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The SIDur PGR Symposium

The SIDur PGR Symposium

The SIDur PGR Symposium is a termly research seminar for PGR students, organised by the SIDur Exec. It provides a forum for PGR students whose work includes an aspect of pure, applied or industrial mathematics. Any PGR student at Durham whose work fits this bill is welcome to present at the symposium.

The next SIDur Symposium will be held on Friday, October 11th from 10:30 in MCS1022.

Previous Talks

24 May 2024

Group photo at the SIDur Symposium, May 2024
  • Iolo Jones (Mathematics): Diffusion Geometry for Data Analysis
  • Strahinja Klem (Computer Science, VIViD): LLMs for LLMs: Summarising Long Legal Documents via Prompt Engineering
  • Tala Eagling-Vose (Computer Science, ACiD): Graph Homomorphisms, Colouring Games, and Forbidden Subgraphs
  • Jost Pieper (Mathematics, Probability): Rough paths, sewing and rough stochastic calculus
  • Thomas Hudson (Computer Science, VIViD): Why is Fido ill? Using LLMs to explore veterinary conversations
  • Mohammed Alshammari (Computer Science, AIHS): Developing a Large Language Model for Enhanced Reliability and Transparency in Healthcare AI Systems
  • Arron Bale (Mathematics): Carbonara – Predicting protein tertiary structure from BioSAXs data
  • Maha Alsayyari (Computer Science, VIViD): Automatic Detection and Classification of Aortic Dissection based on CTA