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School of Informatics Jamboree 2015
Information about the Jamboree 2015
The Informatics Jamboree is a fun social gathering for all students, staff and family members in Informatics.
The full programme is outlined below (all day events take place at G.07 in the forum or the open space at the ground floor).
Photos from the event can be viewed here:
Main Events
- Poster session
- Computer game competition
- Bake-off
- Tell us what your favourite algorithm is
- Talks by internal and external speakers
- Quiz
For a schedule of the events, see programme below.
Programme:
Thursday 26th March 2015
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10:00 – 10:15 |
Introduction (Mirella Lapata) |
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10:15 – 11:15 |
Keynote talk (Helen Pain, Supporting Social Communication in Children with Special Needs) |
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11:15 – 11:30 |
Coffee |
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11:30 – 12:00 |
Talks by academics (Guido Sanguinetti, Charles Sutton) |
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12:00 - 12:30 |
Talks by academics (Amos Storkey, Ilias Diakonikolas) |
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12:30 – 13:45 |
Catered Lunch |
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13:45 – 15:00 |
Poster Competitions: Student Posters (Katharina Heil) Please register your interest here: call for posters |
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15:15 – 16:30 |
Computer Games Competition (Davide Modolo & Jasper Uijlings) |
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16:30 – 17:30 |
Quiz (Robin Hill) |
Friday 27th March 2015
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10:00 – 11:00 |
Keynote talk (Geoffrey Pullum, Will Machines Ever Truly Understand Natural Language?) |
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11:00 – 11:30 |
Talks by academics (Kousha Etessami, Sethu Vijayakumar) |
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11:30 – 11:45 |
Coffee |
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11:45 – 12:15 |
Jon May (ISI; Machine Translation: How it Works, Why it's Hard, and How to Make it Better) Abstract |
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12:15 - 12:30 |
Computing Support Team Introduction and QA |
| 12:30 - 12:45 |
Talks by academics (Michael Rovatsos) |
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12:45 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
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14:00 – 15:00 |
Demo Exhibition (Beatrice Alex, Kira Mourao) & Coffee Please register your interest here: call for demos |
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14:30 – 15:30 |
The Great Informatics Bake-off (Chris Lucas, Anda Nicholson) |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
School’s Favourite algorithms (Jon Oberlander) Please take this survey and tell us what your favourite algorithm is! |
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16:00 – 16:15 |
Academic talks (Mary Cryan) |
| 16:15 - 16:45 |
Jean Carletta (How I learned to stop worrying and love Public Engagement: Beltane, I, und Du) |
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17:00 – 17:15 |
Wrap-up & Prizes (Johanna Moore) |
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18:00 – 23:00 |
Ceilidh with Dinner |
