Machine Learning @ CUED

Fast yet Simple Natural-Gradient Variational Inference in Complex Models

Emtiyaz Khan, team leader (equivalent to Full Professor) at the RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) in Tokyo.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Monday 16 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variance in Policy Gradient methods and Learning Sequential Latent Variable Models

George Tucker, Google Brain.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 04 July 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyond

Thomas Kipf (Uni of Amsterdam).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 21 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Differential responses to cognitive training: insights from a machine learning approach

Mengya Zhang (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Statistics

Sketchy decisions: Low-rank convex matrix optimization with optimal storage

Joel Tropp (Caltech).

MR12.

Monday 18 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Concept learning as compression

Bradley Love (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 15:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Language Adaptation experiments: Cross-lingual embeddings for related languages

Serge Sharoff (Leeds).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The dynamics of functional brain networks: Examining the role of noradrenaline

James Mac Shine (U. of Sydney).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Time Management

Polly Brown, University Counselling Service.

Room B3, Institute of Criminology.

Monday 11 June 2018, 12:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Functional Distributional Semantics: Learning Linguistically Informed Representations from a Precisely Annotated Corpus

Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

What is the dimension of a stochastic process?

Victor Panaretos (EPFL).

MR11.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The neural bases of declarative memory and primary using studies of brain damaged patients

Daniela Montaldi (U. of Manchester) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Want to be an academic? Learn How to track your Impact!

Research Support Librarian.

Sociology Seminar Room, Free School Lane.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 12:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Methods and Interactive Tools for Exploring the Semantics of Essentially Contested Concepts

Paul Nulty (CRASSH-Cambridge).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Children's Literature

Autism in Children's Fiction

Dr Shalini Vohra, Sheffield Hallam University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ, room GS5.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Why are patients with Parkinson’s disease and Dementia impulsive – and what can we do about it?

Prof James Rowe (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU & Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Selectivity and dynamics of human face representations

Professor Rafael Malach, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 June 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Sabyasachi Chatterjee (UIUC).

MR12.

Friday 01 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning hierarchical structure: strong learning of PCFGs

Alexander Clark, King's College London.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Syntactic Change in Postcolonial Englishes: Substrates and Input

Prof Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary University of London).

English Faculty Building, 2nd Floor, Room 24, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 31 May 2018, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

The structure and function of visual working memory

Paul Bays (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Psychology).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Imitation learning for language generation

Gerasimos Lampouras (Sheffield).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Children's Literature

The Childist Turn in Children’s Literature Studies

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Anglia Ruskin University and University of Wroclaw .

Mary Allan Building room 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Re-thinking cognitive training research

Joe Rennie (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Metacognition of internally-generated processes

Dr Elisa Filevich, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

NAACL practice talks

Simon Baker (LTL) & Marek Rei (NLIP), University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Grammatical innovations in Multicultural London English

David Hall (Queen Mary, University of London).

Room B4, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Why are we so bad at face recognition?

Mike Burton (U. of York).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cortical and subcortical organisation of the multiple demand system

Moataz Assem (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Semi-Generative Modelling: Domain Adaptation with Cause and Effect Features

Julius von Kugelgen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 11:30-12:00

Statistics

On momentum methods and acceleration in stochastic optimization

Praneeth Netrapalli (Microsoft Research India).

MR14.

Monday 21 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Developing memory interference strategies as treatments for addiction and trauma-related symptoms

Dr Sunjeev Kamboj, Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Bayesian estimation of the mean response in a missing data model

Kolyan Ray (King's College London).

MR12.

Friday 18 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The potential of synthetic data for more informative evaluation in Visual Question Answering

Alexander Kuhnle, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Remembering complex events

Chris Bird (U. of Sussex).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Elfdalian, a divergent Nordic dialect now and throughout the ages

Guus Kroonen, University of Copenhagen/Leiden University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 18:00-19:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Understanding apathy: what happens when the Rev. Bayes plays Angry Birds

Frank Hezemans (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

French Linguistics Research Seminars

French in Canada: Ontario and Quebec compared

Prof. Sylvie Frigon (Ottawa).

Friends of Peterhouse Seminar Room, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 18:00-19:15

Zangwill Club

Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

Professor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Multiple change point estimation based on moving sum statistics

Claudia Kirch (Magdeburg).

MR12.

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Emergent Communication through Negotiation

Kris Cao, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 11 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Title TBC

Speaker TBC.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can you live to see a better day? Lifestyle engagement predicts healthy cognitive development in old age (a Cam-CAN study)

Sophia Borgeest (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

Ana Stoica, Columbia University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 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

Dr Max Garagnani, Lecturer in Computer Science, Co-Director of the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 04 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Predictive Uncertainty in Deep Learning

Andrey Malinin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 04 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Singing in tone: text-setting constraints in tone languages

Dr James Kirby (University of Edinburgh).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 03 May 2018, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

What is sleep’s contribution to the language system?

Gareth Gaskell (U. of York).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Predictive Uncertainty in Deep Learning

Andrey Malinin (University of Cambridge).

Department of Engineering - LR5 Lecture Room.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Scalable Non-Markovian Language Modelling

Ehsan Shareghi.

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

An extinct coastal Sami musical tradition – How, when and why?

Ola Graff, University of Tromsø.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 18:00-19:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

No WLTS on 2 May - Talk has been postponed until 20 June

Talk has been postponed until 20 June.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Children's Literature

The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh

Kathryn Aalto.

Mary Allan Building room 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Orbit recovery from invariants

Jonathan Weed (MIT).

MR12.

Friday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings

Ivan Vulic, LTL, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 27 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Linguistics and education: a case of mutual dependency?

Prof Richard 'Dick' Hudson.

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 26 April 2018, 16:00-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Personality Neuroscience: looking for the neurological roots of individual differences in behavioural traits

Dr Luca Passamonti (U. of Cambridge, Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and SGD

Dr. Samuel L. Smith, Google Brain.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11.

Tuesday 17 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

Ana Stoica, Columbia University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Sunday 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)

Prof. Jim McCloskey (University of California, Santa Cruz).

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Monday 26 March 2018, 16:00-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

** cancelled **

Julian Perez, Naver Labs Europe.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 23 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

CANCELLED - Diversity of Expression in Utterance and the Idea of Language

This talk has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

Prof Adam Kendon (University of Cambridge).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 22 March 2018, 16:30-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Knowledge Acquisition from Corpora and the Wisdom of Crowds

Daisuke Kawahara (Kyoto University).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 22 March 2018, 11:00-12:00

Children's Literature

Moving Experiences: Children's Literate Lives in a Mobile Ecology

Professor Margaret Mackay, University of Alberta.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ, room GS1.

Tuesday 20 March 2018, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Human olfaction at the intersection of language, culture and biology

Prof Asifa Majid, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Chaucer Club

Neurodevelopment disorders of genetic origin – what can we learn?

