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  1. Explorathon 2023 presents Bright Club

    Explorathon 2023 presents Bright Club

    The thinking person's comedy night

    A brand new thinking person's comedy night, where Dr Bobbie May becomes a stand-up comedian. Topics of every flavour are set to stimulate our funny bones...

  2. CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    The speaker is Jim Davis, who is visiting from the University of Richmond. Title: GAP and difference sets Abstract: The computer program GAP has played an...

  3. CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    Chris Brown will speak on "Semi-Automatic Ladderisation: Improving Code Security through Rewriting and Dependent Types", and Victoria Ironmonger...

  4. Charles-St Andrews: Academic synergy (hybrid event)

    Charles-St Andrews: Academic synergy (hybrid event)

    Charles-St Andrews strategic partnership

    This hybrid event can be accessed online, and is part of a "University of St Andrews day" at Charles University. It is intended for University...

  5. Global South Connections -- co-ordinated by IBANS
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    Global South Connections -- co-ordinated by IBANS

    Come along to meet people and share your experiences of moving to St Andrews

    The Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences is pleased to host a catered lunch for all staff and postgraduate students from or based in the Global South....

  6. Supply chain cinema: producing global film workers

    Supply chain cinema: producing global film workers

    Film Studies Speaker Series: Dr Kay Dickinson

    Dr Kay Dickinson will introduce her upcoming book Supply chain cinema: producing global film workers (BFI, 2024). Why are big budget films typically made across...

  7. Dr Juliane Kaminski (Portsmouth): 'Through a dog's eyes...'

    Dr Juliane Kaminski (Portsmouth): 'Through a dog's eyes...'

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    In recent decades, dogs have become one of the most popular animal species in comparative psychology. One reason for this is the unique evolutionary history of...

  8. A job guarantee for Scotland?
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    A job guarantee for Scotland?

    With the rise of AI and casualised work, and the drive to transition away from polluting industries, the ability people have to keep themselves employed has...

  9. Lights and Lazers: Equate and Opening up Photonics

    Lights and Lazers: Equate and Opening up Photonics

    A speaker and networking event on biophotonics.

    This event is open to all women & non-binary students in STEM subjects at Scottish Universities and Colleges. Equate is delighted to be partnering with...

  10. Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees

    Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Dr Edwin van Leeuwen (Utrecht): "Social learning and cumulative culture in chimpanzees", hosted by Prof Andy Whiten.

  11. Energy Cafe: Radical action from above

    Energy Cafe: Radical action from above

    The World Commission on Dams and the making of global guidelines for the planning and construction of large dams

    Hosted by Christopher Schulz Large dams are back on the global development agenda. Researchers have counted thousands of dam projects that are currently planned...

  12. Shiwen Li (Oxford): The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence

    Shiwen Li (Oxford): The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Shiwen Li (Oxford): "The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence -- what humans and bumblebees have taught us", hosted...

  13. The social origins of language and thought: Professor Robert Seyfarth (U Penn)

    The social origins of language and thought: Professor Robert Seyfarth (U Penn)

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Professor Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on: 'The social origins of language and...

  14. Neural mechanisms of episodic memory formation: Implications for Neurotech

    Neural mechanisms of episodic memory formation: Implications for Neurotech

    Prof Simon Hanslmayr (University of Glasgow)

    Weekly Friday Seminar hosted by the School of Psychology and Neuroscience. Professor Simon Hanslmayr (University of Glasgow) will be hosted by Prof James Ainge...

  15. Dr Marcus Perlman (Birmingham): 'Language is Iconic to the Core'

    Dr Marcus Perlman (Birmingham): 'Language is Iconic to the Core'

    Preceded by a PhD talk from Alexandra Safryghin (St Andrews): 'Commonalities and group differences in the communicative efficiency of chimpanzee gesturing'

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar. At 12:30 pm, Alexandra Safryghin will deliver her presentation on her PhD research titled "Commonalities...

  16. CHANGED DATE: Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): Interventions to help young people spot misinformation

    CHANGED DATE: Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): Interventions to help young people spot misinformation

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Dr Yvonne Skipper (Glasgow): "But wait that's not real. Co-creating interventions to help young people spot online misinformation", hosted by...

