Hi All,
The next IPAB Workshop is due to take place on Thursday 11th November 2021 at 1pm. Timothy Hospedales will be speaking. The Zoom details can be found in the corresponding email.
Title: An Overview of Meta-Learning: Introduction, Successes, and Challenges
Our 2021 Annual CDT Conference took place on Friday 1st October when we welcomed 70 students, 30 academics and 34 industry partners to our online event.
CDT Director Professor Michael Mistry opened the proceedings by welcoming delegates to the conference and providing an overview of the activities of the CDT in the 2020/21 academic year.
The next IPAB Workshop is due to take place on Thursday 4th November 2021 at 1pm via Zoom. Lukas Schafer, Mhairi Dunion, Shangmin (Shawn) Guo will be speaking. The zoom details can be found in the corresponding email.
Speaker: Lukas Schafer
Title: Decoupling Exploitation and Intrinsically Motivated Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
In recognition of outstanding work to recruit and support gender diverse students, the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Robotics and Autonomous Systems has won the 2021 Minerva Informatics Equality Award.
The prestigious award recognises excellence in the encouragement to enrol, and retention of, female students in Computer Science and Informatics programmes.
The next IPAB Workshop is due to take place on Thursday 28th October at 1pm via Zoom. Daniel Layeghi will be speaking. The Zoom details can be found in the corresponding email.
Title: ICRA "Optimal Control via Combined Inference and Numerical Optimisation".
Note revised dates since this was originally posted.
More details to follow re the conference which will take place on Monday 13th June and Tuesday 14th June, and accommodation options but students expected to arrive on Sunday 12th June for welcome tour of the Bristol Harbourside.
The next IPAB Workshop is due to take place on Thursday 14th October 2021 at 1pm via Zoom. Rana Alkhoury Maroun, Daniel Layeghi, Ebtehal Alotaibi will be speaking. The zoom details can be found in the corresponding email.
Speaker: Rana Alkhoury Maroun
Title: Using the Mushroom Body Architecture for Locality-Sensitive Hashing
The next IPAB Seminar is due to take place on Thursday, 7th October at 1pm via Zoom. Tim Taylor will be speaking. Joining instructions can be found in the corresponding email.
Title: Early visions of machines that can reproduce and evolve, and their relevance today