Department Seminar Series

Unless otherwise stated, the following seminars normally take place in

• the Ashton Lecture Theatre
  (First floor, Ashton Building, location 422 on the campus map)
• on Tuesdays, 1 - 2pm.

If you would like to give a seminar, or to suggest a possible seminar speaker, please contact Othon Michail.

All Seminars

Date	Speaker	Title	Host
07 May 2024   13:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre	Dr. Ron Lavi Department of Economics, University of Bath	TBA	Martin Gairing
24 Apr 2024   15:00 6th Floor Conference Room 605, EEE	Dr. Maria Polukarov King's College London	Strategic Voting and Candidacy	Martin Gairing
23 Apr 2024   13:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre	Dr. Dimitrios Los Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge	TBA	JohnSylvester
Previous talks
16 Apr 2024   13:00 6th Floor Conference Room 605, EEE	Dr. Dmitry Chistikov Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick	Making elementary decisions about natural numbers	Viktor Zamaraev
11 Apr 2024   11:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre	Prof. Stefan Kiefer Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford	On unambiguous finite automata	Qiyi Tang
27 Mar 2024   13:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre	Dr. Bogdan Alecu School of Computing, University of Leeds	Partitions of graphs into chain graphs & co.	Viktor Zamaraev
26 Mar 2024   13:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre	Dr. Alexandros Hollender All Souls College, Oxford	The Complexity of Computing KKT Solutions of Quadratic Programs	Rahul Savani
19 Mar 2024   13:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre	Udi Boker Reichman University, Israel	History-Determinism vs. Fair-Simulation	Igor Potapov
15 Mar 2024   13:00 ELEC 202 pizza	Chenguang (Charlie) Yang	Robot Control, Learning and Teleoperation
12 Mar 2024   13:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre	Dr. George Skretas Hasso Plattner Institute	Dynamic Problems on Temporal Graphs	Othon Michail
05 Mar 2024   13:00 6th Floor Conference Room 605, EEE	Dr. Andreas Göbel Hasso Plattner Institute	Sampling and approximation algorithms for Gibbs point processes	JohnSylvester
01 Mar 2024   14:00 pizza	Maya Wardeh	Host in the Machine - Towards Explainable AI framework which directs experiments to strengthen its ability to answer the question: “Where do viruses hide?”
27 Feb 2024   13:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre	Namrata Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DIMAP), University of Warwick	Kneser Graphs are Hamiltonian	Othon Michail
20 Feb 2024   13:00 6th Floor Conference Room 605, EEE	Dr. Noleen Köhler School of Computing, University of Leeds	Core Stability in Additively Separable Hedonic Games of Low Treewidth	Viktor Zamaraev
06 Feb 2024   13:00 6th Floor Conference Room 605, EEE	Justin Dallant Université libre de Bruxelles	Finding the saddlepoint faster than sorting	Sebastian Wild
02 Feb 2024   14:00 pizza	Dr Friedrich Slivovsky	From SAT to QBF Solving
12 Dec 2023   13:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre	Dr. Dibyayan Chakraborty School of Computing, University of Leeds	Isometric path complexity of graphs	Viktor Zamaraev
08 Dec 2023   14:00 pizza	Lorenzo Gheri	Concurrent programming, session types, and proof assistants
05 Dec 2023   14:00 ELEC 205 E5 Electrical Engineering, Lecture Room E5	Dr. Ernesto Jiménez-Ruiz City, University of London	Ontology Alignment and the two DL	Valentina Tamma
28 Nov 2023   13:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre	Dr. Sharat Ibrahimpur Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics and Political Science	Efficient Caching with Reserves via Marking	Viktor Zamaraev
17 Nov 2023   14:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre pizza	Guangliang Cheng	From Scene Understanding to Vision-Language Joint Understanding
14 Nov 2023   13:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre	Dr. Dario Paccagnan Department of Computing, Imperial College London	The Pick-to-Learn Algorithm: Self-certifying ML	Martin Gairing
08 Nov 2023   11:00 6th Floor Conference Room 605, EEE	Dr. Benjamin Guedj UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence	On generalisation and learning	Boris Konev
31 Oct 2023   13:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre	Dr. Markus Brill Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick	Robust and Verifiable Proportionality Axioms for Multiwinner Voting	Rahul Savani
27 Oct 2023   14:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre pizza	Georgios Birmpas	Fairly allocating indivisible goods to strategic agents
25 Oct 2023   13:00 Online Webinar wit	Dr Dan Sun Queen's University, Belfast	Pushing the boundaries: exploring the potential of composites in healthcare & aircraft technologies
17 Oct 2023   13:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre	Prof. Mamoru Komachi Hitotsubashi University and Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan	Cross-lingual transfer learning with multilingual masked language models	Danushka Bollegala
10 Oct 2023   13:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre	Dr. George Kenison School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Liverpool John Moores University	(Un)Solvable Loop Analysis	Qiyi Tang
20 Sep 2023   13:00 6th Floor Conference Room 605, EEE [Cancelled]	Dr. Eyal Ofek Data Blanket – Real-time AI-Driven Fire Fighting	TBA	Boris Konev
18 Sep 2023   13:00 6th Floor Conference Room 605, EEE	Dr. Maurice Fallon Oxford Robotics Institute	Navigation; Mapping and Perception for Dynamic Robots	Boris Konev
15 Sep 2023   13:30 6th Floor Conference Room 605, EEE	Prof. Chenguang (Charlie) Yang Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UWE Bristol	Robot Control, Learning and Teleoperation	Boris Konev

Older Seminars

ordered by Academic Year

• 2022/23
• 2021/22
• 2020/21
• 2019/20
• 2018/19
• 2017/18
• 2016/17
• 2015/16
• 2014/15
• 2013/14
• 2012/13
• 2011/12
• 2010/11
• 2009/10
• 2008/09
• 2007/08
• 2006/07
• 2005/06
• 2004/05
• 2003/04
• 2002/03
• 2001/02
• 2000/01

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Other seminar series

• Algorithms, Complexity Theory and Optimisation
• Argumentation and Representation of Knowledge
• Data Mining and Machine Learning
• Economics and Computation
• Friday Lunch and Talk
• Liverpool Distinguished Computer Science Lecture
• Networks and Distributed Computing
• PhD Tea Talks
• Robotics and Autonomous Systems
• Verification
• Women in Technology
• Overview of all seminar series