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Dr Pete Jones Informatics: Special Events Wednesday 04 March 2015, 10:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/10/show Thursday 05 March 2015 Text-to-Speech Text Normalization at Google (Joint work with Keith Hall, Brian Roark, and many members of the TTS team in London) Richard Sproat Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Thursday 05 March 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/12/show Friday 13 March 2015 Reasoning in Referential Games: Individual- vs. Population-Level Probabilistic Modeling Michael Franke Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 13 March 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/16/show Tuesday 31 March 2015 Large-Scale Gaussian Process regression Marc Deisenroth, Research Fellow, Imperial College, Dept of Computing, Statistical Machine Learning Chair: Amos Storkey Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 31 March 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/17/show Tuesday 21 April 2015 Idris Eckley, Coherence analysis of locally stationary multivariate time series Idris Eckley, Deputy Director of the STOR-i Doctoral Training Centre, Lancaster University Chair Chris Williams Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 21 April 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/18/show Friday 27 March 2015 Control Functionals Professor Mark Girolami (Director, CRiSM) Warwick University Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Friday 27 March 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-2.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/19/show Tuesday 28 April 2015 Data Mining for Personalized Medicine Karsten Borgwardt, Professor of Data Mining, Department of Biosystems at ETH Zurich Chair: Guido Sanguinetti Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 28 April 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/20/show Tuesday 05 May 2015 Investigating cell-to-cell variability with Bayesian model selection and approximate likelihood Dr Sarah Filippi, Lecturer in Statistics, Oxford University Chair: Tom Thorne Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 05 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/21/show Tuesday 12 May 2015 Michael Black, Managing Director, Max Planck Institute Title and Abstract to follow Michael Black, Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tuebingen, Germany Chair: Chris Williams Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 12 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/22/show Tuesday 26 May 2015 CANCELLED Federico Ricci Tersengh, Associate Professor, Dept of Physics, Universita Sapienza, Rome Federico Ricci Tersengh, Associate Professor, Dept of Physics, Universita Sapienza, Rome Chair Matthias Hennig Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 26 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/23/show Monday 09 March 2015 Open Knowledge at the University of Edinburgh Multiple speakers Informatics: Special Events Monday 09 March 2015, 09:30 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/24/show Tuesday 03 March 2015 Learning Analytics: Using Data to understand Learning Professor Dragan Gasevic, Chair in Learning Analytics and Informatics Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 03 March 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/25/show Monday 02 March 2015 Logging-in Insecurely: Reverse-Engineering the Smart-Card Communication Layer Andriana Gkaniatsou Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars Monday 02 March 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/26/show Thursday 23 April 2015 Probabilistic synapses Professor Peter Latham, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL Chair: Mark van Rossum Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Thursday 23 April 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/27/show Friday 06 March 2015 Repairing grounded artificial ontologies with language games Michael Anslow Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 06 March 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/28/show Friday 13 March 2015 Are You Doing What I Think You're Doing? Criticising Uncertain Agent Models Stefano V Albrecht Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 13 March 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/29/show Thursday 12 March 2015 Unveiling the Earth's Face: August Petermann and the Golden Age of Explorative Cartography Imre Demhardt (School for Advanced Study, London) GeoSciences: Human Geography (RIGLE) Thursday 12 March 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 Venue: Old Library Drummond Street http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/30/show Thursday 26 March 2015 Reimagining local foods in China: from *tutechan *to* terroir*? Jakob Klein (SOAS) GeoSciences: Human Geography (RIGLE) Thursday 26 March 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 Venue: Old Library Drummond Street http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/31/show Monday 16 March 2015 Auction Mechanism for Mixed Ads Sofia Ceppi, Microsoft Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars Monday 16 March 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/32/show Monday 23 March 2015 Efficient Query Rewriting under Ontology Change Eleni Tsalapati, National Technical University of Athens Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars Monday 23 March 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/33/show Monday 30 March 2015 Computer Science and the Technological Revolution in Education Kobi Gal, Ben-­Gurion University Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars Monday 30 March 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/34/show Wednesday 01 April 2015 TBC 1/4/15 Cristobal Viedma, University of Madrid Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 01 April 2015, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/35/show Tuesday 07 April 2015 Low oxidation state main group compounds: stabilisation strategies and transition metal-like reactivity Cameron Jones, Monash University Chemistry: School Colloquia Tuesday 07 April 2015, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/36/show Wednesday 29 April 2015 TBC 29/4/15 Susanne Muller-Knapp, Oxford Structural Genomics Consortium Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 29 April 2015, 14:30 - 15:30 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/37/show Wednesday 13 May 2015 TBC 13/5/15 Milo Shaffer, Impercial College London Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 13 May 2015, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/38/show Tuesday 17 March 2015 Confident predictions against an adversary Andrew Drucker Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar Tuesday 17 March 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/39/show Friday 20 March 2015 A Contextual Look on Rejection Julian Schlöder Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 20 March 2015, 12:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-2.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/40/show Friday 20 March 2015 On the Emergence of Structured Expressions in Signaling Games Thomas Brochhagen Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 20 March 2015, 12:30 - 13:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-2.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/41/show Tuesday 24 March 2015 ANC Workshop Talks from Konstantinos Georgatzis & Scott Lowe - details in Summary Talks from Konstantinos Georgatzis & Scott Lowe Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 24 March 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/42/show Wednesday 25 March 2015 Intelligent Simulated Reality: Research at the Crossroads of Visual Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and High-Performance Computing Philipp Slusallek Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars Wednesday 25 March 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/45/show Friday 27 March 2015 CHIMERA - Conflict between Humans and Intelligent Systems: Methods for Resolution and Avoidance Michael Rovatsos (mrovatso) Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 27 March 2015, 12:00 - 12:25 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-2.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/46/show Thursday 16 April 2015 Talk 1 (KS) : Development at all costs? The uses of 'green development' in Mozambique's extractive turn; Talk 2 (CS): Water values and water governance in the Brazilian Cuiaba river basin and in the Pantanal Joint PhD Seminar: Kate Symons and Christopher Schulz GeoSciences: Human Geography (RIGLE) Thursday 16 April 2015, 16:30 - 17:40 Venue: Old Library Drummond Street http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/47/show Thursday 30 April 2015 Video Ethnographies of Everyday Mobilities Paul McIlvenny (Aalborg University) GeoSciences: Human Geography (RIGLE) Thursday 30 April 2015, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: Old Library Drummond Street http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/48/show Thursday 02 April 2015 Off the grid: Re-assembling domestic life Phillip Vannini (Professor and Canada Research Chair, Royal Roads University) GeoSciences: Human Geography (RIGLE) Thursday 02 April 2015, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: Old Library Drummond Street http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/49/show Friday 10 April 2015 Texts Come from People - how Demographic Factors Influence NLP Dirk Hovy Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 10 April 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/50/show Thursday 02 April 2015 INFORMAL SEMINAR: Unbiased computations for MCMC-based inference of Gaussian process covariance parameters Maurizio Filippone (Glasgow Comp Sci) Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Thursday 02 April 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/51/show Wednesday 08 April 2015 Creating Video Stories Lynda Hardman, CWI Amsterdam Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars Wednesday 08 April 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/52/show Monday 20 April 2015 Two Methods for Exploiting Richer Source Information in SMT Roland Kuhn Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Monday 20 April 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/53/show Tuesday 14 April 2015 LFCS Seminar: Istvan Gyongy: Nonlinear filtering and stochastic partial differential equations Istvan Gyongy Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar Tuesday 14 April 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/54/show Thursday 30 April 2015 LFCS Seminar: Francisco Ortin Francisco Ortin Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar Thursday 30 April 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/55/show Tuesday 12 May 2015 LFCS seminar: Magnus Myreen Speaker to be confirmed Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar Tuesday 12 May 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/56/show Tuesday 19 May 2015 LFCS seminar: Neelakantan (Neel) Krishnaswami Speaker to be confirmed Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar Tuesday 19 May 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/57/show Tuesday 14 April 2015 Pol Mareno Comellas "Vision-as-inverse-graphics for Detailed Scene Understanding" AND Ian Simpson Title: "Network Analyses Reveal Novel Aspects of ALS Pathogenesis" Pol Mareno Comellas/Ian Simpson Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 14 April 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/58/show Thursday 28 May 2015 Quantum Coin Flipping Anna Pappa (University of Edinburgh) Informatics: Security Seminar/Club Thursday 28 May 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/59/show Monday 20 April 2015 The Softer Side of Machine-Checked Proof Gerwin Klein, NICTA / UNSW Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars Monday 20 April 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/60/show Tuesday 21 April 2015 EPSRC's Liam Blackwell, 15:45 Liam Blackwell Informatics: Special Events Tuesday 21 April 2015, 15:45 - 16:45 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/61/show Monday 11 May 2015 A* Sampling Chris Maddison, University of Toronto Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Monday 11 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/62/show Friday 24 April 2015 Pronominal Anaphora in Statistical Machine Translation Christian Hardmeier Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 24 April 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/63/show Friday 24 April 2015 Learning about Shape Andrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research Cambridge) Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Friday 24 April 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/64/show Thursday 23 April 2015 Memory and cue combination in ants Barbara Webb Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 23 April 2015, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/66/show Friday 24 April 2015 Can an agent learn how to deceive its interlocutor? Ioannis Efstathiou Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 24 April 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-2.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/67/show Friday 01 May 2015 Protocols for human computation: lightweight coordination for social interactions Petros Papapanagiotou Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 01 May 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-2.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/71/show Friday 22 May 2015 Towards a Universal Grammar for Natural Language Processing Joakim Nivre Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 22 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/72/show Friday 15 May 2015 Textual Knowledge Representation and Exploration Ido Dagan Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 15 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/73/show Friday 26 June 2015 Scientific Lenses over Linked Data: An approach to support multiple integrated views Alasdair J G Gray Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 26 June 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-2.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/74/show Wednesday 13 May 2015 Machines Reasoning about Machines - 2015 J Strother Moore Informatics: Distinguished Speaker Lecture Wednesday 13 May 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/77/show Tuesday 26 May 2015 Aridhia Informatics Rodrigo Barnes Data Science Industry Seminars Tuesday 26 May 2015, 16:30 - 17:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/78/show Tuesday 19 May 2015 Factors shaping learners' interactions in networked learning context Srecko Joksimovic Chair: Jari Fawkes Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 19 May 2015, 11:00 - 11:30 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/79/show Tuesday 02 June 2015 Title: MOOCs & Social Learning: Challenges and opportunities (Vitomir Kovanovic) and Title: The Sausage Machine View of the Economy (Nigel Goddard) Vitomir Kovanovic Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 02 June 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/80/show Monday 25 May 2015 Computational Design of Functional Objects Niloy J. Mitra Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Monday 25 May 2015, 10:00 - 11:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/81/show Thursday 21 May 2015 Deep Convolutional Neural Network for human motion Synthesis / Scene synthesis by open space matching Taku Komura Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 21 May 2015, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/82/show Friday 29 May 2015 Probabilistic models of human language comprehension Roger Levy Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 29 May 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/83/show Thursday 28 May 2015 IPAB Workshop - 28/05/2015 @ 12:45 - Jasper Uijlings and Benjamin Risse Jasper Uijlings and Benjamin Risse Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 28 May 2015, 11:45 - 13:45 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/89/show Monday 22 June 2015 Building Effective and Efficient Information Retrieval Systems Jimmy Lin Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Monday 22 June 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/90/show Thursday 28 May 2015 Modelling Pattern Formation and Waves in Active Biological Fluids Markus Baer (Berlin) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 28 May 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/91/show Tuesday 09 June 2015 The PolisGnosis Project: Enabling the Computational Analysis of City Performance Mark Fox, Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars Tuesday 09 June 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/93/show Tuesday 16 June 2015 ANC Workshop 2 talks "Dynamics, geometry and randomness: sampling from Boltzmann machine relaxations" M Graham & "Stochastic Parallel Block Coordinate Descent for Separable Saddle Point Problems" Z Zhu Matt Graham/Zhanxing Zhu Chair: Charles Sutton Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 16 June 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/94/show Tuesday 30 June 2015 FreeAgent Informatics Dave Evans, FreeAgent Data Science Industry Seminars Tuesday 30 June 2015, 16:30 - 17:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/95/show Thursday 18 June 2015 IPAB Workshop Holger Caesar (s1373211), stavros Gerakaris, Dimitrious Papadopolous Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 18 June 2015, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/97/show Thursday 25 June 2015 IPAB workshop - Vitto Ferrari Vitto Ferrari Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 25 June 2015, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/98/show Friday 03 July 2015 On the Goodness of Word Embeddings Hinrich Schuetze Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 03 July 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/99/show Tuesday 27 October 2015 Title and Abstract to follow: Prof Dirk Husmeier ,Chair of Statistics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Glasgow University Prof Dirk Husmeier ,Chair of Statistics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Glasgow University Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 27 October 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/103/show Friday 10 July 2015 Visual Understanding without Naming: Bypassing the “Language Bottleneck” Alexei Efros Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Friday 10 July 2015, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/105/show Thursday 09 July 2015 Compliant Actuation Technologies for Humanoid Robots COMAN and WALK-MAN Nikolaos Tsagaraki Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 09 July 2015, 16:30 - 17:30 Venue: Room 2.33 IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/106/show Thursday 09 July 2015 A Visual 3D Compass for Real-Time Applications Dario Differt Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 09 July 2015, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Meeting room 1.15, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/107/show Friday 17 July 2015 Improving and Better Understanding Word Vector Representations Manaal Faruqui Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 17 July 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/109/show Thursday 06 August 2015 Social Power in Interactions: Computational Analysis and Detection of Power Vinodkumar Prabhakaran Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Thursday 06 August 2015, 15:00 - 16:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/110/show Friday 23 October 2015 How much linguistics is needed for NLP? Edward Grefenstette Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 23 October 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/111/show Tuesday 11 August 2015 Telecoms data analysis for disaster response and humanitarian planning Dr John Quinn, UN Global Pulse Kampala, Uganda Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 11 August 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/112/show Tuesday 08 September 2015 Learning to Decipher the Heap for Program Verification Danny Tarlow, Microsoft Research, Cambridge Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 08 September 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/115/show Tuesday 03 November 2015 TITLE AND ABSTRACT T/F Mykola Pechenizkiy, Dept of Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology Mykola Pechenizkiy, Dept of Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 03 November 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/116/show Friday 04 September 2015 Readability analysis as an exploration of linguistic complexity Detmar Meurers Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 04 September 2015, 14:00 - 15:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/117/show Friday 14 August 2015 Automated Inference of Concurrency Structure for Safe Execution Gul Agha Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar Friday 14 August 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/130/show Thursday 10 September 2015 Privacy in the Land of Plenty Cynthia Dwork Informatics: Milner Lecture Thursday 10 September 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/151/show Tuesday 15 September 2015 ANC TALK/SEMINAR SERIES Douglas Armstrong/David Wood David Wood and Douglas Armstrong Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 15 September 2015, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/152/show Wednesday 09 September 2015 The Invisible Hand of the Black Queen: Reductive Evolution in the Ocean (and Elsewhere) Jeff Morris (University of Alabama at Birmingham) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 09 September 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/153/show Wednesday 23 September 2015 “Diversification and convergence in pollination of Dalechampia vines (Euphorbiaceae): a pantropical perspective” Scott Armbruster (Portsmouth) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 23 September 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/154/show Wednesday 30 September 2015 Flip/flop inversion polymorphisms in yeast evolution Ken Wolfe (Dublin) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 30 September 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/155/show Tuesday 13 October 2015 Human disease genes and natural selection: Why do we age? Arcadi Navarro (Barcelona) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Tuesday 13 October 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/157/show Tuesday 20 October 2015 Inbreeding-environment interactions: experimental studies and a meta-analysis Charles Fox (Kentucky) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Tuesday 20 October 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/158/show Wednesday 21 October 2015 Mimicry supergenes : Selection, inversions, and introgression shaping polymorphism in butterflies Matthieu Joron (Montpellier) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 21 October 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/159/show Wednesday 28 October 2015 Impact of global change on the emergence and spread of zoonotic infectious diseases Kate Jones (UCL) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 28 October 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/160/show Wednesday 04 November 2015 Investigating the genetic basis for morphological evolution within and between Drosophila species Alistair McGregor (Oxford Brookes) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 04 November 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/161/show Wednesday 11 November 2015 The shifting of ecology of malaria vector mosquitoes in Africa and its implications for control Heather Ferguson (Glasgow) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 11 November 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/162/show Wednesday 18 November 2015 Biased gene conversion: the dark side of recombination Laurent Duret (Lyon) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 18 November 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/163/show Wednesday 25 November 2015 Telomere attrition as marker of early developmental conditions: Evidence from the European starling Daniel Nettle (Newcastle) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 25 November 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/164/show Wednesday 02 December 2015 The mutational burden of regulatory function Martin Taylor (Edinburgh) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 02 December 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/165/show Wednesday 09 December 2015 Male and female from a hermaphrodite vantage-point Lukas Scharer (Basel) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 09 December 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/166/show Thursday 29 October 2015 EIG: Lymph node stromal cells in the initiation and regulation of immune responses Anne Fletcher, University of Birmingham Edinburgh Immunology Group Thursday 29 October 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/167/show Thursday 27 August 2015 IHMC's second place entry in the Darpa Robotics Challenge Jesper Smith Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 27 August 2015, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Meeting room 1.15, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/168/show Thursday 12 November 2015 EIG: Dendritic cell subset identification and targeting for vaccination in large mammals Isabelle Schwartz-Cornil, INRA, France Edinburgh Immunology Group Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/169/show Thursday 19 November 2015 EIG: