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Seminars 2024
This page contains a list of past and forthcoming seminars relating to AI and machine learning for 2024. All events listed here should be free and open for anyone to attend. We have, where possible, included the sign-up link or information on how to join. If you spot any omissions please contact us by email.
To see a list of organisations that run regular seminars on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science, click here.
To see past events from 2023, click here.
AI and machine learning seminars
October 2024
September 2024
August 2024
July 2024
June 2024
May 2024
April 2024
March 2024
February 2024
January 2024
October 2024
7 October 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Saining Xie (New York University)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
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8 October 2024
Teaching and learning computer science with rapidly evolving generative AI models
Speakers: Arto Hellas & Juho Leinonen (Aalto University)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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9 October 2024
AI Series: Business Model Innovation
Speaker: Ashley Braganza (Brunel Business School)
Organised by: Chartered Governance Institute UK and Ireland
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10 October 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Anne-Florence Bitbol (EPFL)
Organised by: Chalmers University of Technology
Zoom link is here. Password: ai4science.
16 October 2024
Algorithmic decision making and participation for biodiversity conservation
Speaker: Lily Xu (University of Oxford)
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
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21 October 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Youssef Mroueh (IBM Research/MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
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23 October 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Barry Smith (University of London)
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
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28 October 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Huy Vo (Meta AI)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
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29 October 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Yuejie Chi (Carnegie Mellon)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration here nearer the time.
30 October 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Alexy Karenowska (University of Oxford)
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
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September 2024
2 September 2024
Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism – The first five years
Panellists: Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Jens Schneider, Noshir Contractor, George Metakides, Christiane Wendehorst
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.
5 September 2024
AI Series: Structural Changes, Talent Capacity and Development
Speaker: Ashley Braganza (Brunel Business School)
Organised by: Chartered Governance Institute UK and Ireland
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9 September 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Jiajun Wu (Stanford University)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
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12 September 2024
Exploiting artificial intelligence in synthesis planning
Speaker: Samuel Genheden (AstraZeneca)
Organised by: Chalmers University of Technology
Zoom link is here. Password: ai4science.
16 September 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Yu Wang (Vanderbilt University)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
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23 September 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Yilun Du (Harvard University)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
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30 September 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Furong Huang (University of Maryland)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
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August 2024
No listings for this month.
July 2024
2 July 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Nevin L Zhang
Organised by: Imperial College London
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3 July 2024
Law Enforcement Use of Facial Recognition in the UK
Speaker: Asress Gikay (Brunel University London)
Organised by: Brunel University London
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16 July 2024
How should we teach debugging to secondary school students?
Speaker: Laurie Gale (Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre, University of Cambridge)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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June 2024
3 June 2024
Rules and Algorithms
Speaker: Lorraine Daston
Organised by: Cambridge Digital Humanities
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4 June 2024
Civic Virtue and Digital Technology
Speaker: Wessel Reijers (Paderborn University)
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.
6 June 2024
Of mice and men
Speaker: Kathryn Hess (EPFL)
Organised by: University of Lisbon
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10 June 2024
Who Do We Become When We Talk to Machines?
Speaker: Sherry Turkle
Organised by: Cambridge Digital Humanities
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Updating Beliefs on Bayesian Education: Reflections on Research and Teaching Projects
Speaker: Mine Dogucu (University of California Irvine)
Organised by: Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
Zoom link is here.
11 June 2024
Generative AI Degrades Online Communities
Speaker: Gordon Burtch (Boston University)
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.
Using a feedback literacy approach, what are secondary educators’ views of LLM-generated explanations of program error messages?
Speaker: Veronica Cucuiat (Raspberry Pi Foundation)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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AI Ethics: Forward-looking expert responsibility for AI development: necessary but democratically undesirable?
Speaker: Maria Hedlund
Organised by: Chalmers University
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12 June 2024
Exploring the Synergy of Machine Learning and Healthcare Advancements
Speaker: Zahraa Abdallah (University of Bristol)
Organised by: Brunel University London
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A big telescope and a big computer: how AI and HPC will enable next breakthroughs in our understanding of the Universe
Speaker: Tomasz Kacprzak (ETHZ)
Organised by: EPFL
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17 June 2024
Who Do We Become When We Talk to Machines?
