Past events
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Creativity and AI: Entertainment
14:30 - 17:00 26 February 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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SQUIDS Seminar: Kernel Quantile Embeddings and Associated Probability Metrics
13:00 - 14:00 18 February 2026
Speaker: Dr Masha Naslidnyk (University College London) Abstract: Embedding probability distributions into reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHS) has enabled powerful non-parametric methods such as the maximum mean discrepancy (MMD), a statistical distance with strong theoretical and computational...
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AI-Fun & ELLIS Invited Speaker Series | Joey Bose
11:00 - 12:00 11 February 2026
On 11 February, we will have Joey Bose from Imperial College London. If you cannot attend in person, please register via the Ticketsource link provided and you will receive the link to join the Teams session. Title: Flow Maps and Normalizing Flows for Accelerated Generative Modelling of Molecules Abstract:...
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Digital Health Equity seminar: Digital health and artificial intelligence: a cure or curse for health equity?
13:00 - 14:00 11 February 2026
The next seminar in the University of Manchester Digital Health Equity Seminar Series is on Wed 11th-Feb, 1-2pm BST via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/91477080182. Robin van Kessel (London School of Economics) will talk about Digital health and artificial intelligence: a cure or curse for health equity? For...
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SQUIDS-Statistics Joint Seminar: Automatic Tuning for Gradient-based Bayesian Inference
13:00 - 14:00 11 February 2026
Speaker: Professor Christopher Nemeth (Lancaster University) Abstract: In Bayesian inference, the central computational task is to approximate a posterior distribution—often by designing dynamics whose stationary law is the posterior, or by directly minimising a variational objective such as a KL...
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