Tyro3/Axl/Mer receptor tyrosine kinases in the immune system Greg Lemke, SALK Institute, USA Edinburgh Immunology Group Thursday 19 November 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Welcome Auditorium (QMRI) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/170/show Thursday 26 November 2015 EIG: NK cell receptors across species John Hammond, The Pirbright Institute Edinburgh Immunology Group Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/171/show Thursday 21 January 2016 EIG: IL-33, an alarm signal for group 2 innate lymphoid cells Jean-Philippe Girard, CNRS, France Edinburgh Immunology Group Thursday 21 January 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/172/show Thursday 04 February 2016 EIG: Molecular basis of fatal fungal infection Robin May, University of Birmingham Edinburgh Immunology Group Thursday 04 February 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/173/show Thursday 18 February 2016 EIG: Stroke Induced Immune Depression (SIDS) Andreas Meisel, Charite Berlin, Germany Edinburgh Immunology Group Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/174/show Thursday 03 March 2016 EIG: Oral mucosa Immune responses Joanne Konkel, University of Manchester Edinburgh Immunology Group Thursday 03 March 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/175/show Thursday 31 March 2016 EIG: Host-bacterial interactions and intestinal inflammation Kevin Maloy, University of Oxford Edinburgh Immunology Group Thursday 31 March 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/176/show Thursday 14 April 2016 EIG: Immunology and immunopathogenesis of malaria infections Jean Langhorne, Francis Crick Institute Edinburgh Immunology Group Thursday 14 April 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/177/show Thursday 28 April 2016 EIG: How B cell sense antigen Michael Reth, MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Germany Edinburgh Immunology Group Thursday 28 April 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/178/show Thursday 12 May 2016 EIG: Development and Homeostasis of tissue resident myeloid cells Elisa Gomez Perdiguero, Pasteur Institute, France Edinburgh Immunology Group Thursday 12 May 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/179/show Thursday 26 May 2016 EIG: Mathematical modelling of human CD8 CTL responses during viral infections Becca Asquith, Imperial College London Edinburgh Immunology Group Thursday 26 May 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/180/show Friday 25 September 2015 Uncertainty in language and thought Noah Goodman Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 25 September 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/182/show Wednesday 07 October 2015 TBC 7/10/15 Guy Lippens Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 07 October 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/200/show Wednesday 21 October 2015 TBC 21/10/15 Richard Layfield Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 21 October 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/201/show Wednesday 04 November 2015 TBC 4/11/15 Bill David Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 04 November 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/202/show Thursday 22 October 2015 IEB Extra Seminar: Evolutionary ecology of bacterial adaptive immune systems Edze Westra Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Thursday 22 October 2015, 12:30 - 13:30 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/206/show Thursday 17 September 2015 Are Minority Dialects "Noisy Text"?: Implications of Social and Linguistic Diversity for Social Media NLP Brendan O'Connor Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Thursday 17 September 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/207/show Monday 21 September 2015 Jakub Konečný - Communication Complexity of Distributed Convex Learning and Optimization (Arjevani and Shamir) Jakub Konecny (s1355001) All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization Monday 21 September 2015, 12:15 - 13:30 Venue: JCMB 6311 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/209/show Thursday 24 September 2015 Designing materials and gene expression at lower cost Dr Tom Ellis (Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation and Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 24 September 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/223/show Thursday 08 October 2015 Harnessing synthetic biology for the production of high-value chemicals Eriko Takano (Manchester Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Speciality Chemicals (SYNBIOCHEM), Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, University of Manchester) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 08 October 2015, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/224/show Friday 16 October 2015 Understanding Word Embeddings Omer Levy Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 16 October 2015, 10:00 - 11:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/225/show Wednesday 03 February 2016 Genome-wide selection scans — A child’s guide through the jungle Oscar Gaggiotti Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 03 February 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/234/show Wednesday 02 March 2016 No fly is an island: How Drosophila respond to socio-sexual environments Amanda Bretman Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 02 March 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/235/show Wednesday 16 March 2016 Adaptation to whole genome duplication in Arabidopsis arenosa Kirsten Bomblies Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/236/show Wednesday 13 April 2016 Anopheles population genomics, association studies, and the male contribution to malaria transmission Mara Lawniczak Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 13 April 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/237/show Tuesday 29 September 2015 Beyond Convexity: Stochastic Quasi-Convex Optimization (Hazan, Levy, Shalev-Shwartz) Dominik Csiba All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization Tuesday 29 September 2015, 12:15 - 13:15 Venue: JCMB 6311 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/238/show Wednesday 17 February 2016 Adaptation and speciation genomics: a fish perspective Philine Feulner Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 17 February 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/240/show Wednesday 27 January 2016 A trick of the light? Development, function and evolution of plant nanostructures that influence animal behaviour Beverley Glover Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 27 January 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/241/show Wednesday 07 October 2015 Analysis of cytoplasmic genomes supports the asymmetric origin of a new hybrid, polyploid species Mario Vallejo-Marin (Stirling) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 07 October 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/246/show Thursday 01 October 2015 IPAB workshop - Michael Herrmann - Critical Particle Swarms for Optimization and Exploration Michael Herrmann Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 01 October 2015, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/247/show Wednesday 07 October 2015 Proline conformation in intrinsically unfolded proteins : sense or nonsense?" Guy Lippens Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 07 October 2015, 15:30 - 17:00 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/248/show Wednesday 04 November 2015 Next generation cross-lingual natural language processing Anders Søgaard Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Wednesday 04 November 2015, 14:00 - 15:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/250/show Wednesday 24 February 2016 Recent changes in the phenology of UK plants and animals Stephen Thackeray (CEH, Lancaster) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 24 February 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/252/show Tuesday 06 October 2015 Newton sketch (Pilanci & Wainwright - 5/2015) Robert Gower All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization Tuesday 06 October 2015, 12:15 - 13:15 Venue: JCMB 6311 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/269/show Tuesday 13 October 2015 Convergence rates of sub-sampled Newton methods (Erdogdu & Montanari - 8/2015) Robert Gower All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization Tuesday 13 October 2015, 12:15 - 13:15 Venue: JCMB 6311 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/270/show Thursday 08 October 2015 IPAB workshop - Antoine Wystrach and Miaojing Shi antoine wystrach and Miaojing Shi Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 08 October 2015, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/271/show Thursday 22 October 2015 Neural machine translation -- Progress Report Kyunghyun Cho Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Thursday 22 October 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/274/show Friday 13 November 2015 A Noisy Channel Model of Recipe Understanding Eugene Charniak Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 13 November 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/281/show Friday 04 December 2015 Statistical modelling of metaphor Ekaterina Shutova Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 04 December 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/289/show Tuesday 24 November 2015 A Statistical, Grammar-Based Approach to Micro-Planning Claire Gardent Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Tuesday 24 November 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/295/show Friday 20 November 2015 Visualizing Linguistic Structure Miriam Butt Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 20 November 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/303/show Wednesday 04 November 2015 Combined experimental and computational structural studies of the superionic conductor, LiBH4 Bill David, University of Oxford, Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 04 November 2015, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/305/show Wednesday 25 November 2015 TBC 25/11/15 Vlas Stavros, University of Warwick Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 25 November 2015, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/306/show NOT SCHEDULED YET TBC - Mehrkhodavandi Parisa Mehrkhodavandi, University of British Columbia Chemistry: School Colloquia Venue: T100 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/307/show Wednesday 20 January 2016 TBC 20/1/16 Jenny Clark Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 20 January 2016, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: T100 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/309/show Wednesday 03 February 2016 TBC 3/2/16 Sarah Staniland, University of Sheffield Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 03 February 2016, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/310/show Wednesday 17 February 2016 TBC 17/2/16 Ross Denton, University of Nottingham Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 17 February 2016, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/311/show Wednesday 02 March 2016 New Trends in Living Polymerizations: From In-Situ Observation of the Chain Formation to One-Step Block Copolymer Synthesis and Functional Poly(ethylene glycol) Holger Frey, University of Mainz Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 02 March 2016, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/312/show Wednesday 16 March 2016 TBC 16/3/16 Emma Raven, University of Leicester Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 16 March 2016, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/314/show Wednesday 13 April 2016 TBC 13/4/16 David Wales, University of Cambridge Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 13 April 2016, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/315/show Wednesday 27 April 2016 TBC 27/4/16 Flemming Hansen, UCL Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 27 April 2016, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/316/show Wednesday 11 May 2016 TBC 11/5/16 Anthony Davis, Bristol Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 11 May 2016, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/317/show Wednesday 25 May 2016 TBC 25/5/16 Marie Paul Pinelli, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Paris Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 25 May 2016, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/318/show Wednesday 08 June 2016 TBC 8/6/16 Michael Famulok, Life & Medical Sciences (LIMES)-Institut, Bonn Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 08 June 2016, 15:30 - 16:30 Venue: T100 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/319/show Wednesday 15 June 2016 TBC 15/6/16 E W Meijer, Eindhoven University of Technology Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 15 June 2016, 00:00 - 00:05 Venue: T100 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/320/show Thursday 05 November 2015 IPAB Workshop - Marco Caravagna and Jon Bamber Speaker to be confirmed Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 05 November 2015, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/321/show Thursday 12 November 2015 The rise and fall of the passenger pigeon: Ancient genomics of a naturally occurring Wright-Fisher population Beth Shapiro (Santa Cruz) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT1) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/322/show Wednesday 10 February 2016 How sexual conflict shapes insect phenotypes Jen Perry (Oxford) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 10 February 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/342/show Thursday 03 December 2015 Efficient Constrained Inference and Structured Neural Networks for Semantic Role Labeling Oscar Täckström Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Thursday 03 December 2015, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/344/show Monday 23 November 2015 YAMZ: better, faster, cheaper vocabulary standardization John Kunze, Berkeley/The California Digital Library Informatics: Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications Seminars Monday 23 November 2015, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/345/show Thursday 03 December 2015 IPAB workshop - Emmanuel Kahembwe/Paul Henderson/Tianqi Wei Speaker to be confirmed Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 03 December 2015, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/356/show Tuesday 19 January 2016 ANC Workshop: Katharina Heil and Amos Storkey, Chair: Gavin Gray Katharina Heil and Amos Storkey Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 19 January 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/358/show Tuesday 02 February 2016 ANC Seminar: Federico Ricci - Associate Professor, Dept of Physics, Universita Sapienza, Rome Federico Ricci Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 02 February 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/360/show Tuesday 09 February 2016 ANC Workshop: Chris Williams and Oksana Sorokina, Chair: Nathalia Dupuy Chris Williams and Oksana Sorokina Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 09 February 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/361/show Tuesday 16 February 2016 ANC Workshop: Maciej Pajak and Ian Simpson, Chair: Miltos Allamanis Zhanxing Zhu and Ian Simpson Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 16 February 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/362/show Tuesday 23 February 2016 ANC Workshop: Sam Heron, Chair: Jinli Hu Sam Heron and Nigel Goddard Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 23 February 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/363/show Tuesday 01 March 2016 ANC / Data Science CDT Seminar Seminar: Ricardo Silva from UCL, Chair: Charles Sutton Ricardo Silva from UCL Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 01 March 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) followed by G.02-Cafe http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/364/show Tuesday 08 March 2016 ANC Workshop: Wioletta Kijewska and Tom Mayo Chair: Martino Sorbaro Sindaci Wioletta Kijewska and Tom Mayo Chair Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 08 March 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/366/show Thursday 17 December 2015 The TrimBot2020 project..... and a few other things Bob Fisher (rbf) Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 17 December 2015, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/370/show NOT SCHEDULED YET Sub-millimetre 2D-3D registration for image-guided radiation therapy Speaker to be confirmed Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/374/show Tuesday 12 January 2016 Reshma Munbodh - Univeristy of Pennsylvania - Sub-millimetre 2D-3D registration for image-guided radiation therapy Reshma Munbodh Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Tuesday 12 January 2016, 14:30 - 15:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/375/show Tuesday 15 March 2016 ANC Workshop: Robert Court and Nathalie Dupuy, Chair: Ian Simpson Robert Court and Peggy Series Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 15 March 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/377/show Tuesday 22 March 2016 ANC Workshop: Richard Shillcock, Chair: Yuanhua Huang Richard Shillcock and Martino Sorbaro Sindaci Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 22 March 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/378/show Thursday 14 January 2016 IPAB Workshop - Sethu Vijayakumar Sethu Vijayakumar Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 14 January 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/381/show Wednesday 11 May 2016 Bacterial endosymbionts and the evolution of host sex-determination mechanisms Richard Cordaux (Poitiers) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 11 May 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/391/show Tuesday 19 January 2016 Traffic sign detection system via multiple feature cooperation Shiying Li Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Tuesday 19 January 2016, 14:30 - 15:30 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/394/show Wednesday 04 May 2016 Estimating the proportion of noncoding DNA and RNA bases that are functional Chris Ponting (Edinburgh) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 04 May 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/395/show Friday 29 January 2016 Making speech tangible: for better understanding of human speech communication Hideki Kawahara Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 29 January 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/409/show Friday 19 February 2016 Referential relations in the Polish Coreference Corpus Maciej Ogrodniczuk Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 19 February 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/431/show Friday 05 February 2016 Towards linguistic reference with distributional semantics Gemma Boleda Torrent Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 05 February 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/434/show Tuesday 26 January 2016 Colour Homography Han Gong University of East Anglia Han Gong Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Tuesday 26 January 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/435/show Wednesday 25 May 2016 From ecology to genomics and back: inference of coevolution using host and parasite sequence data Aurelien Tellier (TUM) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 25 May 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/436/show Thursday 28 January 2016 IPAB seminar - Professor Patrick Van der Smagt Prof. Patrick van der Smagt Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 28 January 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/437/show Wednesday 20 April 2016 The evolution of social interactions in microbial communities Sara Mitri (Lausanne) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 20 April 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/438/show Wednesday 18 May 2016 A genetic view of ecology: adaptation and resistance to abiotic change in grassland communities Raj Whitlock (Liverpool) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 18 May 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/439/show Tuesday 02 February 2016 Ross Duncan: Interacting Frobenius Algebras are Hopf but Quantum Theory is not Petri-nets Ross Duncan Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar Tuesday 02 February 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/442/show Thursday 04 February 2016 Interactive Costmaps: Integrating Prediction and Planning with Counterfactual Reasoning Alex Bordallo Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 04 February 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/448/show Thursday 04 February 2016 Learning Semantic Part Detectors from Google Images Davide Modolo Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 04 February 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/449/show Thursday 11 February 2016 Dense stereo matching using local cues with optimal per pixel plane assignment Luis Carranza Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 11 February 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/477/show Thursday 11 February 2016 Temporal alignment of videos based on object viewpoint Anestis Papazoglou Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 11 February 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/478/show Friday 26 February 2016 Experimenting with the British Library’s Digital Content and Data for your research Claire Grover Informatics: Special Events Friday 26 February 2016, 13:00 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/480/show Friday 26 February 2016 Cognitive ontologies: from the bottom up? Edouard Machery Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 26 February 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/484/show Thursday 18 February 2016 Chemotaxis in larval Drosophila suggests a novel algorithm for navigating in gradients. Kostas Lagogiannis Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 18 February 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/485/show Thursday 18 February 2016 Collision free whole-body Motion Planing on Humanoid Robots Vladimir Ivan Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 18 February 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/486/show Wednesday 16 March 2016 Bias and Variance of Learning with Weighted Automata Borja Balle Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Wednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00 - 15:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/491/show Thursday 25 February 2016 High Dimensional Planning and Visual Perception with a Humanoid robot Maurice Fallon Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 25 February 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/492/show Tuesday 12 April 2016 ANC Workshop: Emilia Wysocka, Chair: Matt Graham Emilia Wysocka Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 12 April 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/493/show Friday 04 March 2016 Sensing human behaviour with Internet data Suzy Moat Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 04 March 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/495/show Wednesday 08 June 2016 Introgression Across the European House Mouse Hybrid Zone Stuart Baird (Studenec, Czech Republic) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 08 June 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/496/show Thursday 10 March 2016 Efficient Utility Elicitation using a Model of Coarse Preferences Pavlos Andreadis Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 10 March 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/498/show Thursday 03 March 2016 A Deep Learning Framework for Character Motion Synthesis and Editing Daniel Holden Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 03 March 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/499/show Thursday 03 March 2016 Real Time Eye Tracking for Intuitive Human Robot Interfaces Svetlin Penkov Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 03 March 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/500/show Tuesday 10 May 2016 ANC Workshop: Alina Selega and Peggy Series, Chair: Wioletta Kijewska Alina Selega and Peggy Series Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 10 May 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/501/show Wednesday 09 March 2016 Protective symbiosis: does it really work in nature? Jan Hrcek (Oxford) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 09 March 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/502/show Tuesday 08 March 2016 LFCS seminar: Mark de Berg: Fine-grained complexity analysis of two classic TSP variants Mark de Berg Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar Tuesday 08 March 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/503/show Thursday 10 March 2016 Parameter selection in Particle Swarm optimisation Adam Erskine Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 10 March 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/510/show Thursday 10 March 2016 Skyline-based Localisation for Aggressively Manoeuvring Robots using UV sensors and Spherical Harmonics Tom Stone Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 10 March 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/511/show Friday 15 April 2016 Simplicity and Specificity in Language: Domain-General Biases Have Domain-Specific Effects Simon Kirby & Jenny Culbertson Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 15 April 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/515/show Friday 01 April 2016 Building a large Parallel Meaning Bank Johan Bos Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 