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35 upcoming talks and 4812 talks in the archive.

Zangwill Club

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

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

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Valid F-screening in linear regression

UserDaniela Witten (University of Washington).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Chaucer Club

The neurocognition of dance

UserGuido Orgs (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL) .

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Statistics

On the sample complexity of multi-objective learning

UserFanny Yang (ETH Zurich).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Zangwill Club

Bayesian Brains Without Probabilities

UserProf Adam Sanborn, University of Warwick.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Machine learning theory

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

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

HouseMR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Zangwill Club

Naive Wisdom: Behavioral Evidence from Newborn Chicks

UserProf Lucia Regolin, University of Padua.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Machine learning theory

To Intrinsic Dimension and Beyond: Efficient Sampling in Diffusion Models

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

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Zangwill Club

Subcortical Contributions to Speech and Language

UserProf Kate Watkins, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

The manifold hypothesis in science & AI

UserPatrick Rubin-Delanchy (Edinburgh).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Chaucer Club

A meeting of minds: Modulating mentalizing in autism

UserSarah White (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Tutorial on Algorithmic Information Theory in Modern ML

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

Trust in “Moral” Machines

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

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Adaptation through prior tails and deep neural networks

UserIsmael Castillo (Sorbonne Université).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion Language Models

UserJulianna Piskorz (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 29 October 2025, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Universal Copulas

UserGery Geenens (University of New South Wales).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 24 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Stochastic Interpolants

UserProfessor Jose Miguel Hernandez Lobato and Fran Castro.

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

ClockWednesday 22 October 2025, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

On uncertainty quantification for nonparametric multivariate Hawkes processes

UserJudith Rousseau (Université Paris Dauphine).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 17 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Geometric extremal graphical models

UserJennifer Wadsworth (Lancaster).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 10 October 2025, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Protocols over Implementations

UserDominik Moritz (Professor at CMU HCII and Researcher at Apple).

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

ClockThursday 09 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Foundation AI

Quantum Interactive Oracle Proofs

UserBaocheng Sun Weizman Institute.

HouseSS03.

ClockMonday 06 October 2025, 10:00-11:00

Zangwill Club

Direct brain stimulation modulate physiology and behaviour in humans.

UserRina Zelmann, PhD, Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockTuesday 26 August 2025, 16:00-17:30

Foundation AI

GNN-ACLP: Graph Neural Networks Based Analog Circuit Link Prediction

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XK4HTy4aaC4h2E8t8jgzDUrJrl4jBxKH/view?usp=sharing

UserGuanyuan Peter Pan.

HouseZoom (Meeting ID: 873 5011 9733, Passcode: 732177).

ClockThursday 21 August 2025, 12:45-13:45

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2025 II

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseMR14.

ClockWednesday 06 August 2025, 16:30-18:00

Foundation AI

From Score to Sound: Music Generation in the AI Era

UserFrancesco Bardozzo (University of Salerno).

HouseComputer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

ClockThursday 10 July 2025, 10:50-12:20

Foundation AI

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UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 08 July 2025, 17:00-17:45

Foundation AI

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UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseComputer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

ClockMonday 07 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

Foundation AI

title

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseComputer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

ClockMonday 07 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

Foundation AI

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UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseComputer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

ClockMonday 07 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

Foundation AI

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UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseComputer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

ClockMonday 07 July 2025, 15:50-17:20

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The structure of curvature in neural networks

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

UserAlberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research UK).

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

ClockWednesday 18 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Vision-language models (VLMs)

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

UserVarun Jain (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 11 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Vision-language models (VLMs)

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

UserVarun Jain (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 11 June 2025, 11:00-12:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Interactive and Grounded Learning

UserProf. Prithviraj Ammanabrolu (University of California, San Diego).

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

ClockThursday 05 June 2025, 17:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Brain Mechanisms of Attention: Sensory Selection to Free Will

The host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

UserProfessor Ron Mangun,Center for Mind and Brain 267 Cousteau Place Davis, CA .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Evaluating and Regulating Foundation Models

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

UserMiri Zilka, Neel Alex, Shoaib Ahmed Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 21 May 2025, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

How do (and don't) we take other perspectives?

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

UserSteven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London. .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 16 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Foundation AI

Sheaf-Based Diffusion for Multimodal Graph Learning

UserMar Gonzàlez i Català (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2025, 16:00-16:45

Statistics

Extrapolation-aware statistical machine learning

UserPeter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 09 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Improved performance guarantees for Tukey’s median

UserStanislav Minsker (University of Southern California).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 02 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

UserDmitrii Krasheninnikov, Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning to See the World in 3D

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

UserAyush Tewari (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to In-Context Learning

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

UserJuyeon Heo, John Bronskill, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Statistics

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

UserRina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

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

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Multimodal AI in Spatial Biology

Note: unusual date compared to regular AI Seminars

UserKonstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

ML for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting

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

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

UserProfessor Gustav Kuhn, University of Plymouth.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Influence Functions

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

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

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

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Preserving What Was Lost: Endangered Languages of Yazd’s Religious Minorities Zoroastrians and Jews and Their Vernacular Heritage

UserProfessor Saloumeh Gholami (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge).

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-04.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sampling with diffusion models

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

UserShreyas Padhy, Jiajun He (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Foundation AI

Network modelling and Graph Neural Networks for emergency healthcare management

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

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

French Linguistics Research Seminars

Compiling a Glossary of Insular Norman: Linguistic Detective Work in the Channel Islands!

Co-hosted with the Cambridge Bibliophiles

UserProfessor Mari Jones (University of Cambridge).

HouseFriends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 20 February 2025, 20:45-22:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Compiling a Glossary of Insular Norman: Linguistic Detective Work in the Channel Islands!

Co-hosted with the Cambridge Bibliophiles

UserProfessor Mari Jones (University of Cambridge).

HouseFriends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 20 February 2025, 20:45-22:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Geometric Deep Learning for Structure-Based Drug Design

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

UserZixing Song.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Bilingualism Promotes Healthy and Youthful Brains.

The host for this talk is Mirjana Bozic

UserLucia Amoruso from BCBL in San Sebastian, Spain .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion Models Beyond Mean Prediction

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

UserMingtian Zhang, University College London.

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

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

Statistics

Identification and Estimation of Graphical Continuous Lyapunov Models

Note unusual location

UserMathias Drton (Technical University of Munich).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR15, CMS.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

LLMs as supersloppers and other metaphors

UserAnn Copestake (University of Cambridge).

HouseRoom SS03 .

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Behavioral machine learning

UserDr. Keyon Vafa, Harvard Data Science Initiative.

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

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

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Sontinuity: Judeo-Spanish Transmission and Cultural Sonicity

UserDr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge).

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-04.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2025, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

UserMiri Zilka and Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Episodic Cognition in Cephalopod Molluscs

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

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

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

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

UserWill Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Algorithmic Differentiation

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

UserWill Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Foundation AI

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

record: https://youtu.be/iuT_tkVEgA4

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

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein

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

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

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

UserAndy Lin.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

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

UserAndy Lin.

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

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

Foundation AI

Constrained Neural Flows

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

UserChandan Gupta.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

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

Zangwill Club

From Neural Criterial Causation to a Premotor Theory of Human Imagination

The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein

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

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Posterior sampling via autoregressive generation

UserKelly Zhang (Imperial College London).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

The Past, Present and Future of Tokenization

UserBenjamin Minixhofer (Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge).

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

ClockFriday 29 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Deconstruction of the social brain

The host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem

UserDr Sofie Valk, Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 22 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Change point estimation for a stochastic heat equation

UserLukas Trottner (University of Birmingham).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

ClockFriday 22 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Entropy contraction of the Gibbs sampler under log-concavity

UserGiacomo Zanella (Bocconi University).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

ClockFriday 15 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Intergenerational transmission of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric traits and conditions

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

UserDr Laurie Hannigan, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Norway.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Sharp and Robust Estimation of Partially Identified Discrete Response Models

UserTatiana Komarova (University of Cambridge).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

ClockFriday 08 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Gradients of thalamocortical connectivity

UserDr Stuart Oldham (Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Monash University).

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 07 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them

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

UserPietro Lesci, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 06 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

The Atomic Human

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

UserProf Neil Lawrence,Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 November 2024, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Tales of Traumatic Stress in High-Risk Populations in the Global South: From Epidemiological to Genomic and Epigenomic Insights

The host for this talk is Larysa Zasiekina

UserProfessor Soraya Seedat, Executive Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Valid Heteroskedasticity Robust Testing

UserBenedikt Pötscher (University of Vienna).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

ClockFriday 25 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Large-scale integration of perceptual and predictive information is encoded by non-oscillatory neural dynamics.

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

UserDr Andrés Canales-Johnson,Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Visual Perspective Biases Autobiographical Remembering

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

UserDr Peggy L. St. Jacques, University of Alberta, Canada.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 11 October 2024, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NLIP 2024 Social: Meet New PhD Students

UserSuchir Salhan (University of Cambridge), Matthieu Moulec (University of Cambridge), Paul Siewart (University of Cambridge).

HouseSS03 and on Zoom, link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

ClockFriday 11 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Ten Years of Universal Dependencies

UserJoakim Nivre, Uppsala University and RISE.

HouseFaculty of English, Room SR24.

ClockThursday 10 October 2024, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium

UserStefan Wager (Stanford University).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

ClockMonday 23 September 2024, 14:00-15:00

Foundation AI

Sheaves for Heterogeneous Data

UserLuke Braithwaite (University of Cambridge, Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockFriday 23 August 2024, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Task Alignment

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

UserVihari Piratla, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 26 June 2024, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Nonparametric classification with missing data

UserTim Cannings, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 14 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Can Sparsity Lead to Efficient LLMs?

UserShiwei Liu, University of Oxford.

HouseFaculty of English, Room SR24.

ClockThursday 13 June 2024, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Oja's algorithm for sparse PCA

UserPurnamrita Sarkar, University of Texas, Austin.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 07 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Learning with latent symmetries

UserSubhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 31 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Light Introduction to Topological Data Analysis

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

UserTim Hargreaves, Tor Fjelde, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 29 May 2024, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Leveraging AI for Breakthroughs in Genomic Research

Hybrid: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/2554325137?pwd=NGZEbGl1WkJxQVdkV09oc2k1L2pwQT09 Meeting ID: 255 432 5137 Passcode: 360730

UserMike Sikic, Genome Institute of Singapore .

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockFriday 24 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

The Cognitive Biology of Language

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

UserProfessor Johan Bolhuis, Utrecht University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On optimal ranking in crowd-sourcing problems in several scenarios

UserAlexandra Carpentier, University of Potsdam.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 17 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Translational neuroimaging studies of addiction and other stress-related disorders

UserProfessor Jeffrey W. Dalley, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Neurocognitive ageing within the Lothian Birth Cohorts

UserDr Simon Cox, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 03 May 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Rates of convergence for tensor denoising

UserSara van de Geer, ETH Zürich.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 03 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Mean Field Theory of NNs

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

UserAdrian Goldwaser, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 01 May 2024, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

The UK AI Safety Institute

UserNitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge & UK AI Safety Institute).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSS03, William Gates Building. .

ClockFriday 26 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

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

UserBruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen.

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

ClockWednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

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

UserBruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 24 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Control

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

UserDmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 17 April 2024, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural likelihood-free inference

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

UserYanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 20 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

The role of affective relevance in emotion, attention, and memory

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

UserProfessor David Sander, Swiss Center for Affective Science, Geneva.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 March 2024, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Inverting Language Models

UserAlexander (Sasha) Rush, Cornell and Hugging Face.

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

ClockThursday 14 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method

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UserJihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 13 March 2024, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Concentration and Free Probability

UserAfonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 12 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Investigating cortico-cortical plasticity in motor brain control regions in young and older adults.

The host for this talk is Trevor Robbins

UserDr Alex Sel, Department of Psychology, University of Essex.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 March 2024, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Comparative Questions and Retrieving Argumentative Answers

UserAlexander Bondarenko, University of Leipzig .

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 08 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

POSTPONED

POSTPONED. Sorry for inconvenience.

UserProf. Tom Chittenden (BioAI Health & QMUL).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Barycentric subspace analysis for sets of unlabeled graphs

UserAnna Calissano (Imperial College).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 01 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

UserSander van der Linden, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 March 2024, 12:00-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

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

UserMatt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

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

ClockWednesday 28 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Cortical interneurons in health and disease.

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

UserProfessor Oscar Marín, King's College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Foundation AI

Towards Machine Learning-enhanced Monitoring

UserAndrea Brunello and Nicola Saccomanno, University of Udine.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockThursday 22 February 2024, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks

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

UserJames Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

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

ClockWednesday 21 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Compressed sensing for the sparse Radon transform

UserGiovanni Alberti (University of Genova).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 16 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Scaling Multilingual Generation for Low-Resource Languages

UserPriyanka Agrawal, Google Deepmind.

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 16 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Prosocial Language Models

UserSoroush Vosoughi, Dartmouth College.

HouseGR06/07 | Faculty of English, 9 West Road, CB3 9DP.

ClockThursday 15 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

GenCast: Diffusion-based ensemble forecasting for medium-range weather (or: How to ruin a numerical weather forecaster’s Christmas)

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

UserAndrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 14 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Identifying the nature, causes and consequences of youth depression trajectories in population cohorts

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

UserAlex Kwong, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian coresets

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

UserTor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 07 February 2024, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

When Art meets Psychology

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

User Prof. Clive Wilkins.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 02 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

M-estimation, noisy optimization and user-level local privacy

UserMarco Avella Medina (Columbia University).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 02 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

UserSofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 26 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

What Cephalopods Might Reveal About the Evolution of Cognition

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

UserNicky Clayton (Psychology Department, Cambridge).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 January 2024, 12:00-13:30

Statistics

Non-asymptotic control of a kernel 2-sample test

UserPerrine Lacroix (ENS Lyon).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 19 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based Pruning

UserJulius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 19 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fairness Evaluation in Generative NLP

UserSeraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 01 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Pathways forward from psychiatric genetics

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

UserNaomi Wray, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 December 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

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

UserEmile Mathieu, Tor Fjelde and Vincent Dutordoir (Cambridge MLG).

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

ClockWednesday 29 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Modern Bayesian Experimental Design

UserDr Tom Rainforth, OxCSML Group in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.

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

ClockTuesday 28 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

How Electrophysiological Rhythms Shape Language

The host for this talk is Kanad Mandke

UserDr Lars Meyer (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 24 November 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Data Science

UserZhigang Yao (National University of Singapore).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 24 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficiency by Construction

UserFermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 24 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

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

UserDr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 22 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Deep screening of RNA, XNA and protein interactions

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83721191406?pwd=V0xkY0Vvb3czWUJkR0xIZC9qMnM0QT09

UserPhilipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2023, 17:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Exploring cognition across cultures: Insights for testing world-wide navigation

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

UserProfessor Hugo Spiers (Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

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

UserGreg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 15 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

RetroBridge: Modeling Retrosynthesis with Markov Bridges

This talk is online only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729

UserArne Schneuing & Ilia Igashov (EPFL).

HouseZoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729.

ClockTuesday 14 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Nonparametric Statistics for SPDEs

UserMarkus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 10 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism

UserProfessor Simon Baron-Cohen, Autism Research Centre, Cambirdge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Numerical Reasoning in Natural Language Processing

UserNafise Moosavi (University of Sheffield).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 10 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control

UserJan Wessel (U. of Iowa) (Joint Chaucer-Zangwill talk) .

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 09 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

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

UserDr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 08 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Expanding neurobiological models of adolescence - threat learning, extinction and cortical plasticity

The host for this talk is Amy Milton

UserDr Liat Levita, University of Sussex.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 03 November 2023, 12:00-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

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

UserProf. Richard Turner and Stratis Markou, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 01 November 2023, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Adaptive two-sample testing

UserArthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Representation and computation in visual working memory

UserProfessor Paul Bays, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language Processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

UserGleb Mazovetskiy (Google).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 27 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

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

UserSpencer Frei, UC Davis.

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

ClockWednesday 25 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

Foundation AI

Revolutionizing Biosensing Technologies: Plug and Play Devices in Medical and Agricultural Diagnostics

UserMuhammad J. A. Shiddiky, Rural Health Research Institute (RHRI), Charles Sturt University, Orange NSW 2800.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

AbDiffuser: Full-Atom Generation of In Vitro Functioning Antibodies

Notice that this talk is online only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729 Pietro Lio and Chaitanya Joshi will introduce the speakers

UserKarolis Martinkus & Andreas Loukas (Prescient Design, Genentech, Roche).

HouseZoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92041617729.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Cortical gradients of functional integration

The host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem

UserDr Daniel Margulies .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification

UserCiara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 20 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

UserSourav Chatterjee (Stanford) .

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

ClockWednesday 18 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

The host for this talk is Paul Bays

UserFreek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amstersdam).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 13 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Internal selective attention under the microsaccade scope

The host for this talk is Paul Bays

UserFreek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 13 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Orthogonal prediction of counterfactual outcomes

UserStijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 13 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Bad Information with AI

UserDavid Corney (Full Fact).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 13 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Decoding the neural processing of speech

The host for this talk is Usha Goswami

UserProfessor Tobias Reichenbach (Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts

UserSinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 06 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Does Syntax Still Matter in the World of LLMs?

UserMiloš Stanojević (DeepMind).

HouseComputer Laboratory, room SS03.

ClockFriday 06 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Foundation AI

Subgraphs

hybrid zoom and presence

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockMonday 28 August 2023, 17:00-18:00

Foundation AI

Ethical and legal aspects of AI training in healthcare

join us also with zoom

UserChiara Gallese, University of Turin.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockTuesday 22 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

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

UserHanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

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

ClockWednesday 28 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

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

UserStratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

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

ClockWednesday 21 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Protein generation and fitness optimization

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94094286505?pwd=T2V3MFVSQ1ZKTFFyYlFueHlzTE83Zz09

UserJason Yim, EECS, MIT.

HouseLecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building and Zoom.

ClockTuesday 20 June 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning

Note this is on zoom only! Note a change of date! Note a new zoom link!

UserPietro Barbiero (University of Cambridge).

Housezoom only!.

ClockTuesday 20 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Issues and Language Models

UserJames Thorne (KAIST).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 16 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

Canceled

UserSofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 16 June 2023, 00:00-00:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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

UserKatie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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

UserKatie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 14 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Bayesian Inference using Generative Models

Room changed

UserJohn Liechty (Pennsylvania State University).

HouseMR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 09 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language Inference

UserMarie-Catherine de Marneffe (FNRS – UCLouvain – The Ohio State University).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockFriday 09 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Untangling genome assembly graphs with graph neural networks

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93934749405?pwd=M0ZERUZleklON01vZlpXbzhqTld0Zz09. ; ID riunione: 939 3474 9405 Passcode: 374750

UserLovro Vrcek, Genome Institute of Singapore, A*STAR.

HouseSeminar Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification

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

UserProf. Alessandro Abate, Dr. Licio Romao, Dr. Yulong Gao and Dr. Jiarui Gan. University of Oxford.

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

ClockWednesday 07 June 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Information Spreading on Networks

NOTE A CHANGE OF ROOM DUE TO EXAMS. NOW SS03

UserCharlotte Out.

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockTuesday 06 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Simultaneous Directional Inference

Room changed

UserRuth Heller (Tel-Aviv University).

HouseMR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 02 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLP

UserDustin Wright (University of Copenhagen).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 02 June 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

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

UserTor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 31 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretable Multi-hop Question Answering

UserZhenyun Deng (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 26 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Quantity implicature and perspective-taking: insights from a novel task

UserDr Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge).

HouseEnglish Faculty, GR05.

ClockThursday 25 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reward Modelling

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

UserUsman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 24 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction

The host for this talk is David Belin

UserDr David Dupret (Oxford University).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 19 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Physics informed spatial and functional data analysis over non-Euclidean domains

UserLaura Sangalli (Polytechnic University of Milan).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 19 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Chrysippus' dog and the origins of modal concepts

UserProfessor Josep Call, University of St Andrews.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 12 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language Models

UserVered Shwartz (University of British Columbia).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 12 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Navigating the Future: Upcoming EU AI Regulation and its Potential Impact on the Field

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

UserMiri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 10 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

The DNA revolution and psychology

UserProfessor Robert Plomin (King's College, London).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 05 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Bayesian sensitivity analysis in causal analysis

UserAad van der Vaart (TU Delft).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 05 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning-based multiscale modeling: computing, data science, and uncertainty quantification

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

UserBurigede Liu.

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

ClockWednesday 03 May 2023, 11:00-12:30

CCIMI Seminars

Fundamental limits of generative AI

UserHelmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich.

House Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

ClockFriday 28 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving Model Robustness for Natural Language Inference

UserJoe Stacey (Imperial College London).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockFriday 28 April 2023, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The interaction of gender marking and perspective-taking

UserProf Stefan Hinterwimmer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal).

HouseLucia Windsor Room (Newnham College).

ClockThursday 27 April 2023, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

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

UserAdrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

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

ClockWednesday 19 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning

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

UserAlexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 12 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

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

UserRoss Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 05 April 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Physics-informed machine learning

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

UserPingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 29 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Machine Learning

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

UserWenlin Chen, Julien Horwood & Juyeon Heo (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 22 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Choice under Computational Complexity

The host for this talk is Lee De-Wit

UserProfessor P. L. Bossaerts (Department of Economics, Cambridge).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Real-world task assistance with GRILLBot, the winning Amazon Alexa Prize TaskBot.

UserCarlos Gemmell, University of Glasgow.

HouseSR 24.

ClockThursday 16 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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

UserMicah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

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

ClockWednesday 15 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Feedforward and feedback interactions during prediction and attention

The hosts for this talk are Tristan Bekinschtein and Andrés Canales-Johnson

UserProfessor Martin Vinck (Donders Institute for Neuroscience).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Statistical Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Biobank Data

Note unusual time

UserHongyu Zhao (Yale University).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 10 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

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

UserIsaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 08 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Dynamic algorithmic networks of visual categorisations

UserProfessor Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 03 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective

UserMona Azadkia (London School of Economics).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 03 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of Differential Privacy, Membership Inference Attacks, and Federated Learning

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

UserAli Shahin Shamsabadi (Alan Turing Institute) and John Bronskill (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 01 March 2023, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Modular and Compositional Transfer Learning

UserJonas Pfeiffer (Google Research).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 24 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Neural Networks

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

UserJames Allingham, Javier Antorán, Vincent Fortuin (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 22 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Parameterizing and Simulating from Causal Models

UserRobin Evans (University of Oxford).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 17 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Narrative Summarization from Multiple Views

UserPinelopi Papalampidi (DeepMind).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 17 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Relative representations enable zero-shot latent space communication

Organized by Donato Crisostomi and Pietro Barbiero

UserLuca Moschella, Sapienza University of Rome.

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2023, 14:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Offline Reinforcement Learning

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

UserMax Patacchiola (University of Cambridge), Stephen Chung (University of Cambridge), Adam Jelley (University of Edinburgh).

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

ClockWednesday 15 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

The Kalman-Bucy filter revisited: Mean-field equations & duality

Joint Statistics and CCIMI Seminar (note unusual time)

UserSebastian Reich (University of Potsdam).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 10 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Inflammation, brain networks and mental health: some questions of causality

The host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

UserProfessor Ed Bullmore (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 February 2023, 12:00-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

{PF}^2ES: Parallel Feasible Pareto Frontier Entropy Search for Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization Under Unknown Constraints

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

UserJixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

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

ClockWednesday 08 February 2023, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED OWING TO THE RAIL STRIKE

UserDr David Dupret (Oxford University).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 03 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Counterfactual fairness (CANCELLED)

UserJoshua Loftus (London School of Economics).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 03 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Processing Multiword Expressions for Grammatical Error Correction

UserShiva Taslimipoor (University of Cambridge).

HouseComputer Laboratory, Room FW09.

ClockFriday 03 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Nudge+: how to incorporate reflection into behavioural public policy

The host for this talk is Lee De-Wit

UserPeter John (King's College London).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 27 January 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Variational Bayesian inference for PDE based inverse problems

UserIeva Kazlauskaite (University of Cambridge).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 27 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

GenBench -- State-of-the-art generalisation research in NLP

UserDieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 27 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference

UserAlastair Young (Imperial College, London).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 20 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Rethinking the role of tokenization in the NLP pipeline

UserKris Cao (DeepMind).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockFriday 02 December 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

A Distance Function based Cascaded Neural Network for accurate Polyps Segmentation and Classification

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

User Yuanhong Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

ClockThursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Approximate Equivariance SO(3) Needlet Convolution

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

UserKai Yi, University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney.

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Global Explainability of GNNs via Logic Combination of Learned Concepts

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

UserSteve Azzolin.

HouseOnline (Zoom).

ClockFriday 25 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

The measurement of difficult things: From psychophysics to psycho-oncology

UserProfessor Dame Lesely Fallowfield (Sussex University).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Brain charts for the human lifespan.

UserDr Richard Bethlehem (Department of Psychology, Cambridge).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Biostatistics: successes, challenges and opportunities

Unusual starting time to accommodate a special tea event after the seminar

UserJohn Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 25 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

The Interpretability of Graph Neural Networks

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

UserHan Xuanyuan, Dept of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW11 + zoom.

ClockFriday 25 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

UserDieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

HouseComputer Lab, TBD.

ClockFriday 25 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Feynman Diagrams using Graph Neural Networks

https://zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

UserHarrison Mitchell, dept of Physics Cambridge.

Houselecture theatre 2 dept of computer science and zoom.

ClockThursday 24 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

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

UserAndy Lin, MLG.

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

ClockWednesday 23 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Multi-Scene Absolute Pose Regression with Transformers

UserYoli Shavit, Huawei TRC and Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport

UserFelipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile.

HouseCBL Seminar Room.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Disruption of Information in Working Memory

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

UserProfessor Jarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds

UserAnnika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 18 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing

UserJasmijn Bastings (Google Brain).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 18 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Predicting generalization of ML models.

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

UserVihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy.

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

ClockWednesday 16 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference

UserJelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 11 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Decoding is deciding under uncertainty — the case of NMT

UserBryan Eikema (University of Amsterdam).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 11 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Sentiment analysis: methods and applications

UserDr Antonio Moreno Ortiz (Universidad de Málaga).

HouseEnglish Faculty, GR05.

ClockThursday 10 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

NLP for Science: Advances and Challenges

UserTom Hope (Allen Institute for AI, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

HouseComputer Lab, FW11.

ClockMonday 07 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Quality and Location: a view from somatosensation

UserProfessor Patrick Haggard (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 04 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Local Independence Graphs

UserNiels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 04 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Latent space models for multiplex networks with shared structure

UserElizaveta Levina (University of Michigan).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 28 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficient Structured Prediction on Long Texts

UserMrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 28 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Resampling methods for networks

UserLiza Levina (Michigan).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Vowel harmony as a cue for phonological phrasing

Join the talk online here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87391346417?pwd=NnVUa0gydlFDNEFycmg2bUpFOGhTdz09

UserProf Frank Kügler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

HouseEnglish Faculty, GR05.

ClockThursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

ACMP: Allen-Cahn Message Passing with Attractive and Repulsive Forces for Graph Neural Networks

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99166955895?pwd=SzI0M3pMVEkvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09

UserYu Guang Wang.

HouseLecture Theatre 2.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Insights into cortical organisation and neurodevelopment from a genome wide association study (GWAS) of 2,347 structural cortical phenotypes

The host for this talk is Simon Baron-Cohen (sb205@cam.ac.uk)

UserDr Varun Warrier (University of Cambridge).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 21 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A study of recent techniques to estimate the difficulty of exam questions from text

UserLuca Benedetto (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW09.

ClockFriday 21 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Plastic brains for flexible decisions

UserZoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 14 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Complement clause section as a (non-)local relation

Join the talk online here: https://meet.google.com/ygt-zovb-wnp

UserDr Anna Roussou (University of Patras).

HouseEnglish Faculty, GR06/07.

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Quantifying Linguistic Variation

UserMax Müller-Eberstein, IT University of Copenhagen.

HouseGR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 13 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

What kind of network is the brain?

UserJohn Mollon (University of Cambridge).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 07 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning

Statistics and CCIMI seminar, followed by a drinks reception

UserVictor Chernozhukov (MIT).

HouseMR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 07 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD)

UserMartyn Petyko and Daniela Schneevogt (Aston University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 07 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Tidying up working memory

UserJarrod Lewis-Peacock (University of Texas at Austin).

HouseMRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge - Lecture Theatre.

ClockThursday 06 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Cancelled! Sorry for inconvenience.

UserDanielle Belgrave, DeepMind.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 04 October 2022, 13:15-14:15

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Backward Compatible Embeddings

hybrid event (https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92564083880?pwd=Wk5DVWpUc2lIN0krMFU5azEwUGpEUT09)

UserWeihua Hu, Stanford University and Google.

HouseLecture Theatre 2 (https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92564083880?pwd=Wk5DVWpUc2lIN0krMFU5azEwUGpEUT09).

ClockFriday 02 September 2022, 16:00-17:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

What are the unsolved problems in Conversation Design?

Hybrid meeting. If you'd like to talk with Cathy after the talk over sandwiches please contact Kate Knill kmk1001@cam.ac.uk.

UserCathy Pearl, Google.

HouseHybrid: JDB Seminar Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

ClockMonday 18 July 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance

UserDmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

ClockWednesday 22 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Pitfalls with ablation in neural network architectures

UserChristina Lioma (University of Copenhagen).

HouseComputer Lab, SS03.

ClockFriday 17 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural Sequence Models for Mathematical Reasoning

RESCHEDULED, NOTE THE UNUSUAL TIME

UserYuhuai(Tony) Wu, Stanford University & Google.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

(Modeling) Morality? On Machine Learning and Phrenology

UserZeerak Talat (Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockMonday 13 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

An aperitivo of efforts against harming online contents: propaganda, hate speech, spam

UserAlberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 10 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Confidence estimation for attention-based encoder-decoder models for speech recognition

This talk will be both online (zoom) and offline (CBL Meeting Room)

UserQiujia Li (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

ClockMonday 06 June 2022, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Measuring Causal Effects of Data Statistics on Language Model Predictions

UserYanai Elazar (Bar-Ilan University).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockWednesday 01 June 2022, 17:00-18:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Deciphering speech: a top-down approach to zero-resource speech recognition

This talk will be both online (zoom) and offline (JDB Seminar Room)

UserPeter Bell (University of Edinburgh).

HouseZoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

ClockWednesday 01 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Ceylon Portuguese: Survival Against All Odds

UserProfessor Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya (Visiting Fellow, Lucy Cavendish College and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies School of Advanced Study, University of London).

HouseZoom.

ClockThursday 19 May 2022, 17:00-17:50

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Lifted Relational Neural Networks

UserGustav Šir, Czech Technical University in Prague.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2022, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Neuro-Symbolic Deep Natural Language Understanding

UserLili Mou (University of Alberta).

HouseComputer Lab, FW26.

ClockTuesday 17 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Participative multilingual identity education: Theory, evidence and impact of the ‘We Are Multilingual’ Campaign

UserMEITS WAM Project Team, University of Cambridge, Linda Fisher, Michael Evans, Karen Forbes, Angela Gayton (Glasgow), Yongcan Liu, Dee Rutgers (Sheffield Hallam).

House https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqd-mtqT0rE9Bsoi8plgq-jMoq1ExWFPv4.

ClockMonday 16 May 2022, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of Behavior

UserAlon Jacovi (Bar-Ilan University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 06 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

On the Two-fold Role of Logic Constraints in Deep Learning

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99805544705?pwd=cXR6MTlaeXd6VmEreVdQSmFRblBtUT09

UserDr Gabriele Ciravegna, Inria – Université Côte d'Azur.

HouseZoom + presence (lecture theatre 2) .

ClockFriday 29 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Thinking the right thoughts

UserNathaniel Daw (Princeton University).

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 25 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Postponed to ET] 'Lying, bullshit and Desinformatsiya'

To register for the talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvduuuqTkpHN2xDSsRYUvE0ePfHgq0xzc7. You will immediately be provided with a link to the talk upon registering. Please do not share these links with third parties.

UserChristopher Heffer (Cardiff University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 24 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Mental health and well-being in the time of Covid-19

UserProfessor Tamsin Ford (Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge) .

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 18 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual Autoregressive Entity Linking

UserNicola De Cao (University of Amsterdam, Huggingface).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 18 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Demystifying Deep Learning

UserRob Nowak (U. Wisconsin).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

TBC

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseFaculty of English and Online.

ClockThursday 17 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI

UserEmti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

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

ClockWednesday 16 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Machine learning as an assay for high-dimensional biology

UserSara Mostafavi, University of Washington, USA.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2022, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Hugging Face: a hub for the whole ML community to collaborate

UserNate Raw and Ömer Faruk Özdemir (HuggingFace).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 11 March 2022, 12:00-14:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

'When can you passivize causatives? A phase-based analysis'

To register for the talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYud-murjwjEt3yZ3AXJkcFOOK85zwVBmB3. You will immediately be provided with a link to the talk upon registering. Please do not share these links with third parties.

UserMichelle Sheehan (Newcastle University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 10 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Introduction to differential privacy

UserTalay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

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

ClockWednesday 09 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

A framework for studying the neurobiology of female choice and group cohesion in a social songbird.

UserProfessor Marc Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 04 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Using NLP and graph theory to capture speech abnormalities in psychosis

UserCaroline Nettekoven (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 04 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Exploring Multicultural London English across Offline and Online space

UserDr Christian Ilbury (University of Edinburgh).

HouseFaculty of English and Online.

ClockThursday 03 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Covid and Cognition

UserLucy Cheke (University of Cambridge) .

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 25 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Interpretable Model-Independent Detection of New Physics Signals

UserPurvasha Chakravarti (Imperial College London).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 25 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning from Past: Bringing Planning Back to Neural Generators

UserShashi Narayan (Google Research).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 25 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Living in Kriolu, Learning in Portuguese: language ideologies and language education in Cape Verde

To register for this talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElceCqqj8rHNCNkScsQHH_2tNV69WzD3ga

UserDr Nicola Bermingham, University of Liverpool.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 24 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Retrieval Augmented NLP

UserJiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

ClockWednesday 23 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Reproducibility and transparency indicators across diverse scientific fields

UserJohn P.A. Ioannidis, MD, DSc (Stanford University).

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 18 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

[POSTPONED] Parametric vs Nonparametric Knowledge, and what we can learn from Knowledge Bases

UserSebastian Riedel (Facebook AI Research and UCL).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 18 February 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

V2, V3, and the left periphery of Finnish and Estonian

To register for this talk, please click here: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kcu2rrTMvE9FQR6ffKaOVTIUt5w4zGx8V. You will receive a link immediately after signing up.

UserAnders Holmberg (Newcastle University), Heete Sahkai (Institute of the Estonian Language), and Anne Tamm (Károli Gáspár University).

HouseOnline.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Circuits and Interpretability

UserLauro Langosco, Elre Oldewage and Juyeon Heo(University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

ClockWednesday 16 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Optimal Transport Metrics

UserShreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The development of Old English conjunct clauses: How syntactic changes interact

UserDr Richard Zimmermann (University of Manchester).

HouseFaculty of English and Online.

ClockThursday 03 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learned Compression

UserGergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Interdisciplinary Seminars

How bilingualism modulates the neural mechanisms of selective attention

UserDr Mirjana Bozic, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseRegister on Zoom - link in abstract.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Brain charts for the human lifespan

UserRichard Bethlehem, Autism Research Centre & Brain Mapping Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2022, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

Reading Scenes: A Hierarchical View on Attentional Guidance in Real-World Environments

UserMelissa Le-Hoa Võ (Scene Grammar Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt).

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 28 January 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Out-of-distribution generalization in NLP

UserProf. He He (New York Univeristy).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 28 January 2022, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition with AI

UserAlex Davies and Petar Velickovic (DeepMind).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2022, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

Developmental visuospatial disorder: New advances in its research

UserIrene Mammarella (Department of Developmental and Social Psychology, University of Padova).

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Expectations vs. Reality: Lessons learned from Working on Toxic Content Detection in NLP

UserNedjma Ousidhoum (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 21 January 2022, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion and Score-based Generative Models

UserVincent Dutordoir, Wenlin Chen, Tor Fjelde (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

ClockWednesday 19 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

[Cancelled] Best of Neurips

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseOnline-only.

ClockWednesday 15 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

The neural circuit underlying perceptual expectations

UserPeter Kok (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology).

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 03 December 2021, 14:45-16:15

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

UserLotty Brand (University of Sheffield) .

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 03 December 2021, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Energy-Based Models

UserStratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

What does magic tell us about free will?

UserGustav Kuhn (Goldsmiths, University of London).

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 26 November 2021, 16:15-17:30

Statistics

CANCELLED: Systematic inducement of sparsity

UserHeather Battey (Imperial College London).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Sparse Latent Structure with Overlapping Constraints

UserVlad Niculae (University of Amsterdam).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 26 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning on Graphs with Missing Node Features

UserEmanuele Rossi, Twitter & Imperial College.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2021, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

Time perception as accumulation of salient events

UserWarrick Roseboom (University of Sussex).

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 19 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Analyzing and Summarizing Movies using Turning Points

UserFrank Keller (University of Edinburgh).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 19 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Role of Root Semantics in Determining Argument Alternations

To register for this talk, please use this link: https://forms.gle/E5rAVyaoMM4BbxKJ6

UserDr. John Beavers (University of Texas).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 18 November 2021, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Kernels

UserSebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Revitalising Jèrriais: The Norman Language of Jersey

Please register for this webinar at: https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/centres/celc/conference-series

UserL'Office du Jèrriais.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Weisfeiler and Lehman Go Cellular: CW Networks

UserCristian Bodnar (University of Cambridge) and Fabrizio Frasca (Imperial College, Twitter).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 November 2021, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

Can we nudge to zero? Promises and pitfalls of behavioural insights-based climate policies

UserLucia Reisch (University of Cambridge) .

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 12 November 2021, 16:15-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

How language understanding unfolds in minds and machines

UserRoger Levy (MIT).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 12 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Vulnerable Left Periphery: Why there is no other alternative to change

UserProf. Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam).

HouseOnline: Zoom talk.

ClockThursday 11 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Ideophone patterns across Kiranti languages (Eastern Nepal),

Please register for this talk at https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/centres/celc/conference-series

UserDr Aimée Lahaussois (Université Paris 7).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 09 November 2021, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Human action selection under threat: computing adaptive behaviour

UserDominik Bach (University College London).

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 05 November 2021, 16:15-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Integrating Human Cognition with Natural Language Processing

UserYevgeni Berzak (Technion).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 05 November 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phonotactics and rules interacting in change: understanding Mid-Scots θ-Debuccalisation and Late Middle English Syncope

To register for this link, please follow this link: https://forms.gle/5GCRb7HT8RUjJbvQA

UserPatrick Honeybone (University of Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

MARS via LASSO

UserAditya Guntuboyina (UC Berkeley).

Househttps://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

ClockFriday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Vowel harmony as a cue for phonological phrasing

UserProf. Frank Kügler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

HouseEnglish Faculty, GR05.

ClockWednesday 27 October 2021, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Implicit Regularization in Deep Learning

User Jezabel Garcia, Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

ClockWednesday 27 October 2021, 11:00-12:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Machines that can read lips

This talk will be on zoom

UserPingchuan Ma (Imperial College London).

HouseZoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

ClockMonday 25 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Some lessons one philosopher drew from thinking about wanting and liking

UserRichard Holton (University of Cambridge).

