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28 April 2025

AI for a Greener Future

Streatham Court Add event
15 April 2025

SCI Project Showcase: Exploring and Digitizing the First Ottoman Natural History Museum and its Eco-Heritage

Digital Humanities Seminar Room 1 Add event
20 March 2025

Interdisciplinary approaches to narrative empathy

Wellcome Centre boardroom Add event
27 February 2025

State, Religion and the Bodies of Women

Exchange Lecture Theatre Add event
26 February 2025

Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South

Newman Collaborative Lecture Theatre (C/D) Add event
17 February 2025

EGENIS seminar: "Transformations in Regulation", Emeritus Professor Christopher Hodges (University of Oxford)

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10 February 2025

EGENIS seminar: "The Futility of AI Ethics" Dr Tyler Brunet (University of Exeter)

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16 January 2025

What's Behind Text? The Long, Challenging Path Towards a Unified Language-Independent Representation of Meaning: Prof Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome)

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12 December 2024

Navigating Cultural Adaptation of LLMs: Knowledge, Context, and Consistency: Dr Vered Shwartz (University of British Columbia)

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11 December 2024

IDSAI Thinking Game Screening and Panel Discussion

Building:One Bateman Lecture Theatre Add event
25 November 2024

Working with Government on Data & Digital

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21 November 2024

Phi-ML meets Engineering seminar series: Feynman path integral formulation of inverse problems: Lifting the assumption that the model is correct

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18 November 2024

EGENIS seminar: "From welfare to tenant state? State-tech relations in an age of AI" Prof Lina Dencik (Goldsmiths, University of London)

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14 November 2024

What's Behind Text? The Long, Challenging Path Towards a Unified Language-Independent Representation of Meaning

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11 November 2024

EGENIS seminar: "We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age" Prof Wendy Wong (University of British Columbia)

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4 November 2024

Collective Psychology of Social Media: Emotions, Conflict, and Mental Health in the Digital Age

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24 October 2024

Rosni Vasu (University of Zurich) - SciHyp: A Fine-grained Dataset Describing Hypotheses and Their Components from Scientific Articles

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8 October 2024

Can AI be Fair? Hosted by Agile Rabbit.

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27 September 2024

Towards more harmonious and resilient human settlements

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19 September 2024

Workshop on AI, NLP, and Health & Medicine: Bridging Research and Clinical Practice

Building:One Matrix Lecture Theatre Add event
4 July 2024

Holocaust Memory, Rwanda, and Genocide Prevention Today

Exeter Guildhall Add event
24 - 25 June 2024

Machine Learning for Earth Observation 2024

XFi Add event
28 May 2024

Mapping Water: Between paper, memory and the archive

Queens Building LT2 Add event
24 May 2024

Modelling Climate Change: An Overview of the Crisis and Reconstruction Plans in Southern Brazil

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22 - 23 May 2024

IDSAI - Artificial Intelligence for Geological Modelling and Mapping

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2 May 2024

SCI Project Showcase Series: Gene Drive Mosquitoes

Digital Humanities Seminar Room 1 Add event
29 April 2024

SCI Project Showcase Series: Does Increasing Public Spending in Health Improve Health?

Building:One Syndicate Room C Add event
25 April 2024

Joint IDSAI/GSI Early Career Lightning Talks

Laver Building LT3 Add event
24 April 2024

IDSAI/Business School Research Seminar: 'Collaboration and Conflict in Human-Human and Human-Machine Teams' with Professor Taha Yasseri

Laver Building LT3 Add event
17 April 2024

IDSAI Research Seminar: 'SQL and Large Language Models: A Marriage Made in Heaven?' with Professor Paolo Papotti

To be delivered by Microsoft Teams. Add event
17 - 19 April 2024

Understanding Life in a Changing Planet: 20+2 Years of Egenis, the Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences

XFI Henderson Lecture Theatre Add event
12 April 2024

Neurocognition, Language and Visual Processing Group Seminar with Dr Marten van Schijndel

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2 April 2024

The First Neurocognition, Language and Visual Processing Group Seminar with Professor Dr Lilian-Cristine Hübner

