Tag: Master’s Students

Discover opportunities to work together at the Entrepreneurship Cafe (11 Feb)

Discover opportunities to work together at the Entrepreneurship Cafe ☕️ – February 11, 1pm to 3pm

Meet potential co-founders, share your skills, and connect with others in a relaxed networking space — complete with a colour-coded name tag system to make introductions easier. Plus, there’ll be exciting prizes to be won throughout the event! 🎁

📅 Wednesday 11 February

🕒 1pm – 3pm

📍 Enterprise Lab, South Kensington Campus

Whether you’re exploring new ideas or already building something exciting, this is a great chance to make meaningful connections.

👉 Sign up here: imperialenterpriselab.com/events/entrepreneurship-cafe

🗓️ Sign-up deadline: 4 February 2025

50th Annual Paviors’ Lecture – Engineering the Future & the Future of Engineering (10 Feb)

You are invited to the 50th Annual Paviors’ Lecture, hosted at Imperial College London with The Worshipful Company of Paviors and the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).

This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Chief Scientist at the Alan Turing Institute.

In his keynote, Professor Girolami will explore how engineering is evolving to address major global challenges across infrastructure, sustainability, technology and society, and the growing role of data, measurement and digital approaches in shaping engineering practice.

Tuesday 10 February 2026
17.15 – 18.30 (GMT)
Lecture Theatre 164, Skempton Building, Imperial College London
Free, open to all

Register here: https://ImperialCEE.short.gy/9yw7VN

CfAE Sessions on Successful STEMM Writing (21, 28 Jan, 04, 11 Feb)

These live, one-hour, interactive sessions are designed to give you practical strategies to make your writing more effective, persuasive, and precise. You’ll work on strengthening clarity, coherence, and criticality, and learn how best to use GenAI to evaluate your writing. Each session combines expert guidance and targeted activities, ensuring you can apply the strategies immediately to your own writing.

The sessions are delivered on campus and online. You can sign up for as many as you like.

Demonstrating criticality in your writing: Wed 21 January 13.00-14.00

Evaluating GenAI feedback on your academic writing: Wed 28 January 13.00-14.00

Writing with coherence and cohesion: Wed 04 February 13.00-14.00

Writing with clarity: Wed 11 February 13.00-14.00

Reserve your place by filling out the registration form.

Further information: Work on your writing in guided activity sessions.

IAO Lunar New Year “Meet The Author” with Dr Cora Lingling Xu (28 Jan)

Special IAO Lunar New Year “Meet The Author” event: 🧧🌸🐎

Time Inheritance Mapping Workshop —How time shapes your decision-making and what you can do about it

Hosted by Imperial As One (IAO), sponsored by the Departments of Brain Sciences, and Immunology & Inflammation, supported by Library Services

Our next Meet The Author event will be on 28th Jan at South Kensington campus. Please join us at this special in-person lunch & workshop by Dr Cora Lingling Xu, Associate Professor, Durham University, exploring the idea of ‘time inheritance’ from her new book, The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China (SUNY Press 2025). In the workshop we will celebrate the upcoming Lunar New Year and also explore the novel concept called ‘time inheritance’ to further understand social mobility.

IAO Lunar New Year “Meet The Author” with Dr Cora Lingling Xu

Date: Wednesday 28/01/2026

Time: 12:30-2pm (lunch provided)

Venue: 4.408, Abdus Salam Library, Campus, South Kensington Campus

Open to all Imperial students & staff, info & registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/iao-special-lunar-new-year-meet-the-author-with-dr-cora-lingling-xu-tickets-1978159061002

We will explore the concept ‘time inheritance’, which reveals how individuals inherit different amounts and qualities of time at familial, national and international levels. It will explore how issues such as first-generation status, class, race/ethnicity and gender shape how we use time and our relationship with time. Lunch and some Lunar New Year snacks will be provided! Please register to attend.

CfAE Guided Activity Sessions on Speaking Skills (Spring Term 2026)

Are you coming up to an assessed presentation? Are you keen to work on your public speaking skills? Do you want to improve your ability to interact in seminars?

Whether you’re an undergraduate or a postgraduate, our guided activity sessions for speaking can help you achieve success on your academic journey and beyond. Sessions are designed to give you the space and opportunity to prepare and rehearse for both everyday and high-stakes activities here at Imperial. Each session includes input tailored to academic STEMM settings and structured practice opportunities. There will be expert feedback and peer review to help you hone your skills.

The live, 50-minute, interactive sessions are held at different times and on different days throughout term, so you can access what you need, when you need it. We offer both on-campus and online options; check out the schedule. You can do as many as you like.

