Institute of Astronomy Extra Talks


2008-10-07 11:00: The South Pole Telescope (Dr Steve Padin (University of Chicago))

2008-10-15 14:00: Far-IR/Submm Missions of the Future: Scientific and Technology Challenges (Dr Wayne Holland, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh)

2008-11-18 20:00: Was there Anything Before the Big Bang? Possibly! (Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS)

2008-11-27 15:00: A simple model for solar iso-rotation contours (Balbus, S (ENS Paris))

2010-03-02 17:45: Paul Dirac: Britain's Einstein (Graham Farmelo)

2010-03-24 11:30: Testing the No-Hair Theorem with Astrophysical Black Holes (Dimitrios Psaltis)

2010-11-26 14:00: The 2010 Decadal Survey: A Cambridge Perspective (Paul Alexander, Rob Kennicutt and more...)

2010-12-08 16:00: Cosmography with cluster strong lensing (Priyamvada Natarajan (Department of Astronomy, Yale University))

2011-08-04 16:30: 21cm Cosmology (Ue-Li Pen (CITA Toronto))

2012-02-17 16:00: Cosmology with Photometric Cluster Samples (Dr Eduardo Rozo,  Einstein and KICP Fellow, University of Chicago)

2013-08-02 10:00: Probing the Dark Sector of the Vacuum Using Cavities, Atoms and  Lasers (Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay, Director of the Cockcroft  Institute and  Sir John Cockcroft Chair of Physics at Liverpool, Manchester and Lancaster)

2014-02-07 11:30: The angular size of the Sun and Moon and the emergence of Devonian tetrapods (Professor Steve Balbus (Oxford))

2014-05-13 10:00: The Mass of the Local Group (Jorge Penarrubia (Edinburgh))

2014-07-10 16:00: State transitions in X-ray Binaries (Mitch Begelman (JILA, University of Colorado))

2014-07-17 14:30: Deep Keck spectroscopy of high-redshift quiescent galaxies: constraining the size growth (Sirio Belli (Caltech))

2014-07-18 11:30: The Instability of Astrophysics (Professor Martin Harwit (Cornell University))

2014-10-30 19:30: Art meets science (Sophy Rickett)

2015-04-09 16:00: Dynamical Processing of Stars and Planets Through Star Clusters (Aaron Geller, Northwestern University)

2016-04-26 14:00: The circumplanetary disk and the late accretion of giant planets (Judit  Szulagyi (ETH))

2016-06-07 11:00: Extra Exoplanet Talk - Connecting the chemical properties of exoplanets and their atmospheres to planet formation (Ralph Pudritz (McMaster))

2016-06-16 16:00: Gravitational Wave Update (Chris Moore (IoA))

2016-11-29 14:00: The Gaseous Features of the Magellanic System ( Bi-Qing For (U Western Aus))

2017-01-30 12:15: Cracking Cosmic Dawn (Anastasia Fialkov (Harvard University))

2017-02-06 13:30: Deciphering the dynamical Universe via large scale Bayesian data interpretation (Jens Jasche (Technische Universitat Munchen))

2017-02-06 14:20: Optimising Type Ia Supernova Distances & Cosmology: Hierarchical Bayesian Models for Optical and Near-Infrared Light Curves and Spectra (Kaisey Mandel (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics))

2017-02-06 15:30: Understanding Dark Matter through dwarf galaxies and stellar streams in large surveys of the sky (Sergey Koposov (IoA, Cambridge))

2017-02-07 13:45: The emerging fields of astrostatistics and astroinformatics: understanding early, mid and late cosmic evolution (Jason McEwen (Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), University College London (UCL))

2017-02-07 14:45: Understanding the epoch of reionisation and the first galaxies with 21cm and line intensity mapping (Jonathan Pritchard (Department of Physics, Imperial College London))

2017-03-01 09:00: The Composition of Rocky Planetary Bodies: Earth and Exo-planetary (Amy Bonsor (IoA, Cambridge))

2017-03-01 10:00: Geophysical influences on surface habitability - from Earth to rocky exoplanets (Lena Noack (Dept of Reference Systems and Geodynamics, Brussels))

2017-03-01 12:05: Abiotic chemical cycling on Earth and beyond (Ollie Shorttle (Dept of Earth Sciences, Cambridge))

