Kick-off: Simulation-based Inference in Physics & Astronomy
Kick-off for an Amsterdam Science Park-wide community on simulation-based inference in physics and astronomy. Registration is open.
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Kick-off for an Amsterdam Science Park-wide community on simulation-based inference in physics and astronomy. Registration is open.
"The beauty and charm of fundamental symmetries." Why the weak interaction treats matter and antimatter differently, with the latest LHCb CP-violation results.
Three-day workshop on quantum error correction as part of CWI's Research Semester Programme on Quantum Algorithms and QEC. International speakers and collaboration sessions.
Computational Social Choice seminar. Jason Hartline (Northwestern University) presents "Scoring Rules for a Theory of AI."
Fresh community lunch every Wednesday at Startup Village (through 25 Nov). RSVP required; EUR 6 with a punch card, EUR 8 walk-in.
Two-day scientific meeting on inverse problems in mathematics and applied sciences. Hosted by CWI's Mathematics department. Open to researchers and PhD students.
Free workshop, no sign-up needed. Algebraic and duality approaches to intuitionistic modal logics and uniform interpolation, with talks by Ghilardi, Girlando, Beklemishev, Abbadini, Carai, de Berardinis and Galatos.
AmPhi Labs hackathon on replacing plastic packaging with fibre-based designs ahead of the EU PPWR rules. Teams build an app, ML pipeline or AI agent on real data. Free seats for packaging, materials and recycling specialists; applications close 26 Oct.
Nikhef colloquium with Juliana Stachurska (Ghent University). Title and abstract to be announced.
Annual open day of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC). Aimed at students and researchers interested in linguistics, logic, AI and cognition. Full programme to be announced.
Computational Linguistics Seminar (CLS) hosted by ILLC / UvA. Michael Hanna (University of Amsterdam) presents; talk title to be announced. Also streamed on Zoom.
Open gathering of the Queer and Feminist Informatics Network (QFIN) for students, staff, researchers, artists and activists. Poster session (max A2), small-table discussions and an informal borrel. Registration required.
Matchmaking event for health and life-science startups and scaleups seeking seed or Series A funding. 30+ investors, pre-booked one-to-one investor meetings and networking drinks. Free to participate; registration required.
Animator Hisko Hulsing (Montage of Heck, Undone) and Daan Archer of Copyright Delta discuss AI, creative practice, copyright and authorship, followed by drinks and networking. Co-created by HAVA-Lab, the Data Science Center, Zeta Alpha and LAB42.
Computational Social Choice seminar hosted by ILLC / UvA. Federico Fioravanti presents “Obvious Manipulations by Groups in Voting”.
"Hunting Ghost Particles from the Cosmos with Kilometer-Sized Detectors" — an accessible talk on neutrinos and the IceCube, KM3NeT, Auger and FASER detectors. External visitors must email events@amolf.nl in advance.
Casual lunch with fellow LAB42 members, every second Monday of the month. Each edition welcomes an expert or gives a community member the stage.
Computational Linguistics Seminar (CLS) hosted by ILLC / UvA. Bolei Ma (LMU Munich) presents; talk title to be announced. Also streamed on Zoom.
UvA students present the results and recommendations of their urban ecology research: floating islands, moles & worms, flower visits by insects, and heat on horse chestnut flowers. An afternoon bringing knowledge, research and practice together. Dutch-language event; registration required.
Logic, Language, Mathematics and their Applications (LLAMA) seminar. Rafał Gruszczyński is the speaker; the title has not been announced yet. Open to all.
Session for quantum founders and founders-to-be on early-stage funding, with Nic Weiroster of Ground State Ventures and the Deep Matter One initiative (€100,000 initial funding). Organised by QDNL.
Focus on initiatives within the SolarNL consortium and on how new solar technologies can be developed and applied in a sustainable and circular way. For researchers, students, policymakers and industry professionals. Free; includes networking drinks. Language: English.
Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa) seminar. Munyque Mittelmann from CNRS/LIPN at Sorbonne Paris North University presents. Open to all.
