Links to Virtual/Online Academic Seminars and Conferences
The subcategories below are subjective and subject to change...
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Last updated: February 26, 2024
Seminars / Conferences / Links / Blogs
Events that recur (frequently) are included here.
Analytics / Optimization / Operations Research
- Discrete Optimization Talks (DOTs), Fridays at 13:00 ET
- CERC DS4DM Coffee Talks
- Decision Analysis Webinars
- INFORMS University of Oklahoma Student Chapter: ScholarsConnect
- Machine Learning NeEDS Mathematical Optimization
- One World Optimization Seminar, Mondays at 9:00 ET / 15:00 CEST
- Robust Optimization Webinars (ROWs)
- Scheduling Seminar, Wednesdays at 9:00 ET
- SNAPP: Stochastic Networks, Applied Probability, and Performance, Mondays at 11:30 ET
- Stochastic Programming Society: Decision Making in an Uncertain World
- Analytics for a Better World Webinar
- Emerging Mobility Systems and Services Seminar Series
- enOPTIMAL: Energy, Optimization and Learning, Fridays 11:00 ET, 8:00 PT, 17:00 CET
- ENRE Online Seminars, by the Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment Section of INFORMS
- EURO WISDOM Forum Webinar
- Fields Institute -- Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, Applications Lecture Series
- Health Applications Society (HAS) Online Seminar
- IFORS Global Webinar Series
- INFORMS OU Student Chapter Grad Student Research Summer Series
- INFORMS Practice Section Webinar
- INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL) Webinars
- Leistungszentrum Expert Sessions Webinar on Projection Methods
- Online Seminar on Mathematical Foundations of Data Science, Tuesdays at 15:00 ET
- Séminaire Français d’Optimisation
- Systems Analytics Global Leaders' Seminars
- Thought Leaders: University of Iowa Tippie Seminar Series
- Variational Analysis and Optimisation (VA & Opt) Webinar, Wednesdays at 3:00 EST / 17:00 AEST
- VeRoLog Webinar (EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization), last Thursday of the month at 10:00 ET / 16:00 CET
- vsOPT: a Virtual Seminar on Optimization and Related Areas
Inactive (recordings may be available)
CS-Econ / Computational Social Choice
See also Economics below.- AI for Economics Seminar, monthly
- Games, Decisions, and Networks
- INFORMS Auctions and Market Design Online Seminar Series, Fridays at 13:00 ET / 11:00 PT
- Marketplace Algorithms and Design Seminar, Thursdays at 14:00 ET / 11:00 PT
- Online Social Choice Seminar Series, Wednesdays at 4:00 ET / 8:00 GMT
- SIGecom Seminar Series, Fridays at 11:00 ET
- COMSOC Video Seminar, usually second Friday of the month at 9:00 ET
Computer Science / Social Good
- CS Theory Online Talks (aggregator and subscribable Google calendar)
- Aalto CS Theory Seminar, usually Wednesdays at 7:15 ET / 14:15 Helsinki time
- Brown Social Equity and Applied Mathematics (SEAM) Seminar, Thursdays at 4:30pm ET
- CompSust Open Graduate Seminar (COGS)
- Complexity Meetings
- Foundations of Data Science
- Harvard CRCS AI for Social Impact Seminar Series
- Interest Group on Algorithmic Foundations of Information Technology (IGAFIT), Thursdays at 8:00 ET / 14:00 CEST
- Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) Colloquium Series
- Online Seminar on Frontiers of Parameterized Complexity
- Pasteur's Quadrant Seminar Series
- Penn State AI for Social Impact Seminar Series
- Polynomials as an Algorithmic Paradigm
- Theory of Computing for Fairness
- Theory of Randomized Search Heuristics (ThRaSH) Seminar Series 2021
- UMD Fairness in AI Seminar Series
Economics
- Australasian Microeconomic Theory Seminars (AMETS), Tuesdays at 22:00 ET
- Caltech Economic Theory Talks, usually Wednesdays at 15:00 ET
- The Gary Chamberlain Online Seminar in Econometrics, Fridays at 12:00 ET
- Interactive Online IO Seminar, Tuesdays at 15:00 ET
- Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi: Economics and Planning Unit Seminar
- Penn State Econ Theory Group (PennTheOn), Fridays at 13:00 ET
- Seminars in Economic Theory (SET), Wednesdays at 10:00 ET
- Virtual Behavioral Economics Seminar (VIBES), Mondays at 11:00 ET
- Virtual Market Design Seminar, biweekly, Mondays at 10:00 ET / 16:00 CEST
- Virtual Seminar in Economic Theory (VSET), Thursdays at 11:00 ET / 16:00 UK time
- Virtual Economics (aggregator and subscribable Google calendar)
Machine Learning
- Control Meets Learning, Wednesdays at 12:00 ET / 9:00 PT
- Fields Institute -- Machine Learning Advances and Applications Seminar, Mondays at 15:00 ET
- Harvard ML Theory Talks
- IAS Seminar on Theoretical Machine Learning, Tuesdays at 12:00-13:30 ET and Thursdays at 15:00-16:30 ET
- Montréal Machine Learning and Optimization (MLOpt), Wednesdays at 14:30 ET
- OptML++, Every other Wednesday at 14:00 ET
- RL Theory Virtual Seminars, Tuesdays at 13:00 ET / 17:00 UTC
- Trustworthy ML Seminar Series, Thursdays at 12:00 ET
- UT Austin Machine Learning Seminar
Mathematics
- Math Seminars Master List (aggregator)
- Combinatorics Lectures Online (aggregator)
- Communications in Numerical Linear Algebra
- CRM Applied Mathematics Seminars
- e-PCC: Electronic Postgraduate Combinatorial Conference
- IBS Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium, Wednesdays at 3:30 ET / 16:30 KST
- Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics (EPC) Webinar, Mondays at 10:00 ET / 14:00 UTC
- Graphs and Matroids Seminar, Mondays at 15:00 ET
- Math and Data Plus (MAD+), Wednesdays at 10:00 ET and 16:00 ET
- Numerical Linear Algebra (E-NLA), Wednesdays at 16:00 CEST
- One World Mathematical Methods for Arbitrary Data Sources (MADS), Mondays at 8:00-10:00 ET
- One World Mathematics of Information, Data, and Signals (MINDS), Thursdays at 14:30 ET
- PRiME: Pomona Research in Mathematics Experience, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 16:00 ET
- Women in Combinatorics (WinCom) Virtual Colloquium, Thursdays at 14:00 ET
Statistics
- International Seminar on Selective Inference, Thursdays at 11:30 ET / 8:30 PT
- Online Causal Inference Seminar, Tuesdays at 11:30 ET / 8:30 PT
- Purdue Statistics Seminar Series on Causal Inference
Less Formal (e.g., podcasts)
- INFORMS Resoundingly Human Podcast
- AI Talk
- TalkRL Podcast
- TWIML AI Podcast
- The Economic Implications of COVID-19, a webinar series by the Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance
Events
Conferences, workshops, symposia, etc. that are at least partially virtual.
Two good resources for combinatorial conferences are maintained by Doug West and Jan van den Heuvel.