Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

How can the pedagogy of statistics inform the teaching of machine learning?

Paul Fannon, Department of Genetics: Bioinformatics Training Facility.

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

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 19:15-21:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Singular Hecke categories and thick KLR diagrammatics

Amit Hazri, University of Leeds.

MR12.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Floer homotopy and bordism

Ivan Smith (Cambridge).

MR13.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

The Dark Universe: from Cosmology to the Laboratory

Professor Clare Burrage - Nottingham.

MR3.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Moduli of K3 sufaces and enumerative geometry

Rahul Pandharipande (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich).

MR13.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 14:15-15:15

Information Theory Seminar

Optimal Estimation in Orthogonally Invariant Generalized Linear Models

Dr Yihan Zhang, University of Bristol .

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Numerical stabilisation schemes for ice-sheet models

Clara Henry (BAS).

MR12.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Mathematics and Computation

Deep-layered machines have a built-in Occam's razor

Dr Thomas Fink, Director, London Institute for Mathematical Sciences.

Computer Lab, FW26 and Online (link in abstract).

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Deep-layered machines have a built-in Occam's razor

Notice unusual day, time and room

Thomas Fink (Director, The London Institute for Mathematical Sciences).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning on Tabular Data

Arik Reuter and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 11:00-12:30

Mathematics and Computation

Discovering mathematical concepts through a multi-agent system

Daattavya Aggarwal.

Computer Lab, FW26 and Online (link in abstract).

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Discovering mathematical concepts through a multi-agent system

Notice unusual day, time and room

Daattavya Aggarwal (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Wednesday 11 March 2026, 11:00-12:00

Foundation AI

AI/ML in bioinformatics and CNS drug discovery

Francesco Tuveri.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room LT1.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

A Trace-Path Integral Formula for Function Fields

Yan Yau Cheng (University of Edinburgh).

MR13.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

From Wearable Sensing to Contextual AI: An Egocentric Perspective

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81168979243?pwd=q2VIAwupSBfNcTtBVjUez8pvwbBPwj.1

Chi Ian Tang, Meta.

Computer Lab, LT2 and Online.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Computer Architectures and Theory Seminar

Space-Time Optimisations for Early Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computation

Sanaa Sharma, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 11:00-11:50

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Dusty warps in the local frame: instability and fast clumping

Hossam Aly (TU Delft).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 09 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Rethinking aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty

Freddie Bickford Smith (University of Oxford).

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

Monday 09 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Characterising rectifiable metric spaces via tangent spaces

David Bate (Warwick).

MR13.

Monday 09 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

JetBrains: Building and using AI agents with JetBrains

Jaiditya Khemani.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 09 March 2026, 13:05-13:55

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Antarctic ice-ocean interactions: lessons from paleo-records

Svetlana Radionovskaya, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 09 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Seeded nucleation in the early Universe

Simone Blasi (DESY).

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

Monday 09 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge ML Systems Seminar Series

Learning to Discover Learning Algorithms

Alex Goldie - University of Oxford .

Computer Lab, SS03.

Monday 09 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Density results and diophantine inequalities using the circle method

Paweł Nosal, University of Warwick.

MR13.

Friday 06 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Benefits and Challenges of using Nonlinear Vibration Absorbers in Cyclic Structures

Tobias Weidemann, PhD student, University of Stuttgart.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Precision Monte Carlo Tools and Resummation of Soft-Photon Effects for Low-Energy e+e- Scattering

Jérémy Paltrinieri, University of Liverpool.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 06 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Meta Flow Maps enable scalable reward alignment

Yee Whye Teh (Oxford/Deepmind).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Groups of automorphisms of trees and their bounded cohomology

Elena Bogliolo (Pisa).

MR13.

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:45-14:45

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

The Carbon at Risk Measure Can Unlock Financial Markets for Large-Scale Carbon Removal

Tom Bearpark, Princeton University.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Applications of Boson Stars in Numerical Relativity

Gareth Marks (DAMTP).

Potter Room / Zoom : https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85131795570.

Friday 06 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

The complexity of platform power

Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Dresden University of Technology, and Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 March 2026, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Generalised measures of predictive uncertainty in online language processing

Mario Giulianelli (UCL).

SS03 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 06 March 2026, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Aleksej Zelezniak

Dr Aleksej Zelezniak, Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) and King's College London.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Sums of algebraic dilates

Jeck Lim (Oxford).

MR13 (EL.05).

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Sums of algebraic dilates

Not change from usual meeting room

Jeck Lim (Oxford).

MR13 (EL.05).

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:30-15:30

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Foundation models for personal health signals

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83137163791?pwd=1a513NTE0rQCP3NLnqUZFIxuoW6IAk.1

Dimitris Spathis, Google.

Computer Lab, LT2 and Online.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Confined Monopoles and Failure of the Lattice Weak Gravity Conjecture

Tom Rudelius (Durham University).

Potter room.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Development of Epidermal-Inspired Collagen Films for Wound Healing

Kerem Citak, Department of Materials Science.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

RSE Seminars

NDSL: A Programming Framework for Climate Model Development, or “The Joy of Building Your Own Domain-Specific Software Stack”

Oliver Elbert - Computational Scientist, NOAA GFDL.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 05 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 16:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Pro-p Iwahori-Hecke modules and singularity categories

Nicolas Dupre, University of Wuppertal.

MR12.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Automated Translation of Real-World Codebases: How Far Are We?

Dr Cristina David - School of Computer Science, University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 15:05-15:55

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Intersection theory of the moduli of abelian varieties

Rahul Pandharipande (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich).

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:15-15:15

Information Theory Seminar

Graph Joinings, Graph Isomorphism, and Reversible Markov Chains

Prof Andrew Nobel, UNC Chapel Hill.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

1st year PhD talks

Jacob Cook, Joe Eales and Maggie Kou.

MR12.

Wednesday 04 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Gravitational instantons with a cosmological constant

Bernardo Araneda (Edinburgh).

CMS MR11.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Mechanistic Interpretability - Progress and Limits

Notice unusual time

Arthur Conmy (Google DeepMind).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Transcendental Brauer groups of cubic generalised Kummer surfaces

Giorgio Navone (LSGNT).

MR13.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 15:30-16:30

Foundation AI

Mechanistic and Attributional Interpretability in Neuroscience

Dr. Michail Mamalakis (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room LT1.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Self-Auditable Key Transparency at Scale

Hossein Hafezi, New York University (NYU).

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

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Quantitative Brownian Regularity of the KPZ fixed point

Pantelis Tassopoulos (Cambridge).

MR12.

Tuesday 03 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Cooling the solar atmosphere with shocks

Ben Snow (Exeter).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 02 March 2026, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

WKB structure in a scalar model of flat bands

Maciej Zworski (University of California, Berkeley).

MR13.

Monday 02 March 2026, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Establishment of Modern Atlantic Circulation linked to Weakening Iceland Scotland Overflow Water

David Thornally, UCL.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 02 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Filling windows in the GW spectrum

Diego Blas (IFAE Barcelona).

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

Monday 02 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Design Optimisation of Locally Resonant Metamaterials under Uncertainty

Niccolo Klinger, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Compactified Jacobians in algebraic geometry

Yifan Zhao (Imperial College London).

MR13.

Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

AI weather forecasting: past, present and future

Richard Turner, University of Cambridge.

MR2.

Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Baryogenesis in the 2HDM+a

Tom Gent (University of Sussex).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 27 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Fractional Multiscale Many-Body Quantum Materials: From Phase Transitions to Causality

Lincoln Carr (Colorado School of Mines).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Friday 27 February 2026, 14:15-15:15

Statistics

Rainfall, volatility and roughness: an intriguing story across scales

Marc Hoffmann (Université Paris-Dauphine).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 27 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Layered monoidal theories

Leo Lobski (University College London).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 27 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

What is the probability that two elements of a group commute?

Armando Martino (Southampton).

MR13.

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:45-14:45

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

EO-AI4GlobalChange: AI-Driven Earth Observation for Monitoring Global Environmental Change

Yifang Ban, Professor and Director, Division of Geoinformatics KTH Royal Institute of Technology Associate Director, Digital Futures Stockholm, Sweden Lead, GEO AI4EO Working Group.

Room FW11 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Constructing numerical counterexamples to the third law of black hole mechanics

Maxime Gadioux (DAMTP).

