Seminar Archive

2025

June

• Interdisciplinary seminar by Dr Silke Henkes

  25 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Interdisciplinary seminar by Dr Silke Henkes (University of Leiden). Topic: Cell sheets as soft active matter Note: Location is MT317 (Physics common room) not MT311 as usual.

• Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Rodrigo García

  11 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Rodrigo García (University of Edinburgh). Topic: Integrating Experimental and Computational Approaches to Understand Stem Cell Regulation Strategies. Maintaining and regenerating adult tissues requires precise regulation of stem cell numbers, proliferation, and differentiation. Dysregulation of these processes can lead to stem cell exhaustion or uncontrolled overgrowth, yet the mechanisms coordinating...

• GRASP - Generative ReAsoning beyond Scaling uP

  11 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:00

  Processing and generating language in ways that align with human expectations—both in communication and reasoning—requires computational representations that approximate how humans understand, abstract, and manipulate knowledge. Generative Large Language Models (LLMs), powered by vast data and extensive parameters, have achieved impressive alignment with human-like outputs. Though not explicitly trained for...

May

• Many Minds are Better Than One: Towards a Dialogical Turn in Logic

  06 May 2025, 14:00 - 23:55

  Both the ancient Greek and Indian traditions primarily conceived of logic as an inherently dialogical process. However, it is the Enlightenment conception of logic as providing prescriptive guidance for individual agent reasoning that has come to dominate research into logics for AI. In this talk I will argue for a renewal...

• Multimodal Scientific Content Generation with LLMs

  05 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00

  Generating scientific images (e.g., scientific figures) by hand can often be a time-consuming laborious task, where some popular coding languages such as TikZ come with a steep learning curve. Automatizing this process promises to facilitate and accelerate scientific multimodal content production. In this talk, I will discuss our recent approaches...

April

• Exploring the Challenges of Defeasible Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Generics-Based Perspective

  23 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00

  In everyday life, a majority of the inferences we make are defeasible. That is, they are highly plausible but are based on incomplete information and can therefore be impacted or defeated by new information. Defeasible inferences often arise from generalisations, which are readily capture in language by generics (i.e., generalisations...

March

• Trustworthy AI in Orthopedic Imaging: Advancing Responsibility and Explainability in Clinical Decision-Making

  06 March 2025, 14:00 - 15:00

  Artificial intelligence (AI) is making a big leap in medical imaging analysis, offering a great deal of advancements in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment planning. However, the deployment of AI in clinical practice demands not only technical excellence but also adherence to principles of responsibility and explainability to ensure trust and reliability....

February

• Memorization or Generalization? Exploring Transformer-based Large Language Models and, possibly, novel approaches

  26 February 2025, 13:00 - 14:00

  Transformer-based Large Language Models demonstrate extraordinary capabilities and, thus, change the approach of the ML/NLP/NN communities when conducting research. Large chunks of research topics are neglected as Transformer-based LLMs seem to be the ultimate solution. However, it is already emerging that a large part of the capabilities of LLMs depends...

2024

November

• ACES seminar from Hydrogen Capability Network

  28 November 2024, 14:00 - 15:00

  Please join us in Meston Lecture Theatre 6 (MT6) at 14:00. Our speaker will be a representative of the Hydrogen Capability Network from the Aerospace Technology Institute. The Hydrogen Capability Network aims to ensure that there is collaboration, coherence and efficiency for the aerospace sector to enable hydrogen...

• 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