Department Seminar Series

Past Talks: 2016/17 Session

Date Speaker Title Host
06 Sep 2016 Dr. Diederik Roijers
Robert Hooke Building,
Parks Road,
Oxford OX1 3PR 		Multi-objective decision-theoretic planning with Optimistic Linear Support [fao]
13 Sep 2016 Prof. Friedrich Otto
Fachgebiet Theoretische Informatik
Fachbereich Elektrotechnik/Informatik
Universität Kassel
Wilhelmshöher Allee 71-73
D-34121 Kassel
Germany 		On Nondeterministic Ordered Restarting Automata Igor Potapov
21 Sep 2016
LDCSL 		Professor Dr. Kurt Mehlhorn
Max Planck Institute 		The slime mold Physarum can compute shortest paths and construct nice networks Prof. Paul Spirakis
27 Sep 2016 Dr. Vitaliy Kurlin
Department of Computer Science and Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool 		Graph reconstruction from noisy scans based on persistence Katie Atkinson
04 Oct 2016 Dr Chien-Chung Huang
CNRS, École Normale Supérieure d'Ulm
Paris, France 		Minimizing the number of unhappy singles: improved approximation algorithms for the stable marriage problem Piotr Krysta
11 Oct 2016 Prof. Graham Cormode
Department of Computer Science
University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. 		The confounding problem of private data release Giorgios Christodoulou
13 Oct 2016 Prof. Nicola Dimitri
Università degli Studi di Siena
Piazza San Francesco,
7/8 53100 Siena 		Pricing Cloud Computing Services Davide Grossi
18 Oct 2016 Dr Michael Kaisers
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam
Intelligent Systems Group
Room M 3.59
Science Park 123
1098 XG Amsterdam 		Strategies and mechanisms for competitive cooperation in Smart Grids applications Karl Tuyls
01 Nov 2016 Prof Paul Watry
University of Liverpool
The Institute of Psychology, Health and Society
Waterhouse Building
Block B, 2nd Floor
Liverpool, United Kingdom
L69 3BX 		Indigo Data Management System and Computational Science Katie Atkinson
02 Nov 2016 Dr. Bart Verheij
Artificial Intelligence, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Bernoulliborg
Postbus 407
9700 AK Groningen
The Netherlands 		Arguments for Understanding our Complex World: Integrating Knowledge and Data Technology in Artificial Intelligence Katie Atkinson
15 Nov 2016 Dr. Mahsa Shirmohammadi
University of Oxford
Wolfson Building,
Parks Road,
Oxford OX1 3QD 		Minimal probabilistic automata have to make irrational choices Dominik Wojtczak
22 Nov 2016 Dr. Sam Devlin
Address: The Digital Creativity Labs,
University of York,
The Ron Cooke Hub,
York.
YO10 5GH 		General Game Playing AI Karl Tuyls
29 Nov 2016 Prof. Leslie Ann Goldberg
Professor of Computer Science
Senior Research Fellow, St Edmund Hall
E: leslie.goldberg@cs.ox.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1865 610755

Room 330, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD 		Graph algorithms and the complexity of counting Paul Spirakis
06 Dec 2016
Dr. Andrew Gargett

Hartree Centre,
Science and Technology Facilities Council 		Getting meanings out of, and back into, natural language, computationally. Danushka Bollegala
21 Feb 2017 Dr. Alfredo Navarra
University of Perugia
Italy 		Robot-based computing systems: recent advances for Pattern Formation [leszek]
22 Feb 2017
WiT 		Martina King
CEO Featurespace 		Machine learning in Action: the Featurespace story
28 Feb 2017 Prof. Michael Winikoff
Department of Information Science
University of Otago
New Zealand 		(1) Towards Trusting Autonomous Systems AND (2) Debugging Agent Programs with ``Why?'' Questions Michael Fisher
03 Mar 2017 Dr. Francisco C. Santos
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST),
University of Lisbon, Portugal 		Environmental governance and cooperation in an uncertain world Daniel Bloembergen
07 Mar 2017 Dr. Bruno Lacerda
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
United Kingdom 		Policy Generation with Probabilistic Guarantees for Long-term Autonomy of a Mobile Service Robot [fao]
14 Mar 2017 Dr. Naoki Masuda
Department of Engineering Mathematics
University of Bristol
Bristol, BS8 1UB 		Finding core-periphery pairs in networks Danushka Bollegala
21 Mar 2017 Dr Andreas Toennis
Institute of Computer Science
University of Bonn 		Think Eternally: Improved Algorithms for the Temp Secretary Problem and Extensions Martin Gairing
28 Mar 2017 Dr Ruben Sanchez-Garcia
Mathematical Sciences
University of Southampton
Southampton SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom 		Topology and geometry of networks and complexes Vitaliy Kurlin
30 Mar 2017 Dr. Dietmar Berwanger (NOTE the change in time)
Centre Nationnal de la Recherche Scientifique
LSV, Université Paris-Saclay
61, avenue du Président Wilson
94235 CACHAN Cedex, France 		The public contents of private signals Sven Schewe
21 Apr 2017 Prof. Sheung Hung Poon
School of Computing and Informatics
University of Technology Brunei (UTB) 		Online Uniformly Inserting Points on the Sphere Prudence Wong
27 Apr 2017 Dr. Chris Amato
College of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University
360 Huntington Ave
442 West Village H
Boston, MA 02115 		Planning and Learning for Multi-Robot Coordination [fao]
12 May 2017
WiT 		Professor Fernanda Irrera
University of Rome "La Sapienza" 		A Smart Wearable Sensing System for the Detection of Motion Symptoms of the Parkinsons Disease
16 May 2017 Prof. Alan Bundy
Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Informatics Forum
10 Crichton Street
Edinburgh
EH8 9AB
Scotland 		Can Computers Change their Minds? Terry Payne
23 May 2017 Dr. Bart de Keijzer
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Networks & Optimization Group
P.O. Box 94079
1090 GB Amsterdam
The Netherlands 		Approximately Efficient Two-Sided Combinatorial Auctions Dominik Wojtczak
06 Jun 2017 Dr. Martin Lackner
University of Oxford
Department of Computer Science
Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford 		The varied landscape of consistent approval-based multi-winner rules Davide Grossi
13 Jun 2017 Dr Chien-Chung Huang
CNRS, École normale supérieure, Paris 		Popularity, Mixed Matchings, and Self-duality Piotr Krysta
20 Jun 2017 Prof. Frank Stephan
Department of Mathematics and
School of Computing
National University of Singapore 		Deciding Parity Games in Quasipolynomial Time Sven Schewe
28 Jun 2017 Dr. Mark Briers
Strategic Programme Director at the Alan Turing Institute. 		Data Science within Defence and Security Programme at the Alan Turing Institute [fao]
07 Jul 2017 Dr. Jeremy Singer
University of Glasgow
School of Computing Science
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Scotland 		Liverpool's First Computer: the English Electric DEUCE [fao]

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