Cambridge Language Sciences

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

Natural Language Processing to Bridge Heterogeneous Data

User Yusuke Miyao (National Institute of Informatics, Japan).

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

Unbiased Estimation of the Eigenvalues of Large Implicit Matrices

User Professor Ryan Adams, Princeton.

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

The Grammar Variational Autoencoder & Counterfactual Fairness

User Dr Matt Kusner.

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

Accelerating computation of SVM and DNN by binary approximation

User Hironobu Fujiyoshi (Chubu University) .

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

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

User Mariko Isogawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories) .

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

Deep learning for autonomous driving

User Takayoshi Yamashita (Chubu University) .

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

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

An Exchange about Doctoral Study and Didactic Research

User Johan Ohman and the Graduate School, Orebro University.

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

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

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

Modeling Context-sensitive Selectional Preference with Distributed Representations

User Naoya Inoue (Tohoku University, Japan).

Thursday 31 August 2017, 11:00-12:00

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series

How Can NLP Help Cure Cancer?

 Please be aware that this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

User Regina Barzilay Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

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

Understanding Black-box Predictions via Influence Functions

User Pang Wei Koh, Stanford University.

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

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

Children in Distress: past precedents and current experience

User Sir Tim Brighouse, Dr Carl Emery (University of Manchester), Dr Carrie Herbert MBE (Red Balloon Learner Centre Group), Caroline Peet (Queens’ Federation) and Alison Roy (Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist).

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

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

A simple neural network module for relational reasoning

User David Barrett, DeepMind.

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

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

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

User Dr Mike Page, University of Hertfordshire.

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

Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks

User Francesco Caravelli (LANL).

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

Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks

User Francesco Caravelli (LANL).

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

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

PublicHealth@Cambridge

Text mining for public health reviews (The Robot Analyst)

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

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

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

Building a sense of direction – from perception to cognition

User Kate Jeffrey (UCL).

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

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

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

User Becky Gilbert (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

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

Characters in Comics: Some Medium-Specific Qualities

User Dr Kai Mikkonen (University of Helsinki).

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

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

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

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

User Ahmed El Alaoui (UC Berkeley).

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

House FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Deep NLP in language tutoring

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

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

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

The typical and atypical development of the human social brain

User Mark Johnson (UoC).

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

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

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

User Siva Reddy (Stanford University).

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

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

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

User Sophie Masson.

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

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

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

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

User Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

House FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Predicting Rich Linguistic Structure with Neural Networks

User Jan Buys, University of Oxford.

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

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

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

User Haim Dubossarsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

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

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

Variable clustering: optimal bounds and a convex approach

User Nicolas Verzelen (INRA).

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

Functional Distributional Semantics

User Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge).

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

House Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

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

User Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College, Dublin).

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

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

Developmental unilateral neglect/ Mechanisms of working memory updating

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

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

NLP, the perfect social (media) science?

User Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen.

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

Sentence-level Topic Models

User Kris Cao (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Statistical Properties and Applications of Word Tensors

User Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Queen Mary University of London).

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

House Faculty of English, Room SR24.

A cluster of Aromanian varieties in North-Western Greece

User Dr. Marios Mavrogiorgos, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Rezvan Farahibozorg (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

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

Book Launch: From Tongue To Text

User Dr Debbie Pullinger.

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

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

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

Computationally Efficient Nonparametric Testing

User Guang Cheng (Purdue).

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

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

User Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, University of Sheffield.

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

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

Learning Syntax with Deep Neural Networks

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

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

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

Multisensory integration in the cortical hierarchy

User Uta Noppeney (University of Birmingham).

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

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

Location Resolution in Language Processing

User Milan Gritta (University of Cambridge).

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

House JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

On Different Distances Between Distributions and Generative Adversarial Networks

User Martin Arjovsky.

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

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

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

User Benedikt Zoefel (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

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

Modelling the impact of cognitive abilities on science learning

User Professor Andy Tolmie, UCL Institute of Education.

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Cognitive coding in the hippocampal-entorhinal system

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

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

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

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

User Mihai Cucuringu (Oxford).

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

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

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

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

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

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

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

Neural Architectures for Sequence Labelling

User Marek Rei, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Prof. Aaron Rubin, Penn State University.

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

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

Imaging and stimulating adaptive brain plasticity

User Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford).

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

House Lecture Block, room 2, Sidgwick Site.

Reading and Reasoning with Vector Representations

User Sebastian Riedel (UCL).

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

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

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

User Dr Valerie Peters, Université Laval, Quebec.

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

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

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

Working memory training and transcranial electrical stimulation

User Elizabeth Byrne (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

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

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

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

Constrained low-rank matrix estimation

User Lenka Zdeborova (IPhT).

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

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

User Nikola Mrskic, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

User Sarah Beck Reader in Cognitive Development, University of Birmingham.

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

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

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

User Mark Stokes (Oxford).

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

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

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

User Eva Maria Vecchi.

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

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

Tea and biscuits from 16.45

User Jakob Wiedner, University of Oslo.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 17:15-19:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

A common model of representational and connectivity spaces in human cortex

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN SPECIAL EXTRA TALK AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT 4.00PM

User Professor James V. Haxby, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

User Philip Nel, Kansas State University.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Statistical challenges posed by the analyses of the human microbiome

User Susan Holmes (Stanford).

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

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

User Dr Roberto Fillipi, UCL.

House Room B3, Institute of Criminology.

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Do we control language or does language control us?

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

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

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

The Bouncy Particle Sampler

User Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (UBC).

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

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

Using smartphones to collect big data on English dialects

User Adrian Leemann (Lancaster University).

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

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

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

User Jennifer Lau (KCL).

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

House Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

VO-OV alternations and information structure in North Sami

Tea and biscuits from 17.45

User Kristine Bentzen, University of Tromsø.

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

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

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

User Jiri Cevora (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Empathy – from shared affect to self-other distinction

User Professor Claus Lamm, Full Professor (Biological Psychology) Head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria.

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

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

Geometric aspects of Statistical Learning Theory

User Shahar Mendelson (ANU).

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

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

Participatory Creativity in Education: unpacking and problematising the whole process

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

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

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

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

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

User Antonia Hamilton (UCL).

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

House Department of Engineering - James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

Situated Intelligent Interactive Systems

User Zhou Yu, CMU, US.

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

House GR06-7, English Faculty.

Cross-lingual Learning 2.0

User Anders Søgaard (University of Copenhagen).

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

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

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

User Dr Adena Portowitz, Givat Washington Academic College, Israel.

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

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

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

Handedness and speech: Investigating behavioural characteristics of hemispheric asymmetry

User Jessica Hodgson (University of Nottingham).

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

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Fake News

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

House Room B4, Institute of Criminology.

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Finding Signals in Twitter with ML/NLP at Bloomberg

User Minjie Xu - Bloomberg Software Engineer, Social Media Analytics.

House LT1, Computer Laboratory.

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

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

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

User Jose Camacho-Collados (Sapienza University of Rome).

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

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

Internal LTL meeting

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

Functional neuromarkers for psychiatry

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

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

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 9 - Representation Learning

User Group Discussion.

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

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 8 - Autoencoders

User Group Discussion.

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

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

Scientific Paper Analysis: JST CREST Project of Big Data Application

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

New Frontiers in Robotics - ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

User Organisers: Fumiya Iida and Jim Woodhouse.

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

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

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

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

User Dr Alda de Jesús Oliveira, Florida State University.

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

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

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

User Group Discussion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Observations from the Edge of Beauty

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

House Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

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

User Prof Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow.

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

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

Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction

User Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires).

