Computational Neuroscience

In-Context Learning

Yashar Ahmadian; Nandini Shiralkar.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 15 April 2025, 15:00-16:30

CQIF Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Lucien Hardy (Perimeter Institute) .

MR14.

Tuesday 15 April 2025, 14:15-15:15

Foundation AI

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Cassidy.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Sunday 13 April 2025, 17:00-17:45

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Towards Global-scale Species Distribution Modelling

Oisin Mac Aodha, University of Edinburgh.

Main Seminar Room at the David Attenborough Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 11 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Predicting recurrence of prostate cancer: a Bayesian approach

Roger Sewell.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Thursday 10 April 2025, 19:15-21:30

compiler socials

User-extensible and Productive Programming of Specialized Hardware

Yuka Ikarashi (MIT CSAIL).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT2.

Wednesday 09 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Relaxed Locally Decodable and Correctable Codes Do Not Need Adaptivity and Two-Sided Error

Guy Goldberg (Weizmann Institute).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Tuesday 08 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge ML Systems Seminar Series

Learning Rate Schedules, Scaling Laws, and Techniques for Pretraining LLMs

Alex Hägele, EPFL.

Computer Lab, FW26.

Tuesday 08 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Shape-shifting Elephants: Multi-modal Transport for Integrated Research Infrastructure

Nik Sultana, Illinois Institute of Technology.

Online (Teams link below).

Friday 04 April 2025, 15:00-16:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Synthetic Controls, Causality, and Confidence: Measuring the Impact of Jurisdictional REDD+ Policies Fairly

Onkar Gulati, University of Cambridge.

SS03, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 04 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

CQIF Seminar

Dynamical generation of alpha-Rényi entropies (0 < alpha <= 1) in one-dimensional local quantum spin systems

Daniele Toniolo, UCL.

MR14.

Thursday 03 April 2025, 14:15-15:15

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Sneaking up on lattice chiral fermions

Simon Catterall, Syracuse University.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 03 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Out-of-context reasoning/learning in LLMs and its safety implications

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 02 April 2025, 11:00-12:30

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

A super-linear lower bound for the iteration number of the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm

Moritz Lichter (RWTH, Aachen).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Tuesday 01 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 2) recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCHg-DAnEs

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 31 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

Jesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 31 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Mitigating the Risks of Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems

Aleksey Charapko, University of New Hampshire.

Computer Lab, FW11 and Online (Teams link will appear before the talk).

Friday 28 March 2025, 15:30-16:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The Chow Ring of the Moduli Stack of Hyperelliptic Prym Pairs

Alberto landi, Brown University.

CMS MR13.

Friday 28 March 2025, 14:15-15:15

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Interventions and Counterfactuals for the Working Programmer

Dario Stein (Radboud University).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 28 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Democratizing Carbon Markets: A Blockchain-Based Emission Trading System for Small and Large-Scale Stakeholders in Brazil

Jean Martina, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

GS15, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 28 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Recreational Biology: Topological puzzles hiding in cell biology

Prof Manu Prakash, Stanford University.

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Mechanically-Grown Morphogenesis of Voronoi-Type Materials

Zahra Hooshmand Ahoor (University of Cambridge, Dept. of Engineering).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - March 2025

Dr Michail Mamalakis and Joshua Rothwell.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 11:45-13:00

Information Theory Seminar

Group Testing: Something old, something new, something borrowed

Dr Nikhil Karamchandani, IIT Bombay.

MR13, CMS Pavilion E.

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning to See the World in 3D

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Ayush Tewari (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 26 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Brill-Noether loci of pencils with prescribed ramification

Sara Torelli, Università degli studi di Torino..

CMS MR13.

Tuesday 25 March 2025, 14:15-15:15

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "A Nonparanormal Approach to Marginal Inference"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click on the link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xwbSLwLITemQeb8b-jk-Fg

Susanne Dandl, University of Zurich.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 25 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Irreducibility of Severi varieties on toric surfaces

Karl Christ, Università degli studi di Torino.

CMS MR13.

Tuesday 25 March 2025, 10:00-11:00

Cosmology Lunch

Sphaleron heating in warm inflation

Kim V. Berghaus (Caltech).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 24 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

A Multi-Agent System for Mathematical Discovery

Daattavya Aggarwal, Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 24 March 2025, 12:30-13:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

What Connects Us All? From Fibres to Graphs to Neurons

Akanksha Ahuja, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 24 March 2025, 12:00-12:30

Foundation AI

Surgical data using LLMs

Hugo Georgenthum.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 21 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Junior Geometry Seminar

Mirror Symmetry and the Canonical Wall Structure

Peter Zaika, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Challenges and developments in the determination of Parton Distribution Functions

Juan Cruz-Martinez (CERN).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Nonmonotonic flow curves and shear banding in granular flows

Dr Christopher Ness, University of Edinburgh.

MR2.

Friday 21 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

A Graphical Approach to State Variable Selection in Off-policy Learning

Joakim Blach Andersen (Statistical Laboratory).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 21 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Number of quantifiers in 3-variable logic on linear orders

Lauri Hella (Univeristy of Tampere).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 21 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Participation of Energy Storage in Electricity Markets: Strategic Withholding Behaviors and Equilibrium

Bolun Xu, Columbia University.

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Friday 21 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Towards Global Maps of Anthropogenic Threats to Biodiversity and Their Contributions to Species Extinctions

Emilio Luz-Ricca, University of Cambridge.

FS07, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 21 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Primordial black holes: abundances and constraints

Xavier Pritchard, Sussex.

Potter room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.

Friday 21 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Verified Unsolvability of Temporal Planning

David Wang (King's College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

A non-perturbative construction of de Sitter late-time boundary

Kamran Salehi Vaziri, University of Amsterdam.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 20 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

CQIF Seminar

Parent Lindbladians for Matrix Product Density Operators

Yuhan Liu.

MR2.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 15:30-16:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Transient dynamics under structured perturbations: bridging unstructured and structured pseudospectra

Christian Lubich.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

A Covering Pursuit Game

Ben Gillott (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

A Covering Pursuit Game

Ben Gillott (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

A Covering Pursuit Game

Ben Gillott (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Lattice Gauge Theory - An Introduction & Approach Based on Fermionic Tensor Networks

Ariel Kelman.

MR2.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:15-15:15

Language Technology Lab Seminars

New Advances in Multimodal Reasoning

Prof. Paul Liang (MIT).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Stochastic Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, IIT Hyderabad.

LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 20 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Gauge Theory Bootstrap: computing pion amplitudes and low energy parameters from QCD

Yifei He, Ecole Normale Supérieure.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 20 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges

Professor Arnaud Doucet, University of Oxford .

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Thursday 20 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 V

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Which Faculty Diversity Programs Work? Evidence from 600 U.S. Colleges and Universities

Professor Frank Dobbin - Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:05-14:55

Information Theory Seminar

Entropy comparison inequalities with applications to additive noise channels

Dr Lampros Gavalakis, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to In-Context Learning

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Juyeon Heo, John Bronskill, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 19 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Health & Wellbeing: A Multisensory Perspective

Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88117681760?pwd=MpUgaRUgGn0HyeYdPEZpymVFj0mLfs.1

Marianna Obrist, UCL.

Computer Lab, FW26 and Online.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Galois groups of low degree points on curves

Maleeha Khawaja (Bristol).

MR13.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Fighting cancer and fake news: A battle against misinformation

Alice Hutchings (University of Cambridge).

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Large Values of the Riemann Zeta Function in Short Intervals

Louis-Pierre Arguin (Oxford).

MR12.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Distinct Elements in Streams and the Klee's Measure Problem

Sourav Chakraborty (ISI).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Reclassification of multiple sclerosis using probabilistic machine learning"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0cu2ldnhQhKdTBNWL6Mo1A

Habib Ganjgahi, Oxford Big Data Institute.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Reclassification of multiple sclerosis using probabilistic machine learning"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0cu2ldnhQhKdTBNWL6Mo1A

Habib Ganjgahi, Oxford Big Data Institute.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Similarity-based Methods for Language Model Analysis and Prediction

Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Foundation AI

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning: Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 1).

