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Date Speaker Title Series
26 Mar 2026

 
14:00
Helen Wilson / Gabriela Czanner / Erica Flapan / Yulia Gel

UCL / Southampton / Pomona College / Virginia Tech
Women in interdisciplinary sciences MIF
24 Mar 2026

 
14:00
Laura Gardiner

IBM Research, UK
Harnessing Multi?Omics Foundation Models to Accelerate Biomedical Discovery. MIF
24 Mar 2026

 
13:00
EEE Building, Elec201
Jara Uitto
Aalto University
Massively Parallel Algorithms for Symmetry-Breaking Problems in Sparse Graphs dept
19 Mar 2026

 
11:00
Ashton 208
Alexei Lisitsa

UoL
Quantum verification via tangles, quandles, and automated reasoning verification
18 Mar 2026

 
14:30
Daniel Widdowson

MIF
The Crystal Geomap visualises materials databases in real time. MIF
18 Mar 2026

 
14:00
Vitaliy Kurlin

MIF
Resolving the data ambiguity for periodic crystals. MIF
18 Mar 2026

 
13:00
GH223
Paul Spirakis

University of Liverpool
Temporal Graph Realization With Bounded Stretch ACS
17 Mar 2026

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

 
13:00
Janos Pach

Rényi Institute, Budapest and EPFL, Lausanne
On the distribution of distances: Quo vadis? MIF
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 dept
12 Mar 2026

 
11:00
Ashton 208
Raj Roy

UoL
TBA verification
11 Mar 2026

 
14:00

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

 
14:00
Gil Alon

Open University of Israel
Continuous symmetry measures of molecules and crystals. MIF
10 Mar 2026

 
13:00
Ashton Lecture Theatre
Liana Khazaliya
TU Wien
Non-Clashing Teaching in Graphs dept
05 Mar 2026

 
11:00
Ashton 208
Daniel Hausmann

UoL
TBA verification
04 Mar 2026

 
13:00
GH223
Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen

University of Liverpool
Introduction to Concurrent Stochastic Games ACS
03 Mar 2026

 
14:00
Julie Rowlett

Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Isospectrality and Moduli Spaces. MIF
03 Mar 2026

 
13:00
Ashton Lecture Theatre
Ieva ÄŒepaitÄ—
Phasecraft, London
Quantum heuristics for hard optimisation problems dept
27 Feb 2026

 
13:00

ALT
Karteek Sreenivasaiah

Boolean circuits, and locally verifiable proofs. pizza
26 Feb 2026

 
11:00
Ashton 208
Sarvin Bahmani

UoL
The Complexity of Games with Randomised Control verification
24 Feb 2026

 
14:00
Lauren Porter

National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, US
Looking inside AlphaFold�s black box. MIF
24 Feb 2026

 
13:00
EEE Building, Elec204
Matthias Kaul
University of Bonn
An Invitation to Coarse Graph Theory dept
19 Feb 2026

 
11:00
Ashton 208
David Purser

UoL
Automata Automata verification
18 Feb 2026

 
13:00
GH223
Leszek Gasieniec

University of Liverpool
Selected Problems in Self‑Stabilising Population Protocols ACS
17 Feb 2026

 
14:00
Alexey Garber

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, US
Lattices, Parallelohedra, and the Voronoi Conjecture. MIF
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 dept
12 Feb 2026

 
11:00
Rasmus Ibsen-Jensen

University of Liverpool
Overview of Concurrent Games verification
10 Feb 2026

 
14:00
Dave Braines

CTO Emerging Technology, IBM Research, UK
Harnessing Foundation Models for Materials and Chemistry with a sustainability use case. MIF
10 Feb 2026

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

 
14:00
ALT
Wenjun Ye

Modelling and Control of Hysteresis Nonlinearities in Smart Actuators pizza
04 Feb 2026

 
13:00
GH223
John Fearnley

University of Liverpool
Fisher Markets with Approximately Optimal Bundles and the Need for a PCP Theorem for PPAD ACS
03 Feb 2026