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

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

Social cognition in frontal lobe dysfunction

User Facundo Manes (INECO, Buenos Aires).

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

Kernel Mean Embeddings

User Jiri Hron; Adam Scibior.

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

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

Internal LTL meeting

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

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

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

User Johannes Mehrer and Courtney Spoerer (CBSU) .

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

Information Engineering Division seminar list

Bayesian Optimization for Probabilistic Programs

User Tom Rainforth, University of Oxford.

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

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

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 6 - Recurrent Neural Networks

User Group Discussion.

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

Differentially Private Bayesian Learning

User Dr Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki.

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

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

User Borana Lushaj (Leiden University).

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Optimality and irrationality in human decision-making

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

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

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

Discrete structures and prediction in Bayesian Nonparametrics

User Igor Pruenster (Universita' Bocconi).

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

Neural Variational Inference for NLP

User Yishu Miao, University of Oxford.

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

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

Control, inference and learning

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

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

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

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

User Professor David MacDougall, Australian National University.

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

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

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

English dialects: geographical perceptions, language regard and listener reactions

User Dr Chris Montgomery (University of Sheffield) .

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

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

Social brain development in adolescence

User Sarah Jane Blakemore (UCL).

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

Differential Privacy

User John Bradshaw; Alex Matthews.

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

Differential Privacy Tutorial

User Alex Matthews and John Bradshaw, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Knowledge Base Population from Text and Graphs

User Lucas Sterckx (University of Ghent).

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

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

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

User Gareth Dylan Smith, Institute of Contemporary Music Performance.

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

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

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

New evidence for autobiographical memory-based intervention into depression

User Caitlin Hitchcock (CBSU).

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

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

Epistemic Cognition - conceptions of knowledge in action

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

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise

PLEASE NOTE: CHANGE OF SPEAKER THIS WEEK

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

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

Learning Hierarchical Word and Sentence Representations

User Dani Yogatama, DeepMind.

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

House GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

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

User Dr Petros Karatsareas, University of Westminster.

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

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

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

User Essi Viding (UCL).

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

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

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

User Essi Viding (UCL).

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

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 5 - ResNets and DenseNets

User Group Discussion.

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

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

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

User Pei Huang and Verity Smith (CBSU).

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

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

Assessing complexity: A cultural historical activity theory analysis.

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

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

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

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

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

User Dr Karen Forbes, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Statistical Spoken Dialogue Systems and the Challenges for Machine Learning

User Professor Steve Young, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Exploring embodiment mechanisms using expertise

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

User Dr Beatriz Calvo-Merino.

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

EACL potpourri

User NLIP PhDs and postdocs.

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

House Lecture Block room 4, Sidgwick Site.

Title to be confirmed

User Professor Hedde Jeijlstra (University of Göttingen) .

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

Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning

User Dylan Hadfield-Menell, UC Berkeley.

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

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 4 - Convolutional Networks

User Group Discussion.

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

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

Computational approaches for deciphering the regulation of cancer genomes

User Shamith Samarajiwa.

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

The revival of Italo-Greek: language ideologies and folklorization

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

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

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

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

User Lucy Foulkes (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL).

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

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

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

User Lydia Wistisen, Stockholm University.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

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

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

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

High frequency statistics of semimartingales

User Mark Podolskij (Aarhus).

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

Probabilistic Numerics

User Alessandro Davide Ialongo (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Title to be confirmed

User Ekaterina Shutova.

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

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

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

User Dr Jenny Gibson, Faculty of Education.

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

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

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 3 - Optimization

User Group Discussion.

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Learning to learn: lessons from action video games

User Professor Daphne Bavelier, University of Geneva.

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

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

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

User Haeran Cho (Bristol).

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

Imitation learning for language generation from unaligned data

User Gerasimos Lampouras, University of Sheffield.

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

Bayesian optimisation in many dimensions with bespoke probabilistic programs

User Valentin Dalibart.

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

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

Canonical morphological complexity: a balancing act between lexicon and grammar

User Professor Dustan Brown (University of York).

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

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

Confidence and adaptive decision making

User Nick Yeung (Oxford).

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

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

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

User Elad Yom-Tov (Microsoft Research).

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

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

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

User Dr Oscar Odena, University of Glasgow.

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

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

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

Do PANIC! Hearing Research at the CBU

User Bob Carlyon (CBSU).

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

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

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

User Dr Dominica Dipio, Makerere University, Uganda.

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

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

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 2 - Regularization

User Group Discussion.

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 13:30-15:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Vision, Decision, and Navigation in Mouse Parietal Cortex

DUE TO ILLNESS, THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

User Professor Matteo Carandini, University College London.

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

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

Sleeping Beauty’s Credences

User Mark Schervisch (CMU).

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

House GR06/7 English Faculty, Sidgwick Site.

Notes on the verbal domain in Meadow Mari

User Dr Diane Nelson, University of Leeds.

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

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

Vision, decision and navigation in mouse parietal cortex

User Matteo Carandini (UCL).

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

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

Training working memory is learning to do something new

User Sue Gathercole (CBSU).

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

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 1 - Deep Feedforward NNs

User Group Discussion.

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

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

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

User Dr Mark Payne, University of Sheffield.

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

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

Weaponized Lies: An American neuroscientist speaks on the post-truth era (and what we can do about it)

PLEASE NOTE, THIS ZANGWILL SEMINAR WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE ANATOMY LECTURE THEATRE ON DOWNING SITE

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

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

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

The discriminative nature of human communication

User Dr Michael Ramscar (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen).

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

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

Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury

User Alan Carson (Edinburgh).

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

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

Functional neurological disorders, cognition and mild traumatic brain injury

User Alan Carson (Edinburgh).

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

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

Learning to Generate Textual Data

User Pontus Stenetorp (UCL).

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

The hidden multilingualism of Italy: issues and challenges

User Dr. Marco Tamburelli, Prifysgol Bangor/Bangor University.

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

Variational Bayes In Private Settings

User Mijung Park, University of Amsterdam.

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

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

Unitization effects on memory

User Roni Tibon (CBSU).

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

Julia: Introduction and new developments

User Dr Simon Byrne (Julia Computing).

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

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

High-Dimensional Bayesian Geostatistics

User Sudipto Banerjee (UCLA).

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

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

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

Learning Commonsense Event Schemas from Unlabeled Text

User Nate Chambers, US Naval Academy.

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

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

Cognitive Discourse Functions as joint concern in language and content pedagogy

User Professor Christiane Dalton-Puffer, University of Vienna.

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

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

Morphological characteristics of Medieval Code Switching

User Dr Mareike Keller (University of Manheim).

Thursday 19 January 2017, 16:00-17:30

NIPS 2016 papers in 5mins

User MLG members.

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

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

Reflections on Universal Dependencies

User Joakim Nivre (Uppsala University).

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

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

Microscopes, telescopes or kaleidoscopes? Using digital quantitative methods to explore patterns and textures in a literary corpus

User Julie Blake, University of Cambridge.

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

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

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

Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding

User Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge).

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

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

Failing to expect the unexpected: The neural and behavioural consequences of degraded predictive coding

User Thomas Cope (Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge).

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

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

Real Readers Reading: Child studies and children's literature in a settler society: Collaborating with Indigenous communities across disciplines in Southern Alberta

User Dr Kristine Alexander and Dr Erin Spring, Lethbridge University, Alberta.

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

Monday 16 January 2017, 16:00-18:00

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

Internal LTL meeting

User Speaker to be confirmed.

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

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

‘Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie. An Exploration of Cognition and Consciousness.’

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN EXTRA ZANGWILL CLUB TALK

User Dr Rosalind Ridley.