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Foundation AI

Modelling microbiome-mediated epigenetic inheritance of disease risk

Hybrid

Bobby Ranjan.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Applied and Computational Analysis

Two New Developments concerning Noether's Two Theorems

Peter Olver.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR13.

Monday 17 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Flare evaporation, condensations, and ribbons

Malcolm Druett (Sheffield).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 17 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Exponential mixing with random cellular flows via hypocoercivity

Víctor Navarro-Fernández, Imperial College London.

MR13.

Monday 17 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Helsing: Simulating a System of Systems

Matei David.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cosmology Lunch

Astrophysical gravitational wave background: from theoretical modelling to detection prospects

Giulia Cusin (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Volcanic fissure localisation and lava delta formation: Modelling of volcanic flows undergoing rheological evolution

Jesse Taylor-West (Bristol).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 17 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Defining Fukaya Categories Geometrically

Daniil Mamaev, London School of Geometry and Number Theory.

MR13.

Friday 14 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Turbulent zonal jets: self-organization and wave-mean flow interactions

Dr Daphné Lemasquerier, University of St Andrews.

MR2.

Friday 14 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

A linear PDF model for robust Bayesian inference

Mark Costantini (DAMTP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 14 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Physics-Enhanced Machine Learning for Monitoring & Twinning | An Exercise in Balance

Professor Eleni Chatzi, ETH Zürich.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Friday 14 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Evaluating a black-box algorithm: stability, risk, and model comparisons

Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 14 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

‘To Report or Not to Report: is that the Question?’ Exploring Young People's Reporting Practices of Illicit Drug Ads on Social Media

Ashly Fuller, University College London.

Webinar & GN06, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 14 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Short loxodromics in graph products

Alice Kerr, Bristol.

MR13.

Friday 14 March 2025, 13:45-14:45

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Identifying Key Countries in the Illegal Elephant Ivory Trade Network

Jakob Poffley, University of Cambridge.

SC04, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 14 March 2025, 13:00-13:55

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

A phase transition in cosmological fluid dynamics

Zoe Wyatt, DPMMS.

Potter room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89259699528?pwd=rI2WS21NUsIKMmZCGtkPuPbM5SL0eW.1.

Friday 14 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

: Scratching Beneath the Surface of Pan Communication: Intentions, Representations and Joint Attention

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

Professor Katie Slocombe, Department of Psychology, University of York, UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 March 2025, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Formal syntactic theory in the current NLP landscape

Olga Zamaraeva (University of A Coruña).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 14 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Almost toric yoga for stable double surfaces (Part II)

Please note the unusual time and place.

Jonny Evans (Lancaster).

CMS, MR15.

Friday 14 March 2025, 10:30-11:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formal verification of the 5th Busy Beaver value

Tristan Stérin (Maynooth University, Ireland) and Maja Kądziołka.

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Algorithmic stability for regression and classification

Rina Foygel Barber (Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

An introduction to quantum graphs and their spectral geometry, with some open questions

Delio Mugnolo.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Estimating the Global Average Treatment Effect under Structured Interference

Shuangning Li (University of Chicago, Booth School of Business).

MR19, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:30-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Monotone arrays and a multidimensional Ramsey Theorem

Gal Kronenberg (Oxford).

MR12.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Undecidability of the spectral gap in rotationally symmetric Hamiltonians

Laura Castilla, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

MR2.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:15-15:15

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

East 1/West Hub

Edmund.George & Mei Lin Gan .

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Computing Seminar

Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Characters of the Symmetric Group

Louis Schatzki (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Biological design with machine learning and limited data.

Diego Oyarzun, University of Edinburgh.

LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 13 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Multimodal AI in Spatial Biology

Note: unusual date compared to regular AI Seminars

Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

RSE Seminars

Project management by and for RSEs

Sarah Jaffa - RSE, University of Manchester.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

On conformal windows and the phase structure of 2+1d and 3+1d QCD

Ofer Aharony, Weizmann Institute of Science.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

A general role of mechanical pre-patterning in tissue shape formation in embryos

Fengzhu Xiong (University of Cambridge, Gurdon Institute).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cancer’s Rejuvenation Trap: Turning Cells Young and Fierce

Shanlin Tong.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Almost toric yoga for stable double surfaces (Part I)

Please note the unusual time and place.

Jonny Evans (Lancaster).

CMS, MR14.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 11:15-12:15

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Discourse models with language models

Prof. Jessy Li.

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 13 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Why do I write proofs?

NOTE UNUSUAL DAY

Francisco Ferreira Ruiz (Royal Holloway, University of London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 17:00-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Local structure of finite groups and fusion systems

Baoyu Zhang, University of Birmingham.

MR12.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Transforming Particle Physics with AI

Professor Tilman Plehn - Heidelberg University.

MR3.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language meets Control Theory

Carmen Amo Alonso (Stanford University).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Nonsqueezable Klein bottles

Jonny Evans (Lancaster).

MR13.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Entropy in pointwise ergodic theory

Ben Krause (University of Bristol).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

ML for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Cristiana Diaconu, Aliaksandra Shysheya and Andrew McDonald, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 12 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

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CASCADE Poster Social (+ Compiler Tech Talk)

Sean Silva, Encharge AI.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT2.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 15:00-18:00

Computational Neuroscience

Integrating Random Memory Patterns and Spatial Maps in Food-Caching Birds

Speaker to be confirmed.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 15:00-16:30

Number Theory Seminar

TBC

Siqi Yang (LSGNT).

MR13.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Wearable electrocardiography: from Holter to handheld devices

please note the change of time for this talk. Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88117681760?pwd=MpUgaRUgGn0HyeYdPEZpymVFj0mLfs.1

Peter Charlton (University of Cambridge).

Computer Lab, LT2 and Online.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Sharp threshold for the ballisticity of the random walk on the exclusion process

Daniel Kious (Bath).

MR12.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

The Algebraic Circuit-Based Approach to Proof Complexity

Iddo Tzamaret (Imperial).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

An Onsager theorem in 2D

Razvan Radu (Princeton).

MR13.

Monday 10 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Numerical study of the Tayler-Spruit dynamo: from magnetar formation to magnetic fields in stellar interiors

Paul Barrere (Geneva).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 10 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Computing Seminar

The Role of piracy in quantum proofs

Alex Grilo (Sorbonne Université).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Monday 10 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

MediaTek: Towards Efficient Prediction of Communication Channels Using AI

Sattar Vakili and Masoud Attarifar.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 10 March 2025, 13:05-13:55

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Ice Shelves: Antarctica’s Gatekeepers

Becky Dell (Geography).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 10 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Cosmology with radio and optical surveys

Alkistis Pourtsidou (University of Edinburgh).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 10 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

What Connects Us All? From Fibres to Graphs to Neurons

Akanksha Ahuja, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 10 March 2025, 12:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

What can conjuring tell us about cognition? The future of the Science of Magic

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

Professor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

3-Manifolds in Division Rings

Sam Fischer, University of Oxford.

MR13.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The effects of friction interface on the nonlinear dynamic response in turbomachinery

Dr Jie Yuan, University of Southampton.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

A new look for the pion form factor

Matthew Kirk (Durham U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The mathematics and physics of wound healing

Professor Tanniemola Liverpool, University of Bristol.

MR2.

Friday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Discussion on Causal Representation Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Application to Texts as Treatments

Martina Scauda (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 07 March 2025, 15:30-17:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Axiomatization of infinity-categories

Bastiaan Cnossen, University of Regensburg.

