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Informatics Jamboree 2006, 7-9 June

The Informatics Jamboree is an annual, festive three-day gathering of the School of Informatics and friends. It includes the Milner Lecture, talks by new Informatics academic staff, new research students, and distinguished visitors, a poster competition with cash prizes, culminating with the traditional Ceilidh.

Programme

Calendar of Jamboree events 7-9 June 2006:

Wednesday, 7 June		Title of Talk	Venue
17:15	Milner Lecture: Professor Shafi Goldwasser	On the Impossibility of Obfuscation	Swann Lecture Theatre Michael Swann Building Ref 23 on this map
Thursday, 8 June
09:15	James Bednar	Computational Maps in the Visual Cortex	Lecture Theatre E Peter Wilson Building Scottish Agricultural College King's Buildings Reference 8 on this map
10:00	Chris Williams	Overview of ANC research and Factorial Switching Kalman Filters for Condition Monitoring in Neonatal Intensive Care (joint work with John Quinn, Neil McIntosh)
10:30	Douglas Armstrong	Molecular computation, a systems biology view of the neuronal synapse
11:00	Coffee break
11:30	Sethu Vijayakumar	IPAB Research
12:05	New PhD Projects in IPAB: Adrian Haith Finlay Stewart Toby Collins Matthew Howard Rowland Sillito
12:30	Lunch & Posters
14:00	Dave Robertson	CISA Research
14:50	New PhD projects in CISA: Moa Johansson Gaya Nadarajan
15;00	Coffee break
15:15	Nigel Topham	ICSA Research
16:00	Shafi Goldwasser	On Basing One-Way Functions on NP-Hardness
Friday, 9 June
09:15	Mark Steedman	ICCS Research
10:00	Andrew Fitzgibbon	Computer Science goes to Hollywood
11:00	Coffee break
11:30	David Aspinall	LFCS Research
	New PhD Projects in LFCS: Michael Smith
12:30	Lunch & Posters
14:00	Richard Brown	Art & Informatics Research Project
15:00	Poster judges announce prize winners, coffee break
16:00	Distinguished Lecture: Professor Josh Tenenbaum	Bayesian models of human learning and reasoning
17:00	Reception for distinguished lecturer
19:00 - 23.30	Ceilidh		The Queens Hall Clerk Street

Jamboree Organisers

Academic Chair:
Bjoern Franke
Philipp Koehn

Gillian Watt
Poster Competition Co-ordinator

Diana Sisu
Programme Co-ordinator
Food and Ceilidh

For enquiries: contact Diana.

Previous Jamborees

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Note on ceilidh: for all those of you coming from abroad, ceilidh = traditional Scottish dancing. If you have a deep fear of the unknown, visit www.scottishdance.net for detailed instructions, including recommended reading (yup!). Alternatively, just take a look at our photos from previous Jamborees.