2017-03-01 15:00: A hitchhiker’s guide to planet evolution: how to unravel the coevolution of planet interiors, fluid envelopes and life (Vlada Stamenkovic (Dept of Geological & Planetary Sciences, Caltech))

2017-03-02 10:00:  Characterising exoplanet interiors (Caroline Dorn (National Centre for Space Research & Planetary Sciences, University of Bern))

2017-08-14 11:30: XZ: X-ray spectroscopic redshifts of obscured AGN (Charlotte Simmonds)

2017-09-25 10:30: LSST-UK Multi-wavelength Data Fusion Workshop (Organiser: Manda Banerji)

2017-09-26 09:00: LSST-UK Multi-wavelength Data Fusion Workshop (Organiser: Manda Banerji)

2017-09-27 09:30: LSST-UK Multi-wavelength Data Fusion Workshop (Organiser: Manda Banerji)

2017-09-27 16:00: A Good Hard Look at Cosmic Supermassive Black Hole Growth (Niel Brandt (Penn State))

2018-01-18 13:00: Tackling Data Science using High Performance Computing: opportunities and trends (Filippo Spiga - Cambridge University Computing Service)

2018-01-25 13:00: From Metrics to Models - Data Science at a Fashion Tech Startup (Erika Nitsch and Jim Downing - Metail)

2018-02-01 13:00: Challenges of Big Data in Science  (Ian Bird - CERN)

2018-02-08 13:00: Learn how to become an AI Super-hero in research (Kenji Takeda - Director, Azure for Research, Microsoft Research (@MSFTResearch), Visiting Fellow Alan Turing Institute)

2018-02-15 13:00: From Black Holes to Battlefront (Chris Doran - ARM)

2018-02-22 13:00: 'The Social Anthropology of Data Centres: Debunk(er)ing Data Objectivity (A.R.E. Taylor - Department of Social Anthropology)

2018-03-01 13:00: A Data Intensive Approach to Modelling the Evolution of Technology (Erik Gjesfeld - McDonald Centre for Archaeological Research)

2018-03-08 13:00: One format to rule them all? How to generate high quality data for research and industry: notes from the National Physical Laboratory. (Marina Romancikova - NPL)

2018-03-15 13:00: Analysis of Gravitational Wave Data (Michalis Agathos - DAMTP)

2018-04-20 14:00: ******* CANCELLED ********* The Convergence of Machine Learning, Big Data, and Supercomputing (Dr. Jeremy Kepner, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fellow/MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center Founder)

2018-04-26 13:00:  Software Engineering in Practice (Jos Martin - Mathworks)

2018-05-03 13:00: The journey from concept to product opportunities and challenges (Loubna Bouarfa - OKRA)

2018-05-10 13:00: The cloud in the clinic (Henry Farmery - Cambridge Cancer Genomics)

2018-05-17 13:00: Satavia - Making Aviation Smarter (Darren Gallagher, Dirk Simon, and Lisa Lentati - SATAVIA)

2018-05-24 13:00: Going from Data to Science with the Planck Satellite (Steven Gratton - IoA)

2018-07-27 13:30: Space Exploration: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Norms and Ethics in Space (Dr. Sara Langston)

2018-10-18 13:00: Pattern Recognition in Particle Physics (Stefano Vergani)

2018-11-01 13:00: Feeding 10 million people using Machine Learning (Olmo Martinez - Tesco supply chain)

2018-11-08 13:00: Time Series Analytics for Big Data (James Corcoran - Kx)

2018-11-15 13:00: Data Science in Drug Discovery (Maciej Hermanowicz - GSK)

2018-11-22 13:00: An introduction to Arm Systems  and Arm ML (Matteo Andreozzi - ARM)

2018-11-29 13:00: Challenges of the Gaia photometric processing (Marco Riello - Gaia)

2019-01-17 13:00: Musical Musicologies for the Digital Age (Mark Gotham - Cornell University)

2019-01-24 13:00: Neural Machine Translation at SDL (Adria De Gispert - SDL)

2019-01-31 13:00: Canceled (Ulrich Kerzel)

2019-02-14 13:00: Learning when to “Love Thy Neighbour” in Blockchain Communication Networks (Jonathan Ward - Fetch.AI)

2019-02-21 13:00: The computational challenge of the Square Kilometre Array (Mark Ashdown - SKA)

2019-02-28 13:00: ** CANCELED ** (Stephanie Wright - The Hut Group)

