MFC Wednesday at Reading – 13 May 2026

May 1, 2026 | Events

Speaker details

The speaker is Roland Potthast who will be running a training session on AI/ML methods. This will comprise a mixture of lectures and hands-on activities.

Roland has a couple of roles:

  • Professor of Applied Mathematics, at the University of Reading; and,
  • Head of Department of the Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) group at Deutscher Wetterdientst (DWD – the German Weather Service).

See https://www.reading.ac.uk/maths-and-stats/staff/roland-potthast and http://www.scienceatlas.com/potthast/ for information on his work.

Programme

11:00  Introduction and setup

11:45  Hands-On 1 Python and ML

12:30  Lunch break

13:30  Language-based AI

14:30  Hands-on 2 AI and Language

15:00  Coffee break

15:30  AI, Physics and Multi-modality

16:15  Hands-on 3: Physics and AI

17:00   End of session

Location & travel

Room PV185 in the Polly Vacher building (number 38 on the central campus map).

Enter the building using the door opposite the Maths building, then follow the signs to the room.

 

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