Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: November 2024 edition

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 4 November and 31 December 2024. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually.

4 November 2024

Concept Learning Across Domains and Modalities
Speaker: Jiajun Wu (Stanford University)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
Check the Google group for Zoom instructions.

Young stars session: 1) K-anonymous counterfactual explanations, 2) Neur2BiLO: Neural Bilevel Optimization, 3) On constrained mixed-integer DR-submodular minimization
Speakers: Sofie Goethals (University of Antwerp), Esther Julien (TU Delft), Qimeng (Kim) Yu (Université de Montréal)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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5 November 2024

Learning accurate and interpretable decision trees
Speaker: Dravyansh Sharma (TTIC)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
Zoom link is here.

6 November 2024

Moral Machines for Children
Speaker: Jun Zhao (University of Oxford)
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
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Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Elena Celledoni (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Organised by: One World Machine Learning
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8 November 2024

Balancing Innovation and Responsibility: An Insider’s Perspective on AI Safety
Speaker: Vanessia Wu (YouTube)
Organised by: EPFL
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11 November 2024

Need to relax – but perhaps later? Reflections on modeling sparsity and mixed-binary nonconvex problems
Speaker: Immanuel Bomze (University of Vienna)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Jingrui He (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
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The Automatic Computer Scientist
Speaker: Andrew Cropper (University of Oxford)
Organised by: Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
Zoom link is here.

12 November 2024

On New Results on Ensemble Methods for Learning, Optimization, and Filtering
Speaker: Michael Herty (RWTH Aachen University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration link is here.

Performance, workload, emotion, and self-efficacy of novice programmers
Speakers: Sarah Lu Riggs & Raymond Pettit (University of Virginia)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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An open sourced implementation of AlphaFold3
Speaker: Arda Göreci (Ligo Biosciences)
Organised by: ML Protein Engineering
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Geometric deep learning and its application for multimedia
Speaker: Hannes Fassold (Joanneum Research)
Organised by: AIDA
Zoom link here.

13 November 2024

AI Safety: Whose Problem is it Anyway?
Speaker: Ray Eitel-Porter (The Alan Turing Institute)
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
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Deep Ridgelet Transform: Harmonic Analysis for Deep Neural Network
Speaker: Sho Sonoda (RIKEN AIP)
Organised by: One World Machine Learning
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14 November 2024

Merging physics-based simulations and machine learning to predict rare molecular conformations and find them in experimental data
Speaker: Roberto Covino (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Organised by: Chalmers University of Technology
Zoom link is here. Password: ai4science.

AI Series: Business Model Innovation
Speaker: Ashley Braganza (Brunel Business School)
Organised by: Chartered Governance Institute UK and Ireland
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18 November 2024

Large scale Minimum Sum of Squares Clustering with optimality guarantees
Speaker: Veronica Piccialli (Sapienza University of Rome)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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Deploying Trustworthy Generative AI
Speaker: Krishnaram Kenthapadi (Oracle Health)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
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19 November 2024

Theory for diffusion models
Speaker: Sitan Chen (Harvard)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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AI-Assisted De Novo Enzyme Design
Speaker: Will Hua (McGill University)
Organised by: ML Protein Engineering
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How to train large scale 3D human foundation models
Speaker: Gerard Pons-Moll (University of Tübingen)
Organised by: AIDA
Zoom link here.

20 November 2024

Will AI Help or Hinder Our Attempts to Promote Healthy Ageing? A Geriatrician’s Perspective.
Speaker: Samir Sinha (Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI and Director of Geriatrics at Mount Sinai and the University Health Network Hospitals in Toronto)
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
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21 November 2024

Real-Time Detection of Local No-Arbitrage Violations
Speaker: Bo Zhou (Virginia Tech)
Organised by: Statistics and Machine Learning in Finance, University of Oxford
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Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Noam Brown (OpenAI)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
Zoom link is here.

24 November 2024

CAGE: Causality-Aware Shapley Value for Global Explanations
Speaker: Nils Breuer
Organised by: Imperial College London
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25 November 2024

Learning to Branch and to Cut: Enhancing Non-Linear Optimization with Machine Learning
Speaker: Bissan Ghaddar (Ivey Business School)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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26 November 2024

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Samuel Lanthaler (Caltech)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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ProTrek: Navigating the Protein Universe through Tri-Modal Contrastive Learning
Speaker: Jin Su (Westlake University)
Organised by: ML Protein Engineering
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Beyond Piecemeal Evaluations: Comprehensive Threat Surface Analysis for Advanced AI Systems
Speaker: Anna Wisakanto (Center for AI Risk Management & Alignment)
Organised by: Chalmers University of Technology
Zoom registration link is here.

Text-driven 3D human motion synthesis
Speaker: Gül Varol (École des Ponts ParisTech)
Organised by: AIDA
Zoom link here.

27 November 2024

Lost in Conversation? Uncertainty, ‘Value-Alignment’, and Large Language Models
Speaker: Sylvie Delacroix (King’s College London; Fellow, Alan Turing Institute)
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
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29 November 2024

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and sequential planning for resilient and sustainable buildings and cities
Speakers: Ayca Duran, Abraham Wu and Qiming Ye
Organised by: Climate Change AI
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2 December 2024

Pragmatic OR: Solving large scale optimization problems in fast moving environments
Speaker: Rubén Ruiz (Universitat Politècnica de València and AWS)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Lifeng He (Lehigh University)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
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3 December 2024

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Yuhua Zhu (UCLA)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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How to Imagine Educational AI – Filling of a Pail or Lighting a Fire?
Speaker: Michał Wieczorek (Dublin City University)
Organised by: Chalmers University of Technology
Zoom registration link is here.

LLMs for More Reliable Small Data Learning
Speaker: Sean Gong
Organised by: AIDA
Zoom link here.

4 December 2024

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Molei Tao (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Organised by: One World Machine Learning
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5 December 2024

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Leila Methnani
Organised by: Imperial College London
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9 December 2024

From Data to Donations: Optimal Fundraising Campaigns for Non-Profit Organizations
Speaker: Wolfram Wiesemann (Imperial College London)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Jeff Clune (University of British Columbia / Google DeepMind)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
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10 December 2024

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: David Woodruff (CMU)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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Integrating generative AI with introductory programming
Speaker: Leo Porter (UC San Diego)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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12 December 2024

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Shikun (Barry) Ke (Yale University)
Organised by: Statistics and Machine Learning in Finance, University of Oxford
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Multistate and functional protein design using RoseTTAFold sequence space diffusion
Speaker: Baker Lab (University of Washington)
Organised by: ML Protein Engineering
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Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Adji Bousso Dieng (Princeton)
Organised by: Chalmers University of Technology
Zoom link is here. Password: ai4science.

17 December 2024

Setting the AI Agenda – Evidence from Sweden in the ChatGPT Era
Speaker: Moa Johansson (Chalmers University of Technology)
Organised by: Chalmers University of Technology
Zoom registration link is here.

From Forecasting Human Behavior to Forecasting Extreme Weather and Climate Events
Speaker: Juergen Gall (University of Bonn)
Organised by: AIDA
Zoom link here.

To see past and forthcoming events for 2024, please see our dedicated 2024 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.