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27 March 2024

Research Showcase: Modelling Idiomaticity in Language

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19 March 2024

SCI Project Showcase Series: Students' use of Mathematics in Science

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13 March 2024

IDSAI Research Seminar: 'Studying emotions at individual and collective levels' with Professor David Garcia

Online only using Microsoft Teams Add event
13 March 2024

Centre for Computational Social Science (C2S2)/IDSAI - Joint Seminar

Computational Social Science Lab in the Clayden Building Add event
11 March 2024

Egenis/IDSAI seminar: "Machine Learning in science: Dimension of understanding", Dr Emily Sullivan (Eindhoven University of Technology)

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7 March 2024

IDSAI Seminar with Dr Alden Conner: 'Creating sustainable research tools with real-world applications - lessons from the Alan Turing Institute’s Environment and Sustainability Grand Challenge'

Queens Building LT1 Add event
29 February 2024

SCI Project Showcase Series: Queer Natures: Animals, Environment and Modern Sexual Knowledge Production (1860s to 1930s and today)

Digital Humanities Laboratory Add event
21 February 2024

IDSAI Research Seminar: 'Using large language models to help people find agreement' with Professor Chris Summerfield, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Oxford

Streatham Court Old B Add event
7 February 2024

IDSAI Research Seminar with Professor Dr Markus Strohmaier, Chair of Data Science in the Economic & Social Sciences, University of Mannheim

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24 January 2024

IDSAI Research Seminar with Dr Livio Fenga, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter Business School

Building:One Pearson Teaching Room Add event
19 January 2024

Towards applications of reinforcement learning in continuous environments with Professor Adam Sobey

LSI Seminar Room A Add event
15 January 2024

Egenis/IDSAI seminar: “Data Science and Statistics for the Public Good? A Discussion with the Office for Statistics Regulation”, Edward Humpherson and Prof Sabina Leonelli

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7 December 2023

IDSAI ECRN Christmas Lightning Talks!!

Laver Building LT3 Add event
5 December 2023

Coding for Reproducible Research: Introduction to Julia - 2 Sessions - Optional 3rd Session

Digital Humanities Laboratory Add event
1 December 2023

Data Enclaves, Biobank-level Data Management and Leveraging Deep Learning (but only when necessary!)

Baring Court 112 Add event
1 December 2023

Coding for Reproducible Research: Introduction to Julia - 2 Sessions and optional 3rd session - 2nd Session

Digital Humanities Laboratory Add event
29 November 2023

Finding the Way to better Research Culture: Improving Retention and Success of Academics from Underrepresented Backgrounds

Digital Humanities Seminar Room 1 Add event
24 November 2023

Coding for Reproducible Research: Introduction to Julia - 2 Sessions and optional 3rd session - 1st Session

Digital Humanities Laboratory Add event
22 November 2023

Mapping sub-ice geomorphology and constraining Greenland Ice Sheet history using machine learning by Dr Guy Paxman, Durham University

Building:One Kolade Teaching Room Add event
10 November 2023

Environmental Data Science and AI

ESI Trevithick Room Add event
9 November 2023

IDSAI ECRN Lightning Talks!!

Laver Building LT3 Add event
8 November 2023

Coding for Reproducible Research: Introduction to ISCA and High Performance Computing - 2 Sessions - 2nd Session

Training Room 4 Add event
8 November 2023

Coding for Reproducible Research: Introduction to Python - 2 Sessions - 2nd Session

Training Room 4 Add event
6 - 7 November 2023

Joint workshop “Philosophy of AI and Digital Infrastructures”

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1 November 2023

Coding for Reproducible Research: Introduction to ISCA and High Performance Computing - 2 Sessions - 1st Session

Training Room 4 Add event
1 November 2023

Coding for Reproducible Research: Introduction to Python - 2 Sessions - 1st Session

Training Room 4 Add event
27 October 2023

Coding for Reproducible Research: Introduction to Unix

Training Room 4 Add event
20 October 2023

Coding for Reproducible Research: Introduction to Unix

Training Room 4 Add event
16 October 2023

EGENIS seminar: "Lambs to the scanner: high-throughput phenotyping in post-Brexit British livestock farming", Dr Hugh Williamson (University of Exeter)

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12 October 2023

IDSAI/Turing Showcase

Forum Street Add event
6 October 2023

Hacktoberfest Hackathon Event in Exeter!