Potter Room / Zoom : https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85131795570.

Friday 27 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

A new era of brain imaging and neuroethics

Claire Elwell, University College London (UCL).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 February 2026, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

What Happens When They're Smarter Than Us?

Dr Konstantinos Voudouris (UK AI Security Institute).

SS03 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 27 February 2026, 12:00-13:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

The Serre finiteness theorem in Cubical Agda

Axel Ljungström (University of Nottingham).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 17:00-18:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Cancelled

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

The diameter of somewhat dense Cayley graphs on $A_n$

Peter Keevash (Oxford).

MR12.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Random purification channel and random Stinespring superchannel

Filippo Girardi, Pisa.

Center for Mathematical Sciences, MR2.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:15-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "New Bayesian methods and tools to address health challenges"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/7KTIPoNBSVuPXcFtZh8MiQ

Dr Raiha Browning, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

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

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Automatically Formally Verified Hardware using Aristotle

Satnam Singh, Software Engineer, Harmonic.

Computer Lab, FW26.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

The brain as a changing operating environment

Charles Micou, University of Cambridge.

LR5, Department of Engineering..

Thursday 26 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Generalized Families of QFTs

Daniel Brennan (University of Birmingham).

Potter room.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

What does Salmonella have in common with a reversible jacket?

Eugenio Solchaga, Department of Biochemistry.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

RSE Seminars

FTorch: facilitating hybrid ML-numerical modelling in scientific computing

Joe Wallwork and Jack Atkinson, RSEs - ICCS, University of Cambridge.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Actionable Interpretability for AI Safety

Prof. Mor Geva (Tel Aviv University).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86890624365?pwd=oYGWpY7d5r3JOaUCaJXTD0sRECFxab.1.

Thursday 26 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Multiplexed representations of decision content and uncertainty in visual processin

Dominik Straub; Ishan Kalburge.

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

Thursday 26 February 2026, 09:00-11:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Quantizations of nilpotent orbit closures in positive characteristics

Lewis Topley, University of Bath.

MR12.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

The Cybersecurity Awareness Experience: A Masterclass in Social Engineering, Behavioral Psychology, and Digital Self-Defense

Paul Draper.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Channel-forming instabilities in poroelastic media under pressure-driven flow

Joe Webber (Univ. Warwick).

MR12.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

AI for Future Healthcare

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89579877801?pwd=7OZ116Hh9XwJeEy6ZDMbbYF63ViN13.1

Bjoern Eskofier, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich.

Computer Lab, FW11 and Online.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Non-unirational Hilbert Irreducibility and Galois Realisations of PSL(2,p^2)

Damián Gvirtz-Chen (University of Glasgow).

MR13.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Digital platforms and health disinformation

Marco Zenone, University of Ottawa.

Webinar ONLY, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The random walk on the exclusion process: a Law of Large numbers in dimensions $\geq 5$

Guillaume Conchon--Kerjan (King's College London).

MR12.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - February 2026

Margherita Favali and Tiago Assis.

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

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 11:45-13:00

Quantum Computer Architectures and Theory Seminar

Fault Tolerance by Construction

Benjamin Rodatz, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 24 February 2026, 11:00-11:50

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Exquisite clutter in the circumgalactic plasmas: crosstalk between macro and microphysics

Prakriti Choudhury (Oxford).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 23 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Mixing Estimates for Sobolev and BV Vector Fields

Lucas Huysmans (MPI Leipzig).

MR13.

Monday 23 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Considerations and counterfactuals for carbon dioxide removal by enhanced rock weathering in agricultural lands

Tom Reershemius, Newcastle University .

MR3, CMS.

Monday 23 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Ultra-slow-turn inflation

Ana Achúcarro (Leiden U. & Basque U., Bilbao).

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

Monday 23 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The role of Selenoprotein O in mitochondrial signaling

Anju Sreelatha Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, UT Southwestern Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 23 February 2026, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Changing Disorders: The Psychosis–OCD Transition Under Clozapine

Emilio Fernandez-Egea, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Cobordism, spin structures, and profinite completions

Andrew Ng, University of Bonn.

MR13.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Modal Identification via Computer Vision

Mario Visconte, PhD student, University of Calabria, UNICAL.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Postdoc Talks

Postdocs.

MR2.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Top-Yukawa- and light-quark-induced electroweak corrections to Higgs-Pair Production via Gluon Fusion

Arunima Bhattacharya (Valencia U., IFIC).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 20 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Microstructurally informed material modelling workflows for fusion engineering applications

Dr. Pratheek Shanthraj, UKAEA.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 20 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Minimax rate for multivariate data under componentwise local differential privacy constraints

Chiara Amorino (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 20 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

The Cognitive and Human Factors of Formal Methods

Shriram Krishnamurti (Brown University).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 20 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Profinite genus of HNN-extensions and free products with amalgamation.

Pavel Zalesski (Brasilia).

MR13.

Friday 20 February 2026, 13:45-14:45

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

3D Radiative Transfer Modeling of Heterogeneous Vegetation Canopies: from Reflectance to Photosynthesis

Jianbo Qi, Beijing Normal University .

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 20 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Singularities, Fluids, and the BKL Conjecture

Elliot Marshall (postdoc at FORTH in Crete, Greece).

Potter Room / Zoom : https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85131795570.

Friday 20 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Large Language Models' Complicit Responses to Illicit Instructions across Socio-Legal Contexts

Huiyuan Xie (Tsinghua University/Cambridge University).

SS02 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 20 February 2026, 12:00-13:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Certifying Synthetic Mathematics in Lean

Wojciech Nawrocki (Carnegie Mellon University).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr HaDi MaBouDi

Dr HaDi MaBouDi, University of Sheffield.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Lower bounds for van der Waerden numbers

Zach Hunter (ETH Zurich).

MR12.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

XOR trick for the Ising model and its graphical representations

Frederik Ravn Klausen, DAMTP.

Center for Mathematical Sciences, MR2.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 14:15-15:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control of Lumped-Distributed Control Systems

Richard Vinter, Imperial College.

JDB Seminar Room, Department of Engineering..

Thursday 19 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Mysterious properties of holographic entanglement

Matthew Headrick (Brandeis University).

Potter room.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

How Do We Know the Structure of the Earth's Core–Mantle Boundary?

Michael Clark, Department of Earth Sciences.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 19 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Cooperative behaviors in unicellular ciliates: some recent case studies

Professor Antonio DeSimone, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.

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

Thursday 19 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 III

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Geometric Gaussian Processes

Dr Viacheslav Borovitskiy - School of Informatics Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, University of Edinburgh .

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 15:05-15:55

Information Theory Seminar

Applications of Algorithmic Information Theory

Prof Marcus Hutter, Google DeepMind, London.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Applications of Algorithmic Information Theory

Marcus Hutter (DeepMind).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR5.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Title to be confirmed

Rosie Cates (Univ. Cambridge).

MR12.

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Foundation AI

Catastrophic Forgetting and Explainable AI in Large-Scale Models for Neuroscience

Dr. Michail Mamalakis (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room LT1.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Foundation AI

Large Language Models, Model Collapse, and the Conservation of Information

LT1

George Montanez.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room LT1.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Pointwise bounds for 3-torsion

Stephanie Chan (UCL).

MR13.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Probability

The polaron problem and Kac type interactions

Erwin Bolthausen (Zurich).

MR12.

Tuesday 17 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

The art of imaging newborn planets — and what it reveals about their formation

Valentin Christiaens [CEA (Saclay) KU Leuven (Belgium)].

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 16 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge ML Systems Seminar Series

Bringing distributed training natively to Transformers library

Ferdinand Mom - Hugging Face.

Computer Lab, LT1.

Monday 16 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Alpha-unstable flows and the fast dynamo problem

Michele Coti Zelati (Imperial College).

MR3.

Monday 16 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

How much permafrost organic carbon will be released to the atmosphere by 2100? - some geochemical perspectives

Catherine Hirst, University of Durham.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 16 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

A Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background

Ruth Durrer (University of Geneva).

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

Monday 16 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

What Is the Most Dangerous Thing a Woman Can Do? Weaponised Attachment and the Invisible Abuser

Mags Lesiak, Institute of Criminology.

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

Monday 16 February 2026, 12:30-13:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

TITLE: Evaluating machine learning models for prediction of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder among autistic individuals using genetic data

Niran Okewole, Department of Psychiatry.