01 April 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/516/show Monday 25 April 2016 IPAB seminar - Joachim Denzler and Erik Rodner (Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena) Joachim Denzler and Erik Rodner Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Monday 25 April 2016, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/518/show Thursday 17 March 2016 Motion sensitive visual neural networks, from animals to robots prof. Shigang Yue - University of Lincoln Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 17 March 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/519/show Thursday 24 March 2016 Modeling Topic-Partitioned Network Structure Hanna Wallach Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Thursday 24 March 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/522/show Thursday 24 March 2016 Learning best response strategies for agents in ad exchanges Stavros Gerakaris Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 24 March 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/524/show Thursday 24 March 2016 Improved myoelectric prosthetic control via using inertial measurement unit (IMU) data. Agamemnon Krasoulis Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 24 March 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/525/show Thursday 24 March 2016 iDRM: Finding Stance Poses and Collision Free Configurations for Humanoid Robots in Complex Environments Yiming Yang Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 24 March 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/526/show Tuesday 03 May 2016 ANC Workshop: Matthias Hennig and Alireza Alemi, Chair: Emilia Wysocka Matthias Hennig and Alireza Alemi Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 03 May 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/528/show Wednesday 06 April 2016 Testing low-level speech features against human perceptual data Naomi Feldman Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Wednesday 06 April 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/533/show Thursday 31 March 2016 Region-based semantic segmentation with end-to-end training Holger Caesar (s1373211) Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 31 March 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/539/show Thursday 31 March 2016 Modelling the locomotion of larval Drosophila Dylan Ross (s0937976) Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 31 March 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/540/show Thursday 31 March 2016 The Omega delusion balasz Szigeti Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 31 March 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/541/show Thursday 28 April 2016 Designing adaptive user technologies through automating collaborative experimentation: Coordinating practitioners and researchers in HCI, psychology, education, and statistical machine learning Joseph Williams Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Thursday 28 April 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/542/show Friday 20 May 2016 Modeling Dyadic Phenomena in Conversational Agents Justine Cassell Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 20 May 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/551/show Friday 13 May 2016 Learning from Zero Percy Liang Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 13 May 2016, 11:30 - 13:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/552/show Thursday 28 April 2016 Semantic 3D reconstruction Prof. Mark Pollefeys Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 28 April 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/556/show Tuesday 24 May 2016 ANC Seminar: Chris Sherlock (Lancaster) Chris Sherlock Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 24 May 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/562/show Tuesday 17 May 2016 ANC Seminar: Peter Sollich (KCL) Peter Sollich Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 17 May 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/563/show Thursday 12 May 2016 Drift-free laser-based Localisation of a Humanoid Robot Simona Nobili Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 12 May 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/565/show Thursday 12 May 2016 We don’t need no bounding-boxes: Training object class detectors using only human verification Dimitris Papadopoulos Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 12 May 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/566/show Thursday 12 May 2016 Visual Mapping and Localisation for a Humanoid Robot Raluca Scona Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 12 May 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/567/show Friday 13 May 2016 Towards New Models of Question Answering Christopher Manning Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 13 May 2016, 14:00 - 15:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/570/show Friday 10 June 2016 How social learning adds up to culture: from birdsong to human public opinion Ofer Tchernichovski Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 10 June 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/571/show Thursday 26 May 2016 Reconstruction the Visual Perception of Desert Ants Benjamin Risse Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 26 May 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/573/show Thursday 02 June 2016 Do semantic parts emerge in Convolutional Neural Networks? Abel Gonzalez Garcia Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 02 June 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/575/show Thursday 02 June 2016 Event-Based Cameras for Robot Navigation Dragos Stanciu Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 02 June 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/576/show Tuesday 07 June 2016 ANC/CDT Seminar: James Frew (UCSB) James Frew (UCSB) Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 07 June 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/577/show Monday 13 June 2016 Weakly supervised learning for facial expression recognition. Joost Van Der Weijer Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Monday 13 June 2016, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/578/show Monday 27 June 2016 Learning from Weak Supervision: Combinatory Categorial Grammars and Historical Document Transcription Dan Garrette Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Monday 27 June 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/580/show Friday 24 June 2016 The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations Ben Shneiderman Informatics: Distinguished Speaker Lecture Friday 24 June 2016, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/581/show Tuesday 30 August 2016 Cross-CDT Student Workshop in Statistics and Machine Learning various Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 30 August 2016, 13:30 - 21:00 Venue: IF G.07/G.07A http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/583/show Wednesday 31 August 2016 Cross-CDT Student Workshop in Statistics and Machine Learning (cont...) various Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Wednesday 31 August 2016, 09:00 - 14:00 Venue: IF G.07/G.07A http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/584/show Wednesday 31 August 2016 Symposium on Communicating Machine Learning various Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Wednesday 31 August 2016, 15:00 - 17:00 Venue: IF G.07/G.07A http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/585/show Wednesday 31 August 2016 Network on Computational Statistics and Machine Learning Workshop various Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Wednesday 31 August 2016, 17:00 - 21:00 Venue: IF G.07/G.07A http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/586/show Thursday 01 September 2016 Network on Computational Statistics and Machine Learning Workshop (cont...) various Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Thursday 01 September 2016, 09:00 - 17:15 Venue: IF G.07/G.07A http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/587/show Wednesday 21 September 2016 A global scale comparative study of biological invasions Isabella Capellini (Hull) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 21 September 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/589/show Wednesday 12 October 2016 Are old ages useless? Shedding light on the allelic spectrum of late-onset diseases Samuel Pavard (MNHN, Paris) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 12 October 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/590/show Wednesday 16 November 2016 Does transgenerational plasticity increase robustness to environmental change? Bram Kuijper (UCL) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 16 November 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/591/show Thursday 30 June 2016 Building Trust in Decision Support Systems for Aerospace Dr. Mykel J. Kochenderfer Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 30 June 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/592/show Wednesday 28 September 2016 Predicting Responses to Environmental Change: from Biodiversity Patterns to Movement Mechanisms Luca Borger (Swansea) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 28 September 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/593/show Wednesday 19 October 2016 Mega-evolutionary dynamics of the adaptive radiation of birds Gavin Thomas (Sheffield) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 19 October 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/594/show Thursday 04 August 2016 The Blocks World Redux Martha Palmer Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Thursday 04 August 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/595/show Friday 05 August 2016 Global Neural CCG Parsing with Optimality Guarantees Mike Lewis Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 05 August 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/597/show Tuesday 09 August 2016 Probabilistic Techniques for Mobile Robot Navigation (Wolfram Burgard - University of Freiburg) Wolfram Burgard - University of Freiburg Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Tuesday 09 August 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/598/show Tuesday 06 December 2016 ANC Seminar: Gediminas Luksys Gediminas Luksys Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 06 December 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/599/show Wednesday 23 November 2016 Unravelling retrovirus and transposon evolution Alex Hayward (Cornwall) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 23 November 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/601/show Friday 05 August 2016 The human side of computer vision Dr Olga Russakovsky Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Friday 05 August 2016, 13:15 - 14:15 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/602/show Wednesday 07 December 2016 Synchrony in phenology in space and time Ella Cole (Oxford) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 07 December 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/603/show Wednesday 05 October 2016 Seasonality and cold hardiness of temperate trees Yann Vitasse (Switzerland) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 05 October 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/610/show Wednesday 05 October 2016 Shining light on neutrino interactions Andrzej Szelc (Manchester) Physics and Astronomy: Experimental Particle Physics Seminars Wednesday 05 October 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: JCMB 6206 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/611/show Monday 08 August 2016 Semantic Alignment for Agent Interactions: making communication meaningful in open environments Paula Chocron Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Monday 08 August 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/614/show Monday 15 August 2016 Communication Without Mindreading Julian Schlöder Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Monday 15 August 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/615/show Wednesday 05 April 2017 Experimental Studies of the Interaction Between Ecology and Evolution in a Natural Ecosystem David Reznick (UC Riverside) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 05 April 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/616/show Wednesday 26 October 2016 What did we learn from high-coverage archaic genomes? Kay Pruefer (Max Planck, Leipzig) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 26 October 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/617/show Thursday 11 August 2016 IPAB seminar - Benjamin Rosman Benjamin Rosman Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 11 August 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/618/show Wednesday 19 October 2016 Highlights of top quark physics measurements at ATLAS Mark Owen (Glasgow) Physics and Astronomy: Experimental Particle Physics Seminars Wednesday 19 October 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: JCMB Lecture Theatre C http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/619/show Friday 07 October 2016 Distributed Linked Data as a Framework for Human-Machine Collaboration Paolo Pareti Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 07 October 2016, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/621/show Monday 22 August 2016 Why semantics when pragmatics? And which? Replicator dynamics meets iterated Bayesian learning Thomas Brochhagen Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Monday 22 August 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/622/show Monday 05 September 2016 Monolingual and multilingual, explicit and latent vector representations of meaning Roberto Navigli Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Monday 05 September 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/652/show Wednesday 12 October 2016 Geant4 - a simulation toolkit John Allison (Manchester) Physics and Astronomy: Experimental Particle Physics Seminars Wednesday 12 October 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: JCMB 6206 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/654/show Thursday 15 September 2016 Mozart's Laptop: Utilising Music Information Retrieval to Enhance Creativity David Bainbridge Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Thursday 15 September 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/655/show Monday 05 September 2016 Procedural Language and How-to-Knowledge: Learning to Parse and Compose Recipes Yejin Choi Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Monday 05 September 2016, 14:00 - 15:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/681/show Wednesday 07 September 2016 From the Periphery Towards the Centre of the Information Society: Alt-i, NLP, HLT and African Languages Tunde Adegbola Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Wednesday 07 September 2016, 11:30 - 13:00 Venue: Chrystal MacMillan Building - Seminar Room 5 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/682/show Friday 16 September 2016 The unBias project Michael Rovatsos (mrovatso) Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 16 September 2016, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/711/show Thursday 22 September 2016 Nucleosome positioning in vivo driven by the DNA sequence Francisco Antequera (The Institute of Functional Biology and Genomics (IBFG) Salamanca (Spain)) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 22 September 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/713/show Thursday 27 October 2016 How to Transform a Project into a Research Community? A Philosophical Perspective on Scientific Change and Collaborative Research Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 27 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/714/show Friday 30 September 2016 Semantic typology and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in computational perspective Terry Regier Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 30 September 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/716/show Friday 07 October 2016 A Kernel Independence Test for Geographical Language Variation Dong Nguyen Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 07 October 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/717/show Tuesday 20 September 2016 ANC Workshop: Jun Bao and Richard Shillcock, Chair: Martino Sorbaro Sindaci Jun Bao and Richard Shillcock Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 20 September 2016, 11:00 - 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12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/724/show Tuesday 25 October 2016 ANC Seminar: Hemant Tyagi (ETH Zürich) and Armin Eftekhari, Chair: Chris Williams Hemant Tyagi and Armin Eftekhari Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 25 October 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/725/show Tuesday 01 November 2016 ANC Workshop: Elliot Crowley and Joseph Cronin , Chair: Aleksej Stolicyn Elliot Crowley and Joseph Cronin Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 01 November 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/726/show Tuesday 08 November 2016 ANC Workshop: Jennifer Sanger and Charles Sutton, Chair: James Raymond Joseph Cronin and Amos Storkey Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 08 November 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/727/show Tuesday 15 November 2016 ANC Workshop: Sam Heron and Alba Crespi, Chair: Dragan Gasevic Sam Heron and Alba Crespi Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 15 November 2016, 11:00 - 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Professor Imre Berger, School of Biochemistry, University of Bristol Biology: ICB, IQB3 and IMPS Monday Seminar Series Monday 19 September 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Daniel Rutherford G.27 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/739/show Monday 26 September 2016 Monday Seminar Series: 'Deciphering halotropism; Combining models and experiments to understand how plant roots grow away from salt' Kirsten ten Tusscher; Utrecht University (The Netherlands) Biology: ICB, IQB3 and IMPS Monday Seminar Series Monday 26 September 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Daniel Rutherford G.27 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/740/show Tuesday 27 September 2016 Robotic Caretakers: Enabling the Pre-Deployment Approach to Human Space Exploration Dr Robert Ambrose - NASA Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Tuesday 27 September 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/742/show Wednesday 12 October 2016 Parallel Adaptive Importance Sampling Dr Simon Cotter (University of Manchester) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 12 October 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5327 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/761/show Wednesday 19 October 2016 From atoms to data science: numerical algorithms for sampling and thermodynamic control Ben Leimkuhler (University of Edinburgh) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 19 October 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5327 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/762/show Wednesday 28 September 2016 Soft Heisenberg hair Daniel Grumiller Mathematics: EMPG / Mathematical Physics Wednesday 28 September 2016, 14:30 - 15:30 Venue: ICMS, New Seminar Room http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/765/show Wednesday 14 December 2016 What can we learn about evolution from the genome of a wild bird? Kai Zeng (Sheffield) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 14 December 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/766/show Wednesday 28 September 2016 Scrambling time in eternal BTZ black hole Andrius Stikonas Mathematics: EMPG / Mathematical Physics Wednesday 28 September 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: ICMS, New Seminar Room http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/768/show Wednesday 28 September 2016 Geometric Singular Perturbation Analysis of a Model for Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems Annalisa Luorio (Technische Universität, Wien) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 28 September 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5327 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/769/show Tuesday 27 September 2016 Online ad allocation Dominik Csiba (s1459570) All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization Tuesday 27 September 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 Venue: JCMB 6207 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/771/show Tuesday 04 October 2016 Differentially Private Empirical Risk Minimization Jakub Konecny (s1355001) All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization Tuesday 04 October 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 Venue: JCMB 6207 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/774/show Tuesday 06 December 2016 Island Time and the Interplay Between Ecology & Evolution in Species Diversification Rosemary Gillespie (Berkeley) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Tuesday 06 December 2016, 09:30 - 10:30 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT1) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/775/show Wednesday 22 February 2017 Physics of neutrino interactions around 1-10 GeV Teppei Katori (QMUL) Physics and Astronomy: Experimental Particle Physics Seminars Wednesday 22 February 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: JCMB 6206 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/776/show Wednesday 29 March 2017 The SNO+ experiment Edward Leming (Oxford) Physics and Astronomy: Experimental Particle Physics Seminars Wednesday 29 March 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: JCMB 6206 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/777/show Friday 18 November 2016 On #agony and #ecstasy: Potential and pitfalls of linguistic sentiment analysis (joint work with Karim Kassam) Seth Flaxman Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 18 November 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/778/show Thursday 06 October 2016 Regulation of cell size and shape in bacteria Sven van Teeffelen Institute Pasteur SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 06 October 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/780/show Monday 24 October 2016 Seeing with Structure: Computer Vision as Inverse Physics. Chris Russell - ATI Research Fellow Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Monday 24 October 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/782/show Thursday 06 October 2016 Mind your criticality Michael Herrmann Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 06 October 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/785/show Tuesday 11 October 2016 Convergence Rates for Greedy Kaczmarz Algorithms, and Faster Randomized Kaczmarz Rules Using the Orthogonality Graph Nicolas Loizou All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization Tuesday 11 October 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 Venue: JCMB 6207 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/786/show Tuesday 22 November 2016 An Analytical Framework for Consensus-based Global Optimization Method Lukasz Szpruch All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization Tuesday 22 November 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 Venue: JCMB 6207 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/788/show Wednesday 12 October 2016 Finite BMS transformations Glenn Barnich Mathematics: EMPG / Mathematical Physics Wednesday 12 October 2016, 14:30 - 15:30 Venue: ICMS, New Seminar Room http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/789/show Wednesday 12 October 2016 Quantum Seiberg-Witten curve and q-deformed W(infinity) algebra Yutaka Matsuo Mathematics: EMPG / Mathematical Physics Wednesday 12 October 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: ICMS, New Seminar Room http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/790/show Friday 14 October 2016 Computation and Storage in Language Timothy J. O'Donnell Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 14 October 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/791/show Tuesday 18 October 2016 Train faster, generalize better: Stability of stochastic gradient descent [Hardt, Recht, Singer, 2016] Jakub Konecny (s1355001) All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization Tuesday 18 October 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 Venue: JCMB 6207 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/793/show Thursday 20 October 2016 ANC Seminar: Prof Jukka Corander (Univeristy of Helsinki / Oslo) Prof Jukka Corander Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Thursday 20 October 2016, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/795/show Friday 21 October 2016 Should Neural Network Architecture Reflect Linguistic Structure? Chris Dyer Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 21 October 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/798/show Friday 25 November 2016 Online Learning Techniques for Pricing in e-Commerce Scenarios Stefano Paladino Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 25 November 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-2.