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 22 October 2021, 16:15-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Toward Broad and Deep Language Understanding for Intelligent Systems

UserMarjorie McShane (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 22 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Empirical Results on Morphological Convergence in English

UserDr. Péter Rácz (Central European University, Budapest University of Technology, University of Canterbury)..

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 21 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Hippocampal LTP and Psychiatry: The Prime Suspect

UserDavid Bannerman (University of Oxford).

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 15 October 2021, 16:15-18:00

Statistics

TBC

UserLester Mackey (Microsoft Research).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 15 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Exploring Feedback Comment Generation for Language Learners

UserRyo Nagata (Konan University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 15 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Generative Speech Separation based on Pitch Information

This talk will be on zoom

UserDr Xiang Li, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseZoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87426783837?pwd=akx4ZWZMYVZML2ZoOWRlYzdRaTd6dz09.

ClockMonday 11 October 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Translating the Deaf Self: Translanguaging, interpreting & identities of deaf signers at work

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/PnyrnLjX4NAKnRMBA

UserJemina Napier (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 17 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Unlocking Deep Learning for Graphs

UserDominique Beaini, Valence Discovery, MILA, Canada.

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 15 June 2021, 13:15-14:15

NLIP Seminar Series

Challenges in evaluating natural language generation systems

Note unusual time

UserMohit Iyyer (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 11 June 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

How (not) to do (areal) phonological typology

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/vCtCxURPtUbranv57

UserPavel Iosad (University of Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 10 June 2021, 17:30-19:00

Zangwill Club

Modulation Of Attention By Ascending Projections

UserDr, Tomás Ossandón, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 04 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Beyond Facts: The Problem of Framing in Assessing What is True

Note unusual time

UserPhilip Resnik (University of Maryland).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 04 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Identity construction and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile statuses: What does our status say about us?

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/Pv8gjUQsuMiyWnUMA

UserCarmen Maíz Arévalo (Universidad Complutense Madrid).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 03 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Data-driven versus Hypothesis-driven approaches in cognitive neuroscience

UserKarim Jerbi, PhD, Canada Research Chair (CRC) University of Montreal.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 28 May 2021, 16:15-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretability in NLP: Moving Beyond Vision

Note unusual time

UserShuoyang Ding (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 28 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

How do stylistic features “work” in news texts about a violent event that took place abroad? A cross-cultural case study.

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/UqMEAFyne44WyZCP6

UserAshley Riggs (Université de Genève).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 27 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Losing Touch With Your Body: Clinical and Experimentally-Induced States of Body Disownership

User Professor Bigna Lenggenhager, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 21 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

UserJohannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 21 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Audio-Visual Learning: Challenges and New Approaches

This talk will be on zoom

UserDr Jie Pu, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseZoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

ClockTuesday 18 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Individual Differences In Fear Attenuation And Social Transfer Of Knowledge

UserMarie-H. Monfils, PhD, University of Texas at Austin.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 14 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Incorporating Structure into NLP Models with Graph Neural Networks

User Michael Schlichtkrull (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 14 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Ecological links between L2 learning and L1 change

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/XdoC5YnNfbS5USeb7

UserAntonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 13 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Automatic Assessment Systems for the Spoken CALL Shared Tasks

This talk will be held on zoom

UserMengjie Qian, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseZoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

ClockTuesday 11 May 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Brain Dynamics and Flexible Behaviors

UserLucina Q. Uddin, Ph.D, University of Miami.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 07 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Adaptation and Control in Enterprise Language Technology

UserRyan McDonald (ASAPP).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 07 May 2021, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Cross domain similarities and intra-person changes

UserMaria Liakata (University of Warwick).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 30 April 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language contact in syntax: The view from Romanian

Please register by noon on the day of the talk https://forms.gle/k4VN9jrfoq9z2FC9A

UserAdnana Boioc Apintei, Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae (Iorgu Iordan – Alexandru Rosetti Institute of Linguistics & University of Bucharest).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 29 April 2021, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to PAC-Bayes

UserAndrew Foong, David Burt and Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

ClockWednesday 21 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

UserRyan McDonald (Google).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 19 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

On the phonetics and phonology of English H* and L+H* pitch accents

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/MCZQPEjAVVryicLY6

UserAmalia Arvaniti (Radboud University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 18 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Rethinking food reward

UserDr Dana Small Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology; Director, Modern Diet and Physiology Research Center.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 12 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Internal arguments disguised as external arguments: Lessons from an active alignment system

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/ofRcLr4aBxyZh7yP6

UserDr Matthew Tyler (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 16:45-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Representation Learning for Text Retrieval: Learning and Pretraining Strategies for Dense Retrieval

Unusual date and time

UserChenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

Note unusual time

UserChenyan Xiong (Microsoft Research AI).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockThursday 11 March 2021, 15:00-16:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Natural Language Interpretation in Dialogue Systems

Seminar on zoom

UserDr Svetlana Stoyanchev, Speech Technology Group, Toshiba CRL.

HouseZoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

[RESCHEDULED] Typological Feature Prediction and Blinding for Cross-Lingual NLP

RESCHEDULED TBD

UserJohannes Bjerva (Aalborg University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 05 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Multiethnolects as contact languages: the case for the Jamaican influence in London

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/1RUHXqvAEkBvTAps5

UserPaul Kerswill (University of York).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Long-Range Transformers

UserValerii Likhosherstov, University of Cambridge.

Househttps://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Interpretable representation learning for speech and audio signals

Seminar on zoom

UserDr Purvi Agrawal, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Microsoft India.

HouseZoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

ClockTuesday 02 March 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

An auditory thread: music, sleep, brain stimulation, and neuroplasticity

UserEmily BJ Coffey, PhD .

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Seminar Cancelled

UserRina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

House https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Papers with Code and the automatic extraction of results from papers

UserRobert Stojnic (Facebook / Papers with Code).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 26 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The role of language professionals in minority language revitalisation: Variation in rhotic production

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/bcgdZgxu4PbNjAqn6

UserDr Claire Nance (Lancaster University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 25 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Inference in Stochastic Processes

UserJavier Antoran (University of Cambridge), Matthew Ashman (University of Cambridge), Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Nocturnal dreaming: A replica or a distortion of waking life experiences?

UserDr. ValdasNoreika, Lecturer in Psychology Queen Mary University of London.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title TBD

UserMariam Redi (Wikimedia).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Science of Knowledge Equity - Research at Wikimedia

UserMiriam Redi, Diego Saez (Wikimedia Foundation).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 19 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Fairness in AI

UserElre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural ODE Processes

UserCris Bodnar, Alex Norcliffe, Ben Day, Jacob Moss .

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Should Ensemble Members Be Calibrated?

Seminar on zoom

UserDr Xixin Wu, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseZoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Detecting the "Fake News" Before It Was Even Written, Media Literacy, and Flattening the Curve of the COVID-19 Infodemic

UserPreslav Nakov (Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), HBKU).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 12 February 2021, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A Graph-Based Framework for Structured Prediction Tasks in Sanskrit

Note unusual time

UserAmrith Krishna (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 05 February 2021, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Language change in bilingual returnee children: mutual effects of bilingual experience and cognition

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/gNiWovYWud8dTQds9

UserMaki Kubota (UiT The Arctic University of Norway).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning under model misspecification

UserAndrés R. Masegosa, Universidad de Almería (Spain).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 02 February 2021, 13:15-14:15

Second Language Education Group

Raising multilingual autistic children: Challenges and opportunities

UserDr. Jenny Gibson and Dr. Napoleon Katsos, University of Cambridge.

HouseOn-line.

ClockMonday 01 February 2021, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

The ties that bind: Investigating the links between reward and mimicry to understand autism

UserProfessor Bhismadev Chakrabarti, University of Reading, UK.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 29 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning with Graphs in Natural Language Generation and Relation Extraction

UserZhijiang Guo (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 29 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Heritage grammars and linguistic complexity: A view from grammatical gender

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/hhmex2pjepqHeZpr6

UserProfessor Terje Lohndal (NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards explainable fact checking

UserProf. Isabelle Augenstein, University of Copenhagen.

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

ClockThursday 28 January 2021, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Latent Action Space for Offline Reinforcement Learning

UserWenxuan Zhou, Carnegie Mellon University (USA).

HouseZoom.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 13:15-14:15

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Selection of Talks from Interspeech 2020

Seminar on zoom

UserYiting 'Edie' Lu, Vyas Raina, Qingyun Dou, Cambridge University Speech Research Group.

HouseZoom: https://zoom.us/j/95352633552?pwd=RzJVK2UzOGZyNU5mVHd1Y1VPT2tDUT09.

ClockTuesday 26 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Social Minds in Joint Action

UserProfessor Natalie Sebanz.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Revisiting and re-evaluating rumour stance classification

UserCarolina Scarton (University of Sheffield).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 22 January 2021, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

- Towards a Translational Neuroscience of Consciousness

UserProf Hakwan Lau.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 15 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Meta-reinforcement learning

UserKris Jensen and Calvin Kao (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

ClockWednesday 13 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

[NEW DATE:11th of December] Old wine in new skins: a fresh look at cognitive control development

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

UserDr Nikolaus Steinbeis, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London .

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 11 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Non-racism and Toxic Interaction Theory in Mental Health Practice: Professional responsibility in the light of systemic racism

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

UserHari Sewell, Director, HS Consultancy.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 04 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Compositional Neural Meaning Representation Parsing

UserWeiwei Sun (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 04 December 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Focus Association with ONLY

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/By3XNQtaYLUksF1S9

UserDr Ksenia Zanon (Slavonic Section MMLL, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 03 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Working Memory 2.0

UserEarl Miller (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

HouseZoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

ClockThursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Processes

UserAndrew Foong, Stratis Markou and Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Recent insights into remote fear memory attenuation

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

UserProfessor Johannes Gräff, Associate Professor at the Brain Mind Institute of the School of Life Sciences at EPFL, Switzerland.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 27 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving Speech Translation with Linguistically-Informed Representations

UserElizabeth Salesky (Johns Hopkins University).

HouseZoom.

ClockFriday 27 November 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Voice-Prosody and Technologies to Give Voice to Endangered Languages: an Irish Perspective

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/pW2NTo3WHdVe59vD6

UserAilbhe Ní Chasaide (Trinity College Dublin).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

The interpersonal function of emotional expressions

UserJulie Grezes (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitive & Computationnelles).

HouseZoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

ClockThursday 26 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Graph Neural Networks for Biomedical Data

Note the change of date and time. This seminar is part of the Wednesday seminar series too.

UserMarinka Zitnik, Harvard University.

HouseZoom.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Large-scale sequential experimentation

UserWessel Bruinsma and Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Bilingual Brains

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/bTVzfMTKSVwyaJRHA

UserProfessor Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong, HKU).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 19 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning

UserRobert Pinsler and Adria Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Second Language Education Group

English Medium Education (EME) in Basic and Higher Education: Lessons learned from across the globe

UserMark Levy, John Simpson, Ann Veitch (British Council).

HouseOn-line.

ClockMonday 16 November 2020, 16:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

Understanding Fallism

PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THIS ZANGWILL HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserProfessor Wahbie Long, clinical psychologist and associate professor in the Department of Psychology and the director of the Child Guidance Clinic at the University of Cape Town.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 13 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Predicting Text Readability and Reading Comprehension from Reading Interactions

UserSian Gooding (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 13 November 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The crucial role of truth-compatible interferences

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/jAiDPFv3tJ3XMiSb6

UserMira Ariel (Tel Aviv University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 12 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Role of medial prefrontal cortex serotonin 2A receptors in recognition memory in rodents

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

UserProfessor Noelia Weisstaub, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 06 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

How far have we come in giving our NLU systems common sense?

Note time change

UserNasrin Mostafazadeh (Verneek).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 06 November 2020, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best Papers from ICML 2020

UserReading group participants.

Househttps://meet.google.com/wdk-qnzb-iet.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Black Racial Stereotypes and Victim Blaming: Implications for Media Coverage and Criminal Proceedings in Cases of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Please note, this talk will start at 4.15pm for virtual tea with talk starting at 4.30pm

UserProfessor Kristin Dukes, Dean for Institutional Diversity at Allegheny College, USA..

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 30 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The pronoun interpretation problem in bilingual Dutch-German children

Please register by noon on the day of the talk: https://forms.gle/mW1tMswxgY6Nwhug6

UserPetra Hendriks (University of Groningen).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 29 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Five Sources of Biases and Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

UserDirk Hovy (Bocconi University).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 23 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Revisiting contact-induced change in creole languages

Please pre-register for this talk by noon on Oct 22nd https://forms.gle/4QF4qiepxGDVEWky6

UserDr Oliver Mayeux (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 22 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

How is Human Social Cognition Special?

Please note, this talk is combined with the Social Psychology Seminar Series (SPSS)

UserProfessor Lasana Harris, Associate Professor, Experimental Psychology, University College London.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2020, 16:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

The case for formal methodology in scientific reform

Please note, virtual tea at 4.15pm with talk starting at 4.30pm

UserDr Berna Devezer, Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Affiliate Faculty at the Department of Mathematics and Statistical Science at the University of Idaho..

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 16 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What are the Goals of Distributional Semantics?

UserGuy Emerson (University of Cambridge).

HouseVirtual (Zoom).

ClockFriday 16 October 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Culture, language and cognition: a methodological and theoretical exploration with reference to spatial concepts

Please register for this talk by NOON on Oct 15th

UserChris Sinha (University of Hunan, University of East Anglia).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 15 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Flexible redistribution in the language network

UserDr. Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences).

HouseZoom - see MRC CBU website (https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/) for details.

ClockThursday 15 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Polysemy: Pragmatics and Linguistic Conventions

Please pre-register for this event by noon on Thursday October 8th : https://forms.gle/QsDW2EdTzjNC2d6i7

UserProfessor Robyn Carston, UCL.

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 08 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

UserJonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockTuesday 06 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

UserAustin Tripp and Erik Daxberger (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/xom-namz-rzv.

ClockWednesday 24 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards explainable fact checking

UserIsabelle Augenstein (University of Copenhagen).

Househttps://meet.google.com/xkv-cako-arr.

ClockFriday 19 June 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

[Online talk] - Iconic Plurals

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 18th of June, 12pm BST): https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=tuYFO -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

UserProf Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS / New York University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 18 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Recent advances in the theory and applications of VAEs

UserGergely Flamich and Alexandru Cioba.

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockWednesday 17 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Achieving Verified Robustness to Adversarial NLP Inputs

Note later start

UserJohannes Welbl (UCL).

Househttps://meet.google.com/tgv-vods-pdk.

ClockFriday 12 June 2020, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - Peircean Semiotics, Archaeology, and the Origin of Human Language: Was Homo erectus the first talking human?

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 11th of June, 12pm BST): https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cJeqCnIOH9BcVTv -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

UserProf Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 11 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Zangwill Club

Psychedelic Relationship Enhancement

Topic: Zangwill Zoom Meeting _Brian Earp Time: Jun 5, 2020 04:00 PM London 4-430pm social with Brian pre-Zangwill 430 to 6pm Talk + discussion.

UserBrian D. Earp, Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and The Hastings Center, arch Fellow in the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford..

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 05 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

User Dr Alexandra Perovic (UCL).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

ClockThursday 04 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

[Online talk] - Monosyllabic Salience in Cantonese: Facilitation of transference of monosyllabic English words (MEWs) into Hong Kong Cantonese-English mixed code

Please SIGN UP for the event (deadline Thursday, 4th of June, 10am BST): https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=NLNKu -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

UserProf David Li (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 04 June 2020, 12:30-14:00

Zangwill Club

The role of the anterior temporal lobe in semantic representation and its disorders

UserProfessor Matt Lambon Ralph, Unit Director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockFriday 29 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Methodological advances in creating time sensitive sensors from language and heterogeneous user generated content

Rescheduled

UserMaria Liakata (Queen Mary University of London, University of Warwick, Alan Turing Institute).

Househttps://meet.google.com/awc-wvbh-azc.

ClockFriday 29 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserProf Brendan Weekes (University of Hong Kong).

HouseTBC.

ClockThursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - The Syntax of Verbs: Language Typology, Language Change and a little bit of Language Acquisition

Please SIGN UP for the event following the link: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25lZ6rde33jG62h -- You will receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk.

UserProf Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 28 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Graph Representation Learning under Uncertainty (WIP)

UserCatalina Cangea and Ben Day (University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline on Teams.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2020, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

We will have a Tea and coffee informal gathering from 1pm to 1.30pm and the talk will start at 130.pm followed by questions and discussion at 230pm.

UserProfessor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting).

HouseJoin Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88316473204?pwd=NGV5RHdh Q3o3am5sRVpabVRVSFhPZz09 Meeting ID: 883 1647 3204 Password: Bowman.

ClockFriday 22 May 2020, 13:30-14:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - TBC

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserDr Marijke De Belder (Oldenburg University).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

ClockThursday 21 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Neyman-Pearson Classification

UserXin Tong, University of Southern California.

Househttps://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

ClockFriday 08 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

[Online talk] - Linguists who use probabilistic models love them: An introduction to Functional Distributional Semantics

Please sign up via the link in order to receive an attendance link on Thursday before the talk: https://cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_50YGCrYnFdptyU5

UserDr Guy Emerson (Dept. of Computer Sciences and Technology, University of Cambridge).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 07 May 2020, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of ICLR 2020

User (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/eqr-irxn-irx.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Reducing gender bias in neural machine translation as a domain adaptation problem

Online Seminar

UserDanielle Saunders (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/hhk-hmiz-mpt.

ClockFriday 01 May 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

[Online talk] L2 phonological learning in adults: The role of language background, age of acquisition, and exposure

To register for the online event, please follow the link below: https://www.psytoolkit.org/cgi-bin/psy2.5.3/survey?s=DszBy

UserDr Job Schepens (TU Dortmund).

HouseOnline.

ClockThursday 30 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differentiable Planning

UserWill Tebbutt, Robert Pinsler.

Househttps://meet.google.com/zza-agyt-koa.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Fragile Memories for Fleeting Percepts

UserProfessor Howard Bowman, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging (Visiting).

HouseZoom meeting.

ClockWednesday 22 April 2020, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Strategic Classification

UserJiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/hmo-aaio-agh.

ClockWednesday 15 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning on Sets

User (University of Cambridge).

Househttps://meet.google.com/qvg-knkr-nrg.

ClockWednesday 08 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19 - Title: How Language Began: A Peircean Approach to Language Evolution

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserProf Daniel Everett (Bentley University).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

ClockThursday 02 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

World Models

UserDr Gregor Simm (University of Cambridge).

HouseHangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

ClockWednesday 18 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

UserProfessor Matt Lambon-Ralph, Director, MRC, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 13 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

Left dislocation

tea served from 4.15

UserHilla Halla-aho (Helsinki).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Federated Learning

UserSiddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Feeling in Seeing is Believing : Experimenting with the Visceral Dimension of Visual Politics (When News are Fake)

UserManos Tsakiris, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London & The Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Network change point detection

UserYi Yu, University of Warwick.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Deep Generative Models on Out-of-Distribution Inputs

UserEric Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 March 2020, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Social Physiology for Precision Psychiatry

UserDr Guillaume Dumas, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 28 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Selection bias, missing data and causal inference

UserKate Tilling, University of Bristol.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Tensors and Random Matrix Theory

UserMehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (UCL).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 28 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Mechanisms in non-native speech perception

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserDr Sharon Peperkamp (LSCP, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

ClockThursday 27 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Self-Supervised Representation Learning

UserJavier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

Statistics

The concept of separable effects for causal mediation and competing risks analyses

UserVanessa Didelez, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Indo-European Seminar

Causatives in Sanskrit

tea served from 4.15

UserAntonia Ruppel (Oxford).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Mean Embeddings

UserElre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

Second Language Education Group

The Role of Metalinguistic Awareness in Multilingual Learning and Teaching

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

UserProfessor Ulrike Jessner-Schmid, University of Innsbruck.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 17 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Posterior contraction rates for potentially nonlinear inverse problems

UserSergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Modern Outrage and the Perversion of Punishment

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM

UserMolly J Crockett, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 14 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Developing technologies for health, mental health and wellbeing

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

UserRafael A. Calvo, Imperial College London.

HouseGR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 13 February 2020, 11:00-12:00

Indo-European Seminar

The rise of vowel writing and the transmission of writing within and beyond Afroasiatic

tea served from 4.15

UserDaniel Harbour (Queen Mary) .

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

UserAdria Garriga Alonso, Sebastian Ober.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 12 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Natural Language Processing for Health

UserDr Nigel Collier: Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, EPSRC Experienced Research Fellow, Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, Co-Director of the Language Technology Lab.

HousePfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2020, 18:00-19:30

Second Language Education Group

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

ALL WELCOME, Drinks reception from 6.30pm

UserEmeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Linguistic Justice in Policy and Practice

Talk followed by a drinks reception

UserEmeritus Professor Robert Phillipson, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark..

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room 1S3..

ClockTuesday 11 February 2020, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

UserProfessor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

UserChengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Zero-shot Language Learning through Bayesian Neural Models

UserEdoardo Maria Ponti (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 07 February 2020, 12:00-13:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Amazon Alexa Tech Talk

Food provided

UserPaolo Gianrossi, Software Development Manager (Amazon Alexa team, Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 03 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

UserDr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 31 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Conveying quantity pragmatically

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserDr Chris Cummins (University of Edinburgh).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, ground floor, TBC.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Second Language Education Group

Micro-level Language Policy and Planning: Levels, Agency and Structure (Cambridge Masterclass in Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy 2019-2020)

Open to staff and students of Cambridge University. Booking is required and please contact Yongcan Liu ( yl258@cam.ac.uk)

UserProfessor Anthony J. Liddicoat, University of Warwick.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Urban Dictionary Embeddings for Slang NLP Applications

UserDr Barbara McGillivray (University of Cambridge and The Alan Turing Institute).

HouseGR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 30 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Indo-European Seminar

'What would Catullus do? Epigraphic evidence for manuscript spelling

tea served from 4.15

UserNicholas Zair, Cambridge.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Developing a Text Editor to Help Writers with Academic English Collocations

Refreshments available from 4.30pm

UserDr. Ana Frankenberg-Garcia, Centre of Translation Studies, University of Surrey.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 27 January 2020, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Affect & Decision-Making in Health and Disease

UserProfessor Tali Sharot, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 24 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

UserYoav Zemel, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Hidden Biases. Ethical Issues in NLP, and What to Do about Them

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

UserDirk Hovy, Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

HouseGR04, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 23 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Approximate Cross Validation for Large Data and High Dimensions

UserTamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Sensitive periods of social brain development in adolescence

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE AT 12.00PM. THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA THIS WEEK

UserProfessor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Can we optimise fashion ecommerce using NLG?

Note: earlier time of 11am

UserRory Waite (Emotif.ai).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Department of Psychiatry & CPFT Thursday Lunchtime Seminar Series

The use of mobile games to assess cognitive function of elderly with and without cognitive impairment

chair: Prof Barbara J. Sahakian

UserDr Bruno Bonnechère, Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel .

HouseSeminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 12:30-13:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Correlations Between Word Vector Sets

A joint Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) and Language Technology Lab (LTL) seminar on Human-Centric AI Technologies

UserAleksandar Savkov, Babylon.

HouseBoard room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 16 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Attentive learning: Understanding mechanisms by studying outcomes, risk and protective factors

UserGaia Scerif, Attention, Brain and Cognitive Development, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Long Form Question Answering

UserAngela Fan (Facebook).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 December 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

t-glottalling, flapping and pre-glottalisation in British Englishes: patterns in phonological and social variability

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserDanielle Turton (Lancaster University).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, TBC.

ClockThursday 05 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Gaussian Processes

UserDavid Burt, Andrew Foong.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

Visuospatial working memory as a fundamental component of the eye movement system.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED!!

UserProfessor Stefan van der Stigchel, Professor in Cognitive Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 29 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On the convergence of the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm and other irreversible MCMC methods

UserAlain Durmus — École Normale Superieure, Cachan.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Programming

UserHong Ge and John Bronskill.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Statistics

Optimal Transport for Machine Learning

UserGabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 22 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Unsupervised cross-lingual representation learning

Room Change: LT1

UserSebastian Ruder (DeepMind).

HouseLT1, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Visual learning: Babies, bodies and machines

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

UserProfessor Linda Smith, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University Bloomington, USA.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 22 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Chaucer Club

Chemistry of the adaptive mind: on dopamine and mental work

UserRoshan Cools (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 November 2019, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Attention

UserElre Oldewage, George Hron.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED Probabilistic models of graphs for meaning representations

Extra talk: note unusual day and time

UserAdam Lopez (University of Edinburgh).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 19 November 2019, 10:00-11:00

Zangwill Club

The spatial and temporal dynamics of attention: insights from direct access to the attentional spotlight

UserProfessor Suliann Ben Hamed, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Multiscale Analysis of Bayesian CART

UserVeronika Rockova — University of Chicago.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Ethical considerations for responsible design

Room Change: LT1

UserShauna Concannon (University of Cambridge).

HouseLT1, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Sociolinguistic Vulnerability: Disaster Linguicism and Crisis Translation

There will be a tea and coffee reception from 4pm.

UserProf. Federico Federici (University College London).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Leveraging non-expert semantic intuitions to support multilingual NLP

UserOlga Majewska, PhD student in Computational Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics.

HouseRoom 326, Raised Faculty Building, MML, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA.

ClockThursday 14 November 2019, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Equivariance and Symmetries in CNNs

UserJames Allingham, Omer Sella.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

Costs and benefits of cognitive control: When a little frontal cortex goes a long way

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL SEMINAR - THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA TODAY

UserSharon L. Thompson-Schill, Ph.D, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Speech Recognition: What’s Left?

This talk is organised in conjunction with the IEEE Signal Processing Society for which Dr Michael Picheny is a Distinguished Industry Speaker

UserDr Michael Picheny.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LT1.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processes

UserWilliam Wilkinson, Aalto University, Finland.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockTuesday 12 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Anhedonia and Adolescent Depression

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserDr Ciara McCabe, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, University of Reading.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Identifying Cointegration by Eigenanalysis

UserQiwei Yao — London School of Economics.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 08 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Making circles out of lines: A view of the evolving relationship between academia and language communities

UserEbany Dohle (SOAS, University of London) & Maria-Olimpia Squillaci (University of Naples "L'Orientale").

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hyperparameter Optimisation

UserRoss Clarke, Erik Daxberger, Austin Tripp.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Statistics

Classification with unknown class conditional label noise on non-compact feature spaces

UserHenry Reeve — University of Birmingham.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 01 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Quantifying conscious states by means of self-initiated brain activity

Please note: This Zangwill talk will be taking place at 12.00pm

UserDr Athena Demertzi, Physiology of Cognition Research Lab, GIGA Consciousness, GIGA Institute, University of Liège, Belgium .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 November 2019, 12:00-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Meta-Learning or "Learning To Learn"

UserJohn Bronskill, Marton Havasi.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

How we remember and how we forget

User Aidan J Horner, Department of Psychology, University of York, York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On Estimation of Unnormalized Density Models

UserSong Liu — University of Bristol.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Automatic Analysis of Affect and Personality Analysis in Multiperson Settings

UserHatice Gunes (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Methodological Diversity in Design Fixation Research

UserDr Nathan Crilly is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Design at the University of Cambridge. .

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Asymptotic normality of certain transformation averages

UserPeter Orbanz — University College London.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multimodal natural language processing: when text is not enough

UserLucia Specia (Imperial College London).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO ZANGWILL TALK THIS WEEK

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 October 2019, 00:00-00:00

Chaucer Club

The perceptual prediction paradox

UserClare Press (U. of London, Dept of Psychology Sciences).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 October 2019, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Distributed Statistics à la Economics

UserElchanan Mossel (MIT).

HouseMR12.

ClockTuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Rethinking sex and the brain beyond the binary: Mosaic brains in a multi-dimensional space

UserProfessor Daphna Joel, School of Psychological Sciences and Sagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Israel .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 11 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On the robustness of gradient-based MCMC algorithms

UserSam Livingstone — University College London.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 11 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Latent Variable Models for Text Generation

UserXiaoyu Shen, Saarland University / Max Planck Institute.

HouseBoard room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 10 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

The endocannabinoid system at work: From basic mechanisms to psychiatric diseases

Please note: This is a Pre-Zangwill Talk - see change of venue

UserProfessor Mauro Maccarrone, Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Campus Bio-Medico, University of Rome, Italy.

HouseNick Mackintosh Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 04 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian Principles

UserEmti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockTuesday 24 September 2019, 10:00-11:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

A human-oriented term rewriting system

UserEd Ayers (University of Cambridge).

HouseFC22.

ClockMonday 23 September 2019, 13:00-14:00

Second Language Education Group

Promoting multilingual literacy and reader identity:Global Storybooks and open technology

UserBonny Norton , FRSC, Professor and University Scholar , Department of Language & Literacy Education, UBC, Canada.

HouseMurray Edwards College, Lecture Theatre.

ClockFriday 13 September 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Rotation Invariant Householder Parameterization for Bayesian PCA

UserRajbir Nirwan, Goethe University, Frankfurt.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 04 September 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Semi-Unsupervised Learning with Deep Generative Models / Disentangling Improves VAEs' Robustness to Adversarial Attacks

UserMatthew Willetts and Alexander Camuto, University of Oxford / Alan Turing Institute.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 17 July 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficiency and Transferability of Neural Networks

UserAmos Storkey, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockFriday 12 July 2019, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language Generation in the Wild

UserDaniel Beck, University of Melbourne.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 05 July 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Regularized linear autoencoders, the Morse theory of loss, and backprop in the brain

UserJon Bloom (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard).

HouseMR12.

ClockMonday 24 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Bilingualism in the community: Code-switching and grammars in contact

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

UserCatherine Travis (The Australian National University).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockWednesday 19 June 2019, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

An Operation Sequence Model for Explainable Neural Machine Translation

UserFelix Stahlberg, CUED, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 14 June 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Geometrizing rates of convergence under local differential privacy

UserLukas Steinberger, University of Freiburg.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 07 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Recent Developments in the Study of Single-Index Type Models

UserMouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 07 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Relational knowledge in vector spaces

UserLuis Espinosa-Anke (University of Cardiff).

HouseBoard room, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 06 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Collaborative Poetics

Reserve your space at http://collaborativepoetics.eventbrite.com

UserHelen Johnson, University of Brighton.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS5.

ClockMonday 03 June 2019, 14:00-16:30

Statistics

Nonparametric maximum likelihood methods for binary response models with random coefficients

UserRoger Koenker, University College London.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 31 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards secure and efficient DNNs

UserAaron Zhao, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 31 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Language dynamics - what we hear and how we hear it

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

UserProf. Anita Mehta (University of Oxford).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, SR-24 (second floor).

ClockThursday 30 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Communication in the presence of sparsity

UserYiannis Kontoyiannis (Cambridge).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR14.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Out in the Field with the Remaining Speakers of Neo-Aramaic in Northern Iraq

UserDr Paul Noorlander (University of Cambridge), Dorota Molin (University of Cambridge).

HouseFaculty of English, Room SR24.

ClockTuesday 28 May 2019, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Neuroscience & Creativity: Insights from Unnatural Bedfellows

PLEASE NOTE: THIS ZANGWILL TALK IS TAKING PLACE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.30PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT 4.00PM

UserProfessor Anna Abraham, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 24 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

MAP estimators and posterior consistency for Bayesian inverse problems with exponential priors

UserMasoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 24 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Mitigating Gender Bias in Morphologically Rich Languages

UserRyan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Driving a wedge between communication and language learning in autism

There will be a coffee reception from 4pm.

UserProf Mikhail Kissine (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium).

HouseFaculty of Divinity, Lecture Room 2.

ClockThursday 23 May 2019, 16:30-17:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Language attitudes in Ningbo, China

UserHui (Annette) Zhao, MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom 336, Raised Faculty Building, MML, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA.

ClockThursday 23 May 2019, 13:00-14:30

Statistics

On distributed Bayesian computation

UserHarry van Zanten, University of Amsterdam.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 17 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

AI Extenders: The Ethical and Societal Implications of Humans Cognitively Extended by AI

UserKarina Vold & José Hernández-Orallo, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Shedding light on infant brain and cognitive development in Africa: The BRIGHT Project

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA AT 4.00PM

UserDr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London, Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 May 2019, 12:00-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Particle MCMC

UserWill Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2019, 14:00-15:30

Second Language Education Group

Paradoxes of multilingualism in public policy in conjunction with the launching of Cambridge Masterclass Series on Multilingualism, Education and Language Policy

Please book with Ann Waterman on aw244@cam.ac.uk if you would like to attend

UserProfessor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockTuesday 14 May 2019, 10:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

How can usage-based SLA invigorate language education?

in conjunction of the launching Cambridge Annual Lecture on Second Language Learning and Teaching

User Professor Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, Washington, USA .

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 13 May 2019, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

On the Consistency of Supervised Learning with Missing Values

UserJulie Josse, École Polytechnique.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 10 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Neural circuits for visually-guided decision making in mice.

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM

UserDr Jasper Poort, Selective Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Factorising AMR generation through syntax

UserKris Cao, DeepMind.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

[Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable stochastic optimization and large-scale data

UserMichael W. Mahoney (ICSI and Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley).

HouseMR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Languages* in Formal Reasoning: Accessibility vs. Formality

UserZohreh Shams, AI Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 03 May 2019, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Reinforcement learning in AI systems and in the brain

UserMatt Botvinick (DeepMind and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 02 May 2019, 15:30-17:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Juggling School-Research partnerships: funding, methodologies, accountability and impact.

UserAssociate Professor Madonna Stinson, School of Education and Professional Studies Griffith University, Australia.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Modality-general and modality-specific processes in hallucinations

PLEASE NOTE, WEDNESDAY, 1ST MAY. THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL TALK AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT 1.00PM. PLEASE ALSO NOTE, THERE WILL BE NO ZANGWILL TEA TODAY

UserProfessor Charles Fernyhough, Durham University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Nuisance parameters

UserHeather Battey, Imperial College London.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Word Sense Disambiguation and Other Systems in Japanese

UserKanako Komiya, Ibaraki University, Japan.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Bridging Neural and Computational Viewpoints on Perceptual Decision Making

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR WILL START AT 12.00PM. THE ZANGWILL TEA WILL BE AT THE USUAL TIME OF 4.00PM

UserDr Redmond O'Connell, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 April 2019, 12:00-13:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The interaction between simplicity and naturalness in nominal word order typology

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

UserDr Jennifer Culbertson (University of Edinburgh).

HouseEnglish Faculty Building, GR-05 (ground floor).

ClockThursday 25 April 2019, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

NeVAE: A Deep Generative Model for Molecular Graphs

UserAbir De, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockMonday 08 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sampling as Optimization

UserEric Nalisnick, University of Cambridge.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 03 April 2019, 13:45-15:15

Educational Research Collaboration with Cambridge University Press

UserNiall Curry, Cambridge University Press.

HouseFaculty of Education, room GS5.

ClockThursday 28 March 2019, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Far beyond the back of the brain

UserPeter Hagoort (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 15:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Disagreements in anaphoric interpretation

UserMassimo Poesio ( University of Essex).

HouseFaculty of English, Room SR24.

ClockThursday 14 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Implicit Variational Inference

UserAndrew Foong (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2019, 13:45-15:15

Zangwill Club

Top-down vs. bottom-up? Effects of prediction and attention on sensory processing and perception

UserHeleen A. Slagter, PhD, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience VU University Amsterdam.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Explicit stabilised Runge-Kutta methods and their application to Bayesian inverse problems

UserKostas Zygalakis, University of Edinburgh.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

K.A.T.E.: Scaling personalised tech education for professionals

UserRaoul-Gabriel Urma, Kevin Lemagnen, Sahan Bulathwela, Cambridge Spark.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 08 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

TBC

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

User Dr Francesca Martina Branzi (University of Cambridge).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 07 March 2019, 18:00-19:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Improving Literature-based Discovery with Neural Networks

UserGamal Crichton, Language Technology Lab.

HouseFaculty of English, Room SR24.

ClockThursday 07 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Indo-European Seminar

A Roman ‘folk model’ of courage: animus and metaphor

Tea served from 4.15

UserBill Short University of Exeter .

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2019, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Analysis of Networks via the Sparse β-Model

UserChenlei Leng, University of Warwick.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 01 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning multi-domain dialogues

UserPaweł Budzianowski, CUED, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 March 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Predictors of listening comprehension skills in bilingual children

There will be a tea reception from 4:30pm.

UserProf Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 28 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Institutional multilingualism: theories, policies and practices of language and law in the EU

UserJavier Moreno-Rivero (PhD student, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge).

HouseSeminar Room G, Second Floor, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, CB2 1RX.

ClockThursday 28 February 2019, 13:00-14:30

Indo-European Seminar

Early Latin to Neo-Latin: Festus and Scaliger

Tea served from 4.15

UserAnna Chahoud Trinity College, Dublin.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Inference and Causal Reinforcement Learning

UserChaochao Lu (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Researching LGBTQ+ Issues: Building Community

UserCharlotte Allen, Frank Frangeskou, Becky Moses, Lucian Stephenson.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

ClockMonday 25 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

In search for the cognitive foundations of Euclidean geometry

UserVéronique Izard, Integrative Neuroscience and Cognition Center, CNRS & Université Paris Descartes.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 22 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

High-dimensional sign tests for the direction of a skewed single-spiked distribution

UserDavy Paindaveine, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 22 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Large-scale analyses of language variation and change in social media

UserDong Nguyen, University of Edinburgh & Alan Turing Institute.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Seeking cross-linguistic interaction in the phonetic and phonological development of bilingual French-speaking children

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

UserDr Margaret Kehoe (University of Geneva) .

HouseGr-06/7 (English Faculty Building).

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Teaching Artificial Agents to Understand Language by Modelling Reward

UserEdward Grefenstette, Facebook AI Research.

HouseFaculty of English, Room SR24.

ClockThursday 21 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Dilated DenseNets for Relational Reasoning

UserAgnieszka Slowik (University of Cambridge).

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockTuesday 19 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Animal models of episodic memory

UserProfessor Jonathon D. Crystal, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Indiana University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

On the fundamental understanding of distributed computation

UserBotond Szabó, University of Leiden.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 15 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Source Code using Natural Language and Graph Neural Networks

UserMiltos Allamanis, Microsoft Research.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Getting the gist: experience and expectation in the interpretation of novel compound nouns

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

UserDr Melaine Bell (Anglia Ruskin University) .

HouseGr-06/7 (English Faculty Building).

ClockThursday 14 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Do Deep Generative Models Know What They Don't Know?

UserEric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

HouseFaculty of English, Room SR24.

ClockThursday 14 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Online Meta-Learning

UserMassimiliano Pontil, University College London.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockThursday 14 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Logical Uncertainty

UserAdrià Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

Second Language Education Group

The Listening Zones of NGOs: Languages and cultural knowledge in development programmes

There will be a drinks reception after the seminar

UserProfessor Hilary Footitt, University of Reading.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 11 February 2019, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Set to change? Lifespan factors influencing neurocognitive trajectories and plasticity

UserProfessor Kristine Beate Walhovd, Professor of Neuropsychology, University of Oslo.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Post-selection confidence intervals and confidence curves

UserGerda Claeskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 08 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning to navigate without a map (but with instructions)

UserPiotr Mirowski, DeepMind.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 08 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The Evolutionary Typology of Verbal Person-Number Indexes

There will be a tea reception from 4pm.

UserDr Ilja Seržant (University of Leipzig).

HouseGr-06/7 (English Faculty Building).

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Probabilistic Typology

UserRyan Cotterell ( University of Cambridge).