Distinguished Guest Lecture: Rethinking Research: The Role of Humans in Scientific Discovery in the Age of LLMs* (04 Feb 2026)

Professor Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi CBE FREng FRS, Vice-President (Research & Innovation) and ARM Professor of Computer Engineering at King’s College London

Wednesday 4th February | 16:00-18:00 | LT229 &  Level 2 Concourse, Blackett Building | South Kensington Campus

Please note that from 17:00-18:00 a drinks reception will be held on the Level 2 Concourse, Blackett Building, SK Campus

Complete the short online form to register your place. 

Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) are rapidly reshaping the landscape of scientific discovery. These technologies demonstrate the enormous potential of AI to accelerate research. Yet, they also signal a profound change in how research is conceived, conducted, and communicated, along with how doctoral students and researchers are supervised and intellectually developed.

This evolving landscape demands a re-examination of the human role in research. The human–AI relationship in research must rest on mutual critique, trust, and collaboration. Researchers should rigorously assess AI-generated outputs through their own expertise, while using LLMs to test, challenge, and refine their arguments and hypotheses. This reciprocal ensures that AI acts as an augmentative partner rather than a replacement in the pursuit of scientific knowledge.

Rather than offering definitive conclusions, this talk aims to stimulate dialogue, question assumptions, and inspire new ways of collective thinking about the future of scientific research and PhD training in an AI-driven world.

*This presentation was prepared by human, augmented by LLMs

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Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi is a distinguished Professor of Engineering, academic leader, and entrepreneur. He has served as Vice President for Research & Innovation at King’s College London since 2022 and holds the Arm Professorship of Computer Engineering (since 2007). His work in hardware–software co-design and energy-efficient computing has shaped modern digital technologies, with innovations used in billions of smartphones worldwide.

Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Sir Bashir is a highly cited researcher with 400 publications, eight books, and 52 supervised PhDs. His honours include the IET Faraday Medal (2020) and the IEEE–HKN Asad M. Madni Award (2025). He was knighted by HM King Charles III in 2025 and was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 2018.

Enquiries

For any further enquiries regarding this guest lecture, please email the Early Career Researcher Institute (ECRI).

Complete the short online form to register your place. 

Imperial Tech Trip to Israel | 23–30 March 2026

Join the Israeli Society for a 7-day all-inclusive Tech Trip to Israel, exploring the Start-Up Nation up close.

🔹 Visits to leading tech companies & startups (Google, Nvidia, Mobileye)

🔹 Meet founders, engineers, and researchers 🔹 Experience Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, culture, history, nightlife — and lots of hummus

💷 £500 all included! (flights, hotels, meals, transport, visits)

📅 23–30 March 2026

Spaces are limited — sign up here: 👉https://forms.microsoft.com/e/ZVHHWLSWAj

Questions? Email us at israelis@ic.ac.uk

Click here to Sign Up

New Work and Professional Experiences Webpage

Keen to secure professional experience this winter break?

Our new Work and professional experiences webpage is the perfect place to explore all the ways you can get hands-on experience while studying from internships and part time work to shadowing and volunteering

Learn about different types of experiences, how to prepare for work experience, and where you can find opportunities here.

Introducing dAIsy – Imperial’s New GenAI workspace

dAIsy is Imperial’s new Generative AI platform, designed to give you safe, easy access to multiple AI models (such as GPT, Claude, Deepseek, and others) through a single interface.

dAIsy is built to support teaching, learning, and research while ensuring data protection and institutional compliance.

Why use dAIsy?

  • Private and secure – your data stays protected. All your prompts and chat history are stored securely in Imperial’s cloud.
  • Build your own agents – You can define instructions or behaviours suited to your specific needs.
  • Advanced developer role available on request – if you want to go deeper.

Imperial offers licensed AI models to promote equitable access and, alongside Microsoft Copilot, dAIsy supports our commitment to harnessing AI’s transformative potential responsibly and effectively.

Further support

Global Essay Competition (deadline: 11 Feb 2026)

The St. Gallen Global Essay Competition is a global student essay competition, offering students who study at graduate or postgraduate level around the world the opportunity to apply for participation at the St. Gallen Symposium.

The 100 best submissions will get the unique opportunity to participate at the St. Gallen Symposium in an all expenses covered trip to Switzerland and challenge the status-quo with their ideas.

This year’s question for the Essay is: “Disruption in Tech + Politics + Demography: What happens when they collide? Pick a case where at least two of these forces meet, and propose a bold idea to maximize the benefits while minimizing the risks over the long term.”

Deadline: 01 February 2026, 11:59 p.m.

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