Kate Baker (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 15 March 2018, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

All-resolutions inference for brain imaging

Wouter Weeda (Leiden University).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 14 March 2018, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Virtual bargaining as a micro-foundation for communication

Note unusual time

Professor Nick Chater, University of Warwick.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Zangwill Club

What is the temporal resolution of categorical perception?

Prof Leon Deouell, Human Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Louisiana Creole - a creole at the periphery

Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh (Universität Regensburg).

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Friday 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

Ingrid Neumann-Holzschuh (Universität Regensburg).

Faculty of English, GR05.

Friday 09 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

The persistence and transience of memory

Paul Frankland (U. of Toronto).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing

Matej Balog (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 13:30-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

UK 7T travelling-head study: pilot results

Catarina Rua (U. of Cambridge, Wolfson Brain Imaging Centre).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 12:30-13:30

Second Language Education Group

Multilingual Identities and Heterogeneous Language Ideologies in the New Latino Diaspora

Professor Stanton Wortham, Boston College.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Structure in tensor-variate data: a trivial byproduct of simpler phenomena?

John P. Cunningham.

CBL Seminar Room.

Tuesday 06 March 2018, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

How is visual perception biased

Dr Floris de Lange, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 02 March 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

On the gap between local recovery guarantees in structured compressed sensing and oracle estimates

Claire Boyer (UPMC).

MR12.

Friday 02 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Jointly Learning Syntax and Semantics

Jean Maillard, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 02 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Sources of Variability in Language Activation and Control in Spanish/English bilinguals and L2 learners

Teresa Bajo, Center for Mind, Brain and Behaviour, University of Granada.

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 01 March 2018, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

CANCELLED: The cognitive neuroscience of antidepressant drug action

Catherine Harmer (U. of Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Theory, Codes, and Compression

Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

NLP in the clinical domain - data, approaches and considerations

Sumithra Velupillai (King's College).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 01 March 2018, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Visual hallucinations in Parkinson’s disease - imbalances in top-down vs. bottom up information processing

Claire O’Callaghan (U. of Cambridge, Clinical Neurosciences).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 28 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge PhD Clinic

How to track the impact of your publications

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room B4, Institute of Criminology.

Monday 26 February 2018, 12:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

: Visual Perception of Materials and their Properties

Prof. Roland W. Fleming, PhD Kurt Koffka Professor of Experimental Psychology, Justus-Leibig University Giessen .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Approximations of the Restless Bandit Problem

Azadeh Khaleghi (Lancaster).

MR12.

Friday 23 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Constructing datasets for multi-hop reading comprehension across documents

Johannes Welbl, University College London.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 23 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Finding meaning in English writing

Kathy Rastle (Royal Holloway).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Speak white, speak black, speak American

Darryl G Barthe Jr (Universiteit van Amsterdam).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 18:15-19:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

MRI in large animals: a new imaging model

Arsene Ella (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Structured Deep Learning for Dialogue Management

Kai Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Department of Engineering - LR3B Lecture Room.

Monday 19 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

From ears to brain (and back): Imaging the brain computations for sound analysis.

Prof Elia Formisano Maastricht-Brain Imaging Center (M-BIC), Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep reinforcement learning for dialogue policy optimisation

Dr Milica Gasic, Dept. Engineering, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 16 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Lipschitz Global Optimization

Professor Yaroslav D Sergeyev, Universita della Calabria.

CBL Seminar Room.

Friday 16 February 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The semantics and pragmatics of racial and ethnic language: Towards a comprehensive radical contextualist account

Dr. Roberto B. Sileo (University of Cambridge).

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 15 February 2018, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

How language variation contributes to reading difficulties and “achievement gaps”

Mark Seidenberg (U. of Wisconsin-Madison).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Statistical Learning Theory

Maria Lomeli.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Predicting Judicial Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights

Nikos Aletras (Sheffield).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 15 February 2018, 11:00-12:00

Children's Literature

“Soap cost a dollar”: Jostling with minds in economic contexts

Astrid Van den Bossche, University of Oxford.

Mary Allan Building room 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 14 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Using narratives to understand human conscious experience

Dr Lorina Naci, School of Psychology, Trinity College Dublin.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 February 2018, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Pruning and grafting syntactic trees for cross-lingual transfer tasks

Edoardo Ponti, TAL, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 February 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Third language acquisition at the initial stages: An event-related potential study probing for transfer

Jason Rothman, David Miller and Eloi Puig-Mayenco (University of Reading / UiT the Arctic University of Norway).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 08 February 2018, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Attentional episodes and cognitive control

John Duncan (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 15:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Graph Convolutional Networks for Natural Language Processing and Relational Modeling

Ivan Titov (Edinburgh).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 08 February 2018, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Value generalization during human avoidance learning

Agnes Nobury (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Engineering).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 12:30-13:30

Second Language Education Group

Changing languages in European Higher Education: from official policies to unofficial classroom practices

Dr. Emma Dafouz, Complutense University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 17:00-18:30

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

Prof Baruch Fishhoff, Institute for Politics and Strategy, Carnegie Mellon University .

Lecture Theatre 1, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms.

Friday 02 February 2018, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Using quantile regression and dynamic survival analysis to study the time course of the lexical processing of complex words

Harald Baayen (University of Tübingen).

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 01 February 2018, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Imaging in an era of multi-scale neuroscience: challenges and opportunities

Karla Miller (U. of Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Generative Models

Jonathan Gordon; Alexander Matthews.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 13:30-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Remapping the cognitive and neural profiles of children who struggle at school

Duncan Astle (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 12:30-13:30

Second Language Education Group

Multilingual practices and attitudes among university students in Europe and the US: implications for the teaching of languages

Professor Anne Pauwels, School of Asian and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 29 January 2018, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Investigating the role of cognition for speech-in-noise listening

Dr Antje Heinrich, Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, University of Manchester.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Bayesian nonparametric estimation of the intensities in multivariate Hawkes processes

Judith Rousseau (Oxford).

MR12.

Friday 26 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Grammar as a Maturationally Controlled Behavior: Minimality in language Development and Impairment

Maria Garraffa (Heriot-Watt University).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 25 January 2018, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Towards large-scale analyses of genes, brains and language

Prof Simon Fisher (Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Minimum Description Length

Carl E. Rasmussen; Niki Kilbertus.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Interdisciplinarity: The art of unsettling multiple disciplines

Petar Milin (Sheffield).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional MRI across the lifespan: challenges and perspectives

Kamen Tsvetanov (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Psychology) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Inoculating Against Misinformation: On the Motivated Cognition of Facts and Expertise

Dr Sander van der Linden, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 19 January 2018, 16:30-17:30

Children's Literature

BOOK LAUNCH: The Edinburgh Companion to Children's Literature

Juliet Dusinberre, Alison Waller, Eve Tandoi, Andrew Burn, Eugene Giddens, Zoe Jaques, Clementine Beauvais and Maria Nikolajeva.

Mary Allan Building room 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Friday 19 January 2018, 15:00-17:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Languages adapt to minute differences in their speakers’ ecology

Freek Van de Velde (University of Leuven).