HouseFaculty of English, Room SR24.

ClockThursday 07 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

What can endangered creoles tell us about language change? Three centuries of Louisiana Creole

This talk is co-hosted by the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

UserOliver Mayeux *Cambridge).

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 18:30-19:30

Indo-European Seminar

Italic religious dedications: between local traditions and Graeco-Roman influences

Tea served from 4.15

UserMaria José Estaran University of Zaragoza.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology

UserProfessor Asifa Majid, Professor of Language, Communication, and Cultural Cognition, University of York.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 February 2019, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Topic-Aware Convolutional Neural Networks for Extreme Summarization

UserShashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh / Google.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 February 2019, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

1st Reading seminar: Harm Pinkster’s Oxford Latin Syntax

Tea served from 4.15

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Queering the Art Classroom

UserTabitha Millett, IoE, University College London.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

Second Language Education Group

Creativity in the languages classroom: Learners' responses to literary text

UserDr.Linda Fisher, University of Cambridge , Professor Suzanne Graham, Reading University.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 28 January 2019, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stein Discrepancy

UserSebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserProfessor Natalie Sebanz, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Geometric MCMC for infinite-dimensional Bayesian Inverse Problems

UserAlexandros Beskos, University College London .

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 25 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

**CANCELLED** Probabilistic Typology: Deep Generative Models of Vowel Inventories

UserRyan Cotterell, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning and testing compositionality

UserElia Bruni, University of Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain).

HouseFaculty of English, Room SR24.

ClockThursday 24 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Indo-European Seminar

Hieroglyphic Luwian masterclass

Tea served from 4.15

UserWillemijn Waal, Leiden.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Cross-language speech perception: how listening to foreign speech changes over life

UserProf. Nuria Sebastian-Galles Center of Brain and Cognition Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

On the hypocoercivity of some PDMP-Monte Carlo algorithms

UserChristophe Andrieu, University of Bristol.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Interpreting definite and bare plurals across different contexts: experimental evidence from adult mono- and bilingual Greek speakers

UserDr Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga, Post-doctoral Researcher, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom 336, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages (MML).

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

MEITS Multilingualism Seminars

Linguistic intuitions beyond grammatical correctness: evidence from untutored L2 learners

UserDr Teresa Parodi, University Lecturer, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages.

HouseRoom 336, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages (MML).

ClockThursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Room changed

UserDaniil Sorokin, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 30 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Linguistic Measures for the Detection of Clinical Conditions

UserAline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, University of Essex).

HouseBoardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

ClockThursday 29 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

UserEric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Statistics

Posterior concentration for Bayesian regression trees and their ensembles

UserStephanie van der Pas, University of Leiden.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 23 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

A Bayesian approach to internal models

UserMate Lengyel (Dept of Engineering, U. of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 22 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Indo-European Seminar

The decline of infinitival complementation in Ancient Greek. A reconsideration

Tea served from 4.15

UserKlaas Bentein, Ghent.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Natural gradient in deep neural networks

UserAlberto Bernacchia (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Second Language Education Group

EMI in Francophone Cameroon: What can we learn from victims of English?

There will be a drinks reception after the seminar

UserDr. Harry Kuchah Kuchah, University of Leeds.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 19 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

How search uses Machine Learning

Food provided

UserFabrizio Silvestri, Facebook.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 19 November 2018, 13:05-14:30

Zangwill Club

Making sense of time in the Human mind

UserProfessor Virginie van Wassenhove, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/Joliot, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 16 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Concentration of tempered posteriors and of their variational approximations

UserPierre Alquier, ENSAE.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 16 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology

Room changed

UserMarcus Tomalin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing

UserProfessor Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing

UserProfessor Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca).

HouseGR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning with Explanations

UserTim Rocktäschel, Facebook AI Research.

HouseBoardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

ClockThursday 15 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Graph Neural Networks

UserMatej Balog (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

Social timing in autism spectrum disorders

UserDr Christine Falter-Wagner, Department of Psychiatry, LMU Munich.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Phase transitions on community detectability for various types of stochastic block models

UserLaurent Massoulié, INRIA.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Representation and Extraction at Scale

UserChristos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 09 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings in 60 Minutes

UserIvan Vulić, LTL, University of Cambridge.

HouseBoardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

ClockThursday 08 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Defending Against Adversarial Attacks

UserRoss Clarke (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Second Language Education Group

Pardon my French! Exploring the myths and realities of Second Language Education in Canada

UserDr Shawn Bullock, University of Cambridge, Dr Cecile Sabatier, Simon Fraser University.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 05 November 2018, 17:30-19:00

Zangwill Club

Sleep for Systems Consolidation

UserDr Lisa Genzel, Assistant Professor, The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science Donders Centre for Neuroscience, The Netherlands.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 02 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Towards a better understanding of early stopping for boosting algorithms

UserYuting Wei, Stanford University.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

King's Occasional Lectures

Language Evolution in Spatial Domains, and Statistical Physics

UserJames Burridge, University of Portsmouth.

HouseAudit Room, King's College.

ClockThursday 01 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

On KL divergence and beyond

UserYingzhen Li, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseBoardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

ClockThursday 01 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Cortical tracking of natural and artificial sequences

UserProfessor Lucia Melloni, Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine, US; Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Bayesian regression models for complex spatially or serially correlated functional data

UserJeffrey Morris, MD Anderson Cancer Center.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep learning for automatically assessing the pronunciation of non-native English speakers

UserKostas Kyriakopoulos, CUED, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 26 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

CANCELLED: Doctoral and Masters Student Symposium: Arts-Based Research Praxis and the Role of Theory

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE SUDDEN ILLNESS OF TWO OF THE THREE PRESENTERS. WE APOLOGISE SINCERELY FOR THE DISAPPOINTMENT.

UserDr Liz Mackinlay (University of Queensland), Dr Rebecca Heaton (University of Northampton), Professor Pam Burnard (University of Cambridge).

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS4.

ClockSaturday 20 October 2018, 13:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS NO ZANGWILL CLUB TALK THIS WEEK

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 19 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Nonparametric Bayes for support boundary recovery

UserJohannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 19 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning, Representing, and Understanding Language

UserAida Nematzadeh, DeepMind.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

How Paranoia Affects Social Cognition and Behaviour

UserProf Nichola Raihani Professor of Evolution and Behaviour, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 12 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Uniform rates of Glivenko-Cantelli convergence and their use in Bayesian inference

UserEmanuele Dolera, Università degli Studi di Pavia.

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 12 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Some lessons learned in Multimodal Representations and Transfer

UserPranava Madhyastha, Imperial College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 12 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Heteroskedastic PCA: Algorithm, Optimality, and Applications

UserTony Cai, University of Pennsylvania.

HouseMR13.

ClockThursday 11 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

When Statistics Meets Computing

UserProfessor Tony Cai (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania).

HouseCentre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

Introduction to the term’s reading seminar on A. Willi Origins of the Greek Verb

Tea served from 4.15

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Modelling cortical gain in autism (without neuroimaging)

UserDr Rebecca Lawson, Sir Henry Dale Fellowship, Affiliated Lecturer Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 05 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Imitation learning, zero-shot learning and automated fact checking

UserAndreas Vlachos, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 05 October 2018, 12:00-13:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Process Drama as Creative Pedagogy - A Workshop in Imagination

UserDr Julia Horne, Dr Alison O’Grady, Catherine Smyth & Elizabeth Gillroy, University of Sydney.

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS1.

ClockThursday 20 September 2018, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Fast yet Simple Natural-Gradient Variational Inference in Complex Models

UserEmtiyaz Khan, team leader (equivalent to Full Professor) at the RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) in Tokyo.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockMonday 16 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

EDUCATIONAL AIMS AND VALUES THROUGH ARCHITECTURE: Revisiting radical pasts to make space for broader visions of education

UserSteve Higgins (University of Durham), Ola Uduku (Manchester School of Architecture), Bob Wallbridge (Hampshire CC).

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS5.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2018, 13:00-17:30

Statistics

Sketchy decisions: Low-rank convex matrix optimization with optimal storage

UserJoel Tropp (Caltech).

HouseMR12.

ClockMonday 18 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Time Management

UserPolly Brown, University Counselling Service.

HouseRoom B3, Institute of Criminology.

ClockMonday 11 June 2018, 12:00-14:00

Statistics

What is the dimension of a stochastic process?

UserVictor Panaretos (EPFL).

HouseMR11.

ClockThursday 07 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Arts and Creativities Research Group

Doctoral Student Lunch Seminar: Rigour versus agility: Where does the self end in practice-led research?

UserPortia Ungley, Director of Learning and Teaching, Critical Studies and Creative Industries.

HouseMary Allen Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, room 106.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Selectivity and dynamics of human face representations

UserProfessor Rafael Malach, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 June 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

UserSabyasachi Chatterjee (UIUC).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 01 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning hierarchical structure: strong learning of PCFGs

UserAlexander Clark, King's College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Metacognition of internally-generated processes

UserDr Elisa Filevich, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

NAACL practice talks

UserSimon Baker (LTL) & Marek Rei (NLIP), University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

On momentum methods and acceleration in stochastic optimization

UserPraneeth Netrapalli (Microsoft Research India).

HouseMR14.

ClockMonday 21 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Developing memory interference strategies as treatments for addiction and trauma-related symptoms

UserDr Sunjeev Kamboj, Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Bayesian estimation of the mean response in a missing data model

UserKolyan Ray (King's College London).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 18 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Elfdalian, a divergent Nordic dialect now and throughout the ages

UserGuus Kroonen, University of Copenhagen/Leiden University.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-04.

ClockWednesday 16 May 2018, 18:00-19:00

Zangwill Club

Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

UserProfessor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 11 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Multiple change point estimation based on moving sum statistics

UserClaudia Kirch (Magdeburg).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 11 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Emergent Communication through Negotiation

UserKris Cao, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 11 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

UserAna Stoica, Columbia University.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 09 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Simulating word learning, semantic grounding, and oscillatory responses to linguistic items in a neurobiologically constrained model of the cortex

UserDr Max Garagnani, Lecturer in Computer Science, Co-Director of the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 04 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Predictive Uncertainty in Deep Learning

UserAndrey Malinin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 04 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Predictive Uncertainty in Deep Learning

UserAndrey Malinin (University of Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR5 Lecture Room.

ClockThursday 03 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Orbit recovery from invariants

UserJonathan Weed (MIT).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings

UserIvan Vulic, LTL, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 27 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

UserAna Stoica, Columbia University.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockSunday 15 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Understanding Ellipsis: Corpus, Annotation, Theory

Note: This is a special out-of-term session. Note unusual time (Monday instead of Thursday)

UserProf. Jim McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz).

HouseEnglish Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

ClockMonday 26 March 2018, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

** cancelled **

UserJulian Perez, Naver Labs Europe.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 23 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

CANCELLED - Diversity of Expression in Utterance and the Idea of Language

This talk has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

UserProf Adam Kendon (University of Cambridge).

HouseGR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 22 March 2018, 16:30-18:30

Arts and Creativities Research Group

EDUCATIONAL AIMS AND VALUES THROUGH ARCHITECTURE: Revisiting radical pasts to make space for broader visions of education

UserDominic Cullinan (SCABAL), Helen Taylor (Scott Brownrigg), Crawford Wright (Department for Education), Michele Zini (ZPZ Partners).

House Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, room GS5.

ClockTuesday 20 March 2018, 13:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology

UserProf Asifa Majid, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 16 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Virtual bargaining as a micro-foundation for communication

Note unusual time

UserProfessor Nick Chater, University of Warwick.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 09 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

What is the temporal resolution of categorical perception?

UserProf Leon Deouell, Human Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Louisiana Creole - a creole at the periphery

UserIngrid Neumann-Holzschuh (Universität Regensburg).

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-05.

ClockFriday 09 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

Louisiana Creole - a creole at the periphery

This talk is co-hosted with the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

UserIngrid Neumann-Holzschuh (Universität Regensburg).

HouseFaculty of English, GR05.

ClockFriday 09 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing

UserMatej Balog (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 08 March 2018, 13:30-15:00

Zangwill Club

How is visual perception biased

UserDr Floris de Lange, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 02 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Jointly Learning Syntax and Semantics

UserJean Maillard, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 02 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Theory, Codes, and Compression

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 01 March 2018, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge PhD Clinic

How to track the impact of your publications

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoom B4, Institute of Criminology.

ClockMonday 26 February 2018, 12:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

: Visual Perception of Materials and their Properties

UserProf. Roland W. Fleming, PhD Kurt Koffka Professor of Experimental Psychology, Justus-Leibig University Giessen .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Approximations of the Restless Bandit Problem

UserAzadeh Khaleghi (Lancaster).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 23 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Constructing datasets for multi-hop reading comprehension across documents

UserJohannes Welbl, University College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 23 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Speak white, speak black, speak American

UserDarryl G Barthe Jr (Universiteit van Amsterdam).

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2018, 18:15-19:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Structured Deep Learning for Dialogue Management

UserKai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR3B Lecture Room.

ClockMonday 19 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

From ears to brain (and back): Imaging the brain computations for sound analysis.

UserProf Elia Formisano Maastricht-Brain Imaging Center (M-BIC), Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 16 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep reinforcement learning for dialogue policy optimisation

UserDr Milica Gasic, Dept. Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Lipschitz Global Optimization

UserProfessor Yaroslav D Sergeyev, Universita della Calabria.

HouseCBL Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 16 February 2018, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Using narratives to understand human conscious experience

UserDr Lorina Naci, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Pruning and grafting syntactic trees for cross-lingual transfer tasks

UserEdoardo Ponti, TAL, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 09 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Third language acquisition at the initial stages: An event-related potential study probing for transfer

UserJason Rothman, David Miller and Eloi Puig-Mayenco (University of Reading / UiT the Arctic University of Norway).

HouseGR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 08 February 2018, 16:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

A conversation on his life and work with Prof David Spiegelhalter

PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE OF VENUE AND CHANGE OF TIME: This is a shared event with the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, please sign up https://goo.gl/LPAAaF

UserProf Baruch Fishhoff, Institute for Politics and Strategy, Carnegie Mellon University .

House Lecture Theatre 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

ClockFriday 02 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Generative Models

UserJonathan Gordon; Alexander Matthews.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

ClockThursday 01 February 2018, 13:30-15:00

Zangwill Club

Investigating the role of cognition for speech-in-noise listening

UserDr Antje Heinrich, Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, University of Manchester.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Bayesian nonparametric estimation of the intensities in multivariate Hawkes processes

UserJudith Rousseau (Oxford).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 26 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Minimum Description Length

UserCarl E. Rasmussen; Niki Kilbertus.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

ClockThursday 25 January 2018, 13:30-15:00

Zangwill Club

Inoculating Against Misinformation: On the Motivated Cognition of Facts and Expertise

UserDr Sander van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 19 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

BOOK LAUNCH: The Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature

UserJuliet Dusinberre, Alison Waller, Eve Tandoi, Andrew Burn, Eugene Giddens, Zoe Jaques, Clementine Beauvais and Maria Nikolajeva.

HouseMary Allan Building room 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

ClockFriday 19 January 2018, 15:00-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Context Sensitive Distributional Semantics

UserStephen McGregor (TCIDA, Goldsmiths).

HouseBoardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

ClockThursday 18 January 2018, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Role of primate amygdala neurons in economic decision-making

UserFabian Grabenhorst (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 17 January 2018, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS 2017 Highlights

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

ClockThursday 14 December 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks

UserProfessor Andrew Wilson, Cornell University.

HouseCBL Seminar Room.

ClockWednesday 13 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Heart and minds: The hidden impacts on emotion and memory

UserDr Sarah Garfinkel, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. University of Sussex, Brighton.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 December 2017, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

AI for Inclusive Finance

UserAlan Qi and Le Song.

HouseCBL Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 01 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Metacontrol: The Yin and Yang of cognitive control

UserProfessor Bernhard Hommel, Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 24 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Imitation learning for structured prediction and automated fact checking

UserDr Andreas Vlachos, University of Sheffield.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning to Learn

UserSiddharth Swaroop; Will Tebbutt.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Powered by Cambridge: Devices, data and interDisciplinarity

Registration required

UserSaul Nassé (Cambridge Assessment).

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2017, 17:15-18:15

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Using Social Media to Investigate Linguistic Variation and Change

Registration required

UserDavid Willis (University of Cambridge).

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2017, 16:15-16:45

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster session

Registration required

UserVarious.

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2017, 15:30-16:15

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster slam

Registration required

UserVarious.

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2017, 15:00-15:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Individualised Language in the Big Data Era

Registration required

UserPaula Buttery (University of Cambridge).

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2017, 14:30-15:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

The Use of Deep Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Registration required

UserSteve Young (University of Cambridge).

HouseCripps Court, Magdalene College.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2017, 13:30-14:30

Zangwill Club

Cognitive rehabilitation in people with schizophrenia

UserProfessor Dame Til Wykes. DBE, Vice Dean Psychology and Systems Sciences Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience King’s College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Learning from MOM's principles

UserGuillaume Lecué (ENSAE).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 17 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal seminar - new PhD students

UserNew NLIP PhDs.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Towards true end-to-end learning & optimization

UserDr Frank Hutter.

HouseCBL Seminar Room.

ClockFriday 17 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Whistled Speech and Language Discrimination

UserMary Ann Walter (Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus) .

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 15 November 2017, 18:10-19:00

Zangwill Club

Information networks, truth and value.

UserProfessor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Accelerated Consensus via Min-Sum Splitting

UserPatrick Rebeschini (Oxford).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 10 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Labelling Topics Using Neural Networks

UserNikolaos Aletras, Amazon Research Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Interpretability in Machine Learning

UserAdrian Weller; Tameem Adel Hesham.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

ClockThursday 09 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Zangwill Club

Touch: The sensory scaffold of development?

UserProfessor Andrew Bremner, Professor of Psychology and Head of Department, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 03 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Vocabulary: Principles and Practice

UserProfessor Norbert Schmitt, University of Nottingham.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 30 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory

UserProfessor Klaus Oberauer, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 27 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Online nonparametric regression with adversarial data

UserPierre Gaillard (INRIA Paris).

HouseMR12.

ClockFriday 27 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Grounded language learning in simulated worlds

UserFelix Hill, DeepMind.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 27 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cooperative Inverse RL

UserRobert Pinsler; Adria Garriga Alonso.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

ClockThursday 26 October 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Infer.NET

UserJohn F. Bronskill.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

ClockThursday 19 October 2017, 13:30-15:00

Zangwill Club

The Social Neuroendocrinology of Status

UserDr Pranjal Mehta, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 13 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Transfer Learning for NLP

UserSebastian Ruder, INSIGHT Centre.

HouseJDB Seminar Room, CUED.

ClockFriday 13 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Models for Information Retrieval

UserBhaskar Mitra, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 13 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Academic Speed Dating

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoom B4, Institute of Criminology.

ClockTuesday 10 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Zangwill Club

Brain mechanisms underlying the subjective experience of remembering

UserDr Jon Simons, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Text-to-text Generation Beyond Machine Translation

UserShashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

CCIMI Seminar: Kernel-based Methods for Bandit Convex Optimization

UserSébastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research Redmond).

HouseMR12.

ClockWednesday 04 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Finite-State Transducers as a Theory of Dependency Structured Natural Language

UserAnssi Yli-Jyrä, University of Helsinki.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 September 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Natural Language Processing to Bridge Heterogeneous Data

UserYusuke Miyao (National Institute of Informatics, Japan).

House SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockTuesday 19 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep learning for autonomous driving

UserTakayoshi Yamashita (Chubu University) .

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockFriday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series

How Can NLP Help Cure Cancer?

 Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

UserRegina Barzilay Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

HouseAuditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

ClockThursday 10 August 2017, 13:00-14:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Children in Distress: past precedents and current experience

UserSir Tim Brighouse, Dr Carl Emery (University of Manchester), Dr Carrie Herbert MBE (Red Balloon Learner Centre Group), Caroline Peet (Queens’ Federation) and Alison Roy (Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist).

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

ClockSaturday 15 July 2017, 14:00-17:00

PublicHealth@Cambridge

Text mining for public health reviews (The Robot Analyst)

UserSophia Ananiadou, Professor of Computer Science, University of Manchester.

HouseSeminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

ClockFriday 23 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep NLP in language tutoring

UserFrancis Bond, Associate Professor at the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Predicting Rich Linguistic Structure with Neural Networks

UserJan Buys, University of Oxford.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 13 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Functional Distributional Semantics

UserGuy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 09 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NLP, the perfect social (media) science?

UserDirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 07 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Sentence-level Topic Models

UserKris Cao (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 02 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

A cluster of Aromanian varieties in North-Western Greece

UserDr. Marios Mavrogiorgos, University of Cambridge.

HouseFaculty of English, Room SR24.

ClockWednesday 31 May 2017, 17:15-18:45

NLIP Seminar Series

Text Simplification: Where are we now, and where are we headed?

UserGustavo Henrique Paetzold, University of Sheffield.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 26 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Learning Syntax with Deep Neural Networks

UserShalom Lappin (University of Gothenburg, King's College London and Queen Mary University of London).

HouseGR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 25 May 2017, 16:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Cognitive coding in the hippocampal-entorhinal system

UserDr Christian Doeller, Kavli Institute, NTNU Trondheim, Norway & Donders Institute, RU Nijmegen, the Netherlands).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 19 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data not the data to the analysis

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

UserProfessor Paul Burton, Professor of Data Science for Health, Newcastle University.

HouseLarge Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 19 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Architectures for Sequence Labelling

UserMarek Rei, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

The biological basis and perceptual impact of categorisation: the case of colour.

UserProfessor Anna Franklin, The Sussex Colour Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 12 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Norwegian Romani - the 'languageness' of a Para-Romani variety

Tea and biscuits from 16.45

UserJakob Wiedner, University of Oslo.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-05.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 17:15-19:00

Zangwill Club

A common model of representational and connectivity spaces in human cortex

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN SPECIAL EXTRA TALK AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT 4.00PM

UserProfessor James V. Haxby, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockWednesday 10 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Do we control language or does language control us?

UserProfessor Guillaume Thierry, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales..

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 05 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

The Bouncy Particle Sampler

UserAlexandre Bouchard-Côté (UBC).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

ClockFriday 05 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

VO-OV alternations and information structure in North Sami

Tea and biscuits from 17.45

UserKristine Bentzen, University of Tromsø.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-04.

ClockWednesday 03 May 2017, 18:15-20:00

Zangwill Club

Empathy – from shared affect to self-other distinction

UserProfessor Claus Lamm, Full Professor (Biological Psychology) Head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 28 April 2017, 16:30-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Cross-lingual Learning 2.0

UserAnders Søgaard (University of Copenhagen).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty.

ClockThursday 27 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Fake News

UserElla McPherson, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge; John Naughton, Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology, OU.

HouseRoom B4, Institute of Criminology.

ClockWednesday 26 April 2017, 12:00-14:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Finding Signals in Twitter with ML/NLP at Bloomberg

UserMinjie Xu - Bloomberg Software Engineer, Social Media Analytics.

HouseLT1, Computer Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 25 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional neuromarkers for psychiatry

UserDr Juri Kropotov Laboratory of Neurobiology of Action Programming at the Institute of the Human Brain .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 12 April 2017, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

UserOrganisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse.

HouseLecture Theatre 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 March 2017, 09:00-17:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

3rd Cambridge Symposium on Cognitive Approaches to Children’s Literature

UserProfessor Karen Coats (Illinois State University), Professor Rosalind Ridley (University of Cambridge).

HouseMAB G08/G09, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

ClockSaturday 18 March 2017, 09:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Observations from the Edge of Beauty

UserMr Clive Wilkins, Artist in Residence, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 March 2017, 16:30-18:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

3rd Cambridge Symposium on Cognitive Approaches to Children’s Literature

UserProfessor Karen Coats (Illinois State University), Professor Rosalind Ridley (University of Cambridge).

HousePaston Brown Room, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

ClockFriday 17 March 2017, 09:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Mean Embeddings

UserJiri Hron; Adam Scibior.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 16 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Differentially Private Bayesian Learning

UserDr Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki.

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 14 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Optimality and irrationality in human decision-making

UserProfessor Christopher Summerfield, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 March 2017, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Variational Inference for NLP

UserYishu Miao, University of Oxford.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 March 2017, 12:00-13:00

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Control, inference and learning

UserProf. dr. H.J. (Bert) Kappen (Radboud University Nijmegen).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 10 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differential Privacy

UserJohn Bradshaw; Alex Matthews.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Differential Privacy Tutorial

UserAlex Matthews and John Bradshaw, University of Cambridge.

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 09 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Psychology & Education

Epistemic Cognition - conceptions of knowledge in action

UserProfessor Kirsti Lonka, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 07 March 2017, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise

PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE OF SPEAKER THIS WEEK

UserDr Beatriz Calvo-Merino, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology, City, University of London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 03 March 2017, 16:30-18:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems and the Challenges for Machine Learning

UserProfessor Steve Young, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - Lecture Theater 2 (Inglis Building).

ClockMonday 27 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserDr Beatriz Calvo-Merino.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

EACL potpourri

UserNLIP PhDs and postdocs.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Hedde Jeijlstra (University of Göttingen) .

HouseLecture Block room 4, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 23 February 2017, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning

UserDylan Hadfield-Menell, UC Berkeley.

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 23 February 2017, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The revival of Italo-Greek: language ideologies and folklorization

UserMaria Olimpia Squillaci (University of Cambridge) and Manuela Pellegrino (Brunel University).

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-05.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2017, 18:15-19:30

Zangwill Club

Value and confidence signals in the human brain - implications for decision making?

UserProfessor Mathias Pessiglione, Motivation, Brain & Behavior lab Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Numerics

UserAlessandro Davide Ialongo (MLG - University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 16 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 3 - Optimization

UserGroup Discussion.

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

Zangwill Club

Learning to learn: lessons from action video games

UserProfessor Daphne Bavelier, University of Geneva.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Imitation learning for language generation from unaligned data

UserGerasimos Lampouras, University of Sheffield.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 2 - Regularization

UserGroup Discussion.

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

Zangwill Club

Vision, Decision, and Navigation in Mouse Parietal Cortex

DUE TO ILLNESS, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserProfessor Matteo Carandini, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 03 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Weaponized Lies: An American neuroscientist speaks on the post-truth era (and what we can do about it)

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE ANATOMY LECTURE THEATRE ON DOWNING SITE

User Daniel J, Levitin PhD, Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute and University of California at Berkeley.

HouseAnatomy Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

ClockFriday 27 January 2017, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The discriminative nature of human communication

UserDr Michael Ramscar (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen).

HouseGR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 26 January 2017, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The hidden multilingualism of Italy: issues and challenges

UserDr. Marco Tamburelli, Prifysgol Bangor/Bangor University.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-05.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 18:15-19:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational Bayes In Private Settings

UserMijung Park, University of Amsterdam.

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2017, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Julia: Introduction and new developments

UserDr Simon Byrne (Julia Computing).

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2017, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Assessing the role of cross modal information in high level perception: enhancements and constraints.

UserProfessor Fiona Newell, School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin..

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 January 2017, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Commonsense Event Schemas from Unlabeled Text

UserNate Chambers, US Naval Academy.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 20 January 2017, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

‘Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie. An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness.’

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL CLUB TALK

UserDr Rosalind Ridley.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 16 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational autoencoders with latent graphical models

UserProf David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockTuesday 13 December 2016, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Cross-sensory integration and calibration during development

UserProfessor David Burr, Department of Psychology, University of Florence. .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Fox's son, they slept five, imitation of people: Kuikuro numerals and counting

This talk is held in conjunction with the Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc; http://camlingsoc.soc.srcf.net/)

UserBruna Franchetto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockMonday 05 December 2016, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Fox's son, they slept five, imitation of people: Kuikuro numerals and counting

This talk is held in conjunction with the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group (http://groups.ds.cam.ac.uk/celc/)

UserBruna Franchetto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro).

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty.

ClockMonday 05 December 2016, 17:15-19:00

Zangwill Club

Structured sequences, language evolution and the primate brain

UserProf. Christopher I. Petkov, Laboratory of Comparative Neuropsychology, Newcastle University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 02 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar pt. 2

UserPhD students, NLIP group.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 02 December 2016, 12:00-13:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Memory, Miniaturization, and the Transformative Energy of Fairy Tales

UserProfessor Maria Tatar, The John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Harvard University. .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

On sensing what is not there

UserAndrew Welchman, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Symmetry in Statistical Models

UserMark Rowland; Maria Lomeli.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning with limited supervision

UserStefano Ermon, Stanford.

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 01 December 2016, 11:00-12:00

‘Diglossia, Bidialectalism, or Bilingualism? Portuguese as a Foreign Language in the Classroom’

‘Diglossia, Bidialectalism, or Bilingualism? Portuguese as a Foreign Language in the Classroom’

UserDr Ioanna Sitaridou, Felipe Schuery, Prof. Stavroula Tsiplakou, Prof. Matilde V. R. Scaramucci, Prof. João Costa, Aretousa Giannakou .

HouseBowett Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK.

ClockSaturday 26 November 2016, 11:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Visceral inputs, brain dynamics and subjectivity

UserProfessor Catharine Tallon-Baudry, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

The Creole Language and its Relationship to Regional French in Louisiana

This talk is co-hosted by the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

UserThomas A. Klingler, Tulane University.

HouseFaculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Optimization

UserPawel Budzianowiski; Brian Trippe.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 24 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

Indo-European Seminar

Being non-binary: gender assignment in Old High German

Tea served from 4.15

UserSheila Watts.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Social rank processing in depression

UserJason Stretton, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

A feast of languages: multilingualism in neuro-typical and atypical populations

UserDept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

HouseAuditorium, Fitzwilliam College.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 17:30-19:30

Psychology & Education

Conceptualising, Adapting and Measuring Young People’s Wellbeing in Secondary Schools in Kazakhstan

UserDr. Ros McLellan Dr. Liz Winter & Dr.Eva Brown Hajdukova,Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Dr. Daniel Torrano, Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room 1S3 Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Rejection Sampling Variational Inference

UserFrancisco J. R. Ruiz (Columbia University & University of Cambridge).

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Zangwill Club

Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series

UserProf. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA, Director, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning to Detect Stance and Represent Emojis

UserIsabelle Augenstein, University College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 18 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

A molecular genetic perspective on speech and language

Registration is required for this event

UserSimon Fisher (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen).

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster session II

Registration is required for this event

UserVarious.

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Natural Language Processing and online health reports (or OMG U got flu?)

Registration is required for this event

UserNigel Collier & Anna Korhonen.

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 15:00-15:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Language dynamics: a neurocognitive approach to incremental interpretation

Registration is required for this event

UserLorraine K. Tyler.

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

deep generative models

UserDave Janz; James Requeima.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster session I

Registration is required for this event

UserVarious.

HouseThe Old Library, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 13:30-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic Numerical Computation: A New Concept?

UserProf. Mark Girolami (University of Warwick).

HouseCBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

ClockThursday 17 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

The radical plasticity thesis: Consciousness as learned metacognition

UserAxel Cleeremans, Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 11 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Recommending relevant citations using CoreSC and Argumentative Zoning

UserDaniel Duma, University of Edinburgh.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 11 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

Open Source for NLP

Open Source and NLP

A special one day workshop.

UserAnn Copestake (Cambridge), Aurelie Herbelot (Trento), Diana Maynard (Sheffield), Behrang QasemiZadeh (Düsseldorf), Nandaja Varma, Esther Seyffarth (Düsseldorf), Hrishikesh K.B. (Swathanthra Malayalam Computing).

HouseSeminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 10 November 2016, 09:00-17:00

Indo-European Seminar

Indo-European and Iranian layers of Armenian vocabulary: the case of month names

Tea served from 4.15

UserHrach Martirosyan (Vienna).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Amazon Alexa: building AI at scale

UserDavid Hardcastle, Senior Manager, Software Development, Amazon.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 08 November 2016, 13:15-14:15

Second Language Education Group

Lexical Patterns of Austerity in UK Broadsheet Text 2007-15

UserDr Mike Scott, Aston University and Lexical Analysis Software Ltd..

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockMonday 07 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A crash-course on Bayesian Reinforcement Learning

UserAlexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Multi-view Anomaly Detection via Robust Probabilistic Latent Variable Models

UserTomoharu Iwata - Learning and Intelligent Systems Research Group of NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 03 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robots learning on the move: deep learning from lots of demonstration

UserDushyant Rao, Oxford Robotics Institute.

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Psychology & Education

Dynamic literacies and agentive learners in static systems

UserDr John Potter Department of Culture, Communication and Media University College London Knowledge Lab UCL Institute of Education.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Learning, sleep and memory consolidation. Behavioural and magnetoencephalographic investigations

User Philippe Peigneux, PhD, Chair Clinical Neuropsychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium ULB Francqui Research Professor 2013-2016 Head of UR2NF - Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit affiliated at CRCN - Centre de Rec.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 28 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction and The Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian Hypothesis

Tea served from 4.15

UserJuliette Blevins (Graduate Center, CUNY).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge-Africa Programme

2016 Cambridge-Africa Day

Drinks reception with live music, from 17:00-18:45

UserA range of interesting and high profile presentations about collaborations between Cambridge and African researchers and students.

HouseEmmanuel College, Queen's Building Auditorium.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2016, 09:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Nursing Turing's Child: How to Grow Communication-based Intelligent Machines

UserMarco Baroni (University of Trento/Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research).

HouseGR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockMonday 24 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

Zangwill Club

See what you hear - Constructing a representation of the world across the senses -

UserProfessor Uta Noppeney, Department of Psychology and Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre, University of Birmingham, UK.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 21 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Numerically Grounded Language Models

UserGeorge Spithourakis (UCL).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 21 October 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The origins of speech and anti-rhythms

UserLaurence White (Plymouth University).

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 16:30-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic modeling for position and orientation estimation using inertial sensors

UserManon Kok, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University.

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 20 October 2016, 10:00-11:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar pt. 1

UserNLIP Postdocs and PhDs.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 14 October 2016, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL meeting

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 13 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Moment matching for latent variable models: from ICA to LDA and CCA

UserProfessor Francis Bach (INRIA, ENS).

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 06 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Multiresolution Matrix Factorization

UserProf Risi Kondor (U Chicago).

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 13 September 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Dynamic Models for Health Data

UserProfessor Katherine A Heller (Duke University).

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 12 September 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning with Memory Embeddings

UserProfessor Volker Tresp (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 08 September 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Inference as Learning

UserGeorge Papamakarios (University of Edinburgh).

HouseCBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 08 August 2016, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Text Readability Assessment for Second Language Learners

UserMenglin Xia (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 July 2016, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning Task Relations in Multi-Task Learning

Via Skype

UserYu Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2016, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Chaining and convexity

UserRamon van Handel (Princeton).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

ClockFriday 10 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience

UserProfessor Russell Poldrack, Department of Psychology, Stanford.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 09 June 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs)

UserRowan McAllister (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 02 June 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational inference for scalable Gaussian process approximations

UserAlexander Matthews (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 02 June 2016, 11:30-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Incremental CCG parsing and its applications

UserBharat Ram Ambati, University of Edinburgh/Apple.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 27 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

nn275's list

Third workshop on ‘Romeyka and the languages of the eastern Black Sea’

Organisers: Ioanna Sitaridou & Nicolaos Neocleous - Attendance upon invitation only (because of the size of the room and restrictions pertaining to the quiet period at Queens’)

UserInvited speakers: Stavros Skopeteas (Bielefeld University, Germany) & Metin Bagriacik (University of Ghent, Belgium).

HouseAngevin Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 27 May 2016, 09:00-17:00

nn275's list

Third workshop on ‘Romeyka and the languages of the eastern Black Sea’

Organisers: Ioanna Sitaridou & Nicolaos Neocleous - Attendance upon invitation only (because of the size of the room and restrictions pertaining to the quiet period at Queens’)

UserInvited speakers: Stavros Skopeteas (Bielefeld University, Germany) & Metin Bagriacik (University of Ghent, Belgium).

HouseAngevin Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 26 May 2016, 15:00-17:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

Dimers Day in Cambridge

UserBoutiller, Chhita, Dubedat, Laslier, Toninelli.

HouseMR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockMonday 23 May 2016, 10:45-17:45

Zangwill Club

Eating and over-eating: a cognitive perspective

UserPaul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience; Wellcome Trust Sernior Research Fellow in Clinical Science Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation T.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

Semitic Philology Lecture

Language Contact and the Genesis of Mishnaic Hebrew

UserProfessor Edward Cook, Catholic University, Washington DC.

HouseFaculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

Motivated rejection of (climate) science: causes, tools and effects

UserProfessor Stephan Lewandowsky, School of Experimental Psychology, Bristol.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 19 May 2016, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Helping the police with their enquiries

UserProfessor Vicki Bruce, School of Psychology, Newcastle.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 12 May 2016, 15:30-16:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Architecture and Education: two-footed stories of exploration

UserDominic Cullinan, SCABAL; Dr Rosie Parnell, Northumbria University; Dr Pam Woolner, University of Newcastle.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS1.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2016, 14:00-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cognitive control in affective contexts

UserSusanne Schweizer MRC Cognition and Brian Science Unit.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 11 May 2016, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

An engineering approach to aversive learning.

UserDr Ben Seymour, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Is depression caused by a hyperactive habenula?

UserProfessor John Rosier, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 05 May 2016, 15:30-16:30

Psychology & Education

Associations and structure: How knowledge drives reasoning

UserAiden Feeney Senior Lecturer School of Psychology Queen's University Boston.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room 1S3 Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockThursday 05 May 2016, 12:30-14:00

Zangwill Club

The Invention of Consciousness

UserProfessor Nick Humphrey, Darwin College, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 29 April 2016, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Topics in Expectation Propagation

UserYingzhen Li (University of Cambridge), Rich Turner.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 28 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

Zangwill Club

Storing, using and updating knowledge for behavioural control.

UserProfessor Tim Behrens, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 22 April 2016, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Q-Learning and AlphaGo

UserShixiang Gu (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

From passive to interactive (multimodal) language learning

UserAngeliki Lazaridou, University of Trento.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 April 2016, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Where Can I Buy a Boulder? Searching for Offline Retail Locations

UserSandro Bauer (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 08 April 2016, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming

UserDr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 07 April 2016, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming

UserDr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 07 April 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Methods and Compressed Sensing

UserNilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 07 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Texts Come from People - How Demographic Factors Influence NLP Models

UserDirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 18 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Unsupervised Risk Estimation with only Structural Assumptions

UserJacob Steinhardt (Stanford University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED

UserProf. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, Director University of Glasgow.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 11 March 2016, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Tracing concepts through time

UserGabriel Recchia (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 11 March 2016, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

The geometry of uncertainty

UserFabio Cuzzolin, Head of AI and vision, Oxford Brookes University.

HouseEngineering Department, Boardroom on the 2nd floor (past canteen on the left).

ClockWednesday 09 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

The typical and atypical development of the social brain

UserMark H Johnson, MRC Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London..

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 04 March 2016, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

General-Purpose Representation Learning from Words to Sentences

***PLEASE NOTE CHANGED (DIFFERENT) TIME***

UserFelix Hill (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 04 March 2016, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

The brain on stress - Mechanisms underlying increases risk to develop psychopathologies

UserProfessor Carmen Sandi, Director of the Laboratory of Behavioural Genetics, Brain and Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 03 March 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic programming

UserHong Ge (University of Cambridge); Matej Balog.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 03 March 2016, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Cantonese: the biggest endangered language?

UserCherry Lam (PhD candidate, DTAL, Cambridge) & Ricky Chan (PhD candidate, DTAL, Cambridge).

