Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials: Where Physics Meets Chemistry

Professor Claudia Draxl, Humboldt University of Berlin.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Porphyrins In Discrete Metal-Mediated Assemblies

Professor Elisabetta Iengo.

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Some aspects in many-body quantum dynamics: from multi-channel Kondo impurities to entanglement transition in SU(1,1) periodically driven systems

Po-Yao Chang, National Tsing Hua University.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

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

Bruno Mlodozeniec, Julien Horwood, Runa Eschenhagen.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussing the Stanford AI Report

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

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Control

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Dmitrii Krasheninnikov, Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

SCIENCE AND THE FUTURES OF MEDICINE One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Organisers: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman, Dr James Fraser and Dr Nick Pugh.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Friday 22 March 2024, 09:00-17:15

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

SHAPE PROGRAMMABLE 3D MESOSTRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONAL DEVICES

Prof. Yonggang Huang, McCORMICK school of Engineering, Northwestern University. .

Department of Engineering - LR5.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural likelihood-free inference

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Yanzhi Chen, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Automated discovery of material models

Professor Laura De Lorenzis, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT6.

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

Engineering - Mechanics, Materials and Design (Div C) - talks and events

CUED Bioengineering Conference

See programme.

The McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge .

Friday 15 March 2024, 08:45-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Folding a Protein: Nature’s Origami

Prof Sheena Radford.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 14 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Organic Nanoionics in Polymers for Energy Conversion System

Prof. Manabu Tanaka, Tokyo Metropolitan University.

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method

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Jihao Andeas Lin, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Using organoids to reveal what sets the human brain apart

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Dr Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Tensor-Reduced Atomic Density Representations

James Darby, University of Warwick.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 11 March 2024, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Exciton optics, dynamics and transport in layered perovskites

Joshua Thompson, University of Cambridge.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Monday 11 March 2024, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

How the Cultural Revolution still shapes China

Ms Tania Branigan.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 08 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Nonlinearity in structural dynamics: when does it matter?

Dr Tore Butlin, University of Cambridge Engineering Department.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 08 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Whereto for physical metallurgy – vision and the role of design

Roger Reed, University of Oxford.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Formulating protein behaviour in nanospace: Key to rational glue screening

Prof. Daishi Fujita, Kyoto University iCeMS Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences.

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

HONORARY FELLOWS LECTURE - Every breath you take and every move you make - understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Sir Peter Ratcliffe FRS, Distinguished Scholar, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, University of Oxford and Clinical Research Director, Francis Crick Institute, London..

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Collective Dynamics in Non-Equilibrium Fluids

Professor Robert Jack, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 14:30-15:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

The Many Frontiers of High Magnetic Field Research

Prof. Greg Boebinger.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 06 March 2024, 11:15-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures

Prof Robin Dunbar.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 04 March 2024, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Physically constrained machine learning: from single-particle Hamiltonians to electronic excitations

Jigyasa Nigam ( Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)).

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 04 March 2024, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

The stochastic self-consistent harmonic approximation (SSCHA): a non-perturbative method for incorporating quantum and anharmonic effects into nuclei dynamics from first principles

Raffaello Bianco, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 04 March 2024, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Revolution by Natural Selection: a radical history of life from inside our cells

Professor Nick Lane, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 01 March 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Damping from fragmented materials

Dr Jem Rongong, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of Sheffield.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Mechanics of Soft Composites: The Interplay between Geometrical Structuring and Large Deformation to Achieve Novel Behavior

Professor Mary Boyce, University of Columbia.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-conservation of the valley density and its implications for the observation of the valley Hall effect

Alessandro Principi, University of Manchester.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

TexGen - Open-Source Software for Geometric Modelling of Textile Structures

Louise Brown - University of Nottingham.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 29 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Correlation and Collaboration: using model results to design functionals

Professor Lucia Reining, ETSF Palaiseau.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

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

Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quest for the first stars and first black holes with the James Webb Space Telescope

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Roberto Maiolino FRS, Professor of Experimental Astrophysics, Kavli Institute for Cosmology.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Cell fate transitions and the secret life of histones