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

Monday 16 February 2026, 12:00-12:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Deformations of schemes and $\infty$-categories

Samuel Moore, University of Oxford.

MR13.

Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The emerging causal paradigm in interpretability

Atticus Geiger (Goodfire) .

ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Technology choice for road freight electrification

Dr Parth Deshpande, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Singular inertial waves

Stephane Le Dizes, IRPHE.

MR2.

Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Untangling the IBP Equations

William Liu (University of Cambridge).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 13 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Lightweight Structures: Integrating Engineering and Architecture

Dr Joshua Schultz, Gonzaga University.

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

Friday 13 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

3D/4D static recrystallisation and grain growth behaviour in magnesium alloys

Dr Dikai Guan, University of Southampton.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 13 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Towards multi-purpose locally differentially-private synthetic data release via plug-in estimation

Botond Szabo (Bocconi University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Can Agentic AI Accelerate IUCN Red List Assessments?

Shane Weisz, University of Cambridge.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 13 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

New Aspects of spontaneous scalarization of black holes beyond General relativity

Zakaria Belkhadria, University of Geneva / Università di Cagliari.

Potter Room / Zoom : https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85131795570.

Friday 13 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Research Ecosystems and Research Quality: 10+ years on

Marcus Munafò, University of Bath.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 February 2026, 12:00-13:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

HoTTLean: Semantics of HoTT in Lean

Steve Awodey (Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellow at Cambridge CST).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 17:00-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

You Know It or You Don’t: Categorical Differences in Language Model Behavior

Naomi Saphra (Harvard University & Boston University).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86890624365?pwd=oYGWpY7d5r3JOaUCaJXTD0sRECFxab.1.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural Symbolic Interpretability

Notice unusual day and time

Pietro Barbiero (IBM Zurich).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

On Graham's rearrangement conjecture

Matija Bucic (Vienna).

MR12.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

The Yang-Mills Flux Tube in AdS

Barak Gabai (EPFL).

Potter room.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

RSE Seminars

Making Gravity SWIFTer: GPU offloads for gravity in the SWIFT cosmology code

Sarah Johnston - Durham University.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Exploring long-term morphological change with 3D digitised museum specimens in a hawkmoth with nocturnal colour vision

Tiffany Ki (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology).

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Towards Causally Reliable Concept-based Models

Notice unusual day, time and place

Giovanni De Felice (Università della Svizzera Italiana), Arianna Casanova Flores (University of Liechtenstein), and Francesco De Santis (Politecnico di Torino).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Thursday 12 February 2026, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Compositional Generalization and Learning

Rui Xia; Daniel Kornai.

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

Thursday 12 February 2026, 09:00-11:00

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Random covering spaces of closed surfaces are near-optimal expanders

Michael Magee (Durham).

MR13.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

A Gentle Introduction to Quantum Computational ElectroMagnetics

Professor Gabriele Gradoni - Institute for Communication Systems, University of Surrey.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 15:05-15:55

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Resonance and Chen ranks in geometry

Gavril Farkas, HU Berlin.

MR13.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 14:15-15:15

Information Theory Seminar

Group Entropies: functionals on probability spaces, state space growth rates, energy, and connections to thermodynamics

Prof. Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen, Imperial College London.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Finding the distribution of random multiplicative functions in short intervals

Adam Harper (University of Warwick).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 13:30-14:30

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Impacts of iceberg capsize-induced sudden ocean mixing on fjord circulation and glacier melt

Oscar Tovey Garcia (Univ. Oxford).

MR12.

Wednesday 11 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Number Theory Seminar

The average 6-torsion

Peter Koymans (Utrecht University).

MR14.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Abusability of Automation Apps in Intimate Partner Violence

Shirley Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Genomic newborn screening, and how to evaluate it"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/0erNJSr0T2OKXJE4uYYgHQ

Ellen Thomas, Genomics England.

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

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Large deviations in sparse random graphs

Anirban Basak (ICTS, Tata Institute).

MR12.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Computer Architectures and Theory Seminar

Spacetime Spins: Statistical mechanics for error correction with stabilizer circuits

Cory Aitchison, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 10 February 2026, 11:00-11:50

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Self-Similar Cosmic Ray Transport in the Turbulent Interstellar Medium

Philipp Kempski, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 09 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Critical collapse in 2+1 gravity

Serban Cicortas (Princeton University).

MR14.

Monday 09 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Ab Initio: Data Governance, Metadata Management and Why You Should Care

James Wyper and Özge Küçükakça.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 09 February 2026, 13:05-13:55

Cosmology Lunch

Cosmic tensions as a window into the dark sector

Elsa Teixeira (Montpellier U.).

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

Monday 09 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Atmospheric waves: gravity waves and their representation in climate models

Iman Toghraei, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 09 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Complexity in the Era of AI and Data-Driven Computing

Lance Fortnow (Illinois Institute of Technology).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, FW26.

Monday 09 February 2026, 10:00-11:00

Zangwill Club

BBC – Brain, Body and Consciousness

Juliane Britz, University of Fribourg.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Memorization as a Feature, Not a Bug

Jing Huang (Stanford University).

ONLY ONLY. Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Modelling tyre-belt vibrations at acoustic frequencies

Dr Will Graham, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

NNLO QCD corrections to top-quark pair production in association with a jet

Colomba Brancaccio (Turin U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

On the dynamics of fast rotating stars

Michel Rietuord, University of Toulouse.

MR2.

Friday 06 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Nonparametric Bayesian intensity estimation for covariate-driven point processes

Matteo Giordano (Università degli Studi di Torino).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Nitro Isolation Engine: formally verifying a production hypervisor

Dominic Mulligan (Amazon Web Services).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Data-Driven Constitutive Modelling for Non-Equilibrium Systems

Dr. Shenglin Huang, Sheffield University .

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 06 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

The flat closing problem

Bruno Martelli (Università di Pisa).

MR13.

Friday 06 February 2026, 13:45-14:45

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Finding a Job after your PhD

Madeline Lisaius, University of Cambridge.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 06 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Roser Vento-Torno

Dr Roser Vento-Torno, Group Leader, Cancer Research UK, University of Cambridge.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Structure-Preserving FEEC Methods for Spectral and Pseudospectral Analysis of Dynamo Operators

Umberto Zerbinati (University of Oxford).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Counting cycles in planar graphs

Ryan Martin (Iowa State).

MR12.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Proving polynomial-time mixing of the Quantum Monte Carlo method

Jun Takahashi, University of Tokyo.

Center for Mathematical Sciences, MR2.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 14:15-15:30

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Conformal collider bootstrap in N=4 SYM

Robin Karlsson (University of Oxford).

Potter room.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

RSE Seminars

UBiKuity: Trying to get RSE right on the first try

Thomas Daggitt - British Antarctic Survey.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Quantum whispering: Sensing light’s fundamental particle

Thomas Bourke.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

A 4-dimensional pseudo-Anosov homeomorphism

Bruno Martelli (Pisa).

MR13.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 II

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 16:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Plethysmos

Alvaro Gutierrez Caceres, University of Bristol.

MR12.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

15 years of the CHERI Research Project: Reflections, Current Work, and Next Directions

Professor Robert N. M. Watson - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 15:05-15:55

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Towards a symplectic cycle theory: the Lagrangian Ceresa cycle

Alexia Corradini, Cambridge.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 14:15-15:15

Information Theory Seminar

Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Deep Learning via the Minimum Description Length Principle

Dr Yoshinari Takeishi, Kyushu University.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Short character sums evaluated at homogeneous polynomials

Rena Chu (University of Göttingen).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 13:30-14:30

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Title to be confirmed

Prof. John Lister.

MR12.

Wednesday 04 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Connecting the False Discovery Rate to shrunk estimates

Nick W Galwey (Former Statistics Leader, Research Statistics, at GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development (Retired)).

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

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 19:15-21:00

Computer Vision Seminars

Cross-Species 3D Animal Model-Based Reconstruction

Silvia Zuffi, IMATI, Italian National Research Council.

LT6, Department of Engineering; Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89905399582?pwd=ap5btgYWVX6lb9lyx7RGW58pGzGavX.1.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

On the endoscopic classification of representations of classical groups

Tasho Kaletha (University of Bonn).

MR13.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Chemical distance in high-dimensional percolation

Jack Hanson (Universität Hamburg).

