2021/22 seminar archive

Trust & Governance for Autonomous Vehicle Deployment

Wednesday 26 January 2022

Professor Philip Koopman joins us to discuss autonomous vehicle deployment governance.

A Bayesian approach to the Social Network Analysis of Animal Behaviour

Wednesday 24 November 2021

Join us on Campus East for this engaging seminar on animal behaviour

Conditional Contextual Refinement (CCR): conditional, compositional and gradual specifications for open programs.

Wednesday 13 October 2021

Hosted by Simon Forster with guest speaker Professor Chung-Kil Hur

Towards the Autonomous Evolution of Robotics Ecosystems

Wednesday 6 October 2021

Robot design is traditionally the domain of humans – engineers, physicists, and increasingly AI experts. Evolutionary computing is a well-known technology that has been applied in various aspects of robotics for many years, for example to design controllers or body-plans.

Understanding Human Network Behavior: Ideas for reforming social media

Monday 19 July 2021

Alex "Sandy" Pentland, Toshiba Professor at MIT and one of the most-cited computational scientists in the world and entrepreneur, will be delivering the 2021 Sabine Krolak-Schwerdt lecture.

PREMIER: Prioritisation and risk evaluation of medicines in the environment

Thursday 27 May 2021

Active ingredients from medicines can get into the environment through a variety of routes, and once there they can prove harmful to wildlife and ecosystems. In the EU, new medicines are required to undergo an environmental risk assessment (ERA). However, so far just a handful of the 1900 or so active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in use have been assessed.

Natural Morphological Computation as Foundation of Learning to Learn in Humans, Other Living Organisms, and Intelligent Machines

Thursday 13 May 2021

The emerging contemporary natural philosophy provides a common ground for the integrative view of the natural, the artificial, and the human-social knowledge and practices.

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Dr Dimitar Kazakov

Dr Dimitar Kazakov

Seminars organiser

dimitar.kazakov@york.ac.uk
+44 (0)1904 325676