Friday 16 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

Bayesian optimality and frequentist extended admissibility are equivalent in saturated models

User Daniel Roy (University of Toronto).

Thursday 15 December 2016, 11:00-12:00

Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning through Communicative Actions for Human-Robot Collaboration

User Elena Corina Grigore (Yale University).

Wednesday 14 December 2016, 15:00-16:00

Variational autoencoders with latent graphical models

User Prof David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

Tuesday 13 December 2016, 11:00-12:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Cross-sensory integration and calibration during development

User Professor David Burr, Department of Psychology, University of Florence. .

Friday 09 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

House Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Fox's son, they slept five, imitation of people: Kuikuro numerals and counting

This talk is held in conjunction with the Cambridge University Linguistic Society (LingSoc; http://camlingsoc.soc.srcf.net/)

User Bruna Franchetto, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Monday 05 December 2016, 17:15-19:00

House GR06/7 English Faculty.

Fox's son, they slept five, imitation of people: Kuikuro numerals and counting

This talk is held in conjunction with the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group (http://groups.ds.cam.ac.uk/celc/)

User Bruna Franchetto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro).

Monday 05 December 2016, 17:15-19:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Structured sequences, language evolution and the primate brain

User Prof. Christopher I. Petkov, Laboratory of Comparative Neuropsychology, Newcastle University.

Friday 02 December 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Gaussian vectors, half-spaces, and convexity

User Joe Neeman (UT Austin & Bonn).

Friday 02 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

Internal Seminar pt. 2

User PhD students, NLIP group.

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

Friday 02 December 2016, 12:00-13:00

Memory, Miniaturization, and the Transformative Energy of Fairy Tales

User Professor Maria Tatar, The John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Harvard University. .

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

Thursday 01 December 2016, 17:00-18:30

House GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Misreading and language change: a foray into cognitive historical linguistics?

User Sylvia Adamson (University of Sheffield, University of Cambridge).

Thursday 01 December 2016, 16:30-18:30

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

On sensing what is not there

User Andrew Welchman, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 15:30-17:00

Symmetry in Statistical Models

User Mark Rowland; Maria Lomeli.

Thursday 01 December 2016, 13:30-15:00

Learning with limited supervision

User Stefano Ermon, Stanford.

‘Diglossia, Bidialectalism, or Bilingualism? Portuguese as a Foreign Language in the Classroom’

Thursday 01 December 2016, 11:00-12:00

User Dr Ioanna Sitaridou, Felipe Schuery, Prof. Stavroula Tsiplakou, Prof. Matilde V. R. Scaramucci, Prof. João Costa, Aretousa Giannakou .

House Bowett Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge, UK.

Saturday 26 November 2016, 11:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Visceral inputs, brain dynamics and subjectivity

User Professor Catharine Tallon-Baudry, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

Friday 25 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Measuring sample quality with diffusions

User Sebastian Vollmer (Oxford).

Friday 25 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

On-line Active Reward Learning for Policy Optimisation in Spoken Dialogue Systems

User Pei-Hao Su (University of Cambridge).

Friday 25 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

House Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

The Creole Language and its Relationship to Regional French in Louisiana

User Thomas A. Klingler, Tulane University.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

The Creole Language and its Relationship to Regional French in Louisiana

This talk is co-hosted by the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

User Thomas A. Klingler, Tulane University.

House Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Room 8/9.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

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

Are we any closer to understanding and treating tinnitus?

User David Baguley, University of Nottingham.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Bayesian Optimization

User Pawel Budzianowiski; Brian Trippe.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

A tale of P-matrices and TripleSpinners - the unreasonable effectiveness of structured models in nonlinear embeddings

User Krzysztof Choromanski, Google NY.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

House GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Sensing well-being using heterogeneous smartphone data and stance identification in social media conversations

User Maria Liakata (Warwick University).

Thursday 24 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Being non-binary: gender assignment in Old High German

Tea served from 4.15

User Sheila Watts.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

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

Social rank processing in depression

User Jason Stretton, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

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

‘Arts-based’ and ‘STEAMed’ research approaches: Intersections of interdisciplinary research with visual and performing intercultural arts practices

User Professor Pamela Burnard, Faculty of Education.

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

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 18:00-19:00

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

A Patterned Past? Framing and keying in history textbooks

User Tina van der Vlies, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

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

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room 1S3 Donald McIntyre Building).

Conceptualising, Adapting and Measuring Young People’s Wellbeing in Secondary Schools in Kazakhstan

User Dr. Ros McLellan Dr. Liz Winter & Dr.Eva Brown Hajdukova,Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Dr. Daniel Torrano, Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University .

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Rejection Sampling Variational Inference

User Francisco J. R. Ruiz (Columbia University & University of Cambridge).

Tuesday 22 November 2016, 11:30-12:30

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

Language Development and School Achievement of EAL Students: EALead Project II

User EALead Project Team, University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University.

Monday 21 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series

User Prof. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA, Director, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow.

Friday 18 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Principal Nested Shape Space Analysis of Molecular Dynamics Data

User Ian Dryden (Nottingham).

Friday 18 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Learning to Detect Stance and Represent Emojis

User Isabelle Augenstein, University College London.

Friday 18 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

A molecular genetic perspective on speech and language

Registration is required for this event

User Simon Fisher (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen).

Thursday 17 November 2016, 17:00-18:00

Does natural language understanding have anything to do with understanding natural language?

Registration is required for this event

User Ann Copestake.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 16:30-17:00

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

How attention and sound quality affect how well we understand and remember speech

User Ingrid Johnsrude, University of Western Ontario.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Poster session II

Registration is required for this event

User Various.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 15:30-16:30

Natural Language Processing and online health reports (or OMG U got flu?)

Registration is required for this event

User Nigel Collier & Anna Korhonen.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 15:00-15:30

Language dynamics: a neurocognitive approach to incremental interpretation

Registration is required for this event

User Lorraine K. Tyler.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

deep generative models

User Dave Janz; James Requeima.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

House The Old Library, Emmanuel College.

Poster session I

Registration is required for this event

User Various.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 13:30-14:00

House GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Industrial NLP Applications of Machine Learning in Different Domains

User Jochen Leidner (Thomson Reuters).

Thursday 17 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Probabilistic Numerical Computation: A New Concept?

User Prof. Mark Girolami (University of Warwick).

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

Thursday 17 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Towards a 300 Year History of Horror Literature for Children: A Swedish Survey with European Examples.

User Mattias Fyhr, Jönköping University.

House Mary Allan Building 106, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Orthography, <ει>? Spellings in Papyri, Uncials, and Tyndale House’s The New Testament in its Original Greek

User Patrick James (Cambridge).

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

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

Imaging the dynamic nature of emotional memory

User Renee Visser, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Nightingale Room, Peterhouse.

Awakening Dreaming Beauties: Language Reclamation and Social Wellbeing

User Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, University of Adelaide.

Monday 14 November 2016, 17:15-19:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The radical plasticity thesis: Consciousness as learned metacognition

User Axel Cleeremans, Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Friday 11 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Short Course: Lecture 2 - Sample Covariance Operators: Normal Approximation and Concentration

User Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech..

Friday 11 November 2016, 14:00-16:00

Recommending relevant citations using CoreSC and Argumentative Zoning

User Daniel Duma, University of Edinburgh.

Friday 11 November 2016, 12:00-13:00

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

Intelligent hearing tests using Gaussian Processes

User Richard Turner, Cambridge.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

Sketching methods

User John Bradshaw.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

House GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Monolingual and multilingual, explicit and latent vector representations of meaning

User Roberto Navigli (Sapienza University of Rome).

