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

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

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

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

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

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

Dr Deborah Confredo, Temple University, USA.

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Multiresolution Matrix Factorization

Prof Risi Kondor (U Chicago).

CBL Room BE-438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Dynamic Models for Health Data

Professor Katherine A Heller (Duke University).

CBL Room BE-438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning with Memory Embeddings

Professor Volker Tresp (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Johan Schoukens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

CBL Room BE-438.

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

Data Insights Cambridge

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

David Milward, Linguamatics..

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

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Very deep convolutional neural networks for speech recognition

Tom Sercu, IBM Watson, USA.

Department of Engineering - LR5.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Inference as Learning

George Papamakarios (University of Edinburgh).

CBL Room BE-438.

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

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

Policy Mobilities and Education Policy Research

Dr Marcia McKenzie, University of Saskatchewan.

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Interpretable and interactive machine learning

Dr Been Kim.

CBL Room BE-438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Discriminative Embeddings of Latent Variable Models for Structured Data

Prof Le Song (Georgia Tech).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Structured Dynamic Graphical Models & Scaling Multivariate Time Series Methodology

Professor Mike West (Statistical Science, Duke University).

James Dyson Building Meeting Room on the Ground Floor.

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

Professor Merav Ahissar, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scaling and Generalizing Approximate Bayesian Inference

Prof. David Blei (Columbia University).

James Dyson Building Meeting Room on the Ground Floor.

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

Homerton CIG Series 2015 - 2016

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

Dr Anne Harris, Monash University.

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

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

CUED Speech Group Seminars

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

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

James Dyson Building Seminar Room - Department of Engineering.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Text Readability Assessment for Second Language Learners

Menglin Xia (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Chaucer Club

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

Dr Anna Woollams, University of Manchester.

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

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

Emily Bradfield.

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

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Developmental disorders of working memory

Erica Bottacin, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

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

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

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

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

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

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

arg58's list

A modular architecture for Unicode text compression

Adam Gleave (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning Task Relations in Multi-Task Learning

Via Skype

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

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Distributed stochastic optimization for deep learning

Via Skype

Sixin Zhang (NYU).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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

Statistics

Chaining and convexity

Ramon van Handel (Princeton).

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Strong Structural Priors for Neural Network Architectures

Tim Rocktäschel ( UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The granularity of social action ascription in conversational interaction

Professor Michael Haugh (University of Queensland).

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

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

Chaucer Club

The future of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience

Professor Russell Poldrack, Department of Psychology, Stanford.

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Modeling the Dynamics of Online Learning Activity

Isabel Valera .

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

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

Dr Emmanuel A Stamatakis (University of Cambridge).

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

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

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

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

Sarah Upjohn, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge .

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Developments in Exact Inference in Graphical Models

Stephen Pasteris (UCL).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Approximation strategies for structure learning in Bayesian networks

Note: via Skype!

Teppo Niinimäki (Helsinki).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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

Homerton CIG Series 2015 - 2016

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

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

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

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

Statistics

A Bayesian nonparametric approach to testing for dependence between random variables

Sarah Filippi (Oxford).

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Automated Reasoning and AI for Large Formal Mathematics

Josef Urban.

William Gates Building - FW26.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs)

Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational inference for scalable Gaussian process approximations

Alexander Matthews (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Maria Lomeli (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Turing: Rejuvenating Probabilistic Programming in Julia

Hong Ge (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

High level language processing mechanisms in the human brain

Evelina Fedorenko, MIT.

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

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

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Meaningful Music, Unmediated Sound: An Evolutionary History

Professor Elizabeth Tolbert, Johns Hopkins Peabody Institute.

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Incremental CCG parsing and its applications

Bharat Ram Ambati, University of Edinburgh/Apple.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Towards Weaker Supervision and Simpler Pipelines in Speech Recognition

Gabriel Synnaeve.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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’)

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

Angevin Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

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

Dr Chris Montgomery (University of Sheffield).

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

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’)

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

Angevin Room, Queens’ College, Cambridge.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning polynomials with Neural Networks

Aldo Pacchiano (Berkeley).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Some Reflections on the Evolution and Differentiation of Human Utterance

Professor Adam Kendon, University of Cambridge .

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

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

Statistics

Distance Shrinkage and Euclidean Embedding via Regularized Kernel Estimation

Ming Yuan (U. of Wisconsin).

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Sum-Product Networks for Probabilistic Modeling

Robert Peharz (TU Graz).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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

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

Horse Tales: Writing the Equine in Children’s Literature

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

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

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

Zangwill Club

Eating and over-eating: a cognitive perspective

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.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Tail index estimation, concentration, adaptation...

Stéphane Boucheron (Paris Diderot).

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

Friday 20 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Conversation Trees: A Grammar Model for Topic Structure in Online Forums

Annie Louis, University of Essex.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 20 May 2016, 12:00-13:00

Semitic Philology Lecture

Language Contact and the Genesis of Mishnaic Hebrew

Professor Edward Cook, Catholic University, Washington DC.

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Site), Room 8-9.

Thursday 19 May 2016, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Phonotactics with[awt] rules: the learnability of a simple, unnatural pattern in English

John Harris, UCL (in collaboration with Nick Neasom (UCL) and Kevin Tang (Yale)).

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

Thursday 19 May 2016, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Motivated rejection of (climate) science: causes, tools and effects

Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, School of Experimental Psychology, Bristol.

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

Thursday 19 May 2016, 15:30-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Generating Natural-Language Video Descriptions using LSTM Recurrent Neural Networks

Raymond Mooney, University of Texas.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Executive functions during abstract problem solving

Nadja Tschentscher, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Measuring rodent affect: Rethinking taste aversion and (some) models of psychiatric disorder."

Dominic M. Dwyer – Cardiff University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Random warping functions for function/curve registration

Karthik Bharath (Nottingham).

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

Friday 13 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

MLE-Struct: Bethe Learning of Graphical Models

Kui Tang, Columbia University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

A head movement approach to the manner-of-directed-motion parameter

Professor Raffaella Folli (University of Ulster).

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

Thursday 12 May 2016, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Helping the police with their enquiries

Professor Vicki Bruce, School of Psychology, Newcastle.

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

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?

Arild Stenberg, University of Cambridge.

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

Dominic Cullinan, SCABAL; Dr Rosie Parnell, Northumbria University; Dr Pam Woolner, University of Newcastle.

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

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 14:00-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cognitive control in affective contexts

Susanne Schweizer MRC Cognition and Brian Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 12:30-13:30

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

The Quest to Tune the Guitar Bridge, 1831-1956

Charles Pardoe, University of Cambridge .

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

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

An engineering approach to aversive learning.

Dr Ben Seymour, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Computational Challenges in Sleeping Combinatorial Experts

Varun Kanade (Oxford).

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

Friday 06 May 2016, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Is depression caused by a hyperactive habenula?

Professor John Rosier, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.

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

Thursday 05 May 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An introduction to Bayesian nonparametrics: some inference schemes for infinite mixture models

Maria Lomeli.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 05 May 2016, 14:30-16:00

Psychology & Education

Associations and structure: How knowledge drives reasoning

Aiden Feeney Senior Lecturer School of Psychology Queen's University Boston.

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

Thursday 05 May 2016, 12:30-14:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Kvens and planning of a minority language

Eira Söderholm, University of Tromsø.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 17:15-19:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Intrusive emotional memories: a special form of memory

Alex Lau-Zhu MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 04 May 2016, 12:30-13:30

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

What can the biological study of music show us?

Dr. Daisy Fancourt, Royal College of Music .

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

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 17:00-18:30

Psychology & Education

The importance of testimony in children’s learning

Kathleen Corriveau.

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

Tuesday 03 May 2016, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

The Invention of Consciousness

Professor Nick Humphrey, Darwin College, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 29 April 2016, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Maternal Health in Uganda: Listen Intelligently to Local Voices combining Language and Technology

Claudia Abreu Lopes, Africa's Voices.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 29 April 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

How neurophysiological investigations of bilingual processing have shaped my conception of human freedom

Professor Guillaume Thierry (University of Bangor).

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

Thursday 28 April 2016, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Motivated visual cognition: How rewards affect visual attention and memory

Professor Jane Raymond, School of Psychology, Birmingham.

