Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Chaucer Club

Efficient coding of a complex goal-directed behaviour in mouse medial frontal cortex

Thomas Akam (U. of Oxford) .

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

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Mechanistic Understanding of Language Models in Arithmetic Reasoning and Code Generation

Ziyu Yao, George Mason University.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

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

Andy Lin.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

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

Andy Lin.

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

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

Zangwill Club

From Neural Criterial Causation to a Premotor Theory of Human Imagination

The host for this talk is Tristan Bekinschtein

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Posterior sampling via autoregressive generation

Kelly Zhang (Imperial College London).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

The Past, Present and Future of Tokenization

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

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

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

Chaucer Club

Special seminar: Topics on diversity, equality and inclusion in Neuroscience - Cryptocolonial psychology: Echoes of the past that shape cognitive research today

Akira O’Connor (University of St Andrews) .

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

Thursday 28 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Data Repurposing: Improving LLM Capabilities with Synthetic Data Generation

Abdullatif Köksal, LMU Munich.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Thursday 28 November 2024, 11:00-12:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

LLMs and Low-Resource Languages

Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU).

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site and online https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97599459216?pwd=QTRsOWZCOXRTREVnbTJBdXVpOXFvdz09.

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Elementary Introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers

Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 27 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Controlling Behavioral Diversity in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Matteo Bettini (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Deconstruction of the social brain

The host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Change point estimation for a stochastic heat equation

Lukas Trottner (University of Birmingham).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Scansion-based Lyric Generation

Yiwen Chen (University of Cambridge).

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

Friday 22 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models

Heng Ji, UIUC.

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

Thursday 21 November 2024, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Reactivation in the human brain connects the past with the present

Avital Hahamy (University College London) .

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

Thursday 21 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Sampling Using Annealed Algorithms

Saifuddin Syed (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 20 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Bias Mitigation in the Wild: Challenges and Opportunities

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Entropy contraction of the Gibbs sampler under log-concavity

Giacomo Zanella (Bocconi University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Linguistics in the Age of Large Language Models.

Janet B. Pierrehumbert, University of Oxford.

SS03 and Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 15 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Be still my churning stomach: The function and development of neurogastric interactions in the emotion of disgust

Edwin Dalmaijer (U. of Bristol).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Are we making progress in unlearning? 

Eleni Triantafillou (Google DeepMind).

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

Wednesday 13 November 2024, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them

Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Vector Quantization in Deep Neural Networks for Speech and Image Processing

Mohammad Vali, Aalto University, Finland.

Online only: Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89623597387?pwd=PalnRtu2be5cw3aGReM6EyvfcMrcly.1.

Monday 11 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Intergenerational transmission of neurodevelopmental and psychiatric traits and conditions

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Dr Laurie Hannigan, Lovisenberg Diakonale Hospital, Norway.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Sharp and Robust Estimation of Partially Identified Discrete Response Models

Tatiana Komarova (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

10 Slides on Human Feedback

Max Bartolo (Cohere).

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

Friday 08 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Subtleties about Pre-Training Data: Imbalance and Staleness

Daniel Khashabi, Johns Hopkins University.

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

Thursday 07 November 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Gradients of thalamocortical connectivity

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

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them

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

Pietro Lesci, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Paying Attention to Efficiency: LLM Deployment on Mobile and Edge Devices

Stefanos Laskaridis, Brave Software.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

The Atomic Human

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Skew-symmetric schemes for stochastic differential equations with non-Lipschitz drift: an unadjusted Barker algorithm

Sam Livingstone (UCL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 01 November 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Adaptive Tokenization and Memory in Foundation Models

Edoardo Maria Ponti (University of Edinburgh).

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

Friday 01 November 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Pluralistic Alignment through Personalized Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Natasha Jaques, University of Washington.

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

Thursday 31 October 2024, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

Balancing predictive and reactive control in next generation bioelectronic systems: towards “circadian-aware” neuromodulation for neurological conditions

Tim Denison (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 31 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Linear Attention for Efficient Transformers

Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 30 October 2024, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Larysa Zasiekina

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Valid Heteroskedasticity Robust Testing

Benedikt Pötscher (University of Vienna).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Language Modelling with Phonemes

Zebulon Youra Goriely (University of Cambridge).

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

Friday 25 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

LLM Generalization in Social Context

Diyi Yang, Stanford University.

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

Thursday 24 October 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Outsourcing cognition to the external environment: Cognitive offloading, value-based decision making, and metacognition

Sam Gilbert (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience).

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

Thursday 24 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

SummaryMixing: A Linear-Time Attention Alternative

Shucong Zhang, Samsung AI Center.

Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87165608116?pwd=llCLiWvBAfOR7RtealbVtVbjXruh3O.1.

Monday 21 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

On optimal treatment regimes assisted by algorithms

Mats Stensrud (EPFL).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 18 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Truth conditions at scale, and beyond

Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge).

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

Friday 18 October 2024, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

The remembering and forgetting of complex episodic events

Adrian Horner (U. of York) .

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

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Specializing LLMs for Factuality and Soft Reasoning

Greg Durrett, UT Austin.

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

Thursday 17 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Visual Perspective Biases Autobiographical Remembering

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Distributional learning: from methodology to applications

Xinwei Shen (ETH Zurich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 11 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NLIP 2024 Social: Meet New PhD Students

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

SS03 and on Zoom, link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

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

Chaucer Club

Integrating approaches to semantic memory and cognitive control

Tim Rogers (Madison-Wisconsin/ MRC CBU) .

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

Thursday 10 October 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Ten Years of Universal Dependencies

Joakim Nivre, Uppsala University and RISE.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

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

Statistics

Treatment Effects in Market Equilibrium

Stefan Wager (Stanford University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Controlling and Muting Whisper: Universal Acoustic Adversarial Attacks on Speech Foundation Models

Vyas Raina.

Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81208506346?pwd=htfSCSr9PDFluWw7fJirGOM6c7EbTK.1.

Monday 19 August 2024, 12:00-13:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Towards Improving End-to-End Neural Diarization

Dr Federico Landini, Brno University of Technology.

Hybrid: JDB Seminar Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88498768580?pwd=1zjqKCU8AiRcd7ZR6SXBTjc0ScElsc.1.

Tuesday 06 August 2024, 12:00-13:00

Robotics Seminar Series

Reinforcement Learning and Learning-guided Search for Generalizability for Multi-agent Mobility Systems

Cathy Wu, MIT.

Department of Computer Science and technology, FW26.

