Turing Seminar Series
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)