Wednesday 17th May 2006, Bramber House, University of Sussex

Morning — 9.30

Conference Centre, Level 3 Bramber House — by invitation only

The morning programme will include presentations on: Informatics courses and industrially-relevant skills; recruiting Sussex graduates; opportunities for applied research and consultancy; intellectual property and commercialisation; and schemes funding student and graduate placements. There will be a buffet lunch giving an opportunity to network with members of faculty.

If you would like to attend the morning programme, please contact Sally Wright, Regional Development Office, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9SB, tel: 01273 873297, email: sally.wright@sussex.ac.uk

Download an invitation to the event here.

Afternoon — 13.00 onwards

Level 1 Bramber House — open to all

Exhibition with interactive presentations of current research, and DPhil students' poster display. The following groups will be represented:

Bioinformatics and Machine Learning: neural computation; theory, applications of machine learning

Computer Vision: interpretation of images, image sequences

Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems: computational biology; evolutionary and adaptive technology; insect, robot navigation; creative systems

Foundations of Computation: understanding, specifying, verifying behaviour of programs; methods, associated software tools

IDEAs Lab: design of interactive learning environments; effective underpinning pedagogical frameworks

Interact Lab: relationships between people and technologies; ubiquitous, tangible, collaborative computing

Natural Language Processing: computer processing of human language; basic technologies, applications

Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: conceptual foundations of computational/robotic models, explanations of mind

Representation and Cognition: cognitive theories; representation in reasoning, problem solving, learning

Software Systems: compilers for embedded systems; user-centred networking; programming languages for pervasive computing

Space Science Centre: space weather monitoring instruments; data interpretation, science exploitation

Centre for VLSI and Computer Graphics: software systems for graphics, virtual/augmented reality, virtual prototyping, simulation

The exhibition will conclude at 15.30 with a talk and award of the best DPhil poster prize by Prof Alasdair Smith, Vice Chancellor of the University of Sussex.