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5th Annual Postgraduate Conference
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Computer Science
30-31 March 2006
Department of Computer Science,
Queen Mary
Physics 602
This year's theme is "NO JARGON!". Presentations will serve as an overview of PhD work up to date without going into technical detail. The theme is a dual focused attempt to relate presentations to both the viva process and to communicate work to a larger and non-specialized audience.
Presenters have been asked to address the following questions in their presentations:
- What are you working on?
- Why is it important?
- How are you approaching your research (i.e, what is your methodology).
These are three actual generic Viva questions. All MPhil/PhD students are expected to be able to address these questions in a clear and concise manner at any given point in their research.
This year, we will be giving speakers the choice to get feedback from the audience. Feedback forms will be available at the conference for anyone who wishes to participate in the process. Feedback will be anonymous.
The goal of these conferences is to strengthen links within our research community and to keep abreast on the interesting work going on in other groups within the department. Furthermore, it is an excellent opportunity to practice the skills involved in preparing and giving a talk in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Those who participated in past years were almost unanimous in finding the experience enjoyable and valuable.
All registered MPhil and PhD students are expected to present their work in a 10 minute talk with additional time for questions.
All Queen Mary Computer science postgraduate students and research assistants are invited to come along if they can. Students from other University of London sites and QM departments will be invited to attend although presentations will be limited to Queen Mary Computer Science students. Faculty members and supervisors will not be attending, to keep the atmosphere as relaxed as possible.
Coffee and a small buffet lunch will be provided.
Map of the Campus
PROGRAMME:
Day 1 - Thursday 30th March 2006 (Physics 602)
10.30 - 10.45: Morning Tea
10.45-11.00: Welcome Note
11.00-12.30: Session 1
Christopher Frauenberger (IMC) - Auditory display design
Elham Ashoori (IR) - The importance of topic shift in XML retrieval
Bushra Akhtar (Vision) - Using computer vision and computer analysis techniques to extract quantifiable data from articular cartilage cell images
Corrado Biasi (Logic) - A pi calculus term assignment for dual intuitionistic logic
Jean Baptiste Thiebaut (IMC) - Visualisation of sound
12.30 – 13.30: Lunch (Computer Science Tea Room)
13.30 - 15.00: Session 2
Vahid (Radar) - Duration network: using BN for quantifying uncertainty in project duration
Erik Arne Mathiesen (Logic) - Ramblings about rotations, periodicity and a wee bit of logic
Greg James Mills (IMC) - Lost in the maze game -- "what?", "where?", "maze?"
Henzghi Wu (IR) - Efficiency and scalability issues for large-scale DB+IR systems
Chris Jia (Vision) - Multi-resolution patch tensor for facial expression hallucination
15.00 – 15.15: Tea Break
15.15 – 17.00: Session 3
Hany Azzam (MSc student) - Efficient ontology management systems: evaluation and best practices
Caifeng Shan (Vision) - Manifold analysis of facial expressions
Georgios Papatzanis (IMC) - Detecting error inducing design flaws in interactive systems: a semi-formal approach
Taoyang Wu (Logic) - The complexity without Turing Machine
Yong Wang (Vision) - Object class recognition by bag of local features
Day 2 - Friday 31st March 2006 (Physics 602)
10.45 – 11.00: Morning Tea
11:00 - 12:30: Session 4
Jan Frederik Frost (IR) - Rule-based summarisation using probabilistic Datalog
Olga Lightfoot (Logic) - A real arithmetic test suite for theorem provers
Louise Valgerdur Nickerson (IMC) - Auditory overviews
David Russell (Vision) - A background model for all seasons
Shahin Nabavian (IMC) - Analysing group creativity
12.30 – 13.30: Lunch (Computer Science Tea Room)
13.30 – 15.00: Session 5
Han Chen (Logic) - Information theory
Jun Li (Vision) - Generating natural-looking human character animation
Nan Jiang (IMC) - Web directory usability
Zoltan Szlavik (IR) - Summarisation for interactive XML retrieval explained
Oussama Metatla (IMC) - The quest for non-visual diagrammatic representations
15.00 – 15.15: Tea Break
15.15 – 17.00: Session 6
Peter Hearty (RADAR) - eXtreme programming software process causal models
Ivana Mijajlovic (Logic) - Data refinement
Chrystie Myketiak (IMC) - Internet sex conversations: rethinking public and private
Alex Po Leung (Vision) - Online feature selection using mutual information for real-time multi-view object tracking
Kurt Ranalter (Logic) - Formal Pragmatics: basic ideas and concepts
18:00: Social Gathering - Details to Follow. We are negotiating with the Department to have a part subsidised meal somewhere local.