Journal Club

Date: 
Thu, 13/06/2019 - 18:00 to Fri, 14/06/2019 - 17:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33

Daniel will be discussing "SAT solving to neural SAT solvers", loosely touching on:

- SATNet: Bridging deep learning and logical reasoning using a differentiable satisfiability solver. P. Wang, et al. (2019).

SICSA Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Summer School

Date: 
Repeats every day until Thu Aug 08 2019.
Tue, 06/08/2019 - 00:00 to 23:45
Wed, 07/08/2019 - 00:00 to 23:45
Thu, 08/08/2019 - 00:00 to 23:45
Location: 
Postgraduate Centre, Heriot-Watt University

The SICSA Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Summer School will allow
students to explore key concepts for the design of advanced AAL systems.

The program includes presentations from industry representatives and
healthcare organisations, in addition to lectures and tutorials on
sensing, linked data, machine learning and robotics for AAL
applications.

Robotics Lab Research Open Day 2019

Date: 
Fri, 21/06/2019 - 09:30 to Sat, 22/06/2019 - 18:45
Location: 
Postgraduate Centre, Heriot-Watt University
Speaker: 
Dr Amanda Prorok, University of Cambridge and Dr Mary Ellen Foster, University of Glasgow

The speakers are:

Dr Amanda Prorok from the University of Cambridge: <https://cdt.sensors.cam.ac.uk/directory/dr-amanda-prorok>

Talk title: “When Robotics Hit the Road: New Challenges in Multi-Vehicle Coordination"

and 

Dr Mary Ellen Foster from the University of Glasgow <http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~mefoster/>

Talk title:”Face-to-face Conversation with Socially Intelligent Robots"

IPAB Workshop: The Feelings of Robots: A formal approach

Date: 
Thu, 06/06/2019 - 12:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum room 2.33, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: 
Michael Herrmann
University of Edinrburgh

UPDATE: Room has changed to 2.33.

There will be an IPAB workshop this Thursday in the Informatics Forum, room 2.33. Cakes will be provided.  Michael Hermann will be speaking.

Talk title: The Feelings of Robots: A formal approach

Prof. David Lane appointed to AI Council

Prof. David Lane joins leaders in business and data privacy organisations, as well as from academia, in his new role on the UK Government’s AI Council.

This is an important time in the evolution and application of this most disruptive and groundbreaking of technologies.

Prof. David Lane

The newly appointed members will help put in place the right skills, ethics and data so the UK can make the most of AI technologies.

Student CDT Conference

Date: 
Repeats every day until Tue Jun 04 2019.
Mon, 03/06/2019 - 00:00 to 23:45
Tue, 04/06/2019 - 00:00 to 23:45
Location: 
University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University

This event is to be the third annual student conference held jointly with the EPSRC CDTs in Bristol, Edinburgh and Oxford. To be hosted in exotic, wind-swept Edinburgh across the two universities which form the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics.

The first day of the conference, hosted in the University of Edinburgh's Informatics Forum, will consist of selected student talks and posters, a talk from a keynote speaker, and a tour of the facilities. A conference dinner will follow in the evening.

IPAB Workshop - From Automation to Autonomy: The Future of Interactive Robotics

Date: 
Thu, 30/05/2019 - 12:45
Location: 
Informatics Forum 4.31/4.33, University of Edinburgh
Speaker: 
Sethu Vijayakumar
University of Edinburgh

There will be an IPAB workshop this Thursday the 30th of May at the Informatics Forum in room 4.31/4.33, pastries will be provided.  Sethu Vijayakumar will be speaking.

Talk Title: From Automation to Autonomy: The Future of Interactive Robotics

Student wins prestigious RSE scholarship

RAS CDT student Derek Chun has been awarded the John Moyes Lessells Travel Scholarship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to carry out research in Japan with Prof. Koh Hosoda of Hosoda Lab, Osaka University. This is an amazing achievement as the scholarship is open to all branches of engineering in Scotland and Derek has suceeded in making his application stand out from all others.