Past events
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In Conversation: African Climate Futures event 22 January 2026
17:00 - 19:00 22 January 2026
Join us for a thought-provoking evening as we delve into the urgent and imaginative terrain of African Climate Futures. This special event celebrates the launch of African Climate Futures, the latest book by Dr Carl Death, which explores how African science fiction is addressing climate change, weighing...
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SQUIDS Seminar: Sampling as Bandits: Evaluation-Efficient Design for Black-Box Densities
14:00 - 15:00 21 January 2026
Speaker: Takuo Matsubara (University of Edinburgh) Abstract: We introduce Bandit Importance Sampling (BIS), a novel class of importance sampling methods designed for scenarios where the target density is computationally expensive to evaluate. In contrast to adaptive importance sampling, which optimises...
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FBMH Academic Development Programme - Active Learning and Student Engagement (Foundation Level)
13:00 - 15:30 19 January 2026
If you’ve ever felt awkward during long periods of silence or worried about not being the expert in the room, you’re not alone. Many educators share these concerns. The good news is, you don’t need to have all the answers—you can create an environment where your role is to facilitate students’...
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AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Boumediene Hamzi
11:00 - 12:00 14 January 2026
On 14 January, we will have Boumediene Hamzi from Imperial College London, Caltech and the Alan Turing Institute. Talk title: Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems meet in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces Abstract: Since its inception in the 19th century through the efforts of Poincaré and Lyapunov,...
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Manchester Geometry Seminar - Adrian Dawid
15:00 - 16:00 12 January 2026
Speaker: Adrian Dawid (Cambridge) Title: Random walks on the Hamiltonian diffeomorphism group Abstract: On a symplectic manifold M, the group of Hamiltonian diffeomorphisms Ham(M) is a fundamental object of study. When M represents the phase space of a mechanical system, Ham(M) encodes all possible...
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