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

Thursday 28 April 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Topics in Expectation Propagation

Yingzhen Li (University of Cambridge), Rich Turner.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Morphological complexity in Skolt Saami, an endangered Finno-Ugric language

Tim Feist, University of Surrey.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

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

Dr. Patrick Schmidt, University of Western Ontario.

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

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Dysphoria-linked individual differences in emotional mental imagery thought frequency

Julie Ji, MRC Cognition and Brian Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 12:30-13:30

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Music therapy, depression and frontal brain activity

Professor Jorg Fachner, Anglia Ruskin University .

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

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

Professor Jerry Griswold.

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

Tuesday 26 April 2016, 09:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Storing, using and updating knowledge for behavioural control.

Professor Tim Behrens, Professor of Computational Neuroscience, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 April 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

The information complexity of sequential resource allocation

Emilie Kaufmann (INRIA LIlle).

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

Friday 22 April 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

The language of higher-order uncertainty

Dan Lassiter, Stanford University.

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

Thursday 21 April 2016, 16:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Q-Learning and AlphaGo

Shixiang Gu (University of Cambridge); Amar Shah.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The role of sleep and circadian rhythmicity in brain health and cognition

Alpar Lazar, Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 12:30-13:30

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

How we become musically sophisticated: A gap in the literature and a new research perspective

Dr. Daniel Müllensiefen, Goldsmiths University of London.

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

Tuesday 19 April 2016, 17:00-18:30

Homerton CIG Series 2015 - 2016

Digital Making: Encouraging creativity in the classroom and integrating STEAM project-based learning

Carrie Anne Philbin, Education Pioneer, Raspberry Pi Foundation.

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

Monday 18 April 2016, 16:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

From passive to interactive (multimodal) language learning

Angeliki Lazaridou, University of Trento.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 April 2016, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

inference failures in probabilistic programming

Tom Minka (Microsoft Research Ltd).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 14 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

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

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 11: Virtual performance on YouTube: Expanding our concept of “ensemble”

Dr. Christopher Cayari, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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

Wednesday 13 April 2016, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Where Can I Buy a Boulder? Searching for Offline Retail Locations

Sandro Bauer (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 April 2016, 12:00-13:00

Chaucer Club

Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming

Dr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

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

Thursday 07 April 2016, 15:30-16:30

Chaucer Club

Investigating effects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on hearing and auditory streaming

Dr Lars Riecke, Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

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

Thursday 07 April 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Methods and Compressed Sensing

Nilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 07 April 2016, 14:30-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Inference and Learning in the Anglican Probabilistic Programming System

Jan-Willem van de Meent (Oxford).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 05 April 2016, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Fast Fusion of Multi-band Images: A Powerful Tool for Super-resolution

Qi Wei (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 31 March 2016, 14:30-16:00

Statistics

Signal Recovery from Scattering Convolutional Neural Networks

Joan Bruna (Berkeley).

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

Thursday 24 March 2016, 15:00-16:00

Homerton CIG Series 2015 - 2016

Play Like A Girl

Mindy Abovitz.

DMB 2S4, Faculty of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PH.

Friday 18 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Texts Come from People - How Demographic Factors Influence NLP Models

Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

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

PESGB Seminar Series: An Arendtian perspective on inclusive education: towards a reimagined vocabulary

Morten Timmermann Korsgaard, Aarhus University.

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Unsupervised Risk Estimation with only Structural Assumptions

Jacob Steinhardt (Stanford University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

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

Computational Neuroscience

It's the Network Dummy: Exhuming the reticular theory while shoveling a little dirt on the neuron doctrine

Tom Dean, Google Research.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Wednesday 16 March 2016, 10:00-11:00

Psychology & Education

Latent Transition Profile Analysis: A person-centred model of Change

Dr Luke Fryer , Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 14 March 2016, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

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

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Tracing concepts through time

Gabriel Recchia (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Statistical learning of words and syntax: The role of learning context and individual differences

Dr Patrick Rebuschat (University of Lancaster).

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

Thursday 10 March 2016, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

The relationship between speechreading and reading in deaf children: outcomes from an RCT

Dr Mairead MacSweeney, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL.

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

Thursday 10 March 2016, 15:30-16:30

Homerton CIG Series 2015 - 2016

International Women's Day Celebration 2016

CIAN Network and guests.

Auditorium, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

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

PLACE group students.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S7.

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

Indo-European Seminar

Word order and the Attic Orators: towards a modern linguistic account of ancient stylistic terminology

Tea served from 4.15

Coulter George (Virginia).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

The geometry of uncertainty

Fabio Cuzzolin, Head of AI and vision, Oxford Brookes University.

Engineering Department, Boardroom on the 2nd floor (past canteen on the left).

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The waxing and waning of PIMMS: experimental but not computational support for prediction error driving episodic memory

Rik Henson ( MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

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

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Understanding generative learning in the individual brain

Professor Zoe Kourtzi, University of Cambridge .

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

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

Generalized empathy and early steps towards language evolution

Prof. Stephen Levinson (Max Planck, Nijmegen).

LCHES Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Fitzilliam Street.

Tuesday 08 March 2016, 13:00-14:30

Zangwill Club

The typical and atypical development of the social brain

Mark H Johnson, MRC Director, Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London..

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Information bounds for inverse problems with application to deconvolution and Lévy models

Mathias Trabs (CEREMADE, Paris Dauphine).

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

General-Purpose Representation Learning from Words to Sentences

***PLEASE NOTE CHANGED (DIFFERENT) TIME***

Felix Hill (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 04 March 2016, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Rumours, Diseases and Drugs: Tackling Textual Data for Knowledge Discovery in Health

Nigel Collier, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Chaucer Club

The brain on stress - Mechanisms underlying increases risk to develop psychopathologies

Professor Carmen Sandi, Director of the Laboratory of Behavioural Genetics, Brain and Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne.

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

Thursday 03 March 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic programming

Hong Ge (University of Cambridge); Matej Balog.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Cantonese: the biggest endangered language?

Cherry Lam (PhD candidate, DTAL, Cambridge) & Ricky Chan (PhD candidate, DTAL, Cambridge).

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

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’

Prof Pam Burnard, James Biddulph, Afrodita Nikolova, & Ana-Marie Mocanu, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 02 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Explaining how similar two faces look, using deep convolutional networks and optimised stimuli

Kate Storrs, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

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

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Investigating rhythmic expectation using sound lateralization and auditory averaging tasks

David Greatrex, University of Cambridge .

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

Tuesday 01 March 2016, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

New perspectives on old puzzles – memory and the brain

Professor Eleanor A. Maguire, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Statistically optimal robust estimation of the precision matrix by convex programming

Arnak Dalayan (ENSAE).

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

Friday 26 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding generative learning in the individual brain

Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Why phonology is flat: the role of concatenation and linearity

Dr Tobias Sheer (Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis).

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

Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

The economic utility signal of dopamine neurons

Dr Wolfram Schulz, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, BCNI, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 25 February 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning by learning rich generative models

Thang Bui (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 14:30-16:00

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

Education for Sustainable Development and Health Education in Times of Reform

Katrine Dahl Madsen, The Danish School of Education, Aarhus University.

MAB 119, Mary Allan Building, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Thursday 25 February 2016, 13:15-14:45

Homerton CIG Series 2015 - 2016

Bringing Digital World to life, bringing print to life: telling my story

Dr Kate Stone, CEO of Novalia.

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

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

Dr Wayne Tennent, University of East London .

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

Dr Gabriel Rusinek, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

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

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

A diachronic perspective on the temporality of the Greek infinitive

Tea served from 4.15

Jerneja Kavčič (Ljubljana).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Data Science at The Guardian

Felix Sanchez-Garcia, The Guardian.

SW01, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can the sort of large-scale automatic language processing that interests engineers tell us anything about human language processing?

Felix Hill (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

Psychology & Education

UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING INTEREST DEVELOPMENT WITHIN FORMAL EDUCATION

Dr Luke Fryer, Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Education.

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

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

Expressions and body movements as communication and implications for language origins theories

Adam Kendon (Australian National University).

