Computing Science and Maths Seminars, 2018/2019
Seminars will take place in Room 4B96, Cottrell Building, University of Stirling. Normally, from 15.00 to 16.00 on Friday afternoons during semester time, unless otherwise stated. For instructions on how to get to the University, please look here.
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title/Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 18th January |
Lucia Vadicamo, Graduate Fellow, Institute of Information Science and Technologies, Pisa | Improving Metric Search through Finite Isometric Embeddings Metric search is concerned with the efficient evaluation of proximity queries in metric spaces. Most metric indexing and searching mechanisms rely upon the triangle inequality property. This property allows deriving bounds on the distance between data objects, which are used to efficiently exclude partitions of the data that do not contain solutions to a given query. This seminar will discuss a class of metric spaces meeting a stronger property, named n-point property, which is a condition defined in term of finite isometric embeddings into the Euclidean space. This property gives stronger geometric guarantees, in particular one named the Hilbert Exclusion property. Moreover, it can be used to embed metric objects into a finite-dimensional Euclidean space, which turns out to have implications not only for the similarity search but also for dimensionality reduction and data visualization tasks. Bio: Lucia Vadicamo graduated in Mathematics at the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2013 and was awarded a PhD in Information Engineering at the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2018. Her current research interests involve content-based image retrieval, similarity search and permutation-based indexing. |
| Friday 25th January |
Prof. Rachel Norman, CSM, University of Stirling | The Professional Doctorate (non-research talk) This session is aimed at those who are potentially interested in doing the Professional Doctorate in Big Data Science. This is a more applied form of a PhD and can follow on from the MScs run in the division. This talk is mainly aimed at MSc students and undergraduates who are interested in this possibility. It will be an informal session with the opportunity to ask questions. |
| Friday 1st February |
Prof. Paul Lambert, Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Stirling | |
| Friday 8th February |
Available slot | |
| Friday 15th February |
Paul McMenemy, CSM, University of Stirling | |
| Friday 22nd February |
Mid Semester break | No seminar |
| Friday 1st March |
Daniel Otero | |
| Wednesday 6th March Note different day! Still 3pm, 4B96 |
Booked | |
| Friday 8th March |
Booked | |
| Friday 15th March |
Available slot | |
| Friday 22nd March |
Available slot | |
| Friday 29th March |
Available slot | |
| Friday 18th January |
Available slot | |
| Friday 5th April |
Available slot | |
| Friday 12th April |
Booked | |
| Friday 19th April |
Good Friday holiday - university closed | |
| Friday 26th April |
Dr. Marc Roper, University of Strathclyde | |
| Friday 3rd May |
Sarah Thomson, CSM, University of Stirling | |
| Friday 10th May |
Available slot |
| Previous Seminar Series | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2018: Spring Autumn |
2017: Spring Autumn |
2016: Spring Autumn |
| 2015: Spring Autumn |
2014: Spring Autumn | 2013: Spring Autumn |
| 2012: Spring Autumn | 2011: Spring Autumn | 2010: Spring Autumn |
| 2009: Spring Autumn | 2008: Spring Autumn | 2007: Spring Autumn |
| 2006: Spring Autumn | 2005: Spring Autumn | 2004: Spring Autumn |
| 2003: Spring Autumn | 2002: Spring Autumn | 2001: Spring Autumn |
| 2000: Spring Autumn | 1999: Spring Autumn | 1998: Spring Autumn |
| 1997: Spring Autumn | 1996: Autumn | |
Top image: Glazed building facades along the trade-off of operational energy consumption for heating, lighting and cooling, vs capital construction cost, with a heatmap showing the result of mining a fitness model to identify ideal glazing locations.
Courtesy of Dr. Alexander Brownlee. Related to a recent publication:
Brownlee, A. E. I. Mining Markov Network Surrogates for Value Added Optimisation. Surrogate Assisted Evolutionary Optimisation (SAEOpt) Workshop in: Companion Proc. of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation COnference 2016, Denver, CO, USA. DOI:10.1145/2908961.2931711