English Faculty Lecture Room GR-06/07, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site..

Thursday 18 January 2018, 16:00-17:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Context Sensitive Distributional Semantics

Stephen McGregor (TCIDA, Goldsmiths).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 18 January 2018, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Role of primate amygdala neurons in economic decision-making

Fabian Grabenhorst (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning for Sounds

Akisato Kimura.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 11 January 2018, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Senses can help vector space models of lexical substitution

Marianna Apidianaki (LIMSI).

Boardroom, Faculty of English, West Road.

Thursday 11 January 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS 2017 Highlights

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 14 December 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational inference for some models with Polya-Gamma latent variables and Gaussian process priors

Manfred Opper, TU Berlin.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 13 December 2017, 13:30-14:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks

Professor Andrew Wilson, Cornell University.

CBL Seminar Room.

Wednesday 13 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Heart and minds: The hidden impacts on emotion and memory

Dr Sarah Garfinkel, Brighton and Sussex Medical School. University of Sussex, Brighton.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 December 2017, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

AI for Inclusive Finance

Alan Qi and Le Song.

CBL Seminar Room.

Friday 01 December 2017, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Testing your memory: The many consequences of retrieval on long-term learning and retention

David Shanks (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hardware Efficient Machine Learning

Robert Peharz; Marton Havasi.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 30 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Sentence Generation using a Dynamic Canvas

David Barber (University College London).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 30 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Reorientating learning for career relevance: Leadership development and professional identities

Dr Jennifer Rowley, University of Sydney.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

Monday 27 November 2017, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Backprop through the Void: Optimizing Control Variates for Black-Box Gradient Estimation.

Geoff Roeder (University of Toronto).

CBL Seminar Room.

Monday 27 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Metacontrol: The Yin and Yang of cognitive control

Professor Bernhard Hommel, Leiden University Institute for Psychological Research & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

From linear programming to statistics: Fast algorithms for sampling based on interior point methods

Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley).

MR12.

Friday 24 November 2017, 15:30-16:30

Statistics

Optimal Sup-norm Rates and Uniform Inference on Nonlinear Functionals of Nonparametric IV Regression

Xiaohong Chen (Yale).

MR12.

Friday 24 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Imitation learning for structured prediction and automated fact checking

Dr Andreas Vlachos, University of Sheffield.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning to Learn without Gradient Descent by Gradient Descent

Yutian Chen, DeepMind.

CBL Seminar Room.

Friday 24 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Twitter evolution: Birdsong, speech and language

Johan Bolhuis (Utrecht University).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 November 2017, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

The surprising subtleties of changing emotional memory

Merel Kindt (U. of Amsterdam) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning to Learn

Siddharth Swaroop; Will Tebbutt.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning to Create and Reuse Words in Open-Vocabulary Language Modeling

Kazuya Kawakami (DeepMind).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Learning and plasticity in adolescence

Delia Fuhrmann (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Powered by Cambridge: Devices, data and interDisciplinarity

Registration required

Saul Nassé (Cambridge Assessment).

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 17:15-18:15

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Linguistic Yardsticks: Evaluating Language Technology Using Insights from Linguistic Theory

Registration required

Laura Rimell (DeepMind).

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 16:45-17:15

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Using Social Media to Investigate Linguistic Variation and Change

Registration required

David Willis (University of Cambridge).

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 16:15-16:45

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster session

Registration required

Various.

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 15:30-16:15

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster slam

Registration required

Various.

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 15:00-15:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Individualised Language in the Big Data Era

Registration required

Paula Buttery (University of Cambridge).

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 14:30-15:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

The Use of Deep Learning in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Registration required

Steve Young (University of Cambridge).

Cripps Court, Magdalene College.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 13:30-14:30

Zangwill Club

Cognitive rehabilitation in people with schizophrenia

Professor Dame Til Wykes. DBE, Vice Dean Psychology and Systems Sciences Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience King’s College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Learning from MOM's principles

Guillaume Lecué (ENSAE).

MR12.

Friday 17 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal seminar - new PhD students

New NLIP PhDs.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 17 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Towards true end-to-end learning & optimization

Dr Frank Hutter.

CBL Seminar Room.

Friday 17 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Chaucer Club

Translational studies of entorhinal cortex and hippocampal function in Alzheimer’s disease

Dennis Chan (U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

WGAN and Optimal Transport

Mark Rowland; Wenbo Gong.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Whistled Speech and Language Discrimination

Mary Ann Walter (Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus) .

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 18:10-19:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Porridge, Peas, and Pizzas: An Exploration of Food in Fairy Tales

Dr Rose Williamson, Anglia Ruskin University.

Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH, MAB, Room 104.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neural prediction error distinguishes perception and misperception of speech

Matt Davis (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 15 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Information networks, truth and value.

Professor Ulrike Hahn, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Accelerated Consensus via Min-Sum Splitting

Patrick Rebeschini (Oxford).

MR12.

Friday 10 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Labelling Topics Using Neural Networks

Nikolaos Aletras, Amazon Research Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 10 November 2017, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

The brain isn't porridge

Dick Passingham (U. of Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Interpretability in Machine Learning

Adrian Weller; Tameem Adel Hesham.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 09 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

What can online collaborative dictionaries tell us about language and social dynamics?

Barbara McGillivray (The Alan Turing Institute/University of Cambridge).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 09 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Multilingualism in foreign language learning: students' and teachers' perspectives in the Norwegian context

Dr. Åsta Haukås, University of Bergen.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, room GS1.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

High-risk strategies, suicidality and the meaning of p

Peter Jones (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

A BUG’S LIFE: Creeping and Crawling through Children’s Literature

Speaker to be confirmed.

Boulind Room 6/7, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Saturday 04 November 2017, 09:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Touch: The sensory scaffold of development?

Professor Andrew Bremner, Professor of Psychology and Head of Department, Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 November 2017, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Grammar, pragmatics and referential interpretation in English

Julia Kolkmann (University of York).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 02 November 2017, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Stress, genes and memory: from basic research to clinical implications

Dominique deQuervain (U. of Basel).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Structured Prediction for Handwriting Recognition

Juan Murillo Fuentes.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Corpus-Based Analysis of the Canonical Word Order of Japanese Double Object Constructions

Ryohei Sasano (Nagoya University).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 02 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Stimulus effects dwarf task effects in visual regions

Marieke Mur (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Targeted Disclosure to Support Auditing and Accountability for Automated Decision-making

Joshua Kroll.

CBL Seminar Room.

Wednesday 01 November 2017, 11:00-12:00

Second Language Education Group

Vocabulary: Principles and Practice

Professor Norbert Schmitt, University of Nottingham.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 30 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory

Professor Klaus Oberauer, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Online nonparametric regression with adversarial data

Pierre Gaillard (INRIA Paris).

MR12.

