Events
We work closely teams across The University of Manchester, including the Institute for Data Science and AI and the Christabel Pankhurst Institute for health technology research and innovation to host machine learning-related seminars, workshops and much more.
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SQUIDS Seminar: Sean Holman
15:00 - 16:00 21 October 2026
Speaker: Sean Holman (University of Manchester) Title: Confidence intervals for Landweber reconstruction using randomised normal operator approximation Abstract: We analyse the propagation of error through the Landweber iteration, establishing confidence regions with statistical coverage guarantees. For large problems, calculation of the confidence...
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Those Serendipitous Mavericks: The Ratio Club and early British Cybernetics
13:00 - 15:00 29 October 2026
A series of nine monthly seminars at the University of Manchester exploring the rich and vibrant history of the radical science of cybernetics, and the potentially profound implications of this hitherto occluded history for our shared socio-technical futures. All events will run from 13:00 to 15:00 and will be hosted at the University of Manchester. Event...
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AI Fun with ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Aurelien Bibaut
11:00 - 12:00 11 November 2026
Our invited speaker on 11 November will be Aurelien Bibaut from Netflix. Title: Safe Adaptive Policy Learning Abstract: Offline policy learning can require less information than accurate estimation of the full environment. We provide a two-step offline policy learning procedure that constructs policy proposals on one data split and selects a...
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SQUIDS Seminar: Bill Lionheart
15:00 - 11 November 2026
Speaker: Bill Lionheart (University of Manchester) Title: At last an SVD for EIT Abstract: 40 years ago when I started working on Electrical Impedance Tomography I thought I should look for an analytical form of the singular value decomposition of some simplified linearized case. I would like to report some modest progress..... An interesting...
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TAI Lunch and Learn: When Ai Enters the Real World: Risk, Resilience and Human Judgement in Engineering
12:30 - 13:00 11 November 2026
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming engineering practice, creating new opportunities and challenges. This online Lunch and Learn explores how AI is being used in real-world engineering environments, what happens when AI moves from supporting decisions to taking action, and why human judgement remains critical to safety. Join Prof Clara...
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