FW09, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Lithography metal manufacturing: The next generation of precision 3D printing

Dr. Ruslan Melentiev (KAUST）.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 07 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Virtually free-by-cyclic RFRS groups

Sam Fisher (Oxford).

MR13.

Friday 07 March 2025, 13:45-14:45

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Symmetries and topology of extremal horizons

Alex Colling, DAMTP.

Potter room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.

Friday 07 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

A Discussion: What AI Tools Do You Use for Your Daily Work?

Prof Srinivasan Keshav.

FW11, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 07 March 2025, 13:00-13:55

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Diversity in NLP: What, Why and a Way Forward

Esther Ploeger (Aalborg University).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 07 March 2025, 12:00-13:00

Foundation AI

On Vanishing Gradients, Over-Smoothing, and Over-Squashing in GNNs: Bridging Recurrent and Graph Learning

hybrid : meet.google.com/bhz-scdk-unp

Alvaro Arroyo, University of Oxford.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Grammar, reasoning, learning: Three short stories on comparative & rational analysis of language model capabilities

Dr. Andrew Lampinen (Deepmind).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

CQIF Seminar

Entanglement of random quantum states: phase transitions

Stanislaw Szarek, Case Western Reserve University & Sorbonne Université.

MR2.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:15-15:15

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Complexity of real and artificial networks

East 1/West Hub

Dr. Gueorgui Mihaylov (Haleon.com).

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Delivering Fusion Power: the challenges of control in a First of a Kind Power Plant

Adam Stephen (UKAEA), Kim Cave-Ayland (UKAEA), Morten Lennholm (UKIFS), Terry Thompson (UKIFS).

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 06 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Governance and accountability in data-driven supply chains

Jennifer Cobbe - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Horizon constraints and pole skipping in 2d

David Ramirez, University of Cambridge.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 06 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Survival of the fittest… or the friendliest? Uncovering hidden dependencies in gut microbial communities

Naomi van den Berg.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

RO-FIGS: Efficient and Expressive Tree-Based Ensembles for Tabular Data

NOTE unusual date

Urška Matjašec (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Robotics Seminar Series

Learning to Interact in Real-World Multiagent Systems

Markus Wulfmeier, DeepMind.

Department of Computer Science and technology, FW26.

Thursday 06 March 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 IV

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Cell modules for the Temperley—Lieb algebra in mixed characteristic

Charles Senecal, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Ambidextrous homology theories

Jeremy Hahn (Cambridge).

CMS, MR15.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Generative modelling for de novo design of therapeutics

Dr Joe Watson - Co-founder, Xaira Therapeutics and Dr Emile Mathieu.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 15:05-15:55

Information Theory Seminar

Data Compression with Relative Entropy Coding

Gergely Flamich, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Lifting in special linear groups

Péter Varjú (University of Cambridge).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Influence Functions

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Adrian Goldwaser, Bruno Mlodozeniec, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 05 March 2025, 11:00-12:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

TBA

Nick Manton (DAMTP).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

The Continual Learning (CL) Theory

Sasha Rivkind; Nicolas Anguita.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 15:00-16:30

Number Theory Seminar

Computations of necklaces on elliptic curves

Chris Wuthrich (Nottingham).

MR13.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Number Theory Seminar

On the geometric Serre weight conjecture for Hilbert modular forms

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Number Theory Seminar

On the geometric Serre weight conjecture for Hilbert modular forms

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Towards a Faster Finality Protocol for Ethereum

Luca Zanolini, Ethereum Foundation.

Webinar & GN06, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The scaling limit of random planar maps with large faces.

Armand Riera (Paris).

MR12.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

CRIS: The power of imagination in specification and verification

Gil Hur (Seoul National University).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 04 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

James Grime, Institute of Continuing Education.

Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

Monday 03 March 2025, 19:15-21:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Stability and Instability of Relativistic Fluids in Slowly Expanding Spacetimes

Max Ofner (Vienna).

MR13.

Monday 03 March 2025, 15:00-16:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Nonequilibrium steady states and subgeometric convergence in a kinetic model of chemotaxis

Jo Evans, University of Warwick.

MR13.

Monday 03 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Exoplanets and the Road to the Radius Valley

James Rogers (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 03 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Intensified shelf break exchange through submarine canyons: upwelling, internal tides, and turbidity currents

Rob Hall (UEA).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 03 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Uplifting Massive Graphs from Minkowski to de Sitter

Sadra Jazayeri (Imperial College).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 03 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Loop spaces and E_k algebras

Kelly Wang, University of Cambridge .

MR13.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Driver Learning and Control Styles over Randomly Curving Paths

Harry Fieldhouse, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Fast flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid through a slowly varying contraction

Professor John Hinch, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The two-pole nature of the Lambda(1405) from lattice QCD

John Bulava (Ruhr U., Bochum).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 28 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Shape Optimisation of Concrete Structural Elements Reinforced with WFRP (Wounded-Fibre-Reinforced-Polymer) Bars

Shizhe Hong, University of Cambridge, UK.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 28 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - Part 2

Thomas MEIER (LMU München).

East 1/West Hub.

Friday 28 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

25 years with MathWorks and its customers

David Sampson, MathWorks.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Challenges and tensions around online safety, security and privacy

Dan Sexton, Internet Watch Foundation.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 28 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

The strong Atiyah conjecture for graph of groups via universal localizations.

Pablo Sánchez-Peralta, UAM.

MR13.

Friday 28 February 2025, 13:45-14:45

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

An Introductory Guide on How to Create Beautiful Slides

Frank Feng, University of Cambridge.

FW11, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 28 February 2025, 13:00-13:55

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Interacting Quantum Field Theory on a Causal Set

Stav Zalel, University of Cambridge.

Potter room/Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83177386172?pwd=WMMBb4K7LVPuZZZKAWyvDkKoQp711S.1.

Friday 28 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Neurodevelopmental Conditions and Traits from Large Cohorts

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Dr. Hilary Martin, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge. UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 February 2025, 12:00-13:30

Combinatorics Seminar

How to win an election using Kneser Graph colourings

Gabriel Gendler (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR12.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

How to win an election using Kneser Graph colourings

Gabriel Gendler (Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR12.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence - Part 1

East 1/West Hub

Thomas MEIER (LMU München).

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Vision: A Symphony of Physics and Intelligence

Lu Fang, Tsinghua University.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Entropic (Spacetime) Structure

Cynthia Keeler, Arizona State University.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 27 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

The ups and downs of budding yeast's transport of glucose

Peter Swain (University of Edinburgh).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

RSE Seminars

The Rise of Self-Driving Labs: Automation of Scientific Workflows with Agentic Artificial Intelligence

Boris Bolliet - Cavendish Laboratory & Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge.

West 2, West Hub.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Super-resolution optical microscope for use in the life sciences

Rebecca McClelland.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Foundation AI

Incorporating Flexibility in Antibody-Antigen Interaction Prediction

Sara Joubbi.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 17:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

On induced completely prime primitive ideals in enveloping algebras of classical Lie algebras

Simon Goodwin, University of Birmingham.

MR12.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Digital Money and Decentralised Finance

Professor Frank Stajano and Dr Ferdinando Samaria - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Good moduli spaces of A_r-stable curves

Michele Pernice KTH.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 14:15-15:15

Information Theory Seminar

Variations of the Expectation due to Changes in the Measure: Applications to Generalization and Game Theory

Dr Samir Perlaza, INRIA.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Intersections and embeddings of self-similar sets

Mike Hochman (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sampling with diffusion models

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Shreyas Padhy, Jiajun He (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 26 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge ML Systems Seminar Series

Towards the Responsible Development of Foundation Model and Generative AI

Dr. Lingjuan Lyu .

Computer Lab, LT2.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 16:05-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

On kink clusters for scalar fields in dimension 1+1.

Jacek Jendrej (Sorbonne).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Close fields and the local Langlands correspondence

Daniel Li Huerta (MPIM).