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2016, 17:15-19:00

Zangwill Club

New perspectives on old puzzles – memory and the brain

UserProfessor Eleanor A. Maguire, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding generative learning in the individual brain

UserZoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 26 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Why phonology is flat: the role of concatenation and linearity

UserDr Tobias Sheer (Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis).

HouseGR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 25 February 2016, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

The economic utility signal of dopamine neurons

UserDr Wolfram Schulz, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, BCNI, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 25 February 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning by learning rich generative models

UserThang Bui (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 25 February 2016, 14:30-16:00

Indo-European Seminar

A diachronic perspective on the temporality of the Greek infinitive

Tea served from 4.15

UserJerneja Kavčič (Ljubljana).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Data Science at The Guardian

UserFelix Sanchez-Garcia, The Guardian.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2016, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

How rational are we?

UserProfessor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What Happens Next? Event Prediction Using a Compositional Neural Network Model

UserMark Granroth-Wilding, Computer Laboratory.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A more Automated Statistician

UserDavid Janz, Oxford University.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 19 February 2016, 11:30-12:00

Indo-European Seminar

Can the Greek dialects be grouped? A response to Parker and Ringe

Tea served from 4.15

UserRupert Thompson and Matthew Scarborough (Cambridge).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Communication with Artificial Intelligences

UserProf. Ann Copestake - University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory..

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 17 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Music as Communication: An Evolutionary Story

UserElizabeth Tolbert. Johns Hopkins University & Cambridge Centre for Music and Science.

HouseLCHES Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Fitzilliam Street.

ClockTuesday 16 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

Zangwill Club

A memory of hunger? Effects of early-life adversity on adult foraging decisions.

UserProfessor Melissa Bateson, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution/ Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Modern Deep Learning through Bayesian Eyes

UserYarin Gal, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 12 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Bricks and mortars for building meanings

UserDr Hugh Rabagliati (University of Edinburgh).

HouseGR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Human neuroscience in the wild

UserDr Aldo Faisal, Department of Neurotechnology, Imperial.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differentiable Data Structures and (if we have time) POMDPs

NOTE Topic Change

UserYarin Gal; Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 February 2016, 14:30-16:00

Indo-European Seminar

The syntax and semantics of -τος adjectives in Ancient Greek

Tea served from 4.15

UserRob Crellin (Copenhagen).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Tractometry: From Micro to Macro (and Back Again)

UserProfessor Derek Jones, Director of Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 05 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual Image Description with Neural Sequence Models

UserEva Hasler, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 05 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Size Matters: targetting non - conscious processes to reduce food and drink consumption

UserProf Theresa Marteau, Director of Behaviour and Health Research unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 04 February 2016, 15:30-16:30

Zangwill Club

Pleasures of the brain: Investigating anhedonia with whole-brain computational connectomics

UserProfessor Morten L. Kringelbach Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain, Aarhus University, Denmark .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 29 January 2016, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Degrees of ergativity in Romance causatives

UserDr Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University).

HouseGR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 28 January 2016, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Learning and processing abstract concepts: The role of emotion and the role of language

UserProfessor Gabriella Vigliocco, Director, Language and Cognition Laboratory, UCL.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 28 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Shawi, Quechua and Spanish: a Sea of Languages

UserLuis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics – Department for Language and Cognition.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2016, 17:15-19:00

Chaucer Club

How does attentional control matter? Mechanisms and developmental dynamics

UserProfessor Gaia Scerif, Department of Educational Psychology, Oxford.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep learning for time series

UserChristof Angermueller(University of Cambridge); David Zoltowski (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 January 2016, 14:30-16:00

Zangwill Club

New physiological findings in human brain stimulation: why most claims to cognitive enhancement are probably false.

UserProfessor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 January 2016, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Human brain networks from functional MRI

UserProfessor Ed Bullmore, Head of Dept Psychiatry, Cambridge.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 14 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stochastic discrete integration

UserAdrian Weller;Nilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 14 January 2016, 14:30-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

P Values and replication: the problem is not what you think

UserStephen Senn, Head of Competence Center for Methodology anbd Statistics ( CCMS), Luxembourg Institute for Health.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 16 December 2015, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

General Reinforcement Learning

UserJan Leike (Australian National University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 16 December 2015, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Research Collaborations outside of academia

UserDr Andrea Kells, Computer Lab, University of Cambridge/.

HouseRoom B3, Institute of Criminology.

ClockMonday 07 December 2015, 11:00-13:30

Zangwill Club

Grady Nia Project: Assessing and Treating Abused, Suicidal Women

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

UserDr Nadine Kaslow, Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University USA .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 04 December 2015, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Science of E&D: Why equality and diversity benefits us all

UserRogier Kievit and Fionnuala Murphy, MRC Cogition and Brain Science Unit.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2015, 12:30-13:30

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Time to decide: the process of evaluating a musical performance

The seminar will be followed by a wine reception.

UserGeorge Waddell, Royal College of Music.

HouseLecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 01 December 2015, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Understanding the forgetful and apathetic brain

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

UserProfessor Masud Husain, Department of Experimental Psychology & Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 27 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Lacking Integrity: HPSG as a Morphosyntactic Theory

UserGuy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 27 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Eliminating A/A'-positions

UserCoppe van Urk, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 26 November 2015, 16:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stochastic optimization and adaptive learning rates

UserYingzhen Li (University of Cambridge); Mark Rowland.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 26 November 2015, 14:30-16:00

Second Language Education Group

Born Global: Rethinking Language Policy for 21st Century Britain

UserBernardette Holmes MBE, Director of Speak To The Future; Bye-Fellow of Downing College.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

ClockMonday 23 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Modulating drug taking and drug seeking through TAAR1 activation

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

UserDr Juan J Canales, Reader in Behavioural Neurosciences Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Representation, generalisation, and innovation in the lexicon.

UserProfessor Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Block, Room 1, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Logic, Theorem Proving, and Probabilistic Programming

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 19 November 2015, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Understanding the function dimension of language endangerment with specific evidence from Runyakitara

UserFridah Katushemererwe, Department of Linguistics, English Language Studies and Communication Skills Makerere University.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-04.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 17:15-19:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Gained in translation

UserTom Manly, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 18 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Studying natural speech processing at the phonemic level using EEG

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

UserDr Edmund Lalor, Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 13 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Turn-taking, language processing and the evolution of language

Registration is required for this event

UserProf. Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen).

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Annual open meeting

Registration is required for this event

UserCambridge Language Sciences.

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 16:30-17:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster Session II

Registration is required for this event

UserVarious.

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 16:00-16:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Understanding generative learning in the individual brain

Registration is required for this event

UserZoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge).

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 15:30-16:00

Chaucer Club

The integrative self

UserGlyn Humphreys, Psychology, Oxford.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Crowdsourcing big data in English dialectology

Registration is required for this event

UserBert Vaux (Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge).

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 15:00-15:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Sunnyside

Registration is required for this event

UserDr Laura Wright (University of Cambridge).

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 14:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Connections between kernels, GPs, and NNs

UserMatthias Bauer (University of Cambridge); Paul Rubenstein.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Statistical Acoustic-Phonetic Historical Linguistics: A short introduction

Registration is required for this event

UserJohn Aston (University of Cambridge); John Coleman (University of Oxford).

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 14:00-14:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster Session I

Registration is required for this event

UserVarious.

HouseQueen's Building, Emmanuel College.

ClockThursday 12 November 2015, 13:30-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Inference of a partially observed kinetic Ising model

UserDr Yasser Roudi (Kavli Inst, Trondheim & Inst for Advanced Study, Princeton).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

The prenatal sex steroid theory of autism

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

UserProfessor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre(ARC) Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

How much linguistics is needed for NLP?

UserEdward Grefenstette.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Mwani, freely picking and choosing from tone and stress?

UserDr Maud Devos (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium).

HouseGR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 05 November 2015, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Neural systems for navigation

UserHugo Spiers, Dept of Experimental Psychology, UCL.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 05 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

What the DNN heard? Dissecting the machine brain for a better insight.

User Khe Chai Sim, National University of Singapore.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR5.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Icelandic language and culture training application

UserBranislav Bédi, University of Iceland, CADIA Research Centre.

HouseRoom SR-24, English Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site.

ClockMonday 02 November 2015, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Academia vs. Industry

UserDr Madelaine Chapman, Careers Adviser for Postdoctoral Researchers in the Physical Sciences and Technology.

HouseRoom B4, Institute of Criminology.

ClockMonday 02 November 2015, 11:15-13:30

Zangwill Club

Phonological and Morphological Processes in Reading and Reading Acquisition

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

UserProfessor Kathy Rastle, Head of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 30 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian optimization and its applications

UserDr. Matthew Hoffman (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 29 October 2015, 14:30-16:00

Zangwill Club

"Where"

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

UserProfessor Patrick Cavanagh, Université Paris Descartes, France.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 October 2015, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar

UserNLIP Postdocs and PhDs.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 23 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

LP relaxations for MAP inference

UserAdrian Weller (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 22 October 2015, 14:30-16:00

Zangwill Club

Creating Solidarity by Making Bodies Alike, but Creating Hierarchy in Physical Dimensions

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

UserProfessor Alan Fiske, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles USA.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Nonstandard complete class theorems

UserDaniel Roy (University of Toronto).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge..

ClockFriday 16 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Meta-Bayesian Analysis

UserProf. Daniel Roy (University of Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 15 October 2015, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Word Embeddings

UserOmer Levy, Bar-Ilan University.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 13 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

The Importance of Feeling Honest : A Candid Take on Moral Motivation

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: This is a special Zangwill Club Seminar, being held jointly with the Moral Psychology Conference

UserProfessor Benoit Monin, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, Stamford University, USA.

HouseAlison Richard Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room SG1/2.

ClockFriday 09 October 2015, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Unweaving The Lexical Rainbow: Grounding Linguistic Creativity in Perceptual Semantics

We only have LT2 for the hour, so please don't enter before 1pm and don't be late for the talk, as it will start promptly at 1:05 and we'll have to leave before 2pm.

UserTony Veale, University College Dublin.

HouseLT2, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 08 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Game of Tropes: Exploring the Placebo Effect in Computational Creativity

UserTony Veale, University College Dublin.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Joint A* Syntactic and Semantic Parsing for CCG

UserMike Lewis, University of Washington.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 September 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient multi-task Gaussian process models for genome-wide association studies

UserFrancesco Paolo Casale, European Bioinformatics Institute.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 25 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

Neural entrainment to higher-level features of speech reflects the discrete nature of perception in the auditory system

UserBenedikt Zoefel, Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CerCo), CNRS, Toulouse, France.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC- CBU, Chaucer Rd..

ClockTuesday 22 September 2015, 12:00-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Higher Order Fused Regularization for Supervised Learning with Grouped Parameters

UserKoh Takeuchi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 15 September 2015, 10:30-11:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

A-Star Sampling Review

UserChris Maddison (U Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 14 September 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Convex Factorization Machines

UserMathieu Blondel (NTT Communication Science Laboratorie).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 14 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Structural Kernels for Natural Language Processing

UserDaniel Beck, University of Sheffield.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 11 September 2015, 12:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Belief and Truth in Hypothesised Behaviours

UserStefano V. Albrecht - School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 10 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Information-Theoretic Bounded Rationality

UserPedro A. Ortega (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 07 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Interspeech presentations

Sandwiches will be provided at 12:00

UserVarious (University of Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR5.

ClockWednesday 02 September 2015, 11:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

The limits of MAP inference by MWSS on perfect graphs

UserDr Adrian Weller (MLG, University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 27 August 2015, 15:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Cross-lingual transfer of a semantic parser via parallel data

UserKilian Evang, University of Gronigen.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 07 August 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scalable Gaussian Processes for Scientific Discovery

UserDr Andrew Wilson, Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 29 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

MCMC for non-linear state space models using ensembles of latent sequences

(via Skype!)

UserAlex Shestopaloff (University of Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 27 July 2015, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Rich Component Analysis

UserJames Zou (Microsoft Research New England).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 17 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Modeling Confounding by Half-Sibling Regression

SHORT TALK (20 minutes)

UserProf Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI Tuebingen).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 03 July 2015, 12:30-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Convex and non-convex worlds in machine learning

UserAnna Choromanska (New York University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 01 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Random Function Classes for Machine Learning

UserProf Alexander Smola, Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LT1.

ClockTuesday 30 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Learning

UserProfessor Geoffrey Hinton FRS (U. Toronto and Google).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 0.

ClockThursday 25 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Psychology & Education

Lesson Study Seminar

UserSpeakers to include a variety of UK and international speakers, Chaired by Professor Jan Vermunt, University of Cambridge .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS4, Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockWednesday 24 June 2015, 14:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving & Better Understanding Word Vector Representations

UserManaal Faruqui, Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

The family tree of Iranian and its problems

Tea served from 16.15

UserAgnes Korn .

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 17 June 2015, 16:30-17:30

Psychology & Education

Some Studies on Desirable Difficulties

UserDr Danny Oppenheimer, Professor at UCLA with a joint appointment in the Anderson School of Management and the Department of Psychology.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS5, Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 16 June 2015, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Crowdsourcing the annotation of rumours in social media

UserMaria Liakata, University of Warwick.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 12 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Emergent Syntax: a new (unifying) perspective

Note: This talk will take place in GR04

UserDr Theresa Biberauer (DTAL, University of Cambridge).

HouseGR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Pitch perception: New approaches to classic questions

UserAndrew Oxenham (Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 11 June 2015, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Long-distance agreement for person: Some new data from Icelandic

Note: This talk will take place in GR04

UserProfessor Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh).

HouseGR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 04 June 2015, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Fast transient brain states

UserMark Woolrich (Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 04 June 2015, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep?

UserDr Rich Caruana (Microsoft).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 02 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Laterals in Estonian Swedish

UserProfessor Francis Nolan, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-04.

ClockWednesday 27 May 2015, 17:15-19:00

Zangwill Club

Mechanisms of imitation: insights from typical and autistic cognition

UserDr Antonia Hamilton, Reader in Social Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 22 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Statistics

Analysis of complex phenotypes in genomics

UserSylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 22 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Open System Categorical Quantum Semantics in Natural Language Processing

UserDimitri Kartsaklis, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Temporal dynamics of post-retrieval amnesia for learned fear

TALK CANCELLED

UserMerel Kindt (Department of Psychology, Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center, University of Amsterdam).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Convolutional Neural Networks

UserChristof Angermueller, Alex Kendall.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Cambridge Cognitive Neuroscience Research Panel

Note - This talk will run from 12:30pm – 2:00pm

UserSharon Erzinclioglu and guests.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2015, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Adjusting accordingly: prefrontal areas updating valuations for objects and actions

UserDr Betsy Murray, Chief, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Model Theory and the Semantics of Natural Languages

UserStanley Peters, Stanford University.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

JASP: Bayesian hypothesis testing without tears

UserEric-Jan Wagenmakers (Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 14 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

Psychology & Education

Digital-Object Use in Developmental Disorders

UserDr Will Farr & Dr Ian Male, Mid-Sussex Child Development Centre, Nightingale Primary Care Centre, Senior Lecturer/Research Fellow.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS1, Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 12 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Impact of Diversity on Social Cohesion: Implications of Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact

UserProfessor Miles Hewstone, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable MCMC

UserHong Ge, Jes Frellsen.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 07 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Direction-Only Optimisation for Neural Networks

Short talk

UserMark Rowland (Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2015, 11:00-11:30

Statistics

Robust Matrix Completion

UserOlga Klopp, Université Paris Ouest.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Adult age differences in social cognition

UserProfessor Louise Phillips, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Disfluency detection in spoken learner English

UserAndrew Caines, DTAL, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Modelling implicit language learning with distributional semantics

UserDimitris Alikaniotis, DTAL, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 May 2015, 12:00-12:30

Chaucer Club

Adaptive computations for flexible cognition in the human brain

UserZoe Kourtzi (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 30 April 2015, 15:30-16:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

ALICE, PINOCCHIO, FANTASY, AND INTERNATIONAL STEREOTYPES

UserProfessor Laura Tosi, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice and Professor Peter Hunt, Newcastle University.

HouseHomerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH, MAB, Boulind Room.

ClockWednesday 29 April 2015, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Developments in Machine Intelligence

This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation from Laura Burzynski on her research into blood clotting proteins

UserProf. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 27 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

Zangwill Club

Imaging and Stimulating adaptive brain plasticity

User Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 24 April 2015, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Fourth workshop: Research Outreach & Public Engagement

UserProf David Spiegelhalter Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseSeminar Room, Faculty of English.

ClockFriday 24 April 2015, 15:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Statistical modelling of metaphor

UserEkatarina Shutova, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

The use of French in Canada

UserProf. Sylvie Frigon (Ottawa).

HouseLubbock Room, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 18:00-19:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Inference

UserMateo Rojas-Carulla, Amar Shah.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

UserTuan Anh Le (Oxford).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 23 April 2015, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Geometry of Machine Translation

UserRory Waite, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gaussian Process Models for Time Series

UserRoger Frigola, Carl Edward Rasmussen.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 16 April 2015, 15:00-16:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Deep Learning of Natural Language Semantics

Extrodinary (out-of-term) Babbage Seminar

UserProf Yoshua Bengio - Université de Montréal.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 13 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

ICASSP presentations

A sandwich lunch will be provided

UserVarious.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR4.

ClockThursday 09 April 2015, 12:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Informational Geometry

UserNilesh Tripuraneni, Shane Gu.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 02 April 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Gaussian Processes

UserRichard Turner, Alex Navarro, Thang Bui.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 26 March 2015, 15:00-16:30

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Manipulating Structure through Digital Notation

UserAlan Blackwell and Sam Aaron, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

HouseLecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 17 March 2015, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The phonetic building blocks of speech

UserProfessor Francis Nolan (University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Online and offline human brain mapping with intracranial EEG

UserJean-Philippe Lachaux (French National Health Research Institute (INSERM), Lyon) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 12 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

"A phylogenetic classification of Bantu languages and its implications for ancient migration"

Tea served from 16.15

UserDr Rebecca Grollemund (Reading).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Gliding through history

UserJiaxi Liu, Centre for Music and Science.

HouseLecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 17:00-19:00

Statistics

Resource Allocation for Statistical Estimation

UserQuentin Berthet, California Institute of Technology.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 09 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Premembering Perception

UserProfessor Kia Nobre, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 March 2015, 15:00-16:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Dynamic Topic Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation

Sandwich lunch from 13:00

UserEva Hasler (University of Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR5.

ClockFriday 06 March 2015, 13:30-14:30

Psychology & Education

Generating social transformation and impact through successful actions in education

UserMarta Soler is Director of CREA, Centre for Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities, Ramon Flecha is Professor of Sociology at the University of Barcelona, and Doctor Honoris Causa from West University of Timişoara.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS5, Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Challenges and pitfalls in the application of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS)

UserAndrea Antal (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Göttingen University Medical School, Germany) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 05 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

On phylogenetic classification

Tea served from 16.15

UserDr Annemarie Verkerk (Reading).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Population Inference for Functional Brain Connectivity

UserGenevera I. Allen (Rice University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 04 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

Psychology & Education

Studying the neural mechanisms of attention and memory in childhood

UserDr Duncan Astle,Programme Leader Track, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Research Associate St. John’s College, Cambridge.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS1), Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 03 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic approaches to understanding bird conversations

UserDan Stowell (Queen Mary University of London).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 02 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Neural representation of complex space

UserProfessor Kate Jeffery,Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience Department of Experimental Psychology Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 27 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

Chaucer Club

Age-related and individual differences in the time-course and information content of early face brain activity

UserGuillaume Rousselet (Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 26 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Psychology & Education

'6 Months'

UserJohn Oates, a Senior Lecturer in the Child and Youth Studies Group at the Open University, Visiting Professor in Developmental Psychology at the University of St Mark and St John, Plymouth and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS1), Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 24 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A* Sampling

UserChris Maddison (U Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockTuesday 24 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Active Sensing and Brain oscillations

UserProfessor Joachim Gross, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Argument Mining from Text for Teaching and Assessing Writing

UserDiane Litman, University of Pittsburgh.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 20 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Circuit mechanisms of hippocampus-dependent memory

UserOle Paulsen (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 19 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Second Language Education Group

Language development, social integration and achievement of recently-arrived EAL children in schools in the East of England

UserEducational Achievement, Language Education and Disadvantage (EALead) research team at the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

ClockMonday 16 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Some ideas in nonparametric estimation

UserPiotr Fryzlewicz, London School of Economics.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 13 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

The Evolution of Culture

UserProfessor Kevin N. Laland, School of Biology, University of St Andrews.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 13 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of spatial and episodic memory

UserNeil Burgess (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Anatomy) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 12 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Spanish parasynthetic verbs with prefix des-: A lexical semantic approach

UserElisabeth Gibert-Sotelo, Universitat de Girona-University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom DD 48, Cripps Building, Queens' College.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 17:15-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

From 'RUN' to 'HELP': Anatolian, Core Indo-European and the chronology of a semantic shift

Tea served from 16.15

UserProf. J. L. García Ramón (Cologne).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Orthologous networks in biological systems

UserDr Christopher Penfold (Warwick).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 11 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Cognitive research and South Asian music

UserProfessor Richard Widdess - SOAS South Asia Institute.

HouseLecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2015, 17:00-19:00

Zangwill Club

Social and Motivational Influences on Perceptual Judgments

UserDr Simone Schnall, University Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Disentangling focus constructions in Luganda

UserJenneke van der Wal, University of Cambridge.

HouseLecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 05 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Variability in visual processing between and within individuals

UserSam Schwarzkopf (Experimental Psychology & ICN, UCL) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 05 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Zangwill Club

How and why does an extra sex chromosome affect neurodevelopment?

UserProfessor Dorothy V. M. Bishop. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 30 January 2015, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards quantum algorithms for natural language processing

UserWill Zeng, University of Oxford.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 30 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Language Control in Bilingual Speakers

UserProfessor David Green (UCL).

HouseLecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 29 January 2015, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Transfer Learning

UserYingzhen Li; Eddy Pei-Hao Su.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 29 January 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Latent Branching Trees

UserDr Theodore Kypraios (University of Nottingham).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockThursday 29 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

An afternoon of talks exploring the links between classical information theory, probability, statistics and their quantum counterparts.

UserReinhard Werner (Hannover), Fernando Brandao (Microsoft Research), Robert Koenig (TU Munich), Renato Renner (ETH Zurich).

HouseMR15 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockWednesday 28 January 2015, 14:00-18:10

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

An IDyOM Tutorial: Modelling Auditory Expectations

UserDr Marcus Pearce - Queen Mary, University of London..

HouseLecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2015, 17:00-19:00

Zangwill Club

Upstairs-Downstairs- The Gut Microbiome as a Key Regulator of Brain and Behaviour

UserProfessor John F. Cryan, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Frontiers in Named Entity Recognition and Linking

User Leon Derczynski and Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Experiments with Non-parametric Topic Models

UserProf. Wray Buntine (Monash University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockFriday 23 January 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced HMC

UserNilesh Tripuraneni; Adam Scibior.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 22 January 2015, 15:00-16:30

Zangwill Club

The application of psychological theories to clinical practice

UserProfessor Barbara Wilson, OBE, Founder, Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropyschological Rehabilitation and Honorary Consultant Psychologist.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 16 January 2015, 15:00-16:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

The Geometry of Machine Translation

Sandwich lunch from 13:00

UserRory Waite (University of Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 16 January 2015, 13:30-14:30

Chaucer Club

Opportunities for Cognitive Neuroimaging at 7T

UserDavid Norris (Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 15 January 2015, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

UserAdrian Weller; Mateo Rojas Carulla.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 15 January 2015, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

An embodied model of clause syntax

UserAlistair Knott, Dept of Computer Science, University of Otago, New Zealand.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 08 December 2014, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Imagined pleasures: The cognitive psychology of desire

UserJackie Andrade (Plymouth University, School of Psychology).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 04 December 2014, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Catalan: past, present and future

UserDr Víctor Acedo Matellán, University of Cambridge, Queens' College.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 03 December 2014, 17:15-19:00

Statistics

Dynamic functional principal components

UserSiegfried Hörmann, Université libre de Bruxelles.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 28 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Speech Rhythm and Temporal Structure: A Temporal Sampling Perspective on Phonology and Dyslexia

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM

UserProfessor Usha Goswami, Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience, Director, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 28 November 2014, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Composed, Distributed Reflections on Semantics and Statistical Machine Translation

UserTim Baldwin, The University of Melbourne.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 28 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Cluster Adaptive Training for Deep Neural Networks

Sandwiches will be provided

UserTian Tan (visitor at CUED).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR10.

ClockFriday 28 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Machine Translation with LSTMs

Room changed to LR3B in Inglis building and time changed to 10:30

UserIlya Sutskever (Google).

HouseEngineering Department, LR3B.

ClockFriday 28 November 2014, 10:30-11:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

PAC Bayes

UserAlex Matthews; Nikola Mrksic.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 27 November 2014, 15:00-16:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Remembering, Rereading, and Reviewing the Canon: the case of The Secret Garden

UserAlison Waller, National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature, University of Roehampton.

HouseHomerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH, MAB, Room 104.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Oracle Variational Inference

UserJames McInerney (Columbia University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 26 November 2014, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Communicating risk and scientific uncertainty to the public and policy-makers

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM

UserProfessor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 21 November 2014, 15:00-16:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Syllable based keyword search: transducing syllable lattices to word lattices

Sandwiches will be provided at 13:00

UserJim Hieronymus, ICSI (US).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LT2.

ClockFriday 21 November 2014, 13:30-14:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A Polya Urn Document Language Model for Information Retrieval

UserRonan Cummins, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 21 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

LSTM and Recurrent Neural Networks

UserShixiang Gu; Andrey Malinin.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 20 November 2014, 15:00-16:30

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Bare nouns in Greek: the view from Spanish and Catalan

UserDr Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga (University of Cambridge & QMUL).

House DD47, Q .

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 17:30-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

Scribes, 'scribes' and language contact in Greco-Roman Egypt

Tea served from 16.15

UserMartti Leiwo (Helsinki).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

How independent of semantics are phonology and syntax? Evidence from Semantic Dementia

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM

UserDr Karalyn Patterson, Department of Clinical Neurosciences and MRC-CBU, Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Exploratory Search and Trend Detection

UserGerhard Heyer, Universität Leipzig.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian modeling for high-level real nursing activity recognition using accelerometers

short talk

UserProf. Naonori Ueda (Director Machine Learning and Data Science, NTT Labs).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockFriday 14 November 2014, 11:00-11:30

Chaucer Club

The vocal brain: cerebral processing of voice information

UserPascal Belin (Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone), Aix-Marseilles Université.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Automatic Differentiation with Theano

UserYarin Gal; Christof Angermueller.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 13 November 2014, 15:00-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

Types of Greek interference in Latin medical translations

Tea served from 16.15

UserDavid Langslow (Manchester).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 16:30-17:30

Centre for Commonwealth Education (CCE)

MASTERCLASS: Case study research in applied linguistics: What can case studies of L2 learners tell us?

Places are limited. If you would like to attend, please email rmk33@cam.ac.uk.

UserPatricia A. Duff, University of British Columbia.

HouseRoom GS4 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2014, 15:00-17:30

Centre for Commonwealth Education (CCE)

Multilingual socialization: Negotiating multiple languages, identities, ideologies, and practices

All welcome. If you would like to attend, please email rmk33@cam.ac.uk

UserPatricia A. Duff, University of British Columbia.

HouseRoom GS4 Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

ClockMonday 10 November 2014, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Ranking from pairwise comparisons using Seriation

UserAlexandre d'Aspremont, CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 07 November 2014, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Genes and environment in adolescent attachment: a challenge to the received wisdom?

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM

UserProfessor Pasco Fearon, Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 07 November 2014, 15:00-16:30

Chaucer Club

The neural mechanisms of top-down control during visual working memory

UserEva Feredoes (School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 06 November 2014, 15:30-16:30

Wolfson College Humanities Society talks

Communication in a globalised world: English is necessary but not sufficient

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

UserDr Nick Saville - Director of the Research and Validation Group, Cambridge English Language Assessment.

HouseGatsby Room, Wolfson College.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2014, 17:45-19:15

NLIP Seminar Series

The case for a Computational Neurolinguistics

UserBrian Murphy, Queen's University Belfast.

HouseLT1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

ClockTuesday 04 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Third Workshop: Scientific Publishing

UserChris Surridge, Chief Editor and Associate Publisher at Nature Publishing Group.

HouseRoom B4, Institute of Criminology.

ClockFriday 31 October 2014, 16:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Neural Systems for Navigation

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM

UserDr. Hugo Spiers, Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 31 October 2014, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar 2

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 31 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Developmental aspects of understanding speech in noisy backgrounds

UserStuart Rosen (Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences, UCL).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Embedding for Distributions

UserMark van der Wilk; Felipe Tobar.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 30 October 2014, 15:00-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

Monolingual bilinguals? Exploring Greek-Latin code switching with Fronto and friends

Tea served from 16.15

UserAlex Mullen (Oxford).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 29 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Adaptive posterior contraction

UserJohannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 24 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Thinking flexibly and enhancing cognition

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM

UserProfessor Verity Brown, FRSE, Provost of St Leonard¹s College, University of St Andrews.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 24 October 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

A Tutorial on Probabilistic Programming

UserProf. Frank Wood (Oxford).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 23 October 2014, 14:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

First Step toward Neural Machine Translation

UserKyunghyun Cho, University of Montreal.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 23 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

Greek-Turkish language contacts in the Ottoman Empire: ways of verbal integration

Tea served from 16.15

UserMark Janse (Gent/Oxford).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2014, 16:30-17:30

Multilingualism and Exchange in the Ancient and Medieval World

Writing in South Italy: Adaptation, Exchange and Identity

UserDr Katherine McDonald (University of Cambridge) and Dr Nick Zair (University of Cambridge).

HouseRoom SG2, Alison Richard Building.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2014, 17:00-19:00

Statistics

Flexible multiple testing using closed testing and Simes

UserJelle Goeman, Radboud University Medical Center.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 17 October 2014, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Dopamine Neuron Regulation and its Disruption in Schizophrenia and Depression

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM

UserAnthony A. Grace, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, USA.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 October 2014, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Creative Coding in Education

UserSam Aaron (University of Cambridge).

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

The Marshmallow Test: Understanding self-control and how to master it

THIS IS AN SPECIAL EXTRA ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR. PLEASE NOTE, THIS TALK WILL START AT 3.00PM

UserProfessor Walter Mischel, Niven Professor of Humane Letters in Psychology, Columbia University, USA.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockMonday 13 October 2014, 15:00-16:30

Zangwill Club

Thinking about thinking about thought: Neural mechanisms for understanding other minds

PLEASE NOTE: ALL ZANGWILL CLUB TALKS THIS TERM WILL START AT THE EARLIER TIME OF 3.00PM

UserProfessor Rebecca Saxe, Associate professor of cognitive neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 October 2014, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar 1

UserNLIP Speakers.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 October 2014, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Development, plasticity, and structure underlying auditory language understanding

UserFred Dick (Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 09 October 2014, 15:30-16:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

Peter Whittle Colloquium

UserYuval Peres (MSR Redmond) , Bálint Tóth (TU Budapest/U Bristol) , Wendelin Werner (ETH Zurich) .

HouseMR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockFriday 03 October 2014, 16:00-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

New Methods in Bayesian Optimization for Machine Learning

UserJasper Snoek (Harvard University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 25 September 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A marginal sampler for σ-Stable Poisson-Kingman mixture models

UserMaria Lomeli-Garcia (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 24 September 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM Prediction

UserManik Varma (Microsoft Research India).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 17 September 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic Numerics - a snapshot of an emerging community

UserPhilipp Hennig (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 11 September 2014, 11:00-12:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Interspeech presentations

UserVarious.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockWednesday 10 September 2014, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Unsupervised learning of rhetorical structure with un-topic models

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 August 2014, 12:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

On the Bethe approximation

UserAdrian Weller (Columbia University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockMonday 11 August 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian process regression on graphs

UserPeter Sollich (King's College London).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 16 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Implicit Representation Networks

UserDavid Barber (University College London).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockWednesday 02 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scalable Deep Gaussian Processes

UserJames Hensman (University of Sheffield).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

ClockTuesday 01 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Helping 10% of the people to read and write better

UserLuz Rello, University Pompeu Fabra.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 13 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Unsupervised Representation Learning

UserAmar Shah (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 12 June 2014, 15:00-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Talk cancelled - please accept our apologies

Usertbc (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 11 June 2014, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual Models for Distributed Semantics

UserKarl Moritz Hermann, Oxford University.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing with a Dependency Model

UserWenduan Xu, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 13:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Looking for hyponyms in vector space

UserMarek Rei, SwiftKey .

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Grammatical error correction using hybrid systems and type filtering

UserMariano Felice, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 05 June 2014, 12:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Unifying logic and probability: A "New Dawn" for Artificial Intelligence?

NOTE THE SPECIAL VENUE (Microsoft Research)

UserProfessor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley).

HouseAuditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

ClockMonday 02 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Robust multilingual syntactic parsing

UserRyan McDonald, Google.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 30 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Acquiring temporal meanings without tense morphology: the case of L2 Mandarin Chinese

UserRoumyana Slabakova, University of Southampton and University of Iowa.

HouseGR06/07, 9 West Rd (English Faculty).

ClockThursday 29 May 2014, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Practical Machine Learning at Facebook. Examples and Lessons Learnt.

Room changed to LR4

UserJoaquin Quinonero Candela (Facebook).

HouseEngineering Department - ***LR4***.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

Object clitics across linguistic modules in a crosslinguistic perspective

UserProf. Teresa Guasti (Milan-Bicocca).

HouseBrown Library (English Faculty).

ClockMonday 19 May 2014, 15:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

A day at the races: some common 'illusions' in gambling behaviour

UserDr Luke Clark, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 16 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Learning Language, Evolving Languages

UserTed Briscoe, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseLG19, Law Faculty, Sidgwick site.

ClockThursday 15 May 2014, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Statistical model criticism

UserJames Lloyd (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 15 May 2014, 15:00-16:30

Definiteness and Determinacy

UserProf. David Beaver, The University of Texas at Austin.

HouseBoard room, 9 West Rd (English Faculty).

ClockThursday 15 May 2014, 12:00-14:00

Historical linguistics reading group

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseS-R25, 9 West Rd (English Faculty).

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 16:00-17:30

Germanic clause structure and the OV/VO difference

UserProf. Sten Vikner.

HouseS-R24, 9 West Rd (English Faculty).

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential Families

UserBharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2014, 11:00-12:30

Looking at language acquisition

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoom B3, Institute of Criminology.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2014, 11:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

The integration of sensory cues across development

UserProfessor Denis Mareschal, Professor of Psychology & Deputy Head of Department, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Identifying Deixis to Communicative Artifacts in Text

UserShomir Wilson, University of Edinburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 09 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Semitic Philology Lecture

SAMARITAN MANUSCRIPT CULTURE AND THE ORAL TRANSMISSION OF THE SAMARITAN TORAH

All are welcome. The event will be followed by a reception.

UserProfessor Stefan Schorch, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

HouseFaculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

Life as we know it

UserKarl Friston (Institute of Neurology, University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 08 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Dialects of Campania. A Perspective of Linguistic Echology

UserRosanna Sornicola, Giovanni Abete, Margherita Di Salvo, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-05.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2014, 17:15-19:00

Zangwill Club

The Conscious Phenotype

UserProfessor Geraint Rees, Deputy Head of Faculty, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 02 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

It is hard to be strongly faithful

UserCaroline Uhler, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 02 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Second Workshop: Academic Survival Tips

UserDr Alex Kogan, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseRoom B4, Institute of Criminology.

ClockFriday 02 May 2014, 16:00-18:30

French Linguistics Research Seminars

The French of Canada

UserSylvie Frigon (Ottawa).

HouseUpper Hall, Peterhouse.

ClockThursday 01 May 2014, 18:00-19:15

Chaucer Club

Motor cortex and perception - from speech to laughter

UserSophie Scott (UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 01 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Functional Programming

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 01 May 2014, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The decipherment of some recently found ostraca from Post-Roman North Africa

UserDr Sabine Ziegler, Saxonian Academy of Sciences at Leipzig / Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 17:15-19:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserTo be confirmed.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 April 2014, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Limit theorems for nearly unstable Hawkes processes

UserMathieu Rosenbaum, University Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris 6).

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 25 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Towards empiricist models of language acquisition

UserAlexander Clark (King's College London).

HouseFaculty of Law, Room LG19.

ClockThursday 24 April 2014, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Adjective modification in compositional distributional semantics

UserEva Maria Vecchi, Computer Lab, Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 11 April 2014, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Network Language Modelling

UserChunyang Wu (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 10 April 2014, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Using Semantics to help learn Phonetic Categories

UserStella Frank, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 04 April 2014, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Loopy belief propagation

UserAlexander Matthews (University of Cambridge), Yingzhen Li.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 03 April 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Policy Evaluation with Temporal Differences

UserChristoph Dann (Technische Universität Darmstadt).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 28 March 2014, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Exploiting Large Corpora for Parsing

UserDominick Ng, University of Sydney.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 21 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Matrix Means, Distances, Kernels, and Geometric Optimization

UserSuvrit Sra (Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and CMU).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 17 March 2014, 11:30-12:30

Statistics

Statistical modelling of networks in disease biology

UserSach Mukherjee, MRC Biostatistics Unit Cambridge.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 14 March 2014, 14:30-15:30

Zangwill Club

Studies of the human brain during experimental and natural conditions using intracranial recordings and electrical brain stimulation

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CHANGED TO THURSDAY 13TH MARCH INSTEAD OF THE USUAL FRIDAY" THIS IS A SPECIAL EXTRA ZANGWILL CLUB SEMINAR"

UserProfessor Josef Parvizi, Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

`What on earth’ in Chinese Speakers' L2 English Grammars

UserBoping Yuang (University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Block, Room 1, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 13 March 2014, 16:00-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Dynamic evolution of injury after traumatic brain injury

UserVirginia Newcombe (School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 12:30-13:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Plagues & Metaphor

UserDr Rowan Williams, University of Cambridge.

HouseLMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Comparing Apples and Oranges: The Neurocomputation of Value

UserDr Benedetto de Martino, Sir Henry Dale Senior Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The semantics of poetry: a distributional reading

This talk is also a part of the Language Sciences Interdisciplinary Programme.

UserAurelie Herbelot.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 07 March 2014, 12:00-13:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Spanish and Catalan Linguistics

UserProf. Montserrat Batllori (Girona) Prof. Avelina Suñer (Girona) Prof. Álvaro Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (Muenchen).

HouseBowett Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 06 March 2014, 14:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Constructing topical hierarchies for Expertise Mining

UserGeorgeta Bordea, DERI, NUI Galway.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 28 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Parameter estimation in deep learning architectures: Two new insights.

Note: time is 12 noon (*not* 11am)

UserProf. Nando de Freitas (Oxford).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

ClockFriday 28 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian canonical correlation analysis

UserSeppo Virtanen (Aalto University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 28 February 2014, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Descriptive and normative models of working memory limitations

UserRonald van den Berg (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 26 February 2014, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Cambridge - Tuebingen PhD Applicant Talks (via Skype)

Interview talks via Skype

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2014, 09:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Limits to Goal-Directed Action Control - Implications for Psychopathologies

UserDr Sanne de Wit, Assistant Professor Dept. of Clinical Psychology University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 21 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Particle filters and curse of dimensionality

Note: TALK via Skype!