Thursday 10 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Open Source for NLP

Open Source and NLP

A special one day workshop.

User Ann Copestake (Cambridge), Aurelie Herbelot (Trento), Diana Maynard (Sheffield), Behrang QasemiZadeh (Düsseldorf), Nandaja Varma, Esther Seyffarth (Düsseldorf), Hrishikesh K.B. (Swathanthra Malayalam Computing).

House Seminar Room FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 09:00-17:00

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

Researching reading spaces

User Faculty of Education doctoral students.

House Mary Allan Building 118, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 17:30-19:00

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

Citizens or Subjects? El Sistema in Critical Perspective

User Dr. Geoff Baker, University of London.

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

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European and Iranian layers of Armenian vocabulary: the case of month names

Tea served from 4.15

User Hrach Martirosyan (Vienna).

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 16:30-17:30

Web search in an AI world: small, cute, distributed.

User Dr Aurelie Herbelot - University of Trento.

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 16:15-17:15

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

Short Course: Lecture 1 - Sample Covariance Operators: Normal Approximation and Concentration

User Professor Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Tech..

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 14:00-16:00

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

Predicting the future: the role of the cerebellum and the basal ganglia

User Franziska Knolle, Cambridge University.

Wednesday 09 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Amazon Alexa: building AI at scale

User David Hardcastle, Senior Manager, Software Development, Amazon.

Tuesday 08 November 2016, 13:15-14:15

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

Lexical Patterns of Austerity in UK Broadsheet Text 2007-15

User Dr Mike Scott, Aston University and Lexical Analysis Software Ltd..

Monday 07 November 2016, 17:00-18:30

House Dyson Meeting Room on the Ground Floor.

A talk in two parts: (1) AI Neuroscience: How much do deep neural networks understand about the images they classify? (2) Robots that can adapt like animals.

Note venue: James Dyson Building

User Prof. Jeff Clune (U Wyoming).

Monday 07 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Using non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) to interact with brain activity and associated functions: brain oscillations as promising targets?

User Professor Gregor Thut, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow.

Friday 04 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Constrained and Localized Nonparametric Estimation and Optimization

User John Lafferty (U of Chicago).

Friday 04 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

House GR06/7 English Faculty.

Creativity and discourse strategies in recent Spanish social protest movements

User Manuela Romano Mozo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid).

Thursday 03 November 2016, 16:30-18:30

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

Storing and updating models of the world for behavioural control

User Tim Behrens, Oxford.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 15:30-17:00

A crash-course on Bayesian Reinforcement Learning

User Alexandre Khae Wu Navarro (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 13:30-15:00

House GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Biomedical Text Mining: Structuring the Unstructured

User David Milward (Linguamatics).

Thursday 03 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

Multi-view Anomaly Detection via Robust Probabilistic Latent Variable Models

User Tomoharu Iwata - Learning and Intelligent Systems Research Group of NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

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

Where the episode ends: hippocampal encoding of naturalistic events is time-locked to event offset

User Aya Ben Yakov, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 12:30-13:30

Robots learning on the move: deep learning from lots of demonstration

User Dushyant Rao, Oxford Robotics Institute.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 11:00-12:00

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

Dynamic literacies and agentive learners in static systems

User Dr John Potter Department of Culture, Communication and Media University College London Knowledge Lab UCL Institute of Education.

Tuesday 01 November 2016, 16:30-18:00

House Department of Engineering - LR3A.

Investigating the interdependencies between DNN architectures and optimisation methods for Large Vocabulary Speech Continuous Speech Recognition

User Adnan Haider, University of Cambridge.

Monday 31 October 2016, 12:00-13:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Learning, sleep and memory consolidation. Behavioural and magnetoencephalographic investigations

User Philippe Peigneux, PhD, Chair Clinical Neuropsychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium ULB Francqui Research Professor 2013-2016 Head of UR2NF - Neuropsychology and Functional Neuroimaging Research Unit affiliated at CRCN - Centre de Rec.

Friday 28 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Normal Approximation and Concentration for Functions of Sample Covariance Operators

User Vladimir Koltchinskii (Georgia Tech).

Friday 28 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

Advancing Creativities Research: Making Connections across Diverse Settings

User BERA Special Interest Group: Creativity In Education.

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

Friday 28 October 2016, 10:00-17:00

House GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

User-generated content mining: From collective disease rates to individual demographics

User Vasileios Lampos (UCL).

Thursday 27 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

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

Assessment Policy and Music Education: Perspectives from North America

User Dr. Glenn Nierman, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

Advances in Proto-Basque Reconstruction and The Proto-Indo-European-Euskarian Hypothesis

Tea served from 4.15

User Juliette Blevins (Graduate Center, CUNY).

Cambridge-Africa Programme

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 16:30-17:30

2016 Cambridge-Africa Day

Drinks reception with live music, from 17:00-18:45

User A range of interesting and high profile presentations about collaborations between Cambridge and African researchers and students.

House Emmanuel College, Queen's Building Auditorium.

Tuesday 25 October 2016, 09:30-17:00

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

The Value of Languages: Towards a UK Strategy for Languages

User Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett, University of Cambridge.

Monday 24 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

House GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Nursing Turing's Child: How to Grow Communication-based Intelligent Machines

User Marco Baroni (University of Trento/Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research).

Monday 24 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

See what you hear - Constructing a representation of the world across the senses -

User Professor Uta Noppeney, Department of Psychology and Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Robotics Centre, University of Birmingham, UK.

Friday 21 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Minimax adaptive estimation in nonparametric Hidden Markov Models

User Yohann de Castro (Paris Sud - Orsay).

Friday 21 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Numerically Grounded Language Models

User George Spithourakis (UCL).

Friday 21 October 2016, 12:00-13:00

House GR06/7 English Faculty.

The origins of speech and anti-rhythms

User Laurence White (Plymouth University).

Thursday 20 October 2016, 16:30-18:30

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

Single neuron evidence of model-based and model-free reinforcement learning

User Steve Kennerley, UCL.

Thursday 20 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

House GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Building and using the Finnish Internet Parsebank

User Filip Ginter (University of Turku).

Thursday 20 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

Probabilistic modeling for position and orientation estimation using inertial sensors

User Manon Kok, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University.

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

Thursday 20 October 2016, 10:00-11:00

Collaborative and dialogic meaning-making: how children engage and immerse in a digital storyworld

User Fiona Maine, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

House Mary Allan Building 118, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

Psychopathology and plasticity of the social brain: From emotion regulation to empathy and theory of mind

User Philipp Kanske, Max Planck Institute.

Wednesday 19 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Visual Attention Without Visual Awareness

User Professor Robert Kentridge.

Friday 14 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Community Detection on the Weighted Stochastic Block Model

User Min Xu (U Penn).

Friday 14 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Internal Seminar pt. 1

User NLIP Postdocs and PhDs.

Friday 14 October 2016, 12:00-13:00

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

Adaptive memory and its temporal dynamics

User Maria Wimber, Birmingham University.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

House GR05, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Internal LTL meeting

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Thursday 13 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

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

Testing the potential of Modafinil to improve cognition in patients with remitted depression

User Muzaffer Kaser, Cambridge University.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

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

Towards a Pedagogy of Integration: Developing multiple competences in Brazilian Higher Music Education

User Heloisa Feichas – Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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

Tuesday 11 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The psychological and neural basis of the individual vulnerability to compulsive disorders: new insights from preclinical studies.

User Dr David Belin.

Friday 07 October 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Convergence Rates for Least-Squares Regression

User Francis Bach (INRIA).