2019-03-07 13:00: Oil Trading - Statistical Analysis using Financial and Fundamental data Sets (Milos Krkic - BP (Supply and Trading))

2019-03-14 13:00: Aviva’s Algorithmic Decision Agent (Damian Rumble - Aviva)

2019-03-15 11:30: Co-Evolution of Galaxies & their Supermassive Black-Holes In the Era of Big Sky Surveys (Manda Banerji (IoA))

2019-03-25 10:15: Exploring fundamental physics with galaxy redshift surveys (Florian Beutler (Portsmouth))

2019-03-25 11:30: Cosmology from structure beyond the power spectrum (Daniel Gruen (Stanford))

2019-03-26 09:30: Exoplanet Atmosphere Characterization, Present and Future (Laura Kreidberg (Harvard))

2019-03-26 10:15:  A comprehensive view of dark matter (Simona Vegetti (MPA, Munich))

2019-03-26 11:30: Astrophysics in the Big Data era: Studying Dark Matter and galaxy evolution with large surveys (Sergey Koposov (CMU))

2019-03-27 09:30: The origin of interstellar dust through cosmic time (Ilse De Looze (UCL))

2019-03-27 10:15: Facing the challenges of 21-cm cosmology (Anastasia Fialkov (Sussex))

2019-03-27 11:30: Frontiers of Multi-messenger Gravitational-wave Astrophysics (Stephen Taylor (Cal Tech))

2019-04-03 10:30: IRIS Collaboration F2F Meeting (Organiser: Nic Walton)

2019-04-04 08:30: IRIS Collaboration F2F Meeting (Organiser: Nic Walton)

2019-04-04 13:00: Mapping the 3-D Distribution of Dust in the Milky Way with Stellar Photometry (Josh Speagle - Harvard)

2019-04-25 13:00: Climate Prediction in the Era of AI (Scott Hosking - Cambridge ‘AI for Environment Risks’ CDT)

2019-05-09 13:00: The model is simple until proven otherwise (Anita Faul (University of Cambridge))

2019-05-16 13:00: Can you predict the winner? Data Science for Sports (Stephen Smith & Emmanuel Dimont - Pythia Sports)

2019-05-23 13:00: Multidimensional interactive optimisation for urban development (Helene Margrethe Bøhler - Spacemaker)

2019-05-30 13:00: Delivering precision medicine while providing individual data protection and transparency (Patrick Short - Sano Genetics)

2019-06-06 13:00: **Canceled** (Anna Jordan - Alchera Technologies)

2019-07-17 16:00: Madame Mars: Women and the Quest for Worlds Beyond (Jan Millsapps)

2019-10-01 14:00: A journey into the Perseus Cluster of galaxies (Marie-Lou Gendron-Marsolais (ESO Chile))

2019-10-10 13:00: Subsurface imaging with deep learning (Song Hou -- CGG)

2019-10-24 13:00: Model Interpretability (or Why have you sent me another marketing offer?) (Ben Houghton -- Head of Data Science for Barclays Payments)

2019-10-31 13:00: Data science from a practitioners perspective  (Srinivasa Raghavan - Infosys)

2019-11-07 13:00: How to make your scientific codes publicly available  (Hanno Rein - University of Toronto)

2019-11-14 13:00: Nested Sampling: an efficient and robust Bayesian inference tool for Machine Learning and Data Science (Will Handley - Kavli)

2019-11-21 13:00: A Bayesian Approach to Machine Learning (Fergus Simpson -- PROWLER.io)

2019-11-28 13:00: Unsupervised Multi-Task Feature Learning on Point Clouds (Hooman Shayani -- Autodesk)

2019-12-19 13:00: Data-driven Discovery in the Time Domain ( Gautham Narayan (UIUC))

2020-01-16 13:00: Representation learning and its applications (Akbir Khan -- Spherical Defense)

2020-01-23 13:00: Systematic trading using sentiment analysis data (Matyas Molner)

2020-01-30 13:00: Stochastic Filament Dynamics in Tokamaks (Theo Steele)

2020-02-06 13:00: Coping with Data Reality (Arlen Anderson -- Ab Initio Software )

2020-02-13 13:00:  Dreams-AI, a comprehensive machine learning company (Bryan Yau -- Dreams AI)

