Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: September 2021 edition

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 13 September and 31 October 2021. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually.

13 September 2021

Wearable Haptic Devices for Ubiquitous Communication
Speaker: Allison Okamura (Stanford)
Organised by: EPFL
Watch on Zoom here.

Validation Methods For AI Systems
Speaker: Lalli Myllyaho (University of Helsinki)
Organised by: Finnish Centre for AI
Watch on Zoom here.

14 September 2021

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Danny Abrams (Northwestern University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Watch the livestream here.

15 September 2021

Nonconvex first-order optimization: When can gradient descent escape saddle points in linear time?
Speaker: Waheed Bajwa (Rutgers)
Organised by: Princeton University
Register here.

Conformal Inference of Counterfactuals and Individual Treatment Effects
Speaker: Lihua Lei (Stanford)
Organised by: New York University
To ask to join, send an email to the organisers.

16 September 2021

Identifying Subgroups in Algorithmic Fairness
Speaker: Sherri Rose (Stanford University)
Organised by: Trustworthy ML
Join the mailing list for instructions on how to sign up, or check the website a few days beforehand for the Zoom link.

Causal Tensor Estimation
Speakers: Devavrat Shah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Organised by: C3.ai DTI
Register here.

Deep learning for the discovery of parsimonious physics models
Speaker: J. Nathan Kutz (University of Washington)
Organised by: University of Lisbon
Register here.

Rebuilding the Theoretical Foundations of Communications and Computing
Speaker: Merouane Debbah (Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi)
Organised by: One World Signal Processing
To attend, subscribe to the One World Signal Processing mailing list.

20 September 2021

Random Projections in Mathematical Programming
Speaker: Coralia Cartis (University of Oxford)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
Register here.

21 September 2021

Handling model uncertainties via informative Goodness-of-Fit
Speaker: Sara Algeri (University of Minnesota)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Watch the livestream here.

22 September 2021

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Ravid Shwartz-Ziv (New York University)
Organised by: New York University
To ask to join, send an email to the organisers.

Machine learning in international organizations working on climate change
Speakers: Lara Aleluia, Edward Anderson, Mercedeh Tariverdi
Organised by: Climate Change AI
Registration via eventbrite.

23 September 2021

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Lucy Colwell (Cambridge University)
Organised by: EPFL
Zoom link is here.

Machine Learning and Quantum Technology
Speaker: Leong Chuan Kwek (Nanyang Technological University)
Organised by: University of Lisbon
Register here.

27 September 2021

Challenges and improvements in optimization for machine learning
Speaker: Leo Liberti (École Polytechnique)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
Register here.

28 September 2021

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Boris Landa (Yale University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Watch the livestream here.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Maggie Makar (University of Michigan)
Organised by: University of Michigan
Joining information not yet available. Check the website nearer the time.

Discussing findings from the AI100 report
Speakers: Russ Altman (Stanford University), Peter Stone (University of Texas at Austin), and Michael Littman (Brown University)
Organised by: AI100
Register here.

29 September 2021

AIDingArctic – The 2nd workshop on Artificial Intelligence & Data Science for the Arctic
Speakers: Many speakers – see link above for details.
Organised by: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Register here.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Najoung Kim (New York University)
Organised by: New York University
To ask to join, send an email to the organisers.

30 September 2021

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Sanmi Koyejo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Organised by: Trustworthy ML
Join the mailing list for instructions on how to sign up, or check the website a few days beforehand for the Zoom link.

Challenges and Opportunities in Cloud Operations Research
Speakers: Ishai Menache (Microsoft)
Organised by: C3.ai DTI
Register here.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Jarrod McClean (Google)
Organised by: Princeton University
Zoom link information to be provided soon.

Workshop Diagnostics, imaging and AI
Speakers: Speakers to be confirmed
Organised by: Chalmers University of Technology
Registration information to be confirmed.

The Turing Lectures
Speakers: Cynthia Dwork
Organised by: The Alan Turing Institute
Register here.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Volkan Cevher (EPFL)
Organised by: University of Lisbon
Register here.

