2003 Events Archives

Conferences, Lectures and Workshops

The First Annual Kolmogorov Lecture
23 February 2003
Professor Ray Solomonoff
"A general system for incremental learning "

Microsoft .NET Day
27 May 2003
This workshop, hosted by the Department of Computer Science and the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, focussed on Microsoft's .NET and related technologies - a rare opportunity to hear about .NET and current leading-edge technologies from experts in the field. It was attended by students of the MSc in Information Security, the MSc in Secure Electronic Commerce and the MSc in Business Information Systems at RHUL, and to staff and research postgraduates in Computer Science and the Information Security Group

Postgraduate Colloquium Day
17 June 2003
Research postgraduates in the Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London gave brief presentations on their work.

MINOS '03
13-14 September 2003
The third annual conference, hosted by the Department of Computer Science, on micromouse design and the organisation of the National Micromouse Competition, held annually at Royal Holloway (31 May 2003).

Seminars

28 January
Dr Jørgen Bang-Jensen, Department of Computer Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense Campus, Denmark
SEQUENTIAL AND PARALLEL ALGORITHMS FOR HAMILTONIAN PATH AND CYCLE PROBLEMS IN TOURNAMENT-LIKE DIGRAPHS

4 February
Professor Boris Ryabko, Department of Applied Maths and Cybernetics, Siberian State University of Telecommunication and Computer Science
A NEW STATISTICAL TESTING FOR RANDOM NUMBERS AND ITS APPLICATION TO SOME CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS

18 February
Dr Chris Watkins, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
DESIGN OF GENETIC CODES

25 February
Dr Zoubin Ghahramani, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
BAYESIAN LEARNING OF GRAPHICAL MODELS

4 March
Professor Peter Dayan, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
OPEN ISSUES AND PROBLEMS IN THEORETICAL NEUROSCIENCE

11 March
Dr Eric Soubeiga, School of Computer Science and I.T., University of Nottingham
A TABU-SEARCH HYPERHEURISTIC FOR NURSE SCHEDULING

25 March
Dr Teo Sharia, Department of Mathematics, Royal Holloway, University of London
ON RECURSIVE PARAMETRIC ESTIMATION THEORY

6 May
Dr Natalio Krasnogor, Automated Scheduling, Planning and Optimisation Group, School of Computer Sciences and Information Technology, University of Nottingham
SELF-RECONFIGURABLE SOFTWARE IN BIO-INFORMATICS: THE PROTEINS STRUCTURE COMPARISON CASE

4 June
Professor Alexey Chervonenkis, Computer Learning Research Centre, Royal Holloway, University of London
ON SOME PROPERTIES OF INFINITE VC DIMENSION SYSTEMS

5 June
Dr Tommy Jensen, Mathematics Department, University of Hamburg
NEW CLASSES OF EASILY COLOURED GRAPHS

18 June
Dr Larry Manevitz, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa, Israel
AUTOMATING THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD: A TEST-BED FOR "SOFT COMPUTING"

16 July
Professor Dr Ludwig Staiger, Institut für Informatik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
MARTINGALES, LYAPUNOV EXPONENT AND KOLMOGOROV COMPLEXITY - AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW TO S-GALES AND CONSTRUCTIVE DIMENSION

22 July
Professor Volodya Vovk, Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
THE TRANSDUCTIVE CONFIDENCE MACHINE AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Friday 19 September
Dr S. V. N. Vishwanathan, Australian National University
Fast kernels on strings and trees

25 November
Professor Richard Banach, Department of Computer Science, Manchester University
RETRENCHMENT AND SYSTEM PROPERTIES