Data Science RS

CDT Showcase 2023

Believe. Be Ambitious. Make a Difference.

The annual showcase event welcomes CDT PhDs, supervisors, partners and stakeholders and aims to highlight our collective achievements and inspire our future direction.  We will present the “what”, “how”, and “where” of Distributed Algorithms and share a variety of experiences of past, current and future data challenges and solutions.

 

Draft programme: 29 November 2023

Join us for networking, dinner and poster viewing the evening before! 

28 November, 19:00

 

09:00

Coffee and registration

 

09:30

Welcome and introduction

Simon Maskell, University of Liverpool

 

10:00

Session 1: Lightning presentations

1 minute presentations from PhD students

 

11:00

Coffee break and poster discussion

 

11:30

Session 2: Academic presentations

How has modern computing/AI/ML affected your work/area/field?

  • Iain Buchan, University of Liverpool

  • Gert Aarts, Swansea University

  • Martim Brandao, King's College London

 

12:30

Lunch break and poster discussion

 

13:30

Session 3: Industry presentations

Using data safely, responsibly and appropriately

  • Malcolm Strens, Consultant

  • Tim Santos, Graphcore

  • Ronni Bowman, Dstl

 

14:30

Session 4: Longer student presentations

  • Be better. Be Bayesian, Andrew Millard

  • SenseAI: Real-time inpainting for electron microscopy, Jack Wells

  • Transforming reinforcement learning, Oliver Dippel

  • Data science and artificial intelligence for smart sustainable plastic packaging, William Jeffcott

 

15:30

Coffee break and poster discussion

 

16:00

Session 5: Panel with industry, academia and students

LLMs (ChatGPT), ethics (government or industry led), career decisions, pathways

Panel hosted by George Jones, University of Liverpool:

  • Iain Buchan, University of Liverpool

  • Gert Aarts, Swansea University

  • Martim Brandao, King's College London

  • Malcolm Strens, Consultant

  • Tim Santos, Graphcore

  • Suzie Abbs, Dstl

 

17:00

Closing statements and best poster award

Back to: Centre for Doctoral Training in Distributed Algorithms