MR12.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Machine learning theory

Tackling Label Corruptions: Univariate Polynomial Regression and Generalized Linear Models

Sushrut Karmalkar, Microsoft Research.

FW 26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Mind-body dualism: A perceptual core

Ehud Ahissar, Weizmann Institute for Science.

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

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 09:00-11:00

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Inclined to Misalign: Understanding Warped Protoplanetary Disks

Carolin Kimmig (Milan).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 02 February 2026, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

The space-time-Grassmann measure of the Brakke flow

Myles Workman (NCTS).

MR14.

Monday 02 February 2026, 14:00-15:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Roku: Reinventing the Living‑Room UI: Roku's New Home Screen

Salman Khan, Software Engineer.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 02 February 2026, 13:05-13:55

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Quantifying the human component of the Earth System

Eric Galbraith, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 02 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Cosmology Lunch

Bounding cosmological EFTs

Mariana Carrillo (Imperial College).

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

Monday 02 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Tempered holomorphic functions via condensed mathematics

Lucas Valle Thiele, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 30 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Analysis of Long-Term Degradation of Electric Heavy Goods Vehicle Traction Batteries Using In-Service Data

Harry Durham, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 30 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Towards precision Studies of B → Kπ l+ l- from Lattice QCD Beyond the Narrow-Width Approximation

Felix Erben, CERN.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 30 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Has springy-ness come to the North Atlantic?

Yueng-Djern Lenn, Bangor University.

MR2.

Friday 30 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

The Geometry of Random Neural Networks

Domenico Marinucci (Università di Roma Tor Vergata).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 30 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Deficiency 1 groups and SQ universality

Jack Button (Cambridge).

MR13.

Friday 30 January 2026, 13:45-14:45

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Geospatial foundation models enable efficient tree species mapping in heterogeneous montane forests

James Ball, University of Cambridge.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 30 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Aristotle, an AI theorem prover using Lean

Alex J Best (Harmonic).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 17:00-18:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

An extrapolation principle for the Fourier operator

Miquel Saucedo (Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), Barcelona).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Infinite families of diameter-2 graphs with no triangle or K_2,t.

Sean Eberhard (Warwick).

MR12.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Decoherence vs diffusion: testing the quantum nature of gravity

Note starts at 2pm, earlier than usual.

Jonathan Oppenheim (UCL).

Center for Mathematical Sciences, MR2.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 14:00-15:30

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Energy Correlators at Large Charge

Eren Firat (University of Cambridge).

Potter room.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

RSE Seminars

RO-Crate: Packaging research outputs with their metadata for reproducibility across domains

Eli Chadwick, Senior Research Software Engineer - eScience Lab, University of Manchester.

Room C, West Hub.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Intuitive controller design for robot manipulation

Yi Zhang, Department of Engineering.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Infinite Hidden Semi-Markov Models

Carl Ashworth; Vince Velkey.

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

Thursday 29 January 2026, 09:00-11:00

Foundation AI

Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Self-Supervised Learning in the Foundation Model Era

Lecture Theatre 1

Yisen Wang.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 17:00-18:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

What is HoTT?

Professor Steve Awodey - Departments of Philosophy and Mathematics, Carnegie Mellon University .

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 15:05-15:55

Information Theory Seminar

The Minimum Description Length Principle and Machine Learning

Dr Yoshinari Takeishi, Kyushu University.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

On the multiplication table problem

Ben Green (University of Oxford).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 13:30-14:30

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Poroelastic modelling of tendons

Zoe Goddard (Univ. Oxford).

MR12.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Ultra-tough metals via high strain-hardening

Professor Thomas Pardoen, UCLouvain and WEL Research Institute.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Wednesday 28 January 2026, 11:00-12:00

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Foundation Models for Structured Data

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88514183232?pwd=paFmBh7F64OIKIOFoBjQu7Fut65qB6.1

Xiyuan Zhang, Amazon Web Services.

Online.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Semi-integral points on Markoff orbifold pairs

Vladimir Mitankin (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences).

MR13.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Competence, Pain and the Geometry of Intelligence: Three Perspectives on Learning and Representation

Prof Milica Gasic (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf).

SS03 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/cru-hcuo-rhu.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - January 2026

Ida Häggström, Associate Professor, Unit of Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

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

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 11:45-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Talk by Uri Berger: Multimodality and Human Alignment in Vision-Language Models (University of Melbourne & Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Uri Berger (University of Melbourne & Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

GR05 (English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site) and online (https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3674017464325?p=04vmZBjTtuQwz5Rqvk).

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 11:00-12:00

Quantum Computer Architectures and Theory Seminar

A dataflow programming framework for linear optical distributed quantum computing

Lia Yeh, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 11:00-11:50

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Tidal resonances of non-linear gravito-inertial modes in binary neutron stars

Alexis Reboul-Salze (AEI).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 26 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Towards a Taub-Bolt to Taub-NUT via Ricci flow with surgery.

John Hughes (University of Oxford).

MR3.

Monday 26 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

CodeSpeak: From Kotlin to CodeSpeak: Programming Languages and AI Coding Tools

Andrey Breslav.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 26 January 2026, 13:05-13:55

Cosmology Lunch

The Cosmic Neutrino Background

Douglas Scott (University of British Columbia).

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

Monday 26 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Overturning 'overturning paradigms': radiocarbon constraints on glacial-interglacial ocean circulation and CO2 change

Luke Skinner, Department of Plant Science, University of Cambridge.

MR3, CMS.

Monday 26 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Individual differences in mathematical cognition: A Bert’s eye view

Bert De Smedt, University of Leuven.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 January 2026, 16:30-18:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Boundary stratifications of Hurwitz spaces

Darragh Glynn, University of Warwick.

MR13.

Friday 23 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The elephant in the room: Machine Learning directly into physical models

Professor Matthew Juniper, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 23 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Among the Rarest: Theoretical Insights into Four Top-Quark Production at the LHC

Michele Lupattelli (Münster U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 23 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Sea ice motion on extreme scales: from a floe to the continuum

Srikanth Toppaladoddi, University of Leeds.

MR2.

Friday 23 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Subgroup mixing in Baumslag-Solitar groups

Sasha Bontemps (ENS Lyon).

MR13.

Friday 23 January 2026, 13:45-14:45

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Calibrated Probabilistic Interpolation for GEDI Biomass

Robin Young, University of Cambridge.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 23 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Black-hole METRICS, ringdown and fundamental physics

Adrian Ka-Wai Chung, DAMTP.

Potter Room / Zoom : https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85131795570.

Friday 23 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Cultural Biases in LLMs: From Behavioural analysis to Internal Representations

Siddhesh Pawar (University of Copenhagen).

GR04 (English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site) and online (https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3797179294965?p=naCTdc5XVRYf12vLac).

Friday 23 January 2026, 11:00-12:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Lean4Less: Translating Lean to Smaller Theories via an Extensional-to-Intensional Translation

Rishikesh Vaishnav (ENS Paris-Saclay).

Online; live-streamed at MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Jonathan Frazer

Jonathan Frazer, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain.

Department of Genetics.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

DPMMS Departmental Colloquia

Nonparametric inference under shape constraints: past, present and future

Richard Samworth (Cambridge) .

CMS MR2.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Frugal computation

Xaq Pitkow (CMU).

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

Thursday 22 January 2026, 14:30-16:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Modular-invariant random matrix theory and AdS3 wormholes

Felix Haehl (University of Southampton).

Potter room.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

Shorter Cycles, Better Chips: Compiler Infrastructure for Accelerating the Hardware-Software Design Loop

Moritz Scherer.

Computer Laboratory, SS03.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

Shorter Cycles, Better Chips: Compiler Infrastructure for Accelerating the Hardware-Software Design Loop

Moritz Scherer.

Computer Laboratory, SS03.

Thursday 22 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Cluster algebras, cluster categories, and higher cluster categories

Nicolas Williams, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2026 I

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 21 January 2026, 16:30-18:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Global well-posedness of the stochastic Abelian-Higgs equations in two dimensions.

Bjoern Bringmann (Princeton University).

MR13.

Monday 19 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Cosmology Lunch

Exploring the Universe with Line-Intensity Mapping

José Luis Bernal (Instituto de Física de Cantabria).

