Postgraduate Conference

The conference will take place on Friday 5 September 2008 in Te Riu RGS2 in the Richardson Building (the new Te Tumu wing in the School of Maori, Pacific and Indigenous Studies).

Programme

Presentations will be given by the following students.

  1. Lech Szymanski: Maximum margin classifier neural networks
  2. Ignas Kukenys: Cascades of Support Vector Machines for Face Detection
  3. Robert Visser: Finding passive dynamics in dog locomotion
  4. Andres Newball-Navarro: Londra: An expressive virtual dog
  5. Lyn Azmi: Simulated Mechanics for Education and Games
  6. Swen Huebner: Beliefs, Belief Change, and Disbeliefs
  7. Tim Huang: Transactional Memory and VOPP
  8. Halizah Basiron: Assessing inter-coder agreement on error annotation: The Kappa and Alpha reliability tests
  9. Andrew Cahill: Continual learning in reinforcement environments
  10. Tom Harper: Solving Differential Equations using Neural Networks
  11. Travis Monk: Investigation of synaptic plasticity by means of optimal control theory

Timetable

9.00Travis
9.30Halizah
10.00Ignas
10.30Coffee
11.00Lech
11.30Tom
12.00Swen
12.30Lunch
2.00Robert
2.30Tim
3.00Andres
3.30Tea
4.00Andrew
4.30Lyn