Friday 27 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Grounded language learning in simulated worlds

Felix Hill, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 27 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Suppressing unwanted visual and emotional content of memory: role in mental health

Pierre Gagnepain (U. of Normandie).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cooperative Inverse RL

Robert Pinsler; Adria Garriga Alonso.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 13:30-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mental health risk and resilience after child adversity

Anne-Laura Van Harmelen (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 25 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Aina & Alemayehu: the ‘Difficult Birth’ of Inclusive Fantasy Fiction for Youth

Zetta Elliott, Author.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS1.

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

How Power Affects Those Who Possess it: Activation, Wanting and Goal Seeking Approach Motivation

Dr Ana Guinote, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Analysis of regularized inversion of data corrupted by white Gaussian noise

Hanne Kekonnen.

MR12.

Friday 20 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards More Robust and Interpretable Models for Structured Prediction and Language Generation

Adhiguna Kuncoro, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 20 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

How memory guides value-based decisions

Daphna Shohamy (U. of Columbia).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Infer.NET

John F. Bronskill.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Nonlinear ICA using temporal structure: a principled framework for unsupervised deep learning

Prof. Aapo Hyvarinen.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 19 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Culture-based literacy: improving access to Lakota texts at Standing Rock

Elliot Bannister (Standing Rock Sioux Tribe).

Faculty of English, Boardroom.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 17:15-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Large scale network interactions in consciousness

Emmanuel Stamatakis (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 18 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

The Social Neuroendocrinology of Status

Dr Pranjal Mehta, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Transfer Learning for NLP

Sebastian Ruder, INSIGHT Centre.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Models for Information Retrieval

Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 13 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

The Influence of Multilingual Identity on Foreign Language Learning

AHRC MEITS Project Team, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Perspective taking during communication

Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer (U. of York).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 12 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Endangered languages in contact: Domari in its ethnographic and cultural context

Yaron Matras (University of Manchester).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 18:10-19:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neural architectures for feature binding and retro-cue effects in visual working memory

Sebastian Scheegans (U. of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Academic Speed Dating

Speaker to be confirmed.

Room B4, Institute of Criminology.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 17:00-19:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Detecting Semantic Change Using LDA in Historical Texts: a Case Study on Dutch

Simon Hengchen (Université libre de Bruxelles).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Brain mechanisms underlying the subjective experience of remembering

Dr Jon Simons, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Text-to-text Generation Beyond Machine Translation

Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Differentiation, compensation and cognitive reserve in ageing

Rik Henson (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

CCIMI Seminar: Kernel-based Methods for Bandit Convex Optimization

Sébastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research Redmond).

MR12.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Knowledge is power: how prior knowledge aids memory for congruent and incongruent events

Andrea Greve (MRC CBU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Detecting Text Reuse in Large Historical Corpora and Authorship Attribution of Premodern Documents

Aleksi Vesanto (University of Turku).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A Bayesian Treatment for Uncertainty -- and its application in health care

Dr Cheng Zhang.

CBL Seminar Room.

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Finite-State Transducers as a Theory of Dependency Structured Natural Language

Anssi Yli-Jyrä, University of Helsinki.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 September 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Natural Language Processing to Bridge Heterogeneous Data

Yusuke Miyao (National Institute of Informatics, Japan).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Tuesday 19 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Unbiased Estimation of the Eigenvalues of Large Implicit Matrices

Professor Ryan Adams, Princeton.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 14 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

The Grammar Variational Autoencoder & Counterfactual Fairness

Dr Matt Kusner.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 12 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Accelerating computation of SVM and DNN by binary approximation

Hironobu Fujiyoshi (Chubu University) .

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Towards User-Friendly Image Inpainting: Learning-to-Rank based Image Quality Assessment for Image Inpainting

Mariko Isogawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories) .

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep learning for autonomous driving

Takayoshi Yamashita (Chubu University) .

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

An Exchange about Doctoral Study and Didactic Research

Johan Ohman and the Graduate School, Orebro University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

Friday 08 September 2017, 10:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Modeling Context-sensitive Selectional Preference with Distributed Representations

Naoya Inoue (Tohoku University, Japan).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 31 August 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.

Regina Barzilay Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Auditorium, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Thursday 10 August 2017, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Understanding Black-box Predictions via Influence Functions

Pang Wei Koh, Stanford University.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 20 July 2017, 14:00-15:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Children in Distress: past precedents and current experience

Sir 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).

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

Saturday 15 July 2017, 14:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A simple neural network module for relational reasoning

David Barrett, DeepMind.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Localist models are compatible with information measures, sparseness indices and complementary learning systems in the brain

Dr Mike Page, University of Hertfordshire.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks

Francesco Caravelli (LANL).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Monday 03 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks

Francesco Caravelli (LANL).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Monday 03 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

PublicHealth@Cambridge

Text mining for public health reviews (The Robot Analyst)

Sophia Ananiadou, Professor of Computer Science, University of Manchester.

Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Friday 23 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Building a sense of direction – from perception to cognition

Kate Jeffrey (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

How does recent linguistic experience result in a retuning of lexical-semantic representations?

Becky Gilbert (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Characters in Comics: Some Medium-Specific Qualities

Dr Kai Mikkonen (University of Helsinki).

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Decoding from Pooled Data: Information-Theoretic bounds and a Message-Passing Algorithm

Ahmed El Alaoui (UC Berkeley).

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

Friday 16 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep NLP in language tutoring

Francis Bond, Associate Professor at the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 16 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

The typical and atypical development of the human social brain

Mark Johnson (UoC).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 15 June 2017, 15:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Linguists-defined and Machine-induced Natural Language Structures to Executable Logical Forms

Siva Reddy (Stanford University).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

The influence of fairy tale on contemporary Australian fantasy fiction for young people

Sophie Masson.

MAB 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Healthy neurocognitive aging with big data: A multivariate dive into Biobank (N=500,000)

Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Predicting Rich Linguistic Structure with Neural Networks

Jan Buys, University of Oxford.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Vanishing laws of semantic change - studying semantic change using distributional word representations and proper control condition

Haim Dubossarsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Monday 12 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Variable clustering: optimal bounds and a convex approach

Nicolas Verzelen (INRA).

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

Friday 09 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Functional Distributional Semantics

Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

How children break into language and become interesting talkers within 3 years.

Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield).

Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 16:30-18:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Mastering the time in music performance (and elsewhere): Reconnecting with the past, feeling the future and enjoying the present

Dr László Stachó, Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest & Faculty of Music, University of Szeged.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Neuroimaging of the emergence of cognition in infants and its clinical applications

Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College, Dublin).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Developmental unilateral neglect/ Mechanisms of working memory updating

Laura Forde and Shraddha Kaur (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

NLP, the perfect social (media) science?

Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Sentence-level Topic Models

Kris Cao (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 02 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Statistical Properties and Applications of Word Tensors

Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 01 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

A cluster of Aromanian varieties in North-Western Greece

Dr. Marios Mavrogiorgos, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 17:15-18:45

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A network analysis approach for characterising the spatiotemporal dynamics of semantic networks in the brain

Rezvan Farahibozorg (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Book Launch: From Tongue To Text

Dr Debbie Pullinger.

