Data Mining and Machine Learning Series

Past Talks

Date Speaker Title
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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