Our second 'Show Me the Maths' film features Josh Bull from the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology on the South Side, 4th floor. If you haven't been up there the view is terrific, including from the outside walkway. You can also help them out with their jigsaw by the sofas which doesn't seem to be making much progress.

First of all an apology for saying there was no 'Fridays' last week and suggesting the Florence Nightinglae lecture was taking its place. Wrong on both counts. There was a 'Fridays' and Florence is on 23rd Feb in Stats (when there is also a Fridays@4).

Professor Geoffrey Hinton - Will digital intelligence replace biological intelligence?

Widely known as the “Godfather of AI”, Geoffrey Hinton was one of the researchers who introduced the backpropagation algorithm and the first to use backpropagation for learning word embeddings. His other contributions to neural network research include Boltzmann machines, distributed representations, time-delay neural nets, mixtures of experts, variational learning and deep learning.

To celebrate International Women’s Day the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Irene Tracey, will host a discussion on artificial intelligence on Wednesday 6 March, 2-4pm at Pembroke College and online via Zoom, featuring panellists from across the University. 

The panel will share their views on making AI a force for gender equality and inclusion.