  17. Digital Geographies and the City: Methodologies of Hope

    Digital Geographies and the City: Methodologies of Hope

    Public Lecture by Professor Sarah Elwood, 23/24 Senior Global Fellow

    About In many places, digitally-mediated urbanism is ubiquitous, violent and unequal, as techno capitalist development processes and the platformization of...

  18. Prof Alistair Lawrence (SRUC): The science, relevance, and challenge of positive animal welfare

    Prof Alistair Lawrence (SRUC): The science, relevance, and challenge of positive animal welfare

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Prof Alistair Lawrence, (Scotland's Rural College), will present on "The science, relevance, and challenge of positive animal welfare", hosted...

  19. CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    Edwin Brady will speak on "The Idris Programming Language", and Jon Fraser will speak on "Fourier analysis in finite fields". All...

  20. Katerina Mentzou (Dundee): Engaging with Parliament: how academics can communicate their research

    Katerina Mentzou (Dundee): Engaging with Parliament: how academics can communicate their research

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Katerina Mentzou (University of Dundee) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on "Engaging with Parliament: how academics can communicate their...

  21. Doors Open @ Computer Science

    Doors Open @ Computer Science

    Join us to discuss ideas and opportunities to collaborate with the School

    Our Doors Open Day includes 60+ individual demos and workshops. Presenting these will be our staff and students, with representation from 1st year right through...

  22. Professor Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania): 'The Social Origins of Language and Thought'

    Professor Robert Seyfarth (University of Pennsylvania): 'The Social Origins of Language and Thought'

    Preceded by a PhD talk from Gal Badihi (St Andrews): 'The Influence of Social Dynamics on The Gestural Communication of East African Chimpanzees'

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar. At 12:30 pm, Gal Badihi will deliver her presentation on her PhD research titled "The Influence of Social...

  23. Dr Alejandro Sanchez Amaro (Stirling): "On how captive socio-ecology influences chimpanzees"

    Dr Alejandro Sanchez Amaro (Stirling): "On how captive socio-ecology influences chimpanzees"

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    On how captive socio-ecology influences captive chimpanzees' competitiveness and other curiosities Over the last decades, captive researchers have...

  24. Dr Raghavendra Selvan (Copenhagen): "Representation Learning for Multi-Modal Machine Learning"

    Dr Raghavendra Selvan (Copenhagen): "Representation Learning for Multi-Modal Machine Learning"

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Abstract: Recent class of Machine Learning (ML) algorithms driving artificial intelligence (AI) are primarily based on deep learning. These classes of methods...

  25. The 2023 Neil Smith Lecture: Professor Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto
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    The 2023 Neil Smith Lecture: Professor Deborah Cowen, University of Toronto

    Deadly Lifeworlds and Palliative Politics: Colonial Infrastructure and Beyond

    Logistics has become the preeminent calculative science of the contemporary martial and corporate regime of motion. Frequent disruption of ports, canals, pipes,...

  26. Jamais vu: Ig Nobel Prize-Winning Research into the Curiously Common Opposite of Deja vu

    Jamais vu: Ig Nobel Prize-Winning Research into the Curiously Common Opposite of Deja vu

    Talk by Akira O'Connor

    Akira O'Connor, Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology & Neuroscience, will give a talk on his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research on jamais vu....

  27. Women in Science at St Andrews: panel discussion on progress and future directions

    Women in Science at St Andrews: panel discussion on progress and future directions

    Panel discussion with four Principal's office members to celebrate, inspire and promote Women in Science

    Five years ago, University Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE, said: "In St Andrews, as in other UK higher education...

  28. Duties of care: health, disability, and access in the screen industries

    Duties of care: health, disability, and access in the screen industries

    Film Studies Speaker Series: Dr Leshu Torchin

    This presentation maps out a research project in the making that investigates disability inclusion schemes within the UK screen industries, and specifically the...

  29. Dr Andrew Macaskill (UCL): Internal state-dependent control of feeding behaviour via the hippocampus

    Dr Andrew Macaskill (UCL): Internal state-dependent control of feeding behaviour via the hippocampus

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Internal state dependent control of feeding behaviour via hippocampal ghrelin signalling. Hunger is an internal state that not only invigorates feeding, but...

  30. CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    Ursula Martin and Mun See Chang will speak at this lunchtime seminar on 'The Social Machine of Mathematics'. Abstract: How does mathematics come...

  31. CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    The last CIRCA seminar of the semester will be on April 11th. Ian Gent and Jiaping Lu wil speak. Jiaping's title Generation of Iterated Wreath Products of...