Innovation Centre Phase 1 Building Add event
14 September 2023

EnigmaAI: Unveiling the Intelligence behind Optimisation & Machine Learning

Building:One Constantine LeventisTeaching Room Add event
7 September 2023

British Science Festival: 7-10 September 2023

Forum Street Add event
4 - 15 September 2023

Turing/Exeter Data Study Group

SWIoT AI Arena Add event
18 July 2023

ChatGPT and the Future of Society

Newman Blue LT. - note change of venue Add event
19 June 2023

EGENIS seminar: "Cloud Coyotes in Los Angeles", Prof Christopher Kelty (University of California, Los Angeles)

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8 June 2023

IDSAI Seminar: 'Developing a resilient Data Science profession: observations from the UK’s national skills landscape' with Matthew Forshaw, Senior Advisor for Skills at the Turing

Queens Building LT4.1  Add event
7 June 2023

IDSAI Seminar: 'A Capability Approach to AI Ethics' with Emanuele Ratti (Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol)

Kolade Teaching Room, Building One Add event
24 May 2023

IDSAI Seminar: Creating data assets and collaborative partnerships for artificial and computational intelligence: the opportunities in the healthcare domain with Umesh Kadam, Professor of General Practice and General Health, Medical School

Streatham Court Old B Add event
17 May 2023

Using socially-aware word embeddings to infer variation in the meaning of political terms over time with Hubert AU, DPhil student at University of Oxford

Streatham Court Old C  Add event
15 May 2023

POSTPONED. EGENIS seminar: Prof Jennifer Gabrys (University of Cambridge)

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10 May 2023

IDSAI Research Seminar - Caitlin Robinson (University of Bristol)

Building:One Kolade Teaching Room Add event
26 - 28 April 2023

Human Centric Artificial/Computational Intelligence and Applications

Reed Hall Add event
20 - 21 April 2023

Machine Learning for Earth Observation with the Environmental Intelligence Network

Queens Building Add event
31 March 2023

Is Open Science Good for Research?

Alumni Auditorium Add event
30 March 2023

Can I Trust Science?

Exeter Phoenix (Studio 74 Add event
15 February 2023

Developing data science and AI from a public sector perspective: the Turing Public Policy Programme with Helen Margetts OBE, Professor of Society and the Internet and Director of the Public Policy Programme at the Alan Turing Institute

Newman Collaborative Lecture Theatre (C/D) Add event
8 February 2023

IDSAI-ECRN Launch Event

SWIoT AI Arena Add event
1 February 2023

Reproducibility standards for machine learning in the life sciences with Stephanie Hicks, Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

To be delivered by Zoom Add event
12 January 2023

Geological mapping in the age of Artificial Intelligence with Dr Charlie Kirkwood (IDSAI)

Building:One Constantine LeventisTeaching Room Add event
9 January 2023

University of Exeter Digital Societies: The future of social media platforms

Building:One Constantine LeventisTeaching Room Add event
7 December 2022

Building a Social Media Belief Observatory by Professor Joshua Introne at School of Information Studies, Syracuse University

To be delivered by Zoom Add event
2 December 2022

BOOK Launch: Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Data Challenges for Agricultural Research and Development

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29 November 2022

Deep Neural Networks as Dynamical Systems by Dr Andrew Corbett (IDSAI)

Streatham Court Old B Add event
23 November 2022

Variant-level fine-mapping in major depressive disorder: new insights, new questions by Joni Coleman, Lecturer in Statistical Genetics at KCL

Baring Court 220 Add event
17 November 2022

Bipartite attitude networks: a Method for Exploring Opinion-Based Groups, Group-Based Opinions, and Social Polarization by Professor Michael Quayle at University of Limerick

XFI Conference Room 1 Add event
9 November 2022

Leakage and the Reproducibility Crisis in ML-based Science by Sayash Kapoor, a second year PhD candidate at Princeton University.