Macauley Room, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 17:30-19:00

Statistics

Computationally Efficient Nonparametric Testing

Guang Cheng (Purdue).

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

Friday 26 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Text Simplification: Where are we now, and where are we headed?

Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, University of Sheffield.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Learning Syntax with Deep Neural Networks

Shalom Lappin (University of Gothenburg, King's College London and Queen Mary University of London).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 25 May 2017, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Multisensory integration in the cortical hierarchy

Uta Noppeney (University of Birmingham).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Location Resolution in Language Processing

Milan Gritta (University of Cambridge).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 25 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

On Different Distances Between Distributions and Generative Adversarial Networks

Martin Arjovsky.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Does entrained tACS modulate speech-specific BOLD responses? Evidence from combined tACS-fMRI

Benedikt Zoefel (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Psychology & Education

Modelling the impact of cognitive abilities on science learning

Professor Andy Tolmie, UCL Institute of Education.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building).

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Cognitive coding in the hippocampal-entorhinal system

Dr Christian Doeller, Kavli Institute, NTNU Trondheim, Norway & Donders Institute, RU Nijmegen, the Netherlands).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 19 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Robust ranking, constrained ranking and rank aggregation via eigenvector and semidefinite programming synchronization

Mihai Cucuringu (Oxford).

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

Friday 19 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data not the data to the analysis

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Professor Paul Burton, Professor of Data Science for Health, Newcastle University.

Large Seminar Room, 1st Floor, Institute of Public Health, University Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge.

Friday 19 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Architectures for Sequence Labelling

Marek Rei, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 19 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

2017 Ullendorff Semitic Philology Lecture: Modern South Arabian and Comparative Semitics

Prof. Aaron Rubin, Penn State University.

Rooms 8 & 9, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 17:00-19:00

Chaucer Club

Imaging and stimulating adaptive brain plasticity

Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Reading and Reasoning with Vector Representations

Sebastian Riedel (UCL).

Lecture Block, room 2, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 13: Psychological health of professors: Transforming university culture

Dr Valerie Peters, Université Laval, Quebec.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Working memory training and transcranial electrical stimulation

Elizabeth Byrne (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

The biological basis and perceptual impact of categorisation: the case of colour.

Professor Anna Franklin, The Sussex Colour Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 12 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Constrained low-rank matrix estimation

Lenka Zdeborova (IPhT).

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

Friday 12 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking using Semantically Specialised Vector Spaces

Nikola Mrskic, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 12 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Psychology & Education

Thinking about what might have been: the development of children's counterfactual thinking

Sarah Beck Reader in Cognitive Development, University of Birmingham.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room GS5 Donald McIntyre Building).

Thursday 11 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

CANCELLED: The problem of working memory: How does the brain keep information in mind?

Mark Stokes (Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Building a True Semantic World: Generalizing set-theoretic semantics in vector spaces

Eva Maria Vecchi.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 11 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Norwegian Romani - the 'languageness' of a Para-Romani variety

Tea and biscuits from 16.45

Jakob Wiedner, University of Oslo.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 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

Professor 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.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Multiple Demand System and its subnetworks/ Exploring temporal dynamics of preparatory attention

Sneha Shashidhara and Tanya Wen (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books

Philip Nel, Kansas State University.

Boulind Room 6/7, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 17:00-18:30

Psychology & Education

Argumentation for learning: What we know and what we need to know

Dr Christa Asterhan, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building).

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Statistical challenges posed by the analyses of the human microbiome

Susan Holmes (Stanford).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

The Effects of multi-language experience on cognitive development from early infancy to old age: a developmental approach

Dr Roberto Fillipi, UCL.

Room B3, Institute of Criminology.

Monday 08 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Do we control language or does language control us?

Professor Guillaume Thierry, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales..

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

The Bouncy Particle Sampler

Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (UBC).

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

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Using smartphones to collect big data on English dialects

Adrian Leemann (Lancaster University).

GR06/7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 04 May 2017, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

I think, therefore I am: A combined cognitive-learning approach to adolescent anxiety, aches and pains.

Jennifer Lau (KCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

VO-OV alternations and information structure in North Sami

Tea and biscuits from 17.45

Kristine Bentzen, University of Tromsø.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 18:15-20:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Do changes in Subjective Probability Distributions reflect a Prediction Error driven learning process?

Jiri Cevora (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Empathy – from shared affect to self-other distinction

Professor 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.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Geometric aspects of Statistical Learning Theory

Shahar Mendelson (ANU).

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

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Participatory Creativity in Education: unpacking and problematising the whole process

Dr. Carlos Lage Gómez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S4.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Seeing and imitating: Neural and cognitive mechanisms of gaze and social interaction

Antonia Hamilton (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 15:30-17:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Situated Intelligent Interactive Systems

Zhou Yu, CMU, US.

Department of Engineering - James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Cross-lingual Learning 2.0

Anders Søgaard (University of Copenhagen).

GR06-7, English Faculty.

Thursday 27 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 13: Promoting Pedagogic Change and Cultivating Imagination: Demonstrating how Mediated Learning Environments Support Student Engagement in the Music Classroom

Dr Adena Portowitz, Givat Washington Academic College, Israel.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Handedness and speech: Investigating behavioural characteristics of hemispheric asymmetry

Jessica Hodgson (University of Nottingham).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Fake News

Ella McPherson, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge; John Naughton, Emeritus Professor of the Public Understanding of Technology, OU.

Room B4, Institute of Criminology.

Wednesday 26 April 2017, 12:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Finding Signals in Twitter with ML/NLP at Bloomberg

Minjie Xu - Bloomberg Software Engineer, Social Media Analytics.

LT1, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 25 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Semantic (Vector) Representations of Word Senses, Concepts and Entities and their Applications

Jose Camacho-Collados (Sapienza University of Rome).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 20 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 13 April 2017, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Functional neuromarkers for psychiatry

Dr Juri Kropotov Laboratory of Neurobiology of Action Programming at the Institute of the Human Brain .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 12 April 2017, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 9 - Representation Learning

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 11 April 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 8 - Autoencoders

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 04 April 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Scientific Paper Analysis: JST CREST Project of Big Data Application

Prof. Yuji Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Tuesday 28 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse.

Lecture Theatre 0, Department of Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

Friday 24 March 2017, 09:00-17:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 13: Articulated formation of the music teacher: Aspects related to sustainability

Dr Alda de Jesús Oliveira, Florida State University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 7 - Neural Turing Machines & Conditional Random Fields as RNNs

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 21 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

3rd Cambridge Symposium on Cognitive Approaches to Children’s Literature

Professor Karen Coats (Illinois State University), Professor Rosalind Ridley (University of Cambridge).

MAB G08/G09, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Saturday 18 March 2017, 09:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Observations from the Edge of Beauty

Mr Clive Wilkins, Artist in Residence, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 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

Professor Karen Coats (Illinois State University), Professor Rosalind Ridley (University of Cambridge).

