Programme

Sean Clark chairing the China-Connections session

Sean Clark chairing the China-Connections session

Programme

EVA London 2022 is a hybrid event, online using Zoom again and physically at the BCS London office, from Monday to Friday, 4–8 July 2022. Registration information is available online. All times in the programme are provided as UK local time (BST – British Summer Time). The following is a summary of the programme:

  • Full conference programme: Five days of presentations on a wide spectrum of themes and topics, with distinguished keynote speakers. This includes:
    • Keynote speakers: Daily speakers from Tuesday to Friday.
    • Symposium: Chaired by Tula Giannini, with three speakers on the theme of the Metaverse on Monday 4 July 2022.
    • EVA International: Evening session chaired by Terry Trickett with a theme of EVA and the Metaverse on Tuesday 5 July 2022.
    • Research Workshop: Student presentations, chaired by Graham Diprose on Friday 8 July 2022.
    • Demonstrations: Informal more interactive presentations, in addition to more formal paper presentations.
    • Panels: Discussions by several participants on a theme.
    • Presentations will be recorded on YouTube in the EVA Archive, part of the Computer Arts Archive with convenient links to presentations and papers.
  • Evenings: There were evening events during 4–8 July 2022 (separate registration will be required for some events; details will be provided to delegates), organised by the Computer Arts Society, Art in Flux, EVA International, etc. Some evening events can be booked free by delegates and non-delegates, via links (when available) below:
  • Lisa Zainuddin's Workshop demonstration of Augmented Reality

    Lisa Zainuddin’s Workshop demonstration of Augmented Reality

    Workshops/tutorials: Parallel workshops on Friday 8 July 2022 (with separate registration required and further information/timing provided to delegates). The following evening tutorial is also planned:
    • Thursday 7 July 2022: Introduction to spiking neural networks

Tutorial abstract: This tutorial presents the advantages of spiking neural networks (SNN) in regard to neuromorphic devices and edge computing. After a theoretical presentation, participants will practically apprehend programming skills in modern frameworks for SNN development and build a simple SNN with leaky integrate and fire (LIF) spiking neurons. The process of data conversion into spiking trains using different encoding strategies as well as visualisation of the internal states of the LIF neurons will be demonstrated. The scripts will be executed in Google Colab virtual environment, the access to which is given to each Gmail account holder for free. No installations on a local machine are needed for this tutorial.

Personnel information: After completing her PhD in computational musicology, Anna Shvets pursued her research in the domain of semantic music generation using deep learning generative models, having presented to international venues across Europe. As an AI researcher at Fablab in Paris by the Inetum group, she applies deep learning generative strategies to the semantic natural language generation domain with a recent focus on generative possibilities of spiking neural networks.

The detailed EVA London 2022 programme is available in PDF format. A list of accepted submissions by Easychair submission number is also available in PDF format with additional information in the full list of authors and the full titles, which can be cross-referenced with the programme by paper number. The programme is subject to minor changes and revisions depending on the availability of speakers, technical issues, etc.

Note that the EVA London 2022 proceedings is freely available online – see DOI 10.14236/ewic/EVA2022.0 with links to individual paper. The proceedings will also be available on DBLP in due course, which will be an alternative way to access individual papers. The proceedings is available in full colour in printed form (ISBN 978-1-78017-594-2) as well as being open access online.