LCHES Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Fitzilliam Street.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

Second Language Education Group

English as a Lingua Franca: Past, Present, and (Possible) Future

Professor Jennifer Jenkins, Southampton University.

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

Monday 22 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

How rational are we?

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 19 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What Happens Next? Event Prediction Using a Compositional Neural Network Model

Mark Granroth-Wilding, Computer Laboratory.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

A more Automated Statistician

David Janz, Oxford University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Friday 19 February 2016, 11:30-12:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Language variation and change within the individual

Laurel MacKenzie, University of Manchester.

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

Thursday 18 February 2016, 16:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Natural gradient descent and variational inference

Mark van der Wilk; Alex Matthews .

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 14:30-16:00

Indo-European Seminar

Can the Greek dialects be grouped? A response to Parker and Ringe

Tea served from 4.15

Rupert Thompson and Matthew Scarborough (Cambridge).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

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

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Communication with Artificial Intelligences

Prof. Ann Copestake - University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A meta-analysis of working memory impairments in survivors of a moderate-severe traumatic brain injury

Darren Dunning, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 17 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Recognition of intent in infant-directed singing? Another look at music and universality

Dr Fabia Franco, Middlesex University London.

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

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

Professor Karen Sands-O'Connor, Newcastle University.

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

Elizabeth Tolbert. Johns Hopkins University & Cambridge Centre for Music and Science.

LCHES Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Fitzilliam Street.

Tuesday 16 February 2016, 13:00-14:30

Zangwill Club

A memory of hunger? Effects of early-life adversity on adult foraging decisions.

Professor Melissa Bateson, Centre for Behaviour and Evolution/ Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 12 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Distribution-Free Detection of Structured Anomalies: Permutation and Rank-Based Scans

Rui Castro (Eindhoven).

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

Friday 12 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Modern Deep Learning through Bayesian Eyes

Yarin Gal, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 12 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Bricks and mortars for building meanings

Dr Hugh Rabagliati (University of Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 11 February 2016, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Human neuroscience in the wild

Dr Aldo Faisal, Department of Neurotechnology, Imperial.

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

Thursday 11 February 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differentiable Data Structures and (if we have time) POMDPs

NOTE Topic Change

Yarin Gal; Rowan McAllister (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:30-16:00

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

Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 11: Music Therapy in Education

Dr Patricia Leonor Sabbatella Riccardi, University of Cadiz.

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

Dr Laura Little, Bath Spa University.

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

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

The syntax and semantics of -τος adjectives in Ancient Greek

Tea served from 4.15

Rob Crellin (Copenhagen).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 10 February 2016, 16:30-17:30

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

How Infants Learn Language Using Speech Rhythm and Neuronal Oscillations

Dr Victoria Leong, University of Cambridge .

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

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Native speaker and learner language data in Applied Linguistics: what's next?

Dr Pascual Pérez-Paredes, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 08 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Tractometry: From Micro to Macro (and Back Again)

Professor Derek Jones, Director of Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC), School of Psychology, Cardiff University .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 05 February 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Statistical algorithms and planted satisfiability problems

Will Perkins (Birmingham).

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

Friday 05 February 2016, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual Image Description with Neural Sequence Models

Eva Hasler, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 05 February 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Language families and language contact: Latin, Sabellian and Greek

James Clackson, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 04 February 2016, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Size Matters: targetting non - conscious processes to reduce food and drink consumption

Prof Theresa Marteau, Director of Behaviour and Health Research unit, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 04 February 2016, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Doing cognitive psychology research in the real world: Issues for implementation, data collection and analysis

Dr Michelle Ellefson (University of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 12:30-13:30

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Psychological effects of interpersonal entrainment

Gabriela Pavarini, University of Cambridge .

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

Tuesday 02 February 2016, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Pleasures of the brain: Investigating anhedonia with whole-brain computational connectomics

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 .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 29 January 2016, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

The data-driven (s,S) policy: why you can have confidence in censored demand data

Gah-Yi Vahn (London School of Business).

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

Friday 29 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Sentence Entailment in Categorical Compositional Distributional Semantics

Esma Balkır.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 29 January 2016, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Degrees of ergativity in Romance causatives

Dr Michelle Sheehan (Anglia Ruskin University).

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

Thursday 28 January 2016, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Learning and processing abstract concepts: The role of emotion and the role of language

Professor Gabriella Vigliocco, Director, Language and Cognition Laboratory, UCL.

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

Thursday 28 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random projection ensemble classification

Timothy Cannings.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 28 January 2016, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Shawi, Quechua and Spanish: a Sea of Languages

Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics – Department for Language and Cognition.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

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

Professor Andrew Burn, Institute of Education, University College, London .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S3.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Bilinguals' experience of emotional meaning in music and language

Miriam Tenderini, Queen Mary University of London.

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

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Marking progression in second language production: EAL pupils’ use of spoken and written English

Dr Michael Evans, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 25 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Nonlinear shrinkage of Eigenvalues in Integrated Covolatility Matrix for Portfolio Allocation in High Frequency Data

Clifford Lam (LSE).

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

Friday 22 January 2016, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Reconceptualising conditionals

Chi-Hé Elder, University of East Anglia.

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

Thursday 21 January 2016, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

How does attentional control matter? Mechanisms and developmental dynamics

Professor Gaia Scerif, Department of Educational Psychology, Oxford.

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

Thursday 21 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep learning for time series

Christof Angermueller(University of Cambridge); David Zoltowski (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 14:30-16:00

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Improvisation as a way of knowing

Dr Andrew Goldman, Columbia University.

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

Tuesday 19 January 2016, 18:00-19:30

Homerton CIG Series 2015 - 2016

Having the courage to be creative: making links between creativity, the sharing economy and gender identity

Maria Lusitano Santos.

DMB GS3, Faculty of Education, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PH.

Monday 18 January 2016, 18:00-20:30

Zangwill Club

New physiological findings in human brain stimulation: why most claims to cognitive enhancement are probably false.

Professor Vincent Walsh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 15 January 2016, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

On the cartography of the clause in Old Celtic

Joe Eska, Virginia Tech.

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

Thursday 14 January 2016, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Human brain networks from functional MRI

Professor Ed Bullmore, Head of Dept Psychiatry, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 14 January 2016, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stochastic discrete integration

Adrian Weller;Nilesh Tripuraneni (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 14:30-16:00

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

Children reading metafiction: Exploring critical and creative thinking on multimodal novels in the primary classroom

Eve Tandoi, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 13 January 2016, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

P Values and replication: the problem is not what you think

Stephen Senn, Head of Competence Center for Methodology anbd Statistics ( CCMS), Luxembourg Institute for Health.

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

Wednesday 16 December 2015, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

General Reinforcement Learning

Jan Leike (Australian National University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 16 December 2015, 11:00-12:00

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Unattended music, cognition, and the experimental paradigm: the 'background-ness' of background music

Charlotte Lapham.

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

Tuesday 15 December 2015, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Boosting in the presence of outliers: adaptive classification with non-convex loss functions

Jelena Bradic (UC San Diego).

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

Friday 11 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Graph-Guided Banding for Covariance Estimation

Jacob Bien (Cornell University).

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

Friday 11 December 2015, 14:30-15:30

Homerton CIG Series 2015 - 2016

Raising awareness and sisterhood: do we still need 1960s' tools for 21st century social change?

Hanna Naima McCloskey, Founder & CEO of Fearless Futures.

Bamford Room, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Monday 07 December 2015, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Research Collaborations outside of academia

Dr Andrea Kells, Computer Lab, University of Cambridge/.

Room B3, Institute of Criminology.

Monday 07 December 2015, 11:00-13:30

Zangwill Club

Grady Nia Project: Assessing and Treating Abused, Suicidal Women

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

Dr Nadine Kaslow, Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University USA .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 04 December 2015, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures

François Caron (Oxford).

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

Friday 04 December 2015, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficient Constrained Inference and Structured Neural Networks for Semantic Role Labeling

Oscar Täckström, Google.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 04 December 2015, 12:00-13:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Science of E&D: Why equality and diversity benefits us all

Rogier Kievit and Fionnuala Murphy, MRC Cogition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 02 December 2015, 12:30-13:30

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Time to decide: the process of evaluating a musical performance

The seminar will be followed by a wine reception.