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

Monday 19 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Earth, Brain and Mental Health: Uncovering How the Environment Shapes the Mind

Gunter Schumann, Fudan University Shanghai, and Charité University Medicine, Berlin.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 January 2026, 16:30-18:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

High-arity PAC learning

Leonardo Coregliano (University of Chicago).

MR13, CMS.

Thursday 15 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Sample completion, Netflix Prize Competition and k-dependence

Leonardo Coregliano (University of Chicago).

MR13, CMS.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 14:45-15:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

High-arity learning frameworks, an overview

Leonardo Coregliano (University of Chicago).

MR13, CMS.

Wednesday 14 January 2026, 14:00-14:45

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Graphical models for missing data not at random: identification, inference, and imputation"

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

Ilya Shpitser, Johns Hopkins School University .

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

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Computing Seminar

Cryptography, Distribution Verification, and Quantum Advantage

Matthew Gray (Oxford).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Mobile, Wearable Systems and Augmented Intelligence Seminar Series

AIoT for Good — Intelligent, Inclusive, and Sustainable Futures

Online link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/35179124669731?p=G02X6aCeVol3vzfSSK

Wen Hu, The University of New South Wales.

Computer Lab, FW26 and Online.

Tuesday 13 January 2026, 10:00-11:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Machine Learning for Toxicity Prediction Using Chemical Structures: Pillars for Success in the Real World

Srijit Seal.

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

Monday 15 December 2025, 12:30-13:00

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Lessons from integrating Geospatial Foundation Models into environmental journalism methodologies

Anne Alexander, Cambridge Digital Humanities.

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

Monday 15 December 2025, 12:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

How does gradient descent work?

Jeremy Cohen (Flatiron).

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

Friday 12 December 2025, 14:30-15:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Michael Woodley (University of Sussex).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 11 December 2025, 15:00-16:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Evaluating and Improving Rendered Visual Experiences

Pontus Ebelin.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Thursday 11 December 2025, 14:00-15:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

[SIGGRAPH Asia 2025] CameraVDP: Perceptual Display Assessment with Uncertainty Estimation via Camera and Visual Difference Prediction (Yancheng)

Yancheng Cai (University of Cambridge).

GS15, William Gates Building. Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83825823889?pwd=g1Xm2GJrkpadvhgVJY25uHGlbJFl21.1&jst=2.

Wednesday 10 December 2025, 15:30-16:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

[SIGGRAPH Asia 2025] Supra-threshold Contrast Perception in Augmented Reality (Dongyeon)

Dongyeon Kim, University of Cambridge.

GS15, William Gates Building. Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83825823889?pwd=g1Xm2GJrkpadvhgVJY25uHGlbJFl21.1&jst=2.

Wednesday 10 December 2025, 15:00-15:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Expanding the kinome​

Vincent Tagliabracci, Ph.D.​ - UT Southwestern Medical Center​.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 08 December 2025, 15:30-16:30

Junior Geometry Seminar

Cluster varieties and mirror symmetry for toric del Pezzo surfaces

Inés Chung-Halpern (Imperial/LSGNT).

MR13.

Friday 05 December 2025, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Applied mathematics in a changing world

David Abrahams, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR2.

Friday 05 December 2025, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Feynman integral reduction using syzygy-constrained symbolic reduction rules

Sid Smith (U. Padua, Dept. Phys. Astron.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 05 December 2025, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Building and Understanding Human-scale Language Models

Aaron Mueller (Boston University).

ONLINE ONLY. Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/sbr-mvua-fcc.

Friday 05 December 2025, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Harnessing the Mechanics of Arts and Crafts for Functional Thin-Sheet Structures

Dr Evgueni Filipov, University of Michigan.

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

Friday 05 December 2025, 15:00-16:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Modeling Ecological States and Transitions in the Latent Space

Jovana Knezevic, University of Cambridge.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 05 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Numerical UV Completion of Galileon models

Mary Gerhardinger (University of Pennsylvania).

Potter Room / Zoom : https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85131795570.

Friday 05 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Integrating Formal and Informal Reasoning

Chase Norman (Carnegie Mellon University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 04 December 2025, 17:00-18:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Reliable and Sustainable AI: From Mathematical Foundations to Next Generation AI Computing

Gitta Kutyniok, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 04 December 2025, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Large Sum-free sets via L^1-estimates

Benjamin Bedert (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 04 December 2025, 14:30-15:30

CQIF Seminar

Testing and Verification for Quantum Learning

Matthias Caro, Warwick.

Center for Mathematical Sciences, MR3.

Thursday 04 December 2025, 14:15-15:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Why don't models generalize?

Prof. Yonatan Bisk (CMU).

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

Thursday 04 December 2025, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: Understanding GPU Performance with NVIDIA Profiling and Debugging Tools

Mozhgan Kabiri chimeh - NVIDIA Developer Relations Manager (UK&I).

Room D, West Hub.

Thursday 04 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Huge operators in the Hoppe Model, sometimes, have no hair

Andrea Guerrieri, City, University of London.

Potter room.

Thursday 04 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 V

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 16:30-18:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Conformalizing Spatial-Temporal Graph Neural Networks with In-Context Learning: Case Studies in District Heating Networks

Keivan Faghih Niresi, PhD student, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

LR3B, Inglis Building, CUED..

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Resource estimation and optimization to accelerate progress towards quantum advantage

Dr Prakash Murali - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 15:05-15:55

Information Theory Seminar

Information Constraints in Human Decision-Making: From Theory to Computation

Dr Stefan Bucher, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 14:00-15:00

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Localization, Flow Regimes, and Transport Pathways in Stirred Yield-Stress Fluids

Ida Karimfazli (Concordia University).

MR12.

Wednesday 03 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Hard numbers—physicochemical models of a mitotic signalling organelle​

Kevin A. Janes, Ph.D.​ Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia​.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 16:00-17:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Reframing Robots for Care: Bringing Awareness of Informal Care to AI-driven Solutions

Laetitia Tanqueray, Lund University, Sweden.

SS03 - William Gates Building.

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 15:30-16:30

Number Theory Seminar

Quadratic Chabauty for Atkin-Lehner quotients of modular curves via weakly holomorphic modular forms.

Isabel Rendell (LSGNT).

MR13.

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Stochastic heat equation and directed polymers in dimension d=2

Quentin Berger (Paris 13).

MR12.

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Tiny & Gigantic Neural Networks

Puria Radmard; Nicolas Anguita.

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

Tuesday 02 December 2025, 13:15-12:45

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

The fine scales of solar chromospheric flares

Lyndsay Fletcher (Glasgow).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 01 December 2025, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Morse theory and rigidity for the Monge—Ampère equation

Andrè Guerra (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.

Monday 01 December 2025, 14:00-15:00

CQIF Seminar

Locality, non-locality and relativized observables in QFT

Professor Kasia Rejzner (University of York).

Center for Mathematical Sciences, MR3.

Monday 01 December 2025, 14:00-15:30

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

DOJO: Dojo's Transition from Digital to AI Native

Rob Howes and Alex Price .

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 01 December 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cosmology Lunch

From CMB Observations to Early Universe Physics

Wuhyun Sohn (APC, Université Paris Cité).

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

Monday 01 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Special event: Good COP, Bad COP: post-COP30 reflections

Prof Piers Forster, University of Leeds.

Dr Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre, Department of Engineering.

Monday 01 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

What does the high heritability of psychological traits mean for psychologists and educators?

Prof Michael Thomas, Birkbeck, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 November 2025, 16:30-18:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Tropical curves and the balancing condition

Emily Dodwell (Cambridge).

MR13.

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Metamaterial-inspired strategies for structural control

Dr Kyriakos Alexandros Chondrogiannis, ETH Zurich.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

On bounds of conformation tensor space in planar flows of the Oldroyd B model

Robert Poole, University of Liverpool.

MR2.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Bayesian Analysis and Analytic Continuation of Scattering Amplitudes from Lattice QCD

Miguel Salg (U. Bern, AEC).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Innovative Design Approaches for Hybrid Timber-Based Construction

Cristiano Loss, University of British Columbia.

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

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

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Semantics for Reactive Probabilistic Programming

Christine Tasson (Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanics and data science to model aneurysms

Professor Jose Merodio, Polytechnic University of Madrid.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Statistics

Valid F-screening in linear regression

Daniela Witten (University of Washington).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Detecting Policy Signals in National Deforestation Trajectories across the Tropics

Jakob Poffley, University of Cambridge.