UserPatrick Rebeschini (Princeton).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 21 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A Quest Towards Understanding the Challenges of Spoken Content Retrieval

UserGareth Jones, Dublin City University.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 21 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge-Africa Programme

In Africa: Fossil hunting for human ancestors (King's/Cambridge-Africa Seminar)

Wine will be served from 17:45pm.....

UserDr Marta Mirazon Lahr (Director of the Duckworth Laboratory) & Professor Robert Foley (Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies). Both speakers are members of the Division of Biological Anthropology, Dept. of Arch. and Anth., C.

HouseWine Room, King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 18:00-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian nonparametrics: Dependency and Constraint Modeling

Note: TALK via Skype!

UserChangyou Chen (ANU).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 20 February 2014, 10:00-11:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Virtual Webinar! series 7: Ways of Creatively ‘Me-searching’ and ‘Re-searching’ as Practitioner-based and Practice-based Researchers

UserDr. Pamela Burnard and research panelists Chrysovalentini Konstantinou, Stephen Fairbanks, Susmita Pujara and Sarah Upjohn, University of Cambridge.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 2S7.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Power Disaggregation

UserIsabel Valera (University Carlos III in Madrid).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 17 February 2014, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

The role of the motor system in action perception

UserDr James Kilner, Senior Lecturer in Human Motor Neurosciences, Institute of Neurology, University College London .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 14 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

The role of "means selection" and "outcome selection" information in infants' goal attribution

UserDr Szilvia Biro, Centre for Child and Family Studies, Leiden University, NL and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Stein's method, information theory and Bayesian statistics

UserChristophe Ley, Université libre de Bruxelles.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 14:30-15:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Refinements in Hierarchical Phrase-Based Translation

UserJuan Pino (University of Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 07 February 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Towards a model of morphological processing grounded in principles of discriminative learning

UserHarald Baayen, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebing and University of Alberta.

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

How do antidepressants work?

UserCatherine Harmer (University of Oxford) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo

UserThang Bui (University of Cambridge), Jes Frellsen.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 06 February 2014, 15:00-16:30

Queens' Arts Seminar

Whose voice is it anyway? Literary and Legal Translation

UserChristina Pribichevich-Zorić.

HouseErasmus room, Queens' College.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 19:30-21:00

Education Technology

Reinventing Education

NOTE 1: Offsite parking only - at Clerk Maxwell Road. Note 2: There may be opportunities to meet the speaker before noon, but after questions from the audience (till 15:30) the speaker needs to catch a plane to the US.

UserAnant Agarwal, President, edX, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT.

HousePippard Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish Laboratory, 19 JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE.

ClockWednesday 05 February 2014, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Frequentist coverage of adaptive nonparametric Bayesian credible sets

UserBotond Szabo (Eindhoven University of Technology).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 03 February 2014, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Crossmodal correspondences: Looking for links between sound symbolism & synaesthesia, & their application to multisensory marketing

UserProfessor Charles Spence, Crossmodal Research Laboratory, University of Oxford & Head of Sensory Marketing, JWT Ad Agency .

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 31 January 2014, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Categorical compositional distributional semantics: state-of-the-art!

UserMehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 31 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Fairness, trust & reciprocity: insights from decision neuroscience

UserProfessor Alan Sanfey, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 16:30-18:00

Comparative diachronic linguistics of German

UserProfessor Horst Simon.

HouseRoom 336, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick site.

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Spectral Learning and Decoding for Natural Language Parsing

UserShay Cohen, University of Edinburgh.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Which take which?

UserRichard Holton, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 17:00-18:30

Kiezdeutsch: Variation and Change in Contemporary German through Language Contact

UserProfessor Horst Simon, FU Berlin.

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Rd..

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Data Structures and Algorithms

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge), Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 23 January 2014, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The problem of finding sources for the study of Norn, the Scandinavian language of Caithness and the Northern Isles.

UserDr Ragnhild Ljosland, Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands.

HouseFaculty of English, Room GR-04.

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 17:15-19:00

Zangwill Club

Conditioned Nausea: Experimental Analysis and Practical Applications

UserProfessor Geoffrey Hall, University of York, University of New South Wales, and University of Plymouth..

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Sharp bounds for compressive learning

UserAta Kaban, University of Birmingham.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

GPstruct: Bayesian non-parametric structured prediction model

UserNovi Quadrianto, Machine Learning, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 January 2014, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Theory and Method of Types: Channels, Quantizers, and Divergences

UserAntonio Artés-Rodríguez (University of Cambridge), Yingzhen Li.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 16 January 2014, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Anglican; Particle MCMC inference for Probabilistic Programs

UserJan-Willem van de Meent (Columbia University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 15 January 2014, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

High Dimensional Influence Measure

UserChenlei Leng, University of Warwick.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 06 December 2013, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Parsing Jazz: Harmonic Analysis of Music Using Combinatory Categorial Grammar

UserMark Granroth-Wilding, Computer Laboratory.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 December 2013, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Hermann Lotze and Local Sign

UserProfessor Michael Morgan, Professor of Visual Neuroscience at City University (Optometry) London and a Max-Planck Senior Fellow at the Institute for Neurological Research in Cologne.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 29 November 2013, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A Standard Document Score for Information Retrieval

UserRonan Cummins, University of Greenwich.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 29 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language Learning and the brain

UserMatt Davies, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Using the internet for psychological research and clinical trials

UserProfessor Gerhard Andersson (Linköping University).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA)

UserSara Wade (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 28 November 2013, 15:00-16:30

Arts, Culture and Education

“Learning and the development of musical expertise”

Webinar! University of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr. Susan Hallam, Institute of Education, London.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S8.

ClockWednesday 27 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

The miswired brain – from altered neurodevelopment to psychopathology

UserDr Kevin J. Mitchell, Institutes of Genetics and Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 22 November 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Complexity as L2-difficulty: Implications for syntactic change

UserGeorge Walkden, University of Manchester.

HouseLecture Block, Room 1, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Two cortical systems for memory-guided behaviour

UserProfessor Charan Ranganath (Center for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of California at Davis).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 15:30-16:30

Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)

The relation between non-symbolic and symbolic number processing

UserProf. Bert Reynvoet, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven.

HouseDepartment of Psychology, 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Main Building, Downing Site.

ClockThursday 21 November 2013, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Three Stories on Aggregated Search

UserMaarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam.

HouseSW 01, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

Second Language Education Group

Literacy Instruction and the Bilingual Learner

UserProfessor Catherine Wallace, Institute of Education, University of London .

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

ClockMonday 18 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Risk, uncertainty and feedback: How and what we learn from observing the outcome of our choices

UserDr Tim Rakow, Reader, Department of Psychology, University of Essex.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

The use of survey weights in regression modelling

UserChris Skinner, London School of Economics.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning to Generate Natural Source Code

UserDaniel Tarlow, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Spectral Learning

User Maxim Rabinovich, Aman Sinha.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 14 November 2013, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Traditional and Contemporary Torres Strait Languages and Dialects

UserTanisha Pabai, Stephen Yamashita, Zach Bani, Amelia Mari and Valent Kirk.

HouseFaculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 7.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 17:15-19:00

Arts, Culture and Education

“Changing attitudes and teaching strategies in music education classrooms to bring out the best in our students and teachers”

Webinar! University of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr. Yaroslav Senyshyn, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S8.

ClockWednesday 13 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

What We Need to Know about Intelligence but Do Not'

UserDr Wendy Johnson, Department of Psychology and Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh..

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 November 2013, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Data Management, Integration and Retrieval in Life Sciences Using Semantic Web Technology

UserSarinder Kaur Kashmir-Singh, University of Malaya.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 08 November 2013, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Waiting and resting brain states in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

UserProfessor Edmund Sonuga-Barke (University of Southampton) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Projections

UserDavid Lopez-Paz, David Duvenaud.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 07 November 2013, 15:00-16:30

Arts, Culture and Education

“Facing the music: An investigation of musicians’ physical and mental responses”

Webinar! University of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr. Aaron Williamon, Royal College of Music, London.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S8.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

An LFG analysis of the Latin reflexive

Tea served from 16.15

UserMarius Johndahl.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 06 November 2013, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Drug addiction: neural mechanisms underlying the development of compulsive drug seeking habits

UserProfessor Barry Everitt, Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 November 2013, 16:30-18:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Cleft sentences in the history of French and English: a case of pragmatic borrowing?

UserProf. Carola Trips (Mannheim) & Prof. Achim Stein (Stuttgart) .

HouseBowett Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 31 October 2013, 15:45-16:45

Chaucer Club

Chickens and eggs: Separating cause and effect in drug addiction

CANCELLED, please accept our apologies, we will reschedule next term

UserDr Karen Ersche, University of Cambridge .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 31 October 2013, 15:30-16:30

Arts, Culture and Education

“Transformative music engagement: Making music learning matter”

Webinar! University of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr. Susan A. O’Neill, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S8.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

'Formal syntax and language phylogeny

Tea served from 16.15

UserPino Longobardi.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

PTSD in children and adolescents: How cognitive mechanisms shape early responses to trauma

CANCELLED, please accept our apologies

UserRichard Meiser-Stedman (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Economical brain networks

UserProfessor Ed Bullmore, Behavioural & Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Dept Psychiatry, University of Cambridge GlaxoSmithKline R&D, Cambridge Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 October 2013, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Matching Quantiles Estimation

UserQiwei Yao, London School of Economics.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 25 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Evaluating music creativity through an assessment rubric

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserDiana Blom, Ian Stevenson and John Encarnacao.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Neonatal hypoxia, hippocampal damage and episodic memory impairment: A causal sequence?

UserProfessor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem (Institute of Child Health, London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian and Bandit Optimization

UserDr. Matthew Hoffman (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 24 October 2013, 15:00-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

The ab urbe condita construction in Latin - an LFG account

Tea served from 16.15

UserDag Haug.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Training amygdala regulation using real-time fMRI neurofeedback

UserAnnette Bruhel (BCNI, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 23 October 2013, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Re-contextualizing the hippocampus

UserDr Charan Ranganath,Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Dept. of Psychology & Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, UK Professor, Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, University of California at Davis, USA.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 October 2013, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The onset of borrowing: Somali and English

UserJeanette Sakel, University of the West of England.

HouseGR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Don't believe everything you read in the papers...

UserProfessor Marcus Munafo, University of Bristol.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 October 2013, 15:30-16:30

Stokes Society, Pembroke College

DNA and Ancient Scrolls

UserProf. Chris Howe.

HouseNihon Room, Pembroke College.

ClockWednesday 16 October 2013, 21:00-22:00

Zangwill Club

Benefits and limitations of hearing aids

UserProfessor Brian Moore, Professor of Auditory Perception, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 11 October 2013, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

The Geometry of Needlets Excursion Sets

UserDomenico Marinucci, University of Roma Tor Vergata.

HouseMR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 11 October 2013, 16:00-17:00

Arts, Culture and Education

A role for the e-portfolio in educating the professional musician (not the music teacher)

UserDiana Blom, University of Western Sydney and Matthew Hitchcock, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Challenging the use of adult neuropsychological models for explaining neurodevelopmental disorders: Developed versus developing brains

UserProfessor Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London) .

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Dissecting genotype to phenotype relationships

UserOliver Stegle (EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 10 October 2013, 11:00-12:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Recurrent Continuous Translation Models

UserNal Kalchbrenner (University of Oxford).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR12.

ClockMonday 07 October 2013, 12:00-13:00

Arts, Culture and Education

“Motor learning and music teaching”

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserClaudio Forcada, Studio Forcada, London.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

ClockWednesday 02 October 2013, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

CANCELLED: Local Deep Kernel Learning for Efficient Non-linear SVM Prediction

CANCELLED

UserManik Varma (Microsoft Research India).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 27 September 2013, 11:00-12:00

Arts, Culture and Education

“Musical Lifespans And The Complexities of Adult Learning”

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr. Kari K. Veblen, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

ClockWednesday 25 September 2013, 17:00-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

“Transmission and Transformation of Cantonese Opera in Hong Kong: From School Education to Professional Training”

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr. Bo Wah Leung, Institute of Education, Hong Kong.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

ClockWednesday 18 September 2013, 17:00-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

“The psychological skills of music performance: The missing link in the training of performing artists”

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr. Jon Skidmore, Brigham Young University, Utah.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

ClockWednesday 11 September 2013, 17:00-18:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

POMDP-based dialogue manager adaptation to extended domains

UserMilica Gasic (University of Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 06 September 2013, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Higher Order Learning for Classification in Emergency Situations

UserHannah Pauline Keiler (Columbia University and DIMACS).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 06 August 2013, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Recursive Deep Learning for Modeling Semantic Compositionality

UserRichard Socher - Stanford University.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 31 July 2013, 14:00-15:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Recent Work in Acoustic Modelling at Google

UserDr Andrew Senior, Google, New York.

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockThursday 11 July 2013, 11:30-12:30

Arts, Culture and Education

‘Mixing It Up: A Blended Approach to Practice-based Research Training in Music’

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserProfessor Paul Draper, Australia, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 1S3.

ClockThursday 04 July 2013, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Forests: One tool for all your problems.

UserNovi Quadrianto (University of Cambridge); Neil Houlsby (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 04 July 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studies

UserDr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 01 July 2013, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Applied statistical genetics and next-generation association studies

UserDr. Eleftheria Zeggini and Dr Ioanna Tachmazidou (Sanger Institute).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 01 July 2013, 11:00-12:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

The diachrony of the Romanian particle "să"

UserProf. Virginia Hill (University of New Brunswick in Saint John).

HouseBowett Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 26 June 2013, 16:00-18:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

PLACE Research Group Book Launch

Contact Ewa Illakowicz on ei219@cam.ac.uk if you are planning to attend

UserPLACE Research Group Book Launch.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in room 1S3.

ClockTuesday 25 June 2013, 17:00-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Curriculum design and assessment practices for measuring contemporary musical learning

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserDr Diane Hughes, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS1.

ClockWednesday 12 June 2013, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Modelling Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

UserYue Wu (University of Cambridge) and Andrew McHutchon (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 06 June 2013, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Developing and testing a self-assessment and tutoring system

UserHelen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 05 June 2013, 12:00-12:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Building abstractions in Language Development

UserProfessor E Lieven (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig/School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester).

HouseRoom GR06/07, Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site, West Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 30 May 2013, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

MRI biomarkers for neurodegenerative brain diseases

UserDr Julio Acosta-Cabronero (University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 30 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserTaylor Schmitz (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 29 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Semitic Philology Lecture

EDWARD ULLENDORFF AND THE STUDY OF SEMITIC LANGUAGES

The event will be followed by a reception.

UserProfessor Simon Hopkins, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

HouseFaculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9.

ClockWednesday 22 May 2013, 17:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

"Bonsai trees in your head: the powerful influence of reflexive processes on goal-directed decision-making".

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Jon Roiser, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Classification Using Censored Functional Data

UserAurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 17 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using Bayes to get the most out of null results

UserZoltan Dienes (Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 15 May 2013, 12:30-13:30

Looking at Language Acquisition XIV

UserAkira Murakami, Nikola Vukovic, Yan Tao, Amy Fang-Yen Hseih (DTAL).

HouseRoom B4, Criminology.

ClockTuesday 14 May 2013, 14:00-16:30

Zangwill Club

Heterogeneity in Cognitive Aging

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Ulman Lindenberger, Director for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On the Computational and Statistical Interface and "Big Data"

UserMichael I. Jordan, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseSeminar Room 1, Isaac Newton Institute.

ClockFriday 10 May 2013, 15:45-16:45

Constructionalization and constructional changes

UserDr Graeme Trousdale, University of Edinburgh.

HouseLecturers' Common Room, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Constructionalization and constructional changes

UserDr Graeme Trousdale (Edinburgh University).

HouseLecturer's Common Room, Raised Faculty Building.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

What can brain imaging tells us about psychology?

UserProfessor Dick Passingham (University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 09 May 2013, 15:30-16:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Keeping the World in Mind: Cultural Diversity in Music Education

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr Patricia Shehan Campbell, University of Washington, US.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS1.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 17:00-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Every picture tells a story: Using children’s drawings in educational research

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserDr Andrea Creech, Institute of Education, London.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2013, 15:00-16:30

Zangwill Club

Emotional disorders and mental imagery

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Emily A. Holmes, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 03 May 2013, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

From depth to local depth : a focus on centrality

UserDavy Paindaveine, Université libre de Bruxelles.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 03 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Gaussian Processes

UserProf. Neil Lawrence (Sheffield).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 01 May 2013, 15:00-16:00

Psychology & Education

What is "theory of mind" and can it be measured?

UserProfessor Ian Apperly, School of Psychology, Birmingham University.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS5, Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 30 April 2013, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Approaches to statistical modeling of network data

UserMaxim Nazarov (Bocconi University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 30 April 2013, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

The representational-hierarchical view of cognition: implications for amnesia, interference and Alzheimer's Disease

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Lisa Saksida, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 April 2013, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Approximating Data

UserLaurie Davies, Univeristy of Duisburg-Essen.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 26 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Comorbidity between Specific Language Impairments and Dyslexia

UserMaria Teresa Guasti, University of Milano-Bicocca.

HouseRoom GR06-07, English Faculty Building, West Rd..

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 17:30-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

What can Teachers Learn from Popular Musicians

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr Lucy Green, Institute of Education, University of London .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 1S3.

ClockWednesday 24 April 2013, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sparsity: Beyond L1

UserAmar Shah (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 18 April 2013, 15:00-16:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Advanced Literacy Skills: Textual Competences for a New Age

Please contact Maria Nikolajeva mn351@cam.ac.uk if you wish to attend

UserHelene Høyrup, Lydia Kokkola, Maria Nikolajeva, Anna Nordenstam, Björn Sundmark, Astrid Surmatz .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ, room 2S3.

ClockThursday 18 April 2013, 09:00-17:00

Arts, Culture and Education

New Methods for Teaching Music Composition

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr Julio Estrada, Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico (Spanish) .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS1.

ClockWednesday 17 April 2013, 17:00-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

The Poetics of Teaching Art

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr Patricia Cardona, (INBA-CENIDID) (Spanish) .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS1.

ClockTuesday 16 April 2013, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces in Non-parametric Statistics

UserBharath Sriperumbudur (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 April 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Non-parametric Bayesian Chromatin State Segmentation

UserWill Allen (University of Cambridge and MRC-LMB).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 08 April 2013, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Sum Product Networks

UserJosé Miguel Hernández Lobato (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 28 March 2013, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Fast Variational Inference in the Conjugate Exponential Family

UserJames Hensman, The Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 25 March 2013, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

How to Give a Technical Presentation in Computer Science

UserStephen Clark, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 March 2013, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Reinforcement Learning

UserRowan McAllister & Karolina Dziugaite.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 March 2013, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Allochthonous languages, Brazilian Zeeuws, and Dummy Auxiliaries

UserAndrew Nevins (co-authored with Gertjan Postma and Elizana Schaffel-Bremenkamp).

HouseFaculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

ClockWednesday 20 March 2013, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Unsupervised Domain Tuning to Improve Word Sense Disambiguation

UserJudita Preiss, University of Sheffield.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 March 2013, 12:00-13:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Introduction to Dialogue Systems

UserBlaise Thomson (University of Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 15 March 2013, 11:30-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Transitive psych-predicates In Chinese

UserProfessor Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng, Leiden University/LUCL.

HouseLecture Block, room 3, Sidgwick Site.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Programming

UserJames Lloyd (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 14 March 2013, 15:00-16:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Interpersonal Dynamics in Learning Across the Lifespan

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr Andrea Creech, Institute of Education, University of London.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS4.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Tinnitus and cochlear implants

UserPhil Gomersall (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Representational geometry modelling

UserAlex Walter (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 13 March 2013, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserProfessor Mark Johnson, Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

The Bayesian Approach To Inverse Problems

UserAndrew Stuart, University of Warwick.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 08 March 2013, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Adaptive constructive processes and the future of memory

UserProfessor Daniel Schacter (Harvard University, USA).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 07 March 2013, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Two Approaches to Grammar Induction: From Plain Text to Semantic Supervision

UserOmri Abend, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 06 March 2013, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Class in multilingualism research

UserProfessor David Block, ICREA-Universitat de Lleida.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS1.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2013, 17:30-19:00

Zangwill Club

All work and no play

UserProf. Louk J.M.J. Vanderschuren, PhD Dept. of Animals in Science and Society, Division of Behavioural Neuroscience, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 March 2013, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Fragmentation Coagulation

UserHong Ge (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 28 February 2013, 15:00-16:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Teaching Music to Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Understanding and Perspectives

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr Ryan Hourigan, Ball State University, US .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S8.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

Greek in Egypt, a heavyweight minority language

Tea served from 16.15

UserMarja Vierros (Helsinki/New York University).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 27 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Art, Education and the Built Environment.

All Welcome!

UserDr. Sylvia Rhor, Associate Professor of Art History at Carlow University .

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in room GS5.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2013, 17:00-19:00

Zangwill Club

Specificity and social cognitive impairment in autism

UserProfessor Sue Leekam, Chair of Autism, School of Psychology, Cardiff University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Distributional Semantics and Kernels

UserTamara Polajnar, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Large-scale high-density electrocorticography reveals distinct synchronization networks and their cognitive functions

UserProfessor Pascal Fries (Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Conditional Density Estimation

UserSara Wade ( Bocconi University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 February 2013, 15:00-16:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

The Grimness of Contemporary Fairy Tales

Leverhulme Lecture! All welcome!

UserJack Zipes,Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ, room GS4.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

Latin as a minority language in late Roman Britain

Tea served from 16.15

UserPaul Russell (ASNAC, Cambridge).

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Decision-making with and without rules

UserJiaxiang Zhang (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Experience-related changes in the adult auditory system

UserProfessor Kevin Munro, Professor of Audiology, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Linguistic Indicators for Estimating the Quality of Machine Translations

UserMariano Felice, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Executive control and decision making in the human prefrontal cortex

UserProfessor Étienne Koechlin (Hopital de la Salpetriere, Paris).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 14 February 2013, 15:30-16:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Globalization and Music Education

Webinar! Univeristy of Cambridge Coordinator: Dr Pamela Burnard.

UserDr Jose Luis Arostegui, University of Granada, Spain .

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS4.

ClockWednesday 13 February 2013, 17:00-18:30

The evolution of human language

UserProf. William Marslen-Wilson (Dept. of Psychology).

HouseLCHES Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Fitzilliam Street.

ClockMonday 11 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Don't Believe Everything You Read in the Papers

UserProfessor Marcus Munafo, Professor of Biological Psychology, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Local Bilinear Multiple-Output Quantile Regression: from $L_1$ Optimization to Regression Depth

UserMarc Hallin, ECARES, Universite libre de Bruxelles and ORFE, Princeton University.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 08 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

RCC Planning

UserColorado Reed (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 07 February 2013, 15:00-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

How many languages were spoken in the ancient world?

Tea served from 16.15

UserJames Clackson, Cambridge.

House1.11 Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2013, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Exploring the two pathways to fear: Daleks and Parents

UserProfessor Andy Field, Professor of Child Psychopathology (Psychology), School of Psychology, University of Sussex.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

When Bayesians Can't Handle the Truth

UserCosma Shalizi, Carnegie Mellon University.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 01 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Studying action selection in frontoparietal motor networks with transcranial magnetic stimulation

UserProfessor Hartwig Siebner (Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discrete Optimization

UserColorado Reed (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 31 January 2013, 15:00-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The consequences of intentional forgetting

UserJonathan Fawcett (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 30 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Executive functions and linguistic competence: insights from bilingualism

UserDr Napoleon Katsos (Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge).

HouseRoom 606, Centre for Family Research.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2013, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Reasoning rats and clever kids: The role of reasoning in human and animal causal learning

UserProfessor Tom Beckers, Associate Professor, Department of Learning & Experimental Psychopathology, University of Leuven.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Conflicts between optimality criteria for block designs with low replication

UserRosemary Bailey, Queen Mary University of London.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 25 January 2013, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Null objects and markedness in L1 acquisition

UserIanthi Tsimpli (Aristotle University Thessaloniki/University of Reading).

HouseBowett Room, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced Sampling

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge); Dr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 24 January 2013, 15:00-16:30

Arts, Culture and Education

'I was born in a cat’s cave.' Working with authorship and imagination in early childhood outdoor learning

All welcome! Please contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserDeb Wilenski and Kate Cowan.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS4.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Psychology & Education

Social and emotional learning: a critical appraisal

UserNeil Humphries Professor of Psychology of Education University of Manchester.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS5, Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 22 January 2013, 16:30-18:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Marvellous Margaret Mahy: A Tribute

For further information, and to register to attend, please contact Elizabeth Hale: Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, and Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Education, Cambridge University: eh458@cam.ac.uk

UserCatherine Butler, University of the West of England; Adrienne Gavin, Canterbury Christchurch University; Elizabeth Hale, University of New England (Australia) ; Alison Waller, University of Roehampton.

HouseMary Allan Building room 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

ClockFriday 18 January 2013, 14:00-18:00

The dynamics of lexical access during language production: A swinging lexical network account

UserProf. Rasha Abdel Rahman (Humboldt University, Berlin).

House MRC-CBU, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

ClockFriday 18 January 2013, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Volition and Agency

Joint Chaucer Club/Zangwill Club lecture

UserProfessor Patrick Haggard (University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 15:30-16:30

Zangwill Club

Volition and Agency

THIS TALK IS A JOINT ZANGWILL/CHAUCER CLUB SEMINAR TO BE HELD AT 15 CHAUCER ROAD CAMBRIDGE. PLEASE NOTE: THIS PARTICULAR LECTURE WILL TAKE PLACE ON THURSDAY INSTEAD OF THE USUAL FRIDAY.

UserProfessor Patrick Haggard, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS Recap

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 17 January 2013, 14:30-16:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Acoustic Factorisation for Robust Speech Recognition

UserEric(Yongqiang) Wang (University of Cambridge).

HouseDepartment of Engineering - LR6.

ClockFriday 11 January 2013, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS Recap

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 06 December 2012, 14:30-16:00

Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)

Synchronized Speaking: What speaking together can tell us about skilled action

UserFred Cummins, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin.

HouseMRC CBU, 15 Chaucer Road Cambridge CB2 7EF.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2012, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Minimax Lower Bounds

UserAdityanand Guntuboyina, UC Berkeley.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 30 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Machine translation from the user's perspective: what is it good for?

UserLucia Specia, University of Sheffield.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 30 November 2012, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Representation of motor skills in cortical networks

UserDr Jörn Diedrichsen (University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 29 November 2012, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian and Gradient Reinforcement Learning

UserYanyue (University of Cambridge); Emil Hewage (CBL, University of Cambridge); .

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 29 November 2012, 14:30-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Recent research updates

UserCBSU Programme-leaders (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Stability

UserBin Yu, University of California, Berkeley.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockMonday 26 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

A molecular basis of innate and learned behavior

UserProfessor Seth Grant, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences and Centre for Neuroregeneration, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Random Fraction of a Biased Sample: old models and a new one

UserGeurt Jongbloed, TU Delft, EURANDOM.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 23 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Domain of Content

UserHagit Borer (Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseErasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Spectral Clustering

UserMr Roger Grosse (MIT); Alex Matthews.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 22 November 2012, 14:30-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The role of awareness and attention in eye-blink conditioning

Two short talks today

UserMoos Peeters (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inferior temporal categoricality not accounted for by visual features

Two short talks today

UserSeyed Kaligh-Razavi (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 12:30-13:30

Psychology & Education

Patterns in student learning and teacher learning: how do they relate?

UserJan Vermunt Professor of Education, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS5, Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

List Closed

The Japanese and Western View of Nature - Beyond Cultural Incommensurability

Tea and coffee and biscuits available from 16.15

UserDr Manuba Sumida, Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Education, Associate Professor, Science Education Department, Faculty of Education, Ehime University, Japan.

HouseGS5, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 19 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Predict, Price and Cut: Column and Row Generation for Structured Prediction

User Sebastian Riedel, University College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 November 2012, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Modern Neural Networks: the Hinton Camp

UserRichard Turner, Mark van der Wilk.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 15 November 2012, 14:30-16:00

Second Language Education Group

Styling in a Language Learned Later in Life

All Welcome!

UserProfessor Ben Rampton, Professor of Applied and Socio-linguistics, King’s College London.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2012, 17:30-18:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Australian Art Orchestra & The Young Wägilak Group Present Crossing Roper Bar : An Interactive Performance & Discussion of Improvisation as Transcultural Process

FREE admission, Please contact Pam Burnard pab61@cam.ac.uk if you would like to attend.

UserTony Hicks, of the Australian Art Orchestra, Samuel Curkpatrick, PhD candidate at Australian National University and Benjamin, David and Daniel Wilfred of the Young Wägilak Group.

HouseHomerton College, Auditorium, Mary Allan Building, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2012, 16:30-18:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Australian Art Orchestra & The Young Wägilak Group Present Crossing Roper Bar : An Interactive Performance & Discussion of Improvisation as Transcultural Process

FREE admission

UserTony Hicks, of the Australian Art Orchestra, Samuel Curkpatrick, PhD candidate at Australian National University and Benjamin, David and Daniel Wilfred of the Young Wägilak Group.

HouseMuseum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Downing Street, City Centre, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Learning and brain plasticity for perceptual decisions

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

UserProfessor Zoe Kourtzi, Chair of Brain Imaging, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of foraging and decision making

UserProfessor Matthew Rushworth (University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Distributional compositional models of semantics

UserStephen Clark (Computer Laboratory).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 13:30-15:00

Assessment Principles

Can the public have confidence in national assessments?

To register please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserAndrew Watts.

HouseCambridge Assessment, 1 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 November 2012, 10:30-12:00

Zangwill Club

Seeing in depth: computations and cortical networks

UserDr Andrew Welchman, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow & Reader in Sensory Neuroscience, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 02 November 2012, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

A semiparametric model for heterogeneous panel data with fixed effects

UserOliver Linton, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 02 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Discrete bilectalism, multilingualism, and (a)typical language development

UserKleanthes K. Grohmann and Maria Kambanaros (University of Cyprus and Cyprus Acquisition Team).

HouseErasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 01 November 2012, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

The Contrasting Roles of the Hippocampus & Amygdala in Memory

UserProfessor John O'Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A fast and simple algorithm for training neural probabilistic language models

UserAndriy Mnih, University College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 26 October 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Derogatives: Meaning or Metadata?

The Erasmus Room is on the 1st Floor, and is marked no. 18 on the following map: http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/mi-content/default.asp?PAGE_ID=1860

UserGeoffrey Nunberg (UC Berkeley).

HouseErasmus Room, Old Court, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 25 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

Translanguaging: a dynamic bilingual perspective on pedagogy, assessment and research

To register please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserDr W Gwyn Lewis (Bangor University), Stuart Shaw and Helen Imam (University of Cambridge International Examinations).

HouseHughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2012, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Face space in the primate visual system

Two short talks today

UserJonathan O’Keeffe (MRC Cognition & Brain Science Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Second Language Education Group

Beyond multilingualism: Heteroglossia and social diversity

All welcome!

UserProfessor Adrian Blackledge, MOSAIC Centre for Research on Multilingualism, University of Birmingham.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic methods for biomolecular structure simulations

UserJes Frellsen (University of Copenhagen).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 22 October 2012, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Cognitive mechanisms of action control and the link with monetary decision-making when gambling

UserDr Frederick Verbruggen, Senior Lecturer, Cognitive Psychology, University of Exeter.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Handling obsolete information in classification: is there a one-size-fits-all strategy?

UserChristoforos Anagnostopoulos, Imperial College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 October 2012, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Mechanisms underlying generalisation in word learning

UserProfessor Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Completely Random Measures in Bayesian Nonparametrics

UserDr Daniel Roy (University of Cambridge), Creighton Heaukulani.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 18 October 2012, 14:30-16:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Engaging Educators in the Open Learning Revolution

All welcome! Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserDavid Price, O.B.E (speaker, writer, project manager, strategic advisor, educator).

HouseHomerton College, Mary Allan Building, Bouling 8 & 9, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Prospective memory and prefrontal cortex: Evidence from neuroimaging and computational modelling

UserDr Sam Gilbert, Royal Society Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 12 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A New Twist on Methodologies for ESL Grammatical Error Detection

UserJoel Tetreault, Educational Testing Service.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 12 October 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Neurocognitive universals in types of morphological process?

The Bowett Room is at no.7 on the following map: http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/mi-content/default.asp?PAGE_ID=1860

UserWilliam Marslen-Wilson (University of Cambridge).

HouseBowett Room, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Person identification and speech recognition in human communication

UserDr Katharina von Kriegstein (Max Plank Institute, Leipzig, Germany).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Model selection in a large compositional space

note: the first 45 mins will be planning and the talk will start at around 3:15pm

UserRoger Grosse (MIT).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 October 2012, 14:30-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Machine learning for auditory neuroscience

UserRichard Turner (Computational and Biological Learning Lab, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2012, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Conative and Emotional Psychobiology: Evidence from infancy and developmental neuroscience on the purposes and values of human cognition.

UserProfessor Colwyn Trevarthen, Emeritus Professor of Child Psychology & Psychobiology, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

ClockFriday 05 October 2012, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Nonparametric regression for locally stationary time series

UserMichael Vogt, Department of Economics, University of Cambridge.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 05 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

New methods for noninvasive brain imaging and stimulation

UserProfessor Risto Ilmoniemi (Aalto University, Finland).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 04 October 2012, 15:30-16:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Convergent and Scalable Algorithms for Expectation Propagation Approximate Bayesian Inference

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserMatthias Seeger, EPFL.

HouseSmall lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 25 September 2012, 15:00-16:00

Arts, Culture and Education

One-to-one pedagogy: exploring supervisory practices in music research training

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserSCOTT HARRISON, Queensland Conservatorium,Griffith University, Australia .

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

ClockMonday 24 September 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Multi-Label Learning with Millions of Categories

UserManik Varma (Microsoft Research India).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockMonday 24 September 2012, 11:00-12:00

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

Research methods in action: how do researchers use the CRAS (Complexity-Resources-Abstractness and Strategy) framework and Kelly’s Repertory Grid (KRG) technique in assessment research studies?

To register please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserMartin Johnson, Rita Nádas, and Dr Sanjana Mehta (Cambridge Assessment).

HouseHughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 19 September 2012, 15:30-17:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

The transformative capacity of play and the arts for learning and student engagement: implications for pre-service teacher education

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserDr Janice K Jones, Faculty of Education, University of Southern Queensland.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

ClockWednesday 19 September 2012, 12:20-14:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Engagement in different contexts: What enables or restricts the Artist Teacher?

All welcome! Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserNeryl Jeanneret & Robert Brown, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

ClockTuesday 18 September 2012, 14:00-15:30

Assessment Principles

How can we ensure the value of the assessments we create?

To register please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserAndrew Watts.

HouseCambridge Assessment, 1 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 13 September 2012, 10:30-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient Sampling with Kernel Herding

UserYutian Chen (University of California at Irvine) - talk given by videolink.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 12 September 2012, 16:00-17:00

Current Issues in Assessment

How do examiners reach judgements?

To register please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserVictoria Elliott (Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment and Warwick Institute of Education) and Dr Talia Isaacs (University of Bristol).

HouseDowning College, Regent Street, Cambridge, UK.

ClockThursday 06 September 2012, 16:30-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Frank-Wolfe optimization insights in machine learning

UserSimon Lacoste-Julien (INRIA, ENS, Paris).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 24 August 2012, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep learning for vision: a case study for visual textures, and some thoughts on a general framework

UserProf. Chris Williams ( School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockWednesday 08 August 2012, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Thermodynamics as a Theory of Decision-Making with Information Processing Costs

UserPedro Ortega (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 03 August 2012, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Human Behavior Classification with Infinite Hidden Conditional Random Fields

UserKonstantinos Bousmalis and Stefanos Zafeiriou (Imperial College).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockFriday 27 July 2012, 11:00-12:00

Assessment Principles

Measurement or judgement: is assessing an art or a science?

To register please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserAndrew Watts.

HouseHughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 12 July 2012, 10:30-12:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges

Registration fee: £30 (payable at CRASSH) (cash only please). The fee includes lunch and a wine reception

UserPlenaries by Nicholas Ostler (Foundation for Endangered Languages) and Tjeerd de Graaf (Frisian Academy).

HouseCRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP.

ClockFriday 06 July 2012, 08:45-17:45

NLIP Seminar Series

Data Mining and Information Extraction for CiteSeerX and Friends

UserDr. C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 29 June 2012, 12:00-13:00

Categories and Gradience: Neural Systems for Speech Communication

UserKai Alter (University of Newcastle), Matt Davis (MRC CBU, Cambridge), Aditi Lahiri (University of Oxford).

HouseDept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.

ClockTuesday 26 June 2012, 00:00-00:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fuse Project and Citation Analysis

UserDain Kaplan - University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 June 2012, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Syntactic Verb Frames Using Graphical Models

UserTom Lippincott, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 June 2012, 12:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Dependent normalized random measures

UserChangyou Chen (College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Australian National University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 June 2012, 11:00-12:00

Psychology & Education

Mathematical Reasoning as a Literally Physical Symbol System

User Professor Robert Goldstone Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences Indiana University, Department of Psychological and Brain Science.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm G09 Mary Allan Building)).

ClockTuesday 19 June 2012, 16:30-18:00

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

Students’ and teachers’ views and experiences of A level unit re-sits

To register please contact the Cambridge Assessment Network Division on thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserTim Gill and Dr Irenka Suto, Cambridge Assessment.

HouseHughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 19 June 2012, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Following Wisdom in Machine Learning

UserNovi Quadrianto, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 June 2012, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Look on the bright side: Reducing anxiety via the direct modification of cognitive bias

UserDr Laura Hoppitt (School of Social Work and Psychology, University of East Anglia).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 15:30-16:30

Arts, Culture and Education

"Musical Kaleidoscope: Soundings of Enquiry"

UserInaugural music performances from a variety of traditions, featuring Education Faculty staff and students.

HouseAuditorium, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 June 2012, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The neural basis of speech intelligibility

Postponed from 13th to 20th June, please accept our apologies for any inconvenience

UserSam Evans (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 13 June 2012, 12:30-13:30

Psychology & Education

Mathematical Reasoning as a Literally Physical Symbol System

User Professor Robert Goldstone Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences Indiana University, Department of Psychological and Brain Science.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm G09 Mary Allan Building)).

ClockTuesday 12 June 2012, 16:30-18:00

Arts, Culture and Education

New Media Musicianship: Inspiring practices and implications for music and arts education

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are intending to come

UserAlex Ruthmann, Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS5.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Does the motor system have a functional role in action perception?

UserDr James Kilner (Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders, Institute of Neurology).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 07 June 2012, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An overview of Bayesian filtering and its applications to neuronal data

Please note - this is a change from our original schedule

UserHamid Mohseni (post-doc at Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 06 June 2012, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Semi-supervised learning for automatic conceptual property extraction

UserColin Kelly, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 June 2012, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Modelling selectional preferences in a lexical hierarchy

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 June 2012, 12:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On Data (In-)Dependent Hashing

UserNovi Quadrianto (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 31 May 2012, 14:00-15:30

Chaucer Club

Distributed neural circuits, not circumscribed centers, mediate both face and word recognition

Talk Cancelled - Please accept our apologies

UserProfessor Marlene Behrmann (Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockMonday 28 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Statistics

Modelling Network Data

UserPatrick Wolfe, University College London.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Modeling coherence in ESOL learner texts

UserHelen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Context-Enhanced Citation Sentiment Detection

UserAwais Athar, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 May 2012, 12:00-12:30

Indo-European Seminar

LATIN CLITICS AND LATIN WORD ORDER

Please note - timings still unknown

UserDr Giuseppe Pezzini (Oxford); Prof. Peter Kruschwitz (Reading).