2020-02-18 16:00: Why Policy Matters for Space Science - Scientific Collaboration in a Time of Geopolitical Shift (SW Chiu (Space Engineering Research Center))

2020-02-20 13:00: Post Placement Talk: Spherical Defense (Josh Briegal)

2020-03-05 13:00: Deep Bayesian Recurrent Neural Networks for Somatic Variant Calling (Omar Darwish - DAMTP and Geoffroy Dubourg-Felonneau - CCG)

2020-03-05 14:00: New Insights into the Cosmic Growth of Supermassive Black Holes (Meg Urry (Yale))

2020-03-12 13:00: Data Science without labels (Karthik Tadinada -- FeatureSpace)

2020-04-23 13:00: CANCELLED (Fruzsina Agocs)

2020-04-30 13:00: CANCELLED (Peter McGill)

2020-05-07 13:00: CANCELLED (Stefano Vergani)

2020-05-14 13:00: CANCELLED (Tom Gillam -- GAM Systematic (Cantab Capital))

2020-05-21 13:00: CANCELLED (Matthew Whittle -- BBC)

2020-05-28 13:00: CANCELLED (Ifan Williams)

2022-06-09 11:30: Prospects for wide-field time domain surveys and multi-messenger astronomy (Stephen Smartt (QUB, Belfast))

2022-10-20 13:00: Hot & cool: tackling the Fusion grand challenge with AI and HPC (Lorenzo Zanisi - UK Atomic Energy Authority)

2022-10-27 13:00: AI applications in radiological image analysis for cancer research  (Lorena Escudero)

2022-11-03 13:00: Calabi—Yau manifolds and Machine Learning (Challenger Mishra (University of Cambridge))

2022-11-10 13:00: Bayesian inference with likelihood reweighting: motivation, method, and application to gravitational-wave astrophysics (Isobel Romero-Shaw (DAMTP))

2022-11-17 13:00: Using Invariants and Metric Data Structures for Better Materials Research (Alya Bin Thabet - Montserrat Lab, Cambridge)

2022-11-24 13:00: The granular analysis of risk in complex insurance policies, and saving world heritage (Trevor Maynard, Liz Marston, Tobias Stone -- Sotera Heritage)

2022-12-01 13:00: What’s in a video? AI, free speech, and the challenge of content moderation (Sasha Haco - Unitary)

2023-01-19 13:00: Searching for new physics with machine learning at the Large Hadron Collider (William Fawcett)

2023-01-26 13:00: The environmental impacts of computational science: how bad is it and what can we do about it? (Loïc Lannelongue)

2023-03-02 13:00: Data science and data methodologies at the Office for National Statistics (Mary Cleaton and Salah Merad — ONS)

2023-04-27 13:00: Machine learning for scalable quantum computing: eventually, you run out of PhD students. (David Wise - Quantum Motion)

2023-05-04 13:00: An introduction to careers and challenges in Quantitative Finance (Charles Martinez - G-Research)

2023-05-11 13:00: All molecules are interesting (Jonathan M Goodman, Professor of Chemistry (Cambridge))

2023-05-18 13:00: AI + HPC for Astrophysics (Maxwell Cai - Intel)

2023-05-25 13:00: Placements talks - Shell and Satavia (Jonathan Itcovitz + Clay Roberts (University of Cambridge))

2023-06-01 13:00: Machine Learning Applied to Video Compression (Mark Thompson - AMD)

2023-06-08 13:00: Explainable and generative AI for actionable insights (Alessio Caciagli - OKRA / Lars Henklemann - CDT)

2023-10-11 14:00: Community and Belonging in your Postgraduate studies (Sarah Hardy - Student Support Services)

2023-10-18 14:00: Learning generalizable models on large-scale multi-modal data (Yutian Chen - DeepMind)

2023-10-25 14:00: Polymathic AI: Foundation Models for Science (Miles Cranmer - DAMTP/IoA)

2023-11-01 14:00: Predicting Sports Events: You've Picked a Model, Now What? (Aditya.Desai & Charlie Troake-Lindsay  (Pythia Sports))

2023-11-08 14:00: Calda AI: sustainability for heavy industry (Niall Jeffrey - Calda)

2023-11-15 14:00: Generative AI for actionable insights (Loubna Bouarfa & Alessio Caciagli - Okra.ai)

2023-11-22 14:00: How to Fight Financial Crime with AI (David Sutton - Featurespace)

