Among the activities at last month's retreat was a simple but revealing exercise: propose topics, vote on them, and discuss the winners. The result was an unfiltered look at the burning questions that are on our researchers’ minds

Our series meeting Hub researchers continues with the University of Edinburgh’s Siddharth Narayanaswamy who recently used doughnut eating, celebrities and handbags to illustrate a talk on generative modelling and representation learning at UCL.

In the first of a regular series of Q&As with our researchers, the University of Surrey’s Mark Plumbley talks about his hopes for the Multi Modal Models working group and his love of sound and music.