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

CultureQuest - Digital Humanities Roadshow

  • Date: Feb 9th 10am – 5pm
  • Location: Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Queens Rd, Clifton, Bristol BS8 1RL

CultureQuest, a location based, AI-driven game, turns Bristol Museum’s Egyptian Gallery into an interactive quest guided by the gods.

At this interactive event we present CultureQuest, a collaborative pilot project led jointly by the University of Bristol and Meaning Machine, working in partnership with Bristol Museums, and funded by Digital Catapult Creative Connect. The project uses generative AI to create personalised, interactive ‘quests’ that lead museum visitors away from passive consumption of information towards active interpretation of exhibits. Guest at the event will have the opportunity to play CultureQuest and then experiment with the underlying technology to create their own unique conversational experience. No prior technical experience is required.

Find out more about the event and register for tickets here

Please note that tickets are very limited, so register ASAP if you’re interested in attending. Due to the small number of tickets, we also ask that you only register if you are certain that you will be able to attend for the whole event.

From around the Turing

  • 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
  • AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth, University of Nottingham, 09 - 12 February 2026, 09:00 - 17:00

    • Registrations are now open for the "AI Across Scales: From Molecules to Planet Earth" workshop, to be held at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge.

    • The aim of the workshop is to look at how advances in machine learning are transforming the landscape of scientific discovery, enabling breakthroughs across various scales and disciplines.

    • The deadline for contributed talk and poster proposals is 01 December 2025. The registration deadline is 11 January 2026.

    • Find out more here.

  • Towards improving neutrino telescopes with machine learning, University of Liverpool, 10 February 2026, 15:00 - 17:00

    • Neutrino telescopes detect rare particle interactions originating from some of the most extreme environments in the Universe. They achieve this by instrumenting a cubic-kilometer volume of transparent medium with light sensors. Owing to their size and the prevalence of background events, these detectors produce enormous amounts of high-dimensional, highly variable data. Such characteristics pose major challenges for predicting event properties such as direction and energy, particularly with machine learning (ML) methods. In this talk, Felix Yu will present an efficient point cloud transformer model designed to address these challenges. Felix will also discuss a self-supervised training strategy that shifts the majority of learning to real data, thereby reducing reliance on simulations and mitigating associated systematic uncertainties.

    • Register here.

From Turing Interest Groups

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