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Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: February 2026 edition


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04 February 2026



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This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 4 February and 31 March 2026. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually.

4 February 2026

The ‘Public’, Disrupted: The Transformative Effects of Technology on Democracy
Speaker: Neli Frost
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Register here

Neurosymbolic Approaches for Trustworthy, Explainable Complex Systems
Speaker: Lailani Gilpin
Organised by: Imperial College London
Join here.

DAO Governance Takeover Attack on the blockchain: Code as Law, Cybersecurity and Governance
Speaker: Zhipeng Wang & Joseph Lee Nazzini
Organised by: The University of Manchester
Register here.

6 February 2026

On-Device AI: Privacy, Performance, and Real-World Edge Systems
Speaker: Vineeth Gupta
Organised by: San Francisco University
Sign up here.

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
To receive the seminar link, sign up to the mailing list.

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.

Scale is religion?
Speaker: Vicky Kalogeiton (École Polytechnique)
Organised by: AIDA
Zoom link is here.

Advancing AI for society via race-conscious algorithmic approaches
Speaker: Thema Monroe-White (George Mason University)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
Sign up here to join.

11 February 2026

Digital health and artificial intelligence: a cure or curse for health equity?
Speaker: Robin van Kessel (London School of Economics)
Organised by: The University of Manchester
Join here.

12 February 2026

Machine-learned interatomic potentials for materials chemistry
Speaker: Volker Deringer (Oxford University)
Organised by: Chalmers AI4Science
Join here, password: ai4science.

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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17 February 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Eric Chi (University of Minnesota)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Check here nearer the time for Zoom link.

18 February 2026

What should we make of the role of AI in elections?
Speaker: Felix Simon
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Register here

20 February 2026

LLM Labs: Model Behavior
Speaker: Suzana Ilic
Organised by: Machine Learning Tokyo
Register here.

Foundations of Distributed Training: How Modern AI Systems Are Built
Speaker: Suman Debnath
Organised by: San Francisco University
Sign up here.

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.

27 February 2026

Model Behavior Study Group
Speaker: Suzana Ilic
Organised by: Machine Learning Tokyo
Register here.

2 March 2026

Three talks: 1) Explaining Deviations from Prior Knowledge in Cluster Analysis, 2) Interpretable Surrogates for Optimization, 3) Dynamic Temperature Control of Simulated Annealing
Speaker: Farnaz Farzadnia, Sebastian Merten, Francesca Da Ros
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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4 March 2026

The HP Sauce problem: Social Scoring and the use of data to make decisions
Speaker: Rebecca Williams
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Register here

5 March 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Jiequn Han (Flatiron Institute)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Check here nearer the time for Zoom link.
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9 March 2026

eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI): a brief review and some contributions
Speaker: Javier M. Moguerza (Research Centre for Intelligent Information Technologies)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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16 March 2026

Generative Models for Inference and Decision: From Wasserstein Flows to Guided Generation
Speaker: Yao Xie (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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17 March 2026

Teaching AI to creators
Speaker: Rebecca Fiebrink (University of the Arts London)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
Sign up here to join.

23 March 2026

OR with a White Hat: Evidencing Privacy Vulnerabilities in ML Models
Speaker: Thibaut Vidal (Polytechnique Montréal)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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24 March 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: David Hong (University of Delaware)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Check here nearer the time for Zoom link.


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



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