Paston Brown Room, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Friday 17 March 2017, 09:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

A tale of one city: A sociophonetic study of 100+ years of Glaswegian vernacular

Prof Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow.

Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction

Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction

Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Mean Embeddings

Jiri Hron; Adam Scibior.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 16 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can deep, unsupervised models explain IT representations?/ Occluded object recognition in recurrent neural networks

Johannes Mehrer and Courtney Spoerer (CBSU) .

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Information Engineering Division seminar list

Bayesian Optimization for Probabilistic Programs

Tom Rainforth, University of Oxford.

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

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 6 - Recurrent Neural Networks

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Differentially Private Bayesian Learning

Dr Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 14 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Arbëresh linguistic archipelago: a natural laboratory of contact-induced variation and change

Borana Lushaj (Leiden University).

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Monday 13 March 2017, 17:15-19:00

Zangwill Club

Optimality and irrationality in human decision-making

Professor Christopher Summerfield, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 March 2017, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Discrete structures and prediction in Bayesian Nonparametrics

Igor Pruenster (Universita' Bocconi).

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

Friday 10 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Variational Inference for NLP

Yishu Miao, University of Oxford.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 10 March 2017, 12:00-13:00

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Control, inference and learning

Prof. dr. H.J. (Bert) Kappen (Radboud University Nijmegen).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Friday 10 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Children as Observational Filmmakers Childhood and Modernity: Indian Children’s Perspectives

Professor David MacDougall, Australian National University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

Friday 10 March 2017, 10:00-12:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

English dialects: geographical perceptions, language regard and listener reactions

Dr Chris Montgomery (University of Sheffield) .

GR05, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Social brain development in adolescence

Sarah Jane Blakemore (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differential Privacy

John Bradshaw; Alex Matthews.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Differential Privacy Tutorial

Alex Matthews and John Bradshaw, University of Cambridge.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 09 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Knowledge Base Population from Text and Graphs

Lucas Sterckx (University of Ghent).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 09 March 2017, 11:00-12:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 13: Challenges and Responsibilities in Popular Music Education: Pedagogies, Ethics and Authenticities

Gareth Dylan Smith, Institute of Contemporary Music Performance.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

New evidence for autobiographical memory-based intervention into depression

Caitlin Hitchcock (CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Psychology & Education

Epistemic Cognition - conceptions of knowledge in action

Professor Kirsti Lonka, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building).

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise

PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE OF SPEAKER THIS WEEK

Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Department of Psychology, City, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 March 2017, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Hierarchical Word and Sentence Representations

Dani Yogatama, DeepMind.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 03 March 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

The (socio)linguistics of Cypriot Greek as a heritage language in present-day London

Dr Petros Karatsareas, University of Westminster.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it?

Essi Viding (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Can neurocognitive findings inform our understanding of disruptive behavior and what to do with it?

Essi Viding (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 5 - ResNets and DenseNets

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 13:30-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Effect of prospective motion correction on fMRI data/ Task-positive activity in the task-negative default-mode network

Pei Huang and Verity Smith (CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 01 March 2017, 12:30-13:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Assessing complexity: A cultural historical activity theory analysis.

Dr Vicki Thorpe, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS1.

Tuesday 28 February 2017, 16:00-17:30

Second Language Education Group

Cross-linguistic Transfer of Learning Strategies between First and Foreign Language Classroom Contexts: Making a Case for a Multilingual Approach to Writing Pedagogy

Dr Karen Forbes, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 27 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems and the Challenges for Machine Learning

Professor Steve Young, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Department of Engineering - Lecture Theater 2 (Inglis Building).

Monday 27 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

EACL potpourri

NLIP PhDs and postdocs.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Title to be confirmed

Professor Hedde Jeijlstra (University of Göttingen) .

Lecture Block room 4, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Dylan Hadfield-Menell, UC Berkeley.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 4 - Convolutional Networks

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 23 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Computational approaches for deciphering the regulation of cancer genomes

Shamith Samarajiwa.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 23 February 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The revival of Italo-Greek: language ideologies and folklorization

Maria Olimpia Squillaci (University of Cambridge) and Manuela Pellegrino (Brunel University).

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 18:15-19:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

We need to talk about social reward: Associations between psychopathic traits and social reward

Lucy Foulkes (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

The Underpass: Urban Experience in Swedish Young Adult Literature 1890–2010

Lydia Wistisen, Stockholm University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS4.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

The summative assessment of individuals’ contributions to collaborative creative processes: Where angels fear to tread?

Dr Vicki Thorpe, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS1.

Tuesday 21 February 2017, 16:00-17:30

Zangwill Club

Value and confidence signals in the human brain - implications for decision making?

Professor Mathias Pessiglione, Motivation, Brain & Behavior lab Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 17 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

High frequency statistics of semimartingales

Mark Podolskij (Aarhus).

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

Friday 17 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Numerics

Alessandro Davide Ialongo (MLG - University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Ekaterina Shutova.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 16 February 2017, 11:00-12:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Using Stories in Speech and Language Therapy for Individuals who have Social Communication Needs

Dr Jenny Gibson, Faculty of Education.

MAB 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Wednesday 15 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 3 - Optimization

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 14 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

Zangwill Club

Learning to learn: lessons from action video games

Professor Daphne Bavelier, University of Geneva.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 10 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Simultaneous multiple change-point and factor analysis for high-dimensional time series

Haeran Cho (Bristol).

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

Friday 10 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Imitation learning for language generation from unaligned data

Gerasimos Lampouras, University of Sheffield.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 10 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian optimisation in many dimensions with bespoke probabilistic programs

Valentin Dalibart.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 February 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Canonical morphological complexity: a balancing act between lexicon and grammar

Professor Dustan Brown (University of York).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Confidence and adaptive decision making

Nick Yeung (Oxford).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 15:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Challenges and opportunities in the use of Internet data for insights on medicine

Elad Yom-Tov (Microsoft Research).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 09 February 2017, 11:00-12:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 13: Conceptualising Music Education for Social Inclusion

Dr Oscar Odena, University of Glasgow.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Do PANIC! Hearing Research at the CBU

Bob Carlyon (CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Sons and Mothers – The Story of Hare, Elephant and their Mothers: A Kristevan Reading

Dr Dominica Dipio, Makerere University, Uganda.

MAB 106, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 2 - Regularization

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 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

Professor Matteo Carandini, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 03 February 2017, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Sleeping Beauty’s Credences

Mark Schervisch (CMU).

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

Friday 03 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Notes on the verbal domain in Meadow Mari

Dr Diane Nelson, University of Leeds.

GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Vision, decision and navigation in mouse parietal cortex

Matteo Carandini (UCL).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 02 February 2017, 15:30-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Training working memory is learning to do something new

Sue Gathercole (CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 01 February 2017, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 1 - Deep Feedforward NNs

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 31 January 2017, 13:30-15:00

Second Language Education Group

On the Margins: Slovak Roma Children Negotiating Language and Education in Sheffield

Dr Mark Payne, University of Sheffield.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 30 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

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

Daniel J, Levitin PhD, Minerva Schools at Keck Graduate Institute and University of California at Berkeley.

Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Friday 27 January 2017, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The discriminative nature of human communication

Dr Michael Ramscar (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury

Alan Carson (Edinburgh).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury

Alan Carson (Edinburgh).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 26 January 2017, 15:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Learning to Generate Textual Data

Pontus Stenetorp (UCL).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 26 January 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The hidden multilingualism of Italy: issues and challenges

Dr. Marco Tamburelli, Prifysgol Bangor/Bangor University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 18:15-19:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational Bayes In Private Settings

Mijung Park, University of Amsterdam.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Unitization effects on memory

Roni Tibon (CBSU).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Julia: Introduction and new developments

Dr Simon Byrne (Julia Computing).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

High-Dimensional Bayesian Geostatistics

Sudipto Banerjee (UCLA).

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

Monday 23 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Assessing the role of cross modal information in high level perception: enhancements and constraints.

Professor Fiona Newell, School of Psychology and Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin..

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 January 2017, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Commonsense Event Schemas from Unlabeled Text

Nate Chambers, US Naval Academy.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 20 January 2017, 12:00-13:00

Second Language Education Group

Cognitive Discourse Functions as joint concern in language and content pedagogy

Professor Christiane Dalton-Puffer, University of Vienna.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Morphological characteristics of Medieval Code Switching

Dr Mareike Keller (University of Manheim).

GR06/07, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS 2016 papers in 5mins

MLG members.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 19 January 2017, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Reflections on Universal Dependencies

Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University).

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 19 January 2017, 11:00-12:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Microscopes, telescopes or kaleidoscopes? Using digital quantitative methods to explore patterns and textures in a literary corpus

Julie Blake, University of Cambridge.

MAB 106, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding

Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding

Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 18 January 2017, 12:30-13:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Real Readers Reading: Child studies and children's literature in a settler society: Collaborating with Indigenous communities across disciplines in Southern Alberta

Dr Kristine Alexander and Dr Erin Spring, Lethbridge University, Alberta.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 1S3.

Monday 16 January 2017, 16:00-18:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

SR-24, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 12 January 2017, 11:00-12:00

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

Dr Rosalind Ridley.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian optimality and frequentist extended admissibility are equivalent in saturated models

Daniel Roy (University of Toronto).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 15 December 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Communicative Actions for Human-Robot Collaboration

Elena Corina Grigore (Yale University).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 14 December 2016, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational autoencoders with latent graphical models

Prof David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 13 December 2016, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Cross-sensory integration and calibration during development

Professor David Burr, Department of Psychology, University of Florence. .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 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/)

Bruna Franchetto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Monday 05 December 2016, 17:15-19:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

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/)

Bruna Franchetto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro).

GR06/7 English Faculty.

Monday 05 December 2016, 17:15-19:00

Zangwill Club

Structured sequences, language evolution and the primate brain

Prof. Christopher I. Petkov, Laboratory of Comparative Neuropsychology, Newcastle University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 02 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Gaussian vectors, half-spaces, and convexity

Joe Neeman (UT Austin & Bonn).

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

Friday 02 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar pt. 2

PhD students, NLIP group.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 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

Professor Maria Tatar, The John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Harvard University. .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Misreading and language change: a foray into cognitive historical linguistics?

Sylvia Adamson (University of Sheffield, University of Cambridge).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 01 December 2016, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

On sensing what is not there

Andrew Welchman, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Symmetry in Statistical Models

Mark Rowland; Maria Lomeli.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning with limited supervision

Stefano Ermon, Stanford.

CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 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’

Dr Ioanna Sitaridou, Felipe Schuery, Prof. Stavroula Tsiplakou, Prof. Matilde V. R. Scaramucci, Prof. João Costa, Aretousa Giannakou .

Bowett Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK.

Saturday 26 November 2016, 11:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Visceral inputs, brain dynamics and subjectivity

Professor Catharine Tallon-Baudry, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Measuring sample quality with diffusions

Sebastian Vollmer (Oxford).

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

Friday 25 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

On-line Active Reward Learning for Policy Optimisation in Spoken Dialogue Systems

Pei-Hao Su (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Creole Language and its Relationship to Regional French in Louisiana

Thomas A. Klingler, Tulane University.

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

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

Thomas A. Klingler, Tulane University.

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

Chaucer Club

Are we any closer to understanding and treating tinnitus?

David Baguley, University of Nottingham.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Optimization

Pawel Budzianowiski; Brian Trippe.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A tale of P-matrices and TripleSpinners - the unreasonable effectiveness of structured models in nonlinear embeddings

Krzysztof Choromanski, Google NY.

CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Sensing well-being using heterogeneous smartphone data and stance identification in social media conversations

Maria Liakata (Warwick University).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 24 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Indo-European Seminar

Being non-binary: gender assignment in Old High German

Tea served from 4.15

Sheila Watts.

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Social rank processing in depression

Jason Stretton, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

‘Arts-based’ and ‘STEAMed’ research approaches: Intersections of interdisciplinary research with visual and performing intercultural arts practices

Professor Pamela Burnard, Faculty of Education.

Paston Brown Room, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 18:00-19:00

A feast of languages: multilingualism in neuro-typical and atypical populations

Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge.

Auditorium, Fitzwilliam College.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 17:30-19:30

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

A Patterned Past? Framing and keying in history textbooks

Tina van der Vlies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS4.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Psychology & Education

Conceptualising, Adapting and Measuring Young People’s Wellbeing in Secondary Schools in Kazakhstan

Dr. Ros McLellan Dr. Liz Winter & Dr.Eva Brown Hajdukova,Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Dr. Daniel Torrano, Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room 1S3 Donald McIntyre Building).

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Rejection Sampling Variational Inference

Francisco J. R. Ruiz (Columbia University & University of Cambridge).

CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

Second Language Education Group

Language Development and School Achievement of EAL Students: EALead Project II

EALead Project Team, University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 21 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series

Prof. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA, Director, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Principal Nested Shape Space Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Data

Ian Dryden (Nottingham).

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

Friday 18 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning to Detect Stance and Represent Emojis

Isabelle Augenstein, University College London.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 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

Simon Fisher (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen).

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Does natural language understanding have anything to do with understanding natural language?

Registration is required for this event

Ann Copestake.

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 16:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

How attention and sound quality affect how well we understand and remember speech

Ingrid Johnsrude, University of Western Ontario.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster session II

Registration is required for this event

Various.

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 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

Nigel Collier & Anna Korhonen.

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 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

Lorraine K. Tyler.

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

deep generative models

Dave Janz; James Requeima.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster session I

Registration is required for this event

Various.

The Old Library, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:30-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Industrial NLP Applications of Machine Learning in Different Domains

Jochen Leidner (Thomson Reuters).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 17 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic Numerical Computation: A New Concept?

Prof. Mark Girolami (University of Warwick).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Towards a 300 Year History of Horror Literature for Children: A Swedish Survey with European Examples.

