This series boasts academics connected to the Turing Institute, speaking about their cutting edge research in data science and AI.

This series has finished for the 2024-2025 academic year and will re-start in the 2025-2026 academic year.

Previous Seminars: 

• Wednesday 6 November:
  • Title: Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems meet in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces
  • Speaker: Boumediene Hamzi, Marie Curie Fellow, Imperial College London.
  • Boumediene Hamzi slides - seminar: 6.11.2024 (PDF, 5,946kB)
  • NB: Boumediene is one of the organisers of the Turing Interest Group – Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems.
• Wednesday 20 November:
  • Title: Trustworthy Digital Twins: designing, developing, and deploying open and reproducible pipelines
  • Speaker: Chris Burr, Head of the Innovation and Impact Hub, Turing Research and Innovation Cluster for Digital Twins, Alan Turing Institute
  • Chris Burr slides 21.11.24 (PDF, 6,304kB)
• Wednesday 4 December:
  • Title: What can your shopping basket say about your health?
  • Speaker: Anya Skatova, Senior Research Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS)
• Wednesday 15 January:
  • Title: AI-guided tools for early prediction of brain and mental health disorders
  • Speaker: Zoe Kourtzi, Professor of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
  • Zoe Kourtzi slides - turing seminar (PDF, 6,651kB)
• Wednesday 12 February:
  • Title: Temporal models for Word Sense Disambiguation in historical texts
  • Speaker: Barbara McGillivray, Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Cultural Computation, Kings College London
  • Barbara Mcgillivray slides (PDF, 6,859kB)
• Wednesday 26 February:
  • Title: "If you can't tell, does it matter?" What should the law say about humanlike AI?
  • Speaker: Colin Gavaghan, Professor of Digital Futures, Bristol Digital Futues Institute, University of Bristol
  • Colin Gavaghan turing seminar slides (PDF, 5,085kB)
• Wednesday 12 March:
  • Title: "Cognition-first evolution"
  • Speaker: Richard Watson, Professor, (evolutionary biology and computer science), University of Southampton
• Wednesday 26 March:
  • Title: "Big data as propeller for dynamic and time-sensitive service industries: a tourism sector perspective."
  • Speaker: Nikolaos Stylos, Associate Professor in Marketing and Digital Innovation, Business School, University of Bristol
  • Niko Stylos seminar slides (PDF, 1,287kB)
• Wednesday 9 April:
  • Title: Can large language models reason about qualitative spatial information?
  • Speaker: Robert Blackwell, Senior Research Associate, Alan Turing Institute
  • Turing Seminar slides - robert blackwell (PDF, 8,189kB)