Thursday 18 July 2024, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge ML Systems Seminar Series

Navigating Privacy Risks in Language Models

Peter Kairouz -- Google.

West 2, West Hub (https://www.westcambridgehub.uk/visit).

Tuesday 16 July 2024, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Task Alignment

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

Vihari Piratla, University of Cambridge.

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

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Towards understanding the performance of individuals within automatic speaker recognition systems

Vincent Hughes, University of York.

Zoom only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89860790207?pwd=sbErkKGhMwBJhyJcmlJ1jcQml5oTd4.1.

Monday 24 June 2024, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The tradeoff governing efficient language model architectures

Sabri Eyuboglu, Stanford University.

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

Friday 14 June 2024, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Nonparametric classification with missing data

Tim Cannings, University of Edinburgh.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Can Sparsity Lead to Efficient LLMs?

Shiwei Liu, University of Oxford.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis

Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis

Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Application of the optimal transport Gromov-Wasserstein problem to manifold learning and graph analysis

Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Evaluating Large Language Models as Model Systems for Language

Carina Kauf, MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88532356932?pwd=IVo8GI7wBssnObu7in3aNXBjwufHnJ.1.

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

Statistics

Oja's algorithm for sparse PCA

Purnamrita Sarkar, University of Texas, Austin.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Generative AI for Science

James Zou, Stanford University.

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

Thursday 06 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

The role of reward in language learning

Saloni Krishnan (Royal Holloway).

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

Thursday 06 June 2024, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

The evolution of Alzheimer’s disease in the aging brain

Bill Jagust (UC Berkeley).

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

Monday 03 June 2024, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Learning with latent symmetries

Subhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Friday 31 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

The problem with mental health awareness

Lucy Foulkes (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 30 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Practical and Specialised NLP Solutions: The Case of Social Media

Jose Camacho Collados, Cardiff University.

Faculty of English, Room SR24.

Thursday 30 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Light Introduction to Topological Data Analysis

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

Tim Hargreaves, Tor Fjelde, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Unveiling Causal Drivers of Non-Communicable Diseases with Interpretable Models

Sheresh Zahoor.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 24 May 2024, 17:15-18:00

Statistics

On Independent Samples along the Langevin Dynamics and Algorithm

Andre Wibisono, Yale University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Open-Endedness and General Intelligence

Tim Rocktäschel, University College London .

FW26, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Leveraging AI for Breakthroughs in Genomic Research

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

Mike Sikic, Genome Institute of Singapore .

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Chaucer Club

How does the human brain recognize faces?

Bruno Rossion (U. of Lorraine).

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

Thursday 23 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Incremental Accumulation of Linguistic Context in Artificial and Biological Neural Networks

Refael Tikochinski, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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

Thursday 23 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

The Cognitive Biology of Language

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

Professor Johan Bolhuis, Utrecht University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

On optimal ranking in crowd-sourcing problems in several scenarios

Alexandra Carpentier, University of Potsdam.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

The intersection of Interpretability and Fairness

Giuseppe Attanasio, Milan NLP.

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 17 May 2024, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Sleep to forget unwanted memories

Scott Cairney (U. of York).

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

Thursday 16 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Data Selection for Pre-training and Instruction-tuning of LLMs

Danqi Chen, Princeton University.

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

Thursday 16 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Effect of room acoustics on speech intelligibility under noise between native and non-native listeners

Dr Yusuke Hioka, University of Auckland.

Zoom only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/82427061964?pwd=UE15aHJKSlZDQ0tobktJWEV3K25rUT09 .

Monday 13 May 2024, 10:00-11:00

Zangwill Club

Translational neuroimaging studies of addiction and other stress-related disorders

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Automated Fact-Checking of Climate Change Claims with Large Language Models

Dominik Stammbach, ETH Zurich.

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

Friday 10 May 2024, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Learning and memory in developmental amnesia 

Rachael Elward (London South Bank University).

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

Thursday 09 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

"What it can create, it may not understand" Studying the Limits of Transformers.

Nouha Dziri, Allen Institute for AI.

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

Thursday 09 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Neurocognitive ageing within the Lothian Birth Cohorts

Dr Simon Cox, Psychology Department, University of Edinburgh.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Rates of convergence for tensor denoising

Sara van de Geer, ETH Zürich.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Chaucer Club

Paranoia: My life understanding and treating extreme mistrust

Dan Freeman (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 02 May 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Language modelling for the sake of language modelling

Nikos Aletras, University of Sheffield.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 May 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Mean Field Theory of NNs

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

Adrian Goldwaser, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

The UK AI Safety Institute

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

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Statistics

Spatial causal inference in the presence of unmeasured confounding and interference

Georgia Padadogeorgou, University of Florida.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Face Learning in People with Developmental Prosopagnosia and “Super-Recognisers"

Professor Sarah Bate (Bournemouth University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 April 2024, 12:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

SS03, William Gates Building. .

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Large language models for enabling constructive online conversations

Kristina Gligorić, Stanford University.

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

Thursday 25 April 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Early phase neuroplasticity induced by transcranial ultrasound stimulation

Elsa Fouragnan (U. of Plymouth).

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

Thursday 25 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

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

Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

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

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

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

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning for Audio and Speech Processing

Umberto Cappellazzo, University of Trento.

Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86036389828?pwd=U0dsWis2alp4K0tORHpZa3MrSXZXdz09.

Monday 22 April 2024, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Quantitative Uniform Stability of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure

George Degliannidis, University of Oxford.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Control

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

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural likelihood-free inference

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

Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge.

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

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Speaker Retrieval in the Wild: Challenges, Effectiveness and Robustness

Erfan Loweimi, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Zoom only: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86177109545?pwd=TmE1YlgzNWJKdGJQa1NQdk1kNS9zQT09.

Monday 18 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Misinformation: Will it get better or worse and what can we do about it?

Mevan Babakar, Google .

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 15 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Stimulating speech: auditory-motor interactions during perception and production

Kate Watkins (U. of Oxford) .

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

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Inverting Language Models

Alexander (Sasha) Rush, Cornell and Hugging Face.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method

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

Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Statistics

Concentration and Free Probability

Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

TacticAI: an AI assistant for football tactics

Zhe Wang (DeepMind).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Trevor Robbins

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Comparative Questions and Retrieving Argumentative Answers

Alexander Bondarenko, University of Leipzig .

Computer Lab, SS03.

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

Chaucer Club

Restoring communication with intracortical brain-computer interfaces

Jaimie Henderson (Stanford University).

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

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Large Language Models in Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges

Mark Dredze, Johns Hopkins University.