George Waddell, Royal College of Music.

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

Tuesday 01 December 2015, 17:00-18:30

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

Embodying Historical Consciousness: Teaching History Through Drama

Prof Michael Anderson, University of Sydney.

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

Monday 30 November 2015, 16:30-18:30

Zangwill Club

Understanding the forgetful and apathetic brain

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

Professor Masud Husain, Department of Experimental Psychology & Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Exact simulation of the Wright-Fisher diffusion

Paul Jenkins (Warwick).

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

Friday 27 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Chinese Linguistics and L2 Chinese

Mandarin Chinese Reflexive 'ziji' in L2 acquisition and L1 Attrition

Liu Manyun (FAMES).

Room 9 (ground floor) at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES).

Friday 27 November 2015, 16:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Lacking Integrity: HPSG as a Morphosyntactic Theory

Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 27 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

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

Rebuilding Britain through Modernist Children's books

Professor Kimberley Reynolds, Newcastle University.

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

Thursday 26 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Eliminating A/A'-positions

Coppe van Urk, Queen Mary University of London.

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

Thursday 26 November 2015, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Drink, Drugs and Disasters: Disrupting reconsolidation to treat addiction and PTSD

Amy Milton, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 26 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stochastic optimization and adaptive learning rates

Yingzhen Li (University of Cambridge); Mark Rowland.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

“Human Towers for Democracy:” The Use of Cultural Performances for Catalan Nation Building and Independence

Mariann Vaczi.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 17:15-19:00

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

Real Readers Reading Series Two: Stacking stories of classrooms in a virtual world: investigating the complexity of literacies

Professors Cathy Burnett and Guy Merchant, Sheffield Hallam University .

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S7.

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The influence of meaning and memory consolidation in novel word learning

Erin Hawkins, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

The Romantic Rollercoaster: exploring expectations evoked on hearing a piece of music for the first time using evidence from a prodigious musical savant

Professor Adam Ockelford, School of Education, University of Roehampton.

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

Tuesday 24 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Born Global: Rethinking Language Policy for 21st Century Britain

Bernardette Holmes MBE, Director of Speak To The Future; Bye-Fellow of Downing College.

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

Monday 23 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Modulating drug taking and drug seeking through TAAR1 activation

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

Dr Juan J Canales, Reader in Behavioural Neurosciences Department of Neuroscience, Psychology and Behaviour, University of Leicester.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Fast low-rank estimation by projected gradient descent: Statistical and algorithmic guarantees

Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley).

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

Friday 20 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Chinese Linguistics and L2 Chinese

Second Language Acquisition of Chinese ‘bei’ Passive Constructions

Ruyi Dai (FAMES).

Room 9 (ground floor) at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES).

Friday 20 November 2015, 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Representation, generalisation, and innovation in the lexicon.

Professor Janet Pierrehumbert (University of Oxford).

Lecture Block, Room 1, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

The Dyslexia Debate

Joe Elliott, Durham.

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

Thursday 19 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Logic, Theorem Proving, and Probabilistic Programming

Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 19 November 2015, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Understanding the function dimension of language endangerment with specific evidence from Runyakitara

Fridah Katushemererwe, Department of Linguistics, English Language Studies and Communication Skills Makerere University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 17:15-19:00

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

Questioning the relationship between Music and social inclusion: a crucial issue

Dr. Graça Mota, College of Education, Polytechnic Institute Porto.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S7.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Gained in translation

Tom Manly, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

Psychology & Education

Metacognition in speech and language therapy for children with social communication disorders

Jacqueline Gaile, University of Manchester.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS1, Donald McIntyre Building).

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Second Language Education Group

The ‘Multilingual Turn’ in Languages Education - a future for EAL?

Dr Jean Conteh, School of Education, University of Leeds.

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

Monday 16 November 2015, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Studying natural speech processing at the phonemic level using EEG

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

Dr Edmund Lalor, Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Seminars on Chinese Linguistics and L2 Chinese

Chinese aspect markers and their behaviours in L2 Chinese grammars

Yanyu Guo (FAMES).

Room 7 (ground floor) at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES).

Friday 13 November 2015, 16:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Motivation and learning in citizen science: The role of automatically generated feedback.

Advaith Siddharthan, University of Aberdeen.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 13 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Turn-taking, language processing and the evolution of language

Registration is required for this event

Prof. Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen).

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Annual open meeting

Registration is required for this event

Cambridge Language Sciences.

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:30-17:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster Session II

Registration is required for this event

Various.

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:00-16:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Understanding generative learning in the individual brain

Registration is required for this event

Zoe Kourtzi (University of Cambridge).

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 15:30-16:00

Chaucer Club

The integrative self

Glyn Humphreys, Psychology, Oxford.

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

Thursday 12 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Crowdsourcing big data in English dialectology

Registration is required for this event

Bert Vaux (Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge).

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 15:00-15:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Sunnyside

Registration is required for this event

Dr Laura Wright (University of Cambridge).

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 14:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Connections between kernels, GPs, and NNs

Matthias Bauer (University of Cambridge); Paul Rubenstein.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Statistical Acoustic-Phonetic Historical Linguistics: A short introduction

Registration is required for this event

John Aston (University of Cambridge); John Coleman (University of Oxford).

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 14:00-14:30

Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium

Poster Session I

Registration is required for this event

Various.

Queen's Building, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 13:30-14:00

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

Homerton CIG Series: PLANET BOWIE: Multiple creativities in practice

Leah Kardos, Kingston University.

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

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 19:30-21:00

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

PESGB Seminar: Towards a Pedagogy of Expression and of Understanding

Gilberto Scaramuzzo, Rome Tre University.

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

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Theta neurofeedback enhancement of early consolidation of procedural and declarative learning

Daniel Levy, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel.

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

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Towards Advanced Conversational Systems

G. Wu, Maluuba.

Department of Engineering - LR11.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Inference of a partially observed kinetic Ising model

Dr Yasser Roudi (Kavli Inst, Trondheim & Inst for Advanced Study, Princeton).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 11 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

The prenatal sex steroid theory of autism

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Director, Autism Research Centre(ARC) Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 November 2015, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Shape modelling using contours and fields, with applications to image segmentation

Ian Jermyn (Durham).

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

Friday 06 November 2015, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Chinese Linguistics and L2 Chinese

Chinese sentence final particles and their behaviour in L2 Chinese

Shanshan Yan (FAMES).

Room 7 (ground floor) at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES).

Friday 06 November 2015, 16:00-18:00

Statistics

Efficient and Parsimonious Agnostic Active Learning

Alekh Agarwal (Microsoft Research NY) .

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

Friday 06 November 2015, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

How much linguistics is needed for NLP?

Edward Grefenstette.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Mwani, freely picking and choosing from tone and stress?

Dr Maud Devos (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Belgium).

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

Thursday 05 November 2015, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Neural systems for navigation

Hugo Spiers, Dept of Experimental Psychology, UCL.

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

Thursday 05 November 2015, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Detecting paraphrases using recursive autoencoders

Feynman Liang.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 14:30-16:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

CurateScience.org: Facilitating the independent verification of published findings

Etienne LeBel, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

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

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 12:30-13:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

What the DNN heard? Dissecting the machine brain for a better insight.

Khe Chai Sim, National University of Singapore.

Department of Engineering - LR5.

Wednesday 04 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Icelandic language and culture training application

Branislav Bédi, University of Iceland, CADIA Research Centre.

Room SR-24, English Faculty Building, Sidgwick Site.

Monday 02 November 2015, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Academia vs. Industry

Dr Madelaine Chapman, Careers Adviser for Postdoctoral Researchers in the Physical Sciences and Technology.

Room B4, Institute of Criminology.

Monday 02 November 2015, 11:15-13:30

Zangwill Club

Phonological and Morphological Processes in Reading and Reading Acquisition

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

Professor Kathy Rastle, Head of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 30 October 2015, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Highly-Smooth Zero-th Order Online Optimization

Vianney Perchet (INRIA & Paris Diderot).

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

Friday 30 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

Seminars on Chinese Linguistics and L2 Chinese

Second Language Acquisition of Chinese Applicative Operations by English-, Spanish, and Korean-speaking Learners

Yuhsin Huang (FAMES).

