Mila Tea Talks

A cornerstone of our community for many years, Tea Talks are scientific keynote-like talks held every week during the academic year. These presentations cover a range of technical subjects related to machine learning. The talks are also open to the public.

Yoshua Bengio with other professors and students talking together

How do Tea Talks Work?

Typically, an in-house or guest speaker gives a talk lasting around an hour, with around 15 minutes devoted to questions throughout. As most of the participants are Mila students and professors, the content is geared towards this level of understanding. 

Speakers are also encouraged to stay after the lecture to talk with students in individual or group meetings to discuss research interests and ideas. 

When Will the Next Tea Talks Take Place? 

Tea Talks are typically held in Mila's auditorium on Friday mornings at 10:30 a.m. EDT. The talks are also live-streamed on Google Meet via the following link: https://meet.google.com/nqu-embv-juy 

The Tea Talks series is taking a break for the summer and return at the beginning of September 2025.

Get Schedule Notifications

To join the Tea Talks external mailing list, visit this link, click on the 'Ask to join group' button, and provide a brief description of yourself (e.g., name and affiliation/organization).

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Past Sessions

Watch the recordings of the latest sessions.

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Reasoning, data-efficiency and alignment in vision-language models

October 31, 2025

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Open-Ended, Quality Diversity, and AI-Generating Algorithms in the Era of Foundation Models

October 24, 2025

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Pl@ntNet Under the Hood: AI Challenges for Large-scale Biodiversity Monitoring

October 17, 2025

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The Veil of Elections: Assessing the Causal Effect of Homophily on Partisan Segregation

September 10, 2025

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Enriched Category Theory of Language

September 19, 2025

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MLPerf Storage: A Research-Driven Benchmark for Sustainable Storage-Aware ML System Design

September 12, 2025

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Equality Saturation Meets Machine Learning: The Next Step for Smarter Optimizing Compilers

September 5, 2025

page cover Context in AI Research: Specificity in an Age of Generality

Context in AI Research: Specificity in an Age of Generality

July 25, 2025

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Cooperation and Collusion of Artificial Agents

July 4, 2025

 

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