Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: January 2026 edition

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 5 January and 28 February 2026. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually.

8 January 2026

LLM Introspection
Speaker: Murray Shanahan
Organised by: Imperial College London
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14 January 2026

Disentangling regional impacts of teleconnections using causal representation learning
Speaker: Fiona Spuler (University of Reading)
Organised by: ECMWF
Teams link is here.

16 January 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Asaf Manela (Washington University in St. Louis)
Organised by: Applied Machine Learning, Economics, and Data Science (AMLEDS)
Register here.

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.

Evaluating operational seasonal forecasts in the extratropics: improvements, challenges, and interesting problems
Speaker: Christopher O’Reilly (University of Reading)
Organised by: ECMWF
Teams link is here.

21 January 2026

AI Skills Wanted: Why the Future of Work Needs Great Skills
Speaker: Fabian Stephany
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
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26 January 2026

Three talks: 1) Optimizing treatment allocation in the presence of network effects, 2) Relative Explanations for Contextual Problems with Endogenous Uncertainty: An Application to Competitive Facility Location, 3) On a Computationally Ill-Behaved Bilevel Problem with a Continuous and Nonconvex Lower Level
Speaker: Daan Caljon, Jasone Ramírez-Ayerbe, Yasmine Beck
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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27 January 2026

Teaching about neural networks in junior high schools in Ghana
Speaker: Salomey Afua Addo (University of Cambridge)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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2 February 2026

Recent trends in combinatorial optimization augmented machine learning
Speaker: Axel Parmentier (Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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3 February 2026

The Military-Digital Complex: Digital Technologies and the New World (dis)Order
Speaker: Dario Guarascio (Sapienza University of Rome)
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.

4 February 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: To be confirmed
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
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9 February 2026

Transportation science meets generative modeling: large-scale urban mobility challenges
Speaker: Carolina Osorio (Google Research and HEC Montreal)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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10 February 2026

Mathematical thinking and its development: A machine learning approach
Speaker: Sashank Varma (Georgia Tech)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration is here.

16 February 2026

Three talks: 1) Improving Machine Learning with Linear Programming: A Large-Scale Study of Totally Corrective Boosting, 2) On Modified Newton Methods for Unconstrained Optimization Based on the Lanczos Tridiagonalization, 3) Generating robust counterfactual explanations in classification and regression
Speaker: Fabian Akkerman, Aban Ansari-Önnestam, Antonio Navas-Orozco
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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23 February 2026

Solving vehicle routing problems with deep learning and large language models (LLMs)
Speaker: Kevin Tierney (University of Vienna)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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26 February 2026

The Imperative of Openness in AI
Speaker: Sayeed Choudhury (Carnegie Mellon Libraries)
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.

To see past and forthcoming events for 2026, please see our dedicated 2025 and 2026 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.