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

AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond 2026

January 15th-16th 2026

Registration: https://shop.bris.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/jean-golding-institute/conferences

Location:
Conference: Humanities Complex, 11 Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1TB
Hack-a-thon (optional): Bill Brown Design Suite, Queen's Building, Woodland Rd, Bristol BS8 1TH

We're living through a revolution with AI and Engineering Biology colliding to unlock capabilities that seemed impossible just years ago. From designing new to nature proteins with AI, to reprogramming living cells and accelerating scientific discovery at breath-taking speed. This isn't incremental progress. This is a transformation. Join us in Bristol where pioneers, researchers, and innovators at the intersection of these fields will share their latest breakthroughs, challenge boundaries, and discuss what comes next.

The AI, Engineering Biology and Beyond 2026 event will take place at the University of Bristol, UK and consists of a 2-day conference (15-16 Jan 2026) and an optional 1-day hack-a-thon (14 Jan 2026). Full details about the speaker line up and schedule can be found at the conference website: https://aiebab.github.io/

We welcome submission of abstracts for consideration as short oral and poster presentations. These can be provided during the sign-up process. We are particularly interested in submissions from early career researchers (PhDs and postdocs) and will have number of travel awards to support their attendance that will be awarded once the schedule has been finalised.

Lunch, snacks and drinks will be provided throughout the 2 days of the main conference.

 

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.

Applications CLOSED

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.

  • Workshop: Cyber Threat Observatory for national identity systems, 10 December 2025, 09:00 - 12:15 (online)

    • The Cyber Threat Observatory, part of The Alan Turing Institute’s Trustworthy Digital Infrastructure (TDI) initiative, is a global research and monitoring programme designed to track and assess cyber threats targeting Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI). Focused especially on digital identity, the Observatory provides evidence-based insights to help governments and institutions implement more secure, resilient systems.

    • This series of workshops bring together experts from various countries and national governments, spanning 6 continents, to discuss the urgent need to treat digital identity as critical infrastructure. 

    • Register to attend here.

  • 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

Please join the groups via the links below to be sent more information and joining instructions for events.

  • 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