  32. School of Psychology and Neuroscience -- Friday Seminar

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience -- Friday Seminar

    On Friday 22nd, at 12noon we'll have Shiwen Li (Oxford) present on "The sensory, perceptual, and behavioural trajectories of iridescence --...

  33. CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    There will be a CIRCA lunchtime seminar on 14th March at 1pm in Theatre D of Maths. Peiran Wu and Yayi Zhu will speak. Peiran's Title: Irredundant bases...

  34. St Leonard's Lecture Series

    St Leonard's Lecture Series

    Following the success so far of the St Leonard's Lecture Series 2023-2024, St Leonard's College and the Graduate School for Interdisciplinary...

  35. CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    There will be a CIRCA lunchtime seminar on 28th March at 1pm in Theatre D of Maths. David Stewart (University of Manchester) will speak. Title: You need 27...

  36. National Taiwan University-St Andrews online research forum

    National Taiwan University-St Andrews online research forum

    The University of St Andrews has developed a partnership with the National Taiwan University (NTU). This institutional link, which was supported by the School...

  37. Public Lecture by Professor Anne Knowles, (University of Maine), 2023/24 Global Fellow

    Public Lecture by Professor Anne Knowles, (University of Maine), 2023/24 Global Fellow

    Mapping Genocide - What numbers and location can, and cannot, tell us about the Holocaust

    In this lecture, Professor Knowles, a leading practitioner of historical GIS, will contrast counting and mapping data about 1,142 Holocaust ghettos to the...

  38. IBANS --- Leap into a new collaboration!
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    IBANS --- Leap into a new collaboration!

    Come and join our ECR Networking Lunch - all welcome

    The Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences (IBANS) is hosting a networking lunch for Early Stage Researchers (PIs, Postdocs, PhD and Masters levels) on...

  39. Book Launch -- Author Meets Critique

    Book Launch -- Author Meets Critique

    'Engineering Reality' with Cornelia Helmcke

    During this book launch event, author Cornelia Helmcke will meet critics Bibiana Duarte-Abadía (Wageningen University) and Christopher Schulz (University of St...

  40. Prof Manuel Spitschan (MPI): What does the eye tell the clock?

    Prof Manuel Spitschan (MPI): What does the eye tell the clock?

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Prof Manuel Spitschan (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen): "What does the eye tell the clock? Mechanisms underlying the impact of...

  41. CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    CIRCA lunchtime seminar

    Our speakers are: Carla Biermann Title: Sampling solutions to constraint satisfaction problems Abstract: State-of-the-art constraint programming solvers have...

  42. IBANS -- Leap into a new collaboration!
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    IBANS -- Leap into a new collaboration!

    Come and join our ECR Networking Lunch - all welcome

    The Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences (IBANS) is hosting a networking lunch for Early Stage Researchers (PIs, Postdocs, PhD and Masters levels) on...

  43. Global South Connections -- co-ordinated by IBANS
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    Global South Connections -- co-ordinated by IBANS

    Come along to meet people and share your experiences of moving to St Andrews

    The Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences is pleased to host a catered lunch for all staff and postgraduate students from or based in the Global South....

  44. Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nissa Finney

    Inaugural Lecture by Professor Nissa Finney

    Race, Place and Home

    In the early 2000s it was claimed that Britain was 'sleepwalking to segregation'. Twenty years on an average neighbourhood in Britain is more...

  45. Distinguished Lecture Series

    Distinguished Lecture Series

    The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI

    We look forward to welcoming Prof Neil Lawrence, Cambridge who will talk about 'The Atomic Human: Understanding Ourselves in the Age of AI'. A vital...

  46. Language is iconic to the core: Dr Markus Perlman (Birmingham)

    Language is iconic to the core: Dr Markus Perlman (Birmingham)

    School of Psychology and Neuroscience Seminar

    Dr Markus Perlman (University of Birmingham) will give a talk in the Psychology Old Library on 'Language is iconic to the core'. The event will be...

  47. Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Celeste Smith (SEES, UoStA)

    Environmental Change Research Group Seminar --- Celeste Smith (SEES, UoStA)

    Determining the volcanic sources of the double 1600 CE sulfate peaks in Greenland ice cores

    Determining the volcanic sources of the double 1600 CE sulfate peaks in Greenland ice cores