Jeremy Aroles is an Associate Professor in Organization Studies. He joined the School for Business and Society at the University of York in December 2021, where he currently serves as Deputy Dean. Prior to this, he held academic positions at Durham University and the University of Manchester, where he earned his PhD in 2016.

Prof. Louwerse worked for almost 20 years in both in the UK and the US, authored over 200 scientific publications in computational and psycholinguistics, virtual reality, embodied cognition, and educational technologies. He holds two patents, and acquired €50M in research funding. Louwerse is a blogger for Psychology Today, and is author of the popular science books “Keeping those words in mind: How language creates meaning” and “Understanding human and artificial minds.”

Minseok Choi received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Seoul National University, South Korea, and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University, USA. After completing his Ph.D., he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University before joining Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), where he is currently an Associate Professor of Mathematics.

Before joining Ivey, Nanxi received her PhD from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics under the supervision of Professor Bo Jiang. During her PhD, she was a visiting PhD student at Sauder Business School, UBC advised by Professor Chris Ryan. After graduation, she visited Professor Zizhuo Wang at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen from July 2023 to Dec 2023. Her current research lies in revenue management, data-supported decision making and contract theory.

The human immune system is likely far more complex than that of inbred mice, necessitating fully human experimental systems to test hypotheses about novel immune mechanisms. To this end, we have developed functional human immune organoids from discarded tonsils and spleens.

Given a division ring B and a division ring A such that the left dimension [A : B] = 2, one naturally has a projective line PG(1,B) at one’s disposal. If one considers a (left) vector space V of dimension n over A, a representation of PG(1,B) arises as a spread in PG(2n - 1,B). In this lecture, we study special “twisted” representations in the case n = 2 with remarkable geometric and automorphic properties. (This is joint work with Hendrik Van Maldeghem.)

Professor Lidija Zdravkovic is a Professor of Computational Geomechanics at Imperial College London. She served as Head of the Geotechnics Section from 2014 to 2024, and currently holds the positions of Admissions Tutor for the MSc in Geotechnical Engineering and Co-Director of the Nuclear Engineering Centre at the same institution.

Kumushoy joined Durham University as an Assistant Professor in Finance after completing her PhD at Imperial College London in 2021. Her thesis focused on contagion in complex financial networks and financial stability. Since joining Durham, she has been developing a research agenda that sits at the intersection of market microstructure, systemic risk, financial contagion and the implications of artificial intelligence for financial markets stability.

Valerie joined Durham University as an Assistant Professor in Finance in 2024 after completing her PhD at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her main research interests lie in empirical corporate finance and span a range of topics, including analysts' rating biases, the role of social media in Initial Coin Offerings, trading spillovers of financial misconduct, and the mechanics of decentralised finance (DeFi) and decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs).

Dongwoo Sheen is a Professor Emeritus at SNU and a Distinguished Professor at Xinjiang University. He received BA and MA at SNU in 1981 and 1983, and his PhD under the guidance of Prof. Jim Douglas, Jr. at Purdue University in 1991. Then he went to Pavia, Italy as a CNR postdoctoral fellow under Prof. Franco Brezzi’s guidance. He then went back to Purdue University as a post-doc. Since 1993, he worked for SNU until 2023.

Professor Shan Zha is the James A. Wolff Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center, an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI), and an internationally renowned scholar in the interdisciplinary field of DNA damage repair and immunology. Her research has long focused on DNA double-strand breaks and genomic instability.

Land ecosystems including forests absorb ~25% of the total carbon dioxide emissions from anthropogenic sources. This sink is predicted to increase under increasing CO2concentration. However, carbon capture in forests is also controlled by nutrient availability including nitrogen and these interactions are poorly understood to support and validate when modelling the role of forests in climate change mitigation.

Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and hardware are having a major impact on Computational Science. The traditional paradigm in Scientific Computing (SC), typically based upon mathematical models of the underlying phenomena followed by discrete approximation and a numerical solution, are being complemented and challenged by machine learning (ML) and other AI capabilities.

How does the brain generate conscious experience, and how can it recover when severely injured? Advances in neuroimaging reveal the dynamic brain networks underlying awareness, offering new insights into both pathology and human potential.

This talk is concerned with the study of resolvent estimates and the analyticity of the semigroup in LP for the Stokes operator in domains with rough boundaries.

We study how media firms can use LLMs to generate news content that aligns with multiple objectives—making content more engaging while maintaining a preferred level of polarization/slant consistent with the firm’s editorial policy.

Professor Luca Valenti is the head of Biological Resource Center, the Precision Medicine Lab and the Omics Lab of Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Policlinico Milano, University of Milan as an internist and clinical hepatologist at the Department of Transfusion Medicine. He has authored more than 200 publications as main author in journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Genetics, Gut, and Journal of Hepatology (Scholar: 50,000 citations, H-index 108).

Knot Floer homology is an invariant of knots in closed 3-manifolds. This invariant captures a great deal of information about the topology of knot complements. In particular, when a knot is fibered, the information contained in knot Floer homology provides insight into the monodromy of the fibration. I will survey recent work on this topic, including results on bounding the number of fixed points and the characterization of right-veering monodromy.

Dr Thai is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Structural Engineering, and also the recipient of ARC DECRA Fellowship. He earned his PhD from Sejong University, and then spent six years of postdoctoral training at Hanyang University and the University of New South Wales prior to joining the University of Melbourne as Senior Lecturer in 2018, and being promoted to Associate Professor in 2021 and Professor in 2024. His research mainly focuses on developing structural systems for buildings.

David Scott Kastan is the George M. Bodman Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University, having previously taught at Columbia University and at Dartmouth College. He has visited universities in China, Denmark, Egypt, England, Germany, and Hungary, among others, and has been the chief International Consultant for the CMRS, Zhejiang University since 2016.