HouseRoom to be announced Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 23 May 2012, 15:00-19:00

DTAL Tuesday Colloquia

The present perfect puzzle revisited

UserProf. Wolfgang Klein (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2012, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Comparative Syntax Conference (CamCoS) 1

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSidgwick site.

ClockSaturday 19 May 2012, 00:00-00:00

Zangwill Club

The Determination of Memory Course after Retrieval

UserDr Kerrie Thomas, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Wales.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Statistical inference for compound regression

UserAlexandre Tsybakov, Université Paris VI.

HouseMR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Repair and adherence in patient-clinician dialogues

UserMatthew Purver -- Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 18 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

‘Possible Dreams: Paulo Freire and Utopian Education’

Please contact Ewa Illakowicz (ei219@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserProfessor Peter Roberts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

ClockThursday 17 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Multimodal neuroimaging of the human visual system: Linking cortical oscillatory dynamics to haemodynamic responses, neurotransmitters and behaviour

UserProfessor Krish Singh (Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Language Sciences launch event

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseLucia Windsor Room, Newnham College.

ClockSaturday 12 May 2012, 10:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Imprinted genes, brain and behaviour

UserProfessor Lawrence Wilkinson, Behavioural Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Wales.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 11 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

‘The Gentle Art of Teaching: Camus, Taoism and Education’

Please contact Ewa Illakowicz (ei219@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserProfessor Peter Roberts, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Conduct problems and callous-unemotional traits: Using multiple methodologies to find out more

UserProfessor Essi Viding (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL, London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Assessment Principles

How can assessment support learning?

To register please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserAndrew Watts.

HouseCambridge Assessment, 1 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 May 2012, 10:30-12:00

Indo-European Seminar

INDO-IRANIAN REFLEXES OF INDO-EUROPEAN STATIVES

Tea served from 16.15

UserDr Ilya Yakubovitch, Oxford.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2012, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning with nonparametric dependence and divergence estimation

UserBarnabas Poczos (Carnegie Mellon University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2012, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Reinforcement, learning, and cognitive control

UserDr Tom Verguts, Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University, Belgium.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Large-scale convex optimization for machine learning

UserFrancis Bach, INRIA, Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Beyond Shallow Semantics

UserMartha Palmer, University of Colorado.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 04 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Title to be confirmed

UserAnn Copestake (University of Cambridge).

HouseLatimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Placing the wandering mind in context: Dispelling three myths about the daydreaming state

UserJonathon Smallwood (Department of Social Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive Brain Sciences, Germany).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 03 May 2012, 15:30-16:30

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

Vocational assessment – valid and manageable?

To register please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserGeorgina Sear (OCR).

HouseHughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 02 May 2012, 15:30-17:00

DTAL Tuesday Colloquia

Syntactic change and information structure

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGED START TIME (16:30)

UserProf. Eric Fuss (Goethe Universität Frankfurt/ Universität Stuttgart).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Psychology & Education

Applying a sociocultural understanding to inclusive practice in education

UserDr. Robert White is Senior Lecturer; Community, Health and Educational Studies Research Centre.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS5, Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 01 May 2012, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

How memory guides perception

UserProfessor Kia Nobre (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 26 April 2012, 15:30-16:30

DTAL Tuesday Colloquia

Understanding acceptability judgments: grammar or processing?

UserDr Philip Hofmeister (University of Essex).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 24 April 2012, 16:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Executive Functions and Prefrontal Cortex: Genetic and Neurochemical Influences, Gender Differences, and Novel Methods to Help Children Become Masters of their Own Behavior

UserProfessor Adele Diamond, Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 April 2012, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Education 2.0: How genetics informs us about cognitive development, learning, and achievement

UserProfessor Timothy Bates (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 19 April 2012, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

UserRogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 19 April 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Weighted Finite-state Automata

UserRogier van Dalen, Engineering Dept, Cambridge University.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 19 April 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

UserFerenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 12 April 2012, 14:00-15:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The science of guessing

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

UserJoseph Bonneau (Cambridge University).

HouseSmall lecture theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 7 J J Thomson Avenue (Off Madingley Road), Cambridge.

ClockThursday 05 April 2012, 09:30-10:30

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

Making the most of our assessment data

To register please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserNicholas Raikes (Cambridge Assessment).

HouseHughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 04 April 2012, 15:30-17:00

Queens' Linguistics Fest 2012

6th EDiSyn 2012, Queens' College, Cambridge

UserInvited Speaker: David Willis.

HouseBowett.

ClockSaturday 31 March 2012, 09:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Topic Modelling

UserDr Tomoharu Iwata (NTT).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 29 March 2012, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Helping computers talk from experience

UserBlaise Thomson, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 23 March 2012, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Structural Learning of Dynamic Bayesian Networks

UserMatt Henderson (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 22 March 2012, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Entity-based Models for Discourse Structure

UserMicha Elsner, University of Edinburgh.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Extended ensemble Monte Carlo

UserDr. Cristina Savin (Computational & Biological Learning Lab, Dept Engineering, U Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 15 March 2012, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Infinite Structured Explicit Duration Hidden Markov Models

UserJonathan Huggins (Columbia University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

ClockThursday 15 March 2012, 11:00-11:45

Semantics and Pragmatics Research Group

Reading Group

UserDiscussion of F. Moltmann 2010 'Generalizing detached self-reference and the semantics of generic *one*'.

HouseRoom 109, Kennedy Building, Newnham College.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Positive psychology and positive education: Old wine in new bottles?

Please contact Ewa Illakowicz (ei219@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserProfessor Kristjan Kristjansson, School of Education, University of Iceland.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

ClockMonday 12 March 2012, 17:15-18:30

Zangwill Club

Are there multiple memory systems? A new theoretical framework for implicit and explicit memory.

UserProfessor David Shanks, Professor and Associate Dean of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 March 2012, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Neurocognitive plasticity in the aging brain

CANCELLED - please accept our apologies

UserProfessor Lorraine Tyler (Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

"Symmetry and sufficiency"

UserPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 14:00-15:30

Assessment Principles

What is the purpose of public assessments?

To register please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserAndrew Watts.

HouseHughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 08 March 2012, 10:30-12:00

World Oral Literature Project

The Encyclopaedia of Literature in African Languages

UserUrsula Baumgardt and Marie Lorin (National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO) and Mixed Research Unit (UMR) CNRS, Language, Languages and Cultures of Black Africa (LLACAN)).

HouseMcDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Site.

ClockMonday 05 March 2012, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

Second-Order Comparison of Functional Data with Applications to DNA Geom

UserVictor Panaretos, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 02 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Imagining other people

UserDr Demis Hassabis (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 01 March 2012, 15:30-16:30

Humanitas

Writing War

UserJay Winter (Yale).

HouseRoom 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Philosophical Approaches to Education seminar series

Willed Forgetfulness: The Arts, Education and the Case for Unlearning

Please contact Ewa Illakowicz (ei219@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserDr John Baldacchino, University College Falmouth.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S8.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

"Progress in Mycenaean Studies"

Tea served from 16.15

UserProf. John Bennet, Sheffield.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Semantics and Pragmatics Research Group

Reading Group

UserDiscussion of I. Noveck et al. 2011 'A deflationary account of invited inferences'.

HouseRoom 109, Kennedy Building, Newnham College.

ClockWednesday 29 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Pembroke Papers, Pembroke College

Title to be confirmed

UserProfessor Sylvia Huot, Department of French, Modern & Medieval Languages, Cambridge University.

HouseN7, Pembroke College.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2012, 19:30-20:30

Psychology & Education

Examining developmental changes in the skills underlying reading development

UserDr Laura Shapiro is Lecturer on the Psychology Teaching Programme, Aston University.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ: GS5, Donald McIntyre Building.

ClockTuesday 28 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

The Adolescent Brain

UserProfessor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Automatically Creating Reading Lists with Topical PageRank

UserJames Jardine, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

'Environmental concern, moral education and our place in nature'

Please contact Ewa Illakowicz (ei219@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserDr Michael Bonnett, University of Cambridge.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS5.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Components of working memory in task control

UserProfessor Graham Hitch (Department of Psychology, University of York).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 23 February 2012, 15:30-16:30

Arts, Culture and Education

To do or not do? When ‘what’ and ‘how’ no longer counts

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserJan Ferm, Artistic Leader, Teacher and Composer, School of Music, Lulec, University of Sweden.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

The principles and functions of (hippocampal) memory reconsolidation

UserDr Jonathan Lee, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Goodness-of-fit tests for noisy directional data

UserThanh Mai Pham Ngoc, Université Paris Sud, Orsay.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 17 February 2012, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Title to be confirmed

UserBonnie Schwartz (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

HouseLatimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 17:00-18:30

Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series

Formal mathematics and natural language

Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing

UserKoepke, P (Universitt Bonn).

HouseSeminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

ClockThursday 16 February 2012, 17:00-17:30

Indo-European Seminar

"Progress in Mycenaean Studies"

Tea served from 16.15

UserDr Helena Tomas, University of Zagreb.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Children take the Lead. Which way to go? What does it mean? What if I don’t like it or understand?

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserRuth Sapsed, Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 15 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive reserve and Alzheimer’s disease: Where society and biology meet

Note - this is a Joint Chaucer/Zangwill Club talk and will be held at Department of Experimental Psychology

UserProfessor Ian Robertson (School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin).

HouseDept of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Cognitive Reserve and Alzheimer’s Disease: Where Society and Biology Meet

JOINT ZANGWILL/CHAUCER CLUB SEMINAR

UserProfessor Ian Robertson, Professor of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Safe Learning: How to Modify Bayesian Inference when All Models are Wrong

UserPeter Grünwald, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 10 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Talks about his work as an illustrator

UserAlexis Deacon, distinguished author of Beegu and many other picturebooks.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ, room GS4.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 17:00-19:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Kit Drummers and the Snowball Self: A socio-cultural-psychological perspective on identity and learning realisation

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend.

UserGareth Dylan Smith, London Institute of Contemporary Music Performance.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neurophysiology of speech act processing

UserNatalia Egorova (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 08 February 2012, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Boosting your Brain:Cognitive Enhancement and Neuroethics

UserProfessor Barbara Sahakian, Department of Psychiatry, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge.

HouseWolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 06 February 2012, 19:30-21:00

Arts, Culture and Education

DJs and MCs in the classroom: perhaps a glimpse of justice for disaffected inner-city youth?

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserPete Dale, University of Newcastle.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 06 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Against Qualia

UserProfessor Tim Crane, Knightsbridge Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 03 February 2012, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Marginal Models for Dependent, Clustered, and Longitudinal Categorical Data

UserWicher Bergsma, London School of Economics and Political Science.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 03 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Brain function for communication: Cross-species comparisons

UserDr Christopher Petkov (Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University Medical School).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 02 February 2012, 15:30-16:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

NLP Reading Group: Cross-Cutting Models of Lexical Semantics

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 02 February 2012, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

"Progress in Mycenaean Studies"

Tea served from 16.15

UserDr Jörg Weilhartner, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 16:30-17:30

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

Researching impact in an educational assessment context

To register please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserDr Hanan Khalifa and Dr Karen Ashton (University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations).

HouseHughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 01 February 2012, 15:30-17:00

DTAL Tuesday Colloquia

Negotiating wages for verbs: The valency approach and argument structure constructions

UserProf. Thomas Herbst (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg).

HouseGR-06/07, English Faculty Building.

ClockTuesday 31 January 2012, 16:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Becoming a skilled comprehender: causes and consequences

UserDr Kate Cain, Department of Psychology, University of Lancaster.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Approximate Bayesian Computation for model selection

UserChristian Robert, Universite Paris-Dauphine and IUF.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Bayesian Smoothing for Language Models

UserYee Whye Teh, University College London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 27 January 2012, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Developmental dyslexia: A temporal sampling framework

UserProfessor Usha Goswami (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information bottleneck

Please note the change in time. This RCC will take place at 15:00-16.30pm.

UserDr. Richard Turner, DJ Strouse.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 15:00-16:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

NLIP reading group: Bayesian Smoothing for Language Models

UserAndreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 26 January 2012, 12:00-13:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Capturing complexity: An interdisciplinary review of movement capture technologies in the arts, humanities, and social sciences

Please contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend!

UserDr Tyler Denmead, University of Lincoln.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 25 January 2012, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Thinking aloud about mental voices

UserDr Charles Fernyhough, Department of Psychology, Durham University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 January 2012, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Random forests

UserGérard Biau, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 20 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Computational phenotyping of social gestures using economic games

UserProfessor P. Read Montague (Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and Dept of Physics, Virginia Tech & Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College, London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning

UserDr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 19 January 2012, 14:00-15:30

Craik Club

Colour Categories in Language and Thought

UserDr. Anna Franklin, University of Sussex.

HouseKenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

ClockTuesday 17 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Information gathering and impulsivity

UserProfessor Bruno Averbeck (Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 12 January 2012, 15:30-16:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Collaborating across genre boundaries - the creative process

All welcome! Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend.

UserRobert Davidson, University of Queensland.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 09 January 2012, 16:30-18:00

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

Developing a model for investigating the impact of assessment within educational contexts by a public examination provider

To register please contact the Network Team on thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk or 01223 553846

UserDr Nick Saville (University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations).

HouseHughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 14 December 2011, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive style in Autism: what does 'weak central coherence' explain?

UserProfessor Francesca Happe (Institute of Psychiatry, London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 08 December 2011, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Probabilistic models of similarity and plausibility in context

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 02 December 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Computing and Technology Society (CUCaTS)

Unsupervised Machine Learning and Linguistics

Last talk of term

UserProfessor Alex Clark (Royal Holloway, University of London).

HouseWinstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 18:00-19:15

CRASSH

The Last Words

UserProfessor Anvita Abbi.

HouseCRASSH 17, Mill Lane, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Distributed cortical circuits, optimized over development, mediate visual cognition

CANCELLED, to be rearranged for the new year

UserProfessor Marlene Behrmann (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 01 December 2011, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Quadrature for Prediction and Optimisation

UserMichael Osborne ( Oxford University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 28 November 2011, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What is meaning? - Formalising the Distributional Hypothesis

UserDaoud Clarke, University of Hertfordshire.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 November 2011, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Executive functions: fractures, fractionation, and repair

UserProfessor Sue Gathercole (MRC Cognition and Braiin Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 24 November 2011, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

Official prescriptive texts in Republican Italy : a diaphasic koiné ?

Tea served from 4.15

UserEmmanuel Dupraz (Rouen).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Automatic Discovery of Patterns in Media Content

UserNello Cristianini, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Departments of Engineering Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bristol.

HouseLecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Does working memory training work?

UserJoni Holmes (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2011, 12:30-13:30

CamCREES seminars (Cambridge Committee for Russian and East European Studies)

Ukrainian, Russian, and Rusyn on the Western Periphery

Tea and coffee available from 16:45

UserProfessor Michael Moser (University of Vienna; Ukrainian Free University, Munich).

HouseLatimer Room, Clare College.

ClockTuesday 22 November 2011, 17:00-19:00

Historical Linguistics Research Cluster

The pro cycle

UserJan Terje Faarlund, University of Oslo.

HouseGR-03, English Faculty Building, West Road.

ClockMonday 21 November 2011, 16:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

fMRI of color signals in human visual cortex

UserProfessor Alex Wade, Department of Psychology, University of York.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 November 2011, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

The aggregation problems in learning theory

UserGuillaume Lecue, CNRS, Universite Paris-Est Marne-la-vallee.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 18 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Stream-based Statistical Machine Translation

UserAbby Levenberg, University of Oxford.

HouseSS03, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 18 November 2011, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

South Picene and Sabine

Tea served from 4.15

UserVincent Martzloff (Paris).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 16:30-17:30

Psychology & Education

'Dialogic Teaching-and-Learning': Educational Implications

UserProfessor Sylvia Rojas-Drummond, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm 2S4, Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 08 November 2011, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Causal models in evidential reasoning

UserDr David Lagnado, Cognitive, Perceptual & Brain Sciences Department, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 04 November 2011, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Pervasive Eye Tracking - Opportunities and Challenges

UserDr Andreas Bulling, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 28 October 2011, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On adaptation of false discovery rate

UserEtienne Roquain, Université Paris 6, Pierre et Marie Curie.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 28 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Resumption and the Design of Grammar

UserAsh Asudeh (University of Oxford & Carleton University).

HouseLatimer Room, E Staircase, Clare College Old Court.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Proper local scoring rules

UserProf. Philip Dawid (Statistical Laboratory).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 27 October 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational Inference for Non-Conjugate Models

UserDr Guillaume Bouchard (Xerox).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 26 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Statistical Multiscale Analysis: From Signal Detection to Nanoscale Photonic Imaging

UserAxel Munk, Institute for Mathematical Stochastics, Georg August University Goettingen and Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockTuesday 25 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Visual sensitivity explained

UserProfessor Denis Pelli, Professor of Neural Science, New York University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 21 October 2011, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hyper and structural Markov laws for graphical models

UserSimon Byrne (Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 20 October 2011, 14:00-15:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Using frequency-tagged stimuli and EEG to measure selective attention

UserJason Mattingley (University of Queensland, School of Psychology, and MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 19 October 2011, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Biomedical Natural Language Figure Processing

UserHong Yu, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Arts, Culture and Education

'MUSICAL IDENTITIES IN TRANSITION: SOLO-PIANO STUDENTS' ACCOUNTS OF ENTERING THE ACADEMY'

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserKAREN LITTLETON, THE OPEN UNIVERSITY, UK.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 17 October 2011, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Dopaminergic modulation of episodic memory in young and older adults

UserProfessor Emrah Düzel, Institute of Cognitive Neurology and Dementia Research, Magdeburg, Germany.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 14 October 2011, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Search-based Structured Prediction applied to Biomedical Event Extraction

UserAndreas Vlachos, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 14 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The Syntax of Meteorology

UserJohn Collins (University of East Anglia).

HouseBarbara White Room, Newnham College.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Identifying poorly functioning cochlear implant channels

UserProfessor Julie Bierer (University of Washington).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 13 October 2011, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

Listening not maybe to Virgil, but to the peoples of Italy

Tea served from 4.15

UserMichael Crawford, London.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Heart and brain

UserFrancesca Cormack (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Not so naive Bayesian classification

UserProf. Geoff Webb (Monash Univ).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 12 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Speech Seminars

Learning Hierarchical Translation Structure with Linguistic Annotations

Sandwiches will be provided.

UserMarkos Mylonakis, University of Amsterdam.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Room LR10.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2011, 13:00-14:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Better Together: Large Monolingual, Bilingual and Multimodal Corpora in NLP

UserShane Bergsma - Johns Hopkins University.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 10 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Memory Consolidation: Synaptic tagging and mental schemas

UserProfessor Richard Morris, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 07 October 2011, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Boundary estimation in the presence of measurement error with unknown variance

UserIngrid van Keilegom, Université catholique de Louvain.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 07 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Machine Learning Markets

UserDr Amos Storkey (Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 07 October 2011, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Forgetting fear - the neural mechanism underlying fear memories

UserProfessor Daniella Schiller (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 06 October 2011, 15:30-16:30

Arts, Culture and Education

From “teaching” to “learning”: E-learning has changed the focus of music education. The current situation and the development of digital music education trends in mainland China

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserXie Jiaxing, Professor and Director of the Music Research Institute of the China Conservatory.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS3.

ClockThursday 06 October 2011, 12:30-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning hard chart constraints for efficient context-free parsing

UserBrian Roark - Oregon Health and Science University.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 06 October 2011, 12:00-13:00

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

Challenges to admissions testing; how arguments for validity, reliability, impact and practicality are relevant to the development, delivery and use of admissions tests scores

To register please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserSimon Beeston (Cambridge Assessment) and Dr Lynda Taylor (University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations consultant).

HouseJesus College, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, UK.

ClockWednesday 05 October 2011, 15:30-17:00

Speech Seminars

Applications of Lexicographic Semirings in Speech and Language Processing

Sandwiches will be provided.

UserBrian Roark, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Room LR10.

ClockMonday 03 October 2011, 13:00-14:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Musicians without borders

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserLaura Hassler, DIRECTOR.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 2S4.

ClockMonday 26 September 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Gaussian Systems

UserPhilipp Hennig, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Department of Empirical Inference, Tübingen, Germany.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 19 September 2011, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Exclusive Pólya Urns and their applications

UserChristian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 16 September 2011, 11:00-12:00

Assessment Principles

Can the public have confidence in national assessments?

To register please contact the Network Team on thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk or 01223 553846

UserAndrew Watts, Consultant to Cambridge Assessment.

HouseCambridge Assessment, 1 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 14 September 2011, 10:30-12:00

Assessment Principles

Can the public have confidence in national assessments?

To register please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserAndrew Watts, Consultant for Cambridge Assessment.

HouseCambridge Assessment, 1 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 14 September 2011, 10:30-12:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

SHAKESPEARE: SOURCES AND ADAPTATION 9th - 11th September 2011 Cambridge University

For more information and to book a place please consult our website: http://cambridgeshakespeareconference.co.uk/default.aspx

UserCarol Ann Duffy, Michael Rosen, Professor Helen Cooper, Professor Graham Holderness, Professor Stuart Sillars, actress Imogen Stubbs and directors Rupert Goold and Sir Trevor Nunn (subject to other commitments)..

HouseVenue to be confirmed.

ClockFriday 09 September 2011, 11:00-18:15

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

Educational changes under the coalition

To register please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserJohn Brenchley (OCR).

HouseHughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 11 August 2011, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Graph-Based Methods for Large-Scale Multilingual Knowledge Integration

UserGerard de Melo, Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 July 2011, 12:00-13:00

Assessment Principles

How can we ensure the value of certificates and qualifications?

To register please contact the Network Team on thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk or 01223 553846

UserAndrew Watts, Consultant to Cambridge Assessment.

HouseCambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 14 July 2011, 10:30-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Some Practical Reflections on Graphical Models

UserDr Charles Sutton (University of Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 13 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Beyond Keyword Search: Discovering Relevant Scientific Literature

UserKhalid El-Arini (Carnegie Mellon University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 11 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Graphical Models for Bandit Problems

UserKareem Amin (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 04 July 2011, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Improving cognition

UserJohn Jonides (Dept of Psychology, University of Michigan).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 16 June 2011, 15:30-16:30

Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)

Size, numbers and the numerical core system

UserProfessor Avishai Henik, Dept. of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

HouseDepartment of Experimental Psychology, Kenneth Craik Seminar Room, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 15 June 2011, 16:30-17:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Children reading iconotexts across cultures

UserEva Maagerø (Professor, Vestfold University College), Elise Seip Tønnessen (Professor,University of Agder), Adela Baird (Researcher Emeritus),Janet Laugharne (Professor, UWIC).

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ, room GS4.

ClockTuesday 14 June 2011, 17:00-19:00

Speech Seminars

Lagrangian relaxation for inference in natural language processing

There will be sandwiches.

UserMichael Collins, Columbia University.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockMonday 13 June 2011, 13:00-14:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A New Dataset and Method for Automatically Grading ESOL Texts

UserHelen Yannakoudakis, University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 June 2011, 12:00-12:30

Chaucer Club

esfMRI: Signal propagation and studies of connectivity

UserNikos Logothetis (Dept of Physiology, Max Planck Institute).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 09 June 2011, 15:30-16:30

Second Language Education Group

Research and practice in content and language integrated learning (CLIL)

UserProfessor Rick de Graaff, Utrect University, Faculty of Humanities & Centre for Teaching and Learning.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room GS4.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2011, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning

(rescheduled from May 24th)

UserProfessor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 07 June 2011, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Language in 3D: semantic tensor space

UserTim Van de Croys - University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 03 June 2011, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Censored Exploration in Dark Pools

UserProf. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 03 June 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Intelligence Lab Seminar

Spectral Moment Features for Robust Speech Recognition

UserPirros Tsiakoulis (Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP)).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockTuesday 31 May 2011, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Connections between Gaussian Process Regression, Kalman filtering and RTS Smoothing

UserSimo Särkkä, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science Aalto University, Finland.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 26 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

An FX trading system using adaptive reinforcement learning

RESCHEDULED FOR JUNE 7th

UserProfessor Michael Dempster (Statistical Laboratory).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 24 May 2011, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Memory Deficits associated with selective hippocampal atrophy

UserProfessor Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, UCL Centre for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Child Health.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 May 2011, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Hawkes process as models for some genomic data

UserPatricia Reynaud-Bouret (CNRS and Univ. Nice).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 20 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Getting a grip on reality: A role for medial prefrontal cortex in source recollection

UserJon Simons (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 19 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

Developing a new linear qualification: how difficult can it be? Cambridge Pre-U, a case study

To register please contact the Network Team on thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk or 01223553846

UserMark Dowling, Di Palmer and Val Sismey (University of Cambridge International Examinations).

HouseCambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 16 May 2011, 15:30-17:00

Zangwill Club

Emotions, Intuitions and Morality

UserDr Simone Schnall, Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 13 May 2011, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Neurobiological landscapes for language evolution and variation

UserWilliam Marslen-Wilson (Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Expectation Propagation for POMDP Spoken Dialogue Models

UserBlaise Thomson, Dialogue Systems Group, University of Cambridge.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

NLIP reading group: Connecting the Dots Between News Articles

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Likelihood Inference and Bayesian MCMC

UserDon Pierce (Oregon State University).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 06 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Memory and the Brain: Past, Present and Future

UserProfessor Morris Moscovitch from the University of Toronto.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 05 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

Zangwill Club

Memory and the Brain: Past, Present and Future

Joint Zangwill/Bartlett Lecture. THIS LECTURE IS TAKING PLACE ON THURSDAY 5TH MAY INSTEAD OF FRIDAY 6TH MAY

UserProfessor Morris Moscovitch, Max and Gianna Glassman Chair in Neuropsychology and Aging, University of Toronto.

HouseLecture Theatre of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge..

ClockThursday 05 May 2011, 15:30-16:30

Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)

The social side of social attention

UserGiovanni Galfano, Associate Professor, Cognition and Language Lab, Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova.

HouseDepartment of Experimental Psychology, 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Downing Site.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Assessment Principles

Is assessing an art or a science?

To register please contact the Network Team on thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk or 01223553846

UserAndrew Watts, Consultant to Cambridge Assessment.

HouseCambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 04 May 2011, 10:30-12:00

Semantics and Pragmatics Research Group

Workshop: Underdetermination in Semantics and Utterance Processing

All are welcome

UserProfessor François Recanati (CNRS).

HouseGR05, English Faculty.

ClockThursday 28 April 2011, 13:30-17:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

An afternoon of Mathematics and Biology

UserRichard Durbin (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute), Glenn Vinnicombe (Engineering Department), Ottoline Leyser (Sainsbury Laboratory).

HouseWolfson Room (MR2) Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

ClockTuesday 26 April 2011, 14:00-19:00

Speech Seminars

Engineering Advances in Measuring and Using Speech Production Information

There will be sandwiches

User Shrikanth Narayanan, University of Southern California.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockMonday 11 April 2011, 13:00-14:30

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

Comparability of examination standards

To register please contact the Network Team on thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk or 01223553846

UserTom Bramley and Gill Elliott (Assessment Research & Development Division, Cambridge Assessment).

HouseCambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 06 April 2011, 15:30-17:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Reviewing England’s National Curriculum

LfL and PLACE Academic Group Discussion Seminar

UserMary James, Dominic Wyse, and John Bangs.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, 1S3.

ClockThursday 31 March 2011, 16:30-18:00

Assessment Principles

How can we ensure the value of certificates and qualifications?

To register please contact the Network Team on 01223553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserAndrew Watts, Consultant to Cambridge Assessment.

HouseCambridge Assessment, 1 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 24 March 2011, 10:30-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Nonlinear Dynamics of Learning

UserProf. Max Welling (UC Irvine).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 21 March 2011, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

The role of experience in shaping category selectivity in human ventral visual cortex

UserKalanit Grill-Spector (Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University, USA).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Exchangeability

UserPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Exponential Conditional Volatility Models

UserProf Andrew Harvey (Economics, Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 15 March 2011, 11:00-12:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Class Remobility- the Reconstruction of Capital Through Musical Fostering

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserYlva Hofvander Trulsson, Academy of Music, Lund University, Sweden.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 14 March 2011, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

A novel developmental model of episodic-like memory in laboratory rodents

UserRosamund Langston (Centre for Neuroscience, University of Dundee).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Belief Networks for Phone Recongition

UserRory Waite and Matt Seigel (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Challenges in implementing the Bayesian paradigm

UserProf. Steve MacEachern (Ohio State).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 12:00-13:00

Assessment Principles

How can assessment support learning?

To register please contact the Network Team on thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk or 01223553846

UserAndrew Watts, Consultant for Cambridge Assessment.

HouseCambridge Assessment, 1 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 10:30-12:00

Historical Linguistics Research Cluster

Communicative competence and eighteenth-century English norms of correctness

UserIngrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, University of Leiden and Clare Hall, Cambridge.

HouseGR-04, English Faculty Building, West Road.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 17:00-18:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Raving in the classroom: DJing, MCing and the value of the 'dex' for low-achieving and disaffected boys

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserPete Dale, University of Newcastle.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 07 March 2011, 16:30-18:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Musical Learning as Social Reconstruction. Music and Origin in the Eyes of Immigrant Parents

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserYlva Hofvander Trulsson, Academy of Music, Lund University, Sweden.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockFriday 04 March 2011, 15:30-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Surprisingly Efficient Parsing for a Wide-Coverage Lexicalised-Grammar Parser

UserStephen Clark and Yue Zhang - University of Cambridge.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 04 March 2011, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Expectation Propagation in Sparse Linear Models with Spike and Slab Priors

UserDr José Miguel Hernández Lobato (Univ. Aut. Madrid).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 04 March 2011, 11:30-12:30

Chaucer Club

Parsing the stream of behaviour

UserJeff Zacks (Washington University, St Louis, USA).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 15:30-16:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

The automated assessment of texts produced by learners of English

UserHelen Yannakoudakis (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 12:00-13:00

speech synthesis seminar series

Speech Production Mechanism And Vocoding Technique In Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis

Sandwich will be provided.

UserRanniery (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.) and Yannis (Google).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 2.

ClockWednesday 02 March 2011, 13:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

That old feeling: Age-related changes in conversation

UserProfessor Trevor Harley, University of Dundee.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Categorical Compositionality for Distributional Semantics, Without Tears

UserEdward Grefenstette, University of Oxford.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

UserYee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 25 February 2011, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

fMRI brain activity patterns in real-time: From basic research to clinical applications

UserRainer Goebel (Department of Neurocognition, University of Maastricht), The Netherlands.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 15:30-16:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

An Introduction to Random Indexing

UserJimme Jardine (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Perceptual Learning and Face Recognition

UserProfessor Ian McLaren, University of Exeter.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Approximate Inference for the Loss-Calibrated Bayesian

UserSimon Lacoste-Julien (Cambridge).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Automatic speech act identification in business emails

UserRachele de Felice - University of Nottingham.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 18 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phases and semantics

UserWolfram Hinzen (University of Durham).

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 17:00-18:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Something a little different...

UserStephen Clark (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 12:00-13:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Creative Identity in Music Teaching and Learning

UserClint Randles, Assistant Professor of Music Education at the University of South Florida School of Music.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 14 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Do birds believe in magic

UserDr Nathan Emery, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 11 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

The role of early visual areas in high-level visual cognition

UserFrank Tong (Dept of Psychology, Vanderbilt Uiveristy, USA).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Methods

UserYunus Saatchi (University of Cambridge), Ryan Turner (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Learning to Read in a Complex World

UserMargaret Mackey, Professor of Education and Librarianship, University of Alberta.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2011, 17:00-19:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Scripting social interaction: Improvisation, performance, and Western 'art' music

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserProfessor Nicholas Cook, Faculty of Music.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

speech synthesis seminar series

New and emerging applications of 'adaptive' speech synthesis'

Sandwich will be provided.

UserJunichi Yamagishi, Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh.

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

ClockWednesday 09 February 2011, 13:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

The Neuroscience of moral judgement

UserProfessor Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 04 February 2011, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Bayesian semiparametrics with Gaussian process priors

UserIsmael Castillo (CNRS and Paris 6).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 04 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Timing attention in the human brain

UserKia Nobre (Dept Psychology, Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 03 February 2011, 15:30-16:30

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

The effects of modular GCSE examinations on students’ outcomes, motivation and workload

To register please contact the Network Team on thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk or 01223553846

UserDr Carmen Vidal Rodeiro, Sylvia Green and Tim Oates (Assessment Research & Development Division, Cambridge Assessment).

HouseHughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 02 February 2011, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Differential Geometric MCMC Methods

UserProf. Mark Girolami (UCL).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Which mental functions get their own private patch of cortex?

UserNancy Kanwisher (Dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, USA).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Infinite multiple relational models for complex networks

UserMikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 14:00-15:30

speech synthesis seminar series

Modelling trajectories in statistical speech synthesis

This is the second talk of the speech synthesis seminar series.

UserMatt Shannon (Cambridge) and Heiga Zen (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 2.

ClockWednesday 26 January 2011, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Mining viral datasets

UserDr Simon Frost (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 25 January 2011, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Comparing language learning and proficiency across Europe

UserKaren Ashton, Project Manager, European Survey on Language Competences, Cambridge ESOL, Cambridge Assessment.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS4.

ClockMonday 24 January 2011, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

The Bayesian brain, surprise and free-energy

UserProfessor Karl Friston, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 21 January 2011, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Completely Random Measures

UserSinead Williamson (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 20 January 2011, 14:00-15:30

Assessment Principles

What is the point of public assessments?

To register please contact the Network Team on thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk or 01223553846

UserAndrew Watts, Consultant for Cambridge Assessment.

HouseCambridge Assessment, 1 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 20 January 2011, 10:30-12:00

Historical Linguistics Research Cluster

Converging methods in the study of language change

UserJoel Wallenberg (University of Iceland).

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 17 January 2011, 16:20-17:00

Historical Linguistics Research Cluster

Preterite/periphrasis interchange in Old English

UserMorgan Macleod (University of Cambridge).

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 17 January 2011, 14:40-15:20

Historical Linguistics Research Cluster

Testing reflexivity and logophoricity in Latin

UserMarius Jøhndal (University of Cambridge).

HouseGR-05, English Faculty Building.

ClockMonday 17 January 2011, 14:00-14:40

Machine Learning @ CUED

Machine learning in cancer research (a.k.a CRI meets CUED)

(note new date)

UserDr Florian Markowetz (CRUK) - lab visit.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 17 January 2011, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Novi Quadrianto

UserNovi Quadrianto, Australian National University.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 13 January 2011, 11:00-12:00

speech synthesis seminar series

STATISTICAL SPEECH SYNTHESIS

UserHeiga Zen (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

ClockTuesday 11 January 2011, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Submodularity for Machine Learning

UserEd Snelson and Rich Turner.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 02 December 2010, 14:00-15:30

Indo-European Seminar

Images and letters: the colourful world of painted Greek vase-inscriptions

Tea Served from 4.15

UserMr Georg Gerleigner.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Individual object representations in individual people

CANCELLED - REPLACED BY JUSTIN HULBERT. WILL BE SCHEDULED FOR NEXT TERM

UserIan Charest (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 01 December 2010, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

The Evolution of shopping lists

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Nicola Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Concentration inequalities by the entropy method, variations

User Stephane Boucheron (Universite Paris 7).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards a Stochastic Model of Linguistic Competence

UserShalom Lappin - King's College, London.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Non-Smooth-Norm Image Reconstruction from Noisy Data

UserDr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP, University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 26 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS Highlight Session

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Inducing amnesia through hippocampal modulation

CANCELLED - RESCHEDULED FOR WEDS 1ST DEC

UserJustin Hulbert (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 24 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

Second Language Education Group

Gender Construction and its Negotiation in the Course of Second Language Learning

All welcome!

UserHuajing Zhao, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS4.

ClockMonday 22 November 2010, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Illusions in the real world

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Peter Thompson, Department of Psychology, University of York.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 19 November 2010, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On adaptive nonparametric inference

UserRichard Nickl (Cambridge).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 19 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Two robust semi-supervised learning algorithms for natural language processing

UserAnders Søgaard, University of Copenhagen.

HouseFW11, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 November 2010, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Poisson Processes

UserAndrew Wilson and Yue Wu.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Crowdsourcing data modelling

UserAnthony Goldbloom (Kaggle).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 18 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

Indo-European Seminar

The IE Influence on Modern Semitic Languages

Tea Served from 4.15

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Exploring young people's artistic worlds

UserProfessor Susan O'Neill, Simon fraser University, Vancouver Canada.

HouseDonald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 17 November 2010, 16:30-18:00

Semantics Lunch (Computer Laboratory)

A Language for Mathematics

UserMohan Ganesalingam (University of Cambridge).

HouseRoom FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 12:45-14:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Unsupervised Modeling of Twitter Conversations

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 15 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Natural Geometry

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Elizabeth Spelke, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, USA.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 12 November 2010, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Regret Bounds for Gaussian Process Bandit Problems

UserSteffen Grunewalder (University College London).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 12 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Event Extraction from Biomedical Texts by Trimming Dependency Graphs

UserEkaterina Buyko - JULIE Lab, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 12 November 2010, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

'Why Eyes'

UserVicki Bruce (Newcastle University).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Convex Optimisation

UserDave Knowles and David Duvenaud.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

CANCELLED

CANCELLED

UserDr Paolo Emilio Barbano (DAMTP).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 11:00-12:00

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

Linking assessments to international frameworks of language proficiency

To register for this event, please contact the Cambridge Assessment Network at thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk, or 01223 553846.

UserDr Hanan Khalifa and Dr Neil Jones (Research and Validation, University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations).

HouseCambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 10 November 2010, 15:30-17:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Term Weighting Schemes for Latent Dirichlet Allocation

UserJames Jardine, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 08 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Neuroimaging of ADHD and related disorders

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Katya Rubia, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 05 November 2010, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Applications of Bernstein polynomials in Statistics

UserSonia Petrone (University Bocconi Milan).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 05 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Bayesian Statistics

UserSonia Petrone (Università Bocconi).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

ACS project presentations

UserVarious NLP researchers, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 04 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Indo-European Seminar

Writing in Late Bronze Age Cyprus

Tea Served from 4.15

UserDr Philippa Steele.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 03 November 2010, 16:30-17:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Conditional Random Fields

UserThomas Lippincott (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 01 November 2010, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Epigenetics, brain development and behaviour

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Barry Keverne, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 29 October 2010, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Sparsity pattern aggregation for convex stochastic optimization.

UserPhillipe Rigollet (Princeton University).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 29 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Ideas about the role of cortical oscillations in speech perception and production

UserAnne-Lise Giraud (Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Départment d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 15:30-16:30

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

Incomprehensible? Inexpressible? Inconceivable? The very idea of inter-subject comparability

To register for this event, please contact the Cambridge Assessment Network at thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk, or 01223 553846.

UserDr Paul Newton (Cambridge Assessment Network Division, Cambridge Assessment).

HouseCambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cancelled: No RCC

Cancelled

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 14:00-15:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) and pattern separation in the hippocampus

UserPedro Bekinschtein (Cognitive Systems Neuroscience Lab, Dept of Experimental Psychology).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 27 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

BioCaster 2.0: Online text analysis for early alerting of disease outbreaks

UserNigel Collier - National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 27 October 2010, 12:00-13:00

Psychology & Education

Festival of Ideas - Faculty of Education Event

UserEvents run by: Dr Claudia Uller; Dr Michelle Ellefson; Amy Devine & Alison Nobes.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ: GS5, Donald McIntyre Building.