Room FW11 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Quasinormal modes from numerical relativity with Bayesian inference

Richard Dyer (DAMTP, IoA) .

Potter Room / Zoom .

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

NLIP Seminar Series

A computational model of language production

Yuan Gao (University of Cambridge).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/yeu-pqce-rsn..

Friday 28 November 2025, 12:00-13:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Combining Two Representations of Matrices for a Formalization of the Perron-Frobenius Theorem

René Thiemann (University of Innsbruck).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 27 November 2025, 17:00-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Mapping the (Jagged) Landscape of LLM Capabilities

Prof. Peter West (University of British Columbia).

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

Thursday 27 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Engineered biomaterials for regeneration and mechanobiology 

Professor Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, University of Glasgow.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 27 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Plastic limit of a viscoplastic Burgers equation

Marita Thomas (Freie Universität Berlin).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 27 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

The Multicolour Size Ramsey Number of a Path

Csongor Beke (Cambridge).

MR12.

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Ander Biguri & Dr Josh Kaggie.

Room A (East 1)/West Hub.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control and Adaptation Under Latent Risk and Nonstationary Interactions

Yorie Nakahira, Carnegie Mellon University.

LR10, Department of Engineering.

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

RSE Seminars

Lost software, Polar Research Ships, Antarctica, and Doom: Rescuing 30+ years of raw scientific vessel underway data

Claudette Lopez - British Antarctic Survey.

Room E, West Hub.

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

3d CFTs on squashed spheres

Klaas Parmentier, University of Cambridge.

Potter room.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Opening the Gate: How Structural Insights into Brain Receptors Could Guide New Therapies

Stephanie Nestorow, Department of Pharmacology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

100 years of educational trials – no significant difference?

Riikka Hofmann, Faculty of Education.

City House, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 1RY.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 19:15-21:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

On the Lie algebra structure of derivations on finite group algebras

Markus Linckelmann, City St. Georges London.

MR12.

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

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

QFT with Boundaries, Impurities and Defects

Professor Chris Herzog - King's College, London.

MR3.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

QFT with Boundaries, Impurities and Defects

Professor Chris Herzog - King's College, London.

MR3.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Physical Inductive Biases for World Models

Dr Ayush Tewari - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Moduli of Representations of Quivers with Multiplicities

Joshua Jackson, Cambridge/St John's.

CMS MR13.

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

Information Theory Seminar

Optimal Quantization for Matrix Multiplication

Or Ordentlich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Polynomial bounds for Chowla's cosine problem

Benjamin Bedert (University of Cambridge).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 13:30-14:30

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Are (breaking) water waves really irrotational? (Spoiler: if only!)

Alan Riquier (École normale supérieure).

MR12.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - November 2025

Rui Li and Rehan Zuberi.

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

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 11:45-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Inference: An Algorithm-Centric Perspective

Kyurae Kim (University of Pennsylvania).

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

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

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Building Open Wearables with AI Capabilities

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85139791013?pwd=PDFWsN48PB9ZrXP6WTXblhErpb7BgC.1

Tobias Roeddiger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)..

Computer Lab, LT2 and Online.

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

Number Theory Seminar

Tensor product functoriality for self-dual GL(2) x GL(n)

Zachary Feng (University of Oxford).

MR13.

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

Probability

Spectral laws of sparse iid matrices

Julian Sahasrabudhe (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

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

Quantum Computing Seminar

Exploiting randomness in quantum algorithms

Earl Campbell (Sheffield/Riverlane).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Tuesday 25 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

VIKING: Deep variational inference with stochastic projections

Note unusual room

Samuel Fadel (Technical University of Denmark).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11 (note change of room).

Tuesday 25 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

CCAIM Seminar Series

Contexts and Confounders in Clinical Practice, in Wearables, and as a path to novel drug discovery - CCAIM Seminar Series

HYBRID Seminar. Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88521685457

Prof Stephen H Friend.

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

Monday 24 November 2025, 17:05-18:05

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

MHD wave turbulence in space plasmas

Sébastien Galtier (Université Paris-Saclay).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 24 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Mean curvature flows of higher codimension

Stephen Lynch (King's College London).

Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Perceiving Through Contact: Designing Dexterous Robots with Touch and Vision

Dr. Shan Luo, King's College London .

Department of Engineering - LR5.

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

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Anima Health: Landing a role building the future: being a top 1% hireability candidate

Souradip Mookerjee.

FW26, William Gates Building.

Monday 24 November 2025, 13:05-13:55

Cosmology Lunch

Towards a Universe from Strings: building bridges between geometry and the cosmos

Andreas Schachner (Munich U. and Cornell U.).

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

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling

Xin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Modular strategies to decode and rewire cell surface signaling

Xin Zhou, Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Machine learning models guide viral discovery in museum bat collections

Maya M. Juman, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

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

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Using machine learning approaches to automate the diagnosis of small intestinal biopsies

Professor Elizabeth Soilleux, MA, MB BChir, PhD, FRCPath, PGDipMedEd, SFHEA Professor of Diagnostics and Biomarkers/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Junior Geometry Seminar

Deformation Theory and Nilpotent Algebras

Sofía Marlasca Aparicio, University of Oxford.

MR13.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Tactile-Embodied Soft Robots: Enabling Perception and Intelligent Physical Interaction in Compliant Systems

Professor Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of London.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Topological Portals to the Dark Sector

Nudžeim Selimović (INFN, Padua).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Using substrate kinematics to control the flow of thin liquid films

Mathieu Sellier, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

MR2.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Turning Solid Wastes into Engineered Geopolymer Composites for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

Mingzhong Zhang, University College London.

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

Friday 21 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Grain Boundary Plasticity in FCC Metals and Nanotwinned Alloys

Dr Ruoqi Dang, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 21 November 2025, 14:30-15:00

Statistics

On the sample complexity of multi-objective learning

Fanny Yang (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Bond-Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials: Strength, Reconfigurability, and Connectivity

Dr Zhiqiang Meng, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 21 November 2025, 14:00-14:30

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Topological and  Algebraic Aspects of Virtual Artin Groups

Federica Gavazzi, Heriot-Watt.

Seminar Room 2, Isaac Newton Institute.

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

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

NERC Facilities for AI and Earth Observation: Project examples, Directions and Geospatial Foundation Models

David Moffat, AI Data Science Lead at Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

On the third law of black hole mechanics for supersymmetric black holes

Aidan McSharry (DAMTP)..

Potter Room / Zoom .

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

NLIP Seminar Series

With great power... My journey in Responsible AI

Christos Christodoulopoulos.

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/yeu-pqce-rsn..

Friday 21 November 2025, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Bayesian Brains Without Probabilities

Prof Adam Sanborn, University of Warwick.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 November 2025, 12:00-13:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Model Merging — A Tale of Two Settings

Donato Crisostomi.

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

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Human oriented tools for theorem proving in Lean

Jovan Gerbsheid (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Dr David "Davidad" Dalrymple.

Room A (East 1)/West Hub.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

From Inertial Manifolds to Latent Geometry: Data-Driven Manifolds for Complex Systems

Eleni D. Koronaki (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

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

Combinatorics Seminar

Euclidean Ramsey sets and the block sets conjecture

Maria Ivan (Stanford).

MR12.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Just asking questions (MIT)

Jacob Andreas (MIT).

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

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

Machine learning theory

Learning shallow neural networks in high dimensions: SGD dynamics and scaling laws

Denny Wu, Faculty Fellow at the Center for Data Science, New York University and the Flatiron Institute..

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

RSE Seminars

Automatic differentiation - an RSE's eye view

Matt Graham - ARC, UCL.

Room A, West Hub.

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Symmetries & locality of TTbar-deformed CFTs

Ruben Monten, CERN.

Potter room.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Novel Technologies for Future Broadband Access Networks

Fady El-Nahal.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

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

Geometry and Topology colloquium

Symplectic groups and Cobordism categories

Fabian Hebestreit (Bielefeld).

MR13.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

AI for Math: The Future of Collaborative Discovery

Professor Mateja Jamnik - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Geometry and Topology colloquium

A Hopf index for isotropic sections of bundles with quadratic forms

Richard Thomas, Imperial College London..

MR13.