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

Thursday 07 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

POSTPONED

POSTPONED. Sorry for inconvenience.

Prof. Tom Chittenden (BioAI Health & QMUL).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Statistics

Barycentric subspace analysis for sets of unlabeled graphs

Anna Calissano (Imperial College).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Zangwill Club

Psychological Inoculation Against Misinformation

Sander van der Linden, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

LLMs: Everything’s Different and Nothing Has Changed

Emma Strubell, CMU.

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 01 March 2024, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Consolidation of memory and model-based planning

Neil Burgess (UCL.

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

Thursday 29 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

What do sentence transformers know, and how can we find out?

Sebastian Pado, Stuttgart University.

GR06/07 | Faculty of English, 9 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

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

Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Cortical interneurons in health and disease.

The host for this talk is Jeff Dalley

Professor Oscar Marín, King's College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial Settings

David Burt, MIT.

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

Friday 23 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Integrating Combinatorial Solvers and Neural Models

Pasquale Minervi, University of Edinburgh.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 23 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Mind Hacking – How magicians exploit psychological biases and limitations

Gustav Kuhn (U. of Plymouth).

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

Thursday 22 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Making Better Use of (Large) Language and Translation Models with Simple Inference Improvements.

Rico Sennrich, University of Zurich.

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

Thursday 22 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks

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

James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

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

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

End-to-end contextual speech recognition with Tree-constrained pointer generator

Brian Sun, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/85153166972?pwd=bkgzN0lKejBjQ1BFSVVRbDAvbUdmUT09.

Monday 19 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Compressed sensing for the sparse Radon transform

Giovanni Alberti (University of Genova).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Scaling Multilingual Generation for Low-Resource Languages

Priyanka Agrawal, Google Deepmind.

Computer Lab, SS03.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Prosocial Language Models

Soroush Vosoughi, Dartmouth College.

GR06/07 | Faculty of English, 9 West Road, CB3 9DP.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning to Receive Help: Intervention-Aware Concept Embedding Models

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Alex Kwong, University of Edinburgh.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Robust density estimation and model selection for the L1 loss : Applications to shape-constrained density estimation.

Hélène Halconruy (Télécom SudParis).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Employing Psycholinguistics to Understand Decoding in Probabilistic Language Generators

Clara Meister, ETH Zurich.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 09 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Understanding LLMs via their Generative Successes and Shortcomings.

Swabha Swayamdipta, University of Southern California.

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

Thursday 08 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive mechanisms of antidepressant drug action; from established treatments to novel developments

Cath Harmer (U. of Oxford) .

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

Thursday 08 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian coresets

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

Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Towards Learning-Powered Networked Systems

Michael Schapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

When Art meets Psychology

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Prof. Clive Wilkins.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

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

Marco Avella Medina (Columbia University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

This talk is cancelled - Modeling Cognitive Complexity in NLP

Lisa Beinborn, VU Amsterdam.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09..

Friday 02 February 2024, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Towards early identification and prevention of child mental health problems

Anna Moore (UoC, Dept of Psychiatry) .

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

Thursday 01 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Geographically Grounded Language Models

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Thursday 01 February 2024, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Text-and-audio methods

Catalina Cangea (Google DeepMind).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

“End-to-end multi-speaker neural TTS with LLM-based prosody prediction”

Penny Karanasou, Amazon R&D.

Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/87012963681?pwd=bXRwNis2SW93aHhxUndScnp2MUVTQT09.

Monday 29 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

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

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

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Zangwill Club

What Cephalopods Might Reveal About the Evolution of Cognition

The host for this talk is Clive Wilkins

Nicky Clayton (Psychology Department, Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Revisiting the Optimality of Word Lengths

Tiago Pimentel.

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 26 January 2024, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Replicating and auditing black-box Language Models.

Tatsunori Hashimoto.

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

Thursday 25 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The finger of blame in depression and the brain

Roland Zahn (KCL).

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

Thursday 25 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Accelerating Generative AI on Custom Hardware Accelerators - Challenges and Opportunities

Partha Maji (Tenstorrent).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Non-asymptotic control of a kernel 2-sample test

Perrine Lacroix (ENS Lyon).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Faster Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Confidence-based Pruning

Julius Cheng (University of Cambridge).

Computer Lab, SS03.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness?

He He, New York University.

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

Thursday 18 January 2024, 15:00-16:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Can Language Models Learn Truthfulness?

He He, New York University.

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

Thursday 18 January 2024, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Developmental brain plasticity: a few insights from stroke and epilepsy in children

Torsten Baldeweg (UCL).

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

Thursday 18 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Vibe checks and red teaming: why ML researchers are increasingly reverting to manual evaluation

Arduin Findeis (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 16 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

The entangled brain: Integration of emotion, motivation, and cognition

Dr Luiz Pessoa (U. of Maryland).

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

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

The effort paradox: Why labour is loathed and loved

Michael Inzlicht (U. of Toronto).

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

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 12:45-13:45

CUED Speech Group Seminars

The applications of discrete speech tokens for robust and context-aware text-to-speech synthesis

Chenpeng Du.

In-person for Cambridge University members only: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department.

Monday 11 December 2023, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Challenges and future directions in cochlear implants

Ruth Litovsky (U. of Wisconsin – Madison).

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

Thursday 07 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Fairness Evaluation in Generative NLP

Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant (Cohere).

Computer Lab, SS03.

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

Zangwill Club

Pathways forward from psychiatric genetics

The host for this talk is Varun Warrier

Naomi Wray, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Assessing the Social Capacity of Large Language Models

David Jurgens, University of Michigan.

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

Thursday 30 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Disruptive behaviour disorders: The poor cousin of children and young people’s mental health research

Essi Viding (UCL) .

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

Thursday 30 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

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

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

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Modern Bayesian Experimental Design

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

How Electrophysiological Rhythms Shape Language

The host for this talk is Kanad Mandke

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Data Science

Zhigang Yao (National University of Singapore).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficiency by Construction

Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin (University of Cambridge).

Computer Lab, SS03.

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

Chaucer Club

Cognitive-computational mechanisms in psychotherapy

Quentin Huys (UCL).

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

Thursday 23 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

A sanity check on emergent properties

Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen.

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

Thursday 23 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

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

Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Deep screening of RNA, XNA and protein interactions

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

Philipp Holliger (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Hybrid Multi-Modal Fusion for Heterogeneous Biomedical Data

Konstantin Hemker (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Entropic optimal transport: stability, limit theorems, and algorithms

Kengo Kato (Cornell University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Chaucer Club

Joint Hypermobility: insights from bench to bedside

Jessica Eccles (Brighton and Sussex Medical School).