Friday 07 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

Improving access to treatments for childhood anxiety disorders

User Cathy Creswell, University of Reading.

Thursday 06 October 2016, 15:30-17:00

Moment matching for latent variable models: from ICA to LDA and CCA

User Professor Francis Bach (INRIA, ENS).

Thursday 06 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

House GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Multiword Expressions and Compositionality Detection: Giving Word Embeddings a Hard Time

User Aline Villavicencio (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul).

Thursday 06 October 2016, 11:00-12:00

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

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 12: Community Music, the Aging Process, and Lifespan Learning: Directions in Adult Music Participation

User Dr Nathan Kruse, Case Western Reserve University.

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

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

Open Science at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit

User Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 12:30-13:30

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

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

User Michelle Martin, University of Washington and Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges, University of Cambridge.

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

Saturday 24 September 2016, 09:30-17:00

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

Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Mildred Taylor's Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

User Michelle Martin, University of Washington and Gabrielle Cliff-Hodges, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 23 September 2016, 09:30-17:00

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

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts series 12: Informed Teaching, Boundless Musicianship

User Dr Deborah Confredo, Temple University, USA.

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

Wednesday 21 September 2016, 17:00-18:30

Multiresolution Matrix Factorization

User Prof Risi Kondor (U Chicago).

Tuesday 13 September 2016, 11:00-12:00

Dynamic Models for Health Data

User Professor Katherine A Heller (Duke University).

Monday 12 September 2016, 11:00-12:00

Learning with Memory Embeddings

User Professor Volker Tresp (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich).

Thursday 08 September 2016, 11:00-12:00

Data Driven Discrete Time Modeling of Continuous Time Nonlinear Systems: Problems, Challenges, Success Stories

User Johan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

House For further details, please register at www.meetup.com/Data-Insights-Cambridge/.

Friday 02 September 2016, 11:00-12:00

Data Insights Cambridge

Structured Queries For Unstructured Data. David Milward, CTO Linguamatics.

User David Milward, Linguamatics..

Thursday 01 September 2016, 19:00-21:00

House Department of Engineering - LR5.

Very deep convolutional neural networks for speech recognition

User Tom Sercu, IBM Watson, USA.

Friday 19 August 2016, 12:00-13:00

Inference as Learning

User George Papamakarios (University of Edinburgh).

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

Monday 08 August 2016, 11:00-12:00

Policy Mobilities and Education Policy Research

User Dr Marcia McKenzie, University of Saskatchewan.

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

Tuesday 02 August 2016, 12:45-14:15

Interpretable and interactive machine learning

User Dr Been Kim.

Friday 29 July 2016, 11:00-12:00

Discriminative Embeddings of Latent Variable Models for Structured Data

User Prof Le Song (Georgia Tech).

Monday 25 July 2016, 11:00-12:00

House James Dyson Building Meeting Room on the Ground Floor.

Structured Dynamic Graphical Models & Scaling Multivariate Time Series Methodology

User Professor Mike West (Statistical Science, Duke University).

Thursday 21 July 2016, 11:00-12:00

Acquisition of perceptual expertise as an inference process - and its failure in the case of the dyslexia

User Professor Merav Ahissar, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

House Craik Seminar Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site.

Wednesday 13 July 2016, 14:30-15:30

House James Dyson Building Meeting Room on the Ground Floor.

Scaling and Generalizing Approximate Bayesian Inference

User Prof. David Blei (Columbia University).

Tuesday 12 July 2016, 11:00-12:00

House DMB GS1, Faculty of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PH.

The Creative Turn: Fostering Creativities in Secondary Schools, an International Study

User Dr Anne Harris, Monash University.

Thursday 07 July 2016, 16:30-18:00

House James Dyson Building Seminar Room - Department of Engineering.

Don't multiply lightly: exploring how DNN depth interacts with HMM independence assumptions in hybrid HMM/DNN's used for ASR

User Steven Wegmann, Semantic Machines and International Computer Science Institute (ICSI).

Monday 04 July 2016, 12:00-13:00

Text Readability Assessment for Second Language Learners

User Menglin Xia (University of Cambridge).

Friday 01 July 2016, 12:00-13:00

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

Explorations in structural and functional compensation: Examples from aphasia and dyslexia

User Dr Anna Woollams, University of Manchester.

Thursday 16 June 2016, 15:30-16:30

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

Art in Mind: Evaluating the impact of participatory arts on improved mental wellbeing

User Emily Bradfield.

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

Wednesday 15 June 2016, 16:00-18:30

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

Developmental disorders of working memory

User Erica Bottacin, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

Wednesday 15 June 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Understanding conflicting results in the speech perception literature: methodologies, problems and findings regarding cognitive contributions

User Dr Sarah Knight, MRC Institute of Hearing Research, University of Nottingham.

Tuesday 14 June 2016, 17:00-18:30

arg58's list

A modular architecture for Unicode text compression

User Adam Gleave (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 14 June 2016, 15:00-15:15

Learning Task Relations in Multi-Task Learning

Via Skype

User Yu Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology).

Tuesday 14 June 2016, 11:00-12:00

Distributed stochastic optimization for deep learning

Via Skype

User Sixin Zhang (NYU).

Tuesday 14 June 2016, 10:00-11:00

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

Chaining and convexity

User Ramon van Handel (Princeton).

Friday 10 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

Strong Structural Priors for Neural Network Architectures

User Tim Rocktäschel ( UCL).

Friday 10 June 2016, 12:00-13:00

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

The granularity of social action ascription in conversational interaction

User Professor Michael Haugh (University of Queensland).

Thursday 09 June 2016, 16:00-17:30

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

The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience

User Professor Russell Poldrack, Department of Psychology, Stanford.

Thursday 09 June 2016, 15:30-16:30

Modeling the Dynamics of Online Learning Activity

User Isabel Valera .

Thursday 09 June 2016, 11:00-12:00

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

Large-scale brain networks in cognition and consciousness: focus on the default mode network

User Dr Emmanuel A Stamatakis (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Room 3, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Every Body Matters: Using Action Research to Work Towards Injury Prevention and Health Promotion in Young Musicians

User Sarah Upjohn, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge .

Tuesday 07 June 2016, 17:00-18:30

Developments in Exact Inference in Graphical Models

User Stephen Pasteris (UCL).

Tuesday 07 June 2016, 10:30-11:30

Approximation strategies for structure learning in Bayesian networks

Note: via Skype!

User Teppo Niinimäki (Helsinki).

Tuesday 07 June 2016, 09:30-10:30

House DMB GS5, Faculty of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PH.

Wellbeing in pregnancy and early motherhood: The impact of engagement in arts-based creativities

User Dr Rosie Perkins, Research Fellow, Royal College of Music.

Monday 06 June 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

A Bayesian nonparametric approach to testing for dependence between random variables

User Sarah Filippi (Oxford).

Friday 03 June 2016, 16:00-17:00

House William Gates Building - FW26.

Automated Reasoning and AI for Large Formal Mathematics

User Josef Urban.

Friday 03 June 2016, 14:00-15:00

Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs)

User Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro.

Thursday 02 June 2016, 14:30-16:00

Variational inference for scalable Gaussian process approximations

User Alexander Matthews (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 02 June 2016, 11:30-12:30

Novel MCMC and SMC schemes for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture models

User Maria Lomeli (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 02 June 2016, 10:30-11:30

Turing: Rejuvenating Probabilistic Programming in Julia

User Hong Ge (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 02 June 2016, 09:30-10:30

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

High level language processing mechanisms in the human brain

User Evelina Fedorenko, MIT.

