
7 November, Roundhouse Public Lecture: Darrel Ince (Emeritus Professor of Computing at The Open University) "The Cracks in Science"
at 6.30pm in RCH/037
12 November (Monday - 2.15pm - CSE/083), Peter Wellstead (Hamilton Institute, NUIM, Maynooth), "A Fresh Look at Parkinson’s Disease" - Hosted by Jim Austin
21 November, Coffee-Table Book Seminar: Alan Frisch (Artificial Intelligence Group, University of York), "A Decade of Research on Constraint Modelling and Reformulation: The Quest for Abstraction and Automation" - Chaired by Ana Cavalcanti.
28 November, No seminar due to APR meeting.
5 December, Helen Sharp (Open University) - last minute cancellation. Rescheduled for the 1st of May.
12 December, Ulrike Hahn (University of Cardiff) "What makes things similar?" - hosted by Edwin Hancock

16 January, Distinguished International Speaker: Barry O'Sullivan (University College Cork, Ireland), "Monte Carlo Tree Search" - Hosted by Alan Frisch
23 January, No seminar. Academic Staff meeting.
30 January, Viv Kendon (University of Leeds), "Quantum walks and algorithms" - Chaired by Susan Stepney
6 February, Mauro Paternostro (Queen's University of Belfast), "A route to quantumness in mesoscopic systems: Through the (quantum) looking glass, and what Alice found found there" - Hosted by Sam Braunstein
13 February, Roundhouse Public Lecture: Sam Braunstein (University of York) at 6.30pm in LMB/030 & 031 (free tickets sold out), "Teleporting to the Future"
20 February, No seminar.
27 February, Inaugural Seminar from Paul Cairns (University of York), "Immersion in digital games"
06 March, Darren Treanor (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust), "The Leeds digital pathology workstation: designing, developing and evaluating for diagnostic use" - Hosted by Alistair Edwards
13 March, Christian Weedbrook (University of Toronto, Canada), "Continuous-Variable Quantum Cryptography with Entanglement in the Middle"

01 May, Helen Sharp (Open University), "Novice interaction designer behaviour: a comparison of UK and Botswana participants" - hosted by Paul Cairns
08 May,Distinguished International Speaker: Arend Rensink (University of Twente, Netherlands), "Graph-Based State Spaces" - Hosted by Richard Paige
15 May, Distinguished International Speaker: Horst Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland - RAEng disinguished visitor at York), "Towards Bridging the Gap between Structural and Statistical Pattern Recognition" - Hosted by Edwin Hancock
22 May, Netta Cohen (University of Leeds), "Neural control of behaviour: Lessons from a worm"
29 May, Martyn Amos (Manchester Metropolitan University), "Population-based microbial computing" - Hosted by Susan Stepney
5 June, Inaugural Seminar from Mike Dodds (University of York), "Taming Concurrency by Thinking Locally" - Chaired by Detlef Plump
12 June, Peter Cowling (University of York), "Monte Carlo Tree Search" - Chaired by Alan Frisch