MR13.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Branching random walk with non-local competition

Sarah Penington (Bath).

MR12.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Zero-Knowledge in Streaming Interactive Proofs

Tomer Gewirtzman (Technion).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Downvoted to Oblivion: Censorship in Online, LGBTQ+ Communities

Kyle Beadle, UCL.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Can kernel machines be a viable alternative to deep neural networks?

Dr Parthe Pandit, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Beyond Interpolation: Extrapolative Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning and Graph Neural Networks

Niccolò Grillo.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 24 February 2025, 18:45-19:15

Foundation AI

Network modelling and Graph Neural Networks for emergency healthcare management

Annamaria Defilippo, PhD Student - Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 24 February 2025, 18:00-18:30

Foundation AI

Harnessing Large Language Models for Medical Data Processing: Structured Information Extraction, Disease Classification, and RAG Integration 

Cristian Cosentino (Università della Calabria).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 24 February 2025, 17:30-20:30

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Bubble decomposition for the harmonic map heat flow

Jacek Jendrej (Sorbonne).

MR13.

Monday 24 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Instabilities and the remarkable survivability of AGN jets.

Serguei Komissarov (Leeds).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 24 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Total derivatives in cosmological perturbations: implications for decoherence and Bell violation

Chon Man Sou 蘇俊文 (Tsinghua U., Beijing).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 24 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Human Judgement and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

Helen Roberts (Met Office).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 24 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Generative machine learning to model cellular perturbations

Mohammad Lotfollahi.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 24 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Classification of Algebraic Varieties

Joseph Malbon, University of Edinburgh.

MR13.

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The statistics of nonlinear vibration via the Fokker-Planck equation: an overview

Prof. Robin Langley, Emeritus, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Robust estimates of theoretical uncertainties at fixed-order in perturbation theory

Rene Poncelet (Cracow, INP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 21 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Low carbon construction, a return to stone, a new vernacular for the UK

Steve Webb, Webb Yates Engineers, UK.

Teaching Room (James Dyson Building).

Friday 21 February 2025, 15:30-16:30

Statistics

A General Design-Based Framework and Estimator for Randomized Experiments

Fredrik Sävje (Uppsala University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Conceiving, designing and testing giant ultralight coilable space structures

Prof. Sergio Pelligrino, California Institute of Technology.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Post-doc talks

Post-doc talks, DAMTP.

MR2.

Friday 21 February 2025, 14:00-17:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Vanishing results in the homology of big mapping class groups and Thompson-like groups

Martin Palmer, Leeds.

MR13.

Friday 21 February 2025, 13:45-14:45

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Robotics and Sensing for Sustainable Crop Production

Cyrill Stachniss, University of Bonn.

FW11, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 21 February 2025, 13:00-13:55

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Free conformally-rescaled hyperboloidal evolution: status and applications

Alex Vañó-Viñuales (IST Lisbon).

Potter room.

Friday 21 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Assessing language-specific capabilities of LLMs: Lessons from Swedish NLP

Felix Morger (University of Gothenburg).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09..

Friday 21 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formalising Brauer Group and Group Cohomology in Lean4

Jujian Zhang (Imperial College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Foundation AI

From Machine Learning to Machine Reasoning -- Why Machine Learning Cannot Reach the Rigour of Logical Reasoning? recorded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x38GySbuGJg

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 17:00-17:45

Applied and Computational Analysis

On Curve Approximation over Nonlinear Domains

Nir Sharon.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Some problems in coarse graph theory

Alexander Scott (Oxford) .

MR12.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Quantum advantage for learning periodic neurons with non-uniform data

Laura Lewis, Caltech.

MR2.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

The thresholds of an excitable system

Rodolphe Sepulchre, KU Leuven and University of Cambridge.

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 20 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Einstein Gravity from a matrix integral

Xiang Zhao, IPHT.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 20 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Hydrodynamic Hamiltonians of active two-dimensional fluids

Naomi Oppenheimer (Tel Aviv University).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Fractal Geometry: War, Peace, Fourier Analysis and the mysterious coastline of Great Britain

Jose Ramon.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

What’s not an Autoregressive LLM?

Prof. Lingpeng Kong, HKU.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

HPCA, CGO & CC 2025 practice presentations

Computer architecture group students.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 20 February 2025, 10:30-13:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 III

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Coherence dimension for simplicial rings

Vincenzo di Bartholo, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Simplicial volume and aspherical manifolds

Marco Moraschini (Università di Bologna).

CMS, MR15.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Probabilistic weather forecasting with machine learning

Dr Ilan Price - Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Categorical Torelli for cyclic covers

Hannah Dell, University of Bonn.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Geometric Deep Learning for Structure-Based Drug Design

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Zixing Song.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 19 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The S Algebra in Self-Dual Yang-Mills: Twistorial and Spacetime Perspectives

Adam Kmec (Oxford).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Hopfield Networks: From Neuroscience to Machine Learning and Back

Youjing Yu; Tim Lin.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 15:00-16:30

Number Theory Seminar

The exceptional zero conjecture for GL(3)

Andrew Graham (Oxford).

MR13.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Physical-Layer Security of Satellite Communications Links

Simon Birnbach, University of Oxford.

Webinar & SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Height gap of the planar Brownian motion

Titus Lupu (Paris).

MR12.

Tuesday 18 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

(Cancelled)

Annalaura Rebucci, MPI Leipzig.

MR13.

Monday 17 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Making waves in Stars: Bridging modern asteroseismology and numerical simulations

Tamara Rogers (Newcastle).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 17 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Roku: Beyond Generative AI: Achieving Complete Control in Synthesising Testing Data with Unreal Engine

Zukang Liao, Software Engineer and former intern at Roku.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 17 February 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cosmology Lunch

Explainable deep learning models in cosmology

Luisa Lucie-Smith (University of Hamburg).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 17 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Stratification and mixing regimes in the global coastal ocean: classifications and trends from models and observations

Jo Hopkins (NOC).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 17 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Simplicial volume and aspherical manifolds

Marco Moraschini (Università di Bologna).

CMS, MR15.

Sunday 16 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Bilingualism Promotes Healthy and Youthful Brains.

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

Lucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Why Should You Symp. for Dehn Twists? (Spoiler: Their Symplectic Charm Is Infinite)

Jose Luis Narbona Valiente, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Do we really need more data?

Max Langtry, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Flavour Physics at the Intensity Frontier

Stefan Schacht (Durham U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Synchronization in Navier-Stokes turbulence and its role in data-driven modeling

Professor Masanobu Inubushi, Tokyo University of Science.

MR2.

Friday 14 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Discussion on Confidence Intervals for Policy Evaluation in Adaptive Experiments

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 14 February 2025, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Dematerialisation in Construction

Michal Drewniok, University of Leeds, UK.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 14 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Data-driven homogenisation of the mechanical response of solids

Dr Mirac Onur Bozkurt, CUED .

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:30-15:00

Statistics

Gaussian and non-Gaussian universality, with applications to data augmentation

Note unusual location

Peter Orbanz (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Theoretical and Experimental Studies on Deformation and Fracture of Metallic Glasses.

Dr Wenqing Zhu, CUED .

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 14 February 2025, 14:00-14:30

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

On the congruence subgroup property for mapping class groups of surfaces

Henry Wilton, Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 14 February 2025, 13:45-14:45

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Third law of black hole mechanics for supersymmetric black holes

Harvey Reall, DAMTP, Cambridge.

Potter room/Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86544434784?pwd=dE3XiqwmaWGPz9w5pXNkKk93XsmtJv.1.

Friday 14 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Using Low-cost, Research-led, Decentralised Networks to Increase Access to High Quality Microspatial Data on Building Stocks, and the Built and Natural Infrastructure

Polly Hudson, Senior Research Fellow, The Alan Turing Institute.

