Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: November 2026 edition

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place in the next couple of months. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually.

5 November 2026

Trust, Sensing, and Learning for Provable Multi-Robot Performance
Speaker: Stephanie Gil (Harvard University)
Organised by: EPFL
The Zoom link is here.

9 November 2026

Out-of-the-Box Global Optimization for Packing Problems: New Models and Improved Solutions
Speakers: Timo Bertholdt and Imre Polik (FICO)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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10 November 2026

Measure Transport for Data-Driven Dynamical Systems
Speaker: Jonah Botvinick-Greenhouse (Yale University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration is here.

11 November 2026

Ethics in AI
Speaker: Ljupcho Grozdanovski
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Register here.

Safe Adaptive Policy Learning
Speaker: Aurelien Bibaut (Netflix)
Organised by: The University of Manchester
Register here.

When AI Enters the Real World: Risk, Resilience and Human Judgement in Engineering
Speaker: Clara Cheung
Organised by: The University of Manchester
Register here.

12 November 2026

Steering Physical and Generative Priors with Cryo-EM Data to Infer Biomolecular Ensembles
Speaker: Pilar Cossio (Flatiron Institute)
Organised by: Chalmers AI4Science
Join here, password: ai4science.

16 November 2026

Supply chain risk management: sharing information and exploring uncertainty
Speaker: Stefan Minner (Technical University of Munich)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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Designing better soaps with machine learning: Predicting surfactant properties from molecular structure
Speaker: Richard Beckmann
Organised by: Chalmers
Join here.

23 November 2026

Beyond Modeling: How ML Is Reshaping Operations Research for Dynamic Decision Making
Speaker: Shadi Sharif Azadeh (TU Delft)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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24 November 2026

Let Me Inform (and Entertain) You: News Recommender Systems to Support Democratic Society
Speaker: Sanne Vrijenhoek
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.

Designing Generative Models from General Markov Processes: Framework and Application
Speaker: Yinuo Ren (Stanford)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration is here.

25 November 2026

Ethics in AI
Speaker: Sandra Wachter
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
Register here.

30 November 2026

Decision-Focused Scenario Learning for Contextual Stochastic Programming
Speaker: Tito Homem-de-Mello (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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7 December 2026

The Expressive Power of Large Language Models
Speaker: Gabriel Peyré (CNRS)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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8 December 2026

“From tool users to model builders: Integrating student learning of AI into interdisciplinary middle school inquiry”
Speaker: Fred Martin, Deepti Tagare, Lucretia M. Fraga, Lijun Ni, Lin Zhu, Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi, Hailey Muñiz, Varsha Yerram, and Diane Schilder
Organised by: Raspberry PI
Sign up here to join.

15 December 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Haizhao Yang (University of Maryland)
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.

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.

Lucy Smith is Senior Managing Editor for AIhub.