Room 7 (ground floor) at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES).

Friday 30 October 2015, 16:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 30 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Anaphora resolution in young and not-so-young adults: the role of language experience and cognitive skills

Ianthi Maria Tsimpli, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 29 October 2015, 16:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian optimization and its applications

Dr. Matthew Hoffman (University of Cambridge), Alex Navarro.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:30-16:00

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

During and Post degree: Life outside of the classroom

Dr Betty Anne Younker, University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S7.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

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

What can fantasy literature teach us? Relationships of power in magical realms

Malin Alkestrand, Lund University.

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

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Evaluating cochlear implants using the STRIPES test

Alan Archer-Boyd, MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit.

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

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

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

Performing Social and Classroom Integration Through Musical Rhythm: Theory, Practice and Improvisation

Eduardo Lopes, University of Evora, Portugal.

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

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 12:00-13:30

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

The Stranger Within Me

Aidan Chambers.

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

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Second Language Education Group

Task-based Language Teaching with Technology: The EU-Funded CAMELOT Project

Dr Michael Thomas, University of Central Lancashire.

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

Tuesday 27 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

"Where"

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

Professor Patrick Cavanagh, Université Paris Descartes, France.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 October 2015, 16:30-18:00

Seminars on Chinese Linguistics and L2 Chinese

Second Language Acquisition of Chinese and Thai Nominal Phrases

Woramon Prawatmuang (FAMES).

Room 7 (ground floor) at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES).

Friday 23 October 2015, 16:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Internal Seminar

NLIP Postdocs and PhDs.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 23 October 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Perceived Voice Similarity and the Construction of Voice Parades

Dr Kirsty McDougall (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 22 October 2015, 16:00-17:30

Statistics

Nonparametric estimation of s-concave and log-concave densities: an alternative to maximum likelihood

Jon Wellner (University of Washington).

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

Thursday 22 October 2015, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

LP relaxations for MAP inference

Adrian Weller (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 14:30-16:00

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Writing vernacular languages online: a case study of writing strategies of Taiwanese on social network sites among young generation

Chi-Cheng Tsai .

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 17:15-19:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

News from the CALM Clinic: a dimensional approach to children's problems in Attention, Learning and Memory

Sue Gathercole, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

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

Wednesday 21 October 2015, 12:30-13:30

Zangwill Club

Creating Solidarity by Making Bodies Alike, but Creating Hierarchy in Physical Dimensions

Please note: This talk is starting at 16.30

Professor Alan Fiske, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles USA.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 October 2015, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Nonstandard complete class theorems

Daniel Roy (University of Toronto).

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

Friday 16 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Mothering for Schooling in the Mid Twentieth Century Australian Women’s Weekly

Dr Helen Proctor, University of Sydney.

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

Thursday 15 October 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Phonetics from blog to book

John Wells, UCL.

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

Thursday 15 October 2015, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Emotion recognition without awareness and visual cortex: functional and anatomical mechanisms

Marco Tamietto, Dept of Psychology, University of Torino, Italy.

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

Thursday 15 October 2015, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Meta-Bayesian Analysis

Prof. Daniel Roy (University of Toronto).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 15 October 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient Inference and Learning with Intractable Posteriors? Yes, Please.

Diederik P. Kingma (University of Amsterdam).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 14 October 2015, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Understanding Word Embeddings

Omer Levy, Bar-Ilan University.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 13 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

The Importance of Feeling Honest : A Candid Take on Moral Motivation

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: This is a special Zangwill Club Seminar, being held jointly with the Moral Psychology Conference

Professor Benoit Monin, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Psychology, Stamford University, USA.

Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room SG1/2.

Friday 09 October 2015, 16:30-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Unweaving The Lexical Rainbow: Grounding Linguistic Creativity in Perceptual Semantics

We only have LT2 for the hour, so please don't enter before 1pm and don't be late for the talk, as it will start promptly at 1:05 and we'll have to leave before 2pm.

Tony Veale, University College Dublin.

LT2, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 08 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Game of Tropes: Exploring the Placebo Effect in Computational Creativity

Tony Veale, University College Dublin.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 October 2015, 16:00-17:00

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

Analysing systems for social justice in music education

Dr Susan Wharton Conkling, Boston University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S8.

Wednesday 30 September 2015, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Joint A* Syntactic and Semantic Parsing for CCG

Mike Lewis, University of Washington.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 September 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient multi-task Gaussian process models for genome-wide association studies

Francesco Paolo Casale, European Bioinformatics Institute.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Friday 25 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

Neural entrainment to higher-level features of speech reflects the discrete nature of perception in the auditory system

Benedikt Zoefel, Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition (CerCo), CNRS, Toulouse, France.

Lecture Theatre, MRC- CBU, Chaucer Rd..

Tuesday 22 September 2015, 12:00-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Harmonic Exponential Families and Group-Equivariant Convolution Networks

Taco Cohen (University of Amsterdam).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 16 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Higher Order Fused Regularization for Supervised Learning with Grouped Parameters

Koh Takeuchi (NTT Communication Science Laboratories).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 15 September 2015, 10:30-11:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

A-Star Sampling Review

Chris Maddison (U Toronto).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Monday 14 September 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Convex Factorization Machines

Mathieu Blondel (NTT Communication Science Laboratorie).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Monday 14 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Serial Order in Behavior: Unifying Acoustic Meaning and Rhythm in Audition, Speech, and Music

Please note change of venue to English Faculty

Stephen Grossberg.

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

Friday 11 September 2015, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Semantically Conditioned LSTM-based Natural Language Generation for Spoken Dialogue Systems

Shawn T-H. Wen, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 11 September 2015, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Structural Kernels for Natural Language Processing

Daniel Beck, University of Sheffield.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 11 September 2015, 12:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Belief and Truth in Hypothesised Behaviours

Stefano V. Albrecht - School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 10 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

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

Building Community Through Diversity in Music Education

Dr Carlos Abril, University of Miami.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S8.

Wednesday 09 September 2015, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Training and Understanding Deep Neural Networks for Robotics, Design, and Perception

Jason Yosinski (Cornell).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 09 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Information-Theoretic Bounded Rationality

Pedro A. Ortega (University of Pennsylvania).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Monday 07 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Interspeech presentations

Sandwiches will be provided at 12:00

Various (University of Cambridge).

Department of Engineering - LR5.

Wednesday 02 September 2015, 11:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

The limits of MAP inference by MWSS on perfect graphs

Dr Adrian Weller (MLG, University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 27 August 2015, 15:00-15:30

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

Growing Up Musical: A Day In The Life Of A Family

Dr Eugenia Costa-Giomi, Ohio State University.

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

Wednesday 26 August 2015, 17:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Cross-lingual transfer of a semantic parser via parallel data

Kilian Evang, University of Gronigen.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 07 August 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scalable Gaussian Processes for Scientific Discovery

Dr Andrew Wilson, Carnegie Mellon University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 29 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

MCMC for non-linear state space models using ensembles of latent sequences

(via Skype!)

Alex Shestopaloff (University of Toronto).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Monday 27 July 2015, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gradient-based hyperparameter optimization through reversible learning

Dr David Duvenaud (Harvard).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Monday 20 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Rich Component Analysis

James Zou (Microsoft Research New England).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Friday 17 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A new MCMC hybrid scheme for Poisson-Kingman Bayesian Nonparametric mixture models

Maria Lomeli-Garcia, UCL.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 16 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

Primary Progressive Aphasia: Language, molecules and the networks in between

Professor Marilu Gorno-Tempini.

Seminar Room, MRC- CBU, Chaucer Rd..

Tuesday 07 July 2015, 15:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Modeling Confounding by Half-Sibling Regression

SHORT TALK (20 minutes)

Prof Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI Tuebingen).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Friday 03 July 2015, 12:30-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Extreme Classification: A New Paradigm for Ranking & Recommendation

Manik Varma (Microsoft Research India).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 02 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Convex and non-convex worlds in machine learning

Anna Choromanska (New York University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 01 July 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Random Function Classes for Machine Learning

Prof Alexander Smola, Carnegie Mellon University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT1.

