Data Mining and Machine Learning Series

Seminars and research group discussions are typically held at 11am on Wednesday.
Suggestions for possible speakers should be sent to Danushka

Currently meetings are being held on-line via Microsoft Teams

All Seminars

Date	Speaker	Title
28 Apr 2026   14:00 MIF	Thomas D. Grant SUNY University at Buffalo, US	Describing small-angle scattering profiles by a limited set of intensities.
Previous talks
26 Mar 2026   14:00 MIF	Helen Wilson / Gabriela Czanner / Erica Flapan / Yulia Gel UCL / Southampton / Pomona College / Virginia Tech	Women in interdisciplinary sciences
24 Mar 2026   14:00 MIF	Laura Gardiner IBM Research, UK	Harnessing Multi?Omics Foundation Models to Accelerate Biomedical Discovery.
18 Mar 2026   14:30 MIF	Daniel Widdowson MIF	The Crystal Geomap visualises materials databases in real time.
18 Mar 2026   14:00 MIF	Vitaliy Kurlin MIF	Resolving the data ambiguity for periodic crystals.
17 Mar 2026   13:00 MIF	Janos Pach Rényi Institute, Budapest and EPFL, Lausanne	On the distribution of distances: Quo vadis?
10 Mar 2026   14:00 MIF	Gil Alon Open University of Israel	Continuous symmetry measures of molecules and crystals.
03 Mar 2026   14:00 MIF	Julie Rowlett Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden	Isospectrality and Moduli Spaces.
24 Feb 2026   14:00 MIF	Lauren Porter National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, US	Looking inside AlphaFold�s black box.
17 Feb 2026   14:00 MIF	Alexey Garber University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, US	Lattices, Parallelohedra, and the Voronoi Conjecture.
10 Feb 2026   14:00 MIF	Dave Braines CTO Emerging Technology, IBM Research, UK	Harnessing Foundation Models for Materials and Chemistry with a sustainability use case.
03 Feb 2026   14:00 MIF	Oleg Karpenkov Mathematical Sciences	Geometry of continued fractions.
27 Jan 2026   14:00 MIF	Egon Schulte Northeastern University, US	Local Theory in Delone Sets and Tilings.
16 Dec 2025   13:00 Ashton Lecture Theatre dept	Alex Hernandez-Garcia Université de Montréal	Generative modelling and active learning for scientific discoveries
16 Dec 2025   13:00 MIF	Alex Hernandez-Garcia University of Montreal and Mila Institute, Canada	Generative modelling and active learning for scientific discoveries.
12 Dec 2025   15:00 MIF	Wolfgang Hornfeck Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences	Chiral Spiral Cyclic Twins.
09 Dec 2025   14:00 MIF	Gábor Domokos Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary	Natural tilings and the geometry of soft cells.
28 Nov 2025   13:00 MIF	Daniel Widdowson MIF	Visualising crystal structures from the ICSD by the Crystal Geomap.
21 Nov 2025   15:00 MIF	Mikkel Juelsholt Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany	Continued Challenges in High-Throughput Materials Predictions
18 Nov 2025   13:00 ELEC201, 2th Floor Lecture Theater EEE dept	Yalin Zheng Dept. of Eye and Vision Science, UoL	From Feature Engineering to Foundation Models: A Journey of AI in Health at Liverpool
14 Nov 2025   15:00 MIF	Lauren McHugh Chemistry	Metal?Organic Frameworks: From Structure to Function.
07 Nov 2025   15:00 MIF	Shannon Bernier Johns Hopkins University, US	A Crystallographic Metric for Continuous Quantification of Unit Cell Deformation.
31 Oct 2025   15:00 MIF	Olga Anosova Computer Science	Thousands of exact duplicates in high-profile structural databases.
24 Oct 2025   15:00 MIF	Felix Therrien Mila Institute, Montreal, Canada	Accelerating Materials Discovery with Application-Focused Machine Learning.
17 Oct 2025   15:00 MIF	Vitaliy Kurlin MIF	The discontinuity challenge of cell-based representations of crystals.
10 Oct 2025   15:00 MIF	Vitaliy Kurlin MIF	Invariants of molecules, including proteins.
03 Oct 2025   15:00 MIF	Vitaliy Kurlin MIF	Equivalences between molecules, including proteins.
26 Sep 2025   15:00 MIF	Tanaporn Na Narong Columbia University, US	Determining Local Structure from X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Spectra with Diffusion Models.

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