Speaker: Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones
Organised by: Cambridge Digital Humanities
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Tackling Decision Processes with Non-Cumulative Objectives using Reinforcement Learning
Speaker: Maximilian Naegele (Max Planck Erlangen)
Organised by: Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
Zoom link is here.
18 June 2024
DiConStruct: Causal Concept-based Explanations through Black-Box Distillation
Speaker: Jacopo Bono
Organised by: Imperial College London
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25 June 2024
Autonomous Weapon Systems – Future Paths for Regulation
Speaker: Elisabeth Hoffberger-Pippan (Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany)
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.
26 June 2024
Remixing the real world: How to use synthetic images and videos to train more robust deep learning models
Speaker: Ivan Nikolov (Aalborg University)
Organised by: Brunel University London
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May 2024
2 May 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Eoin Delaney (University of Oxford)
Organised by: Imperial College London
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3 May 2024
Deep Learning for Molecular Design
Speaker: Kyunghyun Cho (New York University)
Organised by: Cornell University
Zoom link is here.
6 May 2024
Online learning and decision-making for renewables participating in electricity markets
Speaker: Pierre Pinson (Halfspace, Denmark)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
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Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Juho Kannala
Organised by: Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
Zoom link will be available here nearer the time.
Capture and Generate: The New Language of AI
Speaker: Leif Weatherby (New York University)
Organised by: Cambridge Digital Humanities
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8 May 2024
AI and Physics – An Equal Partnership
Speaker: Liliana Teodorescu (Brunel University London)
Organised by: Brunel University London
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13 May 2024
Faithful Model Explanations through Energy-Constrained Conformal Counterfactuals
Speaker: Patrick Altmeyer (Delft University of Technology)
Organised by: Imperial College London
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Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with Our Nonhuman Symbionts
Speaker: Katherine Hayles
Organised by: Cambridge Digital Humanities
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14 May 2024
Generative AI is changing undergraduate education; and undergraduate research too!
Speaker: Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Tran & Irene Hou (Temple University)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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Theorizing Regulatory Data Infrastructure
Speaker: Stefania Milan (University of Amsterdam)
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.
24 May 2024
A Machine Learning approach for Chicken Diseases Diagnostics at Farm Level
Speaker: Dina Machuve
Organised by: Climate Change AI
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27 May 2024
The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Matteo Pasquinelli
Organised by: Cambridge Digital Humanities
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28 May 2024
AI Ethics: Foundational Challenges in Assuring Safety and Alignment of Large Language Models
Speaker: Usman Anwar
Organised by: Chalmers University
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29 May 2024
When Do Decision Makers Use Visualisation?
Speaker: Mai Elshehaly (City University of London)
Organised by: Brunel University London
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30 May 2024
SHAP-XRT: The Shapley Value Meets Conditional Independence Testing
Speaker: Jacopo Taneggi & Beepul Bharti
Organised by: Imperial College London
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April 2024
2 April 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Rafael M. Frongillo (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
Zoom link is here.
Advancing Machine-Learned Interatomic Potentials: Enhancing Accuracy and Robustness in Materials Science Applications
Speaker: Yangshuai Wang (University of British Columbia)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration here.
8 April 2024
Young Stars: three talks. 1) Factor Model of Mixtures, 2) Estimate-Then-Optimize versus Integrated-Estimation-Optimization versus Sample Average Approximation: A Stochastic Dominance Perspective, 3) Unboxing Tree Ensembles for interpretability: a hierarchical visualization tool and a multivariate optimal re-built tree
Speakers: Cheng Peng (Stony Brook University), Haofeng Zhang (Columbia University), Giulia Di Teodoro (Sapienza University of Rome)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
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9 April 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Ananya Joshi (Carnegie Mellon University)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
Zoom link is here.
Conditional coalescent and its applications in population genomics
Speaker: Wai-Tong (Louis) Fan (Indiana University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration here.
AI Ethics: Cooperating with Stochastic Parrots?
Speaker: David Manheim (Technion)
Organised by: Chalmers University
Zoom registration here.
12 April 2024
Foundation Models for a Sustainable Planet
Speaker: Aditya Grover (UCLA)
Organised by: Cornell University
Zoom link is here.
Revolutionizing Public Safety: 6G Wireless Unleashes Precision Positioning and Navigation
Speaker: Eirini Tsiropoulou (University of New Mexico)
Organised by: The University of Texas at San Antonio
Zoom link is here.