2023-11-29 14:00: Rage against the Turing Machine?  (Rahul Tyagi (CEO) & Arlind Visha (Quantum Algorithms Engineer) + Angus Lockhart - SECQAI)

2023-12-06 10:00: Introduction to Transformers and N-grams (Sinan Deger (Institute of Astronomy))

2024-01-17 10:00: Application of normalising flows to hierarchical Bayesian inference (Will Handley (Cavendish/KICC))

2024-01-24 14:00: Sustainable academic performance (Sarah Hardy - Student Support Services)

2024-01-31 14:00: DiSE project presentations (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-02-07 14:00: All molecules are interesting (Jonathan Goodman - Chemistry)

2024-02-14 10:00: An Overview of Probabilistic Latent Variable Models (Aditya Ravuri (Computer Lab))

2024-02-14 14:00: Unlocking the Power of Transfer Learning: Meeting the Challenge of Mobile App Predictions in Data-Scarce Environments (Bending Spoons)

2024-02-21 14:00: Contrastive Learning and High-Redshift Quasars (Xander Byrne )

2024-02-28 10:00: Simulation Based Inference - an inevitable future? (David Yallup (University of Cambridge))

2024-02-28 14:00: ‘Putting Theory into Practice – Myths and Misconceptions from the World of Systematic Investing’ (Chris Longworth - Gam.com)

2024-03-06 14:00: Know Your System: Harness the Power of The Dawn Supercomputer (Maxwell Cai - Intel)

2024-03-08 13:00: International Women's Day at the IoA ( )

2024-03-13 14:00: TBC (Prerak Desai - GSK)

2024-03-27 10:00: pop-cosmos: Comprehensive Forward Modelling of Photometric Galaxy Survey Data (Stephen Thorp - Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University)

2024-04-24 10:00: Neural ratio estimation: the future of supernova cosmology? (Matthew Grayling (University of Cambridge))

2024-05-08 10:00: EuCAIFCon recap (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-05-22 10:00: Learning Posterior Distributions in Underdetermined Inverse Problems (Christina Runkel, DAMTP, Cambridge Image Analysis.)

2024-06-12 10:00: The future of astronomy in the era of AI and big data (Sara Webb (Swinburne University of Technology))

2024-10-09 16:30: From TDEs and GRBs to supernovae - Redback: A Bayesian inference software package for electromagnetic transients (Nikhil Sarin (Stockholm University))

2024-10-10 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Charlie Troake-Lindsay (Pythia Sports))

2024-10-10 14:00: The Transformer (OOD) House of Cards (Petar Veličković (Google Deepmind))

2024-10-14 16:00: Hybrid Summary Statistics: Telling Neural Networks where to look (Lucas Makinen (Imperial))

2024-10-17 14:00: From parallel computing to parallel machine learning: Harness the power of parallelism for distributed optimization processes (Maxwell Cai (Intel Corporation))

2024-10-24 14:00: Maths meets Radiology: developing data science methods for cancer research (Lorena Escudero, Joshua Kaggie, Ander Biguri)

2024-10-28 16:00: Scaling laws for large time-series models: More data, more parameters (James Alvey (KICC))

2024-10-31 14:00: PolymathicAI: Scaling up a Generalist AI Model for Science (Dr Miles Cranmer (DAMTP/Physics/IoA))

2024-11-07 14:00: Predicting Sports Events: You've Picked a Model, Now What? (Charlie Troake-Lindsay (Pythia Sports))

2024-11-11 16:00: Type Ia Supernovae standardisation with the ZTF SN Ia DR2 sample (Madeleine Ginolin (IP2I, Lyon))

2024-11-14 14:00: How to find a co-founder and start a company after university? (Dominik Diak  (Entrepeneur First))

2024-11-19 16:00:  Discarded Worlds: Astronomical ideas that were almost correct… (Br. Guy Consolmagno, Director of the Vatican Observatory)

2024-11-21 14:00: AI Meets Theoretical Physics (Dr Sven-Ludwig Krippendorf (Physics/DAMTP))

2024-11-25 16:00: Data validation through anomaly detection for Gaia DR4 (Sireesha Chamarthi (IoA / CASU))

2024-11-28 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Loubna Bouarfa (Okra.ai))

2024-12-09 16:00: Everything is connected: galaxy properties couple internally, environmentally, and historically (Christian Kragh Jespersen (Princeton University))