Tuesday 30 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Explaining Non-Linear Classifier Decisions with application to Deep Learning

Prof Klaus-Robert Müller (TU Berlin).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Monday 29 June 2015, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Gaussian processes and variational propagation of uncertainty

Andreas Damianou - Sheffield University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Monday 29 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Learning

Professor Geoffrey Hinton FRS (U. Toronto and Google).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 0.

Thursday 25 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

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

Children's Theatre in China

Yaqiong Ma, Bejing Normal University.

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

Wednesday 24 June 2015, 16:30-18:00

Psychology & Education

Lesson Study Seminar

Speakers to include a variety of UK and international speakers, Chaired by Professor Jan Vermunt, University of Cambridge .

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

Wednesday 24 June 2015, 14:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Random Function Classes for Machine Learning

Prof. Alex Smola (CMU).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT1.

Wednesday 24 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Improving & Better Understanding Word Vector Representations

Manaal Faruqui, Carnegie Mellon University.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 19 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Unsupervised Learning with Latent Variable Models

Zhenwen Dai.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 18 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Indo-European Seminar

The family tree of Iranian and its problems

Tea served from 16.15

Agnes Korn .

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 17 June 2015, 16:30-17:30

Psychology & Education

Some Studies on Desirable Difficulties

Dr Danny Oppenheimer, Professor at UCLA with a joint appointment in the Anderson School of Management and the Department of Psychology.

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

Tuesday 16 June 2015, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Unsupervised Learning with Latent Variable Models

Zhenwen Dai.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 16 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Crowdsourcing the annotation of rumours in social media

Maria Liakata, University of Warwick.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 12 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Emergent Syntax: a new (unifying) perspective

Note: This talk will take place in GR04

Dr Theresa Biberauer (DTAL, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 11 June 2015, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Pitch perception: New approaches to classic questions

Andrew Oxenham (Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota).

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

Thursday 11 June 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Why do we jump the gun? Deconstructing waiting impulsivity in humans

Valerie Voon (Department of Psychiatry, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 10 June 2015, 12:30-13:30

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Curtain call: Investigating the psychophysiology of public performance

Professor Aaron Williamon, Royal College of Music, London.

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

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 17:00-19:00

Psychology & Education

Developing a toolkit for assessing children's spoken language skills in the classroom

Paul Warwick and Ayesha Ahmed.

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

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Structural Markov laws / Geometry and HMC

Dr Simon Byrne.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 09 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Mean Field Approaches to Two Sequential Decision Making Problems.

This talk will be given via Skype

Ramki Gummadi.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438 - Skype.

Monday 08 June 2015, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Natural Language Generation from Semantic Web Ontologies

Gerasimos Lampouras, UCL.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 05 June 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Long-distance agreement for person: Some new data from Icelandic

Note: This talk will take place in GR04

Professor Caroline Heycock (University of Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 04 June 2015, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Fast transient brain states

Mark Woolrich (Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, University of Oxford) .

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

Thursday 04 June 2015, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Saami in Russia: "Kuess ne poluchaetsja samas, rushas polegche"

David Pineda Dijkerman.

Faculty of English, Room GR-05.

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 17:15-19:00

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

Socio-Critical Reflections on the Role of the Arts in Youth Custody

Dr Caroline Lanskey.

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

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 16:30-18:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Investigation of priming effects on associative memory

Alex Kaula (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 03 June 2015, 12:30-13:30

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

PLACE and Children's Literature Centre Book Launch

Professor Maria Nikolajeva.

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

Tuesday 02 June 2015, 17:00-19:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Do Deep Nets Really Need to be Deep?

Dr Rich Caruana (Microsoft).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Tuesday 02 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

A Conditional Dependence Measure with Applications to Undirected Graphical Models

Yang Feng, Columbia University.

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

Friday 29 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep consequences: Why syntax (as we know it) isn't a thing, and other (shocking?) conclusions from modelling language with neural nets.

Felix Hill, Computer Laboratory.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 29 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Unmasking Philosophers’ Fiction: First-Person Reference, Monster Operators, and the Indexical/Nonindexical Distinction

Professor Katarzyna Jaszczolt (DTAL, Universtiy of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 28 May 2015, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Cognition and the ventral visual-perirhinal-hippocampal stream: Thinking outside of the boxes

Lisa Saksida (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 28 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Laterals in Estonian Swedish

Professor Francis Nolan, Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics.

Faculty of English, Room GR-04.

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 17:15-19:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Social processing in response to autobiographical memories of rejection and inclusion in depression

Julia Gillard (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 13:00-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Predictive coding in the brain in health and disease - how intracranial EEG helps validate non-invasive in vivo methods

Holly Phillips (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 27 May 2015, 12:30-13:00

Statistics

Third and Fourth Cumulants in Independent Component Analysis

Hannu Oja, University of Turku.

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

Friday 22 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Mechanisms of imitation: insights from typical and autistic cognition

Dr Antonia Hamilton, Reader in Social Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 22 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Statistics

Analysis of complex phenotypes in genomics

Sylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit.

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

Friday 22 May 2015, 14:30-15:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Open System Categorical Quantum Semantics in Natural Language Processing

Dimitri Kartsaklis, Queen Mary University of London.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

The neural correlates of intonation

Brechtje Post, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 21 May 2015, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Temporal dynamics of post-retrieval amnesia for learned fear

TALK CANCELLED

Merel Kindt (Department of Psychology, Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center, University of Amsterdam).

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

Thursday 21 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Convolutional Neural Networks

Christof Angermueller, Alex Kendall.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 21 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Cambridge Cognitive Neuroscience Research Panel

Note - This talk will run from 12:30pm – 2:00pm

Sharon Erzinclioglu and guests.

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

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 12:30-13:30

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

Grahame, Ruskin and the Medieval Worlds of The Wind in the Willows

Professor Seth Lerer, University of California.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S8.

Tuesday 19 May 2015, 17:00-19:00

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

A bridge between music education and sustainable development: An investigation of music-based ESD practices at Key Stage 3 in England

Yusi Cheng, Brunel University.

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

Friday 15 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Text Mining in Dynamic Networks of Documents

David Banks, Duke University.

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

Friday 15 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Adjusting accordingly: prefrontal areas updating valuations for objects and actions

Dr Betsy Murray, Chief, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 15 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Model Theory and the Semantics of Natural Languages

Stanley Peters, Stanford University.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 15 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

Language, identity and attainment of EAL students in schools in the East of England

Dr Michael Evans (Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 14 May 2015, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

JASP: Bayesian hypothesis testing without tears

Eric-Jan Wagenmakers (Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam).

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

Thursday 14 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hessian-free Optimisation for Neural Networks

Adnan Haider, Andrey Malinin.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 14 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

Language situation and endangerment in Uganda: Facts and perspectives

Dr. Saudah Namyalo.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 17:15-19:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

An overview of the not-so-distant future of psychology and cognitive neuroscience: Replication, preregistration, data sharing, open peer review and more

Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 12:30-13:30

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

The Art of Desistance: what we know and what we don’t yet know about links between the arts and criminal justice

Profs. Sarah Colvin and Loraine Gelsthorpe, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

Psychology & Education

Digital-Object Use in Developmental Disorders

Dr Will Farr & Dr Ian Male, Mid-Sussex Child Development Centre, Nightingale Primary Care Centre, Senior Lecturer/Research Fellow.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS1, Donald McIntyre Building).

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic numerics: treating numerical computation as learning, or; it's Bayes all the way down

Michael Osborne (Oxford University).

Engineering Department, LR5 (Baker Building, Trumpington Street).

Tuesday 12 May 2015, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

General Bayesian updating and model misspecification

Chris Holmes, University of Oxford.

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

Friday 08 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Impact of Diversity on Social Cohesion: Implications of Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact

Professor Miles Hewstone, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 08 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Injecting Logical Background Knowledge into Embeddings for Relation Extraction

Tim Rocktäschel, UCL.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

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

Cutting, Gluing and Playing House: The Fun of Making Dolls’ Houses of One’s Own

Dr Nancy Wei-Ning Chen, University College London.

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

Thursday 07 May 2015, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Heuristics of control: Habitization, fragmentation, memoization and pruning

Peter Dayan (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL) .