Joint Meaning, Logic, and Cognition (MCL) and NihiL seminar with Eleonora Zani. Title to be announced.
Nikhef colloquium with Ilaria Brivio (University of Bologna), part of the National High-Energy Seminar. Title and abstract to be announced.
Two-day workshop bringing together researchers on recent advances in variational multiscale methods for computational mechanics and fluid dynamics. Organised by CWI.
Meet the teachers, other participants and ask your questions about the 2027 Permaculture Design Course. Free; in Dutch. Email to register and receive directions.
Stichting Open Spraaktechnologie visits the park for talks, posters and demos on speech and language technology with societal value. Keynote: Julia Berezutskaya on brain-computer interfaces. Sign up by 1 Nov.
Session on developing a concept, shaping a brand and using storytelling to win over customers and investors.
Joint session of the Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa) and LLAMA seminars. Álvaro Diaz Ramos is the speaker; the title has not been announced yet. Open to all.
Meet-up for research software trainers and support staff: a hands-on sprint comparing open source alternatives to proprietary research software, a talk by Toby Hodges (The Carpentries) on new HPC and AI curricula, and drinks.
Special edition of the CWI Queueing Colloquium honouring Mor Harchol-Balter. Stochastic modelling and performance analysis of computing systems. Open to researchers from academia and industry.
New developments where inverse problems and the calculus of variations meet. Special guest: Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge). Free; programme to follow.
CWI's biennial awards ceremony celebrating exceptional contributions to mathematics and computer science. Theme: Unlocking Europe's AI potential. Evening programme with keynotes and networking.
Joint GENERALISE and Discourse and Information Processing (DIP) Colloquium with Yannis Stephanou. Title to be announced.
Nikhef colloquium with Stan Bentvelsen. Title and abstract to be announced.
"Chemical Dynamics in Halide Perovskites as a Route to Device Healing and Memristive Systems" — how mobile ions enable self-healing devices and memristors. External visitors must email events@amolf.nl in advance.
Computational Linguistics Seminar (CLS) hosted by ILLC / UvA. Verena Blaschke (University of Groningen) presents; talk title to be announced. Also streamed on Zoom.
Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa) seminar. Wessel Kroon from Utrecht University presents. Also available online (hybrid). Open to all.
Seminar of the Scientific Computing group at CWI. Kevin Schuurman is the speaker; title and abstract to be announced.
Computational Social Choice seminar hosted by ILLC / UvA. Otto de Jong presents “Justifying Election Outcomes (in Binary Aggregation).”
Nikhef colloquium with Erin O’Sullivan. Title and abstract to be announced.
Computational Linguistics Seminar (CLS) hosted by ILLC / UvA. Flor Miriam Plaza del Arco (Leiden University) presents; talk title to be announced. Also streamed on Zoom.
How can biocatalysis, enzyme engineering, computational tools and AI contribute to more sustainable chemical production? Four short presentations with concrete examples. For researchers, students, entrepreneurs, developers and industry professionals. Free; language: English.
AI at Science Park gathering, a co-creation of HAVA-Lab, the Data Science Center and LAB42. Programme to be announced.
Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa) seminar. Martina Zirattu (ILLC) is the speaker; the title has not been announced yet.
Joint session of the Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa) seminar and the DIP Colloquium. Vincent Hendricks is the speaker; the title has not been announced yet.
Dutch mathematicians give feedback on a draft vision document on AI in mathematics, covering training, publishing, peer review and policy. Registration fee €35, lunch included.
Computational Linguistics Seminar (CLS) hosted by ILLC / UvA. Urja Khurana (TU Delft) presents; talk title to be announced. Also streamed on Zoom.
Nikhef theory seminar with Christian Biello (ETH Zürich). Title to be announced.
ILLC's end-of-year colloquium. Presentations, year-in-review and networking. Open to all ILLC and UvA members.
Nikhef colloquium with Steven Hoekstra. Title and abstract to be announced.
Casual lunch with fellow LAB42 members, every second Monday of the month. Each edition welcomes an expert or gives a community member the stage.
