Research Seminars Archive
This page lists all of the School of Systems Engineering research seminars. Please click on the title for a copy of the abstract (where applicable). For this terms research seminars, please visit the School of Systems Engineering Research Seminars
2011
| Date | Title | Speaker | Time | Venue |
| 7th December | Transmathematics and the Perspex machine | Dr James Anderson, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 23rd November | Intelligent, Real-time Path Planning for UAS and system structure configuration and actuator degradation | Professor Gu, Head of the Control and Instrumentation Research Group, from Leicester University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 16th November | Science Communication Art, Science or Plain Common Sense? | Professor Averil McDonald, D.Univ CPhys FInstP FRSA | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 2nd November | Making online teaching and learning accessible to students with disabilities | Martyn Cooper, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Educational Technology, Open University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 26th October | Little smart soft machines | Rachel Armstrong Co-Director of AVATAR (Advanced Virtual And Technological Architectural Research) Group; Senior Lecturer, School of Architecture & Construction, The University of Greenwich; Visiting Research Assistant, Centre for Fundamental Living Technology, Department | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 19th October | Cybernetics in Britain, 1940-2000: Sketches of Another Future | Professor Andrew Pickering, University of Exeter Sociology and Philosophy Department | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 5th October | (Almost) everything you ever wanted to know about REF2014 but were too afraid to ask | Professor William Harwin, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 13th July | Support Vector Machines-Based Classification and Its Applications | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serdar Iplikci, Pamukkale University, Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kinikli Campus, 20040, Denizli, Turkey | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 29th June | Smart Energy Management | Dr Ben Potter, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 22nd June | Few body problems perturbed by low-thrust propulsion | James Biggs, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Strathclyde | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 25th May | Cooperative communication and relay networks | Chunbo Luo | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 18th May | Evolution Advanced: Development and deployment of LTE-Advanced | Matthew Baker, Alcatel-Lucent | 16:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 11th May | Prospects for defeating aging altogether | Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science Officer of SENS Foundation | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 6th April | Tele-robotic pinching for intra-operative palpation | Dr. Jess Gmez, Associate Professor with the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, University of Mlaga (Spain) and invited academic at the School of Systems Engineering | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 23rd March | Design and Control of Redundant Drive Joints with Variable Compliance for Rehabilitation Robots | Prof. Kiyoshi Nagai, Department of Robotics, College of Science and Engineering Ritsumeikan University | 15:15 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 23rd March | Skilloscopy: the Assessment of Decision Makers | Mr Guy Haworth, School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading | 14:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 22nd February | Research and implementation of THz communication systems | Dr. Zhi Chen, Associate Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | 13:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 19th January | Posthumanism, Artificial Intelligence and Gender | Francesca Ferrando, PhD Candidate in Philosophy at the University of Roma Tre (Italy), a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University (New York) and an Independent Researcher at the University of Reading (England) | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
2010
| Date | Title | Speaker | Time | Venue |
| 2nd December | Simpler concurrency, fault tolerance and scalability with actors | Mr. Ross McDonald, Web Technologies Lead Architect | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 25th November | Metaphor: Why It's Important, Why It's Challenging and How to Process It | Professor of Artificial Intelligence John Barnden, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 11th November | Using National Instruments hardware and Labview software for Teaching and Research | Ben Lavasani, National Instruments Academic Field Sales Engineer | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 21st October | What do Machines Think? | Professor Peter Cochrane, Cochrane Associates | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 27th July | Determining statistical significance of the inference in EEG synchrony analysis | Dr Archana Singh, JSPS Fellow, Mathematical Neuroinformatics Group, Human Technology Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) Tsukuba, Japan | 14:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 15th July | Gain from Antenna Correlation in Multi-User MIMO Systems | Prof Li Ping, City University of Hong Kong, RAEng Distinguished Visiting Fellow to UoR | 16:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 24th June | On the standard H-infinity control of time-delay systems | Dr. Qing-Chang Zhong, Dept of Electrical Eng. & Electronics, The University of Liverpool | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 10th June | Biological network analysis tools using sum of squares | Dr. Antonis Papachristodoulou, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 