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

Thursday 07 May 2015, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable MCMC

Hong Ge, Jes Frellsen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 07 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Critical factors that affect measures of spatial selectivity in cochlear implant users

Stefano Cosentino (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Direction-Only Optimisation for Neural Networks

Short talk

Mark Rowland (Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 06 May 2015, 11:00-11:30

French Linguistics Research Seminars

Dialect Death and the Structured Obsolescence Myth

Dr David Hornsby (Kent).

Upper Hall, Peterhouse.

Tuesday 05 May 2015, 18:00-19:15

Statistics

Robust Matrix Completion

Olga Klopp, Université Paris Ouest.

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

Friday 01 May 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Adult age differences in social cognition

Professor Louise Phillips, School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 May 2015, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Disfluency detection in spoken learner English

Andrew Caines, DTAL, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 May 2015, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Modelling implicit language learning with distributional semantics

Dimitris Alikaniotis, DTAL, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 May 2015, 12:00-12:30

Chaucer Club

Adaptive computations for flexible cognition in the human brain

Zoe Kourtzi (Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 30 April 2015, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Machine Learning for Quantitative Finance: A collaboration between the Cambridge Machine Learning Group and Cambridge Capital Management

Creighton Heaukulani, Matt Hoffman, Zoubin Ghahramani, and Andrew Baxter, .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 11:00-12:00

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

ALICE, PINOCCHIO, FANTASY, AND INTERNATIONAL STEREOTYPES

Professor Laura Tosi, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice and Professor Peter Hunt, Newcastle University.

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

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 17:00-19:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Representational dynamics: object responses in monkey inferior temporal cortex

Marieke Mur (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 29 April 2015, 12:30-13:30

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

Groundhog or Hound Dog? Is it time for arts impact evaluation to get a bit more rock and roll?

Dr Douglas Lonie (BOP Consulting) and Nick Wilsdon (National Foundation for Youth Music).

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

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 16:30-18:00

Psychology & Education

Teacher interventions in small group work in secondary mathematics and science lessons

Professor Neil Mercer & Dr Riikka Hofmann, University of Cambridge , Faculty of Education.

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

Tuesday 28 April 2015, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

New Developments in Machine Intelligence

This talk will be preceeded by a short presentation from Laura Burzynski on her research into blood clotting proteins

Prof. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 27 April 2015, 19:30-21:00

Statistics

Stein estimation of the intensity of a spatial homogeneous Poisson point process

Marianne Clausel, University of Grenoble.

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

Friday 24 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Imaging and Stimulating adaptive brain plasticity

Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg, Oxford Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB), University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 24 April 2015, 15:00-16:30

Cambridge PhD Clinic

Fourth workshop: Research Outreach & Public Engagement

Prof David Spiegelhalter Winton Professor for the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Seminar Room, Faculty of English.

Friday 24 April 2015, 15:00-18:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Statistical modelling of metaphor

Ekatarina Shutova, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 24 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

French Linguistics Research Seminars

The use of French in Canada

Prof. Sylvie Frigon (Ottawa).

Lubbock Room, Peterhouse.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 18:00-19:15

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

The Cultural Origins of Structure

Simon Kirby, University of Edinburgh.

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

Thursday 23 April 2015, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

The functional role of local and large-scale synchronization in human cognition

Satu Palva (Neuroscience Center, University of Helsinki).

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

Thursday 23 April 2015, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Inference

Mateo Rojas-Carulla, Amar Shah.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Title to be confirmed

Tuan Anh Le (Oxford).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 23 April 2015, 11:00-12:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Bayesian inference accounts for a novel psychophysical effect in face perception

Jonathan O’Keeffe (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) .

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

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 13:00-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Estimating representational dissimilarity measures

Alex Walther (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) .

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

Wednesday 22 April 2015, 12:30-13:00

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

Music education technology in/for the digital era: implications for teacher training and research

Professor Lauri Väkevä, University of the Arts, Helsinki.

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

Monday 20 April 2015, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

A Framework for Elastic Shape Analysis of Objects

Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University.

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

Friday 17 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Geometry of Machine Translation

Rory Waite, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 17 April 2015, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gaussian Process Models for Time Series

Roger Frigola, Carl Edward Rasmussen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 16 April 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Inference for infinite mixture models and Gaussian Process mixtures of experts using simple approximate MAP Inference

Alexis Boukouvalas (Aston University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 15 April 2015, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Deep Learning of Natural Language Semantics

Extrodinary (out-of-term) Babbage Seminar

Prof Yoshua Bengio - Université de Montréal.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 13 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Stable Weights that Balance Covariates for Causal Inference and Estimation with Incomplete Outcome Data

Note the different room

José Zubizarreta, Columbia University.

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

Thursday 09 April 2015, 16:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Hierarchical Statistical Semantic Realization for Minimal Recursion Semantics

Matic Horvat, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 09 April 2015, 12:40-13:10

CUED Speech Group Seminars

ICASSP presentations

A sandwich lunch will be provided

Various.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

Thursday 09 April 2015, 12:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Leveraging a Semantically Annotated Corpus to Disambiguate Prepositional Phrase Attachment

Guy Emerson, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 09 April 2015, 12:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Informational Geometry

Nilesh Tripuraneni, Shane Gu.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 02 April 2015, 15:00-16:30

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

Arts in the National Curriculum: decisions, tensions and uncertainties

Dr Madonna Stinson, Griffith University, Australia.

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

Thursday 26 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Gaussian Processes

Richard Turner, Alex Navarro, Thang Bui.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 26 March 2015, 15:00-16:30

Psychology & Education

Designing tools to facilitate teacher-led discussions in the digitalized school.

Dr Ingvill Rasmussen, Associate Professor, Department of Education, University of Oslo.

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

Tuesday 24 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

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

Encounters at a medical ward in Sweden – professionals' experiences explored through applied drama

Prof. Margret Lepp, University of Gothenburg.

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

Thursday 19 March 2015, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Combinatorial Stochastic Processes in Bayesian Nonparametrics

Creighton Heaukulani.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Evolutionary dynamics in a continuous public goods game

Matthias Bauer .

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Manipulating Structure through Digital Notation

Alan Blackwell and Sam Aaron, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

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

Tuesday 17 March 2015, 17:00-19:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning Latent Syntactic Representations with Joint Models

Jason Naradowsky, UCL.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 13 March 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The phonetic building blocks of speech

Professor Francis Nolan (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Online and offline human brain mapping with intracranial EEG

Jean-Philippe Lachaux (French National Health Research Institute (INSERM), Lyon) .

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

Thursday 12 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

An introduction to the Mondrian Process

Matej Balog (Oxford).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Thursday 12 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

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

From unlimited to situated: A reappraisal of children’s ‘potential’

Dr Rupert Higham, Faculty of Education; Dr Clementine Beauvais, Homerton College.

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

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 17:00-19:00

Indo-European Seminar

"A phylogenetic classification of Bantu languages and its implications for ancient migration"

Tea served from 16.15

Dr Rebecca Grollemund (Reading).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The effect of age on brain and cognition: preliminary results from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (CamCAN)

Rik Henson (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 12:30-13:30

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Gliding through history

Jiaxi Liu, Centre for Music and Science.

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

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 17:00-19:00

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

The roles of arts therapies in secure settings with specific examples from recent music therapy research studies in prisons and high secure forensic settings in China and Europe

Dr Helen Odell-Miller, Anglia Ruskin University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S7.

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

Psychology & Education

'Finding the maths': Empowering parents to support children's out-of-school mathematics learning"

Dr Tim Jay , Reader in Education,Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University. .

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

Tuesday 10 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Resource Allocation for Statistical Estimation

Quentin Berthet, California Institute of Technology.

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

Monday 09 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Sparse CCA: Statistical and Computational Limits

Chao Gao, Yale University.

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

Friday 06 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Premembering Perception

Professor Kia Nobre, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 March 2015, 15:00-16:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Dynamic Topic Adaptation for Statistical Machine Translation

Sandwich lunch from 13:00

Eva Hasler (University of Cambridge).

Department of Engineering - LR5.

Friday 06 March 2015, 13:30-14:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Are you losing Structures in Distributional Vectors? Smoothed Distributed Tree Kernels and the Convolution Conjecture

Fabio Massimo Zanzotto, University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 March 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Scalar Particles as Alternative-Sensitive Expressions

Malte Zimmermann, University of Potsdam.