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

Thursday 16 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Language Understanding for the Political Sciences

Simone Paolo Ponzetto, University of Mannheim.

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

Thursday 16 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

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

Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

RetroBridge: Modeling Retrosynthesis with Markov Bridges

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

Arne Schneuing & Ilia Igashov (EPFL).

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

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Questioning Ideas in Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Learning

Guoxuan Xia (Imperial College London).

Hybrid: JDB Teaching Room, Engineering Department or Zoom: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tfuCvrDgjG9WNY52TL0qsu7PqO484Pad5.

Monday 13 November 2023, 12:00-13:00

Statistics

Nonparametric Statistics for SPDEs

Markus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Zangwill Club

The Prenatal Sex Steroid Theory of Autism

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Numerical Reasoning in Natural Language Processing

Nafise Moosavi (University of Sheffield).

Computer Lab, SS03.

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

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of domain-general inhibitory control

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

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

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

One Size Does Not Fit All: Towards AI For Everyone

Rada Mihalcea, University of Michigan.

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

Thursday 09 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Foundation AI

Multi-Agent Graph Learning-Based Optimization and its Applications to Computer Networks

Guillermo Bernárdez Gil, UPC Barcelona.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

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

Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Multi-Agent Simulation and Learning in TorchRL

Matteo Bettini (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Avoiding AI's "Moore's Law": Why we are building a ladder to the moon

Sara Hooker (Cohere For AI).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09.

Friday 03 November 2023, 15:00-16:00

Statistics

Frequency and cardinality recovery from sketched data: a novel approach bridging Bayesian and frequentist views

Stefano Favaro (University of Turin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Amy Milton

Dr Liat Levita, University of Sussex.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Chaucer Club

A mechanism for the flexibility of prefrontal cortex

Sanjay Manohar (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 02 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Unhumanizing Models. Why we Need to Change how We Think about AI

Dirk Hovy (Bocconi University in Milan, Italy).

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

Thursday 02 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

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

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

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

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

Statistics

Adaptive two-sample testing

Arthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Zangwill Club

Representation and computation in visual working memory

Professor Paul Bays, Department of Psychology, Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language Processing for Text-to-Speech Synthesis

Gleb Mazovetskiy (Google).

Computer Lab, SS03.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

ViLMA: A Zero-Shot Benchmark for Linguistic and Temporal Grounding in Video-Language Models

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Thursday 26 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

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

Spencer Frei, UC Davis.

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

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

Foundation AI

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

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

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

AbDiffuser: Full-Atom Generation of In Vitro Functioning Antibodies

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

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

Cortical gradients of functional integration

The host for this talk is Richard Bethlehem

Dr Daniel Margulies .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification

Ciara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Collaborative Pretraining on Evolving Pretraining and Small Manageable Tasks

Leshem Choshen (IBM AI research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/86071371348?pwd=OVlqdDhZNHlGbzV5RUZrSzM1cUlhUT09#success.

Friday 20 October 2023, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

How does the brain generate movement? A neural population view

Juan Alvaro Gallego (Imperial College).

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

Thursday 19 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

pf376's list

Learning disentangled representation for interpretable language model. / Interactive Narrative Understanding.

Lin Gui and Runcong Zhao, King's College London.

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

Thursday 19 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Quasi-Monte Carlo: structure in the randomness for better sampling

Isaac Reid, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

On Learning Latent Models with Multi-Instance Weak Supervision

Efi Tsamoura (Samsung AI, Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Title to be confirmed

The host for this talk is Paul Bays

Freek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amstersdam).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Zangwill Club

Internal selective attention under the microsaccade scope

The host for this talk is Paul Bays

Freek van Ede (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Orthogonal prediction of counterfactual outcomes

Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Bad Information with AI

David Corney (Full Fact).

Computer Lab, SS03.

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

Chaucer Club

When language typology meets dementia

Boon Lead Tee (UCSF) .

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

Thursday 12 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Decoding the neural processing of speech

The host for this talk is Usha Goswami

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts

Sinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Does Syntax Still Matter in the World of LLMs?

Miloš Stanojević (DeepMind).

Computer Laboratory, room SS03.

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

Chaucer Club

Importance of studying cognitive ageing in everyday life: Findings from diary studies of everyday memory failures

Lia Kvavilashvili (U. of Hertfordshire) .

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

Thursday 05 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Visit and talk by Jay McClelland: "Some thoughts on the differences between human and machine intelligence"

Jay McClelland, Stanford University .

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

Thursday 14 September 2023, 15:00-17:00

Statistics

Residual Permutation Test for High-Dimensional Regression Coefficient Testing

Yuhao Wang, Tsinghua University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 08 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Sediment core analysis using artificial intelligence

Gianluca Carlini.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 21 July 2023, 18:00-18:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Scattering Networks and Singular Values Decomposition: different methods to remove background in Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy image

hybrid (zoom link at the end of the abstract)

Lisa Cuneo, University of Genova and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia .

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 21 July 2023, 17:00-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Sphere Neural-Network for Higher-level Cognition

join us also with zoom

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 18 July 2023, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descent

Jeremy Bernstein, MIT.

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

Friday 14 July 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

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

Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Is ChatGPT adequate for decision-making?

Victor O.K. Li, University of Hong Kong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Chaucer Club

Recovery from aphasia after stroke – from network to therapy

Dorothee Saur (Max Planck Institute/ U. of Leipzig) .

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

Thursday 22 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

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

Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Protein generation and fitness optimization

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

Jason Yim, EECS, MIT.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning

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

Pietro Barbiero (University of Cambridge).

zoom only!.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Issues and Language Models

James Thorne (KAIST).

Computer Lab, SS03.

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

Statistics

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

Canceled

Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 16 June 2023, 00:00-00:00

Chaucer Club

Crossing the divide: Promoting confidence in contact in a diverse world

Rhiannon Turner (Queen's University Belfast).

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

Thursday 15 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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

Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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

Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

POSTPONED: Interpretable Neural-Symbolic Concept Reasoning

This talk has moved to 20 June 2023.

Pietro Barbiero (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 13 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Bayesian Inference using Generative Models

Room changed

John Liechty (Pennsylvania State University).

MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Investigating Reasons for Disagreement in Natural Language Inference

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

Computer Lab, FW26.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Mind the Data

Noah Smith, University of Washington .

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

Thursday 08 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Human medial temporal theta oscillations in learned fear and schizophrenia

Dan Bush (UCL) .