3rd June | Automotive Control Systems | Professor Andrzej Ordys, Faculty of Engineering, Kingston University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 20th May | Automation, Quality Control and Data Analysis in Mass Spectrometry, Proteomics and Systems Biology | Professor Rainer Kramer, Department of Chemistry and The BioCentre | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 13th May | Energy storage and generation using Hybrid Systems: Status Quo and Research Opportunities | Professor Peter Hall, Engineering Department, University of Strathclyde | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 6th May | Application Performance of a Hybrid MPI/OpenMP Application on Multicore Clusters | David W. Walker School and Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 25th March | How to Build an Effective Team: Evolving Neural Network Ensembles | Professor Xin Yao, CERCIA, University of Birmingham | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 11th March | The random neural network (RNN) and some of its applications | Professor Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, London | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 4th March | Smart Labs for Smart People | Professor Jeremy Frey, Southampton University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 25th February | Biologically Inspired Robotics: Neuromechanics and Control Implications | Dr Ravi Vaidyanathan, Senior Lecturer in Biodynamics, University of Bristol | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 4th February | CfAM - Looking at things differently | Professor Geoffrey Mitchell, director of the centre for Advanced Microscopy CfAM at the University of Reading | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 26th January | Near-Infrared Emission Spectroscopy: Instrumentation and analytical applications | Professor Celio Pasquini from UNICAMP Brazil (Chemistry Department) | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
2009
| Date | Title | Speaker | Time | Venue |
| 10th December | Diagonalization, simulation and computability: Why Penrose fails to prove the impossibility of artificial intelligence (and why we should care) | Ron Chrisley, Reader in Philosophy, Director, Centre for Research in Cognitive Science (COGS), Department of Informatics, University of Sussex UK | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 2nd December | What's Strategy got to do with it? | Virginia Hodge CEng FIET CITP FBCS, HoS EA from the Centres and Infrastructure at national Air Traffic Services (NATS) | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 26th November | Assessment in Upper Limb Prosthetics | Peter Kyberd, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Vice Presidents Chair, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton Canada | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 19th November | The Biting Machine Project | Performance artist Paul Granjon, from Z productions, Cardiff | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 12th November | Mathematics under the Microscope | Professor Alexandre Borovik, Alan Turing Building, School of Mathematics University of Manchester | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 22nd October | Virtual Instrumentation in Teaching and Research | Adam Bakehouse, National Instruments | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 8th October | The Design of a Li+ Battery Monitor for Hybrid Electric Vehicles | Dr. Jeremy Gorbold from Analog Devices Inc. | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 30th June | On Computer Music with New Computational Paradigms: From Cellular Automata to In Vitro Neural Networks | Prof Eduardo R Miranda, Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR) University of Plymouth | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 19th June | Control of System of Systems | Professor Mo Jamshidi, Lutcher Brown Endowed Chaired Professor, The University of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, USA | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 21st May | Developmental Robotics from Developmental Psychology | Professor Mark Lee, Intelligent Robotics Research Group Department of Computer Science - Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion, Wales - UK | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 28th April | Towards integrated visual analysis of dynamic scenes | Konrad Schindler | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 19th March | Shape modelling via higher-order active contours and phase fields | Dr. Ian Jermyn, INRIA Sophia Antipolis (Ariana) France | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 18th March | Dynamics in Brain Activity | Prof Jim Wright, Liggins Institute, and Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand and Brain Dynamics Centre, University of Sydney, Australia | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 5th March | Root Moments: A new perspective on the old concept of Cepstrum with applications to digital filter design & others | Professor A.G. Constantinides FREng, Life Fellow IEEE, Chevalier & Officier, Palmes Academiques, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Imperial College | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 25th February | Driving the Lighting Revolution - How modern power electronics can power the latest high brightness LEDs | Iain Mosely from Converter Technology | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 25th February | Hot topics in Mobile Communications | Dr Dave Wisely, Head of Mobility Research Centre, BT Group CTO, BT, Ipswich | 12:00 | Chemistry LTG |
| 22nd January | Multi-People Tracking through Global Optimization | Professor Pascal Fua from EPFL Switzerland, Head of the Computer Vision Lab, School of Computer and Communication Science | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
2008
| Date | Title | Speaker | Time | Venue |
