| 2005 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
29th August, 2:00pm,
78-420(GPSouth) |
Huajin Tang |
Mathematical Analysis and Computational Design of A Visual Cortical
Neural Network |
20th July, 10:00am,
78-622(GPSouth) |
Stefan Maetschke |
Hidden Markov models for the prediction of transmembrane
protein localization in eukaryotes |
9th June ,3:00pm,
78-420(GPSouth) |
Erik Berglund |
Active Audition for Robots using PLSOM |
24th March, 3:00pm,
78-622(GPSouth) |
David Rohde |
Machine learning for matching astronomy
catalogues |
17th Feb.,3:30pm,
78-420(GPSouth) |
Geir Hovland |
Application-Oriented Design, Optimisation and Control of a New Parallel Manipulator |
10th March, 3:30pm
78-420 (GPSouth) |
Gordon Wyeth |
RatSLAM |
15th March, 10am
78-420 (GPSouth) |
John Hawkins |
Recurrent Neural Network Architectures for Predicting the Fates of Proteins |
17th March, 3:30pm
78-622(GPSouth) |
Geoff Goodhill |
How do nerve fibres find their targets in the developing brain?
Computational modeling and a novel chemotaxis assay |
| 2003 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| May '03 |
Kevin Burrage |
Stochastic Processes in Regulatory Genetic Networks: life is a
noisy business (IMB Seminar) |
| 21st May |
Gordon Wyeth |
Hot Topics in Robotics (3pm) |
| 16th May |
Liam Wagner |
Algebro-Geometric Attack Methods in Elliptic Curve Cryptography
(78-224, 1pm) (slides here) |
| 9th May |
Shlomo Geva, CITI, QUT |
How I came near to winning an international competition with a 17 year old masters thesis (QUT-hosted FoD and pub excursion!) |
| 28th April |
Penny Sweetser |
Intelligent Command Agents for Command and Control Simulations using
Cognitive Work Analysis and Neural Networks |
| 10th April |
Tom Downs |
Improving the performance of support vector methods (78-622, 1pm) |
| 17th March |
Mark Cooper |
The E(NK) Model: Extending the NK Model to Incorporate
Gene-by-Environment Interactions and Epistasis for Diploid Genomes
(78-420, 1pm) |
| 19th February |
Ben Skellett |
Self-organising adaptive networks |
| 13th February |
Nic Geard |
Modelling the role of small RNAs in gene regulation |
| 2002 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| 4 December |
Jim Hanan |
What the L!?! Lindenmayer Systems for one and all (78-344, 1pm) |
| 30 October |
Ben Skellett |
Thermodynamic Analysis of Complex Networks (78-344, 1pm) |
| 4th - 6th October |
The whole gang! |
The 2002 CSSIP/FoD Workshop on Pattern Recognition, Classification and Intelligent Systems |
| 24th Sept |
Dr Adam Kowalszyk (Telstra Research Labs) |
1pm IMB General seminar room details TBA
4pm Seminar with more technical details TBA |
| 11th Sept |
Prof Mark Colyvan |
A Particularly Nasty Kind of Model Uncertainty (78-621, 4pm) |
| 4th September |
A/Prof Bernard Degnan |
Genomic Regulatory Systems to Form Animals |
| 2nd August |
Reading Group contd. |
S. Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" (Rm78-420, 12pm) |
| 23rd July |
Marcus Hutter |
Towards a Universal Theory of Artificial Intelligence based on
Algorithmic Probability and Sequential Decisions (Rm420, 11am) |
| 5th July |
Reading Group |
S. Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science" (Rm78-420, 12pm) |
| 13th June |
Adelina Tang |
Ensemble methods for forecasting with Bayesian networks |
| 30th May |
Ben Skellett |
Classical Dynamics of Magnetically Coupled Spins (Rm78-224, 4pm) |
| 24th May |
Janet Wiles |
Evolutionary computation and cognitive science: Strange loops in evolution
and learning |
| 13th May |
Alex Pudmenzky |
Teleonomic Creativity: An Etiological Analysis (Rm78-344, 12-2pm) |
| 1st March |
Various Artists (PLEASE rsvp to attend!) |
FoD-hol'02: The 2002 Festival of Doubt Warhol Sessions/Bon Voyage
for Jen. Details here. |
| 18th Feburary |
Janet Wiles, Jennifer Hallinan, Brad Tonkes, Ben Skellet, Nicholas Geard, Kai Willadsen, James Watson, Bo Yuan, Paul Darwen |
Mini-CEC'02 (for details see here) |
| 5th Feburary |
Marcus Gallagher |
Evolutionary Algorithms and Probablistic Modelling |
| 2001 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| Summer |
*.* |
FoD2001/02 - Retreat. |
| 17th December |
Graham Kendall |
Evolutionary Game Playing |
| 14th December |
Jarmo Alander |
Protein folding using lattice model and hydration, an
optimization approach |
| 10th December |
Michael Gagen |
The evolution of biological complexity |
| 29th November |
John Mattick |
The evolution of controlled multitasked gene networks: the role
of introns and other non-coding RNAs in the development of complex
organisms. |
| 15th November |
Rolf Mitsdorffer |
Predicting First-Day Returns of Cross-Industry Initial Public
Offerings in the US Stock Market. |
| 29th August |
Marcus Gallagher |
Fitness distance correlation of neural network error surfaces:
a scalable, continuous optimization problem |
| 22nd August |
Jennifer Hallinan |
Surviving Santa Fe: The memoirs of a Complex Systems Summer
School Alumnu |
| 12th July |
Frederic Maire |
Exact Computation Of The Barycentre Of Higher Dimensional
Polyhedra And Its Application To Bayesian Point Machines.