FW11, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 14 February 2025, 13:00-13:55

NLIP Seminar Series

Metrized Deep Learning: Fast & Scalable Training

Jeremy Bernstein (MIT).

ONLINE ONLY. Here is the Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 14 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Algebraising foundations of elliptic curves

David Angdinata (University College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Nonlinear dynamics and condition monitoring in rotating machines

Professor Alan Champneys, Bristol University.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Ellis Unit

Machine Learning is Linear Algebra

Andrew Gordon Wilson - New York University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81897609356?pwd=HqbUQWnASjpBBZdaZo9r43M9Gj4N3Q.1.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Languages, Values, & Attitudes: On Reflections of Culture in LLMs

Prof. Anne Lauscher, Hamburg.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

A new algebraic approach to the wreath conjecture

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR12.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

A new algebraic approach to the wreath conjecture

Jan Petr (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Introduction to G-Research, ML engineers and Quant Research

East 1/West Hub

Charles Martinez & Yousuf Mohamed-Ahmed /G-RESEARCH .

East 1 room - West Hub.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

CQIF Seminar

TouQan: Towards a useful quantum advantage

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR2.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 14:00-17:20

RSE Seminars

Managing complexity of Weather and Climate Code with diversity of skills and workflows

Iva Kavcic - UK Met Office.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Energy transport in 2D holographic conformal and non-conformal interfaces

Giuseppe Policastro, Ecole Normale Supérieure.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 13 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

The microscopic barriers protecting your airway everyday

Leah Hurst, University of Cambridge.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Dynamical Complexity in Living Active Matter

Praneet Prakash (University of Cambridge, DAMTP).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 13 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Tensor product functoriality via p-adic propagation

Zachary Feng, University of Oxford.

MR12.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Positivity in the Sky

Professor Claudia de Rham - Imperial College, London.

MR3.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Knot theory and complex curves

Matthew Hedden (Michigan State University).

MR13.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

compiler socials

Equality Saturation in a Real-World Machine Learning Compiler

Alex Zinenko.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, LT1.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 16:00-20:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Hardware Datapath: For Machine Learning and Beyond

Professor George A. Constantinides - Professor of Digital Computation, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Computational Neuroscience

Certain about uncertainty? Latent representations of VAEs optimized for visual tasks.

Josefina Catoni, Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 15:00-16:30

Information Theory Seminar

Sampling using Diffusion Processes

Dr Nicolas Macris, EPFL.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

A model-theoretic approach to Roth's theorem

Amador Martin-Pizarro (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion Models Beyond Mean Prediction

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Mingtian Zhang, University College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 12 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Towards Scalable Foundation Models for Wearable Sensing

Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/82858548158?pwd=GxehopMD68LvYlArGHNjDmiLTgYAC0.1

Shyam Tailor, Google.

Online.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Spacetime extensions in low regularity

Peter Cameron (Imperial).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Neural circuit reorganisation and functional resilience

Noor Sajid, Max Planck for Biological Cybernetics.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 15:45-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Inverse normative modeling of continuous perception and action

Dominik Straub, TU Darmstadt.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 15:00-15:45

Number Theory Seminar

17T7 as a Galois group over Q through Hilbert modular forms

Raymond van Bommel (Bristol).

MR13.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Designing Counter Strategies against Online Harms

Stefanie Ullmann, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Computing Seminar

Symmetric Quantum Computation

Davi Castro-Silva (Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW09.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Probability

A switching property for percolation of Brownian loops

Wendelin Werner (Cambridge).

MR12.

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WSJRt7ZlSTimpffcfcd6WA

Alice Corbella, University of Warwick.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The Lifebelt Particle Filter: a novel robust SMC scheme"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WSJRt7ZlSTimpffcfcd6WA

Alice Corbella, University of Warwick.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 11 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Extreme pushed and pulled fronts

John R. King (University of Nottingham).

MR13.

Monday 10 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Uncovering the physical origin of quasi-periodic oscillations from black hole X-ray binaries

Adam Ingram (Newcastle).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 10 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Riverlane: Building an error corrected quantum computer, and the computer science challenges that come up along the way

Kenton Barnes - Staff Quantum Engineer, Riverlane.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 10 February 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cosmology Lunch

Spurious secular growth from loops in de Sitter

Gonzalo Palma (Universidad de Chile, Santiago).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 10 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

The structure and lifecycle of stratified mixing in forced shear flows

Adrien Lefauve (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 10 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Distilling ML Models into Formulae for Ricci-Flat Metrics

Viktor Mirjanic, University of Cambridge.

FW11, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 10 February 2025, 12:30-13:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

The ATLAS Virtual Research Assistant

Heloise Stevance, University of Oxford.

FW11, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 10 February 2025, 12:00-12:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

An Introduction to the Plateau’s Problem and Area-minimizing Currents

Zhengyi Xiao, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 07 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Flavour Physics Beyond the Standard Model with the SMEFT Likelihood

Peter Stangl (CERN).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 07 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

A CUED-developed flexible multi-sensor device enabling handheld sensing of heart sounds by untrained users

Dr Max Nussbaumer, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 07 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Bubble dynamics in complex fluids

Professor Valeria Garbin, Delft University of Technology.

Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series.

Friday 07 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Population-Based Inference in Mechanics

Arnaud Vadeboncoeur, University of Cambridge.

CivEng Conference Room (2nd Floor) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 07 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Identification and Estimation of Graphical Continuous Lyapunov Models

Note unusual location

Mathias Drton (Technical University of Munich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

Friday 07 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Harnessing non-smooth dynamics for self-propelled gastrointestinal endoscopies with vibro-impact capsules

Prof. Yang Liu University of Exeter.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 07 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Unimodular JT gravity and de Sitter quantum cosmology

Farbod Rassouli, University of Nottingham.

Potter room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.

Friday 07 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Barlow Twins Earth Foundation Model

Frank Feng, University of Cambridge.

GS15, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 07 February 2025, 13:00-13:55

NLIP Seminar Series

LLMs as supersloppers and other metaphors

Ann Copestake (University of Cambridge).

Room SS03 .

Friday 07 February 2025, 12:00-13:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formalisation of Combinatorial Optimisation in Isabelle/HOL: Network Flows

Thomas Ammer (King's College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Oscillons

Andrzej Wereszynski (Jagiellonian U., Krakow).

CMS, MR11.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Behavioral machine learning

Dr. Keyon Vafa, Harvard Data Science Initiative.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 16:00-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Numerical analysis of high frequency wave scattering via semiclassical analysis: a case study with non-uniform meshes

Jeffrey Galkowski (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Time-varying Signal Estimation Using Dynamic Topological Graphs

Prof. Ercan E Kuruoglu, Tsinghua University Shenzhen International Graduate School.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Decomposing Latin squares into transversals.

Candida Bowtell (Birmingham).

MR12.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Classical and Quantum Algorithms for Hamiltonian Simulation

Pravav Singh, University of Bath.

MR2.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:15-15:15

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Exploring SAS Viya and the Future of AI-Driven Innovation

Prathiba Krishna <Prathiba.Krishna@sas.com>.

East 1/West Hub.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

MMP (maths.org)

Introduction to Public Engagement

Dr Claudia Antolini, Public Engagement Team, University of Cambridge.

MR4, CMS.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Feed-Forward Bullet-Time Reconstruction of Dynamic Scenes from Monocular Videos

Hanxue Liang, University of Cambridge.

Webinar (via Zoom online) ID: 87457263100 Passcode: 708172.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Low-power embedded event-based vision processing for low-latency robotics

Jörg Conradt, KTH Stockholm, Sweden.

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 06 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Have you heard... Outreach for Research Software Engineering

Peter Schmidt - Code for Thought.

West 2, West Hub.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Carrollian Holography from the Flat Limit of AdS/CFT

Romain Ruzziconi, Oxford University.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 06 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Why Don’t Trees Lean South

Christophe Eloy (Centrale Marseille).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Genetic drivers of early lung cancer

Alice Chernaik (Medicine, University of Cambridge).

