Isaac Newton Institute Seminars

05
Nov

Tutorial: Self-supervised learning, BYOL, and friends

Speaker:

Michal Valko (INRIA Lille - Nord Europe Research Centre)

Time:

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 - 14:00 to 17:00

Venue:

Enigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute

05
Nov

title and abstract tba

Speaker:

Joseph MacManus (University of Oxford)

Time:

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 - 15:00 to 16:00

Venue:

Seminar Room 2, Newton Institute

05
Nov

Drinks Reception

Speaker:

Time:

Wednesday, November 5, 2025 - 17:00 to 18:00

Venue:

Enigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute

06
Nov

Registration

Speaker:

Time:

Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 09:00 to 09:30

Venue:

Enigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute

06
Nov

Tutorial: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Speaker:

Stefano V. Albrecht (DeepFlow)

Time:

Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 09:30 to 12:30

Venue:

Enigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute

06
Nov

Lunch

Speaker:

Time:

Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 12:30 to 14:00

Venue:

Enigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute

06
Nov

Turing Showcase

Speaker:

Time:

Thursday, November 6, 2025 - 14:00 to 17:00

Venue:

Enigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute

07
Nov

Registration

Speaker:

Time:

Friday, November 7, 2025 - 09:00 to 09:30

Venue:

Enigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute

07
Nov

Tutorial: Gradient Methods in RL and Their Convergence

Speaker:

David Siska (University of Edinburgh)

Time:

Friday, November 7, 2025 - 09:30 to 12:30

Venue:

Enigma Room, The Alan Turing Institute

10
Nov

Registration

Speaker:

Time:

Monday, November 10, 2025 - 09:00 to 09:30

Venue:

Foyer

10
Nov

Director's Briefing

Speaker:

Ulrike Tillmann (Isaac Newton Institute)

Time:

Monday, November 10, 2025 - 09:30 to 09:35

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

10
Nov

Organisers' Welcome

Speaker:

Time:

Monday, November 10, 2025 - 09:35 to 09:40

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

10
Nov

Model-Based and Model-Free: A Tale of Two Paradigms Told from Reinforcement Learning and Generative AI

Speaker:

Xunyu Zhou (Columbia University)

Time:

Monday, November 10, 2025 - 09:40 to 10:20

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

10
Nov

Optimal Sequential Inference and Decision Making: From Uniform A/B Testing to Gradient-Based Bandits

Speaker:

Patrick Rebeschini (University of Oxford)

Time:

Monday, November 10, 2025 - 10:50 to 11:30

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

10
Nov

The Curious Price of Distributional Robustness in Reinforcement Learning with a Generative Model

Speaker:

Yuting Wei (University of Pennsylvania)

Time:

Monday, November 10, 2025 - 11:30 to 12:10

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

10
Nov

Lunch

Speaker:

Time:

Monday, November 10, 2025 - 12:30 to 14:30

Venue:

Churchill College

10
Nov

Representation-based Reinforcement Learning and Control for Dynamical Systems

Speaker:

Na Li (Harvard University)

Time:

Monday, November 10, 2025 - 14:00 to 14:40

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

10
Nov

The alpha-Potential Game Paradigm: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

Speaker:

Xinyu Li (University of Oxford)

Time:

Monday, November 10, 2025 - 14:40 to 15:20

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

10
Nov

Mean-field dynamics and training of deep transformers

Speaker:

Christoph Reisinger (University of Oxford)

Time:

Monday, November 10, 2025 - 15:50 to 16:30

Venue:

Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute

10
Nov

Break

Speaker:

Time:

Monday, November 10, 2025 - 16:00 to 16:30

Venue:

Foyer

05
Nov

Tutorial: Self-supervised learning, BYOL, and friends

05
Nov

title and abstract tba

05
Nov

Drinks Reception

06
Nov

Registration

06
Nov

Tutorial: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

06
Nov

Lunch

06
Nov

Turing Showcase

07
Nov

Registration

07
Nov

Tutorial: Gradient Methods in RL and Their Convergence

10
Nov

Registration

10
Nov

Director's Briefing

10
Nov

Organisers' Welcome

10
Nov

Model-Based and Model-Free: A Tale of Two Paradigms Told from Reinforcement Learning and Generative AI

10
Nov

Optimal Sequential Inference and Decision Making: From Uniform A/B Testing to Gradient-Based Bandits

10
Nov

The Curious Price of Distributional Robustness in Reinforcement Learning with a Generative Model

10
Nov

Lunch

10
Nov

Representation-based Reinforcement Learning and Control for Dynamical Systems

10
Nov

The alpha-Potential Game Paradigm: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

10
Nov

Mean-field dynamics and training of deep transformers

10
Nov

Break

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Isaac Newton Institute Seminars

05Nov Tutorial: Self-supervised learning, BYOL, and friends

05Nov title and abstract tba

05Nov Drinks Reception

06Nov Registration

06Nov Tutorial: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

06Nov Lunch

06Nov Turing Showcase

07Nov Registration

07Nov Tutorial: Gradient Methods in RL and Their Convergence

10Nov Registration

10Nov Director's Briefing

10Nov Organisers' Welcome

10Nov Model-Based and Model-Free: A Tale of Two Paradigms Told from Reinforcement Learning and Generative AI

10Nov Optimal Sequential Inference and Decision Making: From Uniform A/B Testing to Gradient-Based Bandits

10Nov The Curious Price of Distributional Robustness in Reinforcement Learning with a Generative Model

10Nov Lunch

10Nov Representation-based Reinforcement Learning and Control for Dynamical Systems

10Nov The alpha-Potential Game Paradigm: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

10Nov Mean-field dynamics and training of deep transformers

10Nov Break

Forthcoming Seminars

News, Announcements and Events

Study at Cambridge

About the University

Research at Cambridge

05
Nov

Tutorial: Self-supervised learning, BYOL, and friends

05
Nov

title and abstract tba

05
Nov

Drinks Reception

06
Nov

Registration

06
Nov

Tutorial: Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

06
Nov

Lunch

06
Nov

Turing Showcase

07
Nov

Registration

07
Nov

Tutorial: Gradient Methods in RL and Their Convergence

10
Nov

Registration

10
Nov

Director's Briefing

10
Nov

Organisers' Welcome

10
Nov

Model-Based and Model-Free: A Tale of Two Paradigms Told from Reinforcement Learning and Generative AI

10
Nov

Optimal Sequential Inference and Decision Making: From Uniform A/B Testing to Gradient-Based Bandits

10
Nov

The Curious Price of Distributional Robustness in Reinforcement Learning with a Generative Model

10
Nov

Lunch

10
Nov

Representation-based Reinforcement Learning and Control for Dynamical Systems

10
Nov

The alpha-Potential Game Paradigm: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

10
Nov

Mean-field dynamics and training of deep transformers

10
Nov

Break