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

Thursday 08 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Untangling genome assembly graphs with graph neural networks

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

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

Seminar Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification

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

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Information Spreading on Networks

NOTE A CHANGE OF ROOM DUE TO EXAMS. NOW SS03

Charlotte Out.

Computer Lab, SS03.

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

Statistics

Simultaneous Directional Inference

Room changed

Ruth Heller (Tel-Aviv University).

MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Fighting Misinformation in Science Communication with NLP

Dustin Wright (University of Copenhagen).

Computer Lab, SS03.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards Human-Centered Explanations of AI Predictions

Chenhao Tan, University of Chicago.

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

Thursday 01 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

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

Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Hypergraph Factorisation for Multi-Tissue Gene Expression Imputation

NOTE: Room changed, now Lecture Theatre 1

Ramon Vinas Torne.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building and Zoom.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

MaRF: Representing Mars as Neural Radiance Fields

Lorenzo Giusti, Universita' La Sapienza.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 29 May 2023, 18:00-19:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Unveiling Bounded Confidence Dynamics in Sheaf Neural Networks

Olga Zaghen, University of Trento.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 29 May 2023, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

Randomized and exchangeable improvements of Markov's, Chebyshev's and Chernoff's inequalities

Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpretable Multi-hop Question Answering

Zhenyun Deng (University of Cambridge).

Computer Lab, SS03.

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

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

Dr Napoleon Katsos (University of Cambridge).

English Faculty, GR05.

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

Chaucer Club

Improving mental health by training the suppression of unwanted thoughts

Mike Anderson (MRC CBU).

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

Thursday 25 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Pretraining, Instruction Tuning, Alignment: Towards Building Large Language Models from First Principles

Yao Fu, University of Edinburgh.

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

Thursday 25 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reward Modelling

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

Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Improving learning with noisy labels in two possibile scenarios.

Maria Sofia Bucarelli, La Sapienza University.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 17:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Relative Entropy Coding for Learned Data Compression

Greg Flamich, Engineering Department (Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Integrating Radiomics and Explainable Methods: Paving the Way for Transparent and Interpretable Medical Imaging Analysis

Francesco Prinzi, University of Palermo.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 19 May 2023, 17:00-18:00

Zangwill Club

Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction

The host for this talk is David Belin

Dr David Dupret (Oxford University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

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

Laura Sangalli (Polytechnic University of Milan).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Challenges of Low-Resource Natural Language Processing: A Focus on Sentiment Analysis and Hate Speech Detection in Amharic

Seid Muhie Yimam (HCDS, University of Hamburg).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 19 May 2023, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Cognitive and neural mechanisms of intentional forgetting

Lili Sahakyan (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).

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

Thursday 18 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Probing Language Models for Paraphrastic Representations of Negation and Antonymy

Teemu Vahtola, University of Helsinki.

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

Thursday 18 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Dimensionality Reduction via Probabilistic Inference

Aditya Ravuri (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Chrysippus' dog and the origins of modal concepts

Professor Josep Call, University of St Andrews.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Reality Check: NLP in the era of Large Language Models

Vered Shwartz (University of British Columbia).

Virtual (Zoom).

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

Statistics

A powerful empirical Bayes approach for high dimensional replicability analysis

Hongyuan Cao (Florida State University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 12 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Moving up and down parameter hierarchies: markedness, third factors and diachrony

Prof Ian Roberts (University of Cambridge).

English Faculty, GR05.

Thursday 11 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Chaucer Club

The iMAGine study: investigating motivational abnormalities guiding self-harm behaviour

Martina Di Simplicio (Imperial College London).

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

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Convergence bounds for the Random Walk Metropolis algorithm - Perspectives from Isoperimetry

Sam Power, University of Bristol.

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

Thursday 11 May 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Zangwill Club

The DNA revolution and psychology

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Bayesian sensitivity analysis in causal analysis

Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Saving the language of William the Conqueror: The Revitalisation of Sark's Norman tongue

Martin Neudörfl (Charles University, Prague).

Davidson Room, Peterhouse.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Writing for the Public: Immigration Discourse and Language Ideology

Dallas Card, University of Michigan.

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

Thursday 04 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Our Realms of Existence: An exploration of the biology and psychology of life

Joseph Ledoux (New York University) .

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

Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

Burigede Liu.

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

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

Zangwill Club

What the science of reading can contribute to the history of writing, and vice versa

Professor Aaron Koller, Yeshiva University, New York.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 April 2023, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Fundamental limits of generative AI

Helmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving Model Robustness for Natural Language Inference

Joe Stacey (Imperial College London).

Computer Lab, FW26.

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The interaction of gender marking and perspective-taking

Prof Stefan Hinterwimmer (Bergische Universität Wuppertal).

Lucia Windsor Room (Newnham College).

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

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms and individual differences in the removal of information from working memory

Marie Banich (U, of Colorado Boulde).

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

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

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

Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning

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

Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

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

Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

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

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Attention Forcing: Improving attention-based sequence-to-sequence models

Qingyun Dou, University of Cambridge.

Hybrid: LT6, First floor Baker building, Engineering Dept or Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89657740934?pwd=d1RUR29PenZXUlFQNVNVeU8zN2xoUT09.

Thursday 30 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Physics-informed machine learning

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

Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Chaucer Club

Somatosensory participation in human motor learning

David Ostry (McGill University) .

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

Thursday 23 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Machine Learning

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

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

Choice under Computational Complexity

The host for this talk is Lee De-Wit

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Chaucer Club

“The role of the human insula in decision and response monitoring during working memory revealed by iEEG” and "Gender bias in academia: time for action”

(Please note later start time)

Anais Llorens (UC Berkeley) .

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

Thursday 16 March 2023, 15:30-16:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

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

Carlos Gemmell, University of Glasgow.

SR 24.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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

Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

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

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

Zangwill Club

Feedforward and feedback interactions during prediction and attention

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

Professor Martin Vinck (Donders Institute for Neuroscience).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Statistical Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Biobank Data

Note unusual time

Hongyu Zhao (Yale University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Navigating the AI Hype: Building Natural Language Processing for Low Resource Languages

Asmelash Teka Hadgu (Lesan; DAIR).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 10 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Towards a Responsible NLP: Walking the walk

Mona Diab, Meta AI.