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 05 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Psychology & Education

Generating social transformation and impact through successful actions in education

Marta Soler is Director of CREA, Centre for Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities, Ramon Flecha is Professor of Sociology at the University of Barcelona, and Doctor Honoris Causa from West University of Timişoara.

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

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Learning Markov Networks for Mixed Big Data: Applications to Cancer Genomics

Genevera Allen, Rice University.

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

Thursday 05 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Challenges and pitfalls in the application of transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS)

Andrea Antal (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Göttingen University Medical School, Germany) .

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

Thursday 05 March 2015, 15:30-16:30

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

The decolonization of images in contemporary Brazilian picturebooks

Claudia Mendes.

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

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

On phylogenetic classification

Tea served from 16.15

Dr Annemarie Verkerk (Reading).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 16:30-17:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Discrimination of visual categories based on behavioural significance in frontoparietal cortex

Yaara Erez (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Population Inference for Functional Brain Connectivity

Genevera I. Allen (Rice University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

An introduction to Pulse-relational Rhythm Theory

Dr Steve Forman from Glasgow conservatiore.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 17:00-19:00

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

What am I? The identity of an intercultural arts performer-researcher in the field

Cassandre Balosso-Bardin.

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

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

Psychology & Education

Studying the neural mechanisms of attention and memory in childhood

Dr Duncan Astle,Programme Leader Track, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Research Associate St. John’s College, Cambridge.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS1), Donald McIntyre Building).

Tuesday 03 March 2015, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Probabilistic approaches to understanding bird conversations

Dan Stowell (Queen Mary University of London).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Monday 02 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Complexity analysis of the Lasso regularization path and an application of sparsity to isoform detection in RNA-seq data

Julien Mairal, INRIA, Grenoble.

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

Friday 27 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Neural representation of complex space

Professor Kate Jeffery,Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience Department of Experimental Psychology Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 27 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

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

Democracy, Education and Humility

Dr Kevin Mott-Thornton.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 2S7.

Thursday 26 February 2015, 17:00-19:00

Chaucer Club

Age-related and individual differences in the time-course and information content of early face brain activity

Guillaume Rousselet (Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow) .

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

Thursday 26 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group

The Sami Health Transition - a Success Story in an Indigenous Culture Context

Peter Sköld, Centre for Sami Research, Umeå University.

Faculty of English, Room GR-06/07.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 17:15-19:00

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

Webinar for Professional Development Series 9: Leisure and the Arts: Smacking of privilege or an exercise in freedom?

Dr. Roger Mantie, Arizona State University.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room 1S7.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Do differences in adaptive mechanisms underlie autistic behaviours? Repetition suppression and perceptual expectation in the typical and autistic population

Michael Ewbank (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

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

Arts in and as Research: A Kaleidoscope Series of Arts-Based Research Practices and Installations

Faculty of Education research students and staff.

Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH, Mary Allen Building, Auditorium.

Wednesday 25 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

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

Beatrix Potter: Defying the Enemy

Dr Juliet Dusinberre .

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

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Psychology & Education

'6 Months'

John Oates, a Senior Lecturer in the Child and Youth Studies Group at the Open University, Visiting Professor in Developmental Psychology at the University of St Mark and St John, Plymouth and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS1), Donald McIntyre Building).

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A* Sampling

Chris Maddison (U Toronto).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 24 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

Statistics

Spectral thresholding in quantum state estimation for low rank states

Madalin Guta, University of Nottingham.

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

Friday 20 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Active Sensing and Brain oscillations

Professor Joachim Gross, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 20 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Argument Mining from Text for Teaching and Assessing Writing

Diane Litman, University of Pittsburgh.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 20 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

The importance of SLA theory when designing L2 corpora

Florence Myles, University of Essex.

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 19 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Circuit mechanisms of hippocampus-dependent memory

Ole Paulsen (Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge) .

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

Thursday 19 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Developmental differences in intra-individual variability in children with ADHD and ASD

Janna van-Belle (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 18 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

Second Language Education Group

Language development, social integration and achievement of recently-arrived EAL children in schools in the East of England

Educational Achievement, Language Education and Disadvantage (EALead) research team at the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University.

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

Monday 16 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Statistics

Some ideas in nonparametric estimation

Piotr Fryzlewicz, London School of Economics.

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

Friday 13 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

The Evolution of Culture

Professor Kevin N. Laland, School of Biology, University of St Andrews.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Interpreting Document Collections Using Topic Models

Nikos Aletras, UCL.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 13 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

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

Maths, Arts and Games for Digital Natives: Paradox Structures, Impossible Forms and Visual Illusions in Experience-Centered Mathematics Education

Dr Kristóf Fenyvesi, University of Jyväskylä.

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

Thursday 12 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Linguistics Forum

The L1 influences the L2 processing and acquisition of tense/aspect

Professor Leah Roberts (University of York).

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

Thursday 12 February 2015, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

Neural mechanisms of spatial and episodic memory

Neil Burgess (Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Department of Anatomy) .

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

Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variance Reduction Techniques and Stochastic Optimisation for Monte Carlo

Matt Hoffman; Yutian Chen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

Ibero-Romance Linguistics Seminars

Spanish parasynthetic verbs with prefix des-: A lexical semantic approach

Elisabeth Gibert-Sotelo, Universitat de Girona-University of Cambridge.

Room DD 48, Cripps Building, Queens' College.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 17:15-18:30

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

Webinar for Professional Development Series 9: Music Performance Anxiety and Musical Improvisation: How Worldview and Mental Well-Being Influence Music Making

Dr Tawnya D. Smith, University of Illinois.

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

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Indo-European Seminar

From 'RUN' to 'HELP': Anatolian, Core Indo-European and the chronology of a semantic shift

Tea served from 16.15

Prof. J. L. García Ramón (Cologne).

1.11 Classics Faculty.

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

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

Talk and Performance followed by a performance at the e-Luminare Festival Official Opening

Kei Miller.

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

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Orthologous networks in biological systems

Dr Christopher Penfold (Warwick).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 11 February 2015, 11:00-12:00

The Centre for Music and Science (CMS)

Cognitive research and South Asian music

Professor Richard Widdess - SOAS South Asia Institute.

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

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 17:00-19:00

Psychology & Education

To the letter: Children’s developing trust in the written word

Shiri Einav, Lecturer Faculty of Science , University of Nottingham.

Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, (Rm GS1), Donald McIntyre Building).

Tuesday 10 February 2015, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Algorithmic Approaches to Statistical Estimation under Structural Constraints

Ilias Diakonikolas, University of Edinburgh.

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

Friday 06 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

Social and Motivational Influences on Perceptual Judgments

Dr Simone Schnall, University Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 February 2015, 15:00-16:30

CUED Speech Group Seminars

Human-like singing and talking machines: flexible speech synthesis in karaoke, anime, smart phones, video games, digital signage, TV and radio programs, etc.

Sandwich lunch from 13:00

Keiichi Tokuda (Nagoya Institute of Technology / Google).

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 06 February 2015, 13:30-14:30

NLIP Seminar Series

A Probabilistic Framework for Modeling Cross-Lingual Semantic Similarity (out of and in Context) Based on Latent Cross-Lingual Concepts

Ivan Vulic, KU Leuven.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 February 2015, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Disentangling focus constructions in Luganda

Jenneke van der Wal, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Block, Room 5, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 05 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Chaucer Club

Variability in visual processing between and within individuals

Sam Schwarzkopf (Experimental Psychology & ICN, UCL) .

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

Thursday 05 February 2015, 15:30-16:30

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

Playing on the Page: the role of the sketchbook in illustrating books for children

Pam Smy, Anglia Ruskin University.

Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH, MAB, Boulind Room 8&9.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 17:00-18:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Development of speech perception in native and non-native listeners

Matt Davis (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 12:30-13:30

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

Searching and Re-searching for Practice: An Appetite

Amanda Couch, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.

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

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 12:00-14:00

Second Language Education Group

CANCELLED: Task-based language teaching with technology: the EU-Funded CAMELOT project

Dr Michael Thomas, University of Central Lancashire.

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

Monday 02 February 2015, 17:00-18:30