Event Archive

Quantum Computing for Everyone

To promote and celebrate World Quantum Day on Monday 15 April the University of Aberdeen is running an online event to raise awareness of, and demonstrate, the transformative power of quantum computing.

An Introduction to Quantum Computing

University of Aberdeen staff are invited to attend this online session on the fundamentals and use of quantum computing.

Data and AI: What it means for education, research and society

Join us for a fascinating online discussion on data and artificial intelligence.

Lecture: Animal Venoms - Friend or Foe?

This lecture will be delivered by Dr Wael Houssen and Dr Soumya Palliyil and followed by a reception.

Bias in the Vision and Language of Artificial Intelligence

Join Dr Margaret Mitchell as she discusses what 'bias' is within AI systems, and how to evaluate biased systems.

BNAAS - The 20th Biennial National Atomic Spectroscopy Symposium

BNASS (Biennial National Atomic Spectroscopy Symposium) is the biennial meeting of the RSC Atomic Spectroscopy Group and this year, BNASS will celebrate its 20th event! BNASS provides an ideal forum to encourage the exchange of ideas and knowledge in analytical atomic spectroscopy as well as celebrating the developments in atomic...

Analytical Research Forum 2020 (ARF20)

The Analytical Research Forum (ARF) provides the opportunity for early career researchers from analytical communities to present their work.

International workshop on interfaces - Design for Performance

Workshop for material scientists

SNCS Impact Event

Impact is about the difference that research can make. It can occur in many different ways, through enhancing quality of life and health, creation of new products, knowledge exchange, influence on public policy, etc.

Chemistry Seminar - A multiscale investigation of ash loaded gasoline particulate filters

Dr Gibson is a Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Research Fellow in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests lie in applying synchrotron techniques and vibrational spectroscopy to study heterogeneous catalysts during reaction. She also develops combined techniques, i.e. performing XAFS and DRIFTS studies simultaneously to...

Oil and Gas UK/Decom North Sea conference

Subject of the conference is the decommissioning of offshore oil and gas installations

Chemistry Graduation Ceremony

Chemistry students will graduate next week

IGC2 New York

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK will attend the UN Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Genetic Resources of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction in New York in 2019.

CPD for teachers/technicians of physics

The Physics Department of the University of Aberdeen will host two professional development days for Teachers and Technicians of Physics. The course will be practically based and will provide an opportunity to try experiments suitable for AH investigations, AH course work and Higher Physics. It is hoped that it will...

Commodity Chemicals at INEOS Grangemeouth

The competitiveness of Grangemouth as a chemicals manufacturing site has been transformed over the past 5 years under INEO Olefins & Polymers UK. This talk describes why that was necessary, how the transformation was generated, and gives an insight into the operating paths and technology used to provide a platform for...

Computing Science Seminar. Cheng on Semantic Data Retrieval: Search, Ranking, and Summarisation

Venue: Computing Science Common Room, Meston Building

Chemistry Department Seminar

Transition metal chalcogenides: what solid state electrochemistry has to do with them

Computing Seminar: Low Code IoT Middleware for Gait Velocity Monitoring at Home

Title:  Low Code IoT Middleware for Gait Velocity Monitoring at Home Abstract: Gait velocity has become a valid and important metric for senior populations. However, existing approaches to measure gait velocity are either limited to specific location or too expensive to be applied. IoT middleware allows the systems to collect data in...

Fine-Grained Access Control via Policy-Carrying Data by Prof. Vasconcelos

Abstract: We address the problem of associating access policies with datasets and how to monitor compliance via policy-carrying data. Our contributions are a formal model in first-order logic inspired by normative multi-agent systems to regulate data access, and a computational model for the validation of specific use cases and the...