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

Thursday 09 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

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

Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Zangwill Club

Dynamic algorithmic networks of visual categorisations

Professor Philippe Schyns (University of Glasgow).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective

Mona Azadkia (London School of Economics).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

An Affordance Account of Value Embedding in Technology: Why Good Intentions are Not Enough

Fabio Tollon (Bielefeld University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 03 March 2023, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Hierarchical processing across dual stream architecture in the primate cortex

Henry Kennedy (U. of Lyon/INSERM) .

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

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Efficient Transformers with Dynamic Token Pooling

Piotr Nawrot, University of Edinburgh.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Structure-based Drug Design and Molecular Optimisation with Diffusion Models

Charlie Harris, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

The Neuroscience of Reading: Tracing words from the page through the brain

Dr Geoffrey M. Boynton (University of Washington).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

Ricardo Silva (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Modular and Compositional Transfer Learning

Jonas Pfeiffer (Google Research).

Virtual (Zoom).

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

Chaucer Club

Changes in the functional organisation of somatosensory cortex following surgical repair of the major nerves of the hand

Ken Valyear (Bangor University).

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

Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

One-shot visual language understanding with cross-modal translation and LLMs

Fangyu LIU (University of Cambridge).

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 23 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Neural Networks

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

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural Networks for High-Dimensional Tabular Biomedical Datasets

Andrei Margeloiu (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

Parameterizing and Simulating from Causal Models

Robin Evans (University of Oxford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Narrative Summarization from Multiple Views

Pinelopi Papalampidi (DeepMind).

Computer Lab, SS03.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Relative representations enable zero-shot latent space communication

Organized by Donato Crisostomi and Pietro Barbiero

Luca Moschella, Sapienza University of Rome.

Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Offline Reinforcement Learning

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

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Composite Feature Selection using Deep Ensembles

Alex Norcliffe - University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Statistics

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

Joint Statistics and CCIMI Seminar (note unusual time)

Sebastian Reich (University of Potsdam).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Zangwill Club

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

The host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Professor Ed Bullmore (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Chaucer Club

Neuronal computation underlying inferential reasoning in humans and mice

Helen Barron (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 09 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Challenges and Opportunities in NLP for Under-represented Languages

Sebastian Ruder, Google.

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

Thursday 09 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Distributed brain network activities in memory resilient to extinction

THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED OWING TO THE RAIL STRIKE

Dr David Dupret (Oxford University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Counterfactual fairness (CANCELLED)

Joshua Loftus (London School of Economics).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Processing Multiword Expressions for Grammatical Error Correction

Shiva Taslimipoor (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, Room FW09.

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

Chaucer Club

Towards a recipe for physical reasoning in humans and machines

Kelsey Allen (Deep Mind).

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

Thursday 02 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Narrative Summarization From Multiple Views

Pinelopi (Nelly) Papalampidi, DeepMind.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

When Vision Transformers Meet Cooperative Perception

Runsheng Xu, UCLA (USA).

Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Calls to F the Algorithm: Lessons from the 2020 Exam Debacle

Roger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Monday 30 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Nudge+: how to incorporate reflection into behavioural public policy

The host for this talk is Lee De-Wit

Peter John (King's College London).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Variational Bayesian inference for PDE based inverse problems

Ieva Kazlauskaite (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

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

Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

Virtual (Zoom).

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Getting Passive by Extending Classes: A Novel Verb-Learning Study with Adults and Children

Dr Emma Nguyen (Newcastle University).

Lecture Room 3 - Faculty of Divinity.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Amygdala and PFC encode different associative structures and their connectivity helps predict subclinical variation in mental well-being

Miriam Klein-Flugge (U. of Oxford).

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

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems

Verena Rieser, Heriot-Watt University.

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

Thursday 26 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Concept Embedding Models: Beyond the Accuracy-Explainability Trade-off

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Reconsolidation-based treatments for mental health disorders: are we nearly there yet?

Dr Amy Milton (Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 January 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference

Alastair Young (Imperial College, London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Exploring and Controlling Social Values in Large Language Models through Role-Playing 

Paul Röttger (Oxford University).

Computer Lab, SS03.

Friday 20 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Neuronal signals for multi-component choice options in orbitofrontal cortex

Wolfram Schultz (PDN, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 19 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

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

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

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

Thursday 15 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Rethinking the role of tokenization in the NLP pipeline

Kris Cao (DeepMind).

Computer Lab, FW26.

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

Chaucer Club

Against brain reorganisation. Perspectives from individuals with congenital and acquired hand loss

Tamar Makin (MRC CBU).

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

Thursday 01 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

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

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

Yuanhong Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Revisiting Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning

Mikel Artetxe, Meta.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Approximate Equivariance SO(3) Needlet Convolution

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

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

Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Global Explainability of GNNs via Logic Combination of Learned Concepts

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

Steve Azzolin.

Online (Zoom).

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

Zangwill Club

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

Professor Dame Lesely Fallowfield (Sussex University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Zangwill Club

Brain charts for the human lifespan.

Dr Richard Bethlehem (Department of Psychology, Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Biostatistics: successes, challenges and opportunities

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

John Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

The Interpretability of Graph Neural Networks

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

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

FW11 + zoom.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

Computer Lab, TBD.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Feynman Diagrams using Graph Neural Networks

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

Harrison Mitchell, dept of Physics Cambridge.

lecture theatre 2 dept of computer science and zoom.

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

Chaucer Club

The neurobehavioural basis of compulsivity

Trevor Robbins (Psychology Dept, UoC).

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

Thursday 24 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Measuring Alignment Between Perceptual Systems: An Analysis Through The Lens of Shared Invariances

Vedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland .

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/edit/192845.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

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

Andy Lin, MLG.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Multi-Scene Absolute Pose Regression with Transformers

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

Zoom.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport

Felipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile.

CBL Seminar Room.

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

Zangwill Club

Disruption of Information in Working Memory

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds

Annika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing

Jasmijn Bastings (Google Brain).

Virtual (Zoom).

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

Chaucer Club

Talk title tbc

Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research).

Via Zoom - See website for details: https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/seminar-information/chaucer-club/.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction

Stefano Albrecht, Edinburgh.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Language Technology Lab Seminars

End-to-End Fine-grained Multi-modal Understanding

Aishwarya Kamath, New York University.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Predicting generalization of ML models.

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

Vihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Draft, Sketch, and Prove: Guiding Formal Theorem Provers with Informal Proofs

Albert Qiaochu Jiang (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2 and Zoom.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Presenting Hawk-Eye’s Skeletrack: Our machine learning approach to building a real time skeletal tracking system for sports, and how we're using it to shape the future of fan engagement

Lachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations.

Lecture Theatre 6 (LT6), Department of Engineering.

