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Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: December 2021 edition


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This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 8 December 2021 and 31 January 2022. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually.

8 December 2021

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Casey Fiesler (University of Colorado Boulder)
Organised by: New York University
To ask to join, send an email to the organisers.

Interpretable Machine Learning
Speakers: Cynthia Rudin
Organised by: Chalmers University
Register here.

Deep learning and Template-based Protein and RNA Structure Prediction
Speakers: Chengxin Zhang (Yale University)
Organised by: University of Michigan, Medical School
Watch on Zoom here.

Learning cellular state and dynamics in single cell genomics
Speaker: Fabian J. Theis (Wellcome Sanger Institute)
Organised by: Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine
Register here.

9 December 2021

Computational Imaging for Art investigation and for Neuroscience
Speaker: Pier Luigi Dragotti (Imperial College, London)
Organised by: University of Lisbon
Register here.

AI4EU Stakeholder forum
Speaker: Many speakers
Organised by: AI4EU
Register here.

10 December 2021

From Seeing to Doing: Understanding and Interacting with the Real World.
Speaker: Fei-Fei Li
Organised by: Harvard ML Theory
Join the mailing list to find out how to access the seminars.

Explainable AI
Speakers: Anastasios Lekkas, Inga Strümke, Vilde Gjærum, Sindre Remman
Organised by: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Register here.

13 December 2021

We used Reinforcement Learning; but did it work?
Speaker: Susan Murphy (Harvard University)
Organised by: EPFL
Register here.

Young stars talks
Speaker: Roi Naveiro (ICMAT-CSIC), Antonio M. Sudoso (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Giorgio Grani (SINTEF Digital)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
Attend here.

14 December 2021

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Christian Theobalt (Max Planck Institute for Informatics)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
Zoom link here.

New Methods for Disease Prediction using Imaging and Genomics
Speaker: Eran Halperin (UnitedHealth Group)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Registration link not yet available. Check the website nearer the time.

AI Ethics with Karl de Fine Licht
Speakers: Karl de Fine Licht
Organised by: Chalmers University
Register here.

16 December 2021

Fireside chat with Cynthia Rudin
Speaker: Cunthia Rudin
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.

17 December 2021

Augmenting the Weather: Using counterfactuals to deal with dataset drift caused by climate change
Speakers: Mark Keane
Organised by: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Register here.

20 December 2021

Challenges and improvements in optimization for machine learning
Speaker: Coralia Cartis (University of Oxford)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
Attend here.

6 January 2022

Rising star spotlights
Speakers: 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.

11 January 2022

Teaching Artificial Intelligence in K-12
Speakers: Dave Touretzky (Carnegie Mellon University, AI4K12 Initiative) and Fred Martin (University of Massachusetts Lowell, AI4K12 Initiative)
Organised by: Raspberry Pi
Join the mailing list for instructions on how to sign up.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Michał Dereziński
Organised by: University of Michigan
Joining information not yet available. Check the website nearer the time.

12 January 2022

Learning cellular state and dynamics in single cell genomics
Speaker: Sylvia Plevritis (Stanford)
Organised by: Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine
Register here.

13 January 2022

The Principles of Deep Learning Theory
Speaker: Dan Roberts (MIT, Center for Theoretical Physics)
Organised by: University of Lisbon
Register here.

19 January 2022

AI Talks with Susan Murphy
Speakers: Susan Murphy
Organised by: Chalmers University
Register here.

20 January 2022

Title to be confirmed
Speakers: Been Kim (Google Brain)
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.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Anders Hansen (Cambridge University)
Organised by: University of Lisbon
Register here.

21 January 2022

Recommender systems, bandits and bayesian neural networks
Speakers: Simen Eide
Organised by: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Register here.

25 January 2022

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Alex Gittens (RPI)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Registration link not yet available. Check the website nearer the time.

28 January 2022

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Max Welling
Organised by: Harvard ML Theory
Join the mailing list to find out how to access the seminars.


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 and we’ll add them to the list.




Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.
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