Conferences

The London Universities Maritime Law and Policy Research Group (LUMLP) will hold its 14th annual place on Friday 24th May 2024.

The conference brings together academics, postgraduate researchers, practitioners and other industry professionals to present their research, areas of work, and opinions. The conference is open to students, scholars and professionals with an interest in maritime law and policy.

The location is The City Law School, Sebastian St, London EC1V 7HD.

Speakers: £41.00
Non Speakers: £52.00
City, University of London LLM students: £28.00

Monday 8th to Wednesday 10th September 2025

Preceded by a Short Course and Forum on Emerging Technologies for Computational Fluid Dynamics in Rotary Positive Displacement Machines (Saturday 6th to Sunday 7th September 2025).

This multi-day conference organised by the Centre for Compressors Technology at City St George’s, University of London provides a forum for developments in air, gas and refrigeration compressors, vacuum pumps, expanders.

Early bird discounted tickets close on Sunday 10th August 2025 at 23:59, and standard registrations open from Monday 11th August 2025 at 00:00. Information about cancellations and refunds can be found here.

If you wish to request a visa invitation letter, please email ivona.ivkovic-kihic@citystgeorges.ac.uk, should you require one. Note: invitation letters can only be provided after registration is complete. In the unfortunate event that a visa is not granted, a full refund will be given.

For another year, we are supporting the Lightyear Foundation, a charity that breaks down barriers to science for all. When registering, please consider an optional donation to the Lightyear Foundation, of either £5.00, £10.00 or £20.00.

It will be possible to attend in person or online, although prices for either option remain the same.

Early bird ticket fees:
Non members (excluding dinner) – £650.00
IMechE, IOR, IIR, MTA, BCAS, EFRC and ANUBiH members (excluding dinner) – £520.00
Student/retired (excluding dinner) – £350.00
Presenting authors (excluding dinner) – £530.00
Individual dinner ticket – £100.00

Standard ticket fees:
Non members (excluding dinner) – £750.00
IMechE, IOR, IIR, MTA, BCAS, EFRC and ANUBiH members (excluding dinner) – £650.00
Student/retired (excluding dinner) – £350.00
Individual dinner ticket – £100.00

Short course fees:
Non conference delegates – £550.00
Conference delegates – £450.00
Students – £230.00

4th Annual Symposium of The Turing Interest Group on Knowledge Graphs

Focus on The Turing Grand Challenges:
- Defence and national security
- Environment and sustainability
- Transformation of Health

Agenda:
The agenda will include a keynote, presentations from members, posters sessions, networking sessions, and a panel session. A tentative agenda can be found here.

Date:
Friday 12th September 2025

Registration deadline:
Wednesday 3rd September 2025

Ticket prices:
- Regular = £20.00
- Student = £10.00

The Centre for Clinical, Social and Cognitive Neuroscience is hosting the annual meeting of the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience (BACN) at City, University of London on 10 and 11 September. 

Registrations are open until 26 August. 

The social activity on 10 September and accommodation must be booked separately (scroll down to book them). Accommodation is limited and needs to be booked by 22 July. 

Early Bird (book before 30 June)

Early bird - £190

Early bird - Member - £160

Early bird - Student -  £120

Early bird - Student Member - £90

Standard  

Standard - £220 

Standard - Member - £190

Standard - Student - £150

Standard - Student Member - £120

Day rates

Day rate - £110

Day rate - Member -  £95

Day rate - Student - £75

Day rate - Student Member -  £60

Social evening on 10 September (incl. a buffet dinner, music and dancing) - £30

Accommodation - 2 nights (9 and 10 September) in LSE Rosebery Hall* (book before 22 July)

single room - £124 (new reduced rate for 2 nights)

twin double room - £210 (new reduced rate for 2 nights)

*incl. breakfast and shared bathrooms

Registration closes on Monday 8th September 2025.

Conferenced dates - Tuesday 16th - Wednesday 17th September 2025
(with pre-conference reception on Monday 15th September)

City St George's, University of London, Clerkenwell Campus

Conference fees

Full price - £650
Presenting author - £450

Please note, accommodation is NOT included in the conference fee. Delegates should make their own arrangements. See the conference website for list of local hotels.

32nd International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval

Monday 8th to Thursday 11th September 2025
City St George's, University of London
Room: BLG07
Times: 09:00 to 17:00 per day

SPIRE 2025 covers research in all aspects of string processing, information retrieval, computational biology, and related applications. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• String Processing: ​ string pattern matching, text indexing, data structures for string processing, text compression, compressed data structures, compressed string processing, text mining, 2D pattern matching, automata based string processing, combinatorics on words.

• Computational Biology: algorithms for DNA sequencing, assembly, alignments, read error correction, metagenomics, transcriptomics, gene and regulatory element recognition, motif finding, pangenomics, variants discovery, phylogenetics, genome rearrangements.

• Information Retrieval: Retrieval models and ranking. Theoretical models and foundations of IR. Efficiency and scalability topics in IR. Knowledge acquisition in IR. Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for IR. Knowledge representation and reasoning for IR. User-centric aspects of IR. IR Evaluation. Fairness, accountability, transparency in IR. Domain-specific IR applications.  Web search.