Events and Seminars

IAQF Event: AI/ML in Finance - Shaping the Future of Financial Markets

Presented by IAQF and LSE DSI

24 June 2025, London

The International Association of Quantitative Finance (IAQF) and the Data Science Institute at the London School of Economics (LSE DSI) are delighted to co-host this exclusive event. Join us for an evening of insightful presentations and dynamic discussions on how artifical intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are revolutionizing the financial markets.

Event description:

AI and ML are rapidly transforming the finance industry - from automating routine tasks to empowering complex decision-making. In this event, a series of short talks and a panel discussion will delve into the innovative applications and future trends at the intersection of finance and technology.

This is a free event, but registration is required. Walk-ins and onsite registration will not be possible. Please register and find more details about this event here.

Game-playing with AI agents - LSE Festival 2025

Friday 20 June 2025 12.00pm to 2.00pm

Hosted by LSE Festival: Visions for the Future

MAR 1.09, 1st floor, Marshall Building

AI has already conquered chess, but can it play a game where you might need to lie and bluff? How well can AI detect the lies of human opponents in a game?

We let you play a simple role-playing game against humans and AI agents. Can you guess which one is AI?

Fixing education for the AI age

Tuesday 03 June 2025 6.30pm to 8.00pm

Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Buidling, LSE

Speaker: Conrad Wolfram, CEO of Wolfram.

Chair: Emma McCoy, Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education, LSE. 

Hosted by the Data Science Institute and the Department of Mathematics

Find out more here.

Imperial-LSE Workshop on Financial Mathematics

The Imperial-LSE Workshop on Financial Mathematics will take place on Thursday, 10 April 2025, from 9:00 to 17:00 BST in room 340 of the Huxley Building on the South Kensington Campus. This free workshop is open to all and will focus on recent developments in Mathematical Finance, featuring talks from Dr Pavel Gapeev and Dr Ofelia Bonesini of the LSE Department of Mathematics.

The Bingham Colloquium

The Bingham Colloquium takes place on 19 March 2025 (Wednesday) as a celebration of Nick Bingham's 80th birthday. Hosted by the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics at LSE, with participation from Imperial College London’s Statistics Department, the event features a series of talks covering topics in probability, statistics, and mathematical analysis. Speakers will discuss subjects ranging from Yule’s “nonsense correlation”, speculative bubbles, and slow variation of integrals to random walks, net-zero finance, and functional equations in probability.

For more information on the session, please contact S.M.Li@lse.ac.uk.

Joint Seminar with Department of Statistics 

On 7 March 2025 (Friday), Ruth Heller from Tel Aviv University will give a talk on addressing Multiplicity and Selection in Conformal Prediction. She will discuss how to control false discovery (FDR) and false coverage rates (FCR) in conformal prediction, ensuring valid and informative prediction sets in supervised learning tasks.

Email maths.info@lse.ac.uk for more information.

Women in Mathematics: An LSE Perspective

For this talk, we are delighted to welcome some fantastic speakers to the panel, who will each discuss their personal and professional journeys in mathematics, LSE and the professional world. Join us to discover their challenges and triumphs, and gain valuable insights and advice on navigating a career after your degree.

Email maths.info@lse.ac.uk for more information.

International Conference on Randomization and Computation

The 28th International Conference on Randomization and Computation (RANDOM 2024) and the 27th International Conference on Approximation Algorithms for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (APPROX 2024) will be held at the London School of Economics, in London, UK, August 28-30, 2024.

LMS Research School on Knowledge Exchange - June 18 -20, 2024

Dr Marie Oldfield will host an LMS Research School on Knowledge Exchange and speak about 'The Future of Technology and How Mathematics is Implemented'. 

2024 Colloquia in Combinatorics

Two consecutive one-day events hosted by UCL and LSE, on May 8-9, 2024. This year sees the seventeenth year of the Colloquia in Combinatorics: each year, we present a dozen talks covering a wide range of topics of interest to all those working in combinatorics or related fields. Find out more here.

Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference 2024

The 28th Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference (PCC) will be held in London on 15-17 April 2023.

The PCC is a well-established three-day event promoted by the British Combinatorial Committee. The conference is organised by, and for, current research students in all areas of combinatorial and discrete mathematics. The PCC is mainly aimed at UK-based students but is also open to those from abroad.

Approximation is the New Optimal

The Internet has become a huge computational platform for many heterogeneous, complex markets. These complex markets require the design of fast algorithms that take into account the economic, game theoretic, and computational considerations in a unified way. In this talk, Michal Feldman will discuss some of the challenges and opportunities that arise in this domain, through the lens of approximation.