Discourse and Information Processing (DIP) Colloquium. Adrian Brasoveanu from UC Santa Cruz presents on semantics and information processing in natural language. Open to all.
Nikhef colloquium with Adi Bornheim. Title and abstract to be announced.
Start of the internationally recognised Permaculture Design Course: 13 Saturdays (72 hours), taught in Dutch. Fee €1,090 (€690 reduced rate for 2 places).
Three-day conference in CWI’s Research Semester Programme on the mathematical underpinnings of future electricity networks. Confirmed speakers include Palensky (TU Delft), Monti (RWTH Aachen) and Almassalkhi (Vermont).
Start of the internationally recognised Permaculture Design Course: 13 Fridays (72 hours), taught in Dutch. Fee €1,090 (€690 reduced rate for 2 places); lunch included.
Joint Discourse and Information Processing (DIP) and GOOD INTENSIONS colloquium with Anandi Hattiangadi. Title to be announced.
Joint Discourse and Information Processing (DIP) and Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa) session with Vincent Hendricks. Note the unusual day: Friday. Title to be announced.
Formalisation, Optimisation, Algorithms, Mechanisms (FOAM) seminar. Martin Grohe (RWTH Aachen) is the speaker; title to be announced.
Nikhef colloquium: Patrick Koppenburg (Nikhef) presents “Spectroscopy at the LHC.”
Meaning, Logic, and Cognition (MLC) Seminar. Andrea Onofri presents “Meaning as Species or Meaning as Common Ground? Two Pictures of Shared Linguistic Meaning.”
Caspar Jacobs (Leiden University) presents "In Defence of Dimensions", arguing that certain dimensional systems explain more than others, which supports the view that dimensions reflect physical reality. Can also be followed online.
Computational Linguistics Seminar (CLS) hosted by ILLC / UvA. Cesare Spinoso-Di Piano (McGill University & Mila) presents; talk title to be announced. Also streamed on Zoom.
"Loops Matter II: Flavour Strikes Back." How loop corrections to dimension-7 operators tighten limits on new physics from neutrinoless double beta decay, linked to rare meson decays.
Advice from Zebra Legal on choosing a co-founder, plus employment-law basics for startups: interns, contractors and 0-hour contracts.
Fresh community lunch every Wednesday at Startup Village (through 25 Nov). RSVP required; EUR 6 with a punch card, EUR 8 walk-in.
Logic, Language, Mathematics and their Applications (LLAMA) seminar. Ellie Lohman (ILLC) is the speaker; the title has not been announced yet. Open to all.
Computational Linguistics Seminar (CLS) hosted by ILLC / UvA. Qing Yao presents “Learning syntax from scratch: circuit emergence, sparsification, and pre-pretraining” on how subject–verb agreement circuits develop during training. Also streamed on Zoom.
Hamed Seiied Alavi introduces Human-Building Interaction, with examples from EEG studies on classroom lighting to computer vision for hazardous canal quays, closing with a new NWO project on accessible urban mobility. Also on Zoom.
Computational Social Choice seminar. Zein Pishbin (ILLC) presents "Strategic Merging of Project Proposals in Participatory Budgeting."
Fresh community lunch every Wednesday at Startup Village (through 25 Nov). RSVP required; EUR 6 with a punch card, EUR 8 walk-in.
Computational Linguistics Seminar (CLS) hosted by ILLC / UvA. Marzieh Fadaee (Cohere Labs) presents; talk title to be announced. Also streamed on Zoom.
Two-day mid-level workshop on parallel programming in Python with Numba, Dask and asyncio, for researchers, research software engineers and support staff. EUR 50 for Dutch research institutions, EUR 200 for industry.
Casual lunch with fellow LAB42 members. This edition features Anikka Fulop, newly appointed interim Director of Amsterdam Science Park, on the ambitions and developments for the park.
Meet & Match on accessibility and inclusive city-making, organised by the NWO-funded BEAT project (Digital Interactions Lab, UvA, with the Athena Institute, VU). Open to everyone at LAB42; no registration needed.