Wednesday 01 June 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Meaningful Music, Unmediated Sound: An Evolutionary History

User Professor Elizabeth Tolbert, Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute.

Tuesday 31 May 2016, 17:00-18:30

Incremental CCG parsing and its applications

User Bharat Ram Ambati, University of Edinburgh/Apple.

Friday 27 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Towards Weaker Supervision and Simpler Pipelines in Speech Recognition

User Gabriel Synnaeve.

House Angevin Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

Friday 27 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

nn275's list

Third workshop on ‘Romeyka and the languages of the eastern Black Sea’

Organisers: Ioanna Sitaridou & Nicolaos Neocleous - Attendance upon invitation only (because of the size of the room and restrictions pertaining to the quiet period at Queens’)

User Invited speakers: Stavros Skopeteas (Bielefeld University, Germany) & Metin Bagriacik (University of Ghent, Belgium).

Friday 27 May 2016, 09:00-17:00

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

English dialects: Geographical perceptions, language regard, and listener reactions

User Dr Chris Montgomery (University of Sheffield).

Thursday 26 May 2016, 16:00-17:30

nn275's list

Third workshop on ‘Romeyka and the languages of the eastern Black Sea’

Organisers: Ioanna Sitaridou & Nicolaos Neocleous - Attendance upon invitation only (because of the size of the room and restrictions pertaining to the quiet period at Queens’)

User Invited speakers: Stavros Skopeteas (Bielefeld University, Germany) & Metin Bagriacik (University of Ghent, Belgium).

House Angevin Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 15:00-17:30

Learning polynomials with Neural Networks

User Aldo Pacchiano (Berkeley).

Thursday 26 May 2016, 14:30-16:00

House Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Some Reflections on the Evolution and Differentiation of Human Utterance

User Professor Adam Kendon, University of Cambridge .

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

Distance Shrinkage and Euclidean Embedding via Regularized Kernel Estimation

User Ming Yuan (U. of Wisconsin).

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Sum-Product Networks for Probabilistic Modeling

User Robert Peharz (TU Graz).

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

Tuesday 24 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Horse Tales: Writing the Equine in Children’s Literature

User K. M. Peyton, Meg Rosoff, Jane Badger, Susanna Forrest.

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

Saturday 21 May 2016, 09:00-18:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Eating and over-eating: a cognitive perspective

User Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience; Wellcome Trust Sernior Research Fellow in Clinical Science Department of Psychiatry and Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation T.

Friday 20 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Tail index estimation, concentration, adaptation...

User Stéphane Boucheron (Paris Diderot).

Friday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Conversation Trees: A Grammar Model for Topic Structure in Online Forums

User Annie Louis, University of Essex.

Semitic Philology Lecture

Friday 20 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Language Contact and the Genesis of Mishnaic Hebrew

User Professor Edward Cook, Catholic University, Washington DC.

House Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

House GR04, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Phonotactics with[awt] rules: the learnability of a simple, unnatural pattern in English

User John Harris, UCL (in collaboration with Nick Neasom (UCL) and Kevin Tang (Yale)).

Thursday 19 May 2016, 16:30-18:30

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

Motivated rejection of (climate) science: causes, tools and effects

User Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, School of Experimental Psychology, Bristol.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 15:30-16:30

Generating Natural-Language Video Descriptions using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks

User Raymond Mooney, University of Texas.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

Executive functions during abstract problem solving

User Nadja Tschentscher, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Measuring rodent affect: Rethinking taste aversion and (some) models of psychiatric disorder."

User Dominic M. Dwyer – Cardiff University.

Friday 13 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Random warping functions for function/curve registration

User Karthik Bharath (Nottingham).

Friday 13 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

MLE-Struct: Bethe Learning of Graphical Models

User Kui Tang, Columbia University.

Friday 13 May 2016, 11:00-12:00

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

A head movement approach to the manner-of-directed-motion parameter

User Professor Raffaella Folli (University of Ulster).

Thursday 12 May 2016, 16:00-17:30

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

Helping the police with their enquiries

User Professor Vicki Bruce, School of Psychology, Newcastle.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 15:30-16:30

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

Can Layout and Engraving Rules Affect the Readability of Musical Scores?

User Arild Stenberg, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

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

Architecture and Education: two-footed stories of exploration

User Dominic Cullinan, SCABAL; Dr Rosie Parnell, Northumbria University; Dr Pam Woolner, University of Newcastle.

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

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 14:00-18:00

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

Cognitive control in affective contexts

User Susanne Schweizer MRC Cognition and Brian Science Unit.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

The Quest to Tune the Guitar Bridge, 1831-1956

User Charles Pardoe, University of Cambridge .

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 17:00-18:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

An engineering approach to aversive learning.

User Dr Ben Seymour, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Friday 06 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Computational Challenges in Sleeping Combinatorial Experts

User Varun Kanade (Oxford).

Friday 06 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

Is depression caused by a hyperactive habenula?

User Professor John Rosier, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 15:30-16:30

An introduction to Bayesian nonparametrics: some inference schemes for infinite mixture models

User Maria Lomeli.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 14:30-16:00

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (room 1S3 Donald McIntyre Building).

Associations and structure: How knowledge drives reasoning

User Aiden Feeney Senior Lecturer School of Psychology Queen's University Boston.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 12:30-14:00

House Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

The Kvens and planning of a minority language

User Eira Söderholm, University of Tromsø.

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 17:15-19:00

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

Intrusive emotional memories: a special form of memory

User Alex Lau-Zhu MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

What can the biological study of music show us?

User Dr. Daisy Fancourt, Royal College of Music .

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

The importance of testimony in children’s learning

User Kathleen Corriveau.

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The Invention of Consciousness

User Professor Nick Humphrey, Darwin College, University of Cambridge.

Friday 29 April 2016, 16:30-18:00

Maternal Health in Uganda: Listen Intelligently to Local Voices combining Language and Technology

User Claudia Abreu Lopes, Africa's Voices.

Friday 29 April 2016, 12:00-13:00

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

How neurophysiological investigations of bilingual processing have shaped my conception of human freedom

User Professor Guillaume Thierry (University of Bangor).

Thursday 28 April 2016, 16:00-17:30

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

Motivated visual cognition: How rewards affect visual attention and memory

User Professor Jane Raymond, School of Psychology, Birmingham.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 15:30-16:30

Topics in Expectation Propagation

User Yingzhen Li (University of Cambridge), Rich Turner.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

House Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Morphological complexity in Skolt Saami, an endangered Finno-Ugric language

User Tim Feist, University of Surrey.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 17:15-19:00

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

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 11: Musical virtual hangouts: Changing policy and strategy for community engagement in a major US Orchestra

User Dr. Patrick Schmidt, University of Western Ontario.

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

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

Dysphoria-linked individual differences in emotional mental imagery thought frequency

User Julie Ji, MRC Cognition and Brian Sciences Unit.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Music therapy, depression and frontal brain activity

User Professor Jorg Fachner, Anglia Ruskin University .

Tuesday 26 April 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

Focus on American Children's Literature mini-symposium

User Professor Jerry Griswold.

House MAB 106, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Tuesday 26 April 2016, 09:00-17:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Storing, using and updating knowledge for behavioural control.

User Professor Tim Behrens, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford.

Friday 22 April 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

The information complexity of sequential resource allocation

User Emilie Kaufmann (INRIA LIlle).

Friday 22 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

The language of higher-order uncertainty

User Dan Lassiter, Stanford University.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 16:30-18:30

Deep Q-Learning and AlphaGo

User Shixiang Gu (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

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

The role of sleep and circadian rhythmicity in brain health and cognition

User Alpar Lazar, Cambridge.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

How we become musically sophisticated: A gap in the literature and a new research perspective

User Dr. Daniel Müllensiefen, Goldsmiths University of London.

