Daniele Fedeli AI Workshops

Theoretical Physics · Oxford

AI Workshops

Short weekly meetings where first-year PhD students in theoretical physics share how we use AI in our research: what works, what doesn’t, and what is worth knowing.

  • Once a week
  • 45 minutes

Calendar

Each topic is fixed with its presenter one week ahead, at the end of the meeting before.

Michaelmas term 2026 Full term: Sunday 11 October to Saturday 5 December

    1. Michaelmas

      Day, time and room to be announced

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    Format

    Forty-five minutes. One of us presents, we discuss, and before leaving we agree on the next topic and who presents it.

    1. 15 minTalk

      One of us presents a topic, ideally with a live demo on a real problem.

    2. 20 minDiscussion

      Debate and questions on the topic.

    3. 10 minNext topic

      We take the next topic from the votes, and fix its presenter.

    AI in our work

    How we should use AI as PhD students in theoretical physics, and what is useful to know.

    Our focus now

    AI and the future of physics

    Where AI is taking physics, with guests and readings. It will have its own, less frequent rhythm.

    Later

    Propose and vote

    The topics come from the group. Proposals and votes carry names, so they are open to the group only, behind a shared passphrase.

    1. Propose

      Anyone in the group proposes a topic: a title, a short description, its track, and who could present it.

    2. Vote

      One vote per topic, for as many topics as you like. You can take a vote back. Names are visible to the group.

    3. Choose

      At the end of each meeting we take the most voted topic that has a presenter, one week ahead. It then moves to the calendar.

    4. Tidy up

      Daniele hides spam and duplicates and keeps a copy of everything, so nothing is lost.

    For the group

    Enter the group passphrase to see the proposals and vote. It is in the group chat. This device will remember it.

    Organiser

    Resources

    Everything we produce lives in one shared folder, open to the members of the group.

    Shared folder on OneDrive

    Only members added by name can open it, with their Oxford account. Ask Daniele to be added.

    • Diary
      One entry per meeting: what was presented and what came up.
    • Meetings
      Slides and material, one folder per date.
    • Readings
      Papers and links that came up in the discussions.
    Open the folder

    About

    The AI Workshops are an initiative of some of the first-year PhD students at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics.

    Daniele Fedeli is responsible for the content of this page.

    The workshops are not an official activity of the University of Oxford or of the Department of Physics.

    Questions and ideas: daniele.fedeli@physics.ox.ac.uk