Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: December 2025 edition

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 1 December 2025 and 31 January 2026. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually.

1 December 2025

Optimization for a Better World
Speaker: Dick den Hertog (University of Amsterdam)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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2 December 2025

Platforms and Ecosystems as the Dominant Organizational Form and New Social Institutions of the Digital Age
Speaker: Annabelle Gawer
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.

How to measure AI literacy
Speaker: Jesús Moreno-León (University of Seville)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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De novo design of all-atom biomolecular interactions with RFdiffusion3
Speaker: Jasper Butcher (University of Washington)
Organised by: ML Protein Engineering
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3 December 2025

The Role of Third Party Intelligence in Transparent Markets
Speaker: Jonathan Reiter
Organised by: University of Manchester
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4 December 2025

AI Safety: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Francesco Quinzan
Organised by: Imperial College London
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10 December 2025

A State-Space Perspective on Modelling and Inference for Online Skill Rating
Speaker: Sam Power (University of Bristol)
Organised by: University of Manchester
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ShinkaEvolve: Towards Open-Ended And Sample-Efficient Program Evolution
Speaker: Robert Tjarko Lange (Sakana.AI)
Organised by: Machine Learning Tokyo
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11 December 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Prashant Singh (Uppsala University)
Organised by: Chalmers AI4Science
Zoom link is here. Password: ai4science.

12 December 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Anton Korinek (University of Virginia)
Organised by: Applied Machine Learning, Economics, and Data Science (AMLEDS)
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16 December 2025

De novo designed voltage-gated anion channels suppress neuron firing
Speaker: Chen Zhou (Westlake)
Organised by: ML Protein Engineering
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20 January 2026

The Science Fiction Science Method
Speaker: Iyad Rahwan (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.

27 January 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Salomey Afua Addo (University of Cambridge)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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To see past and forthcoming events for 2025, please see our dedicated 2025 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.