The Shortcut - How Machines Became Intelligent Without Thinking in a Human Way

Current media coverage of AI seems to assume that it has just suddenly appeared out of the blue. Instead, the prevailing form of machine intelligence is the direct result of a series of decisions that we have made over the past decades.

Join us on Monday 12 February as Professor Nello Christianini discusses how shortcuts aimed at addressing various technical (and business) problems with AI are now behind much of the current concerns.

Women in Mathematics: Professor Julia Wolf

On 22 November 2023, Professor Julia Wolf will be our next speaker in the Women in Mathematics series. She will discuss how the quest for structure in mathematics can lead to questions and concepts of intangible yet lasting aesthetic appeal. Recalling key events from her own mathematical career date along the way, Julia will also attempt to examine to what extent aesthetic sensibility, opportunity, personality and chance influence an individual's mathematical path.

LSE - Warwick Workshop on Search Games and Patrolling

Search games are concerned with a game theoretic approach to search-and-rescue, search games have connections to resource allocation, patrolling, bounded-resource reasoning and scheduling theory. The workshops will feature a combination of presentations, and plenty of time for informal discussions. The workshops will take place at LSE, Vera Anstey Room, Old Building on Monday 3 July from 10.30am to 5pm and Warwick Business School Centre at the Shard on Tuesday 4 July from 10.30am to 4pm.

2023 Colloquia in Combinatorics

Two consecutive one-day events hosted by QMUL and LSE, on May 10-11, 2023. This year sees the sixteenth year of the Colloquia in Combinatorics: each year, we present a dozen talks covering a wide range of topics of interest to all those working in combinatorics or related fields.

The Travelling Salesman Problem

The Travelling Salesman Problem can play a crucial role in demonstrating whether or not focused efforts on a single, possibly unsolvable, model will produce results beyond our expectations. We will discuss the history of the TSP and its applications, together with computational efforts towards exact and approximate solutions. 

Becoming a Good Mathematician

On 8 March 2023, Dr Erica Thompson will be our next speaker in the Women in Mathematics series. Dr Thompson will discuss practical ethics for the mathematical sciences, and will show how our ethical standpoint as mathematicians can be fundamental to understanding and re-imagining the world around us. 

 X+Y: A Mathematician's Manifesto for Rethinking Gender

Dr Eugenia Cheng will join us for this public event on 2 February 2023 from 6.30 to 8.00pm. Dr Cheng will focus on the question of why women and minorities are under-represented in mathematics and discuss the many contributing factors for this.

Winter Workshop in Combinatorics

From Monday 12 to Friday 16 December 2022 the Mathematics Department at LSE will host a Winter Workshop in Combinatorics. . The workshop will also feature a public research talk by Katherine Staden (Open University) on "Counting subgraphs".

Machine Learning and Optimal Control Workshop 2022

This half-day workshop took place on 19 October 2022 and was organised by RSS Applied Probability Section, and the discussion  focussed on some recent developments in the field of stochastic control and machine learning (ML).

June Barrow-Green - Ronald Ross and Hilda Hudson 2022

On 18 October 2022, Professor June Barrow-Green spoke about the surprising collaboration between Ronald Ross and Hilda Hudson. In her talk, she discussed how their partnership effectively founded mathematical epidemiology.

Machine learning for PDEs workshop 2022

From 6-8 September 2022, LSE and Imperial College London hosted a workshop on machine learning for partial differential equations.

New trends in stochastic control workshop 2022

From 11-12 July 2022, LSE, King's College London and Imperial College London hosted a workshop on 'new trends in stochastic control', based at Imperial College London. Find out more here.

Highlights of Algorithms Conference 2022

The 7th Highlights of Algorithms conference, which is designed to be a forum for presenting the highlights of recent developments in algorithms and for discussing potential further advances in this area, took place from 1-3 June 2022. Find out more here.

Colloquia in Combinatorics 2022

The 15th year of the two-day Colloquia in Combinatorics took place on 11-12 May 2022. The event was jointly hosted by LSE and QMUL. Find out more here.

What is The Game? A Workshop on Game Theory

The aim of this workshop was to discuss how to overcome a lack of realism in many game-theoretic models. The workshop took place on Tuesday 5 - Wednesday 6 April 2022. Find out more here.

Public Lecture with Luitgard Veraart

Our public lecture with Professor Luitgard Veraart on 'Systemic Risk in Interconnected Financial Markets' took place on 8 December 2021. You can watch the recording here.

'Thinking of doing a PhD' Information Session

The Financial Mathematics group at the Department of Mathematics held a ‘Thinking of doing a PhD’ information session for students thinking about doing a PhD in Financial Mathematics on Wednesday 1 December. For more information on the session, please contact Enfale Farooq.