The 5th York Doctoral Symposium on Computer Science (YDS 2012) will be hosted by the University of York's Department of Computer Science in association with the Department of Electronics. YDS 2012 will be held on the 8th November 2012 in the Ron Cooke Hub building on the new Heslington East campus.
YDS 2012 wil be hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the University of York on the Heslington East campus.
Thanks to generous support from the Department of Electronics, we have expanded the topics list for YDS 2012 to encompass research from the field of Electronic Engineering.
YDS 2012 will be held in the Ron Cooke Hub on the Heslington East campus at the University of York.
The symposium is an opportunity for research students to present early ideas and work-in-progress to their peers, and receive valuable feedback.
In addition to research student presentations, symposium delegates are treated to engaging presentations from prominent academic and industrial keynote speakers.
The poster session provides authors with an opportunity to design and create posters that describe early stage work, and to discuss their research in a more informal setting.
Industrial sponsors may host recruitment stands at the symposium, providing them with an opportunity to interact with research students.
The goal of the symposium is to bring together doctoral students from around the UK and Europe to share and exchange their research and ideas with others. The hope is that by bringing students together from a wide range of areas, we can promote interdisciplinary research, as well as allow doctoral students to gain experience presenting their work to colleagues.
To help you relive the day, the photos from YDS 2012 are now on our photos page.
If you missed YDS 2012 and want to see the presentations (or perhaps you just enjoyed them so much that you want to watch again), they can be found on youtube.
YDS 2012 was a great success, with over 75 delegates attending the talks throughout the day. Delegates came from the Departments of Computer Science and Electronics from the University of York, with approximately 20% of the participants from external institutions.
The day included 8 research talks by students, on a wide range of subjects from modelling of biological systems to ad-hoc formation of communication networks in disaster scenarios. In addition, YDS hosted two keynote speakers; Patrick Dantressangle from IBM spoke about GaianDB and the Challenges of Distributed Databases and Prof. Dr. Kerstin Dautenhahn from the University of Hertfordshire presented her research on using Social Robots as Assistants, looking at using robots as therapeutic aids for children with autism.
There was also an industrial panel session, where the delegates had the opportunity to question representatives from our sponsors (Jon Sandles from IBM, Dr. Andrew Coombes from Rapita and James Nugent from Google). The session was very well received by the delegates, who asked probing questions about the differences between staying an academia and moving into industry after completion of their studies.
Throughout the day, 12 research posters were on display in the Atrium of the Ron Cooke Hub. This facilitated the discussion of the research with a wide audience, not limited to those attending YDS, engaging both undergraduate and postgraduate students from outside of the Departments of Computer Science and Electronics in the cutting edge research presented.
Although YDS 2012 is now over, the planning for YDS 2013 is underway.
Videos of the YDS 2012 presentations are now available.
Photos from YDS 2012 can be found here.