Informatics Jamboree 2001

The Informatics Jamboree is an annual event open to all members of the Edinburgh Informatics community. Events include talks by guest speakers, poster competition, catered lunches, gala Informatics Ceilidh. 

Overview

The third annual Informatics Jamboree kicks off with the annual Milner Lecture, which this year will take place on Wednesday afternoon, 23 May 2001, 4:30-5:30pm, by Christos Papadimitriou, who is the C. Lester Hogan Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. See here for more information. Professor Papadimitriou will give two other talkslater in the Jamboree on The Complexity of Multiobjective Optimization and The Logic of Floyd-Warshall.

Besides Professor Papadimitriou, invited speakers include Professor Nir Friedman, Hebrew University and Dr. Paolo Traverso, IRST (Trento, Italy). Professor Friedman will give talks on Using Probabilistic Models to Understand Gene Properties and Interactions and Understanding Cancer by Analyzing Multiple Gene Expression Patterns, while Dr. Traverso will talk on Planning as Model Checking.

We also plan to have all new Informatics Staff, who have been appointed over the past year, give short talks as a way of introducing themselves to the rest of the Division, who may not yet have had the opportunity to meet them.

As in previous years, there will be a research poster competition for postgraduate students, with prizes for winners and runners-up alike, and ample lunches for everyone on both Thursday and Friday. This year, the poster competition will be judged by a committee of MSc students and RAs from within the Division. See the winning posters.

The final event of the Jamboree will be a Ceilidh on Friday 25 May 2001 to which everyone and their family are invited.