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2026
February
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Al-Āmmīyah (Colloquial Arabic) and Generative AI - a snapshot of its emerging text-to-text abilities: experiments and evaluation results
-The Arabic language provides an extraordinary wealth of comparative material. It functions in four major registers: the daily language (Colloquial Arabic), the language of media (Modern Standard Arabic), the language of literature (Classical Arabic), and the religious language (Qurʾānic Arabic), all four with various degrees of overlapping. Further, the Colloquial...
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Interdisciplinary seminar by Dr Melvyn Tyloo
-Speaker: Dr Melvyn Tyloo, University of Exeter. Title: How to pick the right mathematical model? Using optimal control for closed-loop model discrimination. Abstract: Mathematical modelling is the primary tool to predict and control the evolution of complex natural and engineered systems. However, sometimes many different models might predict similar behavior. This might...
January
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...