COMBI Group Seminars
The COMBI group seminars and journal club will tentatively take place during 3-4pm on Tuesdays in CS.007 unless specified otherwise. Please check this page regularly for updated schedule of COMBI seminars and journal club discussions.
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Schedule for Spring 2014
| Week | Date | Day / Time | Activity | Topic | Presenter / Discussion Lead |
Venue |
| 06 Mar | Thu 3pm | Journal Club | Dynamical estimation of neuron and network properties II: Path integral Monte Carlo methods. Biol Cybern. 2012 Mar;106(3):155-67. | Wenlian Lu (Warwick) | ||
| 14 Mar | Fri 4pm | Journal Club |
Bayesian approaches for multi-scale data with application to neuroimaging data.
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Wanlu Deng (Warwick) | CS.101 | |
| Journal Club |
A Self-Organizing State-Space-Model Approach for Parameter Estimation in Hodgkin-Huxley-Type Models of Single Neurons.
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Zhiliang Deng (Mathematics, Warwick) |
Schedule for Autumn 2013
| Week | Date | Day / Time | Activity | Topic | Presenter / Discussion Lead | Venue |
| 03 Dec | Tue 3pm | Seminar | Entropy in Patients with Schizophrenia | Ye Yao (Warwick) | CS.007 | |
| 10 Dec | Tue 3pm | Seminar | Discretized Tikhonov regularization method for a fractional backward heat conduction problem | Zhiliang Deng (Mathematics, Warwick) | CS.104 |
Schedule for Summer 2013
| Week | Date | Day / Time | Activity | Topic | Presenter / Discussion Lead | Venue |
| 30 April | Tue 3pm | Seminar | A stochastic neurodynamics approach to schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and ageing | Edmund Rolls (Warwick, Oxford) | CS.007 | |
| 07 May | Tue 3pm | no seminar this week | CS.007 | |||
| 14 May | Tue 3pm | Seminar | Compilation Issues in Synthetic Biology | Sara Kalvala (Warwick) | CS.007 | |
| 21 May | Tue 3pm | Seminar | Learning causal networks on time series data | Wanlu Deng (Peking University, Warwick) | CS.104 | |
| 28 May | Tue 3pm | Seminar | Computational models of resting state activity in normal and schizophrenic brains | Bing Xu (Warwick) | CS.104 | |
| 04 June | Tue 3pm | Seminar | Non-parametric Bayesian modelling of digital gene expression data | Dimitris Vavoulis (Bristol) | CS.104 | |
| 11 June | Tue 2pm | Seminar | Introduction to Deep Belief Networks | Leigh Robinson (Warwick) | CS.104 | |
| 1st July | Mon 3pm | Seminar | Computational modelling in epilepsy | Prof. John Terry (Exeter) | CS.104 |
Schedule for Spring 2013
| Week | Date | Day / Time | Activity | Topic | Presenter / Discussion Lead | Venue |
| 15 Jan | Tue 3pm | Seminar | Imaging the at-risk mental state for psychosis | M. Broome (Warwick, Medical School) | CS.007 | |
| 29 Jan | Tue 3pm | Journal club | Kernel Methods in Population-based Association Studies | Tian Ge (Warwick, Computer Science) | CS.007 | |
| 05 feb | Tue 3pm | Seminar | Random genetic drift: developments of diffusion analysis | David Waxman (Fudan, Shanghai) | CS.007 | |
| 12 feb | Tue 3pm | Journal Club | Bayesian statistical modeling of spatially correlated error structure in atmospheric tracer inverse analysis | Yu Wu (DCS, Warwick) | CS.007 | |
| 18 feb | Tue 3pm | Journal Club | Low dimensional behavior of large systems of globally coupled oscillators | Ye Yao (DCS, Warwick) | CS.007 | |
| 26 feb | Tue 3pm | Seminar | An Introduction to Community Detection In this talk I would give a review of community detection in network studies, from a statistical perspective. My thoughts about the connection and difference between parametric and nonparametric methods, challenges aroused by extending theoretical results from dense graphs to sparse graphs will also be presented. |
Yi Yu (Statistics, Cambridge) | CS.007 | |
| 5 March | Tue 3pm | Seminar | Large scale networks and psychiatric disorders | L. Palaniyappan (Institute of Mental Health, Nottingham) | CS.007 |