16 April 2024
What’s Wrong with Large Language Models and What We Should Be Building Instead
Speaker: Tom Dietterich (Oregon State University)
Organised by: Johns Hopkins University
Zoom link is here.
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Mingjie Sun (Carnegie Mellon University)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
Zoom link is here.
Are the measurement data enough: an instability study for an inverse problem for the stationary radiative transport near the diffusion limit
Speaker: Hongkai Zhao (Duke University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration here.
Generative AI in programming education: Bridging the gap from school to what lies ahead
Speaker: Brett A. Becker (University College Dublin)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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17 April 2024
AI for Cultural Heritage: what of copyright?
Speaker: Paula Westenberger (Brunel University London)
Organised by: Brunel University London
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18 April 2024
Smart Meter Data Analytics: Practical Use-Cases and Best Practices of Machine Learning Applications for Energy Data in the Residential Sector
Speaker: Tobias Brudermüller and Markus Kreft (Bits to Energy Lab, ETH Zurich)
Organised by: Climate Change AI
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19 April 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: René Vidal (University of Pennsylvania)
Organised by: The University of Texas at San Antonio
Zoom link is here.
22 April 2024
Integrating Stochastic Optimization and Machine Learning via Residuals
Speaker: Güzin Bayraksan (Ohio State University)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
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23 April 2024
Numerical Methods of Neural Network Discretization for Solving Nonlinear Differential Equations
Speaker: Wenrui Hao (The Pennsylvania State University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration here.
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Yexiang Xue (Purdue University)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
Zoom link is here.
26 April 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Urbashi Mitra (University of Southern California Los Angeles)
Organised by: The University of Texas at San Antonio
Zoom link is here.
29 April 2024
Young Stars: three talks. 1) A predict-and-optimize approach to profit-driven churn prevention, 2) Mixed-Integer Quadratic Optimization and Iterative Clustering Techniques for Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machines, 3) Reliable Data-driven Decision Making
Speakers: Nuria Gómez-Vargas (University of Seville), Maria Eduarda Pinheiro (Trier University), Bahar Taskesen (EPFL)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
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30 April 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Guannan Zhang (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration available here nearer the time.
March 2024
4 March 2024
Young Stars: three talks. 1) Learning Optimal Classification Trees Robust to Distribution Shifts, 2) Can machine learning methods effectively model travel mode choice? Beyond predictive performance, 3) Learning the Follower’s Objective Function in Sequential Bilevel Games
Speakers: Nathan Justin (University of Southern California), José Ángel Martín Baos (University of Castilla-La Mancha), Ioana Molan (Trier University)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
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11 March 2024
Role of Analytics Professionals in Building a Data Driven Culture
Speaker: Pooja Dewan (Otis Elevator Company)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
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Navigating Tomorrow: Putting People at the Helm of Maritime Digitalization and Automation
Speaker: Mashrura Musharraf (Aalto University)
Organised by: Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
Zoom link here.
12 March 2024
Random High-Dimensional Binary Vectors, Kernel Methods, and Hyperdimensional Computing
Speaker: Nicholas Marshall (Oregon State University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration here.
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Misha Khodak (Carnegie Mellon University)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
Zoom link is here.
The impact of AI tools on the student experience in programming courses: A preliminary study with an intersectional analysis approach
Speaker: Yash Tadimalla & Prof. Mary Lou Maher (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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15 March 2024
ML-enhanced approaches to help accelerate materials design for extreme environments
Speaker: Lory Brady Graham-Brady (Johns Hopkins University)
Organised by: EPFL
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Trustworthy AI: Exploring Causality and Generative Models for Better-Informed Predictions
Speaker: Francesco Quinzan (University of Oxford)
Organised by: UCL ELLIS
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Empowering Climate Tech Angel Investors
Speaker: Jennifer Turliuk and Vijay Rajendran (Climate Angels)
Organised by: Climate Change AI
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18 March 2024
FunSearch: Discovering new mathematics and algorithms using Large Language Models
Speaker: Bernardino Romera Paredes (Google DeepMind)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
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19 March 2024
Fourier representations for fast Gaussian process regression
Speaker: Philip Greengard (Columbia University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration here.
