Events in the Department of Computer Science
Find out more about events, seminars and public lectures in the Department.
The University of Manchester Research Institute (UMRI) Pump Prime Call Launch Event
The University of Manchester Research Institute (UMRI) will be launching the latest round of pump-priming awards in January 2025. The call aims to encourage collaboration and provide support for activities that will lead to an increase in successful interdisciplinary research. Awards of up to £50K available, you’ll have one year to explore...
AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Ruth Misener
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals and Manchester's ELLIS Unit are co-hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Title: Autonomous research machines: Self-optimising new chemistry Abstract: Consider "micro reactor flow systems". Because these high-throughput microfluidic devices can control...
In Pursuit of the Meaning of Language: The Role of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Natural Language Generation (NLG)
Large Language Models (LLMs), such as the GPT-x family, have taken the natural language processing (NLP) and generation (NLG) fields, if not the whole world, by storm. In this talk, I will reflect on my journey in NLP and NLG research, showcasing how LLMs bridge critical gaps in these domains. I will focus on a number of critical areas, including...
Digital Trust and Security Seminar Series: Dr. Ben Collier
UK police forces are increasingly adopting 'influence policing', a form of digital influence campaign that uses internet technologies and behavioral psychology to prevent crime. Initially developed for counter-radicalization, it now targets a range of areas, including online child abuse, knife crime, and cybercrime, raising ethical and theoretical...
Inaugural Chair Lecture - Building Trustworthy Software and AI Systems by Prof. Lucas Cordeiro
Software and AI systems have become ubiquitous today, but their trustworthiness remains a pressing concern. In 2022 alone, poor software quality cost US companies $2.41 trillion, while the accumulated software technical debt has grown to approximately $1.52 trillion. Automated formal reasoning methods can play a crucial role in ensuring the trustworthiness...
Training Course on Visualisation & quantification of tomographic datasets
A 2 day in person training course covering theory and computer-based practical works using the Thermo Scientific™ Amira-Avizo Software. Lab/synchrotron X-ray tomography has emerged as one of the most important techniques for research in a wide range of applications including healthcare, energy, food and geology. Advances in the quality of X-ray...
Departmental Seminar - Imprecise Probabilistic Machine Learning - Being Precise about Imprecision | Dr. Michele Caprio
This talk is divided into two parts. I will first introduce the field of Imprecise Probabilistic Machine Learning, from its inception to modern-day research and open problems, including motivations and clarifying examples. In the second part, I will present Interval Deep Evidential Classifications (IDEC), a novel approach to address Uncertainty...
AI Security: Language Models, Data Encryption, Software Verification
Neural networks are slowly getting integrated into safety-critical systems. Unfortunately, we still lack a full suite of algorithms and tools to guarantee their safety. In this talk, I will present a few open challenges in AI safety and security: consistent behaviour in language models, machine learning over encrypted data, model compression with...
Training Course on In situ experiments and Digital Volume Correlation
Digital Volume Correlation (DVC) is a powerful experimental technique that computes 3D full-field displacement and strain maps from volumes images acquired during a deformation process of a material. DVC is the 3D extension of Digital Image Correlation (DIC) which was first described four decades ago. The emergence of DVC started early 2000s with...
AI-Fun with ELLIS Seminar | Mariia Vladimirova
The Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals and Manchester's ELLIS Unit are co-hosting a series of seminars featuring expert researchers working in the fundamentals of AI. Title: TBC Bio: I am a senior research scientist at Criteo AI Lab in the Fundamental Deep Learning team. I contribute to both academic and industrial research, focusing on...