Seminar Archive

2023

October

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  High-Profile Data Breach: An In-Depth Analysis of Crypto-Wallet Case.

  04 October 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  Join us for an enlightening session with Assistant Professor Svetlana Abramova as she delves into the repercussions of a data breach on crypto-wallet users. Discover key findings, challenges, and valuable lessons from this real-life incident.

July

• Simplifying Parallel Programming and Opportunities for Collaboration with Brazil

  20 July 2023, 13:00 - 15:00

  This talk concerns Dr. Griebler's research on high-level parallel programming abstractions, stream processing, research tools to perform benchmarks on several parallel computing architectures and distributed systems, and recent data science projects with industry and academic partners. Finally, he will present opportunities for collaborating with Brazil, especially with PUCRS's institutional project of internationalization that...

May

• Chemistry seminar - Professor Jonathan Sessler

  17 May 2023

  RSC Prize Talk Mond-Nyholm Prize for Inorganic Chemistry Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin

April

• Chemistry seminar - Dr Ming Li

  27 April 2023

  Associate Professor in Materials, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham Further details to follow.

March

• Chemistry seminar - Dr Yi Yu

  16 March 2023

  School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University, China Further details to follow.

• Towards Closed-Loop Interactive Autonomous Systems: Understanding People and their Impacts on Decision Making

  15 March 2023, 09:00 - 11:00

  At my dissertation defense, I presented Planning and Recognition Together Close the Interaction Loop (PReTCIL) as one of the first ways to integrate algorithms from artificial intelligence (AI) planning and plan, activity, and intent recognition into a single method for adaptive closed-loop interaction in autonomous systems. Despite PReTCIL working out...

• What's next for nematic liquid crystals?

  09 March 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  Professor Helen Gleeson OBE from the University of Leeds' Soft Matter Physics Group

• ChatGPT "passing" things: A(nother) story of cherry-picking, ignoring errors and hope

  01 March 2023, 14:00 - 15:00

  In Nov 2022 OpenAI released the new ChatGPT language model, taking the world by storm with it. Today, we are flooded by tweets and articles claiming ChatGPT is reaching human-level performance in many tasks. But what tasks? Is ChatGPT ready to assist (or replace) humans? In this talk, we'll cover...

February

• Natural products as a treasure trove against COVID-19

  16 February 2023, 13:00 - 14:00

  Dr Mostafa Rateb, University of the West of Scotland COVID-19 is a recent pandemic that put all nations under a major panic, with many mortalities in 2020 and 2021. Although vaccine development was ongoing, finding treatment that affects the virus would be of great help to combat the viral mutation. Once...

• Achieving collective action through explicit reasoning about expectations

  15 February 2023, 14:00 - 15:00

  Abstract: This work studies the collective action problem: identifying and implementing mechanisms that allow members of a community to coordinate their actions in order to achieve a social, rather than individual, benefit. Rather than applying the traditional tools of game theory, we are investigating how maintaining explicit social knowledge encoded in...