Past events
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Creativity and AI: Cultural Heritage
13:30 - 16:00 30 April 2026
This event forms part of a three-part CreaTech Network Series running between February and June 2026, designed to strengthen connections across the CreaTech ecosystem in Greater Manchester and the Northwest, and to support collaboration between the University and the wider creative and cultural industries...
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Digital Trust and Security Webinar: Daniel Shiu
11:00 - 12:00 29 April 2026
The Internet is shifting to post?quantum security as current encryption weakens. This talk explores the risks &how we can protect our future This event invites participants from all disciplines and backgrounds to come together, fostering interdisciplinary connections and discussions. Talk Title: Can...
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SQUIDS Seminar: Optimizing the Dynamics of the Frequency Bias in Fourier Features Neural Networks
12:00 - 13:00 29 April 2026
Speaker: Professor Matias Courdurier (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) Abstract: Implicit Neural Representations often learn signals capturing low-frequency structure before high-frequency details, a phenomenon known as Frequency Bias. Fourier Feature networks can reduce this effect by encoding...
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AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Gabriella Pizzuto
10:00 - 11:00 15 April 2026
April’s AI-Fun and ELLIS invited speaker is Gabriella Pizzuto from the University of Liverpool. These events provide an opportunity for anyone working in AI and AI-related research across the University of Manchester to hear from top researchers about their current work. In person attendance is encouraged....
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SQUIDS Seminar: Treating sample covariance matrices in weather forecasting applications
13:00 - 14:00 13 April 2026
Speaker: Dr Jemima M. Tabeart (TU Eindhoven, NL) Abstract: In applications, real-world data can often result in matrices which don't respect known theoretical properties (e.g. loss of symmetry, negative eigenvalues). Practitioners use various techniques to alter this raw data, but what is the mathematical...
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