Research Day - Computer science is transforming society
NEWS
Computer science is transforming our society and our lives. We hear news all the time about intelligent robots exploring mars, big data centers that support social networks such as Facebook. There are few people, however, that can tell us how these technologies actually work.
In order to close the gap between research and society, on Friday, December 7th, the Department of Computing Science of Umeå University will hold a Research Day. This is an open door event, during which the research groups of the department will describe their research in an informal and accessible way.
This event is a great opportunity for students, collegues, and the general public to learn more about what goes on at the Department of Computing Science. It is our hope that this will help strengthen our cooperation with other departments, local industry, and the region at large.
The talks will be held in English and will cover a wide range of subjects. Here are some samples of questions that will be addressed:
•How can computer science contribute to the analysis of literature? •How can information technology support medical diagnosis? •How smart can the smart kitchen get? •Why did the Swedish Research Councel give one of its largest grants ever to cloud computing research in Umeå and Lund? •How do we make the best possible use of the large scale parallel computing systems that are now available? •How can math and computing help design the perfect speaker? •How intelligent can a robot be? •How do you make a forestry machine do its job without a driver?
Agenda: 10:10-10:15Welcome 10:15-10:45Research group: Natural and Formal Languages Speaker: Frank Drewes Title: Research Directions and Projects of the Natural and Formal Languages Group 10:45-11:30Research group: User Interaction and Knowledge Modelling Speaker: Helena Lindgren, Title: User, Interaction and Knowledge Modelling for the Provision of Personalised Support in Daily Work and Everyday Life Speaker: Dipak Surie Title: Kitchen AS-A-PAL: Towards Domestic Computing using Smart Sensing, Recognition and Interaction Technologies Speaker: Juan Carlos Nieves Title: Reasoning in Smart Environments 11:30-12:15Research group: Cloud and Grid Computing Speaker: Erik Elmonth Title: Cloud Control - Challenges and plans for a recently funded VR framework project Speaker: Francisco Hernandez Title: Behind the screen; facilitating the development of high speed Internet services 12:15-13:30Lunch Break 13:30-14:15Research group: Parallel and Scientific Computing Speakers: Lars Karlsson, Bo Kågström Title: Efficient and Reliable Algorithms and Software Tools for Matrix Computations in Applications 14:15-14:30Coffee break 14:30:-15:00Research group: Design Optimization Speaker: Eddie Wadbro Title: Material distribution techniques for wave propagation problems 15:00-15:45Research group: Intelligent Robotics Speaker: Thomas Hellström Title: Intelligent Robotics Speaker: Erik Billing Title: Composer - A prototype for sharing system information 15:45Closing
