Wednesday 4 March 2026 9:30am to 5:00pm
Computer Lab, FW11, William Gates Building 15 J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FD
About
The Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery, based in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, offers support for researchers across the University to use AI in their research. We are pleased to announce that our training courses & workshops for this term are open for booking!
Join us for courses exploring key topics in AI as well as hands-on workshops to apply your AI skills.
Open to all postgraduate students and staff, our courses are designed to support you at all stages of implementing AI in your research.
AI and Large Language Models
This is a 1-day workshop designed to equip you with knowledge of large language models (LLMs) for use in scientific research. The course will introduce LLMs and how they work. Next, we’ll discuss approaches to prompting and RAG, along with the methods that are used to finetune LLMs. The day concludes by covering responsible use and the landscape of models that are available to researchers with some of their pros and cons. After taking this workshop, you will be more confident to take the first steps in using LLMs in your own research.
Registration is required to attend. Refreshments (including lunch) are provided on our one-day courses. Courses are held at various locations across the West Cambridge site.