AI, Culture & Society seminar with Nikos Kondylidis and Lynn de Rijk on understanding and misunderstanding between humans and artificial agents. Followed by drinks.
Afternoon for research software engineers hosted by the NL-RSE community. Keynote by Jannetta Steyn (Newcastle University), progress report on RSE professionalisation, talks and a live demo, closing with drinks.
How can Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) help solve the nitrogen crisis? Emerging materials with worldwide potential for sensing and filtering nitrogen compounds. Includes networking drinks.
Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa) seminar. Cailin O'Connor from UC Irvine presents "Is Intransigence Good for Group Learning?" Online only.
LAB42 hosts a side event in the context of World Summit AI 2026. Brings together AI researchers, startups and industry from the Amsterdam Science Park ecosystem. Programme details to follow.
The world's leading AI summit — 10,000+ attendees, 300+ speakers including Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio across 10 thematic tracks. ASP community discount: use code SCIENCE20 for 20% off tickets.
Guided onboarding tour of Amsterdam Science Park for new students, researchers and professionals. Get to know the campus, its institutes, and the people behind them. Sign up via email.
Fresh community lunch every Wednesday at Startup Village (through 25 Nov). RSVP required; EUR 6 with a punch card, EUR 8 walk-in.
World AI Week evening by Zeta Alpha: technical deep-dives on post-training a sub-1B search agent for industrial fault analysis and building self-learning loops into agent SDKs. Q&A and drinks.
Discourse and Information Processing (DIP) Colloquium. Owen Griffiths and Alex Paseau present "What are introduction- and elimination-rules for?"
World Summit AI session organised with QDNL Amsterdam, held in Amsterdam city centre. Explores the next computational toolkit for chemistry, pharma and materials science. No prior quantum knowledge required; closes with drinks.
UvA-FNWI and LAB42 take part in the Amsterdam Science Park Science Day. ILLC hosts games and demos on the LAB42 ground floor, plus children's workshops at 13:00 and 15:00 (room B0.207, Science Park 904).
Annual science open day — part of the national Weekend van de Wetenschap. Experiments, lectures, guided tours and demos at AMOLF, ARCNL, CWI, Nikhef and UvA-FNWI. Open to everyone aged 6 to 106. Full programme available mid-September.
Hacktoberfest Hack Day at LAB42 in collaboration with Klassroom. Join fellow developers, contribute to open-source projects, and connect with the Amsterdam tech community. Sign up via the event page.
Logic and Interactive Rationality (LIRa) seminar. Matteo Pascucci from Central European University presents "Logic accounts of responsibility: current achievements and future challenges." Online only.
Fresh community lunch every Wednesday at Startup Village (through 25 Nov). RSVP required; EUR 6 with a strippenkaart, EUR 8 walk-in.
Logic, Language, Mathematics and their Applications (LLAMA) seminar. Eric Dolores (Yonsei University) presents on "The combinatorial multiverse." Open to all.
Introductory workshop on machine learning at LAB42. Sign up via the link on the event page. Ideal for researchers and professionals new to ML.
SustainaLab Book Talk on hydrogen. Gerd Junne presents on decentralised hydrogen applications in the Netherlands. Includes networking drinks.
ILLC's bi-annual all-hands colloquium. Includes presentations, discussions on current research, and informal networking. Open to all ILLC and UvA members.
Annual open symposium of the Amsterdam electrochemistry community, bringing together researchers and educators working on electrochemistry and its applications. Open to all.
Brainstorm session for LAB42 ambassadors. Exclusively for LAB42 members — collaborative session to shape the future of the community and innovation hub.
Hands-on training at SustainaLab for startups and ventures looking to communicate their impact credibly to investors, partners and customers. Practical tools and expert guidance.
Third edition of the AI × Astro seminar series by CWI's Computational Imaging group. Ting-Yun Cheng presents on machine learning approaches for large-scale astronomical survey data. Open to all.
