Events

 February 18th, 2026, Wednesday, 3PM. Room TG23. Speaker: Elisabeth Fink. Title: AI for Science: From Accelerating Materials Discovery to Stress-Testing Post-Quantum Cryptography Abstract: Applications of AI have become widespread and… Read more: Colloquium: AI for Science: From Accelerating Materials Discovery to Stress-Testing Post-Quantum Cryptography

December 8th, 2025, Monday, 3PM. Room TG23 Speaker: Ahmed Eissa Title: Addressing Racial Bias in Law Enforcement: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Developing Ethical AI Systems for Objective Threat Assessment Abstract: This… Read more: Colloquium: Addressing Racial Bias in Law Enforcement: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Developing Ethical AI Systems for Objective Threat Assessment

Nov 25th, 2025, Tuesday. 3PM. Room TG23. Speaker: François Chadebecq Title: Optimal Transport for Sea Ice Dynamics: Challenges and Solutions in Motion Estimation Abstract: In this seminar, I will present… Read more: Colloquium: Optimal Transport for Sea Ice Dynamics: Challenges and Solutions in Motion Estimation

October 21st, 2025. Tuesday. TG23. 3PM. Speaker: Abimbola Afolayan (Middlesex Univerisity, London) Title: Applying Machine Learning to Investigate Malaria Risk Factors and Predict Malaria incidence in Southwest Nigeria Abstract: The… Read more: Colloquium: Applying Machine Learning to Investigate Malaria Risk Factors and Predict Malaria incidence in Southwest Nigeria

June 23 – 26, 2025, Darmstadt, Germany. International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-being (WISHWell) (23th or 24th of) June 2025 ​ co-located with the: 21st International Conference… Read more: WISHWell 2025 Edition

June 24, 2025, Darmstadt, Germany. The 14th International Workshop on the Reliability of Intelligent Environments (WoRIE 2025) will be held within the 21th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE 2025) in Darmstadt, Germany… Read more: WoRIE’25: 14th Workshop on the Reliability of Intelligent Environments

September 18, 2025. Thursday. TG23. 3PM. Speaker: Siva Rama Krishnan Somayaji (Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India). Title: Overview of the EMERALD UK-India British Council collaboration: AI-based analysis… Read more: Colloquium: AI-based analysis of ground water contamination in the Pala river basin

March 20, 2025. Thursday. 4PM. Room TG23. Speaker: Madeleine Waller (King’s College, London) Title: Bias Mitigation Methods: Applicability, Legality, and Recommendations for Development Abstract: As algorithmic decision-making systems (ADMS) are increasingly deployed… Read more: Colloquium: Bias Mitigation Methods: Applicability, Legality, and Recommendations for Development

February 25, 2025, Tuesday. 4PM. Room TG23. Speaker: Sanjay Bhattacherjee (University of Kent) Title: New results on lattice reduction algorithms Abstract: A lattice is a discrete subgroup of ℝ^m — a… Read more: Colloquium: New results on lattice reduction algorithms

Speaker: Neil Brown (King’s College London) November 19, 2024, Tuesday. 4PM. Room TG23. Title: How novices program in Java Abstract: In order to improve the teaching of programming, it is important… Read more: Colloquium: How novices program in Java

Colloquium: Constructive and Intermediate Fuzzy Logics Andrew Lewis-Smith October 25th, 2024, Friday. 4PM. Room TG23. Title: Constructive and Intermediate Fuzzy Logics Abstract: We present recent work developing relational semantics for… Read more: Colloquium: Constructive and Intermediate Fuzzy Logics

April 24, 2024. Wednesday. 3PM. Room T23. Speaker: Halil Yetgin (Middlesex University, London) Abstract: As a promising technology for the upcoming 6G networks, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) have garnered significant… Read more: Colloquium: An Overview of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-Assisted Wireless Networks

March 19, 2024. Tuesday. 1PM. Room T23 Title: Research Advancements in Tangible User Interface Architectures Speaker: Clifford de Raffaele (Middlesex University, London) Abstract: The colloquium presentation shall seek to present and… Read more: Colloquium: Research Advancements in Tangible User Interface Architectures

January 16, 2024. Tuesday. 3PM. Room TG23 (Town Hall) Speaker: Issam Al-Nader (Middlesex) Title Improving the Dependability of Safety Critical Wireless Sensor Network Scheduling Using Artificial Intelligence Abstract To ensure optimal functionality and… Read more: Colloquium: Improving the Dependability of Safety Critical Wireless Sensor Network Scheduling Using Artificial Intelligence

