Seminar Archive

A key challenge in Natural Language Generation (NLG) is evaluating the quality of texts produced by an NLG system.   Robust and reliable evaluation is essential to determining whether a new NLG model or system advances state-of-the-art, understanding weaknesses of current NLG systems, and giving users a good understanding of what...

The utility of applying approaches rooted in physical organic chemistry to the development of manufacturing processes for active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) will be demonstrated through three AstraZeneca case studies. These will illustrate applications to a reaction, work-up and to control a reaction occurring during the formation and crystallisation of a...

Mining bacterial genomes has revealed a vast number of gene clusters proposed to direct the biosynthesis of novel specialized natural products. However, many of these gene clusters remain silent, or are poorly expressed, in laboratory growth conditions.

Dr Gordon John Florence from St Andrews University

After a period of business-led research which was accompanied with a dramatic drop in publications and patents, National Research Council of Canada (NRC) turned the page over in 2016 and opened its doors to young scientists and new research ideas. I will briefly talk about NRC Metrology, what do we...

Speakers: Prof Ran Levi, Mathematics,"Topological analysis of data encoded as a graph" Prof Stefan Hoppler, Institute of Medical Sciences, "Gene regulatory circuitry in Wnt signalling (positive and/or negative?) regulates size of heart muscle in embryonic development"

Professor Derek Sinclair, University of Sheffield. Royal Society of Chemistry Peter Day Award 2019 lecture.

This is part of a series of interdisciplinary talks from University staff from around the world

My research interests are wide ranging. In bioinorganic chemistry, these extend from models for zinc, molybdenum and non-heme iron metalloprotein active sites, to design of metal complexes as artificial restriction enzymes for molecular biology to the mechanisms of iron transport and storage in microorganisms to the design and synthesis of...

We simulate systems consisting of ionic liquids electrolytes and carbon electrodes. We adopt a bottom-up strategy which consists in starting from a simple system with planar graphite electrodes before to tackle the more complex problem of realistic nanoporous electrodes. In our simulations we can apply a potential difference between the...