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October 23, 2026

Mathematical foundations of AI workshop

09:30 – 19:00 BST

위치: 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB

October 23, 2026

All times are in BST (UTC +1)

9:30 – 10:00

Arrival and light breakfast

10:00 – 10:15

Welcome remarks

James Hensman, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge

10:15 – 11:15

Keynote

Esmeralda S. Whitammer (opens in new tab), University of Edinburgh

11:15 – 11:30

Tea break

11:30 – 12:00

Talk 1 | Feature learning and implicit regularization

Sushrut Karmalkar, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge

12:00 – 12:30

Poster lightning talks

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch + Posters

14:00 – 15:00

Tutorial

Paul Fearnhead (opens in new tab), Lancaster University

15:00 – 15:15

Tea break

15:15 – 15:45

Talk 2

Chris Nemeth (opens in new tab), Lancaster University

15:45 – 16:15

Talk 3

Rachel Lawrence, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge

16:15 – 16:45

Talk 4

Varun Kanade (opens in new tab), University of Oxford

16:45 – 17:00

Closing statements

Teodora Pandeva (opens in new tab), Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Cambridge

17:00 – 19:00

Networking reception + Mentorship sessions