December 14, 2023. Thursday, 3PM. TG23 (Town Hall) Speaker: Olugbenga Oluwagbemi (Middlesex) Title: Voice-enabled fuzzy logic-based HIV diagnostic system with indigenous multilingual interfaces Abstract: HIV still constitutes a major public… Read more: Colloquium: Voice-enabled fuzzy logic-based HIV diagnostic system with indigenous multilingual interfaces

November 14, 2023. Tuesday, 3PM. TG23 (Town Hall). Speaker: Ali Khoshkholghi (Middlesex University, London) Title: xURLLC in 6G with Medshed RAN Abstract: 5G Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications Technology (URLLC) will… Read more: Colloquium: xURLLC in 6G with Medshed RAN

October 12, 2023. Thursday. 3PM. TG23 (Town Hall). Speaker: Roman Belavkin (Middlesex University, London) Title: Information Processing in the Human Brain: What are Our Models Missing? Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI)… Read more: Colloquium: Information Processing in the Human Brain: What are Our Models Missing?

September 15, 2023. Friday. 3PM. Room: TG23 (Town Hall Building) Speaker: Takashi Matsuoka (Suwa University of Science, Japan) Title: Compound States via Quantum Conditionality and Quantum Mutual Entropy Abstract: It… Read more: Colloquium: Compound States via Quantum Conditionality and Quantum Mutual Entropy

May 9, 2o23. 3PM (Rescheduled from November 2022) Room: TG23 (Town Hall Building) Speaker: Gunel Jahangirova Title: Mutation Testing of Deep Learning Systems Abstract: Deep Learning (DL) is increasingly adopted… Read more: Colloquium: Mutation Testing of Deep Learning Systems

March 9th, 2023. Thursday. 3PM. Room: TG23 (Town Hall Building) Speaker: Murdoch J. Gabbay (Heriot-Watt University) Title: A broadly Marxian analysis of blockchain and cryptocurrencies Abstract: Bitcoin sought to transfer… Read more: Colloquium: A broadly Marxian analysis of blockchain and cryptocurrencies

February 8th, 2023. Wednesday. 3PM. Postponed due to illness. New date to be announced. TG23 (Town Hall Building) Speaker: Samson Abramsky (University College, London) Title: Contextuality: from quantum mechanics to… Read more: Colloquium: Contextuality: from quantum mechanics to logic, language and information

January 11, 2023. Wednesday. 3.30PM. TG23 (Town Hall Building) Speaker: Edith Elkind Title: Learning axes from samples: single-peaked preferences and beyond Abstract: We consider a society where voters, who participate… Read more: Colloquium: Learning axes from samples: single-peaked preferences and beyond

November 16, 2022. Wednesday. 3PM Room: TG23 (Town Hall Building) Speaker: Ranko Lazic Title: Adversarial Reprogramming Revisited Abstract: TL;DR:  We show that neural networks with random weights are susceptible to… Read more: Colloquium: Adversarial Reprogramming Revisited

November 10, 2022. Thursday. 3PM Room: TG23 (Town Hall Building) Speaker: Ghislain Landry Tsafack Title: Making Models Work: How an Optimised ML Lifecycle Can Drive Better ROI Abstract: The potential… Read more: Colloquium: Making Models Work: How an Optimised ML Lifecycle Can Drive Better ROI

October 12, 2022. Wednesday. 3PM Room: TG23 (Town Hall Building)   Speaker: Ilina Stoilkovska Title: Automated Logic-Based Reasoning for Analyzing Prime Video Code   Abstract: Developers working in Prime Video are constantly… Read more: Colloquium: Automated Logic-Based Reasoning for Analyzing Prime Video Code

20 June 2022, Monday. 3PM. London Time. Online over Zoom. Title Bio-inspired Neural Architecture Search Speaker Wei Pang, Heriot-Watt University Abstract In this talk I will present the work of… Read more: Colloquium: Bio-inspired Neural Architecture Search

16 May 2022, Monday. 3PM. London Time. Online over Zoom. Title: Fair Division: A theoretical and a practical perspective Speaker: Maria Kyropoulou, University of Essex Abstract: In this talk I… Read more: Colloquium:  Fair Division: A Theoretical and a Practical Perspective