Computing Seminar in RGU: Exploring Moral Dilemmas in Immersive Virtual Reality Environments

RGU School of Computing Science and Digital Media Seminar Wednesday 31 May 2017 at 13:00 in Room N117, Sir Iain Wood Building TITLE: Exploring Moral Dilemmas in Immersive Virtual Reality Environments Professor Fotis Liarokapis HCI Laboratory Faculty of Informatics Masaryk University  Brno,  Czech Republic liarokap@fi.muni.cz   ABSTRACT: Virtual Reality (VR) is a technology that simulates user experiences in a synthetic way. Immersion into VR is a...

Computing Seminar: Towards Socially Intelligent Robots - Karen Spärck Jones lecture

The 2017 lecture will be given by Dr. Maja Matarić (University of Southern California) who is Professor and Chan Soon-Shiong Chair of Computer Science, Neuroscience & Pediatrics; Founding Director at the USC’s Robotics and Autonomous Systems Center, and Director of the USC’s Robotics Research Lab. The lecture will take place on...

Computing Seminar "Policy-carrying data: towards a data-sharing economy" by Prof. W. Vasconcelos

This event was cancelled

The title is: Title: Policy-carrying data: towards a data-sharing economy Abstract: This seminar will introduce a formal model (drawing upon notions from normative multiagent systems) to regulate data access, and secondly a computational model that allows both for the validation of specific use cases and the verification of the policy against criteria. Some of...

Computing Seminar: Deep Learning and Ensemble Learning, by Dr. Jayne and Dr. Elyan

Deep Learning and Ensemble Learning Chrisina Jayne and Eyad Elyan There has been a significant research interest in recent years related to deep architectures, which refer to neural network architectures with a larger number of hidden layers. The breakthrough paper published in 2006 by Hinton et al. introduced unsupervised fast, greedy learning...

Computing Seminar: "Neural computation for sequence classification" by Dr. Dybowski

Brief:   The seminar will provide a review of neural-based approaches to sequence classification from feed-forward networks to recurrent neural networks and finishing with the neural Turing machine.   Bio:   I obtained a PhD in computational chemistry at Leeds University looking at symbolic and statistical approaches to the diagnosis of endocrine metabolites. Whilst a research fellow with King's College...

Computing Seminar: "From design patterns to the automated design of algorithms" by Dr. Woodward

Computing Seminar: Speaker: Dr John Woodward from Stirling University http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~jrw/ Title: From design patterns to the automated design of algorithms Abstract:  Design Patterns have informed us when we need to provide solutions to Object Oriented design problems. This talk looks at how design patterns can assist us in building metaheuristic solutions and avoid reinventing the wheel. ...

Computing Seminar "Improving Relevance Ranking for Search Engines" by Yi Chang

Abstract: Relevance ranking of search engine is a billion-dollar challenge, while there is a disadvantage of backwardness in web search competition. Learning to rank algorithms could effectively improve relevance ranking, yet it is a systematic effort to continuously improve the relevance of a search engine. In this talk, I will introduce...

Improving children's engagement with user evaluation questionnaires

Questionnaires are the most commonly used user evaluation method. However, when user evaluation questionnaires are used to evaluate systems with children, there is a tendency for positive results to be generated. Whilst this may be due to the high quality of the system being evaluated, it could also be due...

Computing Science: PGR Workshop

PGR Workshop: Friday 21 October 2.00-3.00pm

Computing Science Seminar. Robertson on "New Frontiers for Computing Science in Population Health"

Abstract: Rapid advances in our ability to acquire and propagate medical data mean that we can radically change the basis for healthcare through precision medicine.  To achieve this at scale, however, requires change in the way we work with data in healthcare systems.  I will discuss recent work on aspects...

Computing Science Seminar. Dr. Meneguzzi on "A Bayesian approach to norm identification"

Abstract: When entering a system, an agent should be aware of the obligations and prohibitions (collectively norms) that affect it. Existing solutions to this norm identification problem make use of observations of either norm compliant, or norm violating, behaviour. Thus, they assume an extreme situation where norms are typically violated,...

