Department Seminar Series

Past Talks: 2022/23 Session

Date Speaker Title Host
15 Sep 2022 Dr. Sadegh Soudjani
School of Computing, Newcastle University
Formal Abstractions for Safe Integration of Responsive Loads in Smart Grids Dominik Wojtczak
20 Sep 2022 Prof. Thomas Sauerwald
Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
Balanced Allocations: The Power of Choice versus Noise Martin Gairing
11 Oct 2022 Prof. Carmine Ventre
King`s College London
Systemic risk in financial networks -- a computational perspective Rahul Savani
18 Oct 2022 Prof. Abraham Neyman
Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Stochastic games with limited memory space Rida Laraki
02 Nov 2022
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Dr Lingyun Yu
XJTLU, China
Spatial Interaction Techniques for 3D Data Visualization
10 Nov 2022 Prof. Arnaud Casteigts
LaBRI, University of Bordeaux
Spanners and connectivity problems in temporal graphs Othon Michail
15 Nov 2022 ‪Dr. Kelin Xia
School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University
Mathematical AI for molecular data analysis Vitaliy Kurlin
15 Dec 2022 Dr. Chih-Hong Cheng
Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems (IKS), Munich
Some personal & unsuccessful stories in AI safety research Xiaowei Huang
09 Jan 2023 Prof. Gerth Stølting Brodal
Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University
The challenges of implementing Dijkstras algorithm Sebastian Wild
10 Jan 2023 Dr. Édouard Bonnet
University of Lyon, CNRS, ENS de Lyon
A gentle introduction to twin-width Viktor Zamaraev
31 Jan 2023 Dr. Tony Tan
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University
DQBF is a CNF formula in succinct representation Boris Konev
07 Feb 2023 Dr. Rustam Galimullin
Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen
Quantifying Over Public Announcements: Recent Results and Open Questions Louwe Kuijer
17 Feb 2023 Dr. Qiyi Tang
Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool
Comparison and analysis of probabilistic systems Frank Wolter
17 Feb 2023
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Qiyi Tang

Comparison and analysis of probabilistic systems
21 Feb 2023 Dr. Galit Ashkenazi-Golan
Department of Mathematics, London School of Economics and Political Science
Granular DeGroot Dynamics: A Model for Robust Naive Learning in Social Networks Martin Gairing
23 Feb 2023 Dr. Nikolaos Aletras
Computer Science Department, University of Sheffield
Towards compute efficient large language models Danushka Bollegala
28 Feb 2023 Prof. Raphaël Jungers
Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics, Université Catholique de Louvain
Path-complete Lyapunov functions: graph-theory and algebraic geometry for controlling complex systems Igor Potapov
03 Mar 2023 Dr. Procheta Sen
Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool
Building Trustworthy Intelligent Information Access Systems Frank Wolter
03 Mar 2023
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Procheta Sen

Building Trustworthy Intelligent Information Access Systems
06 Mar 2023
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Dr Kirsty McKay
Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics
A Universe full of Plasma...What on Earth do we do with them?
07 Mar 2023 Dr. Jose Camacho-Collados
School of Computer Science and Informatics, Cardiff University
Natural Language Processing and Social Media: Challenges, Applications and TweetNLP Danushka Bollegala
09 Mar 2023 Dr. Sagnik Mukhopadhyay
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
Alice and Bob Walked into a Graph... Viktor Zamaraev
14 Mar 2023 Dr. Maksim Zhukovskii
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
First order complexity of random structures Viktor Zamaraev
15 Mar 2023 Prof. Nicholas Kotov
Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan
Chirality-Complexity Relations and Graph Theory of Nanostructures Vitaliy Kurlin
17 Mar 2023 Dr. David Purser
Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool
Linear Recurrence Sequences, Weighted Automata and their Ambiguity Frank Wolter
17 Mar 2023
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David Purser

Linear Recurrence Sequences, Weighted Automata and their Ambiguity
21 Mar 2023 Dr. Siddharth Gupta
Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick
Drawing Graphs on the Grid: How Easy Is It? Othon Michail
04 Apr 2023 Prof. Theodore Turocy
School of Economics, University of East Anglia
Computation in game theory: A view from economics Rahul Savani
21 Apr 2023 Dr. Nikhil Mande
Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool
Understanding the power and limitations of randomness and quantumness Frank Wolter
21 Apr 2023
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Nikhil Mande

Understanding the power and limitations of randomness and quantumness
25 Apr 2023 Dr. Elena Arseneva
University of Lugano, Switzerland
Morphing planar drawings of graphs and trees in 2 and 3 dimensions Konstantinos Tsakalidis
05 May 2023 Dr. John Sylvester
Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool
Choice and Bias in Random Walks Frank Wolter
05 May 2023
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John Sylvester

Choice and Bias in Random Walks
09 May 2023 Dr. Andreas Galanis
Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Fast sampling of satisfying assignments from the k-SAT model Viktor Zamaraev
23 May 2023 Dr. Hsiang-Hsuan (Alison) Liu
Utrecht University
The Power of Amortized Recourse for Online Graph Problems Prudence Wong
06 Jun 2023 Prof. Krzysztof Apt
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Characterization of Incentive Compatible Single-parameter Mechanisms Revisited Dominik Wojtczak
08 Jun 2023 Prof. Franck van Breugel
York University, Toronto
Explainability: from Behavioural Equivalences to Behavioural Distances Qiyi Tang
13 Jun 2023 Dr. Zhanxing Zhu
Changping National Lab, China
Theoretical understanding of learning dynamics in modern deep learning Boris Konev
27 Jun 2023 Justin Dallant
Algorithms Research Group, Université libre de Bruxelles
Conditional Lower Bounds for Dynamic Geometric Measure Problems Sebastian Wild
29 Jun 2023 Dr. Nikhil Balaji
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi
Testing Equality of Compressed Strings in Randomised NC Qiyi Tang
13 Jul 2023 Prof. Alexandru Popa
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest
Timeline Cover in Temporal Graphs: Exact and Approximation Algorithms Prudence Wong
27 Jul 2023 Benjamin Berendsohn
Freie Universität Berlin
Search trees on trees Sebastian Wild

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