School Seminar Series

Past Talks

Date Speaker Title Host
17 Mar 2026

 
13:00
Ashton Lecture Theatre 		János Pach
Alfréd Rényi Institute 		On the distribution of distances: Quo vadis? [vkurlin]
13 Mar 2026

 
13:00
Ashton Lecture Theatre 		Aris Pagourtzis
National Technical University of Athens and Archimedes, Athena RC, Greece 		Finite Pinwheel Scheduling: the k-Visits Problem [lechu]
11 Mar 2026

 
14:00

Ashton Lecture Theatre 		Moshe Y. Vardi
Rice University 		Are AI minds genuine minds? [shufang]
10 Mar 2026

 
13:00
Ashton Lecture Theatre 		Liana Khazaliya
TU Wien 		Non-Clashing Teaching in Graphs [zamaraev]
03 Mar 2026

 
13:00
Ashton Lecture Theatre 		Ieva Čepaitė
Phasecraft, London 		Quantum heuristics for hard optimisation problems [zamaraev]
27 Feb 2026

 
13:00

ALT
pizza
Karteek Sreenivasaiah

 Boolean circuits, and locally verifiable proofs.
24 Feb 2026

 
13:00
EEE Building, Elec204 		Matthias Kaul
University of Bonn 		An Invitation to Coarse Graph Theory [spoerha]
17 Feb 2026

 
13:00
Ashton Lecture Theatre 		Daniel Vaz
ESIEE Paris, Université Gustave Eiffel 		Nearly-Tight Bounds for Flow Sparsifiers in Quasi-Bipartite Graphs [spoerha]
10 Feb 2026

 
13:00
Ashton Lecture Theatre 		Paul Bastide
University of Oxford 		Exploring temporal graphs [zamaraev]
04 Feb 2026

 
14:00
ALT
pizza
Wenjun Ye

 Modelling and Control of Hysteresis Nonlinearities in Smart Actuators
27 Jan 2026

 
13:00
Ashton Lecture Theatre 		Vihan Shah
University of Birmingham 		Sublinear-Time Lower Bounds for Approximating Matching Size using Non-Adaptive Queries [karteek]
16 Dec 2025

 
13:00
Ashton Lecture Theatre 		Alex Hernandez-Garcia
Université de Montréal 		Generative modelling and active learning for scientific discoveries [vkurlin]
12 Dec 2025

 
13:00
Ashton Lecture Theatre 		Taylor T. Johnson
Vanderbilt University, USA 		Neural Network Verification for Formally Verifying Neuro-Symbolic Artificial Intelligence (AI) [xiaowei]
10 Dec 2025

 
13:00
ELEC201, 2th Floor Lecture Theater EEE 		Youcheng Sun
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi 		What LLMs Reveal and What They Believe [xiaowei]
02 Dec 2025

 
13:00
ELEC201, 2th Floor Lecture Theater EEE 		David Head
University of Leeds 		Modelling the mechanics of fractal and non-fractal fibre networks [oanosova]
25 Nov 2025

 
13:00
ELEC201, 2th Floor Lecture Theater EEE 		Raimundo Saona Urmeneta
LSE 		Blind Stochastic Games: From nonexistence, through undecidability, to subclasses RahulSavani
18 Nov 2025

 
13:00
ELEC201, 2th Floor Lecture Theater EEE 		Yalin Zheng
Dept. of Eye and Vision Science, UoL 		From Feature Engineering to Foundation Models: A Journey of AI in Health at Liverpool BaoruHuang
11 Nov 2025

 
13:00
ELEC201, 2th Floor Lecture Theater EEE 		Luca Prigioniero
Loughborough University 		Descriptional Complexity of Models for Regular Languages [dpurser]
10 Nov 2025

 
14:00

Ashton Lecture Theatre 		Bob Krekelberg
Utrecht 		On the FirstFit Algorithm for Online Unit-Interval Coloring [pwong]
04 Nov 2025

 
13:00
ELEC201, 2th Floor Lecture Theater EEE 		Karolina Okrasa
University of Oxford 		Strong sparsification for 1-in-3-Sat [zamaraev]
28 Oct 2025

 
13:00
Ashton Lecture Theatre 		Son Tong
Siemens 		Industrial AI and Generative AI for Digital Twin [xiaowei]
24 Oct 2025

 
11:00

ALT
pizza
Anish Mukherjee 

 The Evolving Landscape of Dynamic Complexity
21 Oct 2025

 
13:00
ELEC201, 2th Floor Lecture Theater EEE 		Laure Daviaud
University of East Anglia 		Weighted automata: what is it? And why is it fun to study? [dpurser]
10 Oct 2025

 
11:00

ALT
pizza
Daniel Hausmann

 Manna-Pnueli Games for Reactive Synthesis
23 Sep 2025

 
13:00
ELEC201, 2th Floor Lecture Theater EEE 		Neil Olver
LSE 		Nonuniform graph partitioning with just a little flex [spoerha]
08 Sep 2025

 
9:00

Materials Innovation Factory, Liverpool, UK 		Janos Pach
Rényi Institute, Budapest and EPFL, Lausanne 		[MACSMIN] Mysteries about crossing numbers [vkurlin]
19 Aug 2025

 
13:00
Meena Mahajan
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai 		Semi-Algebraic Proof Systems for QBF [karteek]

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