| 4th December | It works in practice, but does it work in theory? Probing hard questions about cognition using evolutionary robotics | Dr. Ezequiel di Paolo, Reader in Evolutionary and Adaptive systems, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR), Centre for Research in Cognitive Science (COGS), Department of Informatics, University of Sussex | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 27th November | Wireless Sensor Networks: Design and deployment of real-life applications | Dr. Elena Gaura, Reader in Pervasive Computing, Director of Cogent Computing Applied Research Centre, Faculty of Engineering and Computing, Coventry University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 6th November | Nonlinear Output Frequency Response Function and Its Applications in System Analysis and Fault Diagnosis | Dr Z Q Lang, Senior Lecturer in Systems and Control Engineering, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering University of Sheffield | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 23rd October | Evolution of computation: from reaction-diffusion to slime mould | Professor A. Adamatzky, Professor in Unconventional Computing in the Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, UWE Bristol | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 16th October | Uncertainty Propagation in Complex Aero-mechanical Systems: A Random Matrix Approach | Prof Sondipon Adikhari, Chair of Aerospace Engineering, Swansea University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 4th September | Fault Tolerant Control of Networked Controlled Systems | Professor J.M.F. Calado, ISEL – Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa Departament of Mechanical Engineering, Lisboa | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 19th June | The cost of Intelligence as a Cybernetic Problem | John Cummins, Deva Research, Cobblestones Church Road, Dodleston, Chester | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 12th June | Robust nonlinear model predictive control of finite-time processes under parametric uncertainties | Senior Lecturer Dr. Zoltan Nagy, Loughborough University, Chemical Engineering Department | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 29th May | Joint source and channel decoding (JSCD) and robust transmission of multimedia: the missing link (work done in cooperation with Michel Kieffer) | Professor Pierre Duhamel | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 8th May | Complex dynamics, basins of attraction, and memory in discrete networks | Dr. Andy Wuensche Dept. of Informatics (formerly COGS) School of Science and Technology, University of Sussex who is the author of 'The Global Dynamics of Cellular Automata An Atlas of Basin of Attraction Fields of One-Dimensional Cellular Automata' (Santa Fe Institute of the Science of Complexity) | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 1st May | Mind reading: Decoding of visual information from single neurons in the human brain | Professor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Reader in Bioengineering, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 6th March | On Gait and Ear Biometrics and New Architectures for Multibiometric Fusion | Professor Mark Nixon Professor in Computer Vision in the ISIS research group at the Department of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 28th February | Modelling and Simulation in Surgery - Bringing simulation to live to learn the skills of surgery | Dr Fernando Bello Senior Lecturer in Surgical Graphics and Computing Division of Surgery, Oncology, Reproductive Biology and Anaesthetics at Imperial College, London | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 7th February | Gaia and Goldilocks: the global environment as a feedback system | ssor Andrew Watson FRS, School of Environmental Sciences University of East Anglia Norwich | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 31st January | Reasoning about Visual Scenes | Professor David Hogg from the School of Computing University of Leeds | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 24th January | Automatic Construction of Statistical Shape Models using Non-Rigid Registration | Professor Tim Cootes, Division of Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, University of Manchester | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 17th January | Needle in a haystack? Reducing the uncertainty of passenger whereabouts | Dr. James Orwell is a Reader in the Faculty of Computing, Information Systems & Mathematics at Kingston University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 10th January | Adaptive Multiuser Detection in Mobile Communications: Past, Presence and Possible Future Perspective | Predrag Rapajic Professor of Communication Systems at the University of Greenwich, UK | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
2007
| Date | Title | Speaker | Time | Venue |
| 13th December | Joint Transceiver Design for MIMO Channel Shortening Research Seminar | Jonathon Chambers, PhD DIC C.Eng FIET SMIEEE FHEA QinetiQ Visiting Fellow Professor of Communications and Signal Processing, Head of Advanced Signal Processing Group, Communications Division, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Loughborough University Leicestershire | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 6th December | Morphic Fields of Self Organising Systems Research Seminars | Author Rupert Sheldrake, Trinity College, Cambridge | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 29th December | Pattern Recognition in Chemometrics Research Seminars | Professor Richard Brereton Director of the Bristol Centre for Chemometrics | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 22nd November | The Fisher-Rao Metric and its Applications in Computer Vision | Professor Steve J. Maybank, School of Computer Science and Information Systems, Birkbeck College, London, UK | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 15th November | Combinatorial Optimization, Graph Cuts, and Computer Vision | Professor Phil