Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: October 2025 edition

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 3 October and 30 November 2025. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually.

3 October 2025

Automated Data Collection from Politically Restricted Social Media Platforms: Challenges and insights from China and Russia
Speakers: Patrick Chester (Stevens Institute of Technology) and Justin E. Lane (CulturePulse, Slovakia)
Organised by: University of Manchester
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A Purpose Grounded Evaluation Framework for XAI
Speaker: Eoin Kenny (J.P. Morgan)
Organised by: Imperial College London
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6 October 2025

Contextual Stochastic Bilevel Optimization
Speaker: Daniel Kuhn (EPFL)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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7 October 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Oscar Leong (UCLA)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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8 October 2025

Advancing Multiomic Analyses for Insights into Genome Variation, Chromatin Architecture and Human Diseases
Speaker: Chia-Lin Wei (University of Washington)
Organised by: University of Michigan Medical School
The seminar will be live-streamed on the DCMB YouTube Channel.

13 October 2025

Towards Explainable (Integer) Optimization
Speaker: Jannis Kurtz (University of Amsterdam)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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14 October 2025

Data Protection Practitioners’ Conference
Speakers: Various
Organised by: Information Commissioner’s Office
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Data-related concepts and practices for AI education in K–12
Speaker: Viktoriya Olari (Free University of Berlin)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Ryan Murray (North Carolina State University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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15 October 2025

Empowering workers in an age of artificial intelligence
Speaker: Tom Parr
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
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20 October 2025

Young stars session: 1) Mixed-integer Smoothing Surrogate Optimization with Constraints for MINLP, 2) Estimating Maintenance cost of Offshore Electrical Substations, 3) A stochastic line search method for minimizing expectation residuals
Speakers: Marina Cuesta (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Solène Delannoy-Pavy (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées), Qi Wang (University of Michigan)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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21 October 2025

Predictive vs causal targeting of social interventions
Speaker: Bryan Wilder (Carnegie Mellon University)
Organised by: University of Michigan
Zoom link is here. Password: AI.

22 October 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Hyunghoon (Hoon) Cho (Yale School of Medicine)
Organised by: University of Michigan Medical School
The seminar will be live-streamed on the DCMB YouTube Channel.

23 October 2025

Self-supervised pre-training for glacier calving front extraction from synthetic aperture radar imagery
Speaker: Nora Gourmelon (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Organised by: Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE)
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29 October 2025

Governing AI Datastructures
Speaker: Julie E Cohen
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
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Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Jianping Fu
Organised by: University of Michigan Medical School
The seminar will be live-streamed on the DCMB YouTube Channel.

3 November 2025

To Scan or Not to Scan? Machine Learning Informed POMDPs for Intensive Stroke Care
Speaker: Agni Orfanoudaki (University of Oxford)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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4 November 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Jose Carrillo (University of Oxford)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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10 November 2025

On the solution of the 0/1 D-optimality problem and the Maximum-Entropy sampling problem
Speaker: Marcia Fampa (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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11 November 2025

Using the micro:bit to learn about machine learning practices
Speaker: Karl-Emil Bilstrup (Copenhagen University)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Anna Little (University of Utah)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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12 November 2025

Ethics in AI
Speaker: Alysia Blackham
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
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13 November 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Michele Ceriotti (EPFL)
Organised by: Chalmers AI4Science
Zoom link is here. Password: ai4science.

17 November 2025

Placing n points as uniformly as possible
Speaker: Carola Doerr (Sorbonne University)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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18 November 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Jiequn Han (Flatiron Institute)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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19 November 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Yunha Hwang (MIT)
Organised by: ML Protein Engineering
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24 November 2025

Noisy and Stochastic Algorithms for Constrained Continuous Optimization
Speaker: Frank E. Curtis (Lehigh University)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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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.