ClockTuesday 26 October 2010, 11:00-15:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Extracting social networks from literary fiction...

UserEkaterina Shutova (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 25 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Human speech and language: Separable neurobiological substrates

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor William Marslen-Wilson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 22 October 2010, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Control variates for reversible MCMC samplers

UserPetros Dellaportas (Athens University).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 22 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Patent Search: a challenging problem for IR and NL

UserJohn Tait - The Information Retrieval Facility, Vienna.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 October 2010, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Predicting pain and pain modulation from fMRI activity

UserTor Wager (Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Colorado, USA).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Herding or a '3rd way to learn'

UserSimon Lacoste-Julien and Ferenc Huszar.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 14:00-15:30

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

El voseo en español: situacion actual y historia.

UserProf. Miguel Calderón Campos (Universidad de Granada).

HouseBo, Queens' College.

ClockMonday 18 October 2010, 10:00-11:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

El contacto del arabe con el iberorromance. Los arabismos en la historia del español.

UserProf. María Teresa García Godoy (Universidad de Granada).

HouseBo, Queens' College.

ClockMonday 18 October 2010, 09:00-10:00

Zangwill Club

How the brain makes decisions

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Edmund Rolls, Oxford Centre for Computational Neuroscience (www.oxcns.org).

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 October 2010, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Open Problems for Literary Text Generation in the WASP System

UserPablo Gervas - Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

HouseFW26, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 October 2010, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced Scientific Programming in Python

UserCarl Scheffler (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 14 October 2010, 14:00-15:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Report-back on ACL2010

UserMarek Rei & Diarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 11 October 2010, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Science and government policy: current oxymoron future opportunity?

Tea and Cakes available in 2nd Floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor David Nutt, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 October 2010, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of language

UserRitta Salmelin (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Unsupervised Grammar Induction

UserJuan Pino (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A Fast Decoder for Joint Word Segmentation and POS-Tagging using a Single Discriminative Model

UserYue Zhang and Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 October 2010, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Practical Linguistic Steganography using Contextual Synonym Substitution and Vertex Colour Coding

UserChing-Yun Chang and Stephen Clark, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 October 2010, 12:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Searching for Knowledge Instead of Web Pages

UserGjergji Kasneci (Microsoft Research, Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 30 September 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Inference with Kernels

UserDr Arthur Gretton (UCL).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 20 September 2010, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Semantics, Text, and Biomedical Knowledge Discovery: Challenges and Opportunities

UserKarin Verspoor - University of Colorado Denver.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 06 September 2010, 12:00-12:30

Faculty of Education Special Events

The Emergent Adult: Adolescent Literature and Culture

UserProfessor Shirley Brice Heath, Brown University, USA ; Meg Rosoff, author, UK ; Jo-Anne Dillabough, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

HouseThe Cambridge/Homerton Research and Teaching Centre for Children’s Literature.

ClockFriday 03 September 2010, 10:00-17:00

Assessment Principles

Can the public have confidence in national assessments?

To register for this event, please contact the Cambridge Assessment Network at thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk, or 01223 553846.

UserAndrew Watts, Cambridge Assessment consultant.

HouseCambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 02 September 2010, 10:30-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Culture wars, voting and polarization: divisions and unities in modern American politics

general audience talk (non-technical) -- NOTE change of room to LR4!

UserProf Andrew Gelman (Columbia University).

HouseEngineering Department - LR4.

ClockThursday 29 July 2010, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Creating structured and flexible models: some open problems

UserProf Andrew Gelman (Columbia University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 28 July 2010, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluation of Dependency Parsers on Unbounded Dependencies

UserLaura Rimell - University of Cambridge.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 28 July 2010, 12:00-12:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Children as Cultural Creators - An Australian Perspective

CONTACT: Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend.

UserClare McFadden.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 21 July 2010, 16:00-18:00

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

The validation of general qualifications

To attend please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk.

UserVictoria Crisp, Assessment Research & Development Division, Cambridge Assessment and Stuart Shaw, Assessment Services Division, University of Cambridge International Examinations.

HouseHughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 14 July 2010, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Using transformed domains to sparsify Gaussian Processes

UserDr Miguel Lázaro-Gredilla (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 12 July 2010, 11:30-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Models of Metaphor in NLP

UserEkaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 08 July 2010, 12:00-12:30

Assessment Principles

Validity: How can we ensure the value of certificates and qualifications?

To attend please contact the Network Team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk.

UserAndrew Watts, Cambridge Assessment consultant.

HouseCambridge Assessment, 1 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 01 July 2010, 10:30-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Latent Variable Models of Selectional Preference

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha, University of Cambridge.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 28 June 2010, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural mathematical language for the computer

UserArnold Neumaier, University of Vienna.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 June 2010, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Log-linear models with hidden features for label and link prediction

UserCharles Elkan, University of California, San Diego.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 21 June 2010, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Language processing in the musician brain

UserDr Mireille Besson (CNRS Mediterranean Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 June 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Natural Conjugate Gradient Learning for Fixed-Form Variational Bayes

UserDr Antti Honkela (Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 16 June 2010, 11:00-12:00

Psychology & Education

Psychometric versus Dynamic Assessment for identification of dual exceptional learners

ALL WELCOME

UserDr Anies Al-Hroub, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology and Special Education, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room 2S8).

ClockTuesday 15 June 2010, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Sparse Factor Analysis Applied to Three Biological Problems

UserBarbara Engelhardt (University of Chicago).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 15 June 2010, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Identity Problems

UserProfessor David Block, Institute of Education, London.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS5.

ClockMonday 14 June 2010, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Using topic models to help cure cancer

UserProf Quaid Morris (Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 11 June 2010, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Message Passing In Centralized Database

short talk

UserKonstantina Palla (Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 11 June 2010, 11:00-11:30

Chaucer Club

Flashbacks and flash-forwards: Imagery and emotion in psychopathology

UserDr Emily Holmes (Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 10 June 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Structured Prediction Cascades

UserDr. Ben Taskar (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 10 June 2010, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Parametric Bandits, Query Learning, and the Haystack Dimension

UserProf. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 09 June 2010, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Introduction to adaptive estimation

UserOleg Lepski (Universite de Provence).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 04 June 2010, 16:00-17:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Interpretative research in education: an invitation to an open discussion

CONTACT Ewa Illakowicz (ei219@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend

UserProfessors Paul Smeyers (KU Leuven and University of Ghent) , Nick Burbules (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaigne , Morwenna Griffiths (University of Edinburgh) , and David Bridges (University of Cambridge Faculty of Education).

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, 2S4.

ClockThursday 03 June 2010, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Evolution, sex/gender and sociolinguistics

UserProf. Deborah Cameron, Faculty of English, University of Oxford.

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Redirected to Rob Nowak, LR12

Redirected

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 14:00-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Automatic Metaphor Interpretation as a Paraphrasing Task

UserEkaterina Shutova, University of Cambridge.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Linguistic Steganography using Automatically Generated Paraphrases

UserChing-Yun (Frannie) Chang, University of Cambridge.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 27 May 2010, 12:00-12:30

Statistics

Approximation by Log-Concave Distributions

User Lutz Dumbgen (University of Bern).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 26 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Brain-Based Values

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Patricia Churchland, Philosophy Department, University of California San Diego, USA.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 21 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Discourse of Language Endangerment

UserProfessor Nikolai Vakhtin (European University of St. Petersburg).

HouseLeslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 18:00-19:00

Chaucer Club

Electrical neuroimaging for understanding decision making and developing patient machine interfaces

TALK CANCELLED - Apologies, we will try to reschedule later in the year

UserDr Sara Gonzalez Andino (Electrical Neuroimaging Group, Geneva University Hospital).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Topics in Statistical Machine Translation

UserMatt Shannon and Sebastien Bratieres.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 20 May 2010, 14:00-15:30

Psychology & Education

The cognitive underpinnings of different mathematical skills

ALL WELCOME

UserDr Fiona Simmons, School of Natural Sciences & Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Donald McIntyre Building, room 2S3).

ClockTuesday 18 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Combinatory Categorial Grammar

UserStephen Clark (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Enhancing NLP with Knowledge: Ontology-Based Information Retrieval for Handwritten Text

UserMarcus Eichenberger-Liwicki, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 17 May 2010, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Making Decisions without Values

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Nick Chater, Department of Psychology, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 14 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

When all the songs sound the same: Characterising congenital amusia

UserDr Lauren Stewart (Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

UserYunus Saatchi and Andrew Wilson.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 14:00-15:30

Psychology & Education

PNE Book Launch Event

UserProfessor Christine Howe, Professor of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room GS4).

ClockWednesday 12 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Historical Linguistics Research Cluster

The history of English phrase-level syllabification

UserRicardo Bermúdez-Otero (University of Manchester).

HouseBowett Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 10 May 2010, 16:00-16:45

Zangwill Club

Brain imaging studies of memory for when events occurred

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Ed Wilding, School of Psychology, Cardiff University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 07 May 2010, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Sparse NonGaussian Component Analysis

UserVladimir Spokoiny (Weierstrass Institute).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 07 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Retrieval

Room changed

UserJurgen Van Gael and Ed Snelson.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

ClockThursday 06 May 2010, 14:00-15:30

Assessment Principles

Is assessing an art or a science?

To book a place at this seminar please contact the Network team on 01223 553846 or thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk.

UserAndrew Watts (Cambridge Assessment consultant).

HouseCambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 06 May 2010, 10:30-12:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

A proposed research project on the Occitan language movement

Co-hosted with the Cambridge French Linguistics Research Seminar

UserDr Tim Jenkins (Cambridge).

HouseThe Small Parlour, Peterhouse.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 19:00-20:00

Indo-European Seminar

Runic Germanic: A reading seminar

Repeats weekly at same time until end of term

UserTorsten Meissner.

HouseRoom 2.08, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 05 May 2010, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

How do we read other people's mind? Insights from neuropsychology

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Dana Samson, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 30 April 2010, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

What can brain imaging tell us about developmental disorders of speech and language?

UserDr Kate Watkins (Centre for Functional Magnetic Imaging of the Brain, University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Numerical Linear Algebra

Room changed

UserPeter Orbanz and John Cunningham (University of Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 14:00-15:30

Assessment Principles

What is the point of public systems of assessment?

To register for this event, please contact the Cambridge Assessment Network at thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk, or 01223 553846.

UserAndrew Watts, Cambridge Assessment consultant.

HouseCambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 10:30-12:00

Zangwill Club

Measuring consciousness: From behaviour to neurophysiology

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Anil Seth, Department of Informatics, University of Sussex.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 April 2010, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Time-resolved brain imaging and the neuroscience of language

Cancelled due to travel disruption - Apologies and we hope to reschedule in the autumn!

UserProf Riitta Salmelin (Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 22 April 2010, 15:30-16:30

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

Reviewing the impact of changes in the assessment of GCSEs

To book a place please email us on thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserClara Kenyon (Qualifications Division, OCR) and Merrick Smith (14-19 Division, OCR).

HouseCambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 22 April 2010, 15:30-17:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Mobile Learning, Creativity and Schools - a New Zealand perspective

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend.

UserJohn Eyles. Research and Alliances Leader at Telecom New Zealand, Visiting Fellow at AUT University and Chair of the EON Foundation..

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS5.

ClockTuesday 23 March 2010, 14:00-16:00

Arts, Culture and Education

'Title case’ The Use of 'Tools' for Nurturing and Assessing Creativity

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if you are planning to attend.

UserDr Kevin Bryon.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 17 March 2010, 16:00-18:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Moral Knowledge, Moral Sensitivity and Moral Education

Please email Ewa on ei219@cam.ac.uk if you are planning to attend

UserDr Roger Marples, Principal Lecturer.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, GS1.

ClockTuesday 16 March 2010, 17:30-19:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Slice sampling with latent Gaussian models

UserDr Iain Murray (Toronto / Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 16 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Latent TAG Derivations for Semantic Role Labeling

UserAnoop Sarkar, Simon Fraser University.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 12 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Fronto-amygdala mechanisms underlying emotion regulation

UserProf Angela Roberts (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 11 March 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Making Sense of Data - A Research Agenda

UserProf Bob Williamson (ANU and Scientific Director of NICTA).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

ClockThursday 11 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Recursive CRFs for Scalable Vision

short talk

UserDavid Duvenaud (UBC).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 12:30-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Subspace Codes for Adversarial Error-Correction in Network Coding

short talk

UserAzadeh Khaleghi (University of Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 10 March 2010, 11:30-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Inference in Networks of Queues

UserDr Charles Sutton (Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 09 March 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Stochastic Outlier Selection

UserJeroen Janssens (Tilburg University / University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 16:00-16:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation with Log-Linear Models

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 08 March 2010, 12:30-13:30

Faculty of Education Special Events

Questions of voice:Dialogue and change in music education.‘A communal venturing forth’ (Jean Rudduck)

PLEASE CONTACT CAMILLA BURGESS FOR CONFERENCE BOOKING FORM, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, FACULTY OF EDUCATION,184 HILLS ROAD, CAMBRIDGE CB2 8PQ. Telephone 01223 767600

UserJulia Flutter (University of Cambridge), John Finney (University of Cambridge), Felicity Laurence (University of Newcastle).

HouseUniversity of Cambridge Faculty of Education.

ClockSaturday 06 March 2010, 09:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

Glutamate, GABA and the neurobiology of reward conditioning

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor David Stephens, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 05 March 2010, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Metaphor in language, thought, and communication

UserGerard Steen - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 05 March 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Keeping (eye)track(s) of multiple worlds

UserProf. Gerry Altmann, Department of Psychology, University of York.

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Morpho-phonological Processing in the Human Brain

TALK CANCELLED - Apologies for the short notice

UserProf Carsten Eulitz (Neurolinguistics Group, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz, Germany).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cancelled

Cancelled

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 04 March 2010, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

"Three takes on Hamlet for children"

UserMartin Salisbury (Anglia Ruskin School of Art), Abigail Rokison, Maria Nikolajeva;.

HouseAuditorium in Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 17:00-19:00

Assessment Principles

Learning: Does assessment damage learning?

To book a place please email thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserAndrew Watts - Cambridge Assessment Consultant.

HouseHughes Hall, Mortimer Road, Cambridge, UK.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 10:30-12:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Generalizing Dependency Features for Opinion Mining

UserAwais Athar (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 01 March 2010, 12:30-13:30

Chaucer Club

Human Cerebral Cortex: Cytoarchitectonics, Segregation of Function and Transmitter Receptors

Joint Chaucer Club and Zangwill Club - Note the FRIDAY date, time and venue

UserProf Karl Zilles (Vogt Institute of Brain Research, University of Dusseldorf, Germany).

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre, Downing Site.

ClockFriday 26 February 2010, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Human cerebral cortex: Cytoarchitectonics, segregation of function and transmitter receptors

This is the special joint Zangwill-Chaucer Club presentation for 09-10. Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Karl Zilles, Director of the Institute for Neuroscience & Medicine, Research Center Juelich, Germany.

HouseDept of Physiology Main lecture theatre.

ClockFriday 26 February 2010, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

What's the right complexity measure for inferring causal relations?

UserDominik Janzing (Max Planck Institute Tuebingen).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 26 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cancelled

Canceled

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 25 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

The ‘Outer Limits’: “Thresholds” of picturebooks series.

ALL WELCOME!

UserGhada Al-Yaqout (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge).

HouseAuditorium in Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 24 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Negotiating varied proficiency levels in Lingua Franca English

UserDr Anne Ife, Department of English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS5.

ClockMonday 22 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Deficits in processing sensory context in schizophrenia

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Steven Dakin, Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

A Backward Particle Interpretation of Feynman-Kac Formulae

User Pierre Del Moral (INRIA Bordeaux).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Statistics

On combinatorial testing problems

UserGabor Lugosi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Subjectivity Recognition on Word Senses

UserKatja Markert - University of Leeds.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Eye get it! What eye-movements can tell us about language processing in autism spectrum disorder

UserDr Courtenay Norbury, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London.

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

FOXP2 as a molecular window into speech and language

UserDr Simon Fisher (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

UserPedro Ortega and Dan Braun.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

Mapping the parts of higher level cortex

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Marty Sereno, School of Psychology, Birkbeck College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 12 February 2010, 16:30-18:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Music and Creativity II: Elaborate displays

UserEdward Jessen, Royal College of Music.

HouseRCM London,Outer Parry Room.

ClockThursday 11 February 2010, 17:15-18:30

Chaucer Club

Inferotemporal cortex and face recognition learning

UserProf Keith Kendrick (Babraham Institute, Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 11 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Semi supervised learning

UserSinead Williamson and Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

Paranoia: The 21st Century Fear

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Daniel Freeman, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Compressed sensing in infinite dimensions

UserAnders Hansen (Cambridge).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Learnable representations for natural language

UserAlexander Clark - Royal Holloway University of London.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 05 February 2010, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

V1: Predicting the near future on the basis of the recent past

UserDr Lars Muckli (University of Glasgow, Department of Psychology).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational inference in graphical models: The view from the marginal polytope

UserDavid Knowles and Richard Turner (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

"De-Disneyfying the Fairy-Tale Film"

For further information please visit http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/childrensliterature/ Or contact Maria Nikolajeva, mn351@cam.ac.uk

UserProfessor Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota, USA.

HouseAuditorium in Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 16:00-18:00

Perspectives from Cambridge Assessment

Footprints in the secret garden – Awarding Bodies’ engagement with the curriculum

To book a place please email thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserTim Oates (Group Director, Assessment Research and Development, Cambridge Assessment).

HouseCambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockWednesday 03 February 2010, 15:30-17:00

Psychology & Education

Specifying brain function involved in number processing. Insights from interindividual differences

ALL WELCOME

UserDr Anja K. Ischebeck, Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University Graz, Austria.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge (Rm 2S8 Donald McIntyre Building).

ClockTuesday 02 February 2010, 16:30-18:00

Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars

Towards Tree-to-Tree Translation

UserDavid Chiang (University of Southern California).

HouseLR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockMonday 01 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Identity, aspirations and motivation in musicians

Admission: free but booking required To book email: c4o@lso.co.uk

UserDr. Don Lebler, Queensland Conservatorium,Griffith University, Brisbane, Rosie Burt-Perkins, Royal College of Music, London, Prof. Susan Hallam, Institute of Education, University of London, Dr. Andrea Creech, Institute of Education, University of London,.

HouseGuildhall School Lecture Recital Room, 17.30-19.30.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 17:30-19:30

Zangwill Club

Single cell responses in the human medial temporal lobe

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Thick-pen transformation for time series

UserPiotr Fryzlewicz (London School of Economics).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

The Web as an Implicit Training Set: Application to Noun Compounds' Syntax and Semantics

UserPreslav Nakov - National University of Singapore.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 29 January 2010, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Fetal testosterone in mind

UserProf Simon Baron Cohen (Department of Experimental Psychology, Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 28 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

Arts, Culture and Education

The curse of creativity: Applied music research in CIRCLE

Please contact Pam Burnard if planning to attend pab61@cam.ac.uk

UserDavid Hargreaves, Centre for International Research in Creativity and Leaning in Education Roehampton University.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

EEG evidence for successful voluntary suppression of conscious recollection

UserZara Bergström (Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute and Department of Experimental Psychology).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 27 January 2010, 12:30-13:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Dependency grammar and dependency parsing

UserLaura Rimell and Andreas Vlachos.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 25 January 2010, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

The cognitive basis of perspective-taking: Evidence from adults and implications for studies of infants and non-human animals

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Ian Apperly, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 22 January 2010, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

On the Distribution of the Adaptive LASSO Estimator

UserUlrike Schneider (University of Goettingen).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 22 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A Bottom-up Approach to Sentence Ordering for Multi-document Summarization

UserDanushka Bollegala - University of Tokyo.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 January 2010, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Investigating the clinical features of casino-based gambling and its neurobiology

UserProf Robert Rogers (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

(Canceled) A Causal Calculus for Statistical Research

Canceled

UserPedro Ortega (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 14:00-15:30

Assessment Principles

Purposes: What is the point of public systems of assessment?

To book a place please contact Cambridge Assessment Network, thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk

UserAndrew Watts (Cambridge Assessment consultant).

HouseCambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge, UK.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 10:30-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Machine Learning Course (4F13)

4F13 course - repeats Wed, Thurs at 10am during Lent

UserZoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12 (Trumpington Street).

ClockWednesday 20 January 2010, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

CANCELLED: Learning Components for Human Sensing

CANCELLED

UserDr Fernando de la Torre (CMU).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2010, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Visuospatial Reasoning

Short Talk

UserStephanie Chan (MIT).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 18 January 2010, 10:00-10:30

Zangwill Club

Mis-wired: Studying the link between brain network development and functional deficits

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Marcus Kaiser, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 January 2010, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Machine Learning Course (4F13)

4F13 course - repeats Wed, Thurs at 10am during Lent

UserZoubin Ghahramani and Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12 (Trumpington Street).

ClockThursday 14 January 2010, 10:00-11:00

Psychology & Education

Becoming Symbol-Minded

UserProfessor Judy DeLoache, University of Virginia.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ in room GS4.

ClockMonday 11 January 2010, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Modeling of MEG and EEG: from Surface Mapping to Multimodal Imaging

Please note change of date & time for this talk only - Friday 11am-12noon

UserProf Matti S. Hämäläinen (Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockFriday 08 January 2010, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Analysing and communicating uncertainty

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf David Spiegelhalter (MRC BioStatistics Unit and Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 17 December 2009, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Action and Language

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf Luciano Fadiga (Department of Human Physiology, University of Ferrara, Italy).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 10 December 2009, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Optimal Tag Sets for Automatic Image Annotation

short talk

UserSean Moran (Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 04 December 2009, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Decoding memories in the human hippocampus

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf Eleanor Maguire (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 03 December 2009, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Unbounded-depth hierarchical Pitman-Yor processes

UserRogier van Dalen (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 03 December 2009, 14:00-15:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Diffusion MRI and tractography

UserEleftherios Garyfallidis (MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 12:30-13:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Creativity: So, what is it?

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if planning to attend

UserProfessor Keith Sawyer , Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 30 November 2009, 17:00-19:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

TransType2: The Last Word

UserNikiforos Karamanis.

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 30 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Studying the relation between neural oscillations and human behaviour with Magnetoencephalography

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Joachim Gross, Department of Psychology, University of Glasgow.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 27 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametrics: Gaussian process priors

Joint with Probability Series

UserAad van der Vaart (Vrije Univ. Amsterdam).

HouseMR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 27 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Indo-European Seminar

To be confirmed

Please note this talk will take place on a Friday, and the earlier time

UserProf. José Luis García Ramón (Cologne).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockFriday 27 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Inducing Synchronous Grammars for Machine Translation

UserPhil Blunsom, University of Oxford.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 27 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Predication and specification in the syntax of cleft sentences

UserProf. Marcel den Dikken, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Navigating in a 3-d world

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf Kate Jeffery (Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, UCL).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning rates in Bayesian nonparametrics

UserAad van der Vaart (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 26 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

The construction of the obese child in children's literature.

CANCELLED! CANCELLED! CANCELLED!

UserProf. Jean Webb, University of Worcester.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS4.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neural mechanisms of social learning and cognitive imitation

UserChris Burke (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 25 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

A Bayesian nonrandom walk through the world of the queues

UserCarmen Armero, University of Valencia.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 14:30-15:30

Arts, Culture and Education

Creativity and English: Exploring possibilities

To secure a place email c.l.henderson@open.ac.uk

UserPam Burnard: Cambridge University, Situating creativity in the arts and education; Janet Maybin: The Open University, Analysing children's creative use of talk.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 23 November 2009, 10:30-16:00

Zangwill Club

Evaluating the costs and benefits of future rewards: neuropsychological and neurochemical investigations in frontal and dopaminergic circuits

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Mark Walton, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Indian Buffet Processes with Power-law Behaviour

UserYee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Semiring Parsing without Parsing

UserAdam Lopez, University of Edinburgh.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 20 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Empirical support for DNA match probabilities

UserJames Curran (Auckland).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Change detection in auditory cortex: beyond the MMN paradigm

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserDr Maria Chait (Ear Institute, UCL).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 19 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

Psychology & Education

Taking Executive Functions to School

UserDr Michelle Ellefson, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

House2S8, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ.

ClockTuesday 17 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Automatic Humour Detection

UserEkaterina Shutova (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 16 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Why speaking louder might not make you understood - supra-threshold deficits in hearing impairment

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Kathryn Hopkins, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 13 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fine-grained sentiment analysis in text and multi-party conversation

UserTheresa Wilson, University of Edinburgh.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 13 November 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Towards Understanding the Brain Basis of Developmental Dyslexia: A Cross-Language Approach

UserProf. Usha Goswami, Centre for Neuroscience in Education, University of Cambridge.

HouseGR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Characterizing categorical and continuous visual-object codes in man, monkey and computational models

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserDr Niko Kriegeskorte (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Agglomerative Clustering with Coalescents

UserSinead Williamson (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 12 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

Indo-European Seminar

Sabrina in the Thorns: place names as evidence for language in sub-Roman Britain

UserDr David Parsons (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic studies, Aberystwyth).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Arts, Culture and Education

How does one teach creativity?

Contact Pam Burnard (pab61@cam.ac.uk) if planning to attend

UserProfessor Keith Sawyer, Washington University, in St. Louis, Missouri, USA..

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 1S7.

ClockWednesday 11 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

KL control theory and decision making under uncertainty

UserBert Kappen ( Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2009, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Risks, Emotions & Decisions

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Peter Ayton, Department of Psychology, City University London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 November 2009, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Soap film smoothing

UserSimon Wood (Bath).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 06 November 2009, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Brain mechanisms for ultra-rapid visual categorisation

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf Simon Thorpe (Brain and Cognition Research Center (CerCo), University of Toulouse, France).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Filtering of Noisy Time-Series Data

UserHenrik Ohlsson, Marc Deisenroth, Hugo Vincent.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 05 November 2009, 14:00-15:30

Indo-European Seminar

Numerals and personal names in Ancient Italy

UserProf. Paolo Poccetti (Roma - Tor Vergata).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2009, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Recognition of realistic auditory-visual objects: animal sounds are special

UserClara Suied (Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 04 November 2009, 12:30-13:30

Psychology & Education

Adolescence in Today's Society: The brain, cognition and social development

User*Dr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Royal Soc. University Research Fellow & Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, and *Dr John Coleman, Director, Trust for the Study of Adolescence & Senior Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford.

HouseAuditorium, Mary Allen Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 03 November 2009, 16:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Neurobiological basis of music and dance skills

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Lawerence Parsons, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 30 October 2009, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Risk Hull Methods for Inverse Problems

UserLaurent Cavalier (Marseille).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 30 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The ways in which context and knowledge can assist speech comprehension, especially in challenging conditions

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf Ingrid Johnsrude (Department of Psychology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Speed Reviewing

UserAll Participants.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

The Ghosted Adolescent: Denying and disguising ‘Deviant’ Desire

UserLydia Kokkola,Adjunct Professor of Children's Literature in English at Åbo Akademi University..

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room 2S5.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Information theoretic model selection in clustering

UserJoachim M Buhmann, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 28 October 2009, 11:00-12:00

Arts, Culture and Education

Empathetic Creativity: The Product of Empathetic Attunement

Please contact Pam Burnard, if planning to attend pab61@cam.ac.uk

UserDr. Frederick Seddon.

HouseFaculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, room GS1.

ClockMonday 26 October 2009, 17:30-18:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Bayesian Word Sense Induction

UserAndreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 26 October 2009, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

The neurodynamics of cognitive integration

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Murray Shanahan, Department of Computing, Imperial College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 October 2009, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Bayesian Methods in Cosmology

UserMike Hobson (Cambridge).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 23 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Bayesian non-parametric models for parsing and translation

UserTrevor Cohn, University of Sheffield.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 23 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Syntax in the human brain

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf Angela Friederici (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 22 October 2009, 15:30-16:30

Indo-European Seminar

The Syntax of Celtic Place Names

UserDr Oliver Padel (Cambridge and Lower Newton).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Unsupervised Learning of Narrative Schemas and their Participants

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 19 October 2009, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Wobbles, warbles and fish - the physiology of dyslexia

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor John Stein, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 16 October 2009, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Choosing a good histogram

UserYannick Baraud (Univ. Nice).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 16 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Ontology Learning for Portuguese

UserHugo Gonçalo Oliveira, University of Coimbra, Portugal.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 October 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Against PP extraposition in nominals

UserProf. David Adger, Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London.

HouseG24, Law Faculty (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 19:00-20:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning

UserAlex Ksikes (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Indo-European Seminar

Women's names in Greek and Latin

UserProf. Karin Stüber (Zurich).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Hierarchical modularity in functional fMRI networks

UserDavid Meunier (Brain Mapping Unit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Licking & liking in rodents

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Dominic Dwyer, School of Psychology, Cardiff University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 October 2009, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Total variation and curves

UserArne Kovac (Univ. Bristol).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 09 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Motor Skills Learning for Robotics

UserJan Peters, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 09 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

The contribution of structural imaging to the understanding of language networks

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME - ALL TALKS NOW BEGIN AT 3.30PM

UserProf Cathy Price (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 08 October 2009, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Structured prediction using energy-based models

UserSimon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 08 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Born Criminals? Social and ethical implications of research into biomarkers, development and criminality

Please note change of time for this talk only - 12pm-2pm. This talk is a joint event with Developmental Psychiatry (UoC) and the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group, with light refreshments available after the talk.

UserIlina Singh (LSE BIOS Centre).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockWednesday 07 October 2009, 12:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Technical Writing II

UserRyan Turner (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 01 October 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Coconut: Optimizing computations for machine learning

UserAndrew Fitzgibbon (Microsoft Research Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 29 September 2009, 14:00-15:00

Psychology & Education

Mediating Meaning Making: The rationale for dialogic inquiry

UserProfessor Gordon Wells, Department of Education, University of California, Santa Cruz.

HouseGS5, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockMonday 28 September 2009, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

CANCELLED

Cancelled

UserProf. Eric Xing (CMU).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 18 September 2009, 10:00-11:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

What is children's poetry for?: towards a new, but child-specific, 'Apologie for Poetrie' [Sir Philip Sidney, 1595]

Tickets are free, but you will need to book a place on the lecture website http://www.pearcelecture.com/

UserMICHAEL ROSEN.

HouseAuditorium in Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Cambridge.

ClockThursday 10 September 2009, 17:00-18:30

Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars

Bayesian Learning Approaches for Speech Recognition

UserProfessor Jen-Tzung Chien (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan).

HouseLR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockFriday 04 September 2009, 13:00-14:00

Assessment Principles

Should the public trust national assessments?

To book a place please email thenetwork@cambridgeassessment.org.uk.

UserAndrew Watts (Cambridge Assessment consultant).

HouseCambridge Assessment, 9 Hills Road, Cambridge, UK.

ClockThursday 03 September 2009, 10:30-12:00

Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars

Factors Affecting ASR Model Self-Training

UserScott Novotney (HLTCOE and BBN Technologies).

HouseLR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockTuesday 01 September 2009, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Clitic Pregroups: in search for a uniform pattern of clitic movement in natural languages

UserMehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Oxford University Computing Laboratory.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 13 August 2009, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Unbounded Dependency Recovery for Parser Evaluation

UserLaura Rimell, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 July 2009, 12:45-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A Proposal on Evaluation Measures for RTE

UserRichard Bergmair, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 July 2009, 12:00-12:45

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Visual Texts

UserLawrence Sipe (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Margaret Mackey (University of Alberta, Canada).

HouseRoom 2S10, New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Rd, Faculty of Education.

ClockThursday 09 July 2009, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Message Passing

Note unusual time

UserJurgen Van Gael (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 18 June 2009, 15:00-16:30

Statistics

Working with over-parameterized models

UserDavid Firth, University of Warwick.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 12 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Phonetic and phonological aspects of gemination in Lebanese Arabic

UserDr Ghada Khattab (School of Education Communication and Language Sciences, University of Newcastle).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

The social brain

UserSarah-Jayne Blakemore (University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 16:15-17:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Slice Sampling

UserYue Wu (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 June 2009, 14:00-15:30

Psychology & Education

Learnable Intelligence

UserMichael E. Martinez, Professor of Education, University of California, Irvine.

HouseGS5, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 09 June 2009, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Bayesian Inference of Transmission Fidelity Rates of DNA Methylation Patterns

UserAudrey Fu (University of Cambridge Systems Biology Center).

HouseMR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockThursday 04 June 2009, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Graphical Gaussian Models with Edge and Vertex Symmetries

UserSteffen Lauritzen University of Oxford.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 29 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The pragmatic bases of musical meaning

UserDr Ian Cross and Ghofur Woodruff (Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 28 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Cycling to Enrich and Enhance Dictionary Glosses

UserRoberto Navigli, University of Rome "La Sapienza".

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockThursday 28 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Equality before the law, irrespective of language and culture?

UserAnn Corsellis OBE.JP, Vice-President, Chartered Institute of Linguists.

HouseRoom GS5, New Faculty Building, Faculty of Education, 184, Hills Road.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Using gradient descent for optimization and learning

UserNicolas Le Roux (Microsoft Research).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 26 May 2009, 13:00-15:00

Statistics

Second Generation Wavelets and Astrophysics

User Gerard Kerkyacharian Paris 10 and LPMA.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 22 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Processing Geographic Language

UserDr. Inderjeet Mani.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 22 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

Semitic Philology Lecture

Modern South Arabian

UserJanet Watson, University of Salford.

HouseFaculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Technical Writing

UserFinale Doshi (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 21 May 2009, 14:00-15:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

DTI tractography of frontotemporal white matter pathways and language comprehension

CANCELLED - PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TALK HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED

UserJohn Griffiths (CSLB, Department of Experimental Psychology).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 20 May 2009, 12:30-13:30

Psychology & Education

What can neuroeducational research tell us about student motivation?

UserSung-il Kim, Professor of Educational Psychology and Director, Brain & Motivational Research Institute (bMRI), Korea University.

HouseGS1, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 19 May 2009, 16:30-18:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Contact-induced change and bilingualism in Paraguay

Room changed

UserProf. Haralambos Symeonidis, University of Kentucky.

HouseLecture Block, room 3.

ClockMonday 18 May 2009, 17:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

How we come to experience that we own our body

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Henrik Ehrsson, Department of Neuroscience & Stockholm Brain Institute, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Particle Learning

UserNicholas Polson University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 15 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Loan Word Typology

UserProf Bernard Comrie (Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Divergence measures and message passing

UserDavid Knowles (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

Who Lost the Cog in Cognitive Science?—Mentalism in an Era of Anti-Cognitivism

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Josef Perner, Department of Psychology, University of Salzburg, Austria.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 May 2009, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

BioNLP 2009 event detection task

UserAndreas Vlachos, Cambridge University.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 08 May 2009, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Default priors and model parametrization

UserNancy Reid, University of Toronto.

HouseMR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockThursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The IBM approach to speech separation

UserMikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 07 May 2009, 14:00-15:30

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

The evolution of clitics in the history of Spanish

UserDr Miriam Bouzouita, Universitat de les Illes Balears.

HouseG-R 03, English Faculty.

ClockWednesday 06 May 2009, 17:15-18:45

Zangwill Club

The dark side of impulsivity: neural and psychological mechanisms of pre-disposition to stimulant addiction

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Jeff Dalley, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 May 2009, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Dealing with disasters: the problem of polysemy

UserProf Jean Aitchison (Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 30 April 2009, 17:00-18:30

Psychology & Education

Thinking Together in culturally diverse classrooms in the Netherlands

UserEd Elbers, Professor of Communication, Cognition and Culture, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

House1S3, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2009, 16:30-18:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Active Learning Literature Survey

UserAndreas Vlachos (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 27 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Are imitation and the 'mirror system' products of associative learning?

NOTE NEW VENUE FOR REFRESHMENTS - Tea & cakes available in 1st floor PartII Common Room

UserProfessor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 24 April 2009, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Handling Sparsity via the Horseshoe

UserCarlos Carvalho, University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 24 April 2009, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Research in Children's Literature at Cambridge

Eliza in America (Eliza Fenwick (1766-1840)

Lissa is the author of READING OTHERWAYS and is the keynote speaker at Morag Styles British Library conference on Poetry and Childhood.

UserLissa Paul of Brock University, Canada.

HouseRoom GS5, New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Rd, Faculty of Education.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hilbert space embedding of probability distributions

UserFerenc Huszar (Budapest University of Technology and Economics).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 23 April 2009, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning from Measurements in Exponential Families

UserPercy Liang (University of California, Berkeley).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 25 March 2009, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bregman Divergences and Machine Learning

UserShakir Mohamed (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 12 March 2009, 14:00-15:30

Indo-European Seminar

The Greek Alphabet on the Edges: Geographic and Cultic

Tea served from 4.15

UserRoger D Woodard, Buffalo New York.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 16:30-17:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

The Puzzle of Ambiguity

UserMohan Ganesalingam (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 09 March 2009, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

How does early brain organization promote language acquisition in humans?

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Quasi-linear Sensor Management

UserMarco Huber (University of Karlsruhe).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Disambiguation of Biomedical Text

UserMark Stevenson - Sheffield University.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 March 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Eye tracking and syntactic processing in children with Williams Syndrome

UserDr Diane Nelson (Department of Linguistics and Phonetics, University of Leeds).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Do New Roads Generate Traffic?

UserCharlene Rohr, RAND Europe.

HouseMR13, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Convex Concave Procedure

UserFrederik Eaton (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 05 March 2009, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

Adaptive coding mechanisms in children with autism: lessons from development

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Liz Pellicano, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 27 February 2009, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

What are illusions and why do we see them?

UserBeau Lotto (University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 16:15-17:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

An Introduction to Transcriptomics

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserProf Brendan Frey (University of Toronto).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hybrids of Generative and Discriminative Models (Cont)

UserSimon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 14:00-15:30

French Linguistics Research Seminars

Ethics and grammar: some problems in the analysis of French clitics

UserMr J.C. Smith (St Catherine's College, Oxford).

HouseHenry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 20:45-22:00

Psychology & Education

Games, learning and the brain's reward system

UserDr Paul Howard-Jones, Co-ordinator, Centre for Psychology & Learning in Context, University of Bristol.

HouseGS1, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

From perception to conception: object processing in the ventral stream

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Lorraine K Tyler, Centre for Speech, Language and the Brain, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Dialogue Act Prediction Using Stochastic Context-Free Grammar Induction

UserJeroen Geertzen, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Generalization in Learning

UserYevgeny Seldin (Hebrew University).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 20 February 2009, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Constructions, functional heads and unbounded dependencies

UserProf Bob Borsley (Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 19 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

Absolute on the rocks?: Participial concord in Roman Egypt

Tea served from 4.15

UserPatrick James, Cambridge.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 18 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Stochastic control as an inference problem

UserProf. Bert Kappen (University of Nijmegen).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

ClockTuesday 17 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Unsupervised Models for Coreference Resolution

UserAndreas Vlachos (University of Cambridge).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 16 February 2009, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Signatures of conscious access: Ignition, oscillation, synchrony, causality

This is a special joint presentation of the Zangwill Club and the MRC-CBU Chaucer Club. Tea and cakes will be available in the 2nd floor Seminar Room in the Dept. of Experimental Psychology from 4pm.

UserProfessor Stanislas Dehaene, Director of INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, France.

House*note change of venue* Physiology Lecture Theatre 1.

ClockFriday 13 February 2009, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Signatures of conscious access: Ignition, oscillation, synchrony, causality

Joint lecture with Zangwill Club

UserStanislas Dehaene (INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, Paris).