Torr, Head of Brookes Computer Vision Group, Department of Computing, Oxford Brookes University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 8th November | Principles of Systems Biology, illustrated by modelling the Heart | Professor Denis Noble CBE FRS, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 1st November | Using Models of Rodent Hippocampus for Robot Navigation | Professor Gordon Wyeth, from the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland, Australia | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 25th October | Control signal constraints and pilot-induced-oscillation suppression | Dr. Matthew Turner, Lecturer in Systems and Control, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 28th June | How to Learn a Program? | Professor Jürgen Schmidhuber from Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence, IDSIA Manno-Lugano Switzerland | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 14th June | Would robot consciousness affect robot functioning? | Professor Max Velmans Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 31th May | Identification of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems | Professor Lennart Ljung from Linköpings University, Sweden | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 24th May | SoundScapes - Beyond Interaction...in search of the ultimate human-centred interface. | Tony Brooks Professor of Medialogy, Software & Media Technology, Computer Science Department, Research and Development Park, Aalborg University Esbjerg Denmark | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 17th May | Invariant manifold based reduced-order observer design for nonlinear systems | Professor Alessandro Astolfi, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 10th May | Systems and Control: New roles in the 21st century economy | Prof. Jan Maciejewski Department of Engineering, The University of Cambridge | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 26th April | Some novel applications of sliding mode theory for estimation and monitoring | Professor Sarah Spurgeon from the Control and Instrumentation Research Group the Department of Engineering , University of Leicester | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 22nd March | Approximate Algebraic Computations for Control Problems | Professor N. Karcanias, from the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, City University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 15th March | Autonomous and Decentralised Control System Design | Dr M Reza Katebi, Reader at the Industrial Control Centre Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Strathclyde | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 8th March | Iterative Learning Control in Rehabilitation Engineering | Eric Rogers, Professor of Control Systems Theory and Design in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 1st March | Recent developments in predictive control | Basil Kouvaritakis, Professor of Engineering Science, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 22nd February | Optical tweezers in physics and biology | Dr Jochen Arlt, St Andrews University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
2006
| Date | Title | Speaker | Time | Venue |
| 14th December | Advanced Controls and Condition Monitoring for Railway Vehicles | Professor Roger Goodall MA PhD CEng FIEE FIMechE Professor of Control Systems Engineering Head of Systems Research Division, Loughborough University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 23rd November | Minimizing maximum transient energy - a problem in fluid flow control | Dr James F Whidborne, Senior Lecturer, Department of Aerospace Sciences, School of Engineering, Cranfield University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 2nd November | Iterative learning based output probability density function control for stochastic systems | Professor Hong Wang, FIEE, FInstMC, SMIEEE Director, Control Systems Centre The University of Manchester | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 26th October | Introducing LabVIEW 8.20 20th Anniversary Edition | Nick Williamson, National Instruments | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 19th October | Recent developments in predictive control | Dr Anthony Rossiter, MA, DPhil, MIEE, CEng Reader in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering The University of Sheffield | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 12th October | Nonlinear rational model identification and control | Dr. Quan Min Zhu (Bristol) Reader in Electronic Engineering: Control Systems, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 15th September | Virtual Reality Assets for Assessment, Therapy and Rehabilitation | Professor Albert Rizzo, Research Scientist and Clinical Psychologist, Institute for Creative Technologies and School of Gerontology, University of Southern California | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 3rd August | Engineering Issues and Field Experience in Remote Surgery | Professor Blake Hannaford, University of Washington, Seattle | 11:30 | Link Common Room |
| 15th June | Advanced concepts for space applications | Dr. Dario Izzo from the European Space Agency (ESA) | 14:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 25th May | Model-driven pattern-based development | Mrs Rajini Sivaram, from the Messaging Clients Development division at IBM Hursley Park, Winchester | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 25th May | Is FACTORING in P?- Information security and underlying theory | S Y Yan & G James, School of Mathematical & Information Sciences, Coventry University | 14:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 11th May | The XCS Learning Classifier System: From Theory to Application | Dr. Marin Butz, Department of Cognitive Psychology (III), University of Wuerzburg, Germany | 14:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 15th March | Quantum Photovoltaics and Smart Windows | Professor Keith Barnham, Imperial College | 14:00 | Physics RH Lecture Theatre |
