Turing Seminar Series
This series boasts academics connected to the Turing Institute, speaking about their cutting edge research in data science and AI.
The Turing Seminar Series for the 2025/26 academic year has now finished. Many thanks to all who attended and to all the fantastic speakers.
Previous Seminars:
- Wednesday, 18th March 2026
- Title: Open data infrastructure in the age of generative AI
- Speaker: Elena Simperl
- Elena Simperl - UoB Turing Seminar (PDF, 4,326kB)
- Wednesday, 4th March 2026
- Title: Machine Learning Assisted Multi-Scale Mechanical Simulation of Large Composite Structures
- Speaker: Aewis Hii
- Wednesday, 18th February 2026
- Title: Convergent Methods for Koopman Operators on Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces
- Speaker: Nicolas Boullé
- Wednesday, 10th December 2025
- Title: Sensing the Forest: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Sound Data
- Speaker: Anna Xambo Sedo
- Anna Xambo Sedo - Turing Seminar (PDF, 8,233kB)
- Wednesday, 26th November 2025
- Title: Common Crawl: open web data for everybody
- Speakers: Laurie Burchell and Thom Vaughan from Common Crawl
- Common Crawl - UoB Turing Seminar (PDF, 3,677kB)
- Wednesday, 19th November 2025
- Title: Tracing Affective and Cognitive Patterns Across Scales: From Minds to Networks to Human-AI Systems
- Speaker: Andreia Sofia Teixeira, Associate Professor at the Network Science Institute, Northeastern University London
- Wednesday, 5th November 2025
- Title: Tracing the Cultural Fabric of Sperm Whale Societies
- Speaker: Giovanni Petri, Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University London
- Giovanni Petri - UoB Turing Seminar (PDF, 9,456kB)
- Wednesday, 22nd October 2025
- Title: Have DAGs fulfilled their promise in epidemiology and health research?
- Speaker: Peter Tennant, Associate Professor of Health Data Science at the University of Leeds
- Peter Tennant - UoB Turing Seminar (PDF, 5,462kB)
- Wednesday 24th September 2025
- Title: Do we know what AI will know?
- Speaker: Krzysztof Janowicz: Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography and Regional Research at the University of Vienna
- Location: Peel Lecture Theatre, University of Bristol
- 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)