Events

July 2026
Fri 24 Jul 2026   15:00 - 16:00	Seminar: What AI Can't Hear: Human Judgment in Accessible Audio Design Centre for Multimodal AI For decades, accessibility was treated as an afterthought, a ramp added after the building was already built. Today, AI risks becoming the new missing ramp: assumed to solve access problems that, without human oversight, it quietly creates. In her second edition of Inclusive Design for a Digital World, Reginé Gilbert argues that AI is not judgment, and that automated tools test against a model user that most real users simply aren't. This talk examines where AI audio tools succeed, where...
Fri 31 Jul  - Sun 2 Aug 2026	Conference: 1st Satellite Meeting on the Evolution of Photosynthesis Centre for Molecular Cell Biology Join us for the 1st Satellite Meeting on the Evolution of Photosynthesis! The meeting will cover all subjects relevant to the topic ranging from deep time and origin questions to recent radiations and adaptations of photosynthetic organisms and...
August 2026
Wed 26 Aug 2026   14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: "Empowering Connectivity: Wearable Antennas for Wi-Fi and 5G Applications", Dr Sima Noghanian - CommScope Ruckus Networks Centre for Electronics Online Seminar Link Synopsis Wireless connectivity plays a major part in our daily lives. Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), mostly operating through Wi-Fi technology, is one of the major technologies to provide this connectivity. 5G is another technology that promises a significant increase in data transmission speed. The goal of this talk is to highlight some of the aspects of the wearable antennas designed for applications in Wi-Fi and 5G, emphasizing their significance in enabling...
Mon 31 Aug  - Fri 4 Sep 2026	Conference: Quantum many-body systems out of equilibrium: Relaxation, thermalization, and ergodicity breaking Centre for Complex Systems This international forum brings together leading researchers and early-career scientists to explore equilibration, thermalization, atypical dynamics, Floquet physics and control of quantum many-body systems, fostering interdisciplinary exchange and...
September 2026
Thu 3 Sep 2026   14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Yu Komiya (Kyoto) Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy TBD
Tue 22 Sep 2026   14:00 - 15:30	GAnG Seminar: Orlando Luongo - Negative refraction and gravitational metamaterials: From optical geometry to dark matter Centre for Geometry, Analysis and Gravitation NOTE: Pre talk intro for non experts starts at 2pm, with seminar starting at 2.30pm Title: Negative refraction and gravitational metamaterials: From optical geometry to dark matter Abstract: In this talk I propose a novel reinterpretation of spacetime as an effective optical medium capable of exhibiting negative refraction. I show that this phenomenon is not a coordinate artifact, but rather a covariant property of energy-momentum flow, arising when phase propagation and energy transport...
Thu 24 Sep 2026   13:00 - 14:00	Seminar: Jaime Agudo-Canalejo (UCL) Centre for Complex Systems Emergent phenomena in protein complexes out of equilibrium: from topologically-protected states to computation Protein complexes, often made up of a few identical subunits, are very common in biology. These subunits can additionally undergo post...
October 2026
Mon 5  - Tue 6 Oct 2026	Conference: Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) Concluding Conference Centre for Fundamentals of AI and Computational Theory QMULs Shalom Lappin is organising the final CLASP Conference. Registration is now open. In 2025 the Centre for Linguistic Theory and Studies in Probability (CLASP) completed ten years of groundbreaking research in computational linguistics,...
Thu 8 Oct 2026   13:00 - 14:00	Seminar: Shiling Liang (Dresden) Centre for Complex Systems
Thu 15 Oct 2026   14:00 - 15:00	Seminar: Antoine Dalqvist (Sussex)  Centre for Theoretical Physics and Astronomy TBD.
November 2026
Thu 19 Nov 2026   13:00 - 14:00	Seminar: Haris Skokos (U Cape Town) Centre for Complex Systems