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 06 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Unipotent representations in the local Langlands correspondence

Beth Romano, King's College London.

MR12.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 II

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

EU AI Act: A firsthand perspective

Dr Gabriele Mazzini - Research Affiliate, MIT Media Lab. Architect & lead author of the EU AI Act.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 15:05-15:55

Information Theory Seminar

Generalization and Informativeness of Conformal Prediction

Dr Fredrik Hellstrom, UCL.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Cryptography, quantum computers and analytic number theory

Cédric Pilatte (University of Oxford).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Unpacking UK’s New AI Action Plan: Ambition versus Reality

Teams link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Miri Zilka and Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 05 February 2025, 11:00-12:30

Number Theory Seminar

Squarefree values of discriminant polynomials

Marti Oller Riera (Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Road layout in the KPZ class

Marton Balazs (Bristol).

MR12.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Efficient Sequential Experimentation: Bridging Model-Based Reinforcement Learning and Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GS1_Dn3SQXydSuW9p3oNnQ

Alberto Caron, The Alan Turing Institute.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Researchers‘ experiences with vulnerability disclosures

Yasemin Acar, Paderborn University.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Text-and-audio methods

Cătălina Cangea, ex-Google DeepMind.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Building global resilience to high-impact volcanic eruptions

Lara Mani, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 03 February 2025, 19:00-21:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Local Well-posedenss of the Bartnik Static Extension Problem near Schwarzschild spheres

Ahmed Ellithy (Uppsala).

MR13.

Monday 03 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Dynamics of misaligned discs in binary/multiple systems

Giuseppe Lodato [Milan].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 03 February 2025, 14:00-15:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

MathWorks: Embedded AI: Deploying deep learning models for industrial applications

Antoni Woss, Ruth Faherty and Iason Chaimalas.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 03 February 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cosmology Lunch

Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) year-one data release.

Héctor Gil-Marín (ICC, Barcelona U.).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 03 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

The atmospheric response to Arctic amplification: Insights from idealised models

Will Seviour (Exeter).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 03 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Steering the evolutionary dynamics of cancer through space and time

Jeffrey West, Ph.D. Assistant Member, Integrated Mathematical Oncology H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 03 February 2025, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Episodic Cognition in Cephalopod Molluscs

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Dr Christelle Alves-Jozet, University of Caen, Normandie..

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:30-18:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Cosmological tensions? A guide for high energy theorists

William Handley (Cambridge U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Galois groups and monodromy in algebraic geometry

Matteo Verni, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu - Paris Rive Gauche.

MR13.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vibration Energy Harvesting Based on Internal Resonance

Prof. Li-Qun Chen, Harbin Institute of Technology.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Cracking the capillary code: towards mesoscopic self-assembly and functional micromachines

Professor Nicolas Vandewalle, University of Liège.

MR2.

Friday 31 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Numerical Investigation of Orientation Effects in Cross-grain Fracture of Wood

Dr Hao Yin, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 31 January 2025, 14:30-15:00

Statistics

Metric and variable selection for functional nonparametric regression models

Torben Sell (University of Edinburgh).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 31 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanically-grown morphogenesis of Voronoi-type materials

Dr Zahra Hooshmand Ahoor, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 31 January 2025, 14:00-14:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Police responses to young people’s experiences of cyberstalking

Tahreem Tahir, University of Central Lancashire.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 31 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Cannon-Thurston maps for the Morse boundary

Matt Cordes, Heriot-Watt.

MR13.

Friday 31 January 2025, 13:45-14:45

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Decoding Fungal Trade Algorithms for Carbon Drawdown

Toby Kiers, SPUN, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

FW11, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 31 January 2025, 13:00-13:55

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The Maxwell equations on the full Kerr black hole family

Rita Teixera da Costa.

Potter Room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87235967698.

Friday 31 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Preference Alignment, with Reference Mismatch, and without Reference Models

James Thorne (KAIST).

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 31 January 2025, 12:00-13:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Prospects for formalizing the theory of weak infinite-dimensional categories

Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 17:00-18:00

CQIF Seminar

Conformal unitary circuits and toy quantum gravity

Lluis Masanes, UCL.

MR2.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Expander graphs from Cayley graphs of groups where every generating set works

Oren Becker (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Expander graphs from Cayley graphs of groups where every generating set works

Oren Becker (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:30-15:30

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Generative Ai.rplane

Thomas Gessey-Jones (physicsx.ai).

East 1, West Hub.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Generalizable Embodied Foundation Model

Nanyang Ye, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Carroll Gravity, BKL Dynamics and Holography

Gerben Oling, Edinburgh University.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 30 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Cooperative Mechanisms Against Climate Change

Carl Edward Rasmussen.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

RSE Seminars

ProSpecPy: Streamlining FTIR Spectroscopy Data Processing

Anshul Tambay - University of Washington and Elizabeth Phillips - Grantham Institute, Imperial College London.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Between the Lines: Contextual Understanding and Bias in LLMs

Nafise Sadat Moosavi, University of Sheffield.

GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 30 January 2025, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Green Algorithms, Green DiSC and GREENER principles: making computational science more environmentally sustainable

Dr Loïc Lannelongue - Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 15:05-15:55

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Intersection theory on moduli spaces of parabolic bundles

Miguel Moreira, MIT.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 14:15-15:15

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Lower bounds for incidences and Heilbronn's triangle problem

Dmitrii Zakharov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - January 2025

Greta Markert and Dr Karen Sayal.

Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (Main Lecture Theatre), University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:45-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Towards responsible deployment of robust and private AI models in healthcare

Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89567921468?pwd=y0ad2zTt8hcBLg7dwPKAtjNdcJkd5f.1

Olivia Wiles, DeepMind.

Computer Lab, FW26 and Online.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge ML Systems Seminar Series

Training LLMs Anywhere: Enabling Large-Scale Decentralized Learning on Your Mobiles Devices

Dongqi Cai - Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Computer Lab, FW26.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

S_n-extensions with prescribed norms

Sebastian Monnet (UCL).

MR13.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 14:30-15:30

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

A stronger bound for linear 3-LCC

Tal Yankovitz (Tel-Aviv University).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW09.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

SynFlowNet: Design of Synthesisable Molecules with GFlowNets

Miruna Cretu (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Debiased regression adjustment in completely randomized experiments with moderately high-dimensional covariates

Yuhao Wang (Tsinghua University).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Feynman problems for the Klein-Gordon and wave equation

Michal Wrochna (Utrecht).

MR13.

Monday 27 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

The Demikernel Datapath Architecture for Microsecond-scale Datacenter Systems

Irene Zhang, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research.

Computer Lab, FW11.

Monday 27 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Formation, Evolution and Radiation of Magnetized Accretion Disks around Black Holes

Nicolas Scepi (Grenoble).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 27 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Primordial Black Holes - Positivist Perspective and Quantum Quiddity

Florian Kühnel (LMU Munich).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 27 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Climate policy: why is it needed and how to make it work

Sanna Markkanen (CISL).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 27 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Roles of the Epilepsy-Associated Kinase CDKL5

Dr Sila Ultanir, Francis Crick Institute, London.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 27 January 2025, 12:30-13:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Bounded cohomology and wreath products of groups

Elena Bogliolo (Università di Pisa).

MR13.

Friday 24 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Nonlinear Coherence: reversing the problem

Joe Massingham, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 24 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Towards asymptotic models and minimal seeds for the geodynamo

Professor Steven Tobias, University of Leeds.

MR2.

Friday 24 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

The hierarchy problem, UV/IR mixing, nonrenormalisation theorems and new approaches to naturalness

Steven Abel (Durham U., IPPP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 24 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Amenable open covers and simplicial volume of manifolds with boundary

Pietro Capovilla, SNS Pisa.

MR13.

