The Careers Beyond Academia Seminar Series provides PhD students and Early Career Researchers with realistic, experience-based insights into career pathways outside academia. Through invited talks from professionals working across industry and organisations, the series helps researchers understand how to successfully transition their skills and expertise into impactful roles beyond the university environment.

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) and its variants are among the most widely used algorithms for sampling from probability distributions. Despite their popularity, quantitative convergence guarantees for unadjusted HMC remain limited, especially in divergences that provide strong relative-density control such as KL divergence and Rényi divergence. In this talk, we establish regularization properties for unadjusted HMC via one-shot couplings, which enable Wasserstein convergence guarantees to be upgraded to guarantees in KL and Rényi divergence.

A recurring question in network studies is whether two connected units resemble each other because one influenced the other (contagion) or because they were alike due to unmeasured background conditions (latent confounding, of which homophily is the canonical case). These are famously hard to separate from a single observed network.

Standard model-free reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, built around the incremental updating of state-action-values, have long served as a dominant computational framework for understanding reward-guided behaviour. Traditionally, such models are hand-crafted: a scientist defines the model architecture and learning rules based on theoretical assumptions, then fits a small number of free parameters to behavioural data.

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Abstract: Explainable AI (XAI) works on providing explanations that justify a model's behaviour or decision. But what is an explanation worth if the user it is meant for cannot understand it? “Social XAI”, a recent interdisciplinary offshoot at the intersection of XAI, dialogue research, and the social sciences (Rohlfing et al. 2021, 2026), shifts the focus to the practice of explaining: the dialogic process through which explanations and their understanding are co-constructed between explainer and explainee.

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Talk title: Control of Gene Expression in Time and Degree

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The Careers Beyond Academia Seminar Series provides PhD students and Early Career Researchers with realistic, experience-based insights into career pathways outside academia. Through invited talks from professionals working across industry and organisations, the series helps researchers understand how to successfully transition their skills and expertise into impactful roles beyond the university environment.

This free event is open only to members of the University of Cambridge (and affiliated institutes). Please be aware that we are unable to offer consultations outside clinic hours.

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