| 8th March | Technology and society: an anthropological view | Dr. Daniela Cerqui Ducret, Universite de Lausanne | 14:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 1st March | A survey of errors-in-variables methods in system identification | Professor Söderström, from the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Sweden | 14:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 22nd February | Successful Delivery of Complex Software Projects by Maximising Use of Microsoft Technologies | Jim Hanmer, Applications Delivery Team, Microsoft Consulting UK, Jaspaul Singh, Business Critical Delivery Team, Microsoft Consulting UK | 14:00 | Physics RH Lecture Theatre |
2005
| Date | Title | Speaker | Time | Venue |
| 19th May | Putting the pieces of a mind together | Prof Aaron Sloman, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmigham | 15:00 | Physics Ditchburn Theatre |
| 12th May | Making commercial web applications | Dr Roberto Fraile, The University of York | 15:00 | Physics Ditchburn Theatre |
| 5th May | Multicode Multirate Compact Assignment of OVSF Codes for QoS Differentiated Terminals | Dr Yang Yang, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London | 15:00 | Physics Ditchburn Theatre |
| 17th March | EEG Dipole source localisation using independent component analysis: Single trial analysis of Laser evoked pain | Dr W. El-Deredy, Liverpool John Moores University | 15:00 | Physics Ditchburn Theatre |
| 10th March | Ethics? But I'm an Engineer | Dr. Andrew Adams, University of Reading | 15:00 | Physics Ditchburn Theatre |
| 24th February | Formal Methods: Whence and Whither? | Jonathan Bowen, Institute for Computing Research, London South Bank University | 15:00 | Computer Science Syndicate Room |
| 17th February | On the Use of Spatial Constraints in Blind Source Separation Applications | Christian W. Hesse, PhD, University of Southampton | 15:00 | Physics Ditchburn Theatre |
| 3rd February | Biologically Inspired Robotics | Dr Owen Holland, University of Sussex | 1%:00 | Physics Ditchburn Theatre |
| 27th January | Safecharts: A Statecharts Variant for Safety-Critical Systems Design | Mr. Hamdan Dammag, London South Bank University | 15:00 | Physics Ditchburn Theatre |
| 13th January | The Interaction Space Approach to the Study of Computer Mediated Communication | Professor Duska Rosenberg, Information and Communications Management iCOM Research Group, Royal Holloway College | 15:00 | Computer Science Syndicate Room |
2004
| Date | Title | Speaker | Time | Venue |
| 9th December | Simulating the Human Synapse: issues in spiking neural networks design | Leslie Smith, University of Stirling | 15:00 | Physics Ditchburn Theatre |
| 25th November | Computational Intelligence in Neurophysiological Analysis | Dr Christopher James, University of Southampton | 15:00 | Physics Ditchburn Theatre |
| 18th November | Metric-based study of the evolution of Open Source Systems -- some findings | Dr. Juan Ramil Open University | 15:00 | Physics Ditchburn Theatre |
| 11th November | Cybernetics - reminiscences and some ideas for the future | Alex Andrew, former Lecturer in Cybernetics, University of Reading | 15:00 | Physics Ditchburn Theatre |
| 4th November | What Eye-Tracking Reveals about Multimedia Perceptual Quality | Dr. George Ghinea, Department of Information System and Computing Brunel University | 15:00 | Physics Ditchburn Theatre |
| 28th October | Algorithms for the detection of nonlinear interdependence and applications to human EEG | John Terry, Loughborough University | 15:00 | Physics Ditchburn Theatre |
2003
| Date | Title | Speaker | Time | Venue |
| 11th December | Real-time food inspection algorithms and the difficulties of achieving optimal design | Prof. Roy Davies (Royal Halloway, University of London) | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 4th December | Face Fun! | Bernard Tiddeman of The University of St Andrews | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 27th November | New Directions in Measurement for Software Quality Control | Paul Krause, University of Surrey and Philips Research Labs | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 20th November | Testability Transformation | Mark Harman, University of Brunel | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 13th November | Multiagent-Based Cognitive Robot Architecture and its Realization | Kazuhiko Kawamura, Vanderbilt University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 6th November | A topological coverage algorithm for mobile robots | Sylvia Wong, University of Auckland, New Zealand | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 1st May | A message from Amsterdam on life cycle support | Yuan Sun of Compuware | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 13th February | The London Millennium Bridge | Peter Young of Arup | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 9th January | Scenario-Driven Systems Engineering: Driving Decision-Making | Neil Maiden, City University | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
2002
| Date | Title | Speaker | Time | Venue |
| 27th June | Website Interfaces as Representamen of Organisational Behaviour | Cecilia Baranauskas of State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 16th June | The Portable UNIX PlatformS Environment | Mark O'Neil of Moprho LLC University of Newcastle (Wellcome) Oxford (Hope Entom. Colections) | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 21st March | Nature-inspired Computation | Richard Tateson of BT Labs, Martlesham | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 21st February | Categorization And Value Systems As A Means Toward Action Selection In A Brain-Based Device | Jeffrey L. Krichmar of The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |
| 24th January | Modelling Hybrid Systems | George Hassapis of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | 15:00 | Gordon Lecture Theatre |