4 October 2021

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Marco Lübbecke (RWTH Aachen University)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
Register here.

5 October 2021

Scalable and Sample-Efficient Active Learning for Graph-Based Classification
Speaker: Kevin Miller (University of California)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Watch the livestream here.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Yoav Artzi (Cornell University)
Organised by: University of Michigan
Joining information not yet available. Check the website nearer the time.

Exploring the data-driven world: Teaching AI and ML from a data-centric perspective
Speakers: Carsten Schulte, Yannik Fleischer and Lukas Höper (Paderborn University)
Organised by: Raspberry Pi
Join the mailing list for instructions on how to sign up.

6 October 2021

Optimization Theory on Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning
Speaker: Yingbin Liang (Ohio State University)
Organised by: Princeton University
Zoom link information to be provided soon.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Ian Couzin (Max Planck Institute)
Organised by: Tübingen University
The Zoom link is here.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Vincent Divol (New York University)
Organised by: New York University
To ask to join, send an email to the organisers.

11 October 2021

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Tias Guns (KU Leuven)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
Register here.

12 October 2021

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Jie Ding (University of Minnesota)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Watch the livestream here.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Benjamin Fish (University of Michigan)
Organised by: University of Michigan
Joining information not yet available. Check the website nearer the time.

13 October 2021

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Marco Morucci (New York University)
Organised by: New York University
To ask to join, send an email to the organisers.

Deep Probabilistic Regression
Speaker: Thomas Schön (Uppsala University)
Organised by: One World Signal Processing
To attend, subscribe to the One World Signal Processing mailing list.

14 October 2021

Rising star spotlights
Speaker: To be confirmed
Organised by: Trustworthy ML
Join the mailing list for instructions on how to sign up, or check the website a few days beforehand for the Zoom link.

Universal Laws and Architectures and Their Fragilities
Speakers: John Doyle (California Institute of Technology)
Organised by: C3.ai DTI
Register here.

18 October 2021

Optimal counterfactual explanations in tree ensembles
Speaker: Thibaut Vidal (Polytechnique Montréal)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
Register here.

19 October 2021

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Ryan Murray (North Carolina State University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Watch the livestream here.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Smaranda Muresan (Columbia University)
Organised by: University of Michigan
Joining information not yet available. Check the website nearer the time.

Robots: Perceiving, Acting and Collaborating
Speaker: Danica Kragic (Royal Institute of Technology, KTH)
Organised by: University of Oslo
Joining information not yet available. Check the website nearer the time.

20 October 2021

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Jacopo Cirrone (New York University)
Organised by: New York University
To ask to join, send an email to the organisers.

21 October 2021

Resource Allocation through Machine Learning in Emerging Wireless Networks: 5G and Beyond to 6G
Speakers: Sanjay Shakkottai (University of Texas at Austin)
Organised by: C3.ai DTI
Register here.

Statistical mechanics for complex systems
Speaker: Constantino Tsallis (CBPF and Santa Fe Institute)
Organised by: University of Lisbon
Register here.

26 October 2021

Insights into Predictability of Life Outcomes: A Data-Driven Approach
Speaker: Pranay Anchuri (Princeton University)
Organised by: Princeton University
Zoom link information to be provided soon.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Ramon Johnson Amaro (University College London)
Organised by: University of Michigan
Joining information not yet available. Check the website nearer the time.

28 October 2021

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: To be confirmed
Organised by: Trustworthy ML
Join the mailing list for instructions on how to sign up, or check the website a few days beforehand for the Zoom link.

Deep Learning to Replace, Improve, or Aid CFD Analysis in Built Environment Applications
Speakers: Wei Liu (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Organised by: C3.ai DTI
Register here.

For a more complete list, including past events back to June 2020, please see our dedicated seminar page.

If you’d like to visit the webpages of the universities and other organisations that are running regular programmes of seminars, then click here to see our list.

If you are aware of any seminars (both standalone and series) that we’ve missed then please just send us an email.

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.