Computing Seminar in RGU: Prof Sanjay Jha on "A Changing Landscape: Securing The Internet Of Things (IoT)"

AbstractFirst part of this talk will discuss how the community is converging towards the IoT vision having worked in wireless sensor networking and Machine-2-Machine (M2M) communication. This will follow a general discussion of security challenges in IoT. Finally I will discuss some results from an ongoing projects on security of...

Computing Science Seminar. Kasabov on "Deep Learning, Spiking Neural Networks and Spatio-Temporal Data Machines"

Abstract: The current development of the third generation of artificial neural networks - the spiking neural networks (SNN) along with the technological development of highly parallel neuromorphic hardware systems of millions of artificial spiking neurons as processing elements, makes it possible to model complex data in a more efficient, brain-like way...

Computing Science Seminar. Fuchs "Non-Monotonic Reasoning in Attempto Controlled English"

Abstract: Attempto Controlled English (ACE) is a logic-based knowledge representation language that uses the syntax of a subset of English. RACE is a first-order reasoner for ACE that can show the consistency of a set of ACE axioms and deduce ACE theorems and ACE queries from ACE axioms. In my talk...

Controlled Natural Language Workshop (CNL 2016)

This workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL) has a broad scope and embraces all approaches that are based on natural language and apply restrictions on vocabulary, grammar, and/or semantics. This includes (but is certainly not limited to) approaches that have been calledsimplified language, plain language, formalized language, processable language, fragments of language,...

Scottish Argumentation Day 2016

Welcome! The Scottish Argumentation Day 2016 will be hosted by the University of Aberdeen on Monday the 20th of June. This is the third edition of the Scottish Argumentation Day following on from the successful meetings held in Dundee in 2013 and in Aberdeen in 2011. The aim of this edition is to create...

Postgraduate Workshop

Presentations by Computing Science Postgraduates.

Postgraduate Workshop

Presentations by Computing Science Postgrads.

Computing Science Seminar. Hart on "The Datalab"

Abstract: The Data Lab will be presenting how as one of the SFC’s Innovation Centres it is looking to promote and fund Industry and academic collaboration. The Datalab Bio: With an engineering background and a MBA from the University of Southampton, Duncan has over 20 years industry experience in the UK and Internationally. With...

Computing Science Seminar. Oren on "Demand Responsive Pricing of Taxi Services"

Abstract: Traditional taxi services commonly charge a fixed price for their services based on a combination of travel distance and time. However, services such as Uber and Lyft seek to use market mechanisms (i.e., by considering changes in supply and demand) to compute trip pricing. Such pricing has several potential benefits,...

Computing Science Seminar. Vasconcelos on "Group Norms for Multi-Agent Organisations"

Abstract: Normative multi-agent systems offer the ability to integrate social and individual factors to provide increased levels of fidelity with respect to modelling social phenomena, such as cooperation, coordination, group decision making, and organization, in both human and artificial agent systems. An important open research issue refers to group norms, i.e. norms...

Computing Science Seminar. Harrison on "A 5 question framework to help you think, conceptualise, develop, assess and strengthen a venture concept"

Abstract: “So What, Who Cares, Why You, Why Now, and Why Me?” – A 5 question framework to help you think, conceptualise, develop, assess and strengthen a venture concept. Designed to help you escape the “nodding head” syndrome and instead develop relationships and commercial opportunities to help bring your venture from...

Computing Science Seminar. Gray and Runcie on "Data Tables and Logical Inferences"

Abstract: Many people fail to realise the variety of situations that data tables can represent, and also what we can infer from them.  A recent paper in AIEDAM Journal (Gray, Runcie & Sleeman (2015)) includes a description of how many  kinds of table used in describing Configuration problems can be used efficiently in inference and constraint...

Computing Science Seminar. Rat-Fischer on "Physical problem-solving competences in birds and human infants"

Abstract: The ability to solve physical problems –from simple ones such as opening a box containing a reward to more complex ones such as manufacturing ad-hoc tools– is under intense scrutiny in humans, other animals, and artificial systems. However, the cognitive and evolutionary processes underlying the emergence of such capacities remain...

