Isaac Newton Institute Seminars

11
Feb

Tutorial on Mechanistic Learning in Mathematical Oncology

Speaker:

Sarah Brüningk (Universität Bern)

Time:

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

11
Feb

Contributed Talk: A review of modern Bayesian and post-Bayesian sampling methods

Speaker:

Marina Riabiz (King's College London)

Time:

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 14:00 to 14:30

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

11
Feb

title: A new approach to address scrambling of quantum information using Graph and Ergodic theories.

Speaker:

Uzy Smilansky (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Time:

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 14:00 to 15:00

Venue:

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute

11
Feb

Tutorial on Bayesian inference with deep generative models: Examples from hydrogeology and geophysics

Speaker:

Stig Niklas Linde (Université de Lausanne)

Time:

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 14:30 to 15:30

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

11
Feb

Markov Categories

Speaker:

Tobias Fritz (Leopold-Franzens Universtät Innsbruck)

Time:

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 15:00 to 17:00

Venue:

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute

11
Feb

Panel Discussion: Synergies in AI for Health, Geosciences and beyond

Speaker:

Jean-Philippe Vert (Bioptimus), Stig Niklas Linde (Université de Lausanne), Ronghui Xu (University of California, San Diego), Sarah Brüningk (Universität Bern)

Time:

Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 16:00 to 17:00

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

12
Feb

Foundation models for biology, across scales and modalities

Speaker:

Jean-Philippe Vert (Bioptimus)

Time:

Thursday, February 12, 2026 - 09:00 to 10:00

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

12
Feb

Contributed Talk: Discovery of Spin-Crossover Metal-Organic Frameworks from Limited and Noisy Data using Quantile Active Learning - Virtual Presentation

Speaker:

Roberta Poloni (Université Grenoble Alpes)

Time:

Thursday, February 12, 2026 - 10:00 to 10:30

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

12
Feb

Variational Flow Matching: A Tutorial on Generative AI for Scientific Applications

Speaker:

Jan-Willem van de Meent (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

Time:

Thursday, February 12, 2026 - 11:00 to 12:00

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

12
Feb

Contributed Talk: Projective Shape Analysis of Spatial Orientation

Speaker:

Mihaela Pricop-Jeckstadt (University Politehnica of Bucharest)

Time:

Thursday, February 12, 2026 - 13:30 to 14:00

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

12
Feb

Contributed Talk: AI-Driven Drifter Placement for Ocean Currents

Speaker:

Rui-Yang Zhang (Lancaster University)

Time:

Thursday, February 12, 2026 - 14:00 to 14:30

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

12
Feb

Concluding Discussion

Speaker:

Time:

Thursday, February 12, 2026 - 14:30 to 15:00

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

17
Feb

Online Causal Inference Seminar

Speaker:

Time:

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - 16:30 to 17:30

Venue:

Discussion Room, Newton Institute

19
Feb

Is “but for” causation the appropriate criteria for most civil law cases? Some recent cases involving statistical evidence suggest otherwise

Speaker:

Joseph Gastwirth (George Washington University)

Time:

Thursday, February 19, 2026 - 11:30 to 12:30

Venue:

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute

23
Feb

The limiting case of the fractional Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality in dimension one

Speaker:

Mariel Saez (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

Time:

Monday, February 23, 2026 - 14:30 to 15:30

Venue:

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute

23
Feb

title and abstract tba (this is a joint seminar with Spectral Geometry in the Clouds)

Speaker:

Nunzia Gavitone (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II)

Time:

Monday, February 23, 2026 - 16:00 to 17:00

Venue:

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute

24
Feb

Online Causal Inference Seminar

Speaker:

Time:

Tuesday, February 24, 2026 - 16:30 to 17:30

Venue:

Discussion Room, Newton Institute

25
Feb

title and abstract tbc

Speaker:

Rupert Frank (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Time:

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 - 16:00 to 17:00

Venue:

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute

02
Mar

Director's Briefing

Speaker:

Ulrike Tillmann (Isaac Newton Institute)

Time:

Monday, March 2, 2026 - 09:15 to 09:20

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

02
Mar

Organisers' Welcome

Speaker:

Thomas Richardson (University of Washington), Ilya Shpitser (Johns Hopkins University)

Time:

Monday, March 2, 2026 - 09:20 to 09:30

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

11
Feb

Tutorial on Mechanistic Learning in Mathematical Oncology

11
Feb

Contributed Talk: A review of modern Bayesian and post-Bayesian sampling methods

11
Feb

title: A new approach to address scrambling of quantum information using Graph and Ergodic theories.