Friday 24 January 2025, 13:45-14:45

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

What EEG Members Would Like from the Group

Host: Prof Srinivasan Keshav, University of Cambridge.

FW11, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 24 January 2025, 13:00-13:55

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Geometric Characterizations of Kerr-de Sitter and Related Metrics in All Dimensions

Carlos Peón Nieto (UPM, Madrid).

Potter Room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/84511154241?pwd=B778JtHEd8Vb7aTOdsygQhBdXWbybI.1.

Friday 24 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Analysing Memorisation in Classification and Translation through Localisation and Cartography

Verna Dankers (University of Edinburgh) .

Room SS03 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 24 January 2025, 12:00-13:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Decision Procedures for Bitvector Reasoning in Lean

Siddharth Bhat (University of Cambridge).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 17:00-18:00

Department of Computer Science and Technology talks and seminars

Research Showcase: Human-Centred Computing and Human-Machine Interaction

Speaker to be confirmed.

East 1/East 2, West Hub.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 16:30-19:00

DPMMS Departmental Colloquia

The cutoff phenomenon for random walks

Perla Sousi (Cambridge) .

CMS MR2.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Robotics Seminar Series

The Motion and Teaming Lab's Work On Multi-Robot Algorithms for Communication Challenging Scenarios

Michael Otte- Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland College Park.

Department of Computer Science and technology, FW11.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

OSDB: Turning the Tables on Kernel Data

George V. Neville-Neil, Elephance, Yale, Cambridge.

Computer Lab, FW11.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Linear Transformers for Efficient Sequence Modeling

Prof Yoon Kim, MIT.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Detecting and Attributing Change in Climate and Complex Systems: Foundations, Green's Functions, and Nonlinear Fingerprints

Valerio Lucarini (University of Leicester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

CQIF Seminar

Transcendental tools in quantum information theory

Vjosa Blakaj, TU Munich.

MR2.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 14:15-15:15

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

How to fight financial crime with AI

Dr Stuart Burrell & Dr Maeve Madigan / Featurespace.

East 1, West Hub.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

De Sitter Horizon Edge Partition Functions

Albert Law, Stanford University.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 23 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

What Connects Us All? From Fibers to Graphs to Neurons

Akanksha Ahuja.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 23 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2025 I

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 16:30-18:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Stable maps to quotient stacks with a properly stable point

Andrea Di Lorenzo, University of Pisa.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 14:15-15:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Foundation Models in Robotics

Liyou Zhou (Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 22 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Data-driven models of neural and behavioural learning

N Alex Cayco Gajic, École Normale Supérieure.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 15:00-16:30

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Near-Optimal Alphabet Soundness Tradeoff PCPs

Kai Zhe Zheng (MIT).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, FW26.

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Graphical and summary diagnostics for node level adequacy in Bayesian hierarchical models"

This will be a free online seminar using Zoom Webinar. Register using this link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AbR8yEMdQKGtBfxJbbEeNQ

Ida Scheel, University of Oslo.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 21 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Hydrodynamic singularities in soft matter flows

Vatsal Sanjay (University of Twente).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 20 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Fermion Creation by Cosmic Perturbations at 1-loop

Azadeh Maleknejad (King's College London).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 20 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

Foundation AI

Multi-Head Explainer: A General Framework to Improve Explainability in CNNs and Transformers

record: https://youtu.be/iuT_tkVEgA4

Bohang Sun(Bob) University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 17 January 2025, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Structural design and optimisation of smart electrodes for Li ion batteries

Professor Patrick Grant, Oxford University.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 17 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Computing Seminar

Interactive proofs for verifying (quantum) learning and testing

Matthias Caro (Warwick).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26..

Thursday 16 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computing Education Research

AI Education in Finland: technology for the 'AI generation'

Professor Matti Tedre, University of Eastern Finland.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, William Gates Building, 15 JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0FD.

Wednesday 15 January 2025, 11:00-12:30

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Models that prove their own correctness

Orr Paradise (UC Berkeley).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, FW26.

Thursday 09 January 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Evaluating dynamical systems hypotheses for pattern generation in motor cortex

Lea Duncker, Columbia.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 07 January 2025, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Modelling C. elegans pharynx

Dana Sherman, Weizmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 07 January 2025, 11:00-11:30

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Siqi Yang (Imperial).

MR13.

Monday 16 December 2024, 14:30-15:30

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Maleeha Khawaja (Bristol).

MR13.

Monday 16 December 2024, 14:30-15:30

Causal Inference Reading Group

An Anatomy of Event Studies: Hypothetical Experiments, Exact Decomposition, and Weighting Diagnostics

José R. Zubizarreta, Harvard University .

MR20, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 13 December 2024, 17:30-18:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Green Logistics

Professor Alan McKinnon, Kuhne Logistics University.

LR5, CUED.

Friday 13 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Novel application-driven deployable SAR system adopting high strain composites

Annalisa Tresoldi.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 13 December 2024, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

A detailed analysis of how locks and physical security become vulnerable to attack

Marc Weber Tobias, Investigative Law Offices.

Webinar & LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 13 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Optimising Sustainable Energy with Functional Programming

Prof. Patrik Jansson, Chalmers, Sweden, Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford.

SS03, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 13 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

CQIF Seminar

Divergence radii in quantum information theory

MR12 accessible through staircase in Pavilion D

Milan Mosonyi, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

MR12.

Friday 13 December 2024, 12:30-01:30

CQIF Seminar

Sculpting quantum phases of matter with measurements

Nathanan Tantivasadakarn, Caltech.

MR14.

Thursday 12 December 2024, 14:15-15:15

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

How to Fold Every Protein: (Mission Accomplished?)

Stephen D Fried, John Hopkins University.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Computing Seminar

Quantum circuit lower bounds with entangled inputs

Natalie Parham (Columbia University).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Tuesday 10 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Exploiting Statistical Hardness for Increased Privacy in Wireless Systems

Note unusual time and room

Prof. Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California.

MR13, CMS Pavilion E.

Monday 09 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

CQIF Seminar

Entropy contraction of GNS-symmetric quantum channels

Li Gao, Wuhan University.

MR19.

Monday 09 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Coherent and incoherent dynamics of Fuzzy Dark Matter

Gerasimos Rigopoulos (Newcastle University).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 09 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Cognitive deficits after COVID-19 – insights from large scale online studies

The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein

Professor Adam Hampshire,Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences, IoPPN, Kings College, London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 December 2024, 16:30-18:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Why Condensed Mathematics is Better Than Topology

Jiacheng Tang, University of Manchester.

MR13.

Friday 06 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Wetting and swelling of elastic fibers

Professor Suzie Protière, Sorbonne Université.

MR2.

Friday 06 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Efficient on-shell matching

Jose Santiago (Universidad de Granada).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 06 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

TBC

Mohamed Elzeadani.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 06 December 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Inverse Design of Architected Materials: From Mechanics-Based Methods to Data-Driven Methods

Professor Wei Tan, Queen Mary University of London.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 06 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Group meeting presentations

Side-channel security requirements for electronic voting equipment

Markus Kuhn.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 06 December 2024, 14:00-14:30

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Smart Grid Trust Assessment

Sebastian Lehnhoff, OFFIS Institute for Information Technology.

FW11, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 06 December 2024, 13:00-13:55

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Cold-atom analogues for vacuum decay

Alex Jenkins (Kavli).

Potter room.

Friday 06 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

How to teach Fourier analysis to a large library of formalised mathematics

Yaël Dillies (Stockholm Universitet).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 17:00-18:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Can Humans Supervise Increasingly Ultracrepidarian AI?

Jose Hernandez-Orallo.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Large transversals in Equi-n-squares

Richard Montgomery (Warwick).

MR12.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Large transversals in Equi-n-squares

Richard Montgomery (Warwick).