Chemistry Department Seminar - Dr Tim Hele

How to combine quantum Boltzmann statistics with classical mechanics  

Computing Science Seminar. Toniolo on "Supporting Reasoning with Different Types of Evidence: The CISpaces toolkit"

Abstract: In this talk, I will present the CISpaces toolkit, a collaborative virtual space for intelligence analysis. CISpaces has been developed in collaboration with UCLA and Honeywell within the International Technology Alliance programme.  The aim of intelligence analysis is to make sense of information that is often conflicting or incomplete, and to...

Computing Science Seminar. Wang on "Zhishi.me: Building up the Chinese Linked Open Data"

Abstract: Linked Open Data (LOD) has become one of the most important community efforts to publish high-quality interconnected semantic data. Such data has been widely used in many applications to provide intelligent services such as entity search and personalized recommendation. While DBpedia, one of the LOD core data sources, contains resources...

Computing Science Seminar. Studer on "Rule-based Programming with Linked-Data-Fu"

Abstract: Linked Programs are designed for the declarative specification of applications based on web-accessible APIs to data and functionality. Linked-Data-Fu provides a general-purpose engine that allows to perform Linked Programs (describing interactions with web resources) combining data integration, communication and interaction, reasoning and query processing.  Linked Data-Fu executes such specifications by orders...

Chemistry Department Seminar - Dr Olivier Toulemonde

Magnetic properties of SrFe1-xCoxO3-y (x= 0.75 ; 0.5) upon oxidation and reduction in relation with a heterogeneous distribution of oxidation states  

Computing Science Post-Graduate Research Workshop

Presentations by Computing Science postgraduates about their research.

Computing Science Seminar. Prof. van Deemter on "Computational Models of Referring: some Aberdonian themes"

Abstract: In this talk I will, firstly, review the state of the art of Referring Expressions Generation, viewed as computational models of human reference production. I will ask how successful existing algorithms are from this theoretical perspective, and discuss some recent improvements, for instance relating to the modelling of variation between...

Computing Science Seminar. Dr. Atkinson on "Abstract Dialectical Frameworks for Legal Reasoning"

Abstract:  Factor-based reasoning provides an established approach to reasoning with legal cases.  Factors are stereotypical patterns of facts that are sufficiently abstract to apply to a number of cases and within a body of case law factors favour a particular side, plaintiff or defendant.  In this talk I will report...

Computing Science Mini-workshop "Student and Faculty Research on Law and Computing Science"

In this mini-workshop, students and faculty at the University of Aberdeen and University of Edinburgh will present their research projects on topics in law and computing. Initial list of presenters and topics. Ruta Liepina.  Arguing about evidence in law.  Law School, University of Aberdeen. Jesus Niebla.  Copyright enforcement and AI: an automated approach....

Computing Science Seminar. Booth on "Trust-sensitive belief revision"

Abstract: Belief revision is concerned with incorporating new information into a pre-existing set of beliefs. When the new information comes from another agent, we must first determine if that agent should be trusted. In this talk, we define trust as a pre-processing step before revision. We emphasise that trust in an...

Computing Science Seminar. Wyner leading discussion on "The Computing Science Seminar"

At this meeting, we will discuss the Computing Science Seminar.  Topics: What role could it/should it play in the life of the department? Suggestions for improvement, change, development? How can Lecturers, ..., Professors contribute? How can Post-docs and Post-grads contribute? How can Undergrads contribute? Invitations for seminars? Ideas for 'mini-workshops'? What is the state of the budget? Time/place?  Receptions? Other? Everyone...

Computing Science Seminar. Thomas on "Users versus models: What observation tells us about effectiveness metrics"

Abstract: Retrieval system effectiveness can be measured in two quite different ways: by monitoring the behaviour of users and gathering data about the ease and accuracy with which they accomplish certain specified information-seeking tasks; or by using numeric effectiveness metrics to score system runs in reference to a set of relevance...