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/800/show Friday 27 January 2017 Agents of Jazz (?): Understanding and designing for interaction between improvising musicians Evan Morgan Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 27 January 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/801/show Thursday 20 October 2016 Language association from human motion symbols by using latent semantics of natural language corpus Ikuo Kusajima Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 20 October 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/802/show Friday 04 November 2016 Language learning in humans and machines: making connections to make progress Sharon Goldwater Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 04 November 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/804/show Tuesday 08 November 2016 Large-Scale Gaussian Process Regression via Doubly Stochastic Gradient Descent Aretha Teckentrup All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization Tuesday 08 November 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 Venue: JCMB 6207 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/807/show Tuesday 25 October 2016 Linear Coupling: An Ultimate Unification of Gradient and Mirror Descent Dominik Csiba (s1459570) All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization Tuesday 25 October 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 Venue: JCMB 6207 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/808/show Tuesday 01 November 2016 Variance Reduction for Faster Non-Convex Optimization Filip Hanzely All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization Tuesday 01 November 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 Venue: JCMB 6207 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/809/show Tuesday 29 November 2016 Fitting real-valued conditional distributions Iain Murray (imurray2) All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization Tuesday 29 November 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 Venue: JCMB 6207 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/810/show Wednesday 09 November 2016 Epigenetic regulation of P. falciparum phenotypic plasticity during life-cycle in the mosquito Elena Gómez-Día (EBD-CSIC) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 09 November 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/814/show Wednesday 08 February 2017 Tempo and mode of evolutionary change in the gut microbiota as revealed by E. coli Isabel Gordo (Gulbenkian) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 08 February 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/815/show Wednesday 26 October 2016 Learning Sparse Additive Models with Interactions in High Dimensions Hemant Tyagi (Alan Turing Institute) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 26 October 2016, 16:00 - 16:30 Venue: JCMB 5327 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/816/show Wednesday 26 October 2016 SNIPE for memory-limited PCA with incomplete data: From failure to success Armin Eftekhari (Alan Turing Institute) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 26 October 2016, 16:30 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5327 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/817/show Tuesday 25 October 2016 ANC Seminar: James A. Bednar, Continuum Analytics (Austin, Texas) James A. Bednar Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 25 October 2016, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: IF 2.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/818/show Friday 03 March 2017 Explainable AI: What, Why and How? Subramanian Ramamoorthy Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 03 March 2017, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-2.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/820/show Thursday 08 December 2016 The Evolution of Menopause in Killer Whales Darren Croft (Exeter) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Thursday 08 December 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/821/show Friday 28 October 2016 Coding potential in noncoding RNA regions of the mammalian genome Yasunori Aizawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology) SynthSys Seminar Series Friday 28 October 2016, 12:00 - 12:30 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/823/show Friday 28 October 2016 Synthesis of long DNA up to 50 kb by 2nd generation OGAB method Kenji Tsuge (Kobe University) SynthSys Seminar Series Friday 28 October 2016, 12:30 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/824/show Thursday 27 October 2016 IPAB Seminar - Maurice Fallon (IPAB) and Kris Verdeyen (NASA) Maurice Fallon and Kris Verdeyen Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 27 October 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/828/show Thursday 24 November 2016 Quantitative and systems analysis of RAS/MAPK signalling networks Christina Kiel (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 24 November 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/832/show Wednesday 02 November 2016 Real world constraints in machine learning. Amos Storkey (University of Edinburgh) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 02 November 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5327 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/833/show Thursday 10 November 2016 Positive and negative regulation of the actin machinery for migration and invasion. Laura Machesky (Beatson Institute, Glasgow) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 10 November 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/835/show Wednesday 09 November 2016 Attractors of Piecewise Smooth Maps Paul Glendinning (University of Manchester) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 09 November 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5327 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/837/show Friday 20 January 2017 ANC Seminar: Prof Gaute Einevoll (Norway), Chair: David Willshaw Prof Gaute Einevoll Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Friday 20 January 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/838/show Wednesday 01 February 2017 Hormone-mediated maternal effects of the prenatal social environment Nikolaus von Engelhardt (Plymouth) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 01 February 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/840/show Wednesday 15 March 2017 Watchman Matthew Malek Physics and Astronomy: Experimental Particle Physics Seminars Wednesday 15 March 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: JCMB 6206 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/842/show Tuesday 15 November 2016 Stochastic Optimization with Variance Reduction for Infinite Datasets with Finite-Sum Structure Dominik Csiba (s1459570) All Hands Meetings on Big Data Optimization Tuesday 15 November 2016, 12:15 - 13:30 Venue: JCMB 6207 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/843/show Thursday 17 November 2016 Bringing Neural Machine Translation to Production at Large Scale Macduff Hughes Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Thursday 17 November 2016, 15:30 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/845/show Friday 02 December 2016 Learning Commonsense Event Schemas from Unlabeled Text Nate Chambers Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 02 December 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/846/show Wednesday 16 November 2016 Scaling theory for vortices in the two-dimensional inverse energy cascade Helen Burgess (University of St Andrew's) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 16 November 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5327 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/847/show Wednesday 15 February 2017 Mutations in cis- and trans-regulatory elements can give rise to transgressive phenotypes Jon Bollback (Liverpool) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 15 February 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/848/show Wednesday 22 March 2017 IEB seminar: 'Adaptive models of growth and maturation' Rufus Johnstone (Cambridge) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 22 March 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/849/show Wednesday 29 March 2017 Sex-differences in senescence patterns across mammals Jean-Francois Lemaitre (Lyon) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 29 March 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/850/show Friday 25 November 2016 Polysemy and coercion - a frame-based approach using LTAG and Hybrid Logic Laura Kallmeyer Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 25 November 2016, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/851/show Thursday 17 November 2016 IPAB workshop - Emmanuel Kahembwe/Geng Lyu emmanuel Kahembwe/Geng Lyu Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 17 November 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/852/show Wednesday 25 January 2017 Chiral shells, cells and F-molecules Angus Davison (Nottingham) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 25 January 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/858/show Wednesday 15 March 2017 Transposable element evolution in Drosophila Andrea Betancourt (Liverpool) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 15 March 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/859/show Thursday 01 December 2016 Natural Language Acquisition and Grounding for Robotic Systems Prof. Anthony G. Cohn, School of Computing, University of Leeds Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 01 December 2016, 12:45 - 15:45 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/861/show Wednesday 08 March 2017 Understanding sex differences in aging using insects as a model Ruth Archer (Exeter) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 08 March 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/862/show Thursday 08 December 2016 A repeat protein links Rubisco to form the eukaryotic carbon concentrating organelle Luke Mackinder (University of York) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 08 December 2016, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/865/show Monday 05 December 2016 Long baseline neutrinos Mark Vagins (UCI, IPMU) Physics and Astronomy: Experimental Particle Physics Seminars Monday 05 December 2016, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: JCMB 6206 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/866/show Wednesday 03 May 2017 How 'new' enteric bacteria emerge and spread: current and future perspectives. Chinyere Okoro (Cambridge) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 03 May 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/872/show Monday 28 November 2016 Title: The application of computer animation techniques - Current research in NCCA Xiaosong Yang (Bournemouth University) Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Monday 28 November 2016, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/873/show Wednesday 01 March 2017 Life history trade-offs: an experimental study in wild jackdaws Jelle Boonekamp (Groningen) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 01 March 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/874/show Wednesday 07 June 2017 Host behaviour and disease spread in wild mice networks Patricia Lopes (Zurich) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 07 June 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/875/show Wednesday 22 February 2017 Molecular evolution in parasitic flowering plants Susann Wicke (Muenster) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 22 February 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/879/show Wednesday 07 December 2016 Gaussian process regression in Bayesian inverse problems Aretha Teckentrup (University of Edinburgh) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 07 December 2016, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5327 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/881/show Thursday 15 December 2016 Real-time prosthetic hand control by using a minimal amount of sensors. Agamemnon Krasoulis Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 15 December 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/883/show Thursday 15 December 2016 Efficient Humanoid Motion Planning with Realtime End-Pose Selection in Complex Environments Speaker to be confirmed Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 15 December 2016, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: Yiming Yang http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/884/show Thursday 12 January 2017 Active elasticity of cells Ulrich Schwarz (Heidelberg University, BioQuant and Institute for Theoretical Physics) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 12 January 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/886/show Wednesday 11 January 2017 ANC/DTC Seminar: Michael Fauth, Goettingen Michael Fauth Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Wednesday 11 January 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/888/show Tuesday 17 January 2017 ANC Workshop: James Raymond and David Sterratt, Chair: Alba Crespi James Raymond and David Sterratt Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 17 January 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/890/show Tuesday 24 January 2017 ANC Seminar: Udo Ernst from Bremen Udo Ernst Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 24 January 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/891/show Friday 20 January 2017 Social Media Treasures for Data Science Walid Magdy Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 20 January 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/892/show Tuesday 31 January 2017 ANC Workshop: George Papamakarios and Matthew Graham, Chair: Pol Moreno Comellas George Papamakarios and Iain Murray Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 31 January 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/893/show Tuesday 07 February 2017 ANC Workshop: Grant Robertson and Richard Shillock, Chair: Matthias Hennig Grant Robertson and Richard Shillock Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 07 February 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/894/show Tuesday 14 February 2017 ANC Workshop: Maciej Pajak and James Wilson, Chair: Mark van Rossum Maciej Pajak and James Wilson Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 14 February 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/896/show Tuesday 21 February 2017 ANC Seminar: Ali Eslami, Chair: Chris Williams Ali Eslami Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 21 February 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/897/show Tuesday 28 February 2017 ANC Workshop: Sam Heron and Yuanhua Huang, Chair, Nigel Goddard ANC Workshop: Peggy Series and Sam Heron Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 28 February 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/898/show Tuesday 07 March 2017 ANC Workshop: Dragan Gasevic, Chair: Jennifer Sanger Dragan Gasevic, Chair: Jennifer Sanger Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 07 March 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/899/show Tuesday 14 March 2017 ANC Workshop: Ian Simpson and Andreas Kapourani, Chair: Richard Shillcock Ian Simpson and Andreas Kapourani Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 14 March 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/900/show Tuesday 21 March 2017 ANC Seminar: Aapo Hyvarinen, Chair: Chris Williams Aapo Hyvarinen Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 21 March 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/901/show Tuesday 28 March 2017 ANC Workshop: Lukasz Romaszko and Nathalie Dupuy, Chair: Yuanhua Huang Lukasz Romaszko and Nathalie Dupuy Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 28 March 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/902/show Tuesday 04 April 2017 ANC Workshop: Pol Moreno Comellas and Aleksej Stolicyn, Chair: Charlie Nash Pol Moreno Comellas and Aleksej Stolicyn Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 04 April 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/903/show Friday 17 February 2017 Entailment in Compositional Distributional Semantics Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 17 February 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/904/show Thursday 26 January 2017 Responsibility in practice: What does (and should) scientific responsibility mean? Dr Sarah Davies (University of Copenhagen) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 26 January 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/907/show Thursday 19 January 2017 Understanding cellular heterogeneity Sarah Teichmann Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 19 January 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/911/show Thursday 26 January 2017 Asymptomatic trypanosome infections: the key to understanding transmission and disease pathology Annette MacLeod, Glasgow University Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 26 January 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/912/show Thursday 16 February 2017 Title to be confirmed 16/2/17 Oliver Bannard Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 16 February 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/913/show Thursday 23 February 2017 Progress in the immunopathology of experimental visceral leishmaniasis: a translational agenda Paul Kaye, York University Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 23 February 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/914/show Thursday 02 March 2017 Regulation of lymphocyte development by RNA binding proteins Martin Turner Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 02 March 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/918/show Thursday 27 April 2017 The silent reservoir of P. falciparum during the dry season Silvia Portugal Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 27 April 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/919/show Thursday 16 February 2017 TBC 16/2/17 Oliver Bannard, University of Oxford Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 16 February 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/920/show Thursday 20 April 2017 TBC Bio 20/4 Andrew Mellor, Newcastle University Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 20 April 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/932/show Thursday 01 June 2017 TBC Bio 1/6 Georgia Perona-Wright, University of Glasgow Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 01 June 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/933/show Thursday 29 June 2017 TBC Bio 29/6 Cristina Lo Celso, Imperial College London Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 29 June 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/934/show Wednesday 14 June 2017 IEB Seminar 14th June 2017 Ellen Leffler (Oxford) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 14 June 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/935/show Wednesday 17 May 2017 IEB Seminar 17th May 2017 John Davey (Oxford) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 17 May 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/939/show Monday 20 February 2017 ANC Seminar: Max Welling (The University of Amsterdam) Max Welling Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Monday 20 February 2017, 10:30 - 11:30 Venue: G.04, 50 George Square http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/940/show Thursday 09 February 2017 Nonlinear feedback drives homeostatic plasticity in H2O2 stress response Gilles Charvin (IGBMC) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 09 February 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/941/show Friday 24 February 2017 DIAGNOSTICS USING NANOBIOSENSORS Prof Arben Merkoçi (Spain national centre for nanotechnology) SynthSys Seminar Series Friday 24 February 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/942/show Tuesday 11 April 2017 ANC Seminar: Melanie Stefan, Host: David Sterratt Melanie Stefan Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 11 April 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/948/show Tuesday 16 May 2017 ANC Workshop: Chris Williams, Chair: Tom Mayo Chris Williams Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 16 May 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/954/show Tuesday 30 May 2017 ANC Workshop: Peggy Series, Chair: David Sterratt Peggy Series Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 30 May 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/956/show Thursday 09 February 2017 The Control Challenges of Humanoid Locomotion Alex Li Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 09 February 2017, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/960/show Thursday 16 February 2017 f-GAN: Training Generative Neural Samplers using Variational Divergence Minimization Ryota Tomioka Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 16 February 2017, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/962/show Friday 03 March 2017 Quantitative Computational Syntax: Facets of Multi-linguality Paola Merlo Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 03 March 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/963/show Tuesday 06 June 2017 ANC Workshop: Dimitrios Milios, Chair: Dragan Gasevic Dimitrios Milios Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 06 June 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/968/show Friday 17 March 2017 Market-Based Coordination for Domestic Demand Response in Low-Carbon Electricity Grids Sergio Elizondo Gonzalez Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 17 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: informatics Forum (IF-5.02) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/973/show Friday 10 March 2017 What can an interdisciplinary Neuropolitics approach add to our understanding of public attitudes, behaviours and decision-processes? Laura Cram Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 10 March 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/974/show Tuesday 20 June 2017 ANC Workshop: Matthias Hennig and Michalis Michaelides, Chair: Douglas Armstrong Matthias Hennig and Michalis Michaelides Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 20 June 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/975/show Tuesday 27 June 2017 ANC Workshop: Giulio Caravagna, Chair: Lynda Webb Giulio Caravagna Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 27 June 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/976/show Tuesday 04 July 2017 ANC Workshop: David Schnoerr, Chair: Edward Wallace David Schnoerr Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 04 July 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/977/show Thursday 02 March 2017 Efficient Preference Elicitation with Coarse Preferences / End-to-end training of object class detectors for mean average precision Pavlos Andreadis and Paul Henderson Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 02 March 2017, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: IF GO7 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/979/show Thursday 09 March 2017 All the fun of the FAIR: status and prospects for research data management in Life Sciences Professor Carole Goble (University of Manchester) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 09 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/982/show Thursday 23 March 2017 Chemotactic bacteria as mobile biosensory devices Prof Victor Sourjik (Max Plank Institute for Terrestial Microbiology) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 23 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/983/show Friday 31 March 2017 Frequency doubling in the cyanobacterial circadian clock Dr Bruno Martins (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge) SynthSys Seminar Series Friday 31 March 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/984/show Thursday 20 April 2017 Growing Buildings with Bacteria: An Architects approach to Synthetic Biology Dr Martyn Dade-Robertson (Newcastle University) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 20 April 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/985/show Thursday 25 May 2017 Title to be confirmed 25/5/17 Dr Thomas Howard (Newcastle University) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 25 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/987/show Thursday 09 March 2017 HabiTracks: Unconstrained Monocular Tracking of Animals in Their Natural Environments / Semantic Modelling of Natural Scenes for Outdoor Robot Navigation Benjamin Risse and Radim Tylecek Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 09 March 2017, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/990/show Friday 07 April 2017 The Lightweight Social Calculus continued: UAVs and Sociograms Petros Papapanagiotou Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 07 April 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-1.16) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/993/show Tuesday 18 April 2017 ANC Workshop: Michael Rule, Chair: Evan Morgan Michael Rule Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 18 April 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/994/show Friday 05 May 2017 Explorations in the borderlands between vision and language. Timothy Hospedales Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 05 May 2017, 12:30 - 14:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/998/show Thursday 23 March 2017 Plane labelling trinocular stereo matching with baseline recovery/A chaotic operant learning model inspired by the insect mushroom body Luis Horna Carranza and Tianqi Wei Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 23 March 2017, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1004/show Thursday 30 March 2017 Familiarity-based navigation: getting home without knowing where you are Andrew Philippides Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 30 March 2017, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1005/show Friday 28 April 2017 Transfer learning for discourse parsing Chloe Braud Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 28 April 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1008/show Tuesday 23 May 2017 ANC Seminar: Dennis Prangle, Host: Iain Murray Dennis Prangle Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 23 May 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1009/show Friday 12 May 2017 Usability of embodied conversational agents in a multi modal mobile serious game Danai Korre Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 12 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-2.