MR12.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 14:30-15:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Mechanistic Understanding of Language Models in Arithmetic Reasoning and Code Generation

Ziyu Yao, George Mason University.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Computation-aware set-based analysis and control

Nikos Athanasopoulos, Queen’s University Belfast.

LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 05 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

CQIF Seminar

On Symmetries, Boundaries, and Entanglement Entropy

Brandon Rayhaun, Stony Brook University.

MR2.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Building Fast and Maintainable Software for Multi-Scale Evo-Devo Simulations

Pjotr van der Jagt and Steven Oud - The Sainsbury Laboratory and Dept. of Genetics.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 05 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Patrik Jansson, Chalmers.

FW11, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Thursday 05 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2024 V

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 16:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Simplicity in bounded skew-power series rings.

Adam Jones, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Fixed point Floer cohomology and the enumerative geometry of singular hypersurfaces

Maxim Jeffs (Cambridge).

MR13.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

DAMTP Atmosphere-Ocean Dynamics

Energetic signatures of tropical rainband biases & shifts in CMIP6

Ruth Geen, U of Birmingham.

MR15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Andy Lin.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

Zoom link available upon request (it is sent out on our mailing list, eng-mlg-rcc [at] lists.cam.ac.uk). Sign up to our mailing list for easier reminders via lists.cam.ac.uk.

Andy Lin.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38..

Wednesday 04 December 2024, 11:00-12:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Monopole-Fermion Scattering is Weird.

David Tong (DAMTP).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Torsion Subgroups of Modular Jacobians

Elvira Lupoian (UCL).

MR13.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Personalized Decision-Making for Infectious Disease Control: Causal Inference and Complex Dependence"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcuCpqT8oGtciL4QahuHDVi2_-NRp9enh

Ivana Malenica, Harvard University.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Beyond Whack-A-Mole: Disrupting Online Crime and Harms through Law Enforcement and Industry Efforts

Anh V. Vu, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The Brownian loop measure on Riemann surfaces and applications to length spectra

Yilin Wang (IHES).

MR12.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Computing Seminar

Deniable encryption in a quantum world

Andrea Coladangelo (University of Washington).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Relating the diversity of firing rates to the dimension of variability in recurrent networks

Brent Doiron, University of Chicago.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:30

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

The interaction of binary stars and their accretion disc

Anna Penzlin (Imperial College London).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 02 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Strong Onsager conjecture

Hyunju Kwon - ETH Zürich.

MR13.

Monday 02 December 2024, 14:00-15:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Ethicronics: From West Cambridge to Market Square: An upgrade for software answering hardware (security) challenges?

Dr Franck Courbon - CEO Ethicronics.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 02 December 2024, 13:05-13:55

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Meeting the Challenge of Net Zero after COP29

Prof. David Reiner (Judge Business School).

MR3, CMS.

Monday 02 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Anisotropies in the GW sky at pulsar timing arrays

Online speaker (Zoom) - rescheduling

Valerie Domcke (CERN).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 02 December 2024, 13:00-14:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Unbiased preclinical phenotyping for neuroprotective compounds

Edward Harding, Clinical Biochemistry.

FW11, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 02 December 2024, 12:30-13:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Calabi-Yau metrics through Grassmannian learning and Donaldson's algorithm

Oisin Kim, CST.

FW11, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 02 December 2024, 12:00-12:30

Foundation AI

Constrained Neural Flows

https://meet.google.com/cwu-sumr-qzq

Chandan Gupta.

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 29 November 2024, 17:00-17:45

Zangwill Club

From Neural Criterial Causation to a Premotor Theory of Human Imagination

The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein

Professor Peter Ulric Tse, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover. USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Building Life-like Robots: From Musculoskeletal Designs to Biohybrid Innovations

Prof Robert Katzschmann, ETH, Zurich .

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Batyrev Mirror Symmetry

Danil Kozevnikov, University of Edinburgh.

MR13.

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Plankton Blinders: navigating turbulence with limited information

Professor Christophe Eloy, Centrale Marseille.

MR2.

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

How to disentangle Parton Distribution Functions and new physics signals?

Elie Hammou (DAMTP).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 29 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

In-ear Intelligence - From Sensing To Deployment

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86198895570?pwd=I7Z8N5eHfiEhjt1eTsLY3L5LrTsddE.1

Dong Ma, Singapore Management University.

SS03 and Virtual.

Friday 29 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

User Experience Design in the realm of Structural Engineering

James Bayley, WSP.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 29 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Posterior sampling via autoregressive generation

Kelly Zhang (Imperial College London).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 29 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Subgroups and diversity of left-orderable small cancellation groups

Markus Steenbock (Vienna).

MR13.

Friday 29 November 2024, 13:45-14:45

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Conservation Evidence

Shrey Biswas / Radhika Iyer / Kacper Michalik, University of Cambridge.

FW11, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 29 November 2024, 13:00-13:55

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The no-boundary wave function 2.0

Thomas Hertog (Leuven).

Potter room / https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/82964888415?pwd=SjksibDmS3OFLVd59XQ5uwoVJlRNrD.1.

Friday 29 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

CQIF Seminar

On the quantum KKL theorem and related inequalities

Haonan Zhang, University of South Carolina.

MR15.

Friday 29 November 2024, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

The Past, Present and Future of Tokenization

Benjamin Minixhofer (Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 29 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge ML Systems Seminar Series

Balancing Quality and Efficiency in Future AI Systems

Shiqiang Wang - IBM.

Computer Lab, LT1.

Friday 29 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

ML@CL Ad-hoc Seminar Series

Large language models and human cognition

Charles Elkan (Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego).

Computer Lab, FW11.

Friday 29 November 2024, 10:00-11:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Automatic Verification of BitVector Identities in SSA-Based Compiler IRs

Tobias Grosser (University of Cambridge).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 17:00-18:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Flow-based Encrypted Traffic Analysis

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Daniel Poliakov, Brno University of Technology.

Computer Lab, FW11.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Durer and his mathematics

Mihaly Hujter (Budapest).

MR12.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Quantized axial charge of staggered fermions and the chiral anomaly

Arkya Chatterjee, MIT.

MR2.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:15-15:15

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Maxwell Centre

Dr Loubna Bouarfa (Okra.ai).

Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Building Life-like Robots: From Musculoskeletal Designs to Biohybrid Innovations

Robert Katzschmann, ETH Zurich.

LR3A, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Moving mesh methods in Firedrake

Joe Wallwork - ICCS & RCS, University of Cambridge.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, West Cambridge.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Infiltrator and Indicator? Understanding the Intricacies of the Cuckoo Bumblebee Lifecycle

Sofia Dartnell, Zoology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Gravitational algebras and the generalized second law

Antony Speranza, University of Amsterdam.

Potter Room (B1.19).

Thursday 28 November 2024, 12:30-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Data Repurposing: Improving LLM Capabilities with Synthetic Data Generation

Abdullatif Köksal, LMU Munich.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Cancer: misfortune or carelessness?

Peter Treasure, Peter Treasure Statistical Services Ltd.

AstraZeneca, Academy House, Hills Road Cambridge CB2 8PA.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 19:15-21:30

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

A recursive formula for plethysm coefficients and some applications

Stacey Law, University of Birmingham.

MR12.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Scissors automorphism groups and their homology

Robin Sroka (Münster).

MR13.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

LLMs and Low-Resource Languages

Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

The first AGI will be Federated

Professor Nic Lane - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 15:05-15:55

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Birational geometry and moduli spaces of fibrations, foliations and related objects.

Calum Spicer, King's College London.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 14:15-15:15

Information Theory Seminar

From Classical to Quantum: Uniform Continuity Bounds on Entropies in Infinite Dimensions

Prof. Nilanjana Datta, DAMTP.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Negative imaginary systems theory: An introduction

Alexander Lanzon, University of Manchester.

LR3B, Department of Engineering and online (Zoom).

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 14:00-15:00