Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: October 2023 edition

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 9 October and 30 November 2023. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually.

9 October 2023

Three young stars talks
Speakers: 1) A Graph Neural Network-based Reduce-then-Optimize Heuristic for the Fixed-Charge Transportation Problem, Caroline Spieckermann, 2) Reliable Adaptive Stochastic Optimization with High Probability Guarantees, Miaolan Xie, 3) Frontier Challenges in AI: The case of algorithmic bias in forecasting tools, Quan Zhou
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
Attend here.

10 October 2023

Agnostic Proper Learning of Monotone Functions: Beyond the Black-Box Correction Barrier
Speaker: Jane Lange (MIT)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
The Zoom link is here.

Task Planning with Large Language Models
Speaker: Lajanugen Logeswaran (LG AI Research)
Organised by: University of Michigan
Join here.

11 October 2023

Feminist AI lecture series
Speakers: Kerry McInerney & Caroline Sinders
Organised by: University of Arts Linz
Register here.

17 October 2023

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Jiajia Yu (Duke University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Check the website nearer the time for Zoom registration.

Predictive Privacy, or the Risk of Secondary Use of Trained ML Models
Speaker: Rainer Mühlhoff
Organised by: Digital Humanism, TU Wein
The seminar will be streamed live on YouTube.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Nicholas Roberts (University of Wisconsin Madison)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
The Zoom link is here.

18 October 2023

Recent Advancements in Quantization, Pruning and Knowledge Distillation
Speaker: Gaowen Liu (Cisco Systems)
Organised by: University of Michigan
Join here.

Remote Sensing Enables Monitoring Life Above and Underwater
Speakers: Devis Tuia (EPFL)
Organised by: Climate Change AI
Register here.

20 October 2023

Projecting Flooding Across the United States: Climate Change as a Risk Multiplier
Speaker: Gabriele Villarini (Princeton University)
Organised by: ECMWF
Join via Teams here.

23 October 2023

Metrizing Fairness
Speaker: Daniel Kuhn (EPFL)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
Attend here.

24 October 2023

Trading off accuracy for reduced computation in scientific computing
Speaker: Alex Gittens (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration is here.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Tongzhou Wang (MIT)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
The Zoom link is here.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Freda Shi (University of Waterloo)
Organised by: University of Michigan
Join here.

26 October 2023

Foundation Models for Decision Making: Problems, Methods, and Applications
Speaker: Sherry Yang (Google DeepMind / UC Berkeley)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
The Zoom link is here.

30 October 2023

Challenges of Combining Forecasts from Correlated Sources
Speaker: Yael Grushka-Cockayne (University of Virginia)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
Attend here.

Title to be confirmed
Speakers: Aaro Järvinen (Helsinki University)
Organised by: Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
Zoom link is here.

31 October 2023

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Abhin Shah (MIT)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
The Zoom link is here.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Dongbin Xiu (The Ohio State University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Check the website nearer the time for Zoom registration.

6 November 2023

Smart Predict-then Optimize for Contextual Linear Optimization: Theory and Computation
Speaker: Adam Elmachtoub (Columbia University)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
Attend here.

7 November 2023

Mimetic Initialization for Transformers and Convolutional Networks
Speaker: Asher Trockman (Carnegie Mellon University)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
The Zoom link is here.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Maia Jacobs (Northwestern University)
Organised by: University of Michigan
Join here.

8 November 2023

Feminist AI lecture series
Speaker: Petra Gemeinböck
Organised by: University of Arts Linz
Register here.

13 November 2023

The Minimum Sum-of-Squares Clustering Problem: Robustification and Global Optimization Techniques
Speaker: Martin Schmidt (Trier University)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
Attend here.

14 November 2023

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Yilun Du (MIT)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
The Zoom link is here.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Konstantinos Spiliopoulos (Boston University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Check the website nearer the time for Zoom registration.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Gloria Washington (Howard University)
Organised by: University of Michigan
Join here.

20 November 2023

Scientific challenges, practical methodologies and policy perspectives for trustworthy AI
Speaker: Emilia Gomez (Joint Research Centre, European Commission and Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
Attend here.

21 November 2023

Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology
Speaker: Anu Bradford
Organised by: Digital Humanism, TU Wein
The seminar will be streamed live on YouTube.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Martina Neuman (University of Vienna)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Check the website nearer the time for Zoom registration.

22 November 2023

Feminist AI lecture series
Speakers: Paola Ricaurte Quijano & Alexia Achilleos
Organised by: University of Arts Linz
Register here.

27 November 2023

An interior-point solver for large structured optimization and (data science and alternative) applications
Speaker: Jordi Castro (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
Attend here.

Title to be confirmed
Speakers: Jörg Tiedemann (Helsinki University)
Organised by: Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
Zoom link is here.

28 November 2023

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Xuenan Li (Columbia University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Check the website nearer the time for Zoom registration.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Alex Rodriguez (University of Michigan)
Organised by: University of Michigan
Check the website nearer the time for the Zoom link.

To see past and forthcoming events for 2023, please see our dedicated 2023 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.

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.