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Welcome to the official website of the MPIE Conference, an exciting interdisciplinary gathering at the University of Sussex. This event aims to unite researchers from the fields of mathematics, physics, informatics, and engineering, fostering collaboration and innovation at the intersection of these dynamic disciplines. Join us as we explore cutting-edge developments and share insights that push the boundaries of knowledge and technology. The poster exhibition is open to keen undergraduate finalists, masters, PhD and above. This is a great way for research groups to show off what they are doing, or individuals. We encourage bringing demos along if possible. The conference is broken up into four sessions: Data science, Computing approaches, Materials, and Modelling life.

Funding bodies: Be.AI Leverhulme Trust, Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies, School of Engineering and Informatics

MPIE conference, 6th September 2024, 09:00 - 17:30

Academic Lead

Professor Andy Philippedes	Professor Matthias Keller	Professor Thomas Nowotny	Dr Omar Lakkis

Biorobotics, biomimetic navigation, active AI	Atomic, molecular and optical Physics, quantum technology	Olfaction, biomimetic AI, hybrid systems	Numerical and computational mathematics

Organising committee

Committee Chairs

Dexter Shepherd	Amber Shepherd

Biorobotics, evolutionary robotics, embodied AI	Quantum physics, optical physics, ion trapping

Committee

Christopher Brown	Jenny Ward	Benedict Fletcher

Condensed matter physics, nanomaterials, nanotechnology	Dynamical Systems, Construction of Lyapunov functions.	Soft robotics, bio-inspired robotics

be.AI is directed by Profs Thomas Nowotny, Andrew Philippides (both in the AI research group in Informatics) and Paul Graham (Neurosciences Division in Life Sciences), supported by an Academic Board, whose membership currently comprises Prof Luc Berthouze, Dr Chris Buckley, Dr Julie Weeds (all in the AI research group in Informatics) Prof Daniel Roggen (Engineering), Prof Thomas Baden (Life Sciences) and Prof Andy Clark (Philosophy).
The Advisory Board includes Prof Margaret Boden, OBE ScDFBA, co-founder of COGS, as the honorary Head of be.AI, Prof Cecilia Laschi (Pisa, Italy), Prof Martin Nawrot (Universität Köln), and Prof James Marshall (Opteran Technologies and University of Sheffield).

	Speaker	Title
09:00	Welcome
09:10	Ivor Simpson	--
--:--	Aline Amorin Graf & Henry Dore	Thermal comfort inequity: an analysis on how individual thermal perception affects workplace policies
10:15	Coffee break and Conference photo
10:50	Will Roper	Towards Efficient Cosmological Hydrodynamical simulations In The Exascale Era
--:--	Enrico Caprioglio	Emergence of metastability in frustrated oscillatory networks: the key role of hierarchical modularity
--:--	Philip Herbert	PDE constrained shape optimisation
--:--	Yuliya Kyrychko	Dynamics of coupled systems with time delays
12:30	Lunch and poster break
13:30	Poppy Joshi	Bose-Einstein condensate microscopy
--:--	Balázs Mészáros	DeventProp: Synaptic Delay Learning in Deep Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks Using the Adjoint Method
--:--	Niel de Beaudrap	Quantum information processing
--:--	Matthias Keller	Quantum technology development and applications
15:15	Coffee break
15:30	Jess Lock	Developing opaque scintillator detectors
--:--	Carlo Tiseo	Exploiting Synchronism To Achieve a More Biomimetic Interaction Control
16:50	Closing address and prizes

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