Forthcoming machine learning and AI seminars: February 2025 edition

This post contains a list of the AI-related seminars that are scheduled to take place between 3 February and 31 March 2025. All events detailed here are free and open for anyone to attend virtually.

3 February 2025

Building Light Schrödinger Bridges
Speaker: Alexander Korotin (Skoltech)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
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Concept bottleneck language models for protein design
Speakers: Aya Abdelsalam, PhD (Guide Labs) & Nathan Frey, PhD (Prescient Design)
Organised by: ML Protein Engineering
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Bridging smooth regression and mathematical optimization
Speaker: Vanesa Guerrero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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4 February 2025

Misinformation and Social Media as a Historical Process: Insights from the American Experience
Speaker: James W. Cortada
Organised by: The Digital Humanism (DIGHUM) Initiative
The talk will be livestreamed on YouTube here.

Large Data Limits and Scaling Laws of t-SNE
Speaker: Adam Pickarski (North Carolina State University)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration here.

How to train large scale 3D human foundation models
Speaker: Gerard Pons-Moll
Organised by: AIDA
Zoom link here.

6 February 2025

Leveraging AI for Large-Scale Acoustic Biodiversity Monitoring: Insights from TABMON
Speaker: Benjamin Cretois (Norwegian Institute for Nature Research)
Organised by: RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden)
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7 February 2025

Can Large Language Models Trade? AI Agents Competing in Stock Markets
Speaker: Alejandro Lopez Lira (University of Florida)
Organised by: Statistics and Machine Learning in Finance, University of Oxford
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Boosted Control Functions: Distribution generalization and invariance in confounded models
Speaker: Nicola Gnecco (Imperial College London)
Organised by: UCL ELLIS
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10 February 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Pin-Yu Chen (IBM Research)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
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Counterfactual Token Generation in Large Language Models
Speaker: Manuel Gómez Rodríguez (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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11 February 2025

Soft Matters – The Future of Human-Machine Interaction
Speaker: Cosima du Pasquier (Stanford University)
Organised by: EPFL
Zoom link is here.

Parametric model reduction of stochastic systems via population dynamics
Speaker: Benjamin Peherstorfer (NYU Courant Institute)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration here.

AI in K–12 education: Empowering teachers through professional development and evidence-based theories from classroom implementation
Speaker: Franz Jetzinger (Technical University of Munich)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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12 February 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Marco Valentino
Organised by: Imperial College London
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13 February 2025

Do Equity and Options Markets Agree about Volatility?
Speaker: Carsten Chong (HKUST)
Organised by: Statistics and Machine Learning in Finance, University of Oxford
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Free-energy Calculations from Neural Thermodynamic Integration
Speaker: Tristan Bereau (University of Heidelberg)
Organised by: CChalmers AI4Science
Zoom link is here. Password: ai4science.

17 February 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Maximilian Nickel (Meta AI)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
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Young Stars session: 1) Accelerating Benders decomposition for the p-median problem through variable aggregation, 2) Fair and Accurate Regression: Strong Formulations and Algorithms, 3) A Model-Agnostic Framework for Collective and Sparse “Black-Box” Explanations
Speakers: Rick Willemsen (Erasmus University Rotterdam), Anna Deza (UC Berkeley), Thomas Halskov (Copenhagen Business School)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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18 February 2025

Modelling Particle Systems with Many-body Equivariant Networks
Speaker: Christoph Ortner (UBC)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration here.

AI Ethics: Bridging the Gap – Exploring AI Literacy in a Transformative Educational Landscape
Speaker: Linnéa Stenliden (Linköping University)
Organised by: Chalmers University of Technology
Zoom registration link is here.

20 February 2025

So Many Jumps, So Little News
Speaker: Chen Xu Li (Renmin University of China)
Organised by: Statistics and Machine Learning in Finance, University of Oxford
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Embodied Estimators for Full Autonomy
Speaker: Melih Kandemir (University of Southern Denmark)
Organised by: Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
Zoom link is here.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Abdulhakim Abdi (Lund University)
Organised by: RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden)
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24 February 2025

Data-Driven Algorithm Design and Verification for Parametric Convex Optimization
Speaker: Bartolomeo Stellato (Princeton University)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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25 February 2025

Exploiting Low-Dimensional Data Structures and Understanding Neural Scaling Laws of Transformers
Speaker: Wenjing Liao (Georgia Tech)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
Zoom registration here.

27 February 2025

So Many Jumps, So Little News
Speaker: Stefan Voigt (University of Copenhagen)
Organised by: Statistics and Machine Learning in Finance, University of Oxford
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3 March 2025

Pareto sensitivity, most-changing sub-fronts, and optimal knee solutions
Speaker: Luis Nunes Vicente (Lehigh University)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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6 March 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Alberto Martín-Utrera (Iowa State University)
Organised by: Statistics and Machine Learning in Finance, University of Oxford
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Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Atakan Aral (University of Vienna)
Organised by: RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden)
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10 March 2025

Concepts from cooperative game theory for feature selection
Speaker: Marleen Balvert (Tilburg University)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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11 March 2025

Developing data awareness: Understanding and navigating the data-driven world
Speakers: Lukas Höper and Carsten Schulte (Paderborn University)
Organised by: Raspberry PI
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13 March 2025

Explaining and controlling turbulent flows through deep learning
Speaker: Ricardo Vinuesa (KTH)
Organised by: CChalmers AI4Science
Zoom link is here. Password: ai4science.

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Sherrie Wang (MIT)
Organised by: RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden)
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17 March 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Eric Nalisnick (Johns Hopkins University)
Organised by: Vanderbilt University
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Offline Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Optimization: A Data-Driven End-to-End Approach to Job Shop Scheduling
Speaker: Yingqian Zhang (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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18 March 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Misha Belkin (UCSD)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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24 March 2025

Linear and nonlinear learning of optimization problems
Speaker: Coralia Cartis (University of Oxford)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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25 March 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: Di Qi (Purdue)
Organised by: University of Minnesota
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27 March 2025

Title to be confirmed
Speaker: María J. Molina (University of Maryland)
Organised by: RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden)
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31 March 2025

Feature selection in linear Support Vector Machines via a hard cardinality constraint: a scalable conic decomposition approach
Speaker: Laura Palagi (Sapienza University of Rome)
Organised by: Association of European Operational Research Societies
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To see past and forthcoming events for 2024 and 2025, please see our dedicated 2024 and 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.