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Internal Lab Sessions
Please find below the details of some of the forthcoming lab sessions we have coming up. The talks are maximally informal and last for ~30 minutes each. For the other 30 minutes of the session, we’ll discuss the administration of the lab, and any other updates from the internal group.
These are internal only to people on themetrics-and-models_internal@@maillist.ox.ac.uk. If you are local to Oxford and want to be added to this list, please email metrics_and_models_mgmt@mailist.ox.ac.uk!
The table below indicates whether they are online or offline. They will run online through to the end of 2025.
| Speaker | Date | Title | Online/Offline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jiani Yan | 14:00 GMT, 12th November 2025 | Discovering Prevalent Chronic Disease Profiles with Advanced Clustering Methods | Online |
| Charles Rahal | 14:00 GMT, 26th November 2025 | On the Responsible use of Pseudo-Random Number Generators in Applied Scientific Research | Online |
| Anda-Raluca Epure | 14:00 GMT, 10th December 2025 | AI Scientist for Drug Discovery: a new way towards designing safe, targeted minibinder structures | Online |
| Pablo Biedma | 14:00 GMT, 15th January 2026 | Towards Value Evaluation in Large Language Models | Online |
| Juuso Repo | 14:00 GMT, 29th January 2026 | Auditing Prevalence Claims with LLM-Based Paper Analysis: Is Cyberbullying on the Rise? | Online |
| Micol Morelini | 14:00 GMT, 12th February 2026 | Patterns as Signals: Recovering the Meso Level in European Student Mobility | Online |
| Daniel Valdenegro | 14:00 GMT, 26th February 2026 | Information Theory for Social Scientists: An (Un)Serious Critique of LLM Usage | Online |
| Yuqi Liang | 14:00 GMT, 12th March 2026 | Measuring Divergence and Convergence in Sequence Analysis: A Spell-Based Extension of Longest Common Prefixes | Online |
| Lijin Zhang | 14:00 GMT, 26th March 2026 | Bayesian Factor Mixture Modeling for Detecting Inattentive Respondents | Online |
| Mingyue Liu | 14:00 GMT, 9th April 2026 | Neural-symbolic Data Augmentation for Contrastive Learning. | Online |
| Aarushi Sharma | 14:00 GMT, 23rd April 2026 | Encoding Without Influence: Dissociating Demographic Representation from Causal Effect in Large Language Model Survey Simulation | Online |
| Maksim, Charlie, and Daniel | 14:00 GMT, 7th May 2026 | LLM based analysis of political texts at scale: a scoping and feedback session | Online |