Schedule for Autumn 2012
| Week | Date | Day / Time | Activity | Topic | Presenter / Discussion Lead | Venue |
| 2 | 9 October | Tue 3pm | Seminar | Precuneus as the locus of schizophrenia: evidences from multi-modal brain images and genetics | Weilan Lu | CS.007 |
| 3 | 16 October | Tue 3pm | Journal Club | A Whole-Cell Computational Model Predicts Phenotype from Genotype Cell, Vol. 150, No. 2. (20 July 2012), pp. 389-401 |
Christophe Ladroue | CS.007 |
| 4 | 23 October | Tue 3pm | External Speaker | Neurobehavioural analysis of reinforcement and its relevance for substance abuse: results from the IMAGEN study. |
CS.007 | |
| 5 | 31 October | Wed 2pm | Seminar | Using Python for rapid prototyping of VisNet, a neural network for invariant real-world object recognition. POSTPONED |
Tristan Webb | CS.101 |
| 6 | 06 November | Tue 3pm | Seminar | Active Contours for Medical Image Segmentation | Victor Sanchez | CS.007 |
| 7 | 13 November | Tue 3pm | Seminar | A manifold learning approach to modelling cell shape space, with biological and clinical applications. | Sam Jefferyes | CS.007 |
| 3 | 20 November | Tue 3pm | Seminar | A Bayesian Spatial Model and the Estimation of Spatially Varying Coefficients with Application to Multiple Sclerosis MRI Data | Ge Tian | CS.007 |
| 9 | 27 November | Tue 3pm | TBA | CS.007 | ||
| 10 | 04 December | Tue 3pm | Seminar | Using Python for rapid prototyping of VisNet, a neural network for invariant real-world object recognition. | Tristan Webb | CS.007 |
Schedule for Spring 2012
| Week | Date | Day / Time | Activity | Topic | Presenter / Discussion Lead | Venue |
| 9 | 6 Mar, 2012 | Tue 3pm | External Speaker | Object and face recognition: computational modelling of the ventral visual pathway | James Tromans (Oxford University) | CS.007 |
| 8 | 28 Feb, 2012 | Tue 3pm | Journal Club | Deep Belief Networks | Leigh Robinson | CS.007 |
| 7 | 21 Feb, 2012 | Tue 3pm | Journal Club | Shape Analysis of Elastic Curves in Euclidean Spaces, IEEE TPAMI, 33(7):1415-1428, July 2011 | Sam Jefferyes | CS.007 |
| 5 | 9 Feb, 2012 | Thu 3pm | External Speaker | The Human Connectome: Organization and characterization of hierarchical brain networks | Prof Marcus Kaiser (Newcastle University) | CS.101 |
| 3 | 26 Jan, 2012 | Tue 2pm | External Speaker | Tissue Biomarker Research and Clinical Practice with Digital Pathology | Prof Peter Hamilton (Queen's University, Belfast) | CS.007 |
| 3 | 24 Jan, 2012 | Tue 3pm | Journal Club | Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets, Science, 334(6062):1518-1524, Jan 2012 | Yu Wu | CS.007 |
Schedule for Autumn 2011
| Week | Date | Day / Time | Activity | Topic | Presenter / Discussion Lead | Venue |
| 8 | 23 Nov, 2011 | Wed 3pm | Seminar | Robust alignment of multi-tag bioimages | Shan-e-Ahmed Raza | CS.007 |
| 7 | 16 Nov, 2011 | Wed 3pm | Seminar | An introduction to imaging genetics and the random field theory | Tian Ge | CS.104 |
| 6 | 9 Nov, 2011 | Wed 3pm | Seminar | Bifurcations of emergent bursting in a neuronal network | Yu Wu | CS.007 |
| 5 | 2 Nov, 2011 | Wed 3pm | Seminar | Exploring Filtration Effects in Dendritic Morphology: a Cable-Theoretic Approach | Quentin Caudron | D1.07 (Complexity) |
| 3 | 20 Oct, 2011 | Thu 4pm | Dept Seminar | Cel, Images, and Numbers | Prof Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin (Institut Pasteur) | CS.101 |
| 2 | 14 Oct, 2011 | Fri 10am |
External Speaker | CaMKII in dendritic spines in silico | Prof Shahid Khan (IAS Visiting Fellow, MBC & LUMS) et al. | CS.007 |
| 2 | 13 Oct, 2011 | Thu 9am-5pm | Workshop | IAS-sponsored one-day workshop on Self-Organization of Cytoskeletal Networks | Prof Shahid Khan (IAS Visiting Fellow, MBC & LUMS) | T.008 (CTU, WMS) |
Schedule for Summer 2011
| Week | Date | Day / Time | Activity | Topic | Presenter / Discussion Lead | Venue |