How to build a strong brand story for your startup? Session on brand identity, positioning and communication for early-stage founders.
Sporting and social event centred on diversity, inclusion and connection, as part of WorldPride Amsterdam. Choose from 5 km Run, 10 km Run, 15 km Run or 5 km Walk through Flevopark and along the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal. All finishers receive a special WorldPride medal. Volunteers also welcome.
Special Pride edition in samenwerking met QueerTrans Movie Night. Screening van Éviction (Mathilde Capone, 2023, FR met EN subs). By Noon.
Ter gelegenheid van Keti Koti nodigt auteur en storyteller Chidi Ebere je uit om het thema Macht te verkennen via persoonlijke verhalen. Hoe vormt macht onze relaties, gemeenschappen en ruimtes? Luisteren, reflecteren en delen. By Noon.
Dr. Pascal Mettes (VISLab, UvA) presents four key lessons from research on hyperbolic learning — making neural networks hierarchical, bridging multiple data modalities, and improving robustness to noise and distribution shifts. Also in-person at LAB42 L3.33.
Small roundtable (25 seats) for L&D leads, hiring managers and decision-makers on which AI and data skills will matter most, hiring vs. upskilling, and how to implement training successfully. Hosted by Amsterdam Data Academy at SustainaLab.
CWI Scientific Computing seminar series. Speaker: Alexander Heinlein on numerical methods and computational science. Open to all. No registration required.
Mini-workshop on the theme "Beyond Text: Conceptual, Social, and Cultural Knowledge of Large Language Models", organised around the PhD defence of Xiaoyu Tong (Friday 3 Jul). Hosted by ILLC / UvA. In-person only.
Addresses water quality challenges in the Netherlands, focusing on cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) and the threats they pose to swimmable water conditions. Talks, panels and networking. Free to attend.
Two-day intensive summer school on AI research, hosted at LAB42 on Amsterdam Science Park. Organised by the Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI).
Interactive drug discovery session by Sino Biological at Matrix SEVEN Innovation Center on Amsterdam Science Park. Free to attend, open to all.
Online webinar by Provincie Noord-Holland & ROM InWest on the MIT R&D collaboration scheme: 35% reimbursement of project costs (up to €350,000). €6.6 million available.
Guided tour with key community members, locations and ecosystem insights. Informal lunch included. Free for ASP members. Max. 15 participants.
Practical introduction to ITEA, one of Europe's largest innovation programmes for software and systems. Pitch project ideas, explore funding and connect with international partners in AI, software, data and cybersecurity.
Two-hour seminar connecting scientific research with commercial applications, led by Prof. Gadi Rothenberg (UvA). Part of the SustainaLab Books series.
"From Physics to AI to Materials" — exploring the journey from foundational physics ideas to impactful AI applications in materials science. By Prof. Max Welling (UvA / Microsoft Research).
Nabil Iqbal (Durham University) on spontaneous symmetry breaking in deep learning, scale-invariant neural networks, and machine-learning-assisted search for new dualities in physical systems. Part of the AI4Science series at LAB42.
Konstantin Rusch (ELLIS / MPI Tübingen) on Linear Oscillatory State-Space Models (LinOSS) outperforming Mamba on long-context tasks, model-order reduction for linear recurrences, and Neural Quasi-Monte Carlo methods with 4–25× improvements in scientific computing. Part of the AI4Science series at LAB42.
Fanny Lehmann (ETH Zürich) on physics-based deep learning for Earth sciences: neural operators for seismic wave propagation and transformer-based foundation models for weather and climate. With real-world examples from seismic hazard research. Part of the AI4Science series at LAB42.
Explores the "substitution trap": how the shift to renewable energy creates new dependencies on critical raw materials. Talks and panels from researchers, entrepreneurs and policymakers. Free to attend, English.
Second edition of the AI × Astro seminar series by CWI's Computational Imaging group, exploring deep learning methods for scientific image processing. Open to all.