Tuesday 19 April 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

Digital Making: Encouraging creativity in the classroom and integrating STEAM project-based learning

User Carrie Anne Philbin, Education Pioneer, Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Monday 18 April 2016, 16:00-18:30

From passive to interactive (multimodal) language learning

User Angeliki Lazaridou, University of Trento.

Friday 15 April 2016, 12:00-13:00

inference failures in probabilistic programming

User Tom Minka (Microsoft Research Ltd).

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

Thursday 14 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 11: Virtual performance on YouTube: Expanding our concept of “ensemble”

User Dr. Christopher Cayari, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

Wednesday 13 April 2016, 17:00-18:30

Where Can I Buy a Boulder? Searching for Offline Retail Locations

User Sandro Bauer (University of Cambridge).

Friday 08 April 2016, 12:00-13:00

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

Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming

User Dr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Thursday 07 April 2016, 15:30-16:30

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

Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming

User Dr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Thursday 07 April 2016, 15:30-16:30

Variational Methods and Compressed Sensing

User Nilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 07 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

Inference and Learning in the Anglican Probabilistic Programming System

User Jan-Willem van de Meent (Oxford).

Tuesday 05 April 2016, 11:00-12:00

Fast Fusion of Multi-band Images: A Powerful Tool for Super-resolution

User Qi Wei (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 31 March 2016, 14:30-16:00

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

Signal Recovery from Scattering Convolutional Neural Networks

User Joan Bruna (Berkeley).

Thursday 24 March 2016, 15:00-16:00

House DMB 2S4, Faculty of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PH.

Play Like A Girl

User Mindy Abovitz.

Friday 18 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

Texts Come from People - How Demographic Factors Influence NLP Models

User Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen.

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

Friday 18 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

PESGB Seminar Series: An Arendtian perspective on inclusive education: towards a reimagined vocabulary

User Morten Timmermann Korsgaard, Aarhus University.

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

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

Unsupervised Risk Estimation with only Structural Assumptions

User Jacob Steinhardt (Stanford University).

Computational Neuroscience

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

It's the Network Dummy: Exhuming the reticular theory while shoveling a little dirt on the neuron doctrine

User Tom Dean, Google Research.

House Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 10:00-11:00

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

Latent Transition Profile Analysis: A person-centred model of Change

User Dr Luke Fryer , Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge.

Monday 14 March 2016, 12:00-13:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Brain algorithmics: reverse engineering dynamic information processing in brain networks from EEG/MEG time series

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED

User Prof. Philippe G. Schyns, FRSE, FRSA Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, Director University of Glasgow.

Friday 11 March 2016, 16:30-18:00

Tracing concepts through time

User Gabriel Recchia (University of Cambridge).

Friday 11 March 2016, 12:00-13:00

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

Statistical learning of words and syntax: The role of learning context and individual differences

User Dr Patrick Rebuschat (University of Lancaster).

Thursday 10 March 2016, 16:00-17:30

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

The relationship between speechreading and reading in deaf children: outcomes from an RCT

User Dr Mairead MacSweeney, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.

Thursday 10 March 2016, 15:30-16:30

House Auditorium, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

International Women's Day Celebration 2016

User CIAN Network and guests.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 19:30-21:00

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

Real Readers Reading Series Two: PhD research into reading: work in progress

User PLACE group students.

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S7.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

Word order and the Attic Orators: towards a modern linguistic account of ancient stylistic terminology

Tea served from 4.15

User Coulter George (Virginia).

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Engineering Department, Boardroom on the 2nd floor (past canteen on the left).

The geometry of uncertainty

User Fabio Cuzzolin, Head of AI and vision, Oxford Brookes University.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

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

The waxing and waning of PIMMS: experimental but not computational support for prediction error driving episodic memory

User Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Understanding generative learning in the individual brain

User Professor Zoe Kourtzi, University of Cambridge .

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

Generalized empathy and early steps towards language evolution

User Prof. Stephen Levinson (Max Planck, Nijmegen).

House LCHES Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Fitzilliam Street.

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 13:00-14:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

The typical and atypical development of the social brain

User Mark H Johnson, MRC Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London..

Friday 04 March 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Information bounds for inverse problems with application to deconvolution and Lévy models

User Mathias Trabs (CEREMADE, Paris Dauphine).

Friday 04 March 2016, 16:00-17:00

General-Purpose Representation Learning from Words to Sentences

***PLEASE NOTE CHANGED (DIFFERENT) TIME***

User Felix Hill (University of Cambridge).

Friday 04 March 2016, 11:00-12:00

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

Rumours, Diseases and Drugs: Tackling Textual Data for Knowledge Discovery in Health

User Nigel Collier, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 16:30-18:30

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

The brain on stress - Mechanisms underlying increases risk to develop psychopathologies

User Professor Carmen Sandi, Director of the Laboratory of Behavioural Genetics, Brain and Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 15:30-16:30

Probabilistic programming

User Hong Ge (University of Cambridge); Matej Balog.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 14:30-16:00

House Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Cantonese: the biggest endangered language?

User Cherry Lam (PhD candidate, DTAL, Cambridge) & Ricky Chan (PhD candidate, DTAL, Cambridge).

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 17:15-19:00

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

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 11: Performing interculturality research: An interactive creative exchange exploring notions of ‘voice’, ‘reflexivity’, ‘power’ and ‘positioning’

User Prof Pam Burnard, James Biddulph, Afrodita Nikolova, & Ana-Marie Mocanu, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

Explaining how similar two faces look, using deep convolutional networks and optimised stimuli

User Kate Storrs, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Investigating rhythmic expectation using sound lateralization and auditory averaging tasks

User David Greatrex, University of Cambridge .

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

New perspectives on old puzzles – memory and the brain

User Professor Eleanor A. Maguire, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL.

Friday 26 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Statistically optimal robust estimation of the precision matrix by convex programming

User Arnak Dalayan (ENSAE).

Friday 26 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Understanding generative learning in the individual brain

User Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge).

Friday 26 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

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

Why phonology is flat: the role of concatenation and linearity

User Dr Tobias Sheer (Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis).

Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:00-17:30

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

The economic utility signal of dopamine neurons

User Dr Wolfram Schulz, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, BCNI, Cambridge.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 15:30-16:30

Learning by learning rich generative models

User Thang Bui (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 25 February 2016, 14:30-16:00

Education for Sustainable Development and Health Education in Times of Reform

User Katrine Dahl Madsen, The Danish School of Education, Aarhus University.

House MAB 119, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 13:15-14:45

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

Bringing Digital World to life, bringing print to life: telling my story

User Dr Kate Stone, CEO of Novalia.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 18:30-21:00

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

Real Readers Reading Series Two: Re-thinking the teaching of reading: Beyond the 'ph' word

User Dr Wayne Tennent, University of East London .

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S7.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 11: Action-research on collaborative composition

User Dr Gabriel Rusinek, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

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

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

A diachronic perspective on the temporality of the Greek infinitive

Tea served from 4.15

User Jerneja Kavčič (Ljubljana).

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

House SW01, Computer Laboratory.

Data Science at The Guardian

User Felix Sanchez-Garcia, The Guardian.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 15:00-16:00

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

Can the sort of large-scale automatic language processing that interests engineers tell us anything about human language processing?

User Felix Hill (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm 1S3, Donald McIntyre Building).

UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING INTEREST DEVELOPMENT WITHIN FORMAL EDUCATION

User Dr Luke Fryer, Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Education.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

Expressions and body movements as communication and implications for language origins theories

User Adam Kendon (Australian National University).

