Seminar Archive

2025

May

• 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  

• BDI Agents in Natural Language Environments

  15 November 2024, 11:00 - 12:00

  Developing autonomous agents to deal with real-world problems is challenging, especially when developers are not necessarily specialists in artificial intelligence. This poses two key challenges regarding the interface of the programming with the developer, and the efficiency of the resulting agents. In this talk, we cover a recent work to...

• Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Scott Doyle

  06 November 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Scott Doyle (University of Aberdeen). Topic: Beyond Sparks: Plasma Science at Aberdeen

October

• Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Victoria Volodina

  23 October 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  Interdisciplinary Seminar by Dr Victoria Volodina (University of Exeter): The importance of uncertainty quantification for model credibility

• Interdisciplinary seminar by Dr Daniel Chaves

  09 October 2024, 13:00 - 14:00

  Interdisciplinary seminar by Dr Daniel Chaves (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil). Topic to be confirmed.