Centre for AI Fundamentals - Manchester

Next month, we have Chengchun Shi from LSE, with a talk on 'Doubly Robust Alignment for Large Language Models'. In December, we have Sam Power from @bristoluni.bsky.social. You can find out more about these talks and register to attend here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/ai-research-...

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Our refreshed 'Invited Speaker Series' is well under way. This month we had Pablo Moreno Muñoz from @upf.edu with a talk titled 'A probabilistic view of self-supervised learning: Challenges and opportunities'. You can watch that here: youtu.be/tA0eNAGc9PY?...

Nov and Dec talk details to follow...

Patients and staff welcome AI as a GP's helping hand Manchester researcher and practicing GP, Dr Benjamin Brown, knows that AI could play a valuable role in the health sector, but only if it’s trusted by patients.  "AI has the potential to reduce worklo...

At The University of Manchester, we're celebrating 75 years of the Turing Test. Alan Turing's seminal paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, is considered one of the very first papers on AI.

Post-Doc in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

🏹 Job alert: Post-Doc in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing in the scope of the ERC project DECOLLAGE ("Deep Cognition Learning for Language Generation") at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon

📍Lisbon 🇵🇹
📅 Apply by Oct 31st

https://bit.ly/3VGnhtd

"Science is the best problem-solving tool that humanity has; science combined with AI can be even more powerful." This why it pays to invest in long-term, basic research, says
@samikaski.bsky.social in the @aalto.fi Keys to Growth series.
www.ellisinstitute.fi/keys-to-grow...
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EIML@EurIPS2025 Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems—ranging from predictive models to generative and large language models—have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, advancing science, healthcare, and everyda...

Still deciding between NeurIPS and EurIPS?

We are delighted to announce that the 1st Workshop on Epistemic Intelligence in Machine Learning will take place in conjunction with EurIPS2025, this December in Copenhagen - check out our workshop website: sites.google.com/view/eiml-eu...

The past, present, and future of computer intelligence | The University of Manchester Research. Teaching and learning. Social responsibility. Discover more about The University of Manchester here.

At Manchester, we’re building on Turing’s legacy:

800+ AI researchers
£75m active grants
Projects in health, climate, energy & beyond

From predicting floods to accelerating drug discovery, AI here is tackling real-world challenges.

Read more 👇
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/magazi...

Turing believed computers should learn like children: start simple, then develop through training + experience. That idea underpins today’s machine learning. His foresight still shapes AI research.

a man wearing suspenders and a watch looks down in front of a machine Alt: Alarn Turing looks down in front of a machine

In 1950, Alan Turing - while at @manchester.ac.uk - proposed a simple but profound experiment: can a machine convincingly imitate human thought?

We now call it the Turing Test. 🧠💻

AI in Science Summit 2025 AI in Science Summit 2025 will convene scientists, industry leaders, investors, and policymakers to explore the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on scientific discovery - and how Europe can drive this transformation with a distinctive an...

📣 Good news! The submission deadline for Posters and Demos at #AIS25 has been extended to Oct 1st.

Organised by the Danish EU Presidency, European Commission & Uni Copenhagen in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 , on 3-4 November 2025.

Learn more & submit early at https://ais25.eu/

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#machinelearning | Manchester Centre for AI Fundamentals DRSciML 2025 is under way! George Stepaniants is talking about 'Learning Memory and Material Dependent Constitutive Laws' Anirbit Mukherjee #machinelearning The University of Manchester Faculty of ...

DRSciML 2025 is under way!

Follow us on LinkedIn for updates: www.linkedin.com/posts/ai-fun...

✨ We kicked off a new season of talks, the AI FUN with ELLIS Invited Speaker Lecture series, brought to you by the Centre for AI FUNdamentals and the #ELLIS Unit at Manchester 🐝

The 1️⃣st talk was given by our guest speaker Rafael Izbicki (@rafael-izbicki.bsky.social) from UFSCar in Brazil 🇧🇷

3 Sept | Our first event of 2025/26 is an invited lecture from Rafael Izbicki from the Federal University of Sao Carlos with a talk titled 'Simulation Based Calibration of Confidence Sets for Statistical Models'. For details/registration, visit www.ticketsource.co.uk/ai-research-...
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The Future Is Biological! Future Data Storage Solutions Workshop Join the conversation on DNA data storage: where tech meets biology to rethink the future.