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

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

APS practice talks

Emily Cook (UCL) and Jonathan Watts (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Wednesday 19 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Operators for Scientific Simulation

Luca Ghafourpour (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Energy transfer mechanisms in non-integrable solitons' interactions

Azadeh Mohammadi (Federal University of Pernambuco).

CMS MR11.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Introducing BoltzGen: Toward Universal Binder Design

This talk is only in presence

Hannes Stärk, PhD student at MIT.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Tuesday 18 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Unirationality of conic bundles over finite fields

Elyes Boughattas (University of Rennes 1).

MR13.

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

Probability

The Markov property for \varphi^4_3 on cylinders

Trishen Gunaratnam (TIFR Mumbai and ICTS Bangalore).

MR12.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Examining Shocks to Ransomware Groups: The Effects of Law Enforcement Interventions and Internal Disputes on Leak Site Uptime

Tom Meurs, Dutch Police.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Lazy-rich learning

Dr Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge.

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

Tuesday 18 November 2025, 13:15-12:45

Computational Neuroscience

Lazy-rich learning

Dr Alexander Rivkind; Ishan Kalburge.

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

Tuesday 18 November 2025, 13:15-12:45

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Mean field responses in disordered systems: an example from nonlinear MHD

David Hughes (Leeds).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

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

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Formation of Multiple Black Holes from Cauchy Data

Jingbo Wan (Sorbonne University).

Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.

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

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Gearset: A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer at Gearset

Joe Lawry Short.

FW26, William Gates Building.

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

Cosmology Lunch

Cosmological probe combination for current and future surveys

Andrina Nicola (University of Manchester).

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

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Dynamics of fire and ice: wildfire weather and ice-sediment interactions

Kasturi Shah, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR3, CMS.

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

compiler socials

Full Stack Verification of CHERI systems

Murali Vijayaraghavan, MIT.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Monday 17 November 2025, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Naive Wisdom: Behavioral Evidence from Newborn Chicks

Prof Lucia Regolin, University of Padua.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Junior Geometry Seminar

The Langlands Program, Motives, and l-independence

Suvir Rathore, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Dynamical systems approaches to climate response and climate tipping

Anna von der Heydt, Utrecht University.

MR2.

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Morphing materials: from brains to robots

Professor John Biggins, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Bonded Interfaces: Worlds in-between

Dilum Fernando, University of Edinburgh .

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Liquid Crystalline Elastomers for Reversible Actuation and Energy Dissipation

Professor Mohand Saed, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Statistics

Statistical guarantees for neural operator surrogates

Sven Wang (EPFL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Spectral gaps for stable commutator length via angle structures

Alexis Marchand, IMPAN.

Seminar Room 2, Isaac Newton Institute.

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

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

TESSERA: Temporal Embeddings of Surface Spectra for Earth Representation and Analysis

Frank Feng, University of Cambridge.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Black hole spectroscopy, nonlinear gravity and Hawking's Area Law: the physics behind GW250114

Gregorio Carullo (Birmingham University) .

Potter Room / Zoom .

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Extrapolating model performance across training horizons

Kris Cao (Cohere).

FW26 Hybrid (In-Person + Online). Here is the Google Meet Link: https://meet.google.com/yeu-pqce-rsn.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Cancelled

Felix Voigtlaender (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

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

Combinatorics Seminar

The Ramsey numbers R(3,k)

Matthew Jenssen (King's College London).

MR12.

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

Combinatorics Seminar

The Ramsey numbers R(3,k)

Matthew Jenssen (King's College London).

MR12.

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

CQIF Seminar

Identification: Variations on a Classic Theme in Quantum Information

Pau Colomer and Johannes Rosenberger.

Center for Mathematical Sciences, MR2.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Retrieving and Sampling Diverse Outputs

Prof. Eunsol Choi (NYU).

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

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Matt Kenzie.

Room A (East 1)/West Hub.

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

RSE Seminars

CSD3: An Introduction to Data Centre Operations at Cambridge

Astrid Scott-Bennett - RCS, University of Cambridge.

Room C, West Hub.

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

How to Count States In Gravity

Tom Yildirim, Oxford University.

Potter room.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Deuterium metabolic imaging at 7 Tesla

Masha Novoselova, Department of Clinical Neurosciences.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

DAMTP BioLunch

Dispersion of active particles in steady and oscillatory flows

Bohan Wang, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research.

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

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

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Analogue of the Galois Theory for normal fields and B-extensions (characteristic free approach)

Vladimir Bavula, University of Sheffield.

MR12.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

From research lab to newsroom: deploying secure whistleblower technology in practice

Dr Daniel Hugenroth and Professor Alastair Beresford - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Reductions in the Embodied Carbon of Concrete Structures through Improved Design and Material Specification

Fragkoulis Kanavaris, Arup.

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

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Interpretability as the Inverse Machine Learning Pipeline

Prof. Sarah Wiegreffe (University of Maryland).

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

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

On proper splinters in positive characteristic

Charles Vial, Universität Bielefeld.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 14:15-15:15

Information Theory Seminar

Breaking the Sample Size Barrier in Reinforcement Learning

Yuxin Chen, University of Pennsylvania.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

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

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Modelling the Evolution of Elliptical Röthlisberger Channels

Isaac Brown (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Primes of the form p^2 + nq^2

Note: This talk will unusually take place on a Tuesday.

Mehtaab Sawhney (Columbia University).

MR2, CMS.

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Black Hole Binary Dynamics and  High Precision Gravitational Scattering

Thibault Damour (Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques).

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

RG-stability of parameter relations in the absence of a conventional symmetry

Howie Haber, University of California Santa Cruz.

MR11 (Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Two talk double feature: NetFridgeS and The Small World Web of AI

This is a double-header (two talks for the price of one)

Zhukun Wang (University of Oxford) / Noa Zilberman (University of Oxford).

SS03 William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Two talk double feature: NetFridgeS and The Small World Web of AI

NOTE LOCATION/TIME - This is a double-header (two talks for the price of one)

Zhukun Wang (University of Oxford) / Noa Zilberman (University of Oxford).

SS03 William Gates Building.

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Cohomology of p-adic Chevalley groups

Andrea Dotto (King's College London).

MR13.

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

Probability

Spectral gaps of random hyperbolic surfaces

Will Hide (Oxford).

MR12.

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Robust and conjugate Gaussian processes"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here:https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/oURXKjAISECZrOvFPRw0Mw

François-Xavier Briol, University College London.

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

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

Machine learning theory

To Intrinsic Dimension and Beyond: Efficient Sampling in Diffusion Models

Dr. Yuting Wei, Associate Professor in the Statistics and Data Science Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Neural basis of decision making

Guillaume Hennequin ( University of Cambridge); Robert Crossen.

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

Tuesday 11 November 2025, 13:15-12:45

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Multiplicity, warps and infall: How disturbances drive disc evolution

Daniel Price (Monash University).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 10 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Minimizing the area of the Gauss map of surfaces in S3

Gerard Orriols, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI..

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

Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference Group Seminars

Statistical Investigations into the Unseen: Missing Mass for Markov Samples and Natural Distribution Estimation

Prof. Andrew Thangaraj, Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar Room.

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

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Goldman Sachs: Beyond the Curriculum: Building Enterprise Grade Software

Hoshil Sejpal, Technology Fellow, Goldman Sachs.

FW26, William Gates Building.

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Sources, pathways and drivers of Sub-Antarctic Mode Water formation

Bieito Fernandez Castro, University of Southampton .

MR3, CMS.

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

Cosmology Lunch

Cosmological simulations with GLASS

Nicolas Tessore (Mullard Space Science Laboratory).

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

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

Zangwill Club

Subcortical Contributions to Speech and Language

Prof Kate Watkins, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Parton showers beyond leading colour

Jeffrey R. Forshaw (Manchester U.).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Leveraging Inductive Bias for Physically Consistent Machine Learning: Applications in Engineered Systems

Dr Olga Fink, EPFL, Switzerland.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Particle-driven flows in planetary interiors

Quentin Kriaa, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR2.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Active solids: percolation and pattern formation

Professor Anton Souslov, Dept. of Physics, University of Cambridge.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Statistics

The manifold hypothesis in science & AI

Patrick Rubin-Delanchy (Edinburgh).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Liberating synthetic quasi-coherence from syntax

David Jaz Myers (Topos Institute).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

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

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Linearity criteria for automorphism groups of hyperbolic groups

Mark Pengitore, IMPAN.