2025-01-23 14:00: How to fight financial crime with AI (Dr Stuart Burrell & Dr Maeve Madigan / Featurespace)

2025-01-30 14:00: Generative Ai.rplane (Thomas Gessey-Jones (physicsx.ai))

2025-02-06 14:00: Exploring SAS Viya and the Future of AI-Driven Innovation (Prathiba Krishna <Prathiba.Krishna@sas.com>)

2025-02-10 16:00: Approximate the Simulator, Not the Inference: Using Converging Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Flexible SBI in Astronomy (Matthew O'Callaghan (IoA, Cambridge))

2025-02-13 14:00: Introduction to G-Research, ML engineers and Quant Research (Charles Martinez & Yousuf Mohamed-Ahmed /G-RESEARCH )

2025-02-24 16:00: Integrated 3-point correlation functions of weak lensing cosmic shear (Dr Anik Halder (Institute of Astronomy))

2025-02-27 14:00: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - Part 1 (Thomas MEIER (LMU München))

2025-02-28 14:00: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence -  Part 2 (Thomas MEIER (LMU München))

2025-02-28 14:30: Mauve: a UV-Vis small satellite dedicated to monitor stellar activity and variability (Richard Archer, Fatemeh Majidi, Phil Windred - Blue Skies Space  )

2025-03-06 14:00: Complexity of real and artificial networks  (Dr. Gueorgui Mihaylov (Haleon.com))

2025-03-10 16:00: Statistical aspects in the determination of the proton's structure (Maria Ubiali (DAMTP))

2025-03-13 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Edmund.George & Mei Lin Gan )

2025-03-24 16:00: Shared Stochastic Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models: A Multi-modal Generative Model for Quasar Spectra (Dr. Vidhi Lalchand (MIT))

2025-05-06 11:30: The Milky Way and the Ancient Egyptian Goddess of the Sky (Or Graur, Associate Professor of Astrophysics, University of Portsmouth Institute of Cosmology & Gravitation)

2025-05-22 14:00: Classical and Quantum Density Functional Theory for Materials Science (Angus Lockhart <angus@secqai.com>)

2025-06-02 16:00: Imaging and Design with Differentiable Physics Models (Benjamin Pope (Macquarie University))

2025-06-10 16:00: From Squiggles to Signals: Learning Useful Representations for Discovery in Time-Domain Astronomy (Daniel Muthukrishna (MIT))

2025-06-16 16:00: Novel Approaches to Black Hole Ringdown Fits (Richard Dyer (IoA))

2025-07-21 16:00: Bayesian Component Separation for DESI LAE Automated Spectroscopic Redshifts and Photometric Targeting (Ana Sofía Uzsoy (Harvard))

2025-08-14 16:00: Real-time ML-powered transient discovery with GOTO and Kilonova Seekers  (Tom Killestein (Warwick))

2025-10-13 12:00: 100 years of SETI: what has been learned? (Professor Ben Zuckerman, Professor Emeritus, UCLA)

2025-10-16 14:00: TBC (Dr Boris Bolliet)

2025-10-23 14:00: TBC (Max Rogers/ Entrepreneurs First)

2025-10-27 13:00: TBC (Dr Chi Wang)

2025-10-30 14:00: TBC (Dr Stephen-John Sammut)

2025-11-06 14:00: TBC (Featurespace)

2025-11-10 16:00: Cosmology as an Optimisation Problem (T. Lucas Makinen (DAMTP))

2025-11-13 14:00: TBC (Dr Matt Kenzie)

2025-11-20 15:00: TBC (Dr David "Davidad" Dalrymple)

2025-11-24 16:00: Measuring the Milky Way's Mass with Gaia (Gregory Green (MPIA))

2025-11-27 14:00: TBC (Dr Ander Biguri & Dr Josh Kaggie)

2025-12-08 16:00: A Conceptual Introduction to Deep Learning (Joshua Speagle (Univ. of Toronto))

2026-02-16 16:00: Hierarchical Bayesian inference: constraining population distribution of dark matter halo shapes via stellar streams (David Chemaly (IoA))

2026-03-02 16:00: AION-1: An Omnimodal Foundation Model for Astronomical Sciences (Thomas Hehir (IoA))

2026-03-23 16:00: Detecting Localised Density Anomalies in Multivariate Data (Max Autenrieth (StatsLab/IoA))