Exporting a Singapore Brand” by Mr Jesher Loi, Market Development Director, Branding at Ya Kun International
Master's Commons, USPOrganised by The Cinnamon Conversation interest group, this is a series of informal and relaxed conversations over dinner. At this session, they will be hosting Mr Jesher Loi, Director of Branding and Market Development at Ya Kun International Pte Ltd. Do join Mr Loi in a discussion on his journey to build and internationalising a local heritage brand like Ya Kun, the challenges he faced and his plans in contributing to the society. Enjoy the discussion with some Ya Kun Kaya toast!
“Applying Programming to the Humanities” by USP Alum Eddie Choo
Master's Commons, USPOrganised by The Cinnamon Conversation interest group, this is a series of informal, interactive and insighful discussions on specialised themes. At this session, USP alum Eddie Choo (Sociology + USP, Class of 2012), currently a Research Associate at the NUS Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), will share about how he learnt coding without any technical background and some thoughts about how they can be combines with inquiries in the social sciences and humanities. There will also be a practical session for coding during the session.
How to Choose Postgraduate Studies (Humanities and Social Sciences in US)?
Master's Commons, USPJoin this workshop conducted by USP faculty Dr Bart van Wassenhove if you wish to pursue postgraduate studies in humanities and social sciences in US.
Laidlaw Research and Leadership Programme Information Session
Master's Commons, USPThe Laidlaw Research and Leadership Programme@USP-NUS aims to create the leaders of the future through a mix of training and intensive summer research periods. In this programme, students will undertake a unique research project and participate in a leadership development programme. This programme is open to current first and second year NUS undergraduate students in any discipline on an honours degree track. We strongly encourage USP students to join this information session to find out more about the programme and speak to the current Laidlaw scholars. Applications for AY2020/21 commences from 28 January to 28 February 2020.
Halt! In the Name of Turing
Master's Commons, USPUSP Visiting Professor, A/P Frederick Willerboordse, will be conducting three talks on Gödel’s theorems and Turing machine. We strongly encouraged USP community to join these interesting sessions. (3rd talk) This last talk will outline the design of the Turing machine and show how Turing used it to discuss the so-called 'Halting Problem' which is of enormous fundamental importance to the understanding of computing and has significant ramifications for the current discussions on artificial intelligence. It is then shown how Turing's answer to the halting problem can be used in a rather straightforward way to derive Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
Gödel at his Prime – The Proof
Master's Commons, USPUSP Visiting Professor, A/P Frederick Willerboordse, will be conducting three talks on Gödel’s theorems and Turing machine. We strongly encouraged USP community to join these interesting sessions. (2nd talk) Following the first talk on 21 Oct, this second talk will outline Gödel's proof of his incompleteness theorems and discuss Gödel numbers, meta-mathematics, and the arithmetization of meta-mathematics in the lead up to the proof. Although this talk is a continuation of the first talk, it is possible to attend this one even if you had missed the first.
Gödel at his Prime – Background and Motivation
Master's Commons, USPUSP Visiting Professor, A/P Frederick Willerboordse, will be conducting three talks on Gödel’s theorems and Turing machine. We strongly encouraged USP community to join these interesting sessions. (1st talk) Can mathematics talk about itself? Are there true theorems that cannot be proven? Can mathematics be complete? These are questions addressed by Gödel's seminal paper entitled "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems". This paper has become one of the most influential works of the 20th century and changed the notions of reasoning about formal systems forever. This first talk will discuss the background, motivation and (without proof) what Gödel's theorems state.