Events
February 2026 | |
 Thu 12 Feb 202613:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: David Mguni (QMUL): Language, Learning, and Limits: Representations at the Frontier of General-Purpose AI  Centre for Complex Systems Recent advances in large language models have encouraged the view that natural language, mediated through prompting, could act as a universal interface for general-purpose learning. In this talk, I challenge that assumption by analysing the... |
| Thu 19 Feb 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Luke Davis (U Edinburgh): Stochastic geometry of active matter Centre for Complex Systems For equilibrium hard spheres the stochastic geometry of the insertion space, the room to accommodate another sphere, relates exactly to the equation of state. We begin to extend this idea to active matter, analyzing insertion space for repulsive... |
| Thu 26 Feb 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Edon Kelmendi (QMUL): Decision Problems for Linear Dynamical Systems Centre for Complex Systems This talk is about algorithms for iterations of linear maps. Given a linear map in the form of a matrix M with rational entries, and some point x, what can we say algorithmically about the sequence Mx, M^2 x, M^3 x, … . In particular, is there an... |
March 2026 | |
| Wed 4 Mar 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Sanjay Kumar (Banaras Hindu U) Centre for Complex Systems |
| Thu 12 Mar 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Jaime Agudo-Canalejo (UCL) Centre for Complex Systems |
| Thu 19 Mar 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Karl J. Friston (UCL): The physics of sentience Centre for Complex Systems How can we understand ourselves as sentient creatures? And what are the principles that underwrite sentient behaviour? This presentation uses the free energy principle to furnish an account in terms of active inference. First, we will try to... |
April 2026 | |
| Thu 16 Apr 2026 13:00 - 14:00 | Seminar: Sabine Klapp (TU Berlin) Centre for Complex Systems |
| Mon 20 - Wed 22 Apr 2026 | Conference: Statistical Physics Methods for Sustainable Energy Systems Centre for Complex Systems Focus topics: microgrids, digital twins, solar panels, data analytics, load shedding, stochastic modelling, wind power forecasting, machine learning techniques, interdisciplinary applications, storage and battery solutions, complex network approaches... |
May 2026 | |
| Wed 20 May 2026 | Conference: One-Day Ergodic Theory Meeting Centre for Complex Systems Details to be confirmed |