Hands-on session using the 4V Scan to map your organisation's digital autonomy across four axes: vendor embeddedness, contractual obligations, technical dependencies and cost predictability. By Matrix Innovation Centers & IT90 (Roy Lamain).
Interactive talk & discussion with Arthur Câmara (Senior Research Engineer, Zeta Alpha), co-author of Self-Optimizing Multi-Agent Systems for Deep Research. How to let agents learn from their own traces and improve automatically. Part of Amsterdam Tech Week 2026.
Annual community event by ELLIS Unit Amsterdam & Inclusive AI: keynote on Tabular Representation Learning (Madelon Hulsebos, CWI), top AI/ML poster presentations, an Inclusive AI community talk and performance, and networking drinks. Theme: Diversity & Inclusion in AI Research.
Annual symposium on sustainable energy materials, themed "Light for driving and monitoring chemical reactions." Organised by AMOLF, hosted at CWI. Open to researchers and students.
Europe's leading deep tech conference: 3,000+ attendees, 100 speakers, 125 exhibitors. Focus on deep tech, sustainability, energy, healthcare and advanced computing. Listed by Startup Village as a recommended event.
One-day symposium on autonomous systems — from protein design and neuromorphic processing to active condensation and robotics. Hosted by AMOLF.
Discover the science, tech and crossovers redefining what Amsterdam stands for. A showcase of Amsterdam's deep tech ecosystem, co-organised by Amsterdam Science Park.
"Impact of a Boiling Liquid" — a colloquium on fluid mechanics exploring what happens when a liquid impacts a solid surface. By Prof. Devaraj van der Meer (University of Twente).
Free branding & storytelling workshop by Victor Knaap, co-founder of Media.Monks. Includes extended lunch. For ASP founders only.
Fundraising strategy for founders: from friends & family to VC. Dilution planning and knowing the right moment for the right investor.
Online townhall for ICAI members and stakeholders. Key updates on institute initiatives, leadership insights and interactive Q&A.
"Exploring the nanoscale: Mapping the optoelectronic properties of advanced functional nanomaterials to inform device design." Colloquium by Dr. Jessica Boland (University of Manchester).
Hoe de OiM-classificatie toegang tot subsidies en publieke financiering blokkeert. Experts van VNCI, ChainCraft en Techleap.
Legal basics for early-stage startups: co-founder agreements, share structures and what to arrange before you raise money. By Zebra Legal.
Powering the Next Innovation Wave — Quantum & Deep Tech in Amsterdam. Keynotes, networking en opening van de nieuwe quantum space bij Startup Village.
Workshop on scalable business models and growth structures for founders ready to move from startup to scaleup. Led by Jorn Eitingvan Liempt.
Half-day symposium at CWI exploring bias in artificial intelligence from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Open to all.
Networking event for entrepreneurs and founders at Amsterdam Science Park, co-organised by Matrix Innovation Center and the HvA Minor Start Up Your Business in Tech.
Workshop providing participants with the fundamentals of NLP in Python. Organised by the Netherlands eScience Center.
Student-led community evening by Sci Spark Amsterdam. Neighbours, park residents, students and researchers come together to explore what Amsterdam Science Park is — and what it could become.
Practical variational Bayesian inference for imaging problems, by Tristan van Leeuwen. Part of the AI × Astro seminar series by CWI’s Computational Imaging group. Open to all.
Noise models, image quality metrics and classical denoising methods — their mathematical properties and trade-offs. Includes practical exercises on Google Colab.
Public plenary talks at the close of the PhaseA research semester programme at CWI. Open to all. Hosted at Nikhef.
Three-day international conference on stochastic modelling, co-hosted at CWI (Science Park 123) and the Amsterdam Science Park Congress Centre.
Student presentations showcasing five-month projects addressing societal challenges — from fair effort in the energy transition to redesigning local economies. Open to all.
Practical afternoon on cybersecurity, AI, cloud infrastructure and digital autonomy for organisations of all sizes. Amsterdam Economic Board brings together partners including the City of Amsterdam, Rabobank, Adyen and Amsterdam AI for expert discussions and real-world case studies.
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