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1010/show Tuesday 04 April 2017 Engineering cells, Building circuits Ron Weiss (Professor of Biological Engineering and Director, Synthetic Biology Center at MIT) SynthSys Seminar Series Tuesday 04 April 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1012/show Friday 28 April 2017 Agent-Based Privacy Permission Management Enrico Gerding Informatics: Agents Group Seminars Friday 28 April 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-2.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1017/show Friday 12 May 2017 Open-Universe Probabilistic Models Vaishak Belle Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 12 May 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1021/show Wednesday 31 May 2017 The Genomic History of Killer Whale Ecotypes Andy Foote (Bangor) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 31 May 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1023/show Wednesday 24 May 2017 Automatically drawing inferences Marie-Catherine de Marneffe Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Wednesday 24 May 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1024/show Thursday 11 May 2017 An Overview of Recent and Ongoing Computer Vision Projects Bob Fisher Bob Fisher (rbf) Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 11 May 2017, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1025/show Friday 19 May 2017 Data Visualization for Exploration, Explanation, and Beyond. Benjamin Bach Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 19 May 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1030/show Thursday 08 June 2017 Structure-sensitive dependency learning in recurrent neural networks Tal Linzen Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Thursday 08 June 2017, 15:30 - 17:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1032/show Tuesday 23 May 2017 ANC Seminar: Catalina Vallejos. Host: Guido Sanguinetti Catalina Vallejos Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 23 May 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1033/show Tuesday 13 June 2017 ANC Workshop: Alina Selega, Chair: Gavin Gray Alina Selega Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 13 June 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1035/show Wednesday 21 June 2017 ANC Seminar: Nikolaos Nikolaou, University of Manchester, Host: Iain Murray Nikolaos Nikolaou Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Wednesday 21 June 2017, 10:00 - 11:30 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1037/show Thursday 25 May 2017 Navigating biological complexity: application of design of experiments methodology to metabolic engineering and synthetic gene networks. Thomas Howard (Newcastle University) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 25 May 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1038/show Tuesday 06 June 2017 IEB Extra Seminar 6th June 2017 Martina Doblin (Sydney) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Tuesday 06 June 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1041/show Thursday 08 June 2017 Real-time control of a genetic toggle switch Jean-Baptiste Lugagne - CRI Paris SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 08 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1043/show Wednesday 29 November 2017 Genome fragmentation in bacterial endosymbionts: good, bad, or just ugly? John McCutcheon (Montana) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 29 November 2017, 14:00 - 16:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1044/show Thursday 22 June 2017 What transcriptional noise tells us about the cell inside Professor Víctor de Lorenzo (National Center for Biotechnology, Madrid) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 22 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1051/show Tuesday 27 June 2017 Science publishing - behind the scenes at Nature Francesca Cesari (Chief Biological Sciences Editor at Nature) SynthSys Seminar Series Tuesday 27 June 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1053/show Wednesday 22 November 2017 Cooperation under the bark - sociality and farming in ambrosia beetles Peter Biedermann (Max Planck) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 22 November 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1055/show Friday 14 July 2017 A Mostly Data-driven Approach to Inverse Text Normalization Bharat Ram Ambati Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 14 July 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1057/show Friday 30 June 2017 Computational Regularity - human movements and visual symmetry Dr Yanxi Liu Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Friday 30 June 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1063/show Wednesday 15 November 2017 Towards a parameterised genomic landscape of effective gene flow Simon Aeschbacher (Bern) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 15 November 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1064/show Wednesday 05 July 2017 Local cohomology and stratification Vidit Nanda, Turing Research Fellow, University of Oxford Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Wednesday 05 July 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1065/show Monday 10 July 2017 Computations and Applications of Medial Axis Transform of 3D Shapes Wenping Wang, The University of Hong Kong Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Monday 10 July 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1071/show Wednesday 25 October 2017 Improving our understanding of the genetic basis of human complex traits Matt Robinson (Lausanne) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 25 October 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1074/show Wednesday 01 November 2017 Unexpected costs and benefits of family life in earwigs: new insights into the early evolution of social life? Joël Meunier (University François Rabelais of Tours) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 01 November 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1075/show Friday 08 December 2017 IEB Seminar 8th December Vanessa Ezenwa (Georgia) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Friday 08 December 2017, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT1) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1076/show Wednesday 04 October 2017 Origins of molecular complexity and weirdness Scott Roy Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 04 October 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1077/show Friday 18 August 2017 Human active learning in dynamic physical microworlds Neil Bramley Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 18 August 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1078/show Tuesday 12 September 2017 MathBio Seminar: Ivana Bozic, University of Washington: Stochastic evolutionary modeling of cancer development and resistance to treatment Ivana Bozic Mathematical Biology Seminars Tuesday 12 September 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: room 5323 of the James Clerk Maxwell Building http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1081/show Monday 04 September 2017 Making sense of sewage James Chong - Microbiology, Department of Biology, University of York Biology: ICB, IQB3 and IMPS Monday Seminar Series Monday 04 September 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Swann 7.15 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1090/show Thursday 28 September 2017 When African trypanosomes make your skin crawl Brice Rotureau (Pasteur) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 28 September 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT1) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1098/show Friday 06 October 2017 The good, the bad and the ugly: Leishmania genome instability as a driver of evolutionary adaptation inthe field and in culture Gerald Spaeth (Pasteur) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Friday 06 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT1) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1099/show Thursday 19 October 2017 TBC 19/10/17 Corrie Detweiler (Colorado) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 19 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT1) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1100/show Thursday 02 November 2017 Role of lymph node macrophages in the inflammatory response that follows vaccination in the draining lymph node Santiago Gonzalez (Bellinzona) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 02 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT1) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1101/show Thursday 30 November 2017 Oranges are not the only fruit: some new stuff about non-falciparum malaria Colin Sutherland (LSHTM) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 30 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT1) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1102/show Thursday 07 December 2017 TBC 7/12/17 Christian Kurts (Bonn) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 07 December 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1103/show Friday 27 October 2017 Emergence of linguistic knowledge in a visually-grounded model of speech Afra Alishahi Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 27 October 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1104/show Tuesday 26 September 2017 ANC Seminar: Srinjoy Mitra (Engineering, UoE), Host: Matthias Hennig Srinjoy Mitra Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 26 September 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1105/show Tuesday 03 October 2017 ANC Workshop: Ed Fincham and Frank Karvelis, Chair: Borislav Ikonomov Ed Fincham and Frank Karvelis Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 03 October 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1106/show Tuesday 10 October 2017 ANC Workshop: Wanissa Matcha and Amos Storkey, Chair: Douglas Armstrong Wanissa Matcha and Amos Storkey Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 10 October 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1107/show Tuesday 17 October 2017 ANC Seminar: Alex Shestopaloff (Maths), Host: Chris Williams Alex Shestopaloff Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 17 October 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1108/show Tuesday 24 October 2017 ANC Workshop: Jun Bao and Alba Crespi, Chair: Amos Storkey Jun Bao and Alba Crespi Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 24 October 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1109/show Tuesday 31 October 2017 ANC Workshop: Joseph Cronin Joseph Cronin and Harri Edwards Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 31 October 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: 4.31/33, IF 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1110/show Tuesday 07 November 2017 ANC Workshop: Ryan Davies and Sam Rupprechter, Chair: Michael Rule Ryan Davies and Sam Rupprechter Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 07 November 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1111/show Tuesday 14 November 2017 ANC Workshop: Mark van Rossum and Michael Gutmann, Chair: David Sterrat Mark van Rossum and tbc Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 14 November 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1112/show Monday 11 September 2017 Cohesin links inflammation and cancer Prof. Matthias Merkenschlager, Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Imperial College London Biology: ICB, IQB3 and IMPS Monday Seminar Series Monday 11 September 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1113/show Monday 18 September 2017 Structural basis of meiotic chromosome synapsis through SYCP1 self-assembly Dr Owen Davies, Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University Biology: ICB, IQB3 and IMPS Monday Seminar Series Monday 18 September 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Daniel Rutherford G.27 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1114/show Monday 25 September 2017 Characterization of the S locus supergene controlling heterostyly in Darwin’s Primroses Professor Phil Gilmartin, Faculty of Science, University of East Anglia Biology: ICB, IQB3 and IMPS Monday Seminar Series Monday 25 September 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Daniel Rutherford G.27 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1115/show Wednesday 04 October 2017 Analysis of p-Laplacian Regularization in Semi-Supervised Learning Matthew Thorpe (Cambridge) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 04 October 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1116/show Monday 02 October 2017 Competitive interactions in heterogeneous cell populations: a multimodal imaging, machine learning and computational modelling Dr Alan Lowe, Institute for Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London Biology: ICB, IQB3 and IMPS Monday Seminar Series Monday 02 October 2017, 12:05 - 13:00 Venue: Swann 7.15 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1117/show Monday 09 October 2017 To be confirmed 9/10/17 Dr Marina Lusic, Department of Infectious Diseases, Virology, Universität Heidelberg Biology: ICB, IQB3 and IMPS Monday Seminar Series Monday 09 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Daniel Rutherford G.27 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1118/show Monday 23 October 2017 Soon to be confirmed Professor Gary Karpen, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California Berkeley, USA Biology: ICB, IQB3 and IMPS Monday Seminar Series Monday 23 October 2017, 12:05 - 13:00 Venue: Swann 7.15 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1119/show Monday 30 October 2017 The impact of the host microenvironment on plant disease development Professor Gail Preston, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford Biology: ICB, IQB3 and IMPS Monday Seminar Series Monday 30 October 2017, 12:05 - 13:00 Venue: Swann 7.15 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1120/show Monday 06 November 2017 Visualising the regulation of bacterial DNA repair and mutagenesis using single-molecule and single-cell microscopy Dr Stephan Uphoff, Department of Biochemistry, Oxford Biology: ICB, IQB3 and IMPS Monday Seminar Series Monday 06 November 2017, 12:05 - 13:00 Venue: Swann 7.15 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1121/show Monday 13 November 2017 Meiotic recombination and chromatin landscapes in plant genomes Dr Ian Henderson, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge Biology: ICB, IQB3 and IMPS Monday Seminar Series Monday 13 November 2017, 12:05 - 13:00 Venue: Swann 7.20 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1130/show Monday 27 November 2017 The evolution and function of oxygen sensing in plants Professor Mike Holdsworth, Plant and Crop Science Division, School of Biosciences, University of Nottingham Biology: ICB, IQB3 and IMPS Monday Seminar Series Monday 27 November 2017, 12:05 - 13:00 Venue: Swann 7.15 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1132/show Monday 04 December 2017 Function and execution of RTEL1 activities at vertebrate telomeres Dr simon Boulton, Francis Crick Institute, London Biology: ICB, IQB3 and IMPS Monday Seminar Series Monday 04 December 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Daniel Rutherford G.27 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1134/show Thursday 07 September 2017 IPAB Workshop - 07/09/2017 Svetlin Penkov and Can Pu Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 07 September 2017, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1138/show Wednesday 13 December 2017 Ant symbioses: from parasitism to mutualism Naomi Pierce (Harvard) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 13 December 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1139/show Wednesday 08 November 2017 IEB Seminar 8th November Luis Miguel Chevin (Montpellier) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 08 November 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1143/show Wednesday 11 October 2017 Heat kernels in graphs: A journey from random walks to geometry, and back He Sun (Edinburgh) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1145/show Wednesday 18 October 2017 Adaptive stochastic Galerkin finite element approximation: accurate error estimation and memory-smart solvers. Catherine Powell (Manchester) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 18 October 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1146/show Wednesday 01 November 2017 Preconditioned iterative methods for nonsymmetric Toeplitz and block Toeplitz matrices Jennifer Pestana (Strathclyde) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 01 November 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1148/show Thursday 14 September 2017 IPAB Seminar 14/09/2017 Prof. Ko Sakai - University of Tsukuba Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 14 September 2017, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1162/show Wednesday 13 September 2017 IPAB Seminar 13/09/2017 Prof. Tinne Tuytelaars Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Wednesday 13 September 2017, 16:30 - 17:30 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1163/show Wednesday 13 September 2017 Clarifying the Complexity of Adaptive Evolution John Pool (Wisconsin) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 13 September 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1164/show Wednesday 24 January 2018 Genomics of sexual dimorphism Alison Wright (Sheffield) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 24 January 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1165/show Wednesday 21 March 2018 Epi-Evo: Insight into fundamental epigenetic mechanisms through evolutionary analyses Peter Sarkies (MRC, London) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 21 March 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1166/show Wednesday 28 March 2018 IEB Seminar 28th March 2018 Thomas Flatt (Fribourg) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 28 March 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1167/show Thursday 14 September 2017 The MscS bacterial mechanosensitive channel family Samantha Miller (University of Aberdeen) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 14 September 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.20 King's Buildings http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1168/show Wednesday 20 September 2017 Targeting Inclusion, Researching Change: The Stakes and Challenges of Changing Institutional Systems Karen Salt (co-Director of the Centre for Research in Race and Rights (C3R), University of Nottingham) SynthSys Seminar Series Wednesday 20 September 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1169/show Thursday 28 September 2017 **Seminar now cancelled** Ricard Sole (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 28 September 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.20 King's Buildings http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1170/show Thursday 12 October 2017 Stochasticity and robustness in plant morphogenesis Arezki Boudaoud (RDP, ENS Lyon) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 12 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.20 King's Buildings http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1171/show Thursday 26 October 2017 Understanding and manipulating cyanobacteria, a phylum of environmental and biotechnological importance David Lea-Smith (University of East Anglia) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 26 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.20 King's Buildings http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1172/show Thursday 09 November 2017 The dynamics of bacteriophages associated with gut microbiota Martha Clokie (University of Leicester) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 09 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.20 King's Buildings http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1173/show Tuesday 14 November 2017 Cooperation and competition in microbes: from model systems to the microbiome Kevin Foster (University of Oxford) SynthSys Seminar Series Tuesday 14 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1174/show Wednesday 27 September 2017 “Evolution and the life history of the genome” William Etges (Arkansas) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 27 September 2017, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1175/show Thursday 23 November 2017 Designing new tools for synthetic biology in mammalian cells Dr Velia Siciliano (Imperial College London) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 23 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Michael Swann building, seminar room 7.20 King's Buildings http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1176/show Thursday 19 October 2017 Probing host-pathogen interactions with chemical genetics Corrie Detweiler (Colorado) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 19 October 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT1) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1178/show Thursday 14 December 2017 Title to be confirmed 14/12/17 Nir Gov (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 14 December 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1179/show Thursday 02 November 2017 TBC 2/11/17a Santiago Gonzalez (Bellinzona) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 02 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT1) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1180/show Thursday 07 December 2017 Cancelled - reschedule for 2018 Christian Kurts (Bonn) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 07 December 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT1) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1181/show Friday 10 November 2017 Dependency Minimal Recursion Semantics: what, why, how? Ann Copestake Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 10 November 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1182/show Friday 22 September 2017 Usor Economicus - Modelling Search Interaction using Economics Leif Azzopardi Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 22 September 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1183/show Wednesday 23 May 2018 The holy grail is in the castle of ARG Jerome Kelleher (Oxford) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 23 May 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1184/show Thursday 09 November 2017 Linking DNA damage and innate immunity, relevant to autoinflammatory disease and cancer Martin Reijns Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 09 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT1) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1185/show Tuesday 28 November 2017 ANC Workshop: David Sterratt, Chair: James Owers Speakers tbc Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 28 November 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1191/show Tuesday 05 December 2017 ANC Workshop: Grant Robertson and Richard Shillcock, Chair: Lynda Webb Grant Robertson and Richard Shillcock Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 05 December 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1192/show Tuesday 12 December 2017 ANC Workshop: speakers tbc, Chair: Dimitrios Milios speakers tbc Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 12 December 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1193/show Friday 06 October 2017 Some tough and strange problems in automatic summarisation Natalie Schluter Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 06 October 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1207/show Wednesday 04 October 2017 NanoBiotechnology and Synthetic Biology Design Approaches towards the Development of Smart Therapeutics Against Infectious Diseases J.Ruben Morones-Ramirez (NanoBiotechnology Research Grp, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León) SynthSys Seminar Series Wednesday 04 October 2017, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1208/show Thursday 19 October 2017 TrimBot2020 and recent research in Fisher's vision group Bob Fisher (rbf) Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 19 October 2017, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1220/show Friday 17 November 2017 A formal distributional semantics for cognitively-plausible reference acts Aurelie Herbelot Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 17 November 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1225/show Thursday 02 November 2017 Building motion models that are both discrete and continuous Vladimir Ivan Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 02 November 2017, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1241/show Wednesday 08 November 2017 Controlling gene-expression noise with feedback in burst size Pavol Bokes (Comenious University) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 08 November 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1242/show Wednesday 15 November 2017 Scalable bifurcation analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations Patrick Farrell (University of Oxford) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 15 November 2017, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1243/show Wednesday 14 February 2018 Zoonosis: Virus evolution at the animal - human interface Sara Sawyer (Colorado) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 14 February 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1247/show Thursday 09 November 2017 IPAB Workshop - 09/11/2017 Sethu