Join a full day of presentations and stimulating discussions with the academics and prize-winning PhD students in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and find out about our innovative work. Everybody is welcome! Please register as soon as possible (deadline is 17.00 on 9 September 2025).
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Welcome to the ECRI RCDS hackathon 2025 – Coding and Sustainability!
Tuesday 22 July 2025, 10.00-17.00, SK Campus
You are welcome to join us for the 2025 ECRl’s Research Computing and Data Science Programme hackathon. Last year, we experimented with profiling, optimisation, generative AI and GitHub’s Copilot. This year, we will continue the journey of AI-assisted coding with feature selection, optimisation and aim to develop sustainable code. You can leverage generative AI tools, good old Stackoverflow, or anything else you can think of – as long as your code runs within our Python test framework.
We’ll start the day with a guest talk on practical sustainable computing considerations. Afterwards, we’ll move on to a series of short-ish programming tasks. There will be lunch and prizes!
🌍 Participate in a Climate Fresk 🌍
Take part in this global innovative workshop where you’ll learn the fundamentals of climate change through an engaging card game. Collaborate with fellow participants to understand the causes and consequences of climate change while building a visual representation of global systems.
Sign up – Open to all Imperial students and staff
⚙️ Systems thinking & critical analysis: gain insight into complex, interconnected global issues.
💬 Climate & science communication: understand the foundations of climate science and develop the language to communicate key facts confidently
🧠 Reflective thinking: engage in structured reflection on your role in systems change
🤝 Collaboration & peer learning: work in diverse groups to solve problems, co-create meaning and negotiate shared understandings
🗣 Confidence in dialogue: develop your ability to speak about challenging topics with nuance and respect, listen actively, and contribute constructively in group discussions
📊 Evidence-based reasoning: strengthen your ability to interpret complex data and draw insights that inform decisions
Open to all members of the Imperial community
Dates for summer 2025:
We have just released a new series of (Free to Academia) training courses. Can you please share these as much as you can within Imperial! They have been popular before:
I invite you to join NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute (DLI) for a free, virtual instructor-led workshop providing hands-on experience with GPU-accelerated servers in the cloud to complete end-to-end projects in deep learning, accelerated computing, generative AI and accelerated data science. These workshops are led by a DLI Certified Instructor and offer an opportunity to earn an industry-recognized certificate of competency based on assessments to support your career growth.
Workshops:
Fundamentals of Deep Learning
16 July 2025 from 9:00am – 5:00pm, CEST UTC+2
Building Conversational AI Applications
17 July 2025 from 9:00am – 5:00pm, CEST UTC+2
Building LLM Applications With Prompt Engineering
23 July 2025 from 9:00am – 5:00pm, CEST UTC+2
Fundamentals of Accelerated Data Science
20 August 2025 from 9:00am – 5:00pm, CEST UTC+2
Fundamentals of Accelerated Computing with CUDA C/C++
3 September 2025 from 9:00am – 5:00pm, CEST UTC+2
Only current students, researchers and faculty with a valid email address from a college or university in Europe, Israel, Middle East or Africa are eligible to attend.
The number of seats is limited. Please register here to secure your spot.
Please note these are external courses and no credits will be provided.
The Able Network warmly invites all staff and postgraduate students to a special event in celebration of Disability Pride Month. The event takes place on Wednesday 16 July, 14.00–16.00, Enterprise Lab, South Kensington.
The event will welcome Steph Cutler from disability inclusion consultancy Making Lemonade, who will lead an engaging and thoughtful discussion on the topic of disclosing your disability or neurodiversity – a conversation that’s all about empowerment, choice, and creating inclusive spaces.
After the main talk, there will be a relaxed opportunity to stay, connect, and chat with fellow attendees. Whether you identify as disabled, neurodivergent, an ally, or are simply curious to learn more, you are very welcome to join.
SILFEST tickets are now on sale! Buy at our website: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/195107/silfest-2025/
We’re excited to invite you to a series of hands-on World of Food cooking workshops, where colleagues (staff and students) will share personal stories about the food and culture that matter most to them.
Each workshop will include collaborative cooking, storytelling from our colleagues, and of course, enjoying the meal we’ve prepared together.
These workshops are a celebration of our rich cultural diversity, the values we share, and the joy of coming together. Food has a remarkable ability to connect us on a fundamental level, and exploring what it means to each of us is a powerful way to build mutual appreciation and understanding.
You can sign up using the link below to participate in this year’s sessions. To ensure a fair process, each workshop has a registration deadline. After the deadline, participants will be selected through a lottery. Selected individuals will have 48 hours to confirm their spot. Any unconfirmed spots will be offered to those on the randomized waiting list.
All workshops will take place on Wednesdays in the Chemical Kitchen (Room 763, Chemistry Building, South Kensington):
Feel free to join individually or as a group – no cooking experience is needed, and everyone is welcome!
Spaces are limited, so be sure to register before the deadlines.
EarthScale: A new national programme to scale climate tech
We’re proud to be one of six partner universities delivering EarthScale, a bold new UK-wide programme supporting IP-rich climate tech startups and spinouts to scale to commercialisation.
Across the UK, high-potential climate innovations are emerging but too often, ventures stall between prototype and commercial success. EarthScale bridges that gap.
Backed by a powerhouse network of regional university hubs – Imperial College London, Cranfield University, the University of Derby, the University of Exeter, the University of Leeds and the University of Nottingham – the programme delivers:
If you’re developing a solution for net zero or climate resilience at TRL 5 – 6 and have raised seed investment, this is your opportunity to scale.
Applications open now until 7 September. Learn more and apply at www.earthscale.co.uk
Hi all,
My name is Mohamed, and I’m a Master’s student here at Imperial. I’m currently researching how those of us from underrepresented backgrounds (ethnic minorities and working-class individuals) navigate the world of academia, and how much we feel we belong to the institutions we inhabit.
I am interested in exploring the experiences of ‘home’ PhD students at Imperial.
If you feel like you would be interested in participating in this research and sharing your experiences, please fill out the MS form below so we can arrange an chat:
I would greatly appreciate your contributions.
Kind regards,
Mohamed Shadid (MSc Science Communication)