25 April 2022, Monday. 3PM. London Time. Online over Zoom Title: Targeted Ads, Data Openness, Digital Power: Reasons to be Cheerful” Speaker: Sam Gilbert, University of Cambridge Abstract Since the Cambridge Analytica… Read more: Colloquium: Targeted Ads, Data Openness, Digital Power: Reasons to be Cheerful

21 March 2022, Monday. 3PM. London Time. Online over Zoom Title: The Complexity of Gradient Descent Speaker: Rahul Savani, University of Liverpool Abstract PPAD and PLS are successful classes that each capture… Read more: Colloquium: The Complexity of Gradient Descent

21 February 2022, Monday. 3PM. London Time. Online over Zoom Title Representing Knowledge and Thought: Insights from the Design of Radical Representational Systems Speaker Peter Cheng, University of Sussex Abstract… Read more: Colloquium: Representing Knowledge and Thought: Insights from the Design of Radical Representational Systems

17 January 2022. Monday. 3PM. London Time. Online over Zoom. Title Goal-Directed Analysis for TypeScript Speaker Daniel Schoepe, Applied Scientist, Amazon Prime Video Abstract TypeScript is a typed version of JavaScript widely used… Read more: Colloquium: Goal-Directed Analysis for TypeScript

13 December 2021. Monday. 3PM. London Time. Hybrid (zoom and face-to-face). Room Colln CG15. Fully Online over Zoom because of omicron. Title Refractive Two-View Reconstruction for Underwater 3D Vision Speaker François… Read more: Colloquium: Refractive Two-View Reconstruction for Underwater 3D Vision

15 November 2021. Monday. 3PM. London Time. Hybrid (zoom and face-to-face). Room Colln CG15. Title Explainable AI and Its Application to Medical Diagnosis Speaker Xiaohong Gao, Department of Computer Science,… Read more: Colloquium: Explainable AI and Its Application to Medical Diagnosis

18 October 2021. Monday. 3PM. London Time. Hybrid (zoom and face-to-face). Room Colln CG15. Title Nowcasting Gentrification Using Airbnb Data Speaker Giovanni Quattrone, Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University, London… Read more: Colloquium: Nowcasting Gentrification Using Airbnb Data

1 June 2021. Tuesday. 3 PM. London Time. On Zoom. Title Quantum-like Contextuality and Ambiguity in Natural Language Speaker Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Department of Computer Science, University College London Abstract Language is contextual as… Read more: Colloquium: Quantum-like Contextuality and Ambiguity in Natural Language

4 May 2021. Tuesday. 3 PM. London Time. On Zoom. Title Bitcoin Alchemy Speaker Andrew M. Bailey, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Yale-NUS College, Singapore Abstract If there’s one thing ordinary… Read more: Colloquium: Bitcoin Alchemy

2 March 2021. Tuesday. 3PM. London time. On Zoom. Title Data-Driven Service Computing: Managing Information Services in the era of Big Data and Internet of Things Speaker Lu Liu, School of Informatics,… Read more: Colloquium: Data-Driven Service Computing: Managing Information Services in the era of Big Data and Internet of Things

2 February 2021. Tuesday. 3PM. London time. On Zoom. Title When Humans and Computers Come Together: A New or Resurged Old Research Paradigm? Speaker Shujin Li, School of Computing, University of Kent,… Read more: Colloquium: When Humans and Computers Come Together: A New or Resurged Old Research Paradigm?

5 January 2021. Tuesday. 3PM. London time. On Zoom. Title Cell Assembly-based Task Analysis (CAbTA) Speakers Dan Diaper, DDD Systems & Chris Huyck, Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University, London Abstract … Read more: Colloquium: “Cell Assembly-based Task Analysis”

1 December 2020. Tuesday. 3pm. London Time. On Zoom. Title Mapping the Public Debate on Ethical Concerns: Algorithms in Mainstream Media Speaker Balbir S. Barn, Department of Computer Science, Middlesex… Read more: Colloquium: “A Panel discussion on algorithms and society”

3 November 2020. Tuesday. 3PM. London Time. On Zoom. Title Human-Centred Algorithms Speaker B.L. William Wong, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, Middlesex University London, and Professor-in-Residence, Genetec, Inc. Abstract In this talk I will… Read more: Colloquium: “Human-Centred Algorithms”

  This year’s edition of two long-standing international conferences, FroCoS 2019 and TABLEAUX 2019, will take place at Middlesex University on September 2–6. They cover a broad range of theoretical and… Read more: FroCoS and TABLEAUX coming to Middlesex in September