 
14:00
Oleg Karpenkov

Mathematical Sciences
Geometry of continued fractions. MIF
29 Jan 2026

 
11:00
Ashton 208
Louwe Kuijer

Modal interpolants on fixed finite frames verification
27 Jan 2026

 
14:00
Egon Schulte

Northeastern University, US
Local Theory in Delone Sets and Tilings. MIF
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 dept
22 Jan 2026

 
11:00
Yi Dong

UOL
Fine-grained Activation Manipulation by Contrastive Orthogonal Unalignment for Large Language Model verification
16 Dec 2025

 
13:00
Ashton Lecture Theatre
Alex Hernandez-Garcia
Université de Montréal
Generative modelling and active learning for scientific discoveries dept
16 Dec 2025

 
13:00
Alex Hernandez-Garcia

University of Montreal and Mila Institute, Canada
Generative modelling and active learning for scientific discoveries. MIF
12 Dec 2025

 
15:00
Wolfgang Hornfeck

Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Chiral Spiral Cyclic Twins. MIF
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) dept
11 Dec 2025

 
11:00
Ashton 208
Qiyi Tang

TBA verification
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 dept
09 Dec 2025

 
14:00
Gábor Domokos

Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Natural tilings and the geometry of soft cells. MIF
04 Dec 2025

 
11:00
Ashton 101
Lorenzo Gheri

TBA verification
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 dept
28 Nov 2025

 
13:00
Daniel Widdowson

MIF
Visualising crystal structures from the ICSD by the Crystal Geomap. MIF
27 Nov 2025

 
11:00
Ashton 208
Tony Tan

TBA verification
25 Nov 2025

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

 
15:00
Mikkel Juelsholt

Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
Continued Challenges in High-Throughput Materials Predictions MIF
20 Nov 2025

 
11:00
Ashton 208
Michal Ajdarow

TBA verification
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 dept
14 Nov 2025

 
15:00
Lauren McHugh

Chemistry
Metal?Organic Frameworks: From Structure to Function. MIF
11 Nov 2025

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

 
14:00

Ashton Lecture Theatre
Bob Krekelberg
Utrecht
On the FirstFit Algorithm for Online Unit-Interval Coloring dept
07 Nov 2025

 
15:00
Shannon Bernier

Johns Hopkins University, US
A Crystallographic Metric for Continuous Quantification of Unit Cell Deformation. MIF
06 Nov 2025

 
11:00
Ashton 208
Ullrich Hustadt

Modal Logic Reasoning: The Long View verification
04 Nov 2025

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

 
15:00
Olga Anosova

Computer Science
Thousands of exact duplicates in high-profile structural databases. MIF
28 Oct 2025

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

 
15:00
Felix Therrien

Mila Institute, Montreal, Canada
Accelerating Materials Discovery with Application-Focused Machine Learning. MIF
24 Oct 2025

 
11:00

ALT
Anish Mukherjee 

The Evolving Landscape of Dynamic Complexity pizza
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? dept
17 Oct 2025

 
15:00
Vitaliy Kurlin

MIF
The discontinuity challenge of cell-based representations of crystals. MIF
16 Oct 2025

 
11:00
Ashton 208
Soumyajit Paul
Liverpool
Resolving Nondeterminism by Chance verification
10 Oct 2025

 
15:00
Vitaliy Kurlin

MIF
Invariants of molecules, including proteins. MIF
10 Oct 2025

 
11:00

ALT
Daniel Hausmann

Manna-Pnueli Games for Reactive Synthesis pizza
03 Oct 2025

 
15:00
Vitaliy Kurlin

MIF
Equivalences between molecules, including proteins. MIF
26 Sep 2025

 
15:00
Tanaporn Na Narong

Columbia University, US
Determining Local Structure from X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Spectra with Diffusion Models. MIF
23 Sep 2025

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

 
9:00

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

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

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