Computing Science Seminar. Panos on "Performing Named Entity Resolution in Enterprise Scenarios - Experiences, Lessons Learned and Methodological Guidelines"

Abstract: Named Entity Resolution (NER) is an information extraction task that involves detecting mentions of named entities (e.g. people, organisations or locations) within texts and mapping them to their corresponding entities in a given knowledge source. Systems and frameworks for performing NER have been developed both by the academia and...

Computing Science Seminar. Caminada on "A Discussion Game for Grounded Semantics"

Abstract:  We present a discussion game, based on the concept of strong admissibility, where the ability to win the game for a particular argument coincides with the argument being in the grounded extension. Our game is an improvement to the previously stated Standard Grounded Game (SGG) and Grounded Persuasion Game...

Remembrance Sunday Service

The University Chapel leading an Act of Remembrance

Computing Science Seminar. du Boulay on "Motivation in Learning"

Abstract:  Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Intelligent Learning Environments have traditionally focused on adapting the content of the material that their students undertake according to the individual needs of each student.  For the most part this has meant adapting to the intellectual progress that the students are making through whatever domain...

Computing Science Seminar. Baader on "Ontology-based Monitoring of Dynamic Systems"

Abstract:  Our understanding of the notion “dynamic system” is a rather broad one: such a system has states, which can change over time. Ontologies are used to describe the states of the system, possibly in an incomplete way. Monitoring is then concerned with deciding whether some run of the system or all of its...

Computing Science Seminar. Eiter on"Towards a Logic-based Framework for Analyzing Stream Reasoning"

Abstract:  The rise of smart applications has drawn interest to logical reasoning over data streams. Recently, different query languages and stream processing / reasoning engines were proposed in different communities. However, due to a lack of theoretical foundations, the expressivity and semantics of diverse approaches was given only informally. Towards clear specifications and means for...

Cafe Scientifique Explorathon Special

Hear from our researchers about their favourite scientists of all time and have your say!

European Corner at Union Square

Science busking throughout the day and exhibition stalls from 3pm.

Computing Science Seminar. Curé on "WaterFowl: a Compact, Self-indexed RDF Store based on Succinct Data Structures

Abstract: This talk will start with an introduction of the main strategies for storing and indexing RDF data sets. This will consider solutions based on a native RDF approach but also approaches using a relational or NoSQL storage backend. Then, I will present the main features of an on-going work that...

Student vs. Alumni Sports Day

We are inviting alumni to take part in the inaugural Student vs. Alumni Sports Day.

Computing Science Mini-Workshop on Natural Language Processing

Computing Science Mini-Workshop on Natural Language Processing This is a mini-workshop on Natural Language Processing with talks by several visitors and department colleagues. Speakers: Hailong Cao on "Soft Dependency Matching for Hierarchical Phrase-based Machine Translation" Abstract: In this talk, I would like to present a soft dependency matching model for hierarchical phrase-based (HPB) machine translation. When...

Cognitive Science Meeting

This is an occasional, informal Cognitive Science get together to hear who is doing what, to learn about new topics, and to strengthen/forge collegial networks.  There will be a series of short talks by participants, which will give us an opportunity to get acquainted. We will order pizza to be delivered...

Computing Science Seminar. Pérez on "When History Matters - Assessing Reliability for the Reuse of Scientific Workflows"

Abstract: Scientific workflows play an important role in computational research, as the essential artifacts for communicating the methods used to produce the research findings. We are witnessing a growing number of efforts of treating workflows as first-class artifacts for sharing and exchanging scientific knowledge, either as part of scholarly articles or...

Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference 2014

The University of Aberdeen is delighted to host this prestigious conference. The 13th Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference will be a forum that brings together an international interdisciplinary group involving physicists, engineers, mathematicians, chemists, biologists, and neuroscientists focused on various aspects of experimental Chaos and Complexity. This meeting will focus...