Mattias Fyhr, Jönköping University.

Mary Allan Building 106, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

Orthography, <ει>? Spellings in Papyri, Uncials, and Tyndale House’s *The New Testament in its Original Greek*

Patrick James (Cambridge).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Imaging the dynamic nature of emotional memory

Renee Visser, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Awakening Dreaming Beauties: Language Reclamation and Social Wellbeing

Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, University of Adelaide.

Nightingale Room, Peterhouse.

Monday 14 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

Zangwill Club

The radical plasticity thesis: Consciousness as learned metacognition

Axel Cleeremans, Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Short Course: Lecture 2 - Sample Covariance Operators: Normal Approximation and Concentration

Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech..

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

Friday 11 November 2016, 14:00-16:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Recommending relevant citations using CoreSC and Argumentative Zoning

Daniel Duma, University of Edinburgh.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 11 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Intelligent hearing tests using Gaussian Processes

Richard Turner, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sketching methods

John Bradshaw.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Monolingual and multilingual, explicit and latent vector representations of meaning

Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 10 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Open Source for NLP

Open Source and NLP

A special one day workshop.

Ann Copestake (Cambridge), Aurelie Herbelot (Trento), Diana Maynard (Sheffield), Behrang QasemiZadeh (Düsseldorf), Nandaja Varma, Esther Seyffarth (Düsseldorf), Hrishikesh K.B. (Swathanthra Malayalam Computing).

Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 09:00-17:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Researching reading spaces

Faculty of Education doctoral students.

Mary Allan Building 118, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 17:30-19:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Citizens or Subjects? El Sistema in Critical Perspective

Dr. Geoff Baker, University of London.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

Indo-European and Iranian layers of Armenian vocabulary: the case of month names

Tea served from 4.15

Hrach Martirosyan (Vienna).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Web search in an AI world: small, cute, distributed.

Dr Aurelie Herbelot - University of Trento.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 16:15-17:15

Statistics

Short Course: Lecture 1 - Sample Covariance Operators: Normal Approximation and Concentration

Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech..

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

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 14:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Predicting the future: the role of the cerebellum and the basal ganglia

Franziska Knolle, Cambridge University.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Amazon Alexa: building AI at scale

David Hardcastle, Senior Manager, Software Development, Amazon.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 13:15-14:15

Second Language Education Group

Lexical Patterns of Austerity in UK Broadsheet Text 2007-15

Dr Mike Scott, Aston University and Lexical Analysis Software Ltd..

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 07 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

A talk in two parts: (1) AI Neuroscience: How much do deep neural networks understand about the images they classify? (2) Robots that can adapt like animals.

Note venue: James Dyson Building

Prof. Jeff Clune (U Wyoming).

Dyson Meeting Room on the Ground Floor.

Monday 07 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Using non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) to interact with brain activity and associated functions: brain oscillations as promising targets?

Professor Gregor Thut, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 04 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Constrained and Localized Nonparametric Estimation and Optimization

John Lafferty (U of Chicago).

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

Friday 04 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Creativity and discourse strategies in recent Spanish social protest movements

Manuela Romano Mozo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid).

GR06/7 English Faculty.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Storing and updating models of the world for behavioural control

Tim Behrens, Oxford.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A crash-course on Bayesian Reinforcement Learning

Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Biomedical Text Mining: Structuring the Unstructured

David Milward (Linguamatics).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 03 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Multi-view Anomaly Detection via Robust Probabilistic Latent Variable Models

Tomoharu Iwata - Learning and Intelligent Systems Research Group of NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.

CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Where the episode ends: hippocampal encoding of naturalistic events is time-locked to event offset

Aya Ben Yakov, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robots learning on the move: deep learning from lots of demonstration

Dushyant Rao, Oxford Robotics Institute.

CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Psychology & Education

Dynamic literacies and agentive learners in static systems

Dr John Potter Department of Culture, Communication and Media University College London Knowledge Lab UCL Institute of Education.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room GS4 Donald McIntyre Building).

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Investigating the interdependencies between DNN architectures and optimisation methods for Large Vocabulary Speech Continuous Speech Recognition

Adnan Haider, University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering - LR3A.

Monday 31 October 2016, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Learning, sleep and memory consolidation. Behavioural and magnetoencephalographic investigations

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.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Normal Approximation and Concentration for Functions of Sample Covariance Operators

Vladimir Koltchinskii (Georgia Tech).

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

Friday 28 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Advancing Creativities Research: Making Connections across Diverse Settings

BERA Special Interest Group: Creativity In Education.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5.

Friday 28 October 2016, 10:00-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

User-generated content mining: From collective disease rates to individual demographics

Vasileios Lampos (UCL).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 27 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Assessment Policy and Music Education: Perspectives from North America

Dr. Glenn Nierman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS3.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction and The Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian Hypothesis

Tea served from 4.15

Juliette Blevins (Graduate Center, CUNY).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge-Africa Programme

2016 Cambridge-Africa Day

Drinks reception with live music, from 17:00-18:45

A range of interesting and high profile presentations about collaborations between Cambridge and African researchers and students.

Emmanuel College, Queen's Building Auditorium.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 09:30-17:00

Second Language Education Group

The Value of Languages: Towards a UK Strategy for Languages

Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett, University of Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, Room 1S3.

Monday 24 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Nursing Turing's Child: How to Grow Communication-based Intelligent Machines

Marco Baroni (University of Trento/Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research).

GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Monday 24 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

Zangwill Club

See what you hear - Constructing a representation of the world across the senses -

Professor Uta Noppeney, Department of Psychology and Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre, University of Birmingham, UK.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 21 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Minimax adaptive estimation in nonparametric Hidden Markov Models

Yohann de Castro (Paris Sud - Orsay).

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

Friday 21 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Numerically Grounded Language Models

George Spithourakis (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 21 October 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

The origins of speech and anti-rhythms

Laurence White (Plymouth University).

GR06/7 English Faculty.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Single neuron evidence of model-based and model-free reinforcement learning

Steve Kennerley, UCL.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Building and using the Finnish Internet Parsebank

Filip Ginter (University of Turku).

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 20 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic modeling for position and orientation estimation using inertial sensors

Manon Kok, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University.

CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 10:00-11:00

Pedagogy, Language, Arts & Culture in Education (PLACE) Group Seminars

Collaborative and dialogic meaning-making: how children engage and immerse in a digital storyworld

Fiona Maine, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Mary Allan Building 118, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Psychopathology and plasticity of the social brain: From emotion regulation to empathy and theory of mind

Philipp Kanske, Max Planck Institute.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Visual Attention Without Visual Awareness

Professor Robert Kentridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 14 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Community Detection on the Weighted Stochastic Block Model

Min Xu (U Penn).

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

Friday 14 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar pt. 1

NLIP Postdocs and PhDs.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 14 October 2016, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Adaptive memory and its temporal dynamics

Maria Wimber, Birmingham University.

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Internal LTL meeting

Speaker to be confirmed.

GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 13 October 2016, 11:00-12:00