11
Feb

Tutorial on Bayesian inference with deep generative models: Examples from hydrogeology and geophysics

11
Feb

Markov Categories

11
Feb

Panel Discussion: Synergies in AI for Health, Geosciences and beyond

12
Feb

Foundation models for biology, across scales and modalities

12
Feb

Contributed Talk: Discovery of Spin-Crossover Metal-Organic Frameworks from Limited and Noisy Data using Quantile Active Learning - Virtual Presentation

12
Feb

Variational Flow Matching: A Tutorial on Generative AI for Scientific Applications

12
Feb

Contributed Talk: Projective Shape Analysis of Spatial Orientation

12
Feb

Contributed Talk: AI-Driven Drifter Placement for Ocean Currents

12
Feb

Concluding Discussion

17
Feb

Online Causal Inference Seminar

19
Feb

Is “but for” causation the appropriate criteria for most civil law cases? Some recent cases involving statistical evidence suggest otherwise

23
Feb

The limiting case of the fractional Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality in dimension one

23
Feb

title and abstract tba (this is a joint seminar with Spectral Geometry in the Clouds)

24
Feb

Online Causal Inference Seminar

25
Feb

title and abstract tbc

02
Mar

Director's Briefing

02
Mar

Organisers' Welcome

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Isaac Newton Institute Seminars

11Feb Tutorial on Mechanistic Learning in Mathematical Oncology

11Feb Contributed Talk: A review of modern Bayesian and post-Bayesian sampling methods

11Feb title: A new approach to address scrambling of quantum information using Graph and Ergodic theories.

11Feb Tutorial on Bayesian inference with deep generative models: Examples from hydrogeology and geophysics

11Feb Markov Categories

11Feb Panel Discussion: Synergies in AI for Health, Geosciences and beyond

12Feb Foundation models for biology, across scales and modalities

12Feb Contributed Talk: Discovery of Spin-Crossover Metal-Organic Frameworks from Limited and Noisy Data using Quantile Active Learning - Virtual Presentation

12Feb Variational Flow Matching: A Tutorial on Generative AI for Scientific Applications

12Feb Contributed Talk: Projective Shape Analysis of Spatial Orientation

12Feb Contributed Talk: AI-Driven Drifter Placement for Ocean Currents

12Feb Concluding Discussion

17Feb Online Causal Inference Seminar

19Feb Is “but for” causation the appropriate criteria for most civil law cases? Some recent cases involving statistical evidence suggest otherwise

23Feb The limiting case of the fractional Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality in dimension one

23Feb title and abstract tba (this is a joint seminar with Spectral Geometry in the Clouds)

24Feb Online Causal Inference Seminar

25Feb title and abstract tbc

02Mar Director's Briefing

02Mar Organisers' Welcome

Forthcoming Seminars

News, Announcements and Events

Social media

Study at Cambridge

About the University

Research at Cambridge

11
Feb

Tutorial on Mechanistic Learning in Mathematical Oncology

11
Feb

Contributed Talk: A review of modern Bayesian and post-Bayesian sampling methods

11
Feb

title: A new approach to address scrambling of quantum information using Graph and Ergodic theories.

11
Feb

Tutorial on Bayesian inference with deep generative models: Examples from hydrogeology and geophysics

11
Feb

Markov Categories

11
Feb

Panel Discussion: Synergies in AI for Health, Geosciences and beyond

12
Feb

Foundation models for biology, across scales and modalities

12
Feb

Contributed Talk: Discovery of Spin-Crossover Metal-Organic Frameworks from Limited and Noisy Data using Quantile Active Learning - Virtual Presentation

12
Feb

Variational Flow Matching: A Tutorial on Generative AI for Scientific Applications

12
Feb

Contributed Talk: Projective Shape Analysis of Spatial Orientation

12
Feb

Contributed Talk: AI-Driven Drifter Placement for Ocean Currents

12
Feb

Concluding Discussion

17
Feb

Online Causal Inference Seminar

19
Feb

Is “but for” causation the appropriate criteria for most civil law cases? Some recent cases involving statistical evidence suggest otherwise

23
Feb

The limiting case of the fractional Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg inequality in dimension one

23
Feb

title and abstract tba (this is a joint seminar with Spectral Geometry in the Clouds)

24
Feb

Online Causal Inference Seminar

25
Feb

title and abstract tbc

02
Mar

Director's Briefing

02
Mar

Organisers' Welcome