(3pm) |
| 5th July |
Peter Bartlett, Frederic Maire and Evan Greensmith |
Reinforcement Learning: An afternoon workshop (2-5pm,
78-621) |
| 21st June |
Marcus Randall |
Network Synthesis Problems with Ant Colony Optimisation |
| 8th March |
Petra Kuhnert |
Bridging the Gap between Statistics and KDD: A Holistic
Approach |
| 6th February |
Bernhard Schoelkopf |
Kernels and Feature Spaces |
| 2000 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| 11th October |
Michael Nielsen |
Quantum Computing |
| 4th - 6th September |
The whole gang |
The Festival of Doubt Retreat
- 2000AD |
| 23rd August |
Rodney Beard |
Financial Economics - From State Preferences to Random
Fields. |
| 26nd July |
Mikael Boden |
Inducing multi-levelled generalizations from language data with
cascaded recurrent networks -- a preliminary but promising
outlook. |
| 22nd June |
Paul Darwen |
Coevolutionary methods for Stock Market Prediction |
| 15th June |
Alex Pudmenzky |
Creativity: A Mathematical Attempt to Explain its Ubiquitous
Occurrences in Nature |
| 7th June |
Discussion session |
Financial forecasting for fun and profit |
| 17/18th May |
- |
(talk rescheduled) |
| 11th May |
Geoff MacLachlan |
The EM and Incremental EM Algorithms |
| 4th May |
Jennifer Hallinan |
The Boolean approach to modelling genetic regulatory
networks |
| 26/27th April |
- |
(talk rescheduled) |
| 19th April |
Simon Dennis |
The Science of Web Site Design and Evaluation |
| 13th April |
Jason Potts |
An Economist gets A-life |
| 6th April |
- |
(talk rescheduled) |
| 29th March |
Tom Downs |
Bayesian Learning in Neural Networks and Support Vector
machines. (Slides, pdf format) |
| 22nd March |
Annette Masters |
Extensions to Support Vector Machines |
| 16th March |
- |
(talk rescheduled) |
| 9th March |
Discussion session |
Teach yourself Markov-chain Monte Carlo in 55 minutes |
| 1999 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| 3rd November |
Thomas Suddendorf |
Reconstruction the evolution of representational capacities:
ontogenetic and comparative clues. Abstract |
| 27th October |
Daniel Kennedy |
Genetic Algorithms in Pattern Matching |
| 20th October |
Ho Ying Cheung |
Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition |
| 1st September |
Gordon Wyeth |
Robot Soccer: The Video |
| 25th August |
Jan Newmarch |
Jini and Mindstorms |
| 18th August |
Frederic Maire |
An algorithm to compute exactly the center of mass of high
dimensional polyhedra, and its application to training learning
machines. Abstract |
| 12th August |
Peter Bartlett |
Direct Gradient-Based Reinforcement Learning. Abstract |
| 28th July |
Mikael Boden |
Why is it difficult to learn a context-free language in a
recurrent neural net? |
| 1st July |
Tom Downs |
Maximum Margin Classifiers and Beyond. Abstract |
| |
Scott Bolland |
|
| 13th May |
Damien Sansom |
Forecasting Electricity Price with Neural Networks. Abstract |
| 22nd April |
Marcus Gallagher |
Tricks of the Trade: The Folklore of training backprop nets. Abstract. |
| 8th April |
Paul Darwen |
Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. Abstract |
| 25th March |
Ajantha Atukorale |
Neural Gas Networks for Pattern Classification. Abstract |
| 18th March |
Bryan Mowry |
Finding genes for schizophrenia: is there a role for artificial
neural networks? Abstract |
| 5th March |
Various Artists |
Festival of
Doubt Warhol Program/Farewell for Marcus Frean (note the
special time and venue - follow the link!) |
| 12th-15th Feburay |
- |
The first and last FoD retreat of the 20th Century:
Degenerate
and Test . |
| 1998 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| 17th December |
Paul Darwen |
Co-evolutionary Learning on Noisy Tasks such as Backgammon. Abstract. |
| 26th November |
PaulMurray |
The meaning of rules, and why this matters in Searle's Chinese
Room argument. |
| 19th November |
Guy
Smith |
In 25 years or less, what is texture? Abstract. |
| 12th November |
Brad Tonkes |
Why don't we talk backwards? Summary. |
| 5th November |
Marcus
Frean |
A Brief History of Crime. Summary |
| 29th October |
everyone |
FoD's first birthday... |
| 15th October |
Janet
Wiles et.al. |
Evolving and Visualizing Ultrametric Structure in Euclidean
Spaces. Background |
| 8th October |
Brett
Browning |
RoboRoos -
UQ at the Robot World Cup |
| 24th September |
David Collins
CSEE |
Cerebellar Models for Mobile RobotsSummary
|
| 17th September |
Silkin Mong |
An extension to Support Vector Machines and its applications.
