The Tissue Image Analytics (TIA) Centre at the University of Warwick is excited to announce the continuation of its esteemed seminar series for the 2024/25 academic year. These seminars are a prime opportunity for researchers, students, and professionals to delve into cutting-edge developments in computational pathology and related fields. Held on the 1st and 3rd Mondays of each month from 2 pm to 3 pm, these sessions are a hub for innovative ideas and collaborative discussions. Over the last three years, we have organised 55 seminars, hosting researchers from 42 different institutions from 13 countries and 7 US states, spanning Europe, North America, Australia and Asia.

Highlights from Last Year’s Seminar Series

The past year featured a diverse line-up of distinguished speakers who shared their ground-breaking work. Notable highlights include:

• Dr. Zhui Huang and Dr. Gabrielle Campanella delivered insightful talks on foundation models, exploring their applications and potential in computational pathology. Prof. Hamid Tizhoosh further discussed foundation models and information retrieval. Georg Wölflein offered a comprehensive comparison on many of these models.
• Prof. Inti Zlobec and Daan Geijs visited in person, discussing their pioneering work on studying tumour budding and skin cancer assessment, respectively, providing attendees with the unique opportunity to engage directly.
• Dr. Andrew Song introduced AI-driven methods for efficient patient prognosis using 3D pathology samples, whilst Prof Stefan Feuerriegal and Valentyn MeIynchuk discussed causal machine learning.
• Many, many more fantastic speakers!

Upcoming Seminar Series

We are excited to announce that the upcoming semester promises another stellar roster of speakers. We will kick off the series with a talk by Dr. Ming Y. Lu from Harvard Medical School on the new “PathChat” model (paper: "A Multimodal Generative AI Copilot for Human Pathology") on Monday 14th October. We will also be visited in person by Dr. Danielle Belgrave from GSK and Jack Breen from the University of Leeds, who will offer insights into their pioneering work, to name a few!

How to Participate

These seminars offer a platform to learn from and interact with some of the leading minds in the field. If you are interested in attending or wish to present your research at a future seminar, please contact Dr. Adam Shephard at adam.shephard@warwick.ac.uk.

Stay updated on seminar details by visiting our website and watch past presentations on our YouTube channelLink opens in a new window. We continuously update our webpage with new information about upcoming seminars, so be sure to check back regularly.

Wednesday 3rd July 2024 saw 30+ colleagues interested in Artificial Intelligence and Pathology descend on Warwick University’s TIA Centre to hold a workshop.

Delegates from a variety of disciplines, including pathologists and data scientists, attended the workshop, on Campus. The focus of the workshop was to explore the Future Interface of Computing and Pathology.

The meeting was lively and interactive and will be the first in a series of workshops that will be hosted by the TIA Centre in furtherance of this subject area. Thank you to all those who participated.

If you would like to join in future workshops please contact the TIA Centre at tia@warwick.ac.uk.

Six papers from the Theory and Foundations Research Group and the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications (DIMAP) have been accepted to the 65th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2024), the flagship conference in theoretical computer science that will be held on October 27 - 30, 2024 in Chicago, USA:

• "Reverse Mathematics of Complexity Lower Bounds" by Lijie Chen, Jiatu Li and Igor C. Oliveira.

• "Faster (\Delta+1)-Edge Coloring: Breaking the m\sqrt{n} Time Barrier" by Sayan Bhattacharya, Din Carmon, Martin Costa, Shay Solomon and Tianyi Zhang.
• "Fully Dynamic k-Clustering with Fast Update Time and Small Recourse" by Sayan Bhattacharya, Martin Costa, Naveen Garg, Silvio Lattanzi and Nikos Parotsidis.
• "The Tractability Border of Reachability in Simple Vector Addition Systems with States" by Dmitry Chistikov, Wojciech Czerwiński, Łukasz Orlikowski, Filip Mazowiecki, Henry Sinclair-Banks and Karol Węgrzycki.

• "Optimal Coding Theorems for Randomized Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications" by Shuichi Hirahara, Zhenjian Lu and Mikito Nanashima.
• "On the Complexity of Avoiding Heavy Elements" by Zhenjian Lu, Igor C. Oliveira, Hanlin Ren and Rahul Santhanam.