Events and opportunities

Check this page for the latest events and opportunities from around the Turing and organised by the Turing Liaison team.

Organised by the Turing Liaison team

Web Archives for Social Sciences Datathon

On 27–28 November 2025 we are organising a Web Archives for Social Sciences Datathon at the University of Bristol. This is in collaboration with our partners: the Common Crawl and UK Web Archive at The British Library. The datathon will take place at the BDFI Neutral Lab.

This two-day event will build capacity in the social science research community to use large-scale Web Archive data for policy-relevant, socio-economic research. Participants will work in teams with curated data extracts from the Common Crawl to address real-world research challenges. They will be supported by our expert facilitators.

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From around the Turing

  • Machine Learning for Tuning and Control in Particle Accelerators
    • University of Liverpool, 09 December 2025, 15:00 - 16:00
    • Machine learning (ML) is a key technology for advancing particle accelerators and should play a central role in their future design. ML methods provide fast predictions at lower computational cost than analytical or classical numerical approaches, capture nonlinear correlations in data, and adapt to changes in machine conditions.
    • These capabilities enable robust online detection, prediction, optimisation, and control, while also supporting accelerator design by reducing the cost of numerical simulations and guiding parameter searches in high-dimensional spaces. Among ML applications, optimisation is particularly prominent, with Bayesian optimisation and reinforcement learning emerging as leading paradigms.
    • In this seminar, the speaker will focus on tuning and control tasks in particle accelerators using these methods and demonstrate their performance in real machines.
    • Register here.
  • Data Study Group January 2026: Save the date! 26 January - 06 February 2026
    • Audience: PhD students, post docs & early career researchers
    • Data Study Groups are intensive five-day collaborative, sprint-style research activities which bring together organisations from industry, government, and the third sector, with talented multi-disciplinary researchers from academia, to work on real-world problems.
    • January’s challenge will explore supply-demand gaps and trends in recruitment for AI roles across the UK labour market.
    • Find out more here: Data Study Group - January 2026 | The Alan Turing Institute
  • Threat Modelling Workshop for Sleeper Agents in Agentic AI
    • Wednesday 26 November 2025
    • 10:00–13:00 (London, UK)
    • Online (Zoom) - Register here
    • This interactive workshop will explore emerging cyber risks at the intersection of shadow AI, sleeper agents, malware, and disinformation, focusing on how these can combine into autonomous AI attack chains targeting digital identity systems. Participants will engage in guided discussions and scenario-based breakout sessions, working collaboratively to model and respond to complex threat scenarios and consider strategies to strengthen resilience in digital identity ecosystems.

 

From Turing Interest Groups

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  • Humanities and Data Science interest group: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS. Conference: Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics, 15-16 January 2026, King’s College London (Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS)
    • We invite submissions for the conference Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics: Data-Driven Insights into Language and Cultural Change. The conference is funded by the London Arts & Humanities Partnership.
    • For more information, see the conference webpage