Summary |
| 10th September |
Peter
Bengtson |
The circuit, the channels and the ionic currents underlying
thalamocortical oscillations during deep sleep. Abstract |
| 3rd September |
Onur
Gunturkun |
Hemispheric switching in humans and other animals. Summary. |
| 26th August |
Janet
Wiles |
N-2-N encoders, hidden unit space, and ultrametricity. Summary
and links |
| 21st August |
Marcus
Gallagher |
Ultrametric Structure in Autoencoder Error Surfaces |
| 19th August |
Sameer
Singh
University of Plymouth |
Intelligent Time-Series Forecasting using Pattern Analysis. Summary. |
| 13th August |
Jack Pettigrew
Vision
Touch & Hearing Research Center |
Binocular Rivalry, Interhemispheric oscillators and Bipolar
Disorder |
| 6th August |
Scott Bolland |
Visual object recognition in robots. Summary
|
| 30th July |
Janet
Wiles |
Discussion on the evolution of communication. Summary |
| 16th July |
Alan Blair
and Betsy Sklar |
Co-evolution, Determinism and Robustness Summary. |
| 9th July |
Betsy Sklar
Brandeis University |
Toward a Community of Evolving Learners - Summary
`Tron'(online
evolving game) |
| 2nd July |
Gordon
Wyeth |
UQ
RoboRoos currently competing at the Robot World Cup in
Paris |
| 25th June |
Tom Downs |
Revenge of the Son of Support Vector Machine. Summary. |
| 18th June |
Ian Wood |
Optimisation - birds and swarms Outline |
| 11th June |
Michael
Norris |
Chain of Fools : rhythm and associative chaining Outline |
| 28th May |
Marcus
Frean |
Boosting random classifiers
Questions,
and our paper |
| 21st May |
Peter
Stratton |
Return of the embodysnatchers
(Nets that think, cont.) |
| 14th May |
Jennifer Hallinan |
From DNA to Dyslexia: Mapping Genes for Cognition Summary |
| 7th May |
Peter
Stratton |
Feedback in perception, embodied learning, and nets that think
Summary |
| 23rd April |
Paul Murray |
Kantian Metaphysics and Artificial Intelligence:
saving lab time through a priori reasoning |
| 16th April |
Marcus
Gallagher |
Who cares about high-dimensional landscapes? Summary |
| 9th April |
Piero
Giorgi and Alex Pudmenzky |
Picking Piero's brains: Question and answer session in the
Anatomy Museum |
| 2nd April |
Brett
Browning |
Using Rats to Build Robots Summary |
| 26th March |
Janet
Wiles |
High-level perception meets low-level reasoning: Puzzles from
cognitive science. Summary
A note from Paul Murray on Kant
|
| 20th March |
Alex
Pudmensky |
Raw, Medium, Artificial or Preserved...(biological neural
networks) |
| 13th March |
Suganthan |
Self-Organising Maps & Pattern Classification |
| 6th March |
Jennifer Hallinan |
Genes and Features: Feature Selection for Classification |
| 27th February |
Alan
Blair |
Simulated Robot Hockey |
| 6th February |
Guy
Smith |
The Gibbs Distribution |
| 30th January |
Larry Croft (Biol. Info.
Theory) |
Reverse engineering the human genome |
| 23rd January |
Tom Downs |
Support Vector Machines |
| 16th January |
Marcus
Frean |
"Mind as a laissez-faire economy of idiots"
(review of Eric
Baum's recent work) |
| 1997 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
| 5th December |
Guy
Smith |
Images - a big fat zero (Zero crossings) |
| 28th November |
Michael
Norris |
Dynamical aspects of synapses |
| 14th November |
Paul Jackway |
Feature creation |
| 7th November |
Geoff McLachlan |
Aspects of neural networks and statistics |
| 24th October |
Marcus
Frean |
The Bayesian view of learning |
