School Seminar Series

Past Talks: 2022/23 Session

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

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

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

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

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

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

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