Seminar Room 2, Isaac Newton Institute.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Dissipating faster than light

Lorenzo Gavassino (DAMTP).

Potter Room / Zoom .

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

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

From Perception to Prediction: Modelling Pastoral (Im)Mobility in the West Sahel

Aline Van Driessche, University of Cambridge.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

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

Cambridge ML Systems Seminar Series

DISCO: Dynamical Integration Systems for Convergence Optimisation in Distributed Low-Communication Training

Finn Anderson .

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 07 November 2025, 11:00-12:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Lambda-Superposition for Successful Hammering

Jasmin Blanchette (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

Online; live-streamed at MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Cambridge Centre for Data-Driven Discovery (C2D3)

Computational Biology: Seminar Series - Dr Helen Ray-Jones

Dr Helen Ray-Jones, .

Department of Genetics.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

IterativeCUR: One Small Sketch for Big Matrix Approximations

Nathaniel Pritchard (University of Oxford).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

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

Combinatorics Seminar

Powers of 2 in high-dimensional lattice walks

Nikolai Beluhov (Cambridge).

MR12.

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

Combinatorics Seminar

Powers of 2 in high-dimensional lattice walks

Nikolai Beluhov (Cambridge).

MR12.

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

CQIF Seminar

A framework for spin-adapted quantum chemistry on quantum computers

Nathan Fitzpatrick, Quantinuum.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Potter Room.

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

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Specializing Reinforcement Learning Techniques for Database Systems

Ryan Marcus (University of Pennsylvania).

Online.

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Featurespace.

Room A (East 1)/West Hub.

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

RSE Seminars

Communities, capabilities, and collaboration: How the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) supports digital research in the Arts and Humanities

Oscar Seip - SSI and University of Manchester.

Room C, West Hub.

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

Black holes, naturalness and the renormalization group

Julio Parra-Martinez, IHES.

Potter room.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Bumblebees and honeybees in shared landscapes

Nynke Blömer, Department of Zoology.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Probabilistic Systems, Information, and Inference Group Seminars

Variational Inference for Lévy Process-Driven SDEs via Neural Tilting

Dr Yaman Kindap, University of Cambridge.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2025 III

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

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

Set Theory Seminar

The Axiom of Extendable Choice

Part of STUK 17: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dbl25/STUK/17/

Calliope Ryan-Smith.

Bevin Room, Churchill College.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 15:10-16:10

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

It’s supported on P1, how complicated could it be?

Parth Shimpi, University of Glasgow.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 14:15-15:15

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Modelling Earth’s Electron Radiation Belts

Johannes Sadler (DAMTP).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

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

Information Theory Seminar

Zero-Error Communications over Modulo-Additive Noise Channels with Assistance

Prof. Amos Lapidoth, ETH Zurich.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

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

Set Theory Seminar

On the Quantifier Depth of Logical Formulas to Canonise Graphs

Part of STUK 17: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dbl25/STUK/17/

Sandra Kiefer (Exeter College, Oxford).

Bevin Room, Churchill College.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 13:40-14:40

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Spectral expansion in random regular graphs

Ewan Cassidy (University of Cambridge).

MR4, CMS.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 13:30-14:30

Institute of Theoretical Geophysics lunchtime seminar

Microscale flows: bubbles and active droplets

Daniel Booth (University of Warwick).

MR12.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Set Theory Seminar

The equivalence of real determinacy and real Blackwell determinacy

Part of STUK 17: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~dbl25/STUK/17/

Daisuke Ikegami (Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China).

Bevin Room, Churchill College.

Wednesday 05 November 2025, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Tutorial on Algorithmic Information Theory in Modern ML

Szilvia Ujvary, Arik Reuter, Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Robust Ear-worn System for Ambulatory Epileptic Seizure Monitoring: Design, Development, and Deployment

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86393542324?pwd=finnraM0vY3s1cueXX3EIPePD56Yex.1

VP Nguyen, UMass Amherst.

Online.

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Energy in spacetimes with negative cosmological constant

Virinchi Rallabhandi (University of Edinburgh).

CMS MR11.

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

Number Theory Seminar

Derived Hecke action for weight one modular forms via classicality

Gyujin Oh (Columbia University).

MR13.

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

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

The Karchmer-Raz-Wigderson Conjecture

Or Meir (Sheffield).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

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

Probability

Games on trees

Omer Angel (UBC).

MR12.

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Predictive resampling for scalable Bayes"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/gELlOqxOT3imWtS8MRVYRw

Edwin Fong, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong.

Online Seminar.

Tuesday 04 November 2025, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Benefits of data openness in a digital world

Sam Gilbert, Bennett Institute for Public Policy.

The Statistical Laboratory,Centre for Mathematical Sciences,Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

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

DAMTP Astrophysics Seminars

Solar Flare Ion Temperatures

Alex Russell (St. Andrews).

MR14 DAMTP and online.

Monday 03 November 2025, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Fast and Accurate Flow Mining in High-Speed Networks with Sketches

Please note unusual SRG/NETOS time / location.

Weihe Li, University of Edinburgh.

FW11 William Gates Building.

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

Geometric Analysis & Partial Differential Equations seminar

Vortex layer cascades and finite time singularities for incompressible fluids

Diego Cordoba, ICMAT.

Lecture Room 2 in the gatehouse at INI.

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

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Jane Street: How to monitor systems that trade billions of dollars a day

Pedro, Jane Street Software Engineer.

LT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Quantitative Climate and Environmental Science Seminars

Horizontal and vertical transport in a large, deep lake: Coastal upwelling and higher- mode standing internal waves in Lake Geneva

Rafael Reiss, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

MR3, CMS.

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

Cosmology Lunch

The CMB as a Backlight

Alexander van Engelen (Arizona State University).

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

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

Zangwill Club

Trust in “Moral” Machines

Prof Jim A.C. Everett, University of Kent.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Junior Geometry Seminar

Cohomology of Toric varieties

Sae Koyama (University of Cambridge).

MR13.

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Simplifying assumptions in building models for base isolation performance prediction

Andrew Jenkins, PhD student, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mesoscale swimming – dynamics and crowds of living critters

Matilda Backholm, Aalto University.

MR2.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Statistical Models for Turbulent Flows: Characterisation and Scaling Laws

Yaswanth Sai Jetti, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 31 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Programmable multifunctional materials and structures: Design, realization, and validation

Prof Shelly Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Catch Me If You Scan: A Longitudinal Analysis of Stalkerware Evasion Tactics

Anahitha Vijay (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Statistics

Adaptation through prior tails and deep neural networks

Ismael Castillo (Sorbonne Université).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Cospans of finite sets

John Baez (University of Edinburgh, U. C. Riverside).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Towards a non-singular paradigm for black hole physics

Francesco Di Filippo (Goethe University Frankfurt).

Potter Room / Zoom .

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

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Airborne Assessment Uncovers Socioeconomic Stratification of Urban Nature in England

Andrés Camilo Zúñiga González, University of Cambridge.

Room GS15 at the William Gates Building and on Zoom: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

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

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

A Lean Tactic to Automatically Generalize Proofs

Anshula Gandhi (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Infeasible Optimization on Manifolds: the Landing Approach

Pierre-Antoine Absil (University of Louvain).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

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

Combinatorics Seminar

Modular Graph Colourings

Gaia Carenini (Cambridge).

MR12.

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

Combinatorics Seminar

Modular Graph Colourings

Gaia Carenini (Cambridge).

MR12.

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

Data Intensive Science Seminar Series

TBC

Dr Stephen-John Sammut.

Room A (East 1)/West Hub.

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

RSE Seminars

Portable AI software with PyTorch and Lightning

Karl Harrison - Dawn/RCS, University of Cambridge.

Room D, West Hub.

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

Quantum Fields and Strings Seminars

A 2D-CFT Factory: Critical Lattice Models Derived from generalised symmetries

Ling Yan (Janet) Hung, Tsinghua University.

Potter room.

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

The Unseen Architects of Cancer's Destruction: Fibroblasts and Cachexia

Debasmita Mukherjee, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Richard King room, Darwin College.

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

Cambridge MedAI Seminar Series

Cambridge MedAI Seminar - October 2025

Dr Shangqi Gao and Dr Shuncong Wang.

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

Thursday 30 October 2025, 11:45-13:00