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The TRANSIT Project is funded by the EPSRC under their Bridging the Gaps programme. We are using the project at the University of York to address specific issues of awareness, interaction and resources to encourage a productive and creative research climate of COMING, THINKING and WORKING together.
COMING together
People-based physical activities that bring the community together and enrich the cross-disciplinary culture (link to Central Calendar).
eg. TRANSITday (Friday) > Seminars and Visitors > Opportunity to discuss and network
THINKING together
Creative ways of stimulating debate and interaction.
eg. Discussion and networking > Use of creative techniques > workshops, virtual fora
WORKING together
Resources to kick-start innovative work and cross-disciplinary scholarships.
eg. Time, space, resources > Venture Fund > Scholarship programme
We believe that by providing the time, space and resources for coming together, thinking together and working together we will be able to bridge the gaps between disciplines and develop a truly collaborative and creative transdisciplinary research culture at the University of York.
Click here to find out more about the project.
Time:
12 Feb 2010 - 13:15 - 15:15
Speaker:
Prof Tom Stoneham, Department of Philosophy, York
Location:
Wentworth Common Room
Time:
12 Mar 2010 - 13:15 - 15:15
Speaker:
Sara Kalvala, Warwick University, Computational Biology
Location:
Wentworth Common Room
Time:
15 Jan 2010 - 13:15 - 15:15
Speaker:
Prof Alan Winfield, Professor of Electronic Engineering, UWE
Location:
Wentworth Common Room
http://www.ias.uwe.ac.uk/~a-wi...
Time:
17 Nov 2009 - 15:30 - 16:30
Speaker:
Pietro Speroni di Fenizio, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Abstract
I first show how reaction networks are at the base of the various disciplines in artificial life. I then describe Chemical Organization Theory, which helps us to study novelty in reaction networks, and see what results this method gives us inside the various sub-fields of artificial life and related systems; from artificial chemistries to simulated ecologies, to agent based models, to the most general system: chemistry.
Time:
6 Nov 2009 - 13:15 - 15:15
Speaker:
Caspar Macindoe, Geometrical Sculptor
Location:
Wenworth Common Room
An introduction to the geometric work of Casper Macindoe, 'Prime Tori', and the relationship between simple shapes and complex systems.
Time:
16 Oct 2009 - 13:15 - 15:15
Speaker:
David Lauder, European Project Office
Location:
Wentworth Common Room
Time:
27 Nov 2009 - 13:15 - 15:15
Speaker:
Carole Knibbe, Université C. Bernard Lyon
Location:
Wentworth Common Room
Abstract
At first sight, evolution is a rather simple process, resulting from the combination of two distinct facts, mutation and natural selection. However, the discovery that the mechanisms of mutation are partly under genetic control gave rise to a more complex picture, where the amount of variability can itself be subject to selection. Living systems may thus not only be shaped by selection for fitness, but also by a selection for robustness and evolvability.
Time:
24 Jul 2009 - 13:15 - 15:15
Speaker:
Dr Paul Christian, School of Chemistry, Uni of Manchester
Location:
Wentworth Common Room
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Time:
14 Jul 2009 - 09:30 - 16:30
Speaker:
Facilitator: Caryn Swartz
Location:
Wentworth Common Room
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Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats®
Time:
19 Jun 2009 - 13:15 - 14:15
Speaker:
Prof Susan Stepney
Location:
Computer Science
L-systems are parallel generative grammars that can model branching structures. Taking a graphical object and attempting to derive an L-system describing it is a hard problem. Grammatical Evolution (GE) is an evolutionary technique aimed at creating grammars describing the legal structures an object can take. We use GE to evolve L-systems, and investigate the effect of elitism, and the form of the underlying grammar. (This is "another chance to see" the CEC presentation)
Time:
26 Jun 2009 - 13:15 - 15:15
Speaker:
Professor David Howard, Department of Electronics, York
Location:
Wentworth Common Room
Abstract
This talk will describe work that looked into what would be needed to create a Virtual Cocoon, that is a device that stimulates all five senses in such a way that the user really believes s/he is somewhere else. This we term "Real Virtuality" to distinguish it from the more commonly used "Virtual Reality".
Time:
17 Jul 2009 - 13:15 - 15:15
Location:
Wentworth Common Room
Abstract
You have just implemented a new bio-inspired algorithm, tested it on some handy data, and got a result of 78.91%, whereas the best in the literature is 78.82%. It's better! You can write a paper!
Or can you? *Is* it better? What do those numbers actually mean? If it *is* (statistically significantly) better, is the difference *important* enough that others will want to use you algorithm? Most importantly, how can you convince the referees that this is the case?
Time:
4 Sep 2009 - 13:15 - 15:15
Speaker:
TRANSIT Project Students
Location:
Wentworth Common Room
This seminar will be from the 2009 TRANSIT Scholars who are working on a range of projects with supervisors from within the YCCSA community. Speakers will be:
Matthew Lang
Coupled Dynamical Systems
Supervisor: Professor Susan Stepney
(slides)
Time:
10 Jul 2009 - 13:15 - 15:15
Speaker:
Janine Illian, University of St Andrews
Location:
Wentworth Common Room
Most processes in the natural world take place in a spatial context and are often inherently local, particularly in plant ecology. As a result, spatially explicit data sets are frequently being collected in ecology. Previously this has been perceived as a difficulty since traditional statistical approaches are unsuitable in the presence of spatial autocorrelation. However, recent years have seen an increasing interest in explicitly modelling this spatial dependence. Spatial point processes model the locations of objects such as individual plants, animals, nests in space.
Speaker:
Elva Robinson, School of Biological Sciences, Bristol
Location:
Wentworth Common Room
Abstract
Ant colonies have been used as model systems for the study of self-organisation. Viewing ants as identical agents following simple rules has led to many insights into the emergence of complex behaviours. However, real biological ants are far from identical in behaviour. Advances in radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology have allowed for the first time automatic monitoring of whole ant colonies at the individual level. This technology has provided new insights into the role of the individual within the colony.
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