Streatham Court Old C  Add event
2 November 2022

Design Thinking On Mars: Architecting New Systems for Collaborative Science on the Martian Surface

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31 October 2022

EGENIS seminar: "AI in Medicine: Finding equilibrium in global data capture", Prof Robin Pierce (University of Exeter)

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26 October 2022

Working with the National Pupil Database in the ONS Secure Research environment by Alexey Bessudnov, Associate Professor (Sociology) at Exeter

Streatham Court Old C  Add event
19 October 2022

Causal Inference: Introduction to Partial Identification and Recent Advances by Jakob Zeitler, PhD Candidate in Foundational Artificial Intelligence at the Centre for Doctoral Training in Foundational AI at UCL, London

Streatham Court Old C  Add event
12 October 2022

Deep-learning detection of harmful algal blooms by Dr David Moffat, PML

Building:One Marchant Syndicate Room A Add event
5 October 2022

Working with No 10 and ONS data scientists: data science for public policy by Dr Federico Botta

Building:One Syndicate Room B Add event
28 September 2022

Using adjoint to accelerate inference in linear systems

Queens Building LT7.1 Add event
22 September 2022

Using Machine Learning to Create an Early Warning System for Welfare Recipients

Harrison Building 101 Add event
12 September 2022

Seminar: Linking health and social data for research: the CIDACS experience in Brazil

Newman Purple LT (hybrid) Add event
30 June 2022

The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

EX4 3LS Add event
27 June - 1 July 2022

IDSAI Data Science Week 2022

Streatham Campus Add event
9 June 2022

Machine Learning Techniques for Remote Sensing

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27 April 2022

Research Software Engineer Community Social

Innovation Centre Cafe Add event
16 February - 29 April 2022

Causality Seminar Series 2022

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1 November 2021

Presenting the Turing Fellow Research Projects - Prof Tim Lenton and Prof Gavin Shaddick: Data Science for Sustainable Development: Environment, Climate and Health

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11 October 2021

Presenting the Turing Fellow Research Projects - Prof Sabina Leonelli: The Evidence Base of Artificial Intelligence: Supporting Data Fairness to Enhance Research Quality

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28 June - 2 July 2021

IDSAI Data Science Week 2021

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14 June 2021

University of Exeter Workshop on Media and UK Elections

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26 May 2021

Joint IDSAI / Egenis Seminar - "From blind optimism to complete rejection: Lessons from the UK’s exams algorithm experience"

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24 May 2021

Presenting the Turing Fellow Research Projects - Prof Peter Challenor: Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) for Black-Box Computational Models with Application to Machine Decisions

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12 April 2021

Causality@Exeter: Seminar Series - Individualised Treatment Effect in Educational Interventions

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29 March 2021

Causality@Exeter: Seminar Series - Causal Effects in Economics

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26 March 2021

Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Global Challenges for Food Security and Governance - Session 4 & Conclusion: Social challenges of data linkage

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19 March 2021

Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Global Challenges for Food Security and Governance - Session 3: Governance Challenges of Data Linkage

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15 March 2021

Causality@Exeter: Seminar Series - Combining Mendelian randomization with Pharmacogenetics

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12 March 2021

Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Global Challenges for Food Security and Governance - Session 2: Technical Challenges of Data Linkage

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5 March 2021

Towards Responsible Plant Data Linkage: Global Challenges for Food Security and Governance - Introduction & Session 1: Experiences from The Trenches

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1 March 2021

Causality@Exeter: Seminar Series - Assessing the impact of violence reduction units.

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22 February 2021

IDSAI Seminar: Using ensemble meteorological datasets to overcome limitations in a Bayesian volcanic ash inverse modelling system

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21 January 2021

Turning on a DyME: Incorporating time-use and health datasets into a Dynamic Microsimulation Epidemiological model for COVID-19

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17 - 18 December 2020

2020 Online Conference on Environmental Intelligence

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11 December 2020

Urban Analytics: Progress and Prospects

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23 September 2020

IDSAI Seminar: Carly Kind, Director of the Ada Lovelace Institute

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3 July 2020

Book Launch: Data Journeys in the Sciences

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29 June - 3 July 2020

Data Science Week 2020

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19 June 2020

POSTPONED. EGENIS seminar series / book launch: Prof Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter)

Byrne House Add event
18 June 2020

Mathematical Modelling for the COVID-19 Pandemic

Zoom ID: 928 140 75192 (Password: 807332) Add event
10 June 2020

IDSAI Seminar: Dr Ana Beduschi - International Migration Management in the Age of AI