Vijayakumar Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 09 November 2017, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1248/show Wednesday 17 January 2018 Evolution and expression of the Drosophila X chromosome John Parsch (Munich) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 17 January 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1252/show Wednesday 09 May 2018 Feathers and function; homology and deep homology Mike Benton (Bristol) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1253/show Friday 24 November 2017 Towards dynamic adaptation in Natural Language Processing - where are we now? Barbara Plank Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 24 November 2017, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1254/show Wednesday 07 February 2018 De novo evolution of genes Diethard Tautz (Max Plank Institute, Ploen) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 07 February 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1256/show Monday 20 November 2017 Towards the Automated Rehabilitation: EXO-UL8 Dual-Arm Yang Shen Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Monday 20 November 2017, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1257/show Tuesday 21 November 2017 ANC Workshop: George Papamakarios and David Sterratt, Chair: Aleksej Stolicyn George Papamakarios and David Sterrat Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 21 November 2017, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1258/show Thursday 14 December 2017 Guided by Curvature: shaping cells by coupling curved membrane proteins and cytoskeletal forces Prof Nir Gov ((Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 14 December 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1259/show Tuesday 28 November 2017 Shared resources by the numbers Andras Gyorgy (NYU Abu Dhabi) SynthSys Seminar Series Tuesday 28 November 2017, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1260/show Friday 12 January 2018 Sensory maps Daniele Quercia Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 12 January 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1265/show Friday 02 February 2018 Machines that read and reason: Multi-hop reading comprehension across documents Pontus Stenetorp Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 02 February 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1266/show Tuesday 23 January 2018 ANC Workshop: Martino Sorbaro Sindaci, Chair: Alba Crespi Martino Sorbaro Sindaci Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 23 January 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1267/show Tuesday 30 January 2018 ANC Workshop: Borislav Ikonomov and Chris Williams, Chair: tbc Borislav Ikonomov and Chris Williams Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 30 January 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1268/show Tuesday 06 February 2018 ANC Workshop: James Owers and Douglas Armstrong, Chair: Charlie Nash James Owers and Douglas Armstrong Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 06 February 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1269/show Thursday 21 December 2017 IPAB Workshop - Optimisation and stability - Michael Herrmann Michael Herrmann Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 21 December 2017, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1271/show Thursday 11 January 2018 Diversity of the human response to malaria Phil Spence (pspence) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 11 January 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1273/show Monday 22 January 2018 Unravelling early host intestinal epithelia interactions with whipworms Maria Duque (NC3R Fellow from Sanger) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Monday 22 January 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1274/show Thursday 25 January 2018 To be confirmed 25/1/18 Olivier Lantz (Paris) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 25 January 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1275/show Thursday 08 February 2018 Novel mechanisms of tumor immune resistance Philipp Beckhove (Regensburg) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 08 February 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1276/show Thursday 22 February 2018 Disease tolerance as a defence strategy against malaria Miguel Soares (Gulbenkian) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 22 February 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1277/show Thursday 01 March 2018 To be confirmed 1/3/18 Chiara Romagnani (Berlin) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1278/show Thursday 22 March 2018 To be Confirmed 22/3/18 Rose Zamoyska Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 22 March 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1279/show Thursday 29 March 2018 To be confirmed later 29/3/18 Amy Buck Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 29 March 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1280/show Thursday 05 April 2018 To be confirmed 5/4/18 Dominique Soldati (Geneva) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 05 April 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1281/show Thursday 26 April 2018 Aryl hydrocarbon receptor regulates immunity and metabolic health Chris Schiering (Crick) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 26 April 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1282/show Thursday 17 May 2018 Antigen processing during cross-presentation by dendritic cells Patrycja Kozik (Cambridge LMB) Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1283/show Thursday 31 May 2018 To be confirmed later 31/5/18 Achim Schnaufer Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 31 May 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1284/show Thursday 25 January 2018 Bioprospecting for lignocellulose biorefineries Dr Dimitris Hatzinikolaou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 25 January 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1285/show Thursday 11 January 2018 IPAB Workshop - Thursday 11st January - Jan Stanciewicz and Chuanyu Yang Jan Stanciewicz and Chuanyu Yang Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 11 January 2018, 12:45 - 13:45 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1286/show Wednesday 31 January 2018 IEB Seminar 31st January Lucy Gilbert (JHI) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 31 January 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1287/show Wednesday 04 April 2018 When, why, and how to avoid, prefer, or tolerate inbreeding Brad Duthie (Stirling) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 04 April 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1288/show Thursday 18 January 2018 The robust ticking of a circadian clock Prof Pieter Rein ten Wolde (AMOLF research lab & Department of Physics, Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 18 January 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1289/show Thursday 08 February 2018 Design with living systems Prof Carole Collet (Professor in Design for Sustainable Futures. Central St Martins) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 08 February 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1290/show Friday 23 February 2018 Hints of linguistic structure in neural models of language and translation. Arianna Bisazza Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 23 February 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1291/show Friday 26 January 2018 Grammatical error correction across the spectrum of error types Matt Post Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 26 January 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1303/show Wednesday 13 June 2018 IEB Seminar 13th June 2018 David Duneau (Toulouse) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 13 June 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1306/show Thursday 15 February 2018 Steps Toward Robust Artificial Intelligence Thomas G. Dietterich Informatics: Distinguished Speaker Lecture Thursday 15 February 2018, 17:00 - 18:00 Venue: Lecture Theatre 5, Appleton Tower, Crichton Street http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1307/show Thursday 25 January 2018 Towards Programming by Discussion: Grounding Symbols and Using them in Motion Planning Dr Subramanian Ramamoorthy Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 25 January 2018, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1308/show Thursday 01 February 2018 Revisiting Direct Density-Ratio Estimation Makoto Yamada - Unit Leader at RIKEN AIP, Japan Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 01 February 2018, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1319/show Tuesday 13 February 2018 ANC Workshop: Gavin Gray Gavin Gray Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 13 February 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF Room 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1320/show Tuesday 20 February 2018 ANC Workshop: Charlie Nash, Chair: Heru Praptono Charlie Nash and Peggy Series Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 20 February 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1321/show Tuesday 27 February 2018 ANC Workshop: Nigel Goddard and tbc, Chair: Martin Pullinger Nigel Goddard and tbc Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 27 February 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1322/show Tuesday 06 March 2018 ANC Workshop: Ian Simpson, Chair: Ed Fincham Ian Simpson Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 06 March 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1323/show Tuesday 13 March 2018 ANC Workshop: Iain Murray and Sam Heron, Chair: Grant Robertson Iain Murray and Sam Heron Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 13 March 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1324/show Wednesday 31 January 2018 Krylov Subspace Methods for Regularisation and Sparse Reconstruction Dr Silvia Gazzola (University of Bath) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 31 January 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1325/show Wednesday 28 February 2018 EDEN Seminar: On why we need more life history oddities to examine life history evolution Rob Salguero-Gomez (Oxford University) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 28 February 2018, 14:00 - 16:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1328/show Thursday 08 February 2018 IPAB workshop - Taku Komura Taku Komura Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 08 February 2018, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1329/show Thursday 04 October 2018 Elucidating the essential roles of the RNA editing enzymes ADAR's; from brain function to innate immunity Mary O'Connell Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 04 October 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1330/show Friday 09 March 2018 Deep Learning Methods for Knowledge Base Population Heike Adel Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 09 March 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1332/show Thursday 18 October 2018 Non-coding RNAs in immunity and inflammation Dimitris Lagos Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 18 October 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1336/show Thursday 15 February 2018 IPAB Seminar - Alan Stokes: The SpiNNaker HPC and Robotics Alan Stokes Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 15 February 2018, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1338/show Thursday 15 February 2018 IPAB seminar - Moacir Ponti (USP) Moacir Ponti Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 15 February 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: 3.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1339/show Thursday 01 March 2018 IPAB Seminar - Antonio Javier Gallego Sánchez - University of Alicante Antonio Javier Gallego Sánchez - University of Alicante Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 01 March 2018, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1340/show Thursday 22 February 2018 IPAB Workshop - Thursday 22nd Februrary Evripidis Gkanias, Daniel Angelov and Raluca Scona Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 22 February 2018, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1342/show Friday 09 March 2018 Grammars for generating isiXhosa and isiZulu weather bulletin verbs Zola Mahlaza Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 09 March 2018, 15:00 - 16:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1343/show Tuesday 20 March 2018 ANC Seminar: Haruo Hosoya, Chair: Michael Gutmann Haruo Hosoya Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 20 March 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1344/show Tuesday 27 March 2018 ANC Workshop: Michaelis Michaelides and Matthias Hennig, Chair: Wannisa Matcha Michaelis Michaelides and Matthias Hennig Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 27 March 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1345/show Tuesday 03 April 2018 ANC Workshop: Lukasz Romaszko, Chair: George Papamakarios Lukasz Romaszko Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 03 April 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1346/show Tuesday 10 April 2018 ANC Workshop: Michael Rule, Chair: Simão Eduardo Michael Rule Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 10 April 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1347/show Saturday 17 March 2018 ANC Workshop: tbc, Chair: Frank Karvelis To be confirmed Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Saturday 17 March 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1348/show Tuesday 24 April 2018 ANC Workshop: Cole Hurwitz and Beren Millidge, Chair: Jun Bao Cole Hurwitz and Beren Millidge Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 24 April 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1349/show Tuesday 08 May 2018 ANC Seminar: Szabolcs Káli, Host: Matthias Hennig Szabolcs Káli Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 08 May 2018, 11:30 - 12:30 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1350/show Friday 13 April 2018 Metareasoning and mental simulation Jessica Hamrick Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 13 April 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1352/show Thursday 29 March 2018 IPAB Workshop - Thursday 29th March Yordan Hristov Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 29 March 2018, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1356/show Thursday 05 April 2018 Parsing Scoped Meaning Representations Johan Bos Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Thursday 05 April 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1358/show Thursday 05 April 2018 The ins and outs of invasion and egress in Apicomplexa Dominique Soldati Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 05 April 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1363/show Thursday 12 April 2018 Its about Time! The role of the myeloid molecular clock in modulating immunity Annie Curtis Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 12 April 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1364/show Thursday 19 April 2018 Impedance control and physical human-robot interaction for multi-limb robots Michael Mistry Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 19 April 2018, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1377/show Friday 18 May 2018 Learning with limited labelled data in NLP: multi-task learning and beyond Isabelle Augenstein Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 18 May 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1380/show Wednesday 05 December 2018 Hosted or as a whole: intestinal eukaryotes of hybridising house mice and other wildlife Emanuel Heitlinger (Berlin) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 05 December 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1385/show Wednesday 03 October 2018 Phytoplankton Adaptation to Global Warming – Insights from Resurrection Experiments and Ecosystem Modelling Inga Hense (Hamburg) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 03 October 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1386/show Wednesday 21 November 2018 Insights into early human migrations with modern and ancient genomic data Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas (Lausanne) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1388/show Friday 25 May 2018 Probabilistic modelling for NLP powered by deep learning Wilker Ferreira Aziz Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 25 May 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1389/show Monday 28 May 2018 Machine learning for scientific inferences: Debunking the hype David Dunson Informatics: Distinguished Speaker Lecture Monday 28 May 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1391/show Wednesday 24 October 2018 Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning: from experiments to the real world and back again Eric Allan (University of Bern) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 24 October 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1392/show Wednesday 28 November 2018 How do species interactions determine species geographic ranges and biodiversity patterns? Regan Early (University of Exeter) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1393/show Wednesday 07 November 2018 Insect immune strategies: Resisting, tolerating and remembering infections Sophie Armitage (Berlin) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1394/show Wednesday 14 November 2018 Virus-host specificity and control of host systems David Robertson (Glasgow) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1395/show Tuesday 19 June 2018 ANC Seminar: Peter Richtarik Peter Richtarik Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 19 June 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1398/show Wednesday 17 October 2018 Killers and protectors: rapid microbial evolution across the parasite-mutualist continuum Kayla King (Oxford) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 17 October 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1400/show Friday 22 June 2018 Do Programming Languages need Designers? Alan Blackwell Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 22 June 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1402/show Friday 29 June 2018 Humans, Machines and Work: The Future is now Moshe Y. Vardi Informatics: Distinguished Speaker Lecture Friday 29 June 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: G.03, 50 George Square http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1403/show Wednesday 27 June 2018 Biodiversity analysis through genomic approaches: implications for understanding and monitoring ecological change at different scales Mehrdad Hajibabaei (Guelph) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 27 June 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1404/show Wednesday 31 October 2018 The evolution of Rubisco, upper ocean oxygenation and the Mesozoic Marine Revolution Ros Rickaby (Oxford) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1406/show Friday 06 July 2018 NLP and Group Dynamics Gabriel Murray Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 06 July 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1407/show Wednesday 19 September 2018 High as a fly: Pleiotropic consequences of adaptive dopaminergic signaling Ana Marija Jaksic (Vienna) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 19 September 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1408/show Wednesday 26 September 2018 Hot and bothered: how do organisms deal with multiple forms of stress? Andrew Beckerman (Sheffield) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 26 September 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1409/show Wednesday 16 January 2019 Genomic consequences of asexual reproduction in animals Tanja Schwander (Lausanne) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 16 January 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1411/show Wednesday 27 June 2018 Swift Logic for Big Data and Knowledge Graphs Georg Gottlob Informatics: Milner Lecture Wednesday 27 June 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: G.03, 50 George Square http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1413/show Wednesday 08 May 2019 IEB Seminar 8th May 2019 Ben Ashby (Bath) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1415/show Friday 03 August 2018 Knowledge-Rich Deep Learning for Precision Medicine Hoifung Poon Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 03 August 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1418/show Wednesday 15 August 2018 Two recent advances in Monte Carlo Tree Search Martin Müller Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Wednesday 15 August 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1419/show Friday 24 August 2018 Neural and symbolic semantic parsing with typed graph algebras Alexander Koller Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 24 August 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1424/show Friday 31 August 2018 Combining Human Knowledge with Neural Network Models: A Case Study for SLU and Beyond Yansong Feng Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 31 August 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1430/show Friday 28 September 2018 2018 ACL Lifetime Achievement Award Address: The Lost Combinator Mark Steedman Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 28 September 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1431/show Tuesday 11 September 2018 How Languages Carve Up the World: Modeling Developmental and Linguistic Relativity Effects Suzanne Stevenson Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Tuesday 11 September 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1434/show Friday 14 September 2018 Challenges in Response Generation and Conversational AI Ondrej Dusek Informatics: Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation/HCRC Seminar Series Friday 14 September 2018, 11:00 - 12:30 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1435/show Wednesday 26 September 2018 Prof Steve Archibald (University of Hull, UK) Prof Steve Archibald Chemistry: School Colloquia Wednesday 26 September 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Joseph Black Building (T100) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1437/show Tuesday 04 September 2018 LFCS seminar: Juan Sequeda: Integrating Semantic Web in the Real World: A journey between two cities Juan Sequeda Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar Tuesday 04 September 2018, 14:30 - 15:30 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1438/show Friday 14 September 2018 A re-appraisal of fixed-effect(s) meta-analysis Prof. Ken Rice - University of Washington, Dept of Biostatistics Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 14 September 2018, 14:35 - 15:30 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1469/show Wednesday 29 August 2018 Implicit Copulas from Bayesian Regularized Regression Smoothers Dr. Nadja Klein - University of Cologne Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Wednesday 29 August 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 6201 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1472/show Wednesday 05 September 2018 Indistinguishability, Duality, and Coordination Yoram Moses Informatics: Distinguished Speaker Lecture Wednesday 05 September 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: MF2, School of Informatics http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1473/show Wednesday 17 October 2018 Global Change Seminar 17/10/18 Frithjof Kuepper GeoSciences: Global Change Wednesday 17 October 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Crew Building, Room 302 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1478/show Friday 21 September 2018 The Greenhouse Gas-Air Quality nexus: experiences from the Western U.S. Professor John Lin. University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences GeoSciences: Global Change Friday 21 September 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Crew Building, Room 302 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1479/show Wednesday 03 October 2018 Global Change Seminar 3/10/18 Neil Bowles GeoSciences: Global Change Wednesday 03 October 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Crew Building, Room 302 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1480/show Wednesday 24 October 2018 Global Change Seminar 24/10/18 Pete Smith GeoSciences: Global Change Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Crew Building, Room 302 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1481/show Wednesday 31 October 2018 Understanding strengths and limits of early meteorological records Prof Peter Thorne, Maynooth University, Ireland GeoSciences: Global Change Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Crew Building, Room 302 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1482/show Wednesday 07 November 2018 Global Change Seminar 7/11/18 Hugh Ducklow GeoSciences: Global Change Wednesday 07 November 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Crew Building, Room 302 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1483/show Wednesday 03 October 2018 What temperature is the surface of the Moon and why should I care? Neil Bowles, University of Oxford GeoSciences: Global Change Wednesday 03 October 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Crew Building, Room 302 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1484/show Friday 11 January 2019 A Hierarchical Framework for Correcting Under-Reporting in Count Data Dr Theo Economou - University of Exeter Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 11 January 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Lecture Theatre 5.10 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1499/show Friday 07 December 2018 Maximising the