🔔 For @manchester.ac.uk academics only: Join the "Future Is Biological! DNA Data Storage Workshop.

📅 2 Octorber, 2025
🕛 12:00–16:00
🎟️ Register now: shorturl.at/cGMGq

Explore DNA-based innovation in a friendly, collaborative setting. Got questions or want to present? 📧izzy.hall@manchester.ac.uk

Project Officer:Oxford Road

Interested in joining the Centre for AI Fundamentals as a Project Officer? Find out more about the role and apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

DRSciML

Registrations are now open for the international workshop on foundations of #AI4Science #SciML that we are hosting with Prof. Jakob Zech. In-person seats are very limited, please do register to join online 💥

drsciml.github.io/drsciml/

Call for Papers & Proposals - IKDD CODS 2025 Call for papers and proposals announced for CODS 2025 across various tracks of the conference. The next edition of the conference will be held in IISER Pune on December 17-20, 2025. Go through the det...

I got selected for the "Early Career Highlights" of ACM IKDD International Conference on Data Science (CODS) 2025. Looking forward to the talk at IISER, Pune in December.

www.acm.org/articles/acm...

Some luck to be hosted by a Godel Prize winner, Prof. Sebastien Pokutta, and to present our work in their group 💥 Sebastien heads this "Zuse Institute Berlin (#ZIB) " which is an amazing oasis of applied mathematics bringing together experts from different institutes in Berlin.

Interested in statistics? Prof Subhashis Ghoshal will be delivering the below public lecture tomorrow:

Title: Immersion posterior: Meeting Frequentist Goals under Structural Restrictions
Time: Aug 5 16:00-17:00
Abstract: www.newton.ac.uk/seminar/45562/
Livestream: www.newton.ac.uk/news/watch-l...

Interested in joining the Centre for AI Fundamentals as a Research Fellow or Associate in machine learning? Find out more about the role and apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

PhD Student/Postdoc Position - in Agentic Large Language Models for Education Quick access

🏹 Job alert: Fully funded PhD Student and/or Postdoc Position in Agentic Large Language Models for Education at @ukplab.bsky.social‬

📍Darmstadt 🇩🇪
📅 Apply by July 11th
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/44gswnc

🚨 NeurIPS 2025 Reviewers - A reminder that his year the Responsible Review Initiative is in effect. To learn what this implies for reviewers who fail to submit high quality reviews within the timeline, see the link.

Reviews are due 2nd July 11.59pm AOE

blog.neurips.cc/2025/05/02/r...

Our "delta-GCLip" is the *only* known adaptive gradient algorithm that provably trains deep-nets AND is practically competitive. That's the message of our recently accepted #TMLR paper - and my 4th TMLR journal 🙂

openreview.net/pdf?id=ABT1X...

#optimization #deeplearningtheory

Speaker (white male) presenting to a small group of interns in a small seminar room.

Thanks to @jhartford.bsky.social for two talks during the first week of our @raeng.org.uk internship programme!

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15 researchers standing against a red brick wall and a blue-lit 'computer science' sign

Welcoming our @raeng.org.uk Google DeepMind 'Research Ready' interns today.

@omarrivasplata.bsky.social gave an overview of the scheme and a little about what AI researchers @manchester.ac.uk do.

Welcome all (3 supervisors also pictured!)!

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Large grey metallic sign for the Kilburn Building. University Place is behind and framed by a bright blue sky.

Our next seminar on Weds (18th June) is from Prof Theo Damoulas from the U of Warwick. Theo's talk is titled 'Distributionally Robust Optimisation with Bayesian Ambiguity Sets'

And it's free!

More details: www.ticketsource.co.uk/ai-research-....

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ELLIS Manchester are now supporting the Athens NLP 2025 Summer School which is taking place in Athens from 4-10 September 2025. There is still time to apply to participate!

athnlp.github.io/2025/

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🏹 Job alert: Post-Doc at the Intersection of AI and Software Engineering at the Software Lab - @unistuttgart.bsky.social‬

📍 Stuttgart 🇩🇪
🔗 More info: https://bit.ly/3FtU5kA

Summer school attendees at a restaurant with oak furniture.

We ended the day with dinner at The Wharf in Castlefield. Hopefully everyone had fun but not so much fun they miss the start of the first session today...

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Room full of researchers listening to a talk

Day one of the 2025 ELLIS Manchester Summer School is into its final session. Good start to the week!

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