Computing Science Mini-Workshop "Perspectives on Text Readability"

A Mini-Workshop on Perspectives on Text Readability Speakers: Hitoshi Nishikawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, Tokyo) - Learning to Generate Coherent Summary with Discriminative Hidden Semi-Markov Model Tadashi Nomoto (National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo) - Exploration in Memory Based Topic Detection (Or Concept Generation with Distributional Semantics) Itsumi Saito (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories, Tokyo) - Morphological Analysis...

Cafe Scientifique Inverness - Can Computers Think for Themselves?

Coffee and a slice of science at Waterstones Eastgate Centre Inverness.

Cafe Scientifique - Family Day Special

Get the whole family together for an afternoon of fascinating, hands-on science.

Computing Science Seminar. Pipes on "Emerging Technologies at IBM"

Abstract: Based at IBM's Hursley Labs in the UK, the Emerging Technology team works with clients to bridge the divide between new technology and mainstream software products. The team combines direct customer experience with innovation and first-of-a-kind technology to produce solutions that solve real business challenges. This talk will introduce the...

Cafe Scientifique - Danger High Voltage!

Learn more about inventor Nikola Tesla and enjoy a thrilling demonstration of a Tesla coil.

Prof. Shieber, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Survey: Synchronous grammar applications in language processing

Abstract: Concluding the series on synchronous grammars, I describe how synchronous grammars, and in particular probabilistic versions, can be applied to a variety of natural-language processing problems such as generation, machine translation, and sentence compression. Bio: Stuart Shieber is a Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. His primary research field is computational...

Prof. Shieber, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Seminar: What's so great about compositionality?

Abstract: Compositionality is the tenet that the meaning of an expression is determined by the meanings of its immediate parts along with their method of combination. The semantics of artificial languages (such as programming languages or logics) are uniformly given compositionally, so that the notion doesn’t even arise in that literature....

Prof. Shieber, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Tutorial: Synchronous Grammars Introduced

Abstract: Just as grammars are formal models of languages, synchronous grammars are formal models of relations between languages. They have applications in natural-language interpretation and generation, machine translation, sentence compression, and other areas. I will introduce and motivate the design of synchronous grammars, showing how a particular base grammar formalism, tree-adjoining...

Royal Society of Edinburgh inductee Prof. Barbara Grosz on "Health Care Coordination and Health Literacy: The Need for Smart Multi-agent Systems"

Distinguished Visitor: Prof. Grosz will be inducted at the Royal Society of Edinburgh as a Corresponding Fellow The RSE has 1600 Fellows, of which 66 are Corresponding Fellows.  Prof. Grosz will be the fifth woman Corresponding Fellow. Abstract: I recently argued that Turing, were he alive now, would conjecture differently than he did in...

Chemistry Departmental Seminar

Dr Jan-Willem Bos (Heriot-Watt University)

Computing Science Seminar. Everson on "Visualising and understanding multi-objective solutions and league tables"

Abstract: Recent advances in evolutionary optimisation algorithms mean that it is possible to find approximations to the optimal trade-off between several objectives.  With only two or three objectives visualising the trade-off and relations between solutions is straightforward, but with more objectives understanding the solutions and available trade-offs is difficult.  This talk will briefly...

Computing Science Seminar. Elsenbroich on "Modelling Extortion Rackets"

Abstract:  Extortion is a different kind of crime to other property crime such as burglary, robbery or even fraud. What makes extortion unique is a) the long-term relationship of the criminal with the victim and b) the reliance on the threat of future punishment rather than actual punishment. The two...

Computing Science Seminar. Alexopoulos on "Detecting, Analyzing and Representing Vagueness in Ontologies for Facilitating Reuse"

Abstract: The emergence in the last years of initiatives like the Linked Open Data (LOD) has led to a significant increase of the amount of structured semantic data on the Web. Nevertheless, the wider reuse of such data isinhibited by a variety of factors, ranging from the quality of the...