potential of removal data Dr Rachel McCrea - University of Kent Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 07 December 2018, 14:05 - 15:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Room 5.46 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1500/show Friday 14 December 2018 CANCELLED 14/12/18 Prof. Gareth Peters - Heriot-Watt University Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 14 December 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1501/show Friday 08 February 2019 Modelling covariance matrices by the trigonometric separation strategy with applications to time series analysis Dr. Luigi Spezia - BioMathematics and Statistics Scotland Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 08 February 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1502/show Friday 23 November 2018 Location-adjusted Wald statistics Dr Ioannis Kosmidis - University of Warwick Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 23 November 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1503/show Thursday 20 September 2018 Title to be arranged Amy Buck Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 20 September 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1505/show Thursday 13 September 2018 Regulating of HSC function in vivo Claudia Waskow Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 13 September 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1506/show Thursday 11 October 2018 Death in Peyer's patches leads is required for intestinal health Ulrich Steinhoff Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 11 October 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1507/show Thursday 01 November 2018 To be confirmed later Dietmar Zaiss Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 01 November 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1508/show Thursday 08 November 2018 CRISPR-Cas9 knockout screens in Leishmania Eva Gluenz Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 08 November 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1509/show Thursday 22 November 2018 Talk title to be confirmed soon Emilie Pondeville Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 22 November 2018, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1510/show Thursday 13 December 2018 Title to be confirmed later in year Isabel Roditi Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 13 December 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1511/show Wednesday 27 March 2019 Genomics of adaptation and speciation: Interpreting genomic landscapes and beyond Reto Burri (Jena) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 27 March 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1512/show Thursday 13 September 2018 Origin of the Earth and Moon Miki Nakajima, University of Rochester GeoSciences: Earth and Planetary Science Thursday 13 September 2018, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Main Lecture Theatre, Grant Institute http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1513/show Friday 30 November 2018 Scaled von Mises-Fisher distributions Prof Andrew Wood - University of Nottingham Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 30 November 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1545/show Wednesday 26 September 2018 ANC Seminar: Mihaela van Der Schaar Mihaela van Der Schaar Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Wednesday 26 September 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1546/show Tuesday 02 October 2018 (Cancelled) ANC Workshop: Emily Scher and Lukasz Romaszko, Chair: Beren Millidge Emily Scher and Lukasz Romaszko Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 02 October 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1547/show Tuesday 09 October 2018 ANC Workshop: Grant Robertson, Chair: Matthias Hennig Grant Robertson Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 09 October 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1548/show Tuesday 16 October 2018 (Cancelled) ANC Workshop: David Sterratt, Chair: Taha Ceritli David Sterratt Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 16 October 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1549/show Tuesday 23 October 2018 ANC Workshop: Conor Durkan and Stanislaw Jastrzebski, Chair: Amos Storkey Conor Durkan and Stanislaw Jastrzebski Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 23 October 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1550/show Tuesday 30 October 2018 ANC Workshop: Andreas Kapourani and Joseph Cronin, Chair: Cole Hurwitz Andreas Kapourani and Joseph Cronin Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 30 October 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1551/show Tuesday 06 November 2018 ANC Workshop: Colin Mclean, Chair: Guido Sanguinetti Colin Mclean Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 06 November 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1552/show Tuesday 13 November 2018 ANC Workshop: Alba Crespi Boixander and Colin Mclean, Chair: tbc Alba Crespi Boixander and Colin Mclean Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 13 November 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1553/show Tuesday 20 November 2018 ANC Workshop: Jun Bao and Arno Onken, Chair, Michael Gutmann Jun Bao and Arno Onken Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 20 November 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1554/show Tuesday 27 November 2018 ANC Workshop: Lazar Valkov and Arturs Bekasovs, Chair: Kai Xu Lazar Valkov and Arturs Bekasovs Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 27 November 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1555/show Tuesday 04 December 2018 ANC Workshop: Massimiliano Patacchiola, Chair: Ian Simpson Elliot Crowley Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 04 December 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1556/show Tuesday 11 December 2018 ANC Workshop: Sam Rupprechter, Chair: Alex Bird James Owers and Sam Rupprechter Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 11 December 2018, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1557/show Wednesday 13 March 2019 IEB Seminar 13th March 2019 Greta Bocedi (Aberbeen) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 13 March 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1562/show Tuesday 18 September 2018 LFCS seminar: Mourad Ouzzani: The Data Civilizer – Easing the Pain of Data Preparation Mourad Ouzzani Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar Tuesday 18 September 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1564/show Friday 02 November 2018 The Rothamsted School meets Lord’s Paradox Prof. Stephen Senn Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 02 November 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1570/show Friday 16 November 2018 Bayesian prediction for physical models with application to the optimization of the synthesis of pharmaceutical products using chemical kinetics Dr Antony Overstall - University of Southampton Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 16 November 2018, 11:05 - 12:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Lecture Theatre 5.10 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1586/show Wednesday 06 March 2019 Major transitions in the mating behaviour of plants John Pannell (Lausanne) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 06 March 2019, 14:10 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1589/show Friday 28 September 2018 Classification with imperfect training labels Dr Tim Cannings - University of Edinburgh Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 28 September 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, 5.10 (5th floor) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1591/show Tuesday 25 September 2018 LFCS seminar: Guillem Perarnau: Rapid mixing of Glauber dynamics for graph colorings Guillem Perarnau Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar Tuesday 25 September 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1592/show Tuesday 09 October 2018 LFCS seminar: Matthew Jenssen: Algorithms for #BIS-hard problems on expander graphs Matthew Jenssen Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar Tuesday 09 October 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: IF 2.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1593/show Friday 19 October 2018 Point processes – abstraction and practical relevance Janine Illian - University of St Andrews Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 19 October 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1597/show Friday 01 March 2019 Group invariance for objective prior elicitation in testing problems Anabel Forte - Universitat de València Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 01 March 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1599/show Friday 05 October 2018 LFCS seminar: Lucian Popa: Human-in-the-Loop Entity Resolution for Knowledge Curation Lucian Popa Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar Friday 05 October 2018, 10:00 - 11:00 Venue: MF2, School of Informatics http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1600/show Friday 05 October 2018 LFCS seminar: Wang-Chiew Tan: Enabling search by experience Wang-Chiew Tan Informatics: Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science Seminar Friday 05 October 2018, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: MF2, School of Informatics http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1601/show Wednesday 03 October 2018 Hanging by a thread: how to fly at very low Reynolds numbers Cathal Cummins (University of Edinburgh) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 03 October 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1602/show Wednesday 10 October 2018 A low-rank projector-splitting integrator for the Vlasov-Poisson equation Christian Lubich (Tübingen University ) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 10 October 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: ICMS Lecture Theatre (Room 5.10) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1604/show Wednesday 23 January 2019 Parental decision-making in poison frogs Eva Ringler (Vienna) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1605/show Friday 09 November 2018 Efficient, high-dimensional sampling using stochastic differential equations Prof Benedict Leimkuhler - University of Edinburgh Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 09 November 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Room 5.10 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1607/show Wednesday 20 March 2019 IEB Seminar 20th March 2019 Ellie Harrison (Sheffield) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 20 March 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1612/show Friday 26 October 2018 Probabilistic and statistical analysis of the linear fractional stable motion Prof. Mark Podolskij - Aarhus University Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 26 October 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: Room 5.10, Bayes Centre http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1613/show Wednesday 17 October 2018 From fluctuations in particle systems to their scaling limits and applications Johannes Zimmer (Bath) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 17 October 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: ICMS Lecture Theatre (Room 5.10) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1614/show Thursday 25 October 2018 IPAB workshop - Carl Allen, Ivana Balazevic and Jack Geary Speaker to be confirmed Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 25 October 2018, 12:45 - 14:00 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1632/show Friday 22 March 2019 Real Time Decision Making for Infectious Disease Outbreaks Dr Mike Tildesley - University of Warwick Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 22 March 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1634/show Thursday 22 November 2018 IEB Annual Graduate Student invite 2018 Hanna Kokko (Zurich) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Thursday 22 November 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1635/show Wednesday 31 October 2018 New techniques for calculating cubature rules on the triangle Stefanos Papanicolopulos (University of Edinburgh) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1638/show Wednesday 20 March 2019 Optimization with expensive and uncertain data - challenges and improvements Coralia Cartis (University of Oxford) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 20 March 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 6201 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1641/show Monday 17 December 2018 Let Robot be Robots Jan de Ruiter Informatics: Special Events Monday 17 December 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1644/show Wednesday 21 November 2018 Parameter estimation for pedestrian dynamics models Susana Gomes (University of Warwick) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1645/show Thursday 15 November 2018 IPAB Seminar - Michael Rovatsos Michael Rovatsos (mrovatso) Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 15 November 2018, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1647/show Wednesday 13 February 2019 IEB seminar 13th February 2019 Aoife McLysaght (Trinity College Dublin) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 13 February 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1649/show Thursday 22 November 2018 IPAB Workshop - John Pisokas, Christian Rauch John Pisokas, Christian Rauch Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 22 November 2018, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1653/show Wednesday 28 November 2018 Multimodal biomedical image analysis: sparse, shallow and deep Sotirios Tsaftaris (University of Edinburgh) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1656/show Wednesday 05 December 2018 Gluing methods for Vortex dynamics in Euler flows Manuel del Pino (University of Bath) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 05 December 2018, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, G.03 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1658/show Wednesday 05 December 2018 A Nonlinear Spectral Method for Network Core-Periphery Detection Des Higham (University of Strathclyde) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 05 December 2018, 16:20 - 17:20 Venue: Bayes Centre, G.03 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1659/show Thursday 06 December 2018 IPAB Workshop - Can Pu, Joao Posa de Moura Speaker to be confirmed Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 06 December 2018, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1662/show Friday 05 April 2019 Evaluating Performance of Mean Estimators of Sensitive Variables under Measurement Errors with Respect to Efficiency and Respondent Privacy Prof. Sat Gupta - University of North Carolina Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 05 April 2019, 12:05 - 13:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1663/show Friday 25 January 2019 Efficient multivariate entropy estimation and independence testing Dr Thomas Berrett (University of Cambridge) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 25 January 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1665/show Friday 29 March 2019 Probabilistic symmetry and invariant neural networks Dr Benjamin Bloem-Reddy (University of Oxford) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 29 March 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, 5.10 (5th floor) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1678/show Friday 03 May 2019 Large numbers of explanatory variables Dr Heather Battey (Imperial College London) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 03 May 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1679/show Friday 10 May 2019 Optimisation methods for Bayesian inference: Application to Astro-Imaging Dr Audrey Repetti (Heriot-Watt University) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 10 May 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1680/show Tuesday 22 January 2019 ANC Workshop: Wannisa Matcha, Chair: Rico Sennrich Wannisa Matcha Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 22 January 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1684/show Tuesday 29 January 2019 ANC Workshop: Frank Karvelis, Chair: Ryan Davies Oliver Fincham and Frank Karvelis Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 29 January 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1685/show Tuesday 05 February 2019 ANC Workshop: Ryan Davies, Chair: James Owers Ryan Davies Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 05 February 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1686/show Tuesday 12 February 2019 ANC Workshop: Simao Eduardo and Chris Williams, Chair: David Sterratt Simao Eduardo and Chris Williams Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 12 February 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1687/show Tuesday 05 March 2019 ANC Workshop: Richard Shillcock and Matthias Hennig, Chair: Nigel Goddard Richard Shillcock and Matthias Hennig Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 05 March 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1689/show Tuesday 12 March 2019 ANC Workshop: Cole Hurwitz, Chair: Arno Onken Cole Hurwitz Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 12 March 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1690/show Tuesday 19 March 2019 ANC Workshop: Taha Ceritli and Amos Storkey, Chair: Iain Murray Taha Ceritli and Amos Storkey Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 19 March 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1691/show Tuesday 02 April 2019 ANC Workshop: Irene Vlassi Pandi and Andrew Papanastasiou, Chair: Oliver Fincham Irene Vlassi Pandi and Andrew Papanastasiou Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 02 April 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1693/show Monday 14 January 2019 IPAB Seminar - Fumiya Iida Fumiya Iida Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Monday 14 January 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, G.03 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1695/show Wednesday 16 January 2019 Analysis of Langevin Monte-Carlo via convex optimization Alain Durmus (ENS Paris-Saclay) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 16 January 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1696/show Thursday 17 January 2019 IPAB Workshop - Radim Tylecek rtylecek Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 17 January 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1697/show Tuesday 19 February 2019 ANC Workshop: Ben Rhodes and Steven Kleinegesse, Chair: Lazar Valkov Ben Rhodes and Steven Kleinegesse Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 19 February 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1701/show Wednesday 05 June 2019 IEB Seminar 5th June 2019 Joana Meier (Cambridge) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 05 June 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1703/show Friday 15 March 2019 Classification with unknown class conditional label noise on non-compact feature spaces Dr Henry Reeve (University of Birmingham) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 15 March 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1704/show Wednesday 30 January 2019 Strategies for Multilevel Monte Carlo Kody Law (Manchester) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1705/show Wednesday 23 January 2019 Reliable communication over noisy channels by Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) Ken Duffy (Trinity College Dublin) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 23 January 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Lecture theathre 3, Appleton Tower http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1706/show Thursday 24 January 2019 IPAB Seminar - Hedi Tabia Hedi Tabia Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 24 January 2019, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-4.31/4.33) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1707/show Friday 01 February 2019 Bayesian Cluster Analysis: Point Estimation and Credible Balls Dr Sara Wade - University of Edinburgh Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 01 February 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1708/show Thursday 07 February 2019 Economics-Driven Software Architecture Dr Rami Bahsoon Informatics: Distinguished Speaker Lecture Thursday 07 February 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1709/show Wednesday 06 February 2019 Automated Shape Optimization in FEniCS Simon Wolfgang Funke (Simula research laboratory) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 06 February 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1714/show Wednesday 15 May 2019 IEB Seminar 15th May 2019 John Skelhorn (Newcastle) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 15 May 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1715/show Friday 26 April 2019 High resolution mapping of childhood vaccination coverage in low and middle income countries using point-referenced and areal data Dr Chigozie Utazi - University of Southampton Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 26 April 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1719/show Wednesday 02 October 2019 IEB seminar 2nd October 2019 Jacek Radwan (AMU Poznan) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 02 October 2019, 14:10 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1720/show Wednesday 29 May 2019 IEB Seminar 29th May 2019 Marlene Zuk (Minnesota) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:10 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1721/show Wednesday 22 May 2019 IEB Seminar 22nd May 2019 Josh Firth (Oxford) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:10 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1723/show Tuesday 21 May 2019 ANC Seminar: Bob Sturm Bob Strum Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 21 May 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1724/show Thursday 21 February 2019 IPAB Workshop - Febrian Rachmadi Febrian Rachmadi Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 21 February 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1726/show Tuesday 07 May 2019 ANC Seminar: Sarah Wade, Host: Arno Onken Sarah Wade Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 07 May 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1727/show Tuesday 28 May 2019 ANC Seminar: Christopher Yau Christopher Yau Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 28 May 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1729/show Thursday 28 February 2019 ICSA Faculty Talk - Boris Grot Boris Grot Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 28 February 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1730/show Tuesday 12 March 2019 ICSA Distinguished Seminar Peter Hsu Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Tuesday 12 March 2019, 14:00 - 15:30 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1731/show Thursday 28 February 2019 IPAB Workshop - Hakan Bilen h.bilen Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 28 February 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1732/show Tuesday 26 March 2019 ANC Seminar: Tim Cannings Tim Cannings Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 26 March 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1734/show Tuesday 23 April 2019 ANC Seminar: James Barrett (UCL) James Barrett Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 23 April 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1735/show Wednesday 06 March 2019 Tangent-space splittings for data assimilation Jason Frank (Utrecht) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 06 March 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1736/show Thursday 07 March 2019 IPAB Workshop - 07/03/2019 Speaker to be confirmed Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 07 March 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: G.03, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1737/show Friday 26 April 2019 Combining citizen science and survey data in a log-Gaussian Cox process framework to estimate the monthly space-use of Southern Resident Killer Whales using R-INLA and inlabru Joe Watson -- University of British Columbia Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 26 April 2019, 14:00 - 14:45 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1738/show Wednesday 13 March 2019 From molecular mechanics to Brownian dynamics and multi-resolution methods Radek Erban (University of Oxford) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 13 March 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: JCMB5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1740/show Wednesday 20 March 2019 Dynamically Consistent Parameterization of Mesoscale Eddies Pavel Berloff (Imperial College) Computational and Applied Mathematics Seminars Wednesday 20 March 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 6201 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1741/show Tuesday 28 May 2019 On Choosing Mixture Components via Non-Local Priors Prof Mark Steel -- University of Warwick Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Tuesday 28 May 2019, 14:05 - 15:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Room 5.02 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1748/show Thursday 21 March 2019 IPAB Workshop - Hsiu-Chin Lin Hsiu-Chin Lin Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 21 March 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1749/show Thursday 28 March 2019 IPAB Workshop - Lucas Deecke, Chuanya Yang, Boyan Gao Lucas Deecke, Chuanya Yang, Boyan Gao Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 28 March 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1753/show