This page contains a list of past and forthcoming seminars relating to AI and machine learning for 2026. 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 2025, click here.

AI and machine learning seminars

April 2026
March 2026
February 2026
January 2026

April 2026

7 April 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Shi Chen (MIT)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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9 April 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Brian Trippe (Stanford University)
Organised by: Chalmers AI4Science
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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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March 2026

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
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3 March 2026

Towards optimal chemical space search with generative virtual screening
Speaker: Morgan Thomas (Khalifa University)
Organised by: EPFL
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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
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Model-based Distributionally Robust Optimisation: Bayesian Ambiguity Sets and Model Misspecification
Speaker: Harita Dellaporta (University College London)
Organised by: Finnish Centre for AI
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5 March 2026

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

February 2026

2 February 2026

Recent trends in combinatorial optimization augmented machine learning
Speaker: Axel Parmentier (Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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3 February 2026

The Military-Digital Complex: Digital Technologies and the New World (dis)Order
Speaker: Dario Guarascio (Sapienza University of Rome)
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.

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
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Neurosymbolic Approaches for Trustworthy, Explainable Complex Systems
Speaker: Lailani Gilpin
Organised by: Imperial College London
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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
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6 February 2026

On-Device AI: Privacy, Performance, and Real-World Edge Systems
Speaker: Vineeth Gupta
Organised by: San Francisco University
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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
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10 February 2026

Mathematical thinking and its development: A machine learning approach
Speaker: Sashank Varma (Georgia Tech)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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Scale is religion?
Speaker: Vicky Kalogeiton (École Polytechnique)
Organised by: AIDA
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Advancing AI for society via race-conscious algorithmic approaches
Speaker: Thema Monroe-White (George Mason University)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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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
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12 February 2026

Machine-learned interatomic potentials for materials chemistry
Speaker: Volker Deringer (Oxford University)
Organised by: Chalmers AI4Science
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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
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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
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20 February 2026

LLM Labs: Model Behavior
Speaker: Suzana Ilic
Organised by: Machine Learning Tokyo
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Foundations of Distributed Training: How Modern AI Systems Are Built
Speaker: Suman Debnath
Organised by: San Francisco University
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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
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January 2026

9 January 2026

LLM Introspection
Speaker: Murray Shanahan
Organised by: Imperial College London
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14 January 2026

Disentangling regional impacts of teleconnections using causal representation learning
Speaker: Fiona Spuler (University of Reading)
Organised by: ECMWF
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16 January 2026

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Asaf Manela (Washington University in St. Louis)
Organised by: Applied Machine Learning, Economics, and Data Science (AMLEDS)
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20 January 2026

The Science Fiction Science Method
Speaker: Iyad Rahwan (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.

Evaluating operational seasonal forecasts in the extratropics: improvements, challenges, and interesting problems
Speaker: Christopher O’Reilly (University of Reading)
Organised by: ECMWF
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21 January 2026

AI Skills Wanted: Why the Future of Work Needs Great Skills
Speaker: Fabian Stephany
Organised by: Institute for Ethics in AI, University of Oxford
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26 January 2026

Three talks: 1) Optimizing treatment allocation in the presence of network effects, 2) Relative Explanations for Contextual Problems with Endogenous Uncertainty: An Application to Competitive Facility Location, 3) On a Computationally Ill-Behaved Bilevel Problem with a Continuous and Nonconvex Lower Level
Speaker: Daan Caljon, Jasone Ramírez-Ayerbe, Yasmine Beck
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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27 January 2026

Teaching about neural networks in junior high schools in Ghana
Speaker: Salomey Afua Addo (University of Cambridge)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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