Natural Language Generation Seminar. Unger on "Conceptually scoped, modular natural language interfaces"

Abstract: Natural language plays an increasingly important role as interface to existing services and data. However, a number of characteristics of today’s language technology make it hard to be adopted by non-linguistically skilled developers. I present an architecture that supports the easy adoption of language technology into existing applications, building...

Computing Science Seminar. Unger on "Question answering over RDF data"

Abstract:  While more and more RDF data is available, the question of how typical web users can access this body of knowledge becomes of crucial importance. There is thus a growing amount of research on natural language interfaces that allow end users to profit from the expressive power of Semantic...

A mini-workshop on Natural Language Processing and Ontologies

There is increasing research around the integration of natural language processing and ontologies. Speaking at this mini-workshop: Invited speaker:  Christina Unger "Ontology-based interpretation of natural language" Abstract:  Christina will present an approach to interpreting natural language with respect to specific domain knowledge captured in ontologies. It puts ontologies at the center of...

Computing Science Seminar. Lecue on "STAR-CITY: Semantic Traffic Analytics and Reasoning for CITY"

Abstract: This presentation outlines STAR-CITY, a system supporting semantic traffic analytics and reasoning for city. STAR-CITY, which integrates (human and machine-based) sensor data using variety of formats, velocities and volumes, has been designed to provide insight on historical and real-time traffic conditions, all supporting efficient urban planning. Our system demonstrates...

Chemistry Departmental Seminar

Prof. Olivia Corcoran (University of East London)

Computing Science Seminar. Power on "Ontology authoring through dialogue"

A presentation with demos of dialogue applications to build ontologies.

Computing Science Seminar. van Gijzel on "A principled approach to the implementation of argumentation models"

Abstract: Argumentation theory is an area that combines both philosophical concepts and computational models to deliver a practical approach to reasoning that is able to deal with uncertain information and possibly conflicting viewpoints. Structured argumentation in particular can model domain specific knowledge and argumentation schemes. However, despite these practical components, there is...

Computing Science Discussion. van Gijzel on "Haskell and Argumentation"

A conceptual presentation about implementing formal argumentation in Haskell, a functional programming language

Computing Science Seminar. Motik on "Theory and Practice: The Yin and Yang of Intelligent Information Systems"

Abstract:  Theoretical and practical research complement each other, and their synergy is essential to developing advanced information systems. I will illustrate this using examples from my research in ontology languages, reasoning, and big data management. I will also discuss how we can foster interest in combining theory and practice in...

Discovery Gallery: Skies over Aberdeen

Inspired discussions in Aberdeen Maritime Museum taking inspiration from the commemorative exhibition on Sir David Gill. Admission is free but booking is highly recommended.

Chemistry Seminar - ChemSoc Mystery Lecture

ChemSoc Mystery Lecture

Chemistry Seminar - Prof Graeme Paton

Prof Graeme Paton, IBES, University of Aberdeen Two decades of microbial biosensors; analytical tools still seeking adoption.    

Chemistry Seminar - Dr. Angel Cuesta Ciscar

Dr. Angel Cuesta Ciscar, Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen Atomic ensemble effects and non-covalent interactions at the electrode-electrolyte interface (Electrocatalysis and Surface Nanostructuring)

Chemistry Seminar - Prof Roger Linington

Prof Roger Linington, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Connecting Form and Function: Image-Based Screening in Natural Products Drug Discovery .

Chemistry Seminar - ChemSoc Mystery Lecture

ChemSoc Mystery Lecture

Social innovation: developing and maintaining relationships between the University and the Third Sector

We are delighted to invite you to a workshop focusing on social innovation throughout the Third Sector.

Computing Science seminar by Franz Berto

Relevant Semantics and Inconsistent Representation

It is All About the Money, or is it? Exploring Entrepreneurship as Value Creation

For professional women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) new to or who have attended ABZWISE; this two day programme will work upon individual's capacities in personal effectiveness and entrepreneurship.