Tuesday 09 April 2019 ANC Seminar: Jonathan Schwarz Jonathan Schwarz Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 09 April 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1754/show Wednesday 03 April 2019 IPAB Seminar - Netta Cohen Netta Cohen Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Wednesday 03 April 2019, 13:30 - 14:30 Venue: IF, 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1759/show Thursday 11 April 2019 Emulation and Calibration of Complex Environmental System Simulators Michael Goldstein (University of Durham), Daniel Williamson (University of Exeter), Peter Young (University of Lancaster) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Thursday 11 April 2019, 09:00 - 12:30 Venue: JCMB 5328 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1760/show Thursday 04 April 2019 IPAB Workshop - Subramanian Ramamoorthy Subramanian Ramamoorthy Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 04 April 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1761/show Thursday 07 March 2019 An anergy circuit outplays FoxP3+ γδ T cells in the hepatic lymph node environment during Fasciola infection Robin Flynn, Liverpool Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 07 March 2019, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1763/show Thursday 11 April 2019 To be added Thomas Otto, Glasgow Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 11 April 2019, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1764/show Thursday 16 May 2019 How RNA-DNA hybrids shape and reflect novel aspects of trypanosome biology Richard McCulloch, Glasgow Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 16 May 2019, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1765/show Wednesday 29 May 2019 The Trypanosome mitochondrion as a signaling organelle - how changes in metabolism can drive cellular differentiation Alena Zikova, Ceske Budejovice Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Wednesday 29 May 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1766/show Thursday 30 May 2019 Still to be added Jane McKeating, Oxford Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Thursday 30 May 2019, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1767/show Thursday 11 April 2019 IPAB Workshop - Simon Smith Simon Smith Bize (ssmith37) Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 11 April 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1774/show Tuesday 30 April 2019 ANC Workshop: Kai Xu and Asa Cooper Stickland, Chair: Frank Karvelis Kai Xu and Asa Cooper Stickland Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 30 April 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1775/show Tuesday 14 May 2019 ANC Workshop: Alex Bird and Oksana Sorokina, Chair: Alba Crespi Boixander Alex Bird and Oksana Sorokina Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 14 May 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1776/show Tuesday 04 June 2019 ANC Workshop: Douglas Armstrong, Chair: Lukasz Romaszko Douglas Armstrong Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 04 June 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1777/show Tuesday 11 June 2019 ANC Workshop: Beren Millidge and Rico Sennrich, Chair: Grant Robertson Beren Millidge and Rico Sennrich Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 11 June 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1778/show Tuesday 18 June 2019 ANC Workshop: Ian Simpson and Conor Durkan, Chair: Michalis Michaelides Ian Simpson and Conor Durkan Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 18 June 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1779/show Monday 24 June 2019 Workshop on Spike Sorting and Reproducibility for Next Generation Electrophysiology Various (see list) Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Monday 24 June 2019, 09:00 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1780/show Wednesday 26 June 2019 Fifth Edinburgh Deep Learning Workshop Various Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Wednesday 26 June 2019, 09:00 - 20:00 Venue: IF G.07/G.07A http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1781/show Tuesday 02 July 2019 ANC Workshop: Borislav Ikonomov and Guido Sanguinetti, Chair: Sam Rupprechter Borislav Ikonomov and Guido Sanguinetti Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 02 July 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1782/show Tuesday 09 July 2019 ANC Workshop: Elliot Crowley, Chair: Oksana Sorokina Elliot Crowley Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 09 July 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1783/show Tuesday 16 July 2019 ANC Workshop: David Sterratt, Chair: Simao Eduardo David Sterratt Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 16 July 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1784/show Tuesday 23 July 2019 ANC Workshop: James Owers and Iain Murray, Chair: Peggy Series James Owers and Iain Murray Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Tuesday 23 July 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1785/show Thursday 25 April 2019 IPAB Workshop - James Garforth, He Zhang James Garforth, He Zhang Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 25 April 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1790/show Thursday 16 May 2019 Software-defined networks and the NetKAT family of languages Dexter Kozen Informatics: Milner Lecture Thursday 16 May 2019, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Informatics Forum (IF-G.07) followed by G.02-Cafe http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1794/show Thursday 16 May 2019 ANC Seminar: Alessandro Abate (U. Oxford CS) Alessandro Abate Informatics: Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC) Workshops and ANC/DTC Seminars Thursday 16 May 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF 4.31/4.33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1798/show Thursday 23 May 2019 IPAB Workshop - Alex Keros, Chenyang Zhao, Henrique Ferrolho Alex Keros, Chenyang Zhao, Henrique Ferrolho Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 23 May 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1799/show Monday 06 May 2019 Mechanisms behind drug treatment failure in trypanosomatids Mike Barrett Biology: Institute of Immunology and Infection Research (IIIR) Monday 06 May 2019, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1804/show Wednesday 05 June 2019 IPAB Seminar - Prof Xioming Liu (Michigan State University) Prof Xioming Liu (Michigan State University) Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Wednesday 05 June 2019, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: IF, 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1807/show Thursday 06 June 2019 IPAB workshop - Michael Herrmann J. Michael Herrmann Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 06 June 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: 4.31/33, IF http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1808/show Thursday 27 June 2019 IPAB Workshop - Josh Smith, Sebastian Starke, Theodoros Stouraitis Josh Smith, Sebastian Starke, Theodoros Stouraitis Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 27 June 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1810/show Tuesday 02 July 2019 (Laser) lights, camera, action: discovering new gene-expression mechanisms by filming single molecules Achillefs Kapanidis (Dept of Physics, Oxford) SynthSys Seminar Series Tuesday 02 July 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Roger Land Building, Seminar Room G:02 (King's Buildings Campus) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1811/show Thursday 25 July 2019 Toward Natural and Engineered Microbial-Electronic Systems Leonard M. Tender (Microbial Electronics Group US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC,) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 25 July 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1812/show Thursday 05 September 2019 Barcoding strategies for sequencing thousands of single cells at low cost Dr Lia Chappell (Sanger Institute) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 05 September 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1814/show Thursday 12 September 2019 Computational Approaches to Developmental Biology Prof Ivo Sbalzarini (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 12 September 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1815/show Thursday 26 September 2019 A mechanism to prevent transformation of the Whi3 mnemon into a prion. Dr Fabrice Caudron (Lecturer in Microbiology, Nanchang Joint Programme, Queen Mary, University of London) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 26 September 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1816/show Thursday 24 October 2019 Pushing and pulling: Centrosome positioning in polarized cells Dr Adriana Dawes (Associate Professor, Dept of Mathematics, Ohio State University) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 24 October 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1818/show Thursday 07 November 2019 Two layers of chance associated with spatially expanding populations: How demographic noise and environmental heterogeneity shape genetic diversity Dr Wolfram Mobius (Research Fellow, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 07 November 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1819/show Thursday 21 November 2019 Evolving enzymes for innovation Prof Magali Remaud-Simeon (Head of Enzyme Molecular Engineering group Toulouse Biotechnology Institute) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 21 November 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1820/show Thursday 05 December 2019 At the cusp of life and death Dr Hyun Youk (Assistant Professor of physics and quantitative biology TU Delft) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 05 December 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1821/show Wednesday 18 September 2019 TBC later Tanja Schwander (Lausanne) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 18 September 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1822/show Wednesday 25 September 2019 TBC in Sept Shenna Cotter (University of Lincoln) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 25 September 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1823/show Wednesday 02 October 2019 Title to be confirmed Jacek Radwan (AMU Poznan) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 02 October 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1824/show Wednesday 16 October 2019 To be confirmed Julie Jaquiery (INRA) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 16 October 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1826/show Wednesday 23 October 2019 Still to confirm Ariel Camp (Liverpool) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 23 October 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1827/show Wednesday 30 October 2019 To be confirmed at a later stage Mirre Simmons (Sheffield) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1828/show Wednesday 06 November 2019 Still to obtain title John Skelhorn (Newcastle) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1829/show Wednesday 20 November 2019 Title still to get Sandra Breum Andersen (University of Copenhagen) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1830/show Wednesday 27 November 2019 Awaiting title Stephen Montgomery (Bristol) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1831/show Wednesday 04 December 2019 Title awaiting Göran Arnqvist (Uppsala) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1832/show Wednesday 15 January 2020 Jonna Kulmuni (University of Helsinki) Jonna Kulmuni (University of Helsinki) Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 15 January 2020, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1833/show Wednesday 29 April 2020 Proposed PhD Symposium To be added later Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 29 April 2020, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1834/show Wednesday 17 July 2019 IPAB Seminar - 17/07/19 Félix Escalona, John Alejandro Castro Vargas Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Wednesday 17 July 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1835/show Thursday 18 July 2019 IPAB Workshop - 18/07/19 Barbara Webb Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 18 July 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, 4.31/33 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1836/show Thursday 08 August 2019 IPAB Workshop - 08/08/2019 Kartic Subr Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 08 August 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, G.03 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1868/show Monday 02 September 2019 Comparing Bayesian spatial models in the presence of spatial smoothing Dr Earl Duncan (Queensland University of Technology - ACEMS) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Monday 02 September 2019, 14:05 - 15:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Room 5.02 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1870/show Friday 06 September 2019 A D-Vine Copula-Based Model for Repeated Measurements Prof Claudia Czado (Technical University of Munich) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 06 September 2019, 15:05 - 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13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1875/show Friday 27 September 2019 Extremal dependence in a Hüsler–Reiss Markov tree Johan Segers (UCLouvain) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 27 September 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1876/show Friday 18 October 2019 Dynamic Programming in Change Point Detection in High-Dimensional Autoregression Problems Yi Yu (University of Warwick) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 18 October 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1878/show Friday 01 November 2019 Crossing dependence in Gaussian processes in time, space, and space-time - some applications of a generalized Rice's formula Prof. Georg Lindgren (Lund University) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 01 November 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, 5.10 (5th floor) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1894/show Monday 16 September 2019 Convergence rates for optimised adaptive importance samplers Ömer Deniz Akyıldız (Alan Turing Institute) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Monday 16 September 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Room 5.02 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1895/show Thursday 28 November 2019 Bayesian regression for group testing data Prof. Joshua M. 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MacDonald (University of Cape Town) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 15 November 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5328 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1921/show Thursday 07 November 2019 IPAB Seminar - 07/11/2019 Neill Campbell (University of Bath), Tobias Ritschel (University College London) Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 07 November 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, G.03 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1922/show Thursday 14 November 2019 IPAB Workshop - 14/11/2019 Hanz Cuevas Velasquez, Henrique Ferrolho Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 14 November 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, G.03 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1923/show Friday 06 December 2019 Latent (Hidden) Markov models and the LMest package in R Dr Fulvia Pennoni (University of Milano-Bicocca) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 06 December 2019, 11:10 - 12:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1924/show Thursday 28 November 2019 IPAB Workshop - 28/11/19 Konda Reddy Mopuri, Kunkun Pang Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 28 November 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, G.03 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1925/show Thursday 05 December 2019 IPAB Workshop - 05/12/2019 Todor Davchev, Daniel Gordon Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 05 December 2019, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, G.03 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1939/show Tuesday 10 December 2019 IPAB Seminar - 10/12/2019 Dima Damen (University of Bristol) Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Tuesday 10 December 2019, 14:00 - 15:30 Venue: IF, G.03 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1940/show Thursday 05 March 2020 In vitro reconstitution of bacterial cell division Natalia Baranova (IST Austria) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 05 March 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: C.H Waddington Building, Seminar room 1.08, King's Building's http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1941/show Thursday 19 March 2020 **SEMINAR CANCELLED** NSplit inteins for post-translational control of protein structure and function Henning Mootz (Institute of Biochemistry, University of Münster, Germany) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 19 March 2020, 12:00 - 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13:00 Venue: Online (Blackboard collaborate) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1947/show Thursday 03 December 2020 Synthetic and cell biology for phage therapy Antonia Sagona (University of Warwick) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 03 December 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Online (Blackboard collaborate) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1949/show Thursday 24 September 2020 CANCELLED SynthSys Seminar - Joanna Kowalska (title to be confirmed) Joanna Kowalska (University of Warsaw) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 24 September 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Online (Blackboard collaborate) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1950/show Thursday 08 October 2020 Reconstructing regulation – towards the rational engineering of plant metabolism Nicola Patron (Earlham Institute) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 08 October 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Blackboard collaborate:https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/adf47e90391d45da8c8711773ed99826 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1951/show Friday 17 January 2020 Estimating the Effect of Insurance on Doctor Visits by Copula-Based Regression Additive Models Dr Giampiero Marra (UCL) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 17 January 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1952/show Friday 07 February 2020 Doubly Sparse Variational Gaussian Processes Dr Vincent Adam (Prowler.io) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 07 February 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Lecture Theatre 5.10 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1953/show Wednesday 20 May 2020 Host-aware cell engineering for synthetic biology Francesca Ceroni (Dept of chemical Engineering, Imperial College London) SynthSys Seminar Series Wednesday 20 May 2020, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Online (Blackboard collaborate) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1958/show Thursday 16 January 2020 IPAB Seminar - 16/01/2020 Dongye Zhao (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences) Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 16 January 2020, 12:45 - 13:20 Venue: IF, G.03 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1959/show Thursday 30 January 2020 IPAB Workshop - 30/01/2020 Timothy Hospedales Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 30 January 2020, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, G.03 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1962/show Thursday 06 February 2020 IPAB Workshop - 06/02/2020 Michael Burke Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 06 February 2020, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, G.03 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1963/show Thursday 13 February 2020 IPAB Seminar - 13/02/2020 Paolo Favoro (University of Bern) Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 13 February 2020, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, G.03 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1964/show Wednesday 04 March 2020 Sensory and cognitive adaptations in butterfly brains Stephen Montgomery, Bristol University Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 04 March 2020, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1965/show Wednesday 11 March 2020 Post-grad talk Daniel Bolnick Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 11 March 2020, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1966/show Wednesday 18 March 2020 Genomic insights into metabolism and fitness Florencia Camus, UCL Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 18 March 2020, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1967/show Wednesday 25 March 2020 Evolution of germline-soma genome differences in birds Alexander Suh, Uppsala Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 25 March 2020, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1968/show Wednesday 01 April 2020 Differential phenological shifts; climate change leads to ecological relationship problems Marcel Visser, NIOO Wageningen Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB) Wednesday 01 April 2020, 14:00 - 15:00 Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1969/show Wednesday 06 May 2020 What process(es) drive(s) genetic diversity? 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16:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Room 5.10 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1974/show Thursday 27 February 2020 IPAB Workshop - 27/02/2020 Michael Herrmann Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 27 February 2020, 12:45 - 14:00 Venue: IF, G.03 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1975/show Thursday 12 March 2020 IPAB Workshop - 12/03/2020 Taku Komura Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 12 March 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: IF, G.03 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1979/show Thursday 22 October 2020 Physical principles of cell polarization: From symmetry breaking to fate specification Nathan Gohring (Francis Crick Institute) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 22 October 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Online (Blackboard collaborate) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1989/show Thursday 05 November 2020 Repurposing bacterial organelles for new applications as vaccines, nanobioreactors and drug delivery particles Stephanie Frank (UCL) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 05 November 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Online (Blackboard collaborate) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1990/show Thursday 19 November 2020 Gene expression dynamics during embryonic development Hilary Ashe (University of Manchester) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 19 November 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Online (Blackboard collaborate) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1992/show Thursday 10 September 2020 Modus operandi of an accidental fungal pathogen Elaine Bignell (Head of Infection, Immunity and Respiratory Medicine, Manchester University) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 10 September 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 Venue: Online (Blackboard collaborate) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1993/show Thursday 12 November 2020 mRNA localisation, reaction centre biogenesis and thylakoid membrane targeting in cyanobacteria Conrad Mullineaux (School of Biological & Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London) SynthSys Seminar Series Thursday 12 November 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Online (Blackboard collaborate) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1995/show Monday 05 October 2020 Investigating new functions for ancient RNA modifying enzymes in health and disease Professor Wendy Gilbert, School of Medicine, Yale Biology: ICB, IQB3 and IMPS Monday Seminar Series Monday 05 October 2020, 14:00 - 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14:30 Venue: Webinar http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/2003/show Thursday 19 November 2020 IPAB Workshop-19/11/2020 Floyd Chitalu Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 19 November 2020, 13:00 - 13:45 Venue: Online (Blackboard collaborate) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/2005/show Thursday 03 December 2020 IPAB Workshop - 03/12/2020 Michael Herrmann Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 03 December 2020, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Online (Blackboard collaborate) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/2007/show Thursday 18 February 2021 IPAB Workshop-18/02/2021 He Zhang, Xueting Zhang Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 18 February 2021, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Online (Blackboard collaborate) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/2031/show Thursday 08 April 2021 IPAB Workshop-08/04/2021 Chris Xiaoxuan Li Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 08 April 2021, 13:00 - 14:00 Venue: Online (Blackboard collaborate) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/2034/show Thursday 29 April 2021 IPAB Seminar-29/04/2021 Nic Lane (University of Cambridge) Informatics: Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour Seminar Thursday 29 April 2021, 13:00 - 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