Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: March 2026 edition

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 2 March and 30 April 2026. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually.

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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Testing AI’s Implicit World Models
Speaker: Keyon Vafa (Harvard University)
Organised by: EPFL
The Zoom link is here.

3 March 2026

Towards optimal chemical space search with generative virtual screening
Speaker: Morgan Thomas (Khalifa University)
Organised by: EPFL
The Zoom link is here.

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

Model-based Distributionally Robust Optimisation: Bayesian Ambiguity Sets and Model Misspecification
Speaker: Harita Dellaporta (University College London)
Organised by: Finnish Centre for AI
Zoom link is 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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10 March 2026

LLMs When Left Alone
Speaker: Stefan Szeider (TU Wien)
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.

Invisible inputs: gender bias in AI systems
Speakers: Pragya Agarwal, Carrie Friese and Elizabeth Stokoe
Organised by: London School of Economics
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11 March 2026

Inferring stochastic dynamics without data: from diffusion samplers to discrete Schrödinger bridges
Speaker: Nikolay Malkin
Organised by: The University of Manchester
Register here.

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
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The world is your office: AI and the evolution of work from anywhere
Speakers: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Isabel Berwick and Sarah Ashwin
Organised by: London School of Economics
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19 March 2026

Humans and AI: The Journey
Speaker: Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University)
Organised by: University of Michigan
Zoom link is here.

20 March 2026

ChatMacro: Evaluating inflation forecasts of generative AI
Speaker: Tatevik Sekhposyan (Texas A&M University)
Organised by: Applied Machine Learning, Economics, and Data Science (AMLEDS)
Register here.

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
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25 March 2026

Insights from the AI Weather Quest: An international machine-learning competition for sub-seasonal prediction
Speaker: Joshua Talib
Organised by: ECMWF
Teams link is here.

7 April 2026

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

9 April 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Brian Trippe (Stanford University)
Organised by: Chalmers AI4Science
Join here, password: ai4science.

13 April 2026

Optimization Over Trained Neural Networks: What, Why, and How?
Speaker: Thiago Serra Azevedo Silva (University of Iowa)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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14 April 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Yiping Lu (Northwestern University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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Teaching youth to critically evaluate AI in healthcare while learning and applying data science and machine learning skills
Speaker: Kathryn Jessen Eller (Data Science, AI & You (DSAIY) in Healthcare)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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20 April 2026

Beyond MILP: A Hybrid Approach to Large-Scale Real-World Optimization with Hexaly
Speaker: Fred Gardi
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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21 April 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Nicholas Nelsen (Cornell University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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27 April 2026

Machine Learning for Faster Matheuristics: Perspectives and Advances
Speaker: Emma Frejinger (Université de Montréal)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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28 April 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Russel Schwab (Michigan State University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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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.