Description

The morning opens in plenary with remarks from the University's Vice-President for Research & Innovation, Professor Sue Hartley OBE, a talk from NVIDIA on the art of the possible in research, followed by a panel discussion bringing together CMI theme leads and senior University voices.

Parallel research talks then run across the disciplines, with topics including self-driving labs for materials science, grounded AI for Alzheimer's research, what clinical notes can tell us about loneliness and dementia, etc. The afternoon adds a series of technical sessions from NVIDIA spanning social sciences, medical imaging and materials discovery.

The day closes with hands-on workshops offering a practical starting point in your own research:

• AI for Research 101 — a grounding in the tools and where to begin

• Agentic AI for research — working with AI agents

• AI tools for literature search — finding and synthesising the literature faster

Industry partners Dell and NVIDIA join researchers throughout the day, and there'll be dedicated time to network with colleagues from across the disciplines and the University's research support community.