| 11 | 5 July, 2011 | Tue 1pm | Seminar | Application of Negative Correlation in Neural Information Processing and Image Reconstruction | Dr Yan-Mei Kang | CS.101 |
| 10 | 29 June, 2011 | Wed 2pm | Seminar | A self-organising state-space model approach for parameter estimation in Hodgkin-Huxley-type models of single neurones | Dr Dimitris Vavoulis | CS.101 |
| 9 | 21 June, 2011 | Tue | Seminar | Introduction to VisNet | Leigh Robinson | CS.101 |
| 8 | 14 June, 2011 | Tue | Seminar | Modelling the shape manifolds of migrating cells | Sam Jefferyes (Warwick Systems Biology) | CS.101 |
| 7 | 6 June, 2011 | Mon 11am | Seminar | Is the organization of the chromosomes conserved through evolution? -- A comparison study between human and mouse intra- and inter-chromosomal interactions | Dr Jing Kang (BI, Cambridge) | CS.101 |
| 5 | 24 May, 2011 | Tue | Journal Club | The Brain's Dark Energy by Raichle, SciAm'2010 | Tian Ge | CS.101 |
| 5 | 23 May, 2011 | Mon | External Speaker | Visual Recognition of Human Action | Prof Mubarak Shah (UCF) | CS.101 |
| 4 | 17 May, 2011 | Tue | External Speaker | A Radiological Iceberg, We only see the tip! | Prof Charles Hutchinson (WMS) | CS.101 |
| 3 | 10 May, 2011 | Tue | External Speaker | Image Analysis Approaches for Plant Phenotyping | Dr Yu Song (BioSS) | CS.101 |
| 3 | 10 May, 2011 | Tue 11am | External Speaker | A model for all genomes: the role of RNA polymerases immobilized in specialized factories | Prof Peter Cook (Oxford) | CS.007 |
Schedule for Spring 2011
| Week | Date | Day / Time | Activity | Topic | Presenter / Discussion Lead | Venue |
| 9 | 10 Mar, 2011 | Thu 4pm | Dept Seminar | Engines of self organization: mechanochemical cell biology of kinesins and microtubules | Prof Rob Cross (CMCB, WMS) | CS.104 |
| 9 | 8 Mar, 2011 | Tue | External Speaker | Network models for cancer signalling | Dr Sach Mukherjee (Warwick ComCom) | CS.101 |
| 8 | 1 Mar, 2011 | Tue | Seminar | Chromosome transcription dynamics: gene point model and polymer chain model | Jing Kang & Bing Xu | CS.101 |
| 7 | 24 Feb, 2011 | Thu 4pm | Dept Seminar | How the Brain Computes and Decides | Prof Edmund Rolls | CS.104 |
| 7 | 22 Feb, 2011 | Tue | Journal Club | Complex brain networks: graph theoretical analysis of structural and functional systems, Bullmore & Sporns, Nature Rev. Neurosc. 2009 | Tian Ge | CS.101 |
| 6 | 18 Feb, 2011 | Fri 12pm | External Speaker | The role of nuclear organization in coordinate expression of co-regulated genes | Dr Peter Fraser (Cambridge) | CS.007 |
| 6 | 15 Feb, 2011 | Tue | External Speaker | Meeting challenges in biodata analysis using cognitive technologies and learning algorithms | Dr Tim Nattkemper (Bielefeld) | CS.101 |
| 5 | 8 Feb, 2011 | Tue | Journal Club | Statistical Properties of Community Structure in Large Social and Information Networks by Leskove et al., WWW'2008 | Nasir Rajpoot & Tristan Webb | CS.101 |
| 4 | 1 Feb, 2011 | Tue | Journal Club | Erdos Renyi Mixture Model, a probabilistic model for estimating communities in binary networks:
Deciphering the connectivity structure of biological networks using MixNet by Picard et al., BMC Bioinformatics'2009. |
Dr Thomas Nichols | CS.101 |
| 3 | 25 Jan, 2011 | Tue | Journal Club | Clustering by passing messages between data points by Frey & Dueck, Science'2008.
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Prof Jianfeng Feng & Dr Nasir Rajpoot | CS.101 |
| 2 | 18 Jan, 2011 | Tue | Seminar | Brain mechanisms for invariant object recognition |
Prof Edmund Rolls | CS.101 |
| 1 | 11 Jan, 2011 | Tue | Journal Club | Two views of brain function by Raichle, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2010. |
Tristan Webb | CS.104 |
Future Journal Clubs
Ideas and voting for papers will done through our website. Please visit this page to submit paper ideas or vote on the submission.
