Seminars
Computational Topology in Graphics and Visualization
Location : D'Arcy Thompson Room (School of Computing Sciences, UEA) Research Group : CMP seminar Date : 22 March 2013 (13:00-14:00) Speaker : Dr. Hamish Carr Organiser : Dr. Katharina Huber Institution : University of Leeds In the last decade and a half, topological structures such as the Contour Tree, the Reeb Graph and the Morse- Smale Complex have increasingly been relied on in computer graphics and scientific visualization. This talk will give an overview of...
From measurements to patterns. New algorithms for the analysis of sRNA datasets.
Location : D'Arcy Thompson Room (School of Computing Sciences, UEA) Research Group : Computational Biology Group Date : 15 Mar 2013, 14:00-15:00 Speaker : Dr. Irina Mohorianu Organiser : Dr. Katharina Huber Institution : School of Computing Sciences, UEA Abstract Small RNAs (sRNAs) are 20-30nt non coding RNAs that act as guides for the sequence specific regulatory mechanism known as RNA...
Evolutionary Neural Networks
Location : D'Arcy Thompson Room (School of Computing Sciences, UEA) Research Group: CMP Seminar Date : 1st March 2013 (13:00-14:00) Speaker : Assoc Prof Grant Braught Organiser: Dr. Taoyang Wu Institution : Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dickinson College, USA Artificial neural networks and evolutionary algorithms are computational abstractions inspired by nervous systems and natural selection. When combined,...
Genomic approaches towards defining the epidemiology and infection of South American trypanosomiasis
Location : D'Arcy Thompson Room (School of Computing Sciences, UEA) Date 8th Feb 2013, (14:00-15:00) Speaker : Dr. Michael Gaunt Organiser : Dr. Katharina Huber Institution : London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Abstract Chagas disease is a zoonose, with a wide range of vertebrate reservoir hosts, and the most important parasitic disease in South America for human morbidity and mortality infecting over 8 million with a lifelong infection....
Shrinking bias to benefit estimation and inference in statistical models
Location : D'Arcy Thompson Room (School of Computing Sciences, UEA) Research Group : CMP Seminar Date : 25 Jan 2013 (13:00-14:00) Speaker : Dr. Ioannis Kosmidis Organiser : Dr. Katharina Huber Institution : Dept. of Statistical Science, University College London Abstract In this talk recent work on a unified computational and conceptual framework for reducing the bias in the estimation of statistical models is presented from a practitioners point of view. The...