Online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86799604368 Add event
4 June 2020

Opportunities for Collaboration in Data-Driven Engineering

Virtual workshop (details tbc) Add event
26 May 2020

IDSAI Seminar: Professor Deborah Ashby - Florence Nightingale, pigeonholes and mustard seeds: using data to improve health from the time of the Crimea to the time of the coronavirus

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84669147037 Add event
13 May 2020

IDSAI Seminar: Professor Tim Dodwell - Learning to Solve: Scalable Data-Driven Model Order Reduction for Digital Twins

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85969521928 Add event
29 April 2020

IDSAI Seminar: Dr. Pier Luigi Buttigieg - The art and science of knowledge representation for Earth and Environmental Science

https://zoom.us/j/91780568479 Add event
22 April 2020

IDSAI Seminar: Dr Edmond Awad - The Moral Machine Experiment

https://zoom.us/j/97261811377  Add event
23 March 2020

POSTPONED: The ethical implications of AI and data science research

LSI Seminar Room A Add event
17 March 2020

Professor Helen Margetts OBE: Re-thinking Government with AI: The Alan Turing Institute Public Policy Programme

Newman Purple LT Add event
29 January 2020

IDSAI Seminar - Dr Adam Sobey: The underrated importance of diversity in Genetic Algorithms

Harrison Building 101 Add event
22 January 2020

IDSAI Seminar - Sharing your data story: how to get the most impact from your data and research

Laver Building LT3 Add event
19 December 2019

IDSAI Seminar and Christmas Reception: Professor Steve Roberts

XFI Henderson Lecture Theatre & by VC to DM Seminar Room G Add event
16 December 2019

"AI between Plant and Agricultural Science: Green Paths towards Environmental Intelligence"

Alan Turing Institute Add event
4 December 2019

CANCELLED - Digital Humanities Seminar: For Everyone: the Participatory Archive

Digital Humanities Laboratory Add event
28 November 2019

Programming with Models: Statistical Algorithms for Hierarchical Model Structures using NIMBLE.

Harrison Building 101 Add event
20 November 2019

Digital Humanities Seminar: Visual AI & the Digital Humanities: critical and ethical issues

Digital Humanities Laboratory Add event
23 October 2019

Digital Humanities Seminar: An introduction to the ‘Living with Machines’ project

Digital Humanities Laboratory Add event
11 October 2019

Professor Xiao-Li Meng: AI, Beatles, and Elections - A Nano Tour of Data Science

LSI Seminar Room A&B Add event
8 October 2019

Professor Dong Nguyen: Natural Language Processing (NLP) for computational social science

LSI Seminar Room A&B Add event
23 September 2019

IDSAI: Health Data Day

Rougemont Hotel, Exeter Add event
4 September 2019

IDSAI Politics and Policy Theme Workshop

Forum Exploration Lab 2 Add event
18 July 2019

IDSAI Summer Seminar & Reception: Professor Richard Everson

XFI Henderson Lecture Theatre Add event
16 July 2019

Statistical Challenges in Cyber Security

LSI Seminar Room A Add event
16 July 2019

Defence & Security at Turing

LSI Seminar Room A Add event
26 June 2019

IDSAI Seminar: Novel Machine Learning Methods for Cancer Research

Laver Building LT6 Add event
18 - 21 June 2019

42nd Research Students’ Conference in Probability and Statistics (RSC 2019)

Streatham Court Add event
4 June 2019

IDSAI: Data Governance, Algorithms and Values Workshop

Washington Singer 219 Add event
22 May 2019

Environmental Intelligence Summit

XFI Henderson Lecture Theatre Add event
15 May 2019

IDSAI SEMINAR: Getting to the 2015 US 0.070ppm standard for ozone: The statistician’s story.

IAIS Building/LT2 Add event
1 - 3 May 2019

DPUK Datathon at the University of Exeter

Forum Exploration Lab 2 Add event
4 April 2019

Workshop on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM)

IAIS Building/LT1 Add event
3 April 2019

IDSAI Seminar: Estimating Sea Ice Parameters with Satellite Data Synergy

Laver Building LT6 Add event