Monday 14 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Can you see what I hear? The effects of early blindness on auditory processing

Dr Ione Fine (University of Washington).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference

Jelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Decoding is deciding under uncertainty — the case of NMT

Bryan Eikema (University of Amsterdam).

Virtual (Zoom).

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Sentiment analysis: methods and applications

Dr Antonio Moreno Ortiz (Universidad de Málaga).

English Faculty, GR05.

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

Chaucer Club

Neural and cognitive architectures for human metacognition

Steve Fleming (UCL).

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

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Program Synthesis and Understanding with Pretrained Language Models

Ignacio Iacobacci, Huawei .

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A tutorial on diffusion models

Emile, Sasha from CBL.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38. Zoom link available upon request..

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Graph Neural Networks for Geometric Graphs

Chaitanya K. Joshi, Simon V. Mathis.

Lecture Theatre 2 and Zoom.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NLP for Science: Advances and Challenges

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

Computer Lab, FW11.

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

Zangwill Club

Quality and Location: a view from somatosensation

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Local Independence Graphs

Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Chaucer Club

Ultrasound for the brain: new tools for reading and writing in the neural circuits

Charlie Demene (ESPCI Paris).

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

Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Flamingo: a Visual Language Model for Few-Shot Learning

Antoine Miech, DeepMind.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

AI for Science: An Oral Report from a Recent Dagstuhl Workshop

Neil Lawrence.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Lessons from genetic studies of Major Depressive Disorder

Dr Na Cai (Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Latent space models for multiplex networks with shared structure

Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficient Structured Prediction on Long Texts

Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich).

Virtual (Zoom).

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

Resampling methods for networks

Liza Levina (Michigan).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Vowel harmony as a cue for phonological phrasing

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

Prof Frank Kügler (Goethe Universität Frankfurt).

English Faculty, GR05.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benchmarking and evaluation in contemporary machine learning

Austin Tripp and Shoaib Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

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

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

Yu Guang Wang.

Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Zangwill Club

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

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

Dr Varun Warrier (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Root and community inference on Markovian models of networks

Min Xu (Rutgers University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 21 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

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

Luca Benedetto (University of Cambridge).

FW09.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Contextualized embeddings for lexical semantics

Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin.

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

Thursday 20 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Neurocomputational basis of anxiety

Oliver Robinson (UCL).

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

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Query-based Hard-Image Retrieval for Object Detection at Test Time

Ed Ayers, Five AI.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Plastic brains for flexible decisions

Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Comparison of Markov chains via weak Poincaré inequalities, with application to pseudo-marginal MCMC

Sam Power (University of Bristol).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 14 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Complement clause section as a (non-)local relation

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

Dr Anna Roussou (University of Patras).

English Faculty, GR06/07.

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

Chaucer Club

Multimodal imaging and stimulation approaches to study motor learning

Charlotte Stagg (University of Oxford).

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

Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Quantifying Linguistic Variation

Max Müller-Eberstein, IT University of Copenhagen.

GR04, English Faculty Building, 9 West Road, Sidgwick Site.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward

Michael Cohen, University of Oxford.

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

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Multi-Head State Space Model for Sequence Modeling

Yassir Fathullah, Speech Group, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Hybrid: LT6, First floor Baker building, Engineering Dept or Zoom: https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81927138251?pwd=TVd3MXliV003dUdYVlFwU2NDWGpmdz09.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

What kind of network is the brain?

John Mollon (University of Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning

Statistics and CCIMI seminar, followed by a drinks reception

Victor Chernozhukov (MIT).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

The Aston Forensic Linguistic Databank (FoLD)

Martyn Petyko and Daniela Schneevogt (Aston University).

Virtual (Zoom).

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

Chaucer Club

Tidying up working memory

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Cancelled! Sorry for inconvenience.

Danielle Belgrave, DeepMind.

Zoom.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Detect – Verify – Communicate: Combating Misinformation with More Realistic NLP

Iryna Gurevych, TU Darmstadt.

English Faculty Building, second floor, SR24.

Thursday 29 September 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest Talk

Roman Novak, Google Brain.

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

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Backward Compatible Embeddings

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

Weihua Hu, Stanford University and Google.

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

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

What are the unsolved problems in Conversation Design?

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

Cathy Pearl, Google.

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Claim-Dissector: An Interpretable Fact-Checking System with Joint Re-ranking and Veracity Prediction

Martin Fajčík ( Brno University of Technology ).

Computer Lab, FW26.

Tuesday 12 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learning

Greg Yang, Microsoft Research.

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

Wednesday 06 July 2022, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

The Problem of Size Generalization in Graph Neural Networks

Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4jNbgtBl_k

Davide Buffelli , Universita' di Padova.

Lecture theatre and zoom (https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96155557207?pwd=VXlyUVZidVRxWFRaWS9tak1SUjV3Zz09 ID: 961 5555 7207 Passcode: 913748).

Monday 04 July 2022, 17:00-18:00

Chaucer Club

Blurring boundaries: Aging and memory for movies

Karen Campbell (Brock University).

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

Thursday 30 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chaucer Club

Exploring the role of the human cerebellum across functional domains

Jorn Diedrichsen (University of Western Ontario).

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

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The role of meta-learning for few-shot classification

Eleni Triantafillou, Google Brain.

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

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic Data

Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89002493651?pwd=B_2gKl7va_h0CQ9yoMPSbn2ifYLGi4.1.

Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neighbourhood matching creates realistic surrogate temporal networks

Antonio Longa, FBK.

Lecture theatre and zoom (https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97150757190?pwd=Q2Nib09aVi9CRFptSFY3NlZGUnhUdz09).

Monday 20 June 2022, 17:00-18:00

Statistics

(CANCELLED) Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

Ricardo Silva (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Pitfalls with ablation in neural network architectures

Christina Lioma (University of Copenhagen).

Computer Lab, SS03.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Gold Doesn't Always Glitter: Spectral Removal of Linear and Nonlinear Guarded Attribute Information

Yftah Ziser, University of Edinburgh.

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

Thursday 16 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling study

Fabienne Krauer, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84968458381?pwd=TWM5ZkF2bjdBM09jaVlJZHRUTFlFUT09.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Pre-Train Your Loss: Easy Bayesian Transfer Learning with Informative Priors

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Neural Sequence Models for Mathematical Reasoning

RESCHEDULED, NOTE THE UNUSUAL TIME

Yuhuai(Tony) Wu, Stanford University & Google.

Zoom.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

(Modeling) Morality? On Machine Learning and Phrenology

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

Virtual (Zoom).

