2018/2019 Seminars

The seminars are usually on Wednesdays from 12pm to 1pm, 3.44 Merchant Venturers Building.


15 May – Scott Griffiths (Graphcore, UK)

Why Do We Need New Hardware & Software for Machine Intelligence?


8 May – Joint CS/CNU/ISL seminar: Luigi Acerbi (University of Geneva/International Brain Lab, Switzerland)

Variational Bayesian Monte Carlo

Luigi also gave a tutorial on optimization, model fitting, and model comparison


1 May – Song Liu (University of Bristol)

Fisher Efficient Inference of Intractable Models


3 April – Christian Konrad (University of Bristol)

Streaming Algorithms for Matchings in Massive Graphs


27 March – Cian O’Donnell (University of Bristol)

Quantifying Big Neural Data


20 March – Rui Ponte Costa (University of Bristol)

Does the Brain Backprop?


13 March – Gaurav Malhotra (University of Bristol)

Shape and relations in human vision and convolutional neural networks


13 Fev – MC Schraefel (University of Southampton)

How do you feel?

An introduction to Inbodied Interaction in the quest to #makeNormalBetter


12 Dec – Catherine Holloway (University College London)


5 Dec – Thomas Pasquier (University of Bristol)

Towards a provenance-based intrusion detection system


28 Nov – Song Liu (University of Bristol)

Learning with (from) Adversarials


14 Nov – Hridesh Rajan (Iowa State University)

Software as Data: Harnessing Big Data in Open Source for Data-driven Software Engineering