Real feeling and fictional time in human-AI interaction
Speaker: Joel Krueger (University of Exeter)
Organised by: University of Oslo
Watch on YouTube here.
Algorithmic Institutionalism
Speaker: Virgilio Almeida (Harvard University & Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.
26 March 2024
Causal discovery with incomplete data
Speaker: Vanessa Didelez (University of Bremen)
Organised by: University of Manchester
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Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Zhongqiang Zhang (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration available here nearer the time.
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Ashia Wilson (MIT)
Organised by: Carnegie Mellon University
Zoom link is here.
Predicting Classifier Accuracy in the Wild
Speaker: Fabrizio Sebastiani (ISTI-CNR)
Organised by: AIDA
Zoom link here.
February 2024
1 February 2024
Understanding Cellular Biology across multiple scales using machine learning
Speaker: Mohammad Lotfollahi
Organised by: Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine
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12 February 2024
Decentralized Bilevel Optimization
Speaker: Shiqian Ma
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
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Ulizallama: Swahili’s Leap into Large Language Models
Speaker: Jay Patel
Organised by: Lanfrica Talks
Link to join can be found here.
Flexible and Efficient Probabilistic Modeling with Tractable Circuits
Speaker: Martin Trapp
Organised by: Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
Zoom link here.
13 February 2024
Can large language models that generate code help K–12 students effectively learn Python programming?
Speaker: Majeed Kazemi
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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Can we have pro-human AI?
Speaker: Daron Acemoğlu
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.
Generalization theory for diffusion models
Speaker: Frank Cole
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration here.
From Autonomy to Synergy: Envisioning Next Generation Human-AI Partnerships
Speaker: Sidney D’Mello (University of Colorado Boulder)
Organised by: University of Michigan
Zoom link here.
19 February 2024
Risk Quadrangle and Applications: Support Vector Regression (SVR)
Speaker: Stan Uryasev (Stony Brook University)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
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Recent Advancements in Equilibrium Computation for Adversarial Team Games
Speaker: Nicola Gatti
Organised by: Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
Watch live on YouTube here.
20 February 2024
Physics of Learning and Computation in Natural and Artificial Neural Networks
Speaker: Hidenori Tanaka
Organised by: Harvard University
Check the website nearer the time for the streaming link.
The effect of Leaky ReLUs on the training and generalization of overparameterized networks
Speaker: Yinglong Guo (University of Minnesota)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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22 February 2024
Title to be confirmed
Speaker: James Zou
Organised by: Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine
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26 February 2024
Learning and Optimization: Separate or Integrate?
Speaker: Nathan Kallus (Cornell University)
Organised by: Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
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27 February 2024
Improved Convergence Rates of Anderson Acceleration for a Large Class of Fixed-Point Iterations
Speaker: Casey Garner (University of Minnesota)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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January 2024
10 January 2024
Feminist AI lecture series
Speakers: Os Keyes and Qingyi Ren
Organised by: University of Arts Linz
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11 January 2024
The ALeRCE astronomical alert broker
Speaker: Francisco Förster Burón (Universidad de Chile)
Organised by: University of Lisbon
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23 January 2024
Please Identify Yourself! What to expect of Europe’s ubiquitous digital identification infrastructure
Speaker: Thomas Lohninger
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
Zoom link is here.
Planning and Acting to Learn
Speaker: Paolo Traverso
Organised by: Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
Watch live on YouTube here.
24 January 2024
eSpace Seminar – USSF-MIT researchers present their work : AI Technologies and simulation tools for SSA – Space Sustainability and Policy
Speakers: Jacqueline Smith and Tory Smith
Organised by: EPFL
Zoom link is here.
29 January 2024
Robust and sample-efficient simulation-based inference
Speaker: Ayush Bharti
Organised by: Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
Zoom link here.
30 January 2024
Optimal Transport Maps for Conditional Simulation
Speaker: Bamdad Hosseini
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration here.
Scenarios for the future of AI – unblocking the logjam
Speaker: David Wood
Organised by: Chalmers University
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Realizing AI for Impact: Uncertainty and Human-Agent Collaboration in Multi-Agent Systems for Public Health and Conservation
Speaker: Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly
Organised by: University of Michigan
Zoom link here.
Deep learning and Process Understanding for Data-Driven Earth System Science
Speaker: Markus Reichstein
Organised by: AIDA
Zoom link here.