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

NLIP Seminar Series

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

Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (University of Bologna).

Virtual (Zoom).

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Cross-lingual Learning, and Applications in Dialog and Translation

Junjie Hu, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

Thursday 09 June 2022, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Cortical (beta) dynamics of movement control

Sven Bestmann (UCL).

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

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Learning PAC-Bayes Priors for Probabilistic Neural Networks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

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

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

Qiujia Li (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Statistics

A machine learning approach for causal structure estimation in high dimensions

Sach Mukherjee (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

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

Friday 03 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

A Contrastive Framework for Neural Text Generation

Yixuan Su, University of Cambridge.

Board Room, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 02 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Measuring Causal Effects of Data Statistics on Language Model Predictions

Yanai Elazar (Bar-Ilan University).

Computer Lab, FW26.

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

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

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

Peter Bell (University of Edinburgh).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Rethinking evaluation for machine learning models

Adrian Goldwaser & Shoaib Siddiqui.

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

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Multi-fidelity machine learning models for improved high-throughput screening predictions

David Buterez.

Zoom.

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 13:15-14:15

Chaucer Club

Episodic Memory: Some stimulating findings

Joel Voss (University of Chicago) .

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

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and Generalization

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Ceylon Portuguese: Survival Against All Odds

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

Zoom.

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The grammar of self-talk. What different modes of talking reveal about the language faculty.

Martina Wiltschko (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

English Faculty, GR04.

Thursday 19 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Language (In)Equality in Parsing and Machine Translation: Data Size is Only One Term in the Equation

Arianna Bisazza (University of Groningen).

Virtual (Zoom).

Thursday 19 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Can we automatically anonymize text documents?

Pierre Lison, Norwegian Computing Center.

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

Thursday 19 May 2022, 11:00-12:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Lifted Relational Neural Networks

Gustav Šir, Czech Technical University in Prague.

Zoom.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Neuro-Symbolic Deep Natural Language Understanding

Lili Mou (University of Alberta).

Computer Lab, FW26.

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

Second Language Education Group

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

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

Changes in Appetitive Associative Strength and Reward Value Modulate the Intrinsic Excitability and Recruitment of Nucleus Accumbens Neuronal Ensembles

Eisuke Koya (University of Sussex).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Optimal prediction of Markov chains without mixing conditions

Yihong Wu (Yale University).

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

Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Beyond Conformal Prediction: Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Machine Learning Tasks

Anastasios Angelopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley.

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84829493214?pwd=HI3JJJ8nrt6O8AELEzbXvT8ZoBj51t.1.

Friday 13 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

How close are these distributions? A brief introduction to statistical distances and divergences.

David Burt, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Investigating how schizophrenia risk genes impact brain function and cognition

Professor Jeremy Hall (Cardiff University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Minimum L1-norm interpolators: Precise asymptotics and multiple descent

Yuting Wei (University of Pennsylvania).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Diagnosing AI Explanation Methods with Folk Concepts of Behavior

Alon Jacovi (Bar-Ilan University).

Virtual (Zoom).

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

The acquisition and processing of grammatical structure: insights from deep learning

Roger Levy, MIT.

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

Thursday 05 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Chaucer Club

Predicting language outcome and recovery after stroke (PLORAS)

Cathy Price (UCL).

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

Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bests of ICLR

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Trials and Tribulations: the challenges of promoting sustainable improvements in child development

Professor Pasco Fearon.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 29 April 2022, 16:30-18:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

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

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

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

Zoom + presence (lecture theatre 2) .

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Interactive and decomposed approaches for NLP: the case of multi-text summarization

Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan University).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 29 April 2022, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Learning representations of specifics and generalities over time

Anna Schapiro (University of Pennsylvania) .

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

Thursday 28 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordination

University of Cambridge.

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/87988930234?pwd=eHRGTHFtUE9UL0pJOWNtdDF2VDN2UT09.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning with Quantum Computers

Amira Abbas and Maria Schuld.

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

Wednesday 20 April 2022, 11:00-12:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

SoundStream: An End-to-End Neural Audio Codec

This talk will be on zoom

Neil Zeghidour (Google).

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

Monday 04 April 2022, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Autoregressive Diffusion Models

Emiel Hoogeboom.

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

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

Thinking the right thoughts

Nathaniel Daw (Princeton University).

Zoom meeting.

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

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

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

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

Christopher Heffer (Cardiff University).

Online.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of AI Alignment

Neel Alex, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 23 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Zangwill Club

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

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

Zoom meeting.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual Autoregressive Entity Linking

Nicola De Cao (University of Amsterdam, Huggingface).

Virtual (Zoom).

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

Peter Whittle Lecture

Demystifying Deep Learning

Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

TBC

Speaker to be confirmed.

Faculty of English and Online.

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

Chaucer Club

Remembering the mammillary bodies: the importance of wider networks for memory

Seralynne Vann (Cardiff University).

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

Thursday 17 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Language Technology Lab Seminars

Zero-Shot Cross-lingual Transfer for XNLU

Milan Gritta, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab.

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

Thursday 17 March 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI

Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Machine learning as an assay for high-dimensional biology

Sara Mostafavi, University of Washington, USA.

Zoom.

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

SpeechBrain: Unifying Speech Technologies and Deep Learning With an Open Source Toolkit

This talk will be on zoom

Titouan Parcollet (Avignon University).

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

Monday 14 March 2022, 12:00-13:00

Psychology talks and events

Clinical neuroscience and the heart: How cardiac signals influence emotion and cognition

Professor Sarah Garfinkel (UCL).

virtually served - Zoom.

Friday 11 March 2022, 16:15-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

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

Nate Raw and Ömer Faruk Özdemir (HuggingFace).

Virtual (Zoom).

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

Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc)

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

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

Michelle Sheehan (Newcastle University).

Online.

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

Language Technology Lab Seminars

IGLUE: A Benchmark for Transfer Learning across Modalities, Tasks, and Languages

Emanuele Bugliarello, University of Copenhagen.

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

Thursday 10 March 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Introduction to differential privacy

Talay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Work in progress: Making efficient use of language models for theorem proving

Albert Qiaochu Jiang (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:15-14:15

Zangwill Club

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

Professor Marc Schmidt (University of Pennsylvania).

Zoom meeting.

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

Statistics

Random Planted Forest: a directly interpretable tree ensemble

Enno Mammen (Heidelberg University).

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

Friday 04 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Using NLP and graph theory to capture speech abnormalities in psychosis

Caroline Nettekoven (University of Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom).

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