Past events
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AI Fun with ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Jin Zhu
10:00 - 11:00 14 October 2026
Our invited speaker on 14 October will be Jin Zhu from the University of Birmingham. Title: Statistics-Powered Detection of LLM-Generated Text Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude enable the rapid and large-scale generation of human-like text. Their impact is everywhere,...
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Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026
11:00 - 16:00 1 October 2026
The Women’s Health Technology Summit 2026 will bring together leaders from healthcare, research, technology, investment, academia, policy, and industry to examine the persistent inequality in women’s health outcomes as one of the defining healthcare and social justice challenges of our time, and...
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Fire and Ice: The Conception, Birth and Infancy of Cybernetics.
12:00 - 14:00 24 September 2026
Meat the Machine: or, the Hidden History of Cybernetics and the Possible Futures of Humans 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...
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NVIDIA Quantum Day: Accelerated Quantum Supercomputing with CUDA-Q
17 September - 15 October 2026
Discover how to harness CUDA-Q and GPU acceleration for quantum computing, hybrid algorithms, and next-generation quantum hardware. *Please Note: This event is for The University of Manchester internal staff only As the era of hybrid quantum-classical computing matures, programming these heterogeneous...
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AI Fun with ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Santiago Mazuelas Franco
10:00 - 11:00 8 September 2026
Our first invited speaker of 2026/27 will be Santiago Mazuelas Franco from Basque Center for Applied Mathematics. Title: Beyond empirical risk minimization: performance guarantees, distribution shifts, and noise robustness Abstract: The empirical risk minimization (ERM) approach for supervised learning...
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