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

ClockFriday 13 February 2009, 16:15-17:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hybrid of Generative and Discriminative Models

UserSimon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 12 February 2009, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

Subjective measures of unconscious knowledge

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Zoltan Dienes, Department of Psychology, University of Sussex.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Nonparametric inference for networks of queues

UserCornelia Wichelhaus, Universität Heidelberg.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

ASKNet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic Networks

UserBrian Harrington, University of Oxford.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 February 2009, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Quantifying dialect similarity by comparison of the lexical distribution of phonemes

UserDr. Warren Maguire (School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Divergence measures and message passing - CANCELLED

Canceled

UserDavid Knowles (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 05 February 2009, 14:00-15:30

Indo-European Seminar

Between tradition and linguistic reality: the riddle of Macedonian

Tea served from 4.15

UserWojciech Sowa, Krakow.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2009, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Memory rehabilitation using SenseCam

UserGeorgina Browne (Neuropsychology Department, Addenbrooke's).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2009, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Problem gambling, near-misses, and the brain reward system

NOTE - THIS IS A REPLACEMENT TALK TO THAT ADVERTISED (RAHMAN). Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm.

UserDr Luke Clark, Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 30 January 2009, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Extending the Affinity Propagation Model

UserInmar Givoni (University of Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 30 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Almost-unsupervised multilingual sentiment analysis

UserJohn Carroll - University of Sussex.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 30 January 2009, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

An a priori model of biased perceptual choice

UserChristopher Summerfield (University of Oxford).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 16:15-17:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Distributed Computing for Machine Learning

UserSinead Williamson (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 29 January 2009, 14:00-15:30

French Linguistics Research Seminars

Spoken French Corpora

UserDr. Kate Beeching (University of the West of England).

HouseHenry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

ClockTuesday 27 January 2009, 20:45-22:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

On the nature of syntactic variation

UserLu Gram (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 26 January 2009, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

What the "Renewal Effect" is, is not, and the status of current explanations

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor James Byron Nelson, University of the Basque Country, Spain.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 January 2009, 16:30-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

Gallia Graeca: mapping the linguistic landscape of Southern Gaul

Tea served from 4.15

UserAlex Mullen, Cambridge.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 21 January 2009, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic Graph Models for Debugging Software

UserLaura Dietz (Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, Saarbrücken).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 19 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

A Structured Vector Space Model for Word Meaning in Context

UserDiarmuid Ó Séaghdha (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 19 January 2009, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Why genetic association studies have been so unsuccessful in psychiatry

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Jonathan Flint, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 16 January 2009, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabalistic Inference for solving (PO)MDPs

UserFinale Doshi (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 15 January 2009, 14:00-15:30

Psychology & Education

The hierarchical model of achievement motivation: Conceptual and applied issues

UserAndrew Elliot, Professor of Psychology, University of Rochester, USA.

HouseGS5, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

ClockTuesday 13 January 2009, 16:30-18:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Frustratingly easy domain adaptation

UserLin Sun (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 12 January 2009, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS Offline Conference

UserMachine Learning Across Cambridge.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 December 2008, 13:00-14:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Mondrian Processes

UserYee Whye Teh (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

HouseEngineering Department, TBA.

ClockFriday 05 December 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Relational Learning

UserRicardo Silva (UCL Statistics).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 04 December 2008, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

The cortico-cerebellar system: Anatomy, evolution and function

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Narender Ramnani, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 28 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Projective Limits of Bayes Equations

UserPeter Orbanz (Dept. Engineering, Cambridge).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 28 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Variation in British Sign Language

UserDr Rachel Sutton-Spence, Centre for Deaf Studies, University of Bristol.

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Reward and choice

UserRay Dolan (University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Networks for Vision

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserProf Brendan Frey (University of Toronto).

HouseCambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

ClockThursday 27 November 2008, 16:00-18:00

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

The Fourth PASCAL Recognizing Textual Entailment Challenge

UserRichard Bergmair (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Hardness Ratios

UserYue Wu.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 25 November 2008, 14:00-14:30

Zangwill Club

Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of Rational Thought

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Vinod Goel, Department of Psychology, University of Hull.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 21 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning to Adapt in Dialogue Systems: Data-driven Models for Personality Recognition and Generation

UserFrancois Mairesse, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 21 November 2008, 12:15-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cluster Analysis of Heterogeneous Rank Data

UserPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 14:00-15:30

Indo-European Seminar

Grammatical vs. concrete use of cases in ancient Indo-European languages

Tea served from 4.15

UserProf Heinrich Hettrich, Würzburg.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Natural Language Processing Reading Group

Instance-based Evaluation of Entailment Rule Acquisition

UserAurelie Herbelot (Computer Laboratory).

HouseGS15, Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

What is smart thing like number doing in the dumb parietal cortex?

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, University College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 14 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Sampling bias in logistic models

UserPeter McCullagh (University of Chicago).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 14 November 2008, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Adapting a WSJ-trained Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to New Domains

UserLaura Rimell, Oxford University.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 14 November 2008, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models

UserMarc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 14:00-15:30

Indo-European Seminar

Cycles of negation

Tea served from 4.15

UserDr David Willis, Cambridge.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Consensus finding, exponential models and infinite rankings

UserDr Marina Meila (University of Washington).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Psychology & Education

Vygotsky & Piaget, as seen from Neuchatel today

UserProfessor Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, University of Geneva.

HouseNew Faculty Building, room 2S3, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road.

ClockTuesday 11 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Rules, associations and inhibitory control: fMRI, patient and oculomotor studies of the frontal lobe

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Tim Hodgson, School of Psychology, University of Exeter.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 07 November 2008, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of sequence learning

UserBruno Averbeck (University College London).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 16:15-17:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Point Process Intensity Estimation with GP's

UserYunus Saatchi (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 06 November 2008, 14:30-15:30

Zangwill Club

The unbearable sameness of being: Categorical cognition, autobiographical recollection and emotional disorder

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Tim Dalgleish, Co-Director of the Cognition, Emotion and Mental Health Programme, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 31 October 2008, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Infinite Hidden Markov Models and Applications in NLP

UserJurgen van Gael, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 31 October 2008, 12:15-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Understanding the minds of others: A psycholinguistic approach to Theory of Mind

UserDr Heather Ferguson, Department of Linguistics, University College London.

HouseLG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Causal functional interactions between cortical areas

UserWim Vanduffel (Catholic University of Leuven).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 30 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part III)

UserPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 28 October 2008, 11:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Impulsive antisocial sensation seeking in healthy subjects: Effects on cognitive processes

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Alan Pickering, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 24 October 2008, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Statistical anaphora resolution in biomedical texts

UserCaroline Gasperin, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 October 2008, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Remapping attention

UserPatrick Cavanagh (Université Paris Descartes).

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockThursday 23 October 2008, 16:15-17:15

Indo-European Seminar

'So, well then, I therefore argue.....'. Text structuring devices in Ancient Greek

Tea served from 4.15

UserProf. Gerry Wakker, University of Groningen.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient Sequential Monte Carlo Inference for Kingman's Coalescent

Note unusual time

UserDr Dilan Gorur (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 22 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Context in human robot interaction

UserThomas Kollar (MIT).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 21 October 2008, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Uniform limit theorems for wavelet density estimators

joint Statistics/Probability Seminar

UserEvarist Gine (University of Conneticut).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockMonday 20 October 2008, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

Comparative cognitive development in chimpanzees

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Tetsuro Matsuzawa.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

The Gaussian Semiparametric Partial Linear Model Asymptotic Theory and a Useful Difference-Based Estimator and Tests

UserProfessor Larry Brown (The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylavnia).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED- NLIP SEMINAR 17th OCTOBER

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseSW01, Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 October 2008, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part II)

UserPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 16 October 2008, 16:00-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

Greek relative clauses: Homer and his speakers

Tea served from 4.15

UserDr Philomen Probert, Wolfson College, Oxford.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

The spatial foundations of the conceptual system

This is a joint presentation of the Zangwill Club and the Bartlett Club. Tea and cakes will be served in the Seminar Room from 4pm.

UserProfessor Jean Mandler, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego, USA.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 10 October 2008, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods (Part I)

UserPeter Orbanz (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 09 October 2008, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CANCELLED

CANCELLED

UserSpeaker to be confirmed.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 09 October 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Condition Monitoring

UserRyan Turner (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 02 October 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Spoken Dialogue Management

UserSebastien Bratieres.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 29 September 2008, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A Bayesian approach to language learning

UserDr Sharon Goldwater (Edinburgh).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockFriday 26 September 2008, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning Bigrams from Unigrams

UserAndrew B. Goldberg (University of Wisconsin, Madison).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 23 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Levy Processes

UserKatherine Heller (CUED Machine Learning).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 18 September 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian approaches to autonomous Bayesian real-time learning

UserJo-Anne Ting (University of Southern California).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 15 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The War on Loops

UserFrederik Eaton (CUED).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 11 September 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Non-negative matrix factorization with Gaussian process priors

UserDr Mikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark / Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 10 September 2008, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fuzzy Logic: Fading Hype or Technology of the Future?

UserDr. Ulrich Bodenhofer, Johannes Kepler University, Austria.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 20 June 2008, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational inference for partially observed diffusion processes

UserDr. Cedric Archambeau (University College London).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 16 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Spatial Representations in Numerical Cognition

UserMartin Fischer (School of Psychology, University of Dundee).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 12 June 2008, 16:15-17:15

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Language as a Window Into Human Nature

OPEN TO ALL: guest sign-in at the door

UserProfessor Steven Pinker, Dept of Psychology Harvard.

HouseThe Cambridge Union.

ClockTuesday 10 June 2008, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Estimation of the relative risk and risk difference

UserThomas Richardson (University of Washington).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 06 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multiword Expressions: Evaluation of Extraction Methods and their Impact on Grammar Engineering

UserValia Kordoni (LT-Lab DFKI GmbH and Dept. of Computational Linguistics, Saarland University, Germany).

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 06 June 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

How to learn and use a language

UserProf Richard Hudson (Department of Phonetics and Linguistics, UCL).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 05 June 2008, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stochastic integration and Ito's lemma

UserFrederik Eaton (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 29 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

H-Infinity Clustering

UserProf. Sam Roweis (Toronto).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 28 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Brain and Decisions: Unitary or Dual Systems?

This is a joint presentation of the Zangwill Club and the Bartlett Club. Tea and cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm.

UserProfessor Aldo Rustichini, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

MCMC for doubly-intractable distributions

UserIain Murray (University of Toronto).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 23 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Contributions of phonetic detail to understanding speech processing

UserProf Sarah Hawkins (Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Does Sudoku Require Semantic Memory?

A late amendment due to the cancellation of the previous speaker

UserKaralyn Patterson, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 22 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

Psychology & Education

Children's intuitive physics in thought and action

UserProfessor Friedrich Wilkening, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HouseRoom GS1, Faculty of Education, New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road..

ClockTuesday 20 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Chance is a Fine Thing

Inaugural Lecture as Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk

UserDavid Spiegelhalter (Cambridge).

HouseMR2, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockMonday 19 May 2008, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Morphological decomposition based on the analysis of orthography

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Kathy Rastle, Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 16 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

"Politique et exercice de la langue sous les premiers Bourbons: les conflits de pouvoir et la question de la norme dans la première moitié du XVIIe siècle".

1. Please note change of time and venue 2. This will be a joint session with the Early Modern French Seminar

UserPhilippe Caron (Université de Poitiers and Churchill College).

HouseLecturers' Common Room, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site.

ClockFriday 16 May 2008, 13:00-14:45

NLIP Seminar Series

A maximum entropy approach to preposition and determiner selection

UserRachele De Felice, University of Oxford.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 May 2008, 12:00-13:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Ellipsis in Brazilian Portuguese and South American Spanish

UserProf. Sonia Cyrino, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp).

HouseOld Hall, Queens' College (tbc).

ClockThursday 15 May 2008, 17:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Human evolution and the environment of evolutionary adaptedness.

UserRobert Foley (Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 15 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

Indo-European Seminar

The position of Bactrian amongst the Iranian languages

Tea served from 4.15

UserFrançois de Blois (SOAS).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

Semitic Philology Lecture

Language Situations in Syria-Palestine between 1500 and 500 B.C.: The Emergence of Northwest Semitic

Followed by a reception. All welcome.

UserProfessor Holger Gzella, University of Leiden.

HouseRuncie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockTuesday 13 May 2008, 17:00-18:00

Psychology & Education

Predicting relational and serious physical aggression: The influences of emotions and social cognitive styles in adolescence

UserProfessors Marie S. Tisak & John Tisak, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA.

HouseRoom GS1, Faculty of Education, New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road..

ClockTuesday 13 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Joint action: Bodies and Minds Acting Together

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserJoint presentation of Professor Guenther Knoblich and Dr Natalie Sebanz, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Latent class models for the causal effect of a treatment

UserAntonio Forcina (University of Perugia).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 09 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Error-Aware Probabilistic Parsing

UserJennifer Foster, Dublin City University.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 09 May 2008, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

A Neural Mechanism of Decision Making, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bound.

UserMichael Shadlen (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington Medical School, Seattle).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 08 May 2008, 16:15-17:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

An Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserProf. John Shawe-Taylor (UCL).

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

ClockThursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

Deciphering Bactrian: from script to syntax

Tea served from 4.15

UserNicholas Sims-Williams.

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

A role for hippocampal LTP in memory: it’s not all associative!

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr David Bannerman, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 02 May 2008, 16:30-18:00

Psychology & Education

Adult influences on children's informal learning

UserProfessor Andrew Tolmie, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, London.

HouseRoom 2S3, Faculty of Education, New Faculty Building, 184 Hills Road..

ClockTuesday 29 April 2008, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Attentional bias and craving in substance use

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Matthew Field, School of Psychology, University of Liverpool.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 April 2008, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Efficient sparse recovery with no assumption on the dictionary

UserAlexander (Sasha) Tsybakov (CREST et Université Paris).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 25 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning quantum physics

UserDr Gabor Csanyi (Dept of Engineering).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 17 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Local and discrete scoring rules

UserMatt Parry (Cambridge).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 14 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Insight, Attention and Error

UserIan Robertson (Trinity College, Dublin).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 16:15-17:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Convergence analysis of the EM algorithm and joint minimization of free energy

UserDr Shin-ichi Maeda (NARA Institute of Science and Technology).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

fMRI and multivariate analyses of neuroimaging in healthy participants

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

UserAlexandra Woolgar.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Stems and affixes in Polish non-fluent aphasia

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

UserOla Jelowicka (MRC-CBU).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Discriminative Methods with Structure

UserSimon Lacoste-Julien (Univ of California at Berkeley).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2008, 11:30-12:30

Zangwill Club

Processes involved in remembering future intentions: Automatic or controlled?

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Lia Kvavilashvili, School of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 07 March 2008, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Computer-generated Cryptic Crossword Clues: exploring creative NLG

UserDavid Hardcastle, The Open University.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 07 March 2008, 12:00-13:00

Indo-European Seminar

Some interesting manifestations of the subgrouping dilemma in Armenian

Tea served from 4.15

UserBert Vaux (Cambridge).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2008, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Predictive Modeling Approaches to Gene Regulation

UserJun Liu (Harvard University).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockWednesday 05 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Cancellation in Auditory Scene Analysis

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Alain de Cheveigne, Laboratoire de Psychologie de la Perception, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) & Université Paris Descartes & Département d'Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 29 February 2008, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Applications of Discourse Structure for Spoken Dialogue Systems

UserDiane Litmann, University of Edinburgh.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 29 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Referential intentions and minimal semantics

UserProf Emma Borg (Department of Philosophy, University of Reading).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Learning predictions and actions in the basal ganglia

UserBen Seymour (Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL & Dept of Neurology, Addenbrooke's Hospital).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 16:15-17:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Inductive Logic Programming

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserStephen Muggleton (Imperial College London).

HouseLT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 28 February 2008, 16:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Spatial memory: from neurons to learning and behaviour

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Neil Burgess, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 22 February 2008, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Statistical Machine Translation

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserBill Byrne, Machine Intelligence Laboratory.

HouseLT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 21 February 2008, 16:00-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

Aspect in Armenian

Tea served from 4.15

UserDaniel Kölligan (Oxford).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Expectation Propagation, Experimental Design for the Sparse Linear Model

UserMatthias Seeger (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Second Language Education Group

Researching the impact of recent foreign language policy initiatives on provision and practice in schools in England

User Michael Evans, Linda Fisher, Caroline Filmer-Sankey, Ruth Levine, Faculty of Education, Cambridge University.

HouseGS4, New Faculty Building, Faculty of Education, 184, Hills Road.

ClockMonday 18 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Biomedical Image Search

UserAlex Ksikes (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockMonday 18 February 2008, 11:30-12:30

Zangwill Club

The role of phasic dopamine signalling in the determination of agency and the discovery of novel actions

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Peter Redgrave, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 15 February 2008, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Combining police perceptions with police records of serious crime areas

UserRobert Haining (Dept. Geography, University of Cambridge).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 15 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Monte Carlo Semantics: Robust Inference and Logical Pattern Processing Based on

UserRichard Bergmair, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The role of statistical learning in early generative L2 grammars

UserProf Roger Hawkins (Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Essex).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Modern Greek Lecture Series

Why Greek vowels aren't boring

UserProfessor Peter Trudgill (University of East Anglia).

HouseRoom 1.02, Classics, Faculty of.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Information Retrieval

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserStephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseLT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 14 February 2008, 16:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Learned predictiveness and cue processing in human learning

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Mike Le Pelley, School of Psychology, Cardiff University.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 08 February 2008, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Adversarial Risk Analysis: A Smallpox Example

UserDavid Banks (Duke University).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 08 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Indo-European Seminar

The chronology of Classical Armenian. Early linguistic splits.

Tea served from 4.15

UserJos Weitenberg (Leiden).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Stable distribution and data sketching

UserIoana Cosma, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Does Spatial attention modulate Mirror Neuron activation?

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

UserKarolina Moutsopoulou.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cortical responses to object number during perception and visual short-term memory

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

UserDanny Mitchell (MRC-CBU).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 06 February 2008, 12:30-13:30

French Linguistics Research Seminars

The Rhythm of Old French Verse

UserThomas Rainsford (Cambridge).

HouseHenry Cavendish Room, Peterhouse.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2008, 19:30-21:00

Zangwill Club

Functional MRI studies of memory and ageing

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Alexa Morcom, Centre for Cognitive & Neural Systems, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 01 February 2008, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning to Classify Noun-Noun Semantic Relations

UserDiarmuid O'Seaghdha, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 February 2008, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Tone contrast maintenance driving phonological change in intonation grammars

UserProf Carlos Gussenhoven (Department of Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 31 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Spectral methods

UserRicardo Silva and Arik Azran.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 31 January 2008, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Reinforcement Learning

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture (Note unusual day)

UserPeter Dayan, Gatsby Unit, UCL.

HouseLT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of.

ClockTuesday 29 January 2008, 16:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

How antipsychotic medications work - from receptors to response

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Shitij Kapur, Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Identifying Direct and Indirect effects

UserSara Geneletti (Imperial).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Annotating Genericity: How Do Humans Decide?- A Case Study in Ontology Extraction

UserAurelie Herbelot, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

UserAndreas Vlachos and Sinead Williamson.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 24 January 2008, 14:00-15:30

Indo-European Seminar

The Augment in Classical Armenian

Tea served from 4.15

UserCharles de Lamberterie (University of Paris IV, Sorbonne).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2008, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Modeling Science: Topic models of Scientific Journals and Other Large Document Collections

UserDavid Blei, Computer Science, Princeton University.

HouseEngineering Department - LR3.

ClockWednesday 23 January 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Sparse Gaussian Process in Disease Mapping

UserJarno Vanhatalo, Helsinki University of Technology.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockTuesday 22 January 2008, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Plasticity of the cerebral cortex: when, how, why?

This talk is a joint Zangwill/Chaucer Seminar on FRIDAY at 4.30pm in the Dept of Experimental Psychology

UserColin Blakemore (University of Oxford).

HouseDept of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 January 2008, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Plasticity of the cerebral cortex: when, how, why?

NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE FOR LECTURE. Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm. This is a joint presentation of the Zangwill Club and the MRC CBU Chaucer Club

UserProfessor Colin Blakemore, Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford.

HousePhysiology Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

ClockFriday 18 January 2008, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

'A fair knowledge of their tongue': Re-evaluating Missionary Linguistics

change of time

UserDr Marcus Tomalin (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Graphical Models

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserChristopher M. Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

HouseLT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Adaptive Inference and Adaptive Training

UserRogier van Dalen and Christian Steinruecken.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 14:00-15:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Prediction error, causal learning and the delusional state

UserPaul Fletcher (University of Cambridge Dept of Psychiatry, Brain Mapping Unit).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 16 January 2008, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Grounding knowledge in the brain’s modal systems

This is a special joint presentation of the Zangwill Club and the MRC-CBU Chaucer Club. Please note recent venue change to MRC-CBU

UserProfessor Lawrence W Barsalou, Department of Psychology, Emory University, USA.

HouseLecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

ClockFriday 07 December 2007, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cognition and reward in Parkinsons Disease

New date - postponed from 28 Nov

UserJames Rowe (MRC-CBU and Addenbrooke's Hospital).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2007, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

When and where does language change? Syntax, phonology, acquisition and diachrony

*back to usual venue*

UserDr Patrick Honeybone (Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 29 November 2007, 17:30-19:00

Indo-European Seminar

The Gaulish Inscription of Rom (Deux-Sèvres)

Tea served from 4.15

UserAlderik Blom (Cambridge).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Adjusting network dynamics to cognitive demands: dopaminergic control of cortical activity regimes

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Daniel Durstewicz, Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, University of Plymouth.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 November 2007, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

A Life-Time of Stochastic Self-Organisation - 1977 - 2007

UserDavid Probert (VAZA International).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 23 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

A Rebel Alliance in Babel's Aftermath: Combining rules and probabilities in machine translation

UserDan Flickinger, CSLI Stanford University and Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 23 November 2007, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Error Correcting Codes

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserDavid J.C. MacKay, Department of Physics.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 22 November 2007, 16:00-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

Aspects of Definiteness in Ancient Greek

Tea served from 4.15

UserMaria Napoli (Pisa).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Developing cognitive approaches to the assessment of animal emotion

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Mike Mendl, Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Kernels for graph comparison

UserKarsten Borgwardt, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 16 November 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Inflectional Economy

*NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*

UserDr James Blevins (RCEAL, University of Cambridge).

HouseLG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 17:30-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Machine Learning Applications / Challenges in Natural Language Parsing

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserTed Briscoe, Computer Laboratory.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 15 November 2007, 16:00-18:00

Indo-European Seminar

Animacy, definiteness and case in Asia Minor Greek

Tea served from 4.15

UserMark Janse (Ghent/ All Souls’ Oxford).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 16:30-17:30

Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)

Event Related Potentials and Maturation of Auditory Memory Function

UserDr Oleg Korzyukov. MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

HouseFaculty of Education, New Faculty Building, Rm GS1.

ClockTuesday 13 November 2007, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Familiarity and recall in rats: memory for objects and events

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Madeline Eacott, Department of Psychology, University of Durham.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 November 2007, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Prequential Statistics

UserPhil Dawid (Cambridge).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 09 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Transductive and Semi-Supervised Learning

UserKarsten Borgwardt (University of Cambridge) and Katherine Heller.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 08 November 2007, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Optimal Control and Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Process Models

UserMarc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge).

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 11:30-12:30

Zangwill Club

Androgen and gender development

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Melissa Hines, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 02 November 2007, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Quantum randomness and Kolmogorov probability

UserPatricia Grambsch, University of Minnesota, visiting Cambridge.

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 02 November 2007, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Historical sociolinguistics and the transmission of language change

UserProf Terttu Nevalainen (Department of Linguistics, University of Helsinki).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 17:30-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Prequential Statistics

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserPhilip Dawid, Statistical Laboratory, Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational inference and exponential families

UserJurgen Van Gael and Frederik Eaton.

HouseEngineering Department, CBL Room 438.

ClockThursday 01 November 2007, 14:00-15:30

Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)

Specialisation in the Human Brain: The Case of Numbers

UserDr Roi Cohen Kadosh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Dept of Psychology, University College London.

HouseFaculty of Education, New Faculty Building, Rm 2S3.

ClockTuesday 30 October 2007, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Investigating individual differences in outcomes for cochlear implantees

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Colette McKay, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 October 2007, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Spectral Clustering

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserArik Azran, Machine Learning Group.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sparse Bayesian Linear Models

UserMarc Deisenroth (University of Cambridge), Miguel Lazaro-Gredilla.

HouseLT2 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 25 October 2007, 14:00-15:30

Indo-European Seminar

Comparing the sounds of accents of English, past and present

Tea served from 4.15

UserApril McMahon (Edinburgh).

HouseRoom 1.11, Classics Faculty.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

Stress, Happiness and Health: the Cortisol Connection

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Angela Clow, Department of Psychology, University of Westminster.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 19 October 2007, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Analysing biomedical text with the Stanford dependency grammar

UserAndrew Clegg, Birkbeck, University of London.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 19 October 2007, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

The fascinating first year

UserProf David Crystal (School of Linguistics and English Language, University of Wales, Bangor).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 18 October 2007, 17:30-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Group Theory and Machine Learning

Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserImre Risi Kondor, Gatsby Unit, UCL.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 18 October 2007, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Hidden Common Cause Relations in Relational Learning

UserRicardo Silva (Statistical Laboratory).

HouseLR6, Engineering, Department of.

ClockWednesday 17 October 2007, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

The psychopharmacology of social and non-social risky choice, and gambling behaviour

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Robert Rogers, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Jump Telegraph Processes and a Volatility Smile

UserNikita Ratanov (University of Rosario, Bogota).

HouseMR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Random Walks on the Click Graph

UserMartin Szummer, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Knowing Me, Knowing You

UserNeil Macrae (University of Aberdeen).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 11 October 2007, 16:15-17:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Autonomous Agents under Operational Closure

UserPedro Ortega (University of Cambridge).

HouseLR4, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockThursday 11 October 2007, 14:00-15:30

Zangwill Club

Mental programs and the frontal lobe

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr John Duncan, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 05 October 2007, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Graph Kernels for Data Mining

UserKarsten Borgwardt, Machine Learning Group @ CUED.

HouseLR5, Engineering, Department of.

ClockWednesday 19 September 2007, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Geometric Algorithms for Linear Independent Component Analysis

UserHao Shen, National ICT Australia and Australian National University, Canberra.

HouseLR5, Engineering, Department of.

ClockFriday 14 September 2007, 14:00-15:00

Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars

Dialectal Chinese Speech Recognition

UserThomas Fang Zheng (Tsinghua University, Beijing).

HouseLR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockFriday 24 August 2007, 11:30-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

The ILIAD Project: Language Technology Meets Linux Troubleshooting

UserTimothy Baldwin - University of Melbourne..

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 02 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sensible priors from finite linear models

Note unusual time

UserEd Snelson and Joaquin Candela.

House5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

ClockThursday 28 June 2007, 15:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Measures of auditory streaming

This talk was originally scheduled for 6 June (This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today)

UserSarah Thompson (MRC-CBU).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 27 June 2007, 13:00-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Presentation and progression of memory deficits in Mild Cognitive Impairment

This talk was originally scheduled for 6 June (This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today)

UserSamrah Ahmed (MRC-CBU).

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 27 June 2007, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Annotating and Learning Compound Noun Semantics

UserDiarmuid O'Seaghdha - University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockWednesday 20 June 2007, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Annotation of Chemical Named Entities

UserPeter Corbett - University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 18 June 2007, 11:30-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Semantic enrichment of journal articles using chemical named entity recognition

UserColin Batchelor - Royal Society of Chemistry.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockMonday 18 June 2007, 11:30-12:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Semi-supervised Training of a Statistical Parser from Unlabeled Partially-bracketed Data

UserJohn Carroll - Department of Informatics, University of Sussex.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 15 June 2007, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

What can Gaussian Processes do for Reinforcement Learning?

UserMarc Deisenroth, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany.

House5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

ClockThursday 24 May 2007, 13:00-15:00

Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)

Neural correlates of number magnitude processing in children & adults: evidence from fMRI

UserDr Liane Kaufmann, Clinical Dept. of General Paediatrics, Innsbruck Medical University.

HouseFaculty of Education, New Faculty Building, Rm 2S4.

ClockTuesday 22 May 2007, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Timing, memory and choice

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor John Staddon, Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Genomics, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, USA.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 18 May 2007, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Involvement of subregions of prefrontal cortex in strategy implementation and episodic memory

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Mark Baxter, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 11 May 2007, 16:30-18:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Contact phenomena between Chileno and Mapudungun

UserDr Fernando Zúñiga, Universität Zürich.

HouseLecture Block, room 5.

ClockThursday 10 May 2007, 10:00-12:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Comparative grammar of Latin American varieties

UserDr Fernando Zúñiga, Universität Zürich.

HouseLecture Block, room 5.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2007, 14:00-16:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Introduction to Chileno Spanish

UserDr Fernando Zúñiga, Universität Zürich.

HouseLecture Block, room 5.

ClockTuesday 08 May 2007, 14:00-16:00

Semitic Philology Lecture

The South Arabian Origin of Ethiosemitic

The Annual Semitic Philology Lecture

UserProfessor Rainer Voigt, Freie Universität, Berlin.

HouseRuncie Room, Faculty of Divinity, West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockFriday 04 May 2007, 17:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

The role of action in directing attention

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Glyn Humphreys, Behavioural Brain Sciences Group, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 04 May 2007, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Term Mining in Biomedicine

UserSophia Ananiadou - University of Manchester.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 04 May 2007, 12:00-13:00

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

The Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish Dialectology

UserDr David Heap, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.

HouseOld Kitchens, Queens' College.

ClockThursday 03 May 2007, 17:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Distributed representations of faces and objects in human cortex

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Jim Haxby, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 27 April 2007, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Change Point Problems in Linear Dynamical Systems

Postponed (originally April 5)

UserOnno Zoeter, Microsoft.

House5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

ClockThursday 12 April 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

GP-LVMs

UserJoaquin Quiñonero Candela.

House5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

ClockThursday 29 March 2007, 13:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Topics in Convex Optimisation

UserRyota Tomioka, University of Tokyo.

House5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

ClockThursday 22 March 2007, 13:00-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Cognitive Heterogeneity of Parkinson's Disease

Amended title from that originally posted

UserCaroline Williams-Gray, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 21 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Ranking

Advanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserRalf Herbrich, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 15 March 2007, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Logistic Regression with a Laplacian prior on the Eigenvalues: Convex duality and application to EEG classification

Note different room and time

UserRyota Tomioka (University of Tokyo / Fraunhofer FIRST).

HouseLT1 (Inglis Building) Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 15 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Human memory: insights from the past and challenges for the future

We regret that this talk has been cancelled.

UserKim Graham, Wales Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Cardiff University & MRC-CBU.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Intuition and affect in decision-making

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Marius Usher, Department of Psychology, Birkbeck College.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 March 2007, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Discourse variation, grammaticalisation, and stuff like that

UserProf Jenny Cheshire (Department of Linguistics, Queen Mary, University of London).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 08 March 2007, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can approach-avoidance paradigms inform debates about embodied cognition?

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

UserAdle Pacini, MRC-CBU.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Attention effects in a neuronal model of the language cortex

This is one of two shorter talks being given by PhD students today

UserMax Garagnani, MRC-CBU.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Neural systems for attention and perceptual decisions

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Maurizio Corbetta, Department of Neurology, Washington University in St Louis, USA.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 02 March 2007, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Dirichlet Processes and Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes

Advanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserDr Yee Whye Teh, Gatsby Unit, UCL.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 01 March 2007, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Some NIPS papers

UserBlaise, Katherine, and Zoubin.

House5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

ClockThursday 01 March 2007, 13:00-15:00

Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)

Parietal mechanisms subserving the mental number line

UserDr Ed Hubbard, INSERM Cognitive Neuroimaging Service, Orsay, France.

HouseFaculty of Education, New Faculty Building, Rm 1S7.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2007, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Reanalyzing ungrammatical sentences: Evidence from eye movements, speeded grammaticality judgments, and MEG

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Fernanda Ferreira, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 23 February 2007, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

An Introduction to Non-parametric Bayesian Methods

Room changed this week!

UserProfessor Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge.

HouseLR5, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 22 February 2007, 16:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Is theory of mind necessary for teaching

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Douglas Frye, Applied Psychology and Human Development Division, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 16 February 2007, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Networks

UserPedro Ortega and Will Youzhi Zou.

House5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

ClockThursday 15 February 2007, 13:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Distributed representations of faces and objects in human cortex

CANCELLED DUE TO ILL HEALTH

UserProfessor Jim Haxby, Department of Psychology, Princeton University, USA.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 09 February 2007, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Compounding in English and the nature of attribution

Dinner with speaker afterwards at Sala Thong (Thai); email apc38 if interested

UserProf Heinz Giegerich (Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 08 February 2007, 17:00-18:30

Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)

Understanding selective attentional and perceptual abnormalities in autism

UserDr Kate Plaisted, Laboratory for Research into Autism, University of Cambridge.

HouseFaculty of Education, New Faculty Building, Rm 1S7.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2007, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Reward processing in the addicted brain: Sex, drugs and genes

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserDr Jane Taylor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University, USA.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 02 February 2007, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robot Localisation and Mapping

Advanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserDr Paul M Newman, Oxford University.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 01 February 2007, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Non-parametric mixture models

UserDavid Knowles and Blaise Thomson.

House5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

ClockThursday 01 February 2007, 13:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Getting to grips with the problem of serial order in memory

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Graham Hitch, University of York.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 26 January 2007, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning and Experimental Design

Note unusual time

UserAndreas Vlachos and Bobby Gramacy.

House5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

ClockFriday 26 January 2007, 13:30-15:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Some aspects of verb morphology and syntax in Modern Aramaic

*Back to usual venue*

UserProf Geoffrey Khan (Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 25 January 2007, 17:00-18:30

French Linguistics Research Seminars

Is French a language without accents after all?

UserBrechtje Post (University of Cambridge).

HouseCouncil Room, New Hall.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2007, 20:30-21:30

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

On possessives in different varieties of Portuguese

UserDr Ana Castro, Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal/Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

HouseErasmus room, Queens' College.

ClockWednesday 24 January 2007, 18:00-19:30

Zangwill Club

New family forms: Implications for parenting and child development

This is a joint Zangwill-Bartlett Club talk. Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Susan Golombok, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Experimental Psychology.

ClockFriday 19 January 2007, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Collaborative Filtering

UserWill Youzhi Zou and David Knowles.

House5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

ClockThursday 18 January 2007, 13:00-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Emotion from brain identity

Please note that this is a late addition to the Seminar list

UserMitch Valdes-Sosa, Cuban Neuroscience Center.

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockWednesday 06 December 2006, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Generating appropriate referring expressions in news summaries

UserAdvaith Siddharthan, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 01 December 2006, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Differentiating morphology, syntax and meaning in the human brain

*NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*

UserProf Lorraine K Tyler (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge).

HouseLG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 30 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On Choosing Priors

UserProf Zoubin Ghahramani, CUED.

House5th floor meeting room, Engineering Department.

ClockThursday 30 November 2006, 13:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

The origins of adult magical beliefs

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Bruce Hood, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of.

ClockFriday 24 November 2006, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Generation of Referring Expressions: Evaluating some standard algorithms

UserIelka van der Sluis, University of Aberdeen.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 24 November 2006, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Do S-cones contribute to the perception of brightness?

The talk advertised for today (Dr Kia Nobre) had to be canceled, but we are fortunate to have Prof Wehrhahn step in at the last moment

UserProf Christian Wehrhahn, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany and the Visual Center Lab at the Salk Institute in the US..

HouseLecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 16:15-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Advanced MCMC Methods

Advanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserIain Murray, Gatsby Unit, UCL.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 23 November 2006, 16:00-18:00

Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)

The Role of Language in Mathematical Development

UserDr Chris Donlan, Department of Human Communication Science, University College London.

HouseFaculty of Education, New Faculty Building, Rm GS1.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2006, 16:30-18:00

Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars

Tracheoesophageal Speech Repair

UserArantza Del Pozo, CUED Machine Intelligence Laboratory.

HouseLR6, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockMonday 20 November 2006, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Do familiarity and recollection have different neural bases? Normal, lesion, fMRI, and neophrenology studies

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Andrew Mayes, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Centering for Information Ordering using Corpora

UserNikiforos Karamanis, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 17 November 2006, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Problems with phonemes

*NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE*

UserDr John Coleman (Phonetics Laboratory, University of Oxford).

HouseLG17, Law Faculty, 10 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Expectation Propagation

Advanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserDr Tom Minka, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 16 November 2006, 16:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Listening to a dialect: Dynamics of phonetic and lexical representations

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Núria Sebastián Gallés, Department of Psychology, Barcelona University, Spain.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of.

ClockFriday 10 November 2006, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fuzzy Language Models and Closed Domain Question Answering using Fuzzy Semantics

UserRichard Bergmair, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 10 November 2006, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Causality

Advanced Tutorial Lecture Series on Machine Learning

UserDr Ricardo Silva, Gatsby Unit, UCL.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 09 November 2006, 16:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Mood, memory & clinical depression

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Ian Goodyer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of.

ClockFriday 03 November 2006, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Weakest Link: Detecting and Correcting Errors in Learner English

UserPete Whitelock, Sharp Laboratories.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 03 November 2006, 12:00-13:00

Machine Intelligence Laboratory Speech Seminars

Use of Linguistic Information and Reordering Strategies for Ngram- based Statistical Machine Translation

UserAdria de Gispert, TALP Research Centre – Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain.

HouseLR5, Engineering Department, Baker Building.

ClockTuesday 31 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Migration and fusion of perceptual content – premorbid susceptibility to Allochiria, neglect and extinction?

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Anthony Marcel, University of Cambridge and University of Hertfordshire.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of.

ClockFriday 27 October 2006, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning

Advanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserEd Snelson, Gatsby Unit, UCL.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 26 October 2006, 16:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Acquiring Ontological Relationships from Wikipedia Using RMRS

Short talk (20 minutes) to be presented at International Semantic Web Conference workshop

UserAurelie Herbelot, University of Cambridge.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2006, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

What makes real-world scenes special? Evidence from fMRI

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor John Henderson, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of.

ClockFriday 20 October 2006, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Putting Linguistics into Speech Recognition: The Regulus Grammar Compiler

UserManny Rayner, Powerset.com/Geneva University.

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 20 October 2006, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

Concord, convergence and accommodation in bilingual children

UserProf Andrew Radford (Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex).

HouseGR06-7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

ClockThursday 19 October 2006, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Sex differences in intelligence?

Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Nick Mackintosh, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of.

ClockFriday 13 October 2006, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multiple Instance Learning for Natural Language Tasks

UserMark Craven, University of Cambridge (visiting).

HouseSW01 Computer Laboratory.

ClockFriday 13 October 2006, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Intelligence and ageing: contributions from the Scottish Mental Survey follow-up studies

This is a joint Zangwill-Chaucer Club talk. Tea & cakes available in 2nd floor Seminar Room from 4pm

UserProfessor Ian Deary, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh.

HouseGround Floor Lecture Theatre, Experimental Psychology, Department of.

ClockFriday 06 October 2006, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Mixture Models and the EM Algorithm

Advanced Machine Learning Tutorial Lecture

UserProfessor Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

HouseLR4, Engineering, Department of.

ClockThursday 05 October 2006, 16:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic Dimensional Reduction with the Gaussian Process Latent Variable Model

UserDr Neil Lawrence, Computer Science, University of Sheffield.

HouseLR10, Engineering, Department of.

ClockTuesday 07 March 2006, 12:30-13:30

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