House LCHES Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Fitzilliam Street.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

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

English as a Lingua Franca: Past, Present, and (Possible) Future

User Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Southampton University.

Monday 22 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

How rational are we?

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

Friday 19 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

What Happens Next? Event Prediction Using a Compositional Neural Network Model

User Mark Granroth-Wilding, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 19 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

A more Automated Statistician

User David Janz, Oxford University.

Friday 19 February 2016, 11:30-12:00

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

Language variation and change within the individual

User Laurel MacKenzie, University of Manchester.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:30-18:30

Natural gradient descent and variational inference

User Mark van der Wilk; Alex Matthews .

Thursday 18 February 2016, 14:30-16:00

Can the Greek dialects be grouped? A response to Parker and Ringe

Tea served from 4.15

User Rupert Thompson and Matthew Scarborough (Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

Communication with Artificial Intelligences

User Prof. Ann Copestake - University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory..

House Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

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

A meta-analysis of working memory impairments in survivors of a moderate-severe traumatic brain injury

User Darren Dunning, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Recognition of intent in infant-directed singing? Another look at music and universality

User Dr Fabia Franco, Middlesex University London.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

From Empire to Empire Windrush and Beyond: Publishing and the Black British Child

User Professor Karen Sands-O'Connor, Newcastle University.

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

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Music as Communication: An Evolutionary Story

User Elizabeth Tolbert. Johns Hopkins University & Cambridge Centre for Music and Science.

House LCHES Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Fitzilliam Street.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

A memory of hunger? Effects of early-life adversity on adult foraging decisions.

User Professor Melissa Bateson, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution/ Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University.

Friday 12 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Distribution-Free Detection of Structured Anomalies: Permutation and Rank-Based Scans

User Rui Castro (Eindhoven).

Friday 12 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Modern Deep Learning through Bayesian Eyes

User Yarin Gal, University of Cambridge.

Friday 12 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

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

Bricks and mortars for building meanings

User Dr Hugh Rabagliati (University of Edinburgh).

Thursday 11 February 2016, 16:00-17:30

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

Human neuroscience in the wild

User Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Neurotechnology, Imperial.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 15:30-16:30

Differentiable Data Structures and (if we have time) POMDPs

NOTE Topic Change

User Yarin Gal; Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:30-16:00

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 11: Music Therapy in Education

User Dr Patricia Leonor Sabbatella Riccardi, University of Cadiz.

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

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

Making Picturebooks: What an Artist Brings

User Dr Laura Little, Bath Spa University.

House MAB 106, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

The syntax and semantics of -τος adjectives in Ancient Greek

Tea served from 4.15

User Rob Crellin (Copenhagen).

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

House Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

How Infants Learn Language Using Speech Rhythm and Neuronal Oscillations

User Dr Victoria Leong, University of Cambridge .

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

Native speaker and learner language data in Applied Linguistics: what's next?

User Dr Pascual Pérez-Paredes, University of Cambridge.

Monday 08 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Tractometry: From Micro to Macro (and Back Again)

User Professor Derek Jones, Director of Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University .

Friday 05 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

Statistical algorithms and planted satisfiability problems

User Will Perkins (Birmingham).

Friday 05 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

Multilingual Image Description with Neural Sequence Models

User Eva Hasler, University of Cambridge.

Friday 05 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

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

Language families and language contact: Latin, Sabellian and Greek

User James Clackson, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 16:30-18:30

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

Size Matters: targetting non - conscious processes to reduce food and drink consumption

User Prof Theresa Marteau, Director of Behaviour and Health Research unit, University of Cambridge.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 15:30-16:30

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

Doing cognitive psychology research in the real world: Issues for implementation, data collection and analysis

User Dr Michelle Ellefson (University of Cambridge).

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

House Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Psychological effects of interpersonal entrainment

User Gabriela Pavarini, University of Cambridge .

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Pleasures of the brain: Investigating anhedonia with whole-brain computational connectomics

User Professor Morten L. Kringelbach Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Department of Clinical Medicine - Center for Music In the Brain, Aarhus University, Denmark .

Friday 29 January 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

The data-driven (s,S) policy: why you can have confidence in censored demand data

User Gah-Yi Vahn (London School of Business).

Friday 29 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Sentence Entailment in Categorical Compositional Distributional Semantics

User Esma Balkır.

Friday 29 January 2016, 12:00-13:00

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

Degrees of ergativity in Romance causatives

User Dr Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University).

Thursday 28 January 2016, 16:00-17:30

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

Learning and processing abstract concepts: The role of emotion and the role of language

User Professor Gabriella Vigliocco, Director, Language and Cognition Laboratory, UCL.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Random projection ensemble classification

User Timothy Cannings.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 14:30-16:00

House Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Shawi, Quechua and Spanish: a Sea of Languages

User Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics – Department for Language and Cognition.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 17:15-19:00

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

Real Readers Reading Series Two: Engaging with literature through game design

User Professor Andrew Burn, Institute of Education, University College, London .

House Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S3.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

House Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Bilinguals' experience of emotional meaning in music and language

User Miriam Tenderini, Queen Mary University of London.

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

Marking progression in second language production: EAL pupils’ use of spoken and written English

User Dr Michael Evans, University of Cambridge.

Monday 25 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

Nonlinear shrinkage of Eigenvalues in Integrated Covolatility Matrix for Portfolio Allocation in High Frequency Data

User Clifford Lam (LSE).

Friday 22 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

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

Reconceptualising conditionals

User Chi-Hé Elder, University of East Anglia.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 16:30-18:30

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

How does attentional control matter? Mechanisms and developmental dynamics

User Professor Gaia Scerif, Department of Educational Psychology, Oxford.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Deep learning for time series

User Christof Angermueller(University of Cambridge); David Zoltowski (University of Cambridge).

Thursday 21 January 2016, 14:30-16:00

House Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Improvisation as a way of knowing

User Dr Andrew Goldman, Columbia University.

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 18:00-19:30

House DMB GS3, Faculty of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PH.

Having the courage to be creative: making links between creativity, the sharing economy and gender identity

User Maria Lusitano Santos.

Monday 18 January 2016, 18:00-20:30

House Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

New physiological findings in human brain stimulation: why most claims to cognitive enhancement are probably false.

User Professor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

Friday 15 January 2016, 16:30-18:00

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

On the cartography of the clause in Old Celtic

User Joe Eska, Virginia Tech.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 16:30-18:30

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

Human brain networks from functional MRI

User Professor Ed Bullmore, Head of Dept Psychiatry, Cambridge.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Stochastic discrete integration

User Adrian Weller;Nilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 14 January 2016, 14:30-16:00

Children reading metafiction: Exploring critical and creative thinking on multimodal novels in the primary classroom

User Eve Tandoi, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

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

P Values and replication: the problem is not what you think

User Stephen Senn, Head of Competence Center for Methodology anbd Statistics ( CCMS), Luxembourg Institute for Health.

Wednesday 16 December 2015, 12:30-13:30

General Reinforcement Learning

User Jan Leike (Australian National University).

Wednesday 16 December 2015, 11:00-12:00

House Lecture Room 1, Faculty of Music, 11 West Road, CB3 9DP.

Unattended music, cognition, and the experimental paradigm: the 'background-ness' of background music

User Charlotte Lapham.

Tuesday 15 December 2015, 17:00-18:30

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

Boosting in the presence of outliers: adaptive classification with non-convex loss functions

User Jelena Bradic (UC San Diego).

Friday 11 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Graph-Guided Banding for Covariance Estimation

User Jacob Bien (Cornell University).

Friday 11 December 2015, 14:30-15:30