Dr Maria Christophorou.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 26 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Electron-phonon and phonon-electron coupling

Samuel Poncé, Université catholique de Louvain.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 26 February 2024, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Understanding strongly correlated quantum materials using embedded dynamical mean-field theory

Khandker F. Quader, Department of Physics, Kent State University, USA.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 26 February 2024, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Worlds Turned Upside Down: Quiet Revolutions in Art

Professor Frances Spalding.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 23 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The acoustics of bouncing: drumsticks, impact hammers and church bells

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 23 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Scientific machine learning - opportunities and challenges from an industrial perspective

Dr Dirk Hartmann, Siemens.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 23 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Consistent Validation for Predictive Methods in Spatial Settings

David Burt, MIT.

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bosonic Quantum Solvation Enabled by Machine Learning

Dominik Marx (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

Pydantic: A Package for Picky Python Programmers

Paul Sharp - STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

New insights at ultra-low temperatures: superconductivity and nuclear-electronic quantum criticality

Prof. Alix McCollam, School of Physics, University College Cork, Ireland.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Thursday 22 February 2024, 11:15-12:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Liquid Water at Coupled Cluster Accuracy

Professor Dominik Marx, Ruhr-University Bochum.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks

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

James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Antibodies and their peptide mimics as pharmaceutical drugs

Sir Gregory Winter.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 19 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Understanding the Role of Chemistry in the Monomer-to-Monomer Recycling of Circular Polymers

Dr. Alex Epstein, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 February 2024, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

MatterGen: a generative model for inorganic materials design

Claudio Zeni, Microsoft Research.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 February 2024, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Exoplanet Revolution

Professor Didier Queloz, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 16 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Separate treatment of aleatory and epistemic uncertainty in structural dynamics

Dr John Hickey, Trinity College Dublin.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 16 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Data-parallel based deep learning for the model order reduction of parametrized partial differential equations

Dr Nirav Vashant Shah, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Full field measurement technique enabling the discovery of new materials laws

Dr Zifan Wang, CUED.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Mechanics, Materials and Design (Div C) - talks and events

CRASSH Healthcare in Conflict seminar: Health Systems and the Mass Casualty Management with WHO

Drs Laura Hobbs and Tom Bashford, EDC.

Online & Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 17:00-19:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topology in lattices of semiconductor microcavities

Jacqueline Bloch (Université Paris-Saclay & CNRS).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

Research Software Engineering in the Arts and Humanities : a community-driven approach

Anna-Maria Sichani - Digital Humanities Research Hub, University of London.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 15 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Foundation Models for Materials Chemistry

Professor Gábor Csanyi, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

Andrew McDonald and Kenza Tazi, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Going beyond emissions reduction – Climate Repair

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Dr Shaun Fitzgerald FREng OBE, Director of Research, Centre for Climate Repair, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

What’s in a Face? How Facial Expressions Influence Decision-Making

Dr Danielle Shore .

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 12 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Dynamical mean-field theory and its applications in correlated transition-metal oxides.

Dr. Liang Si, Northwest University and TU Wien.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 12 February 2024, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Creating chemical-reaction movies based on automated modeling

Dr. Dóra Papp, University of Szeged.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 12 February 2024, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

A Revolution in Thought? How hemisphere theory helps us understand the metacrisis

Dr Iain McGilchrist.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 09 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Disconnection Dynamics and Grain Boundary Kinetics: their surprising effects on microstructural evolution

Professor David Srolovitz, The University of Hong Kong.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Engineering - Mechanics, Materials and Design (Div C) - talks and events

Healthcare in conflict

Dr Saleyha Ahsan, EDC.

Sir Arthur Marshalls.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 17:00-19:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Field control of many-body phases in frustrated moiré bilayers

Laura Classen, MPI Stuttgart.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

NixOS: Pros and cons of truly reproducible builds

Ben Orchard - ICCS, University of Cambridge.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 08 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

London Dispersion in Density-Functional Theory and the Exchange-Hole Dipole Moment Model

Professor Erin R. Johnson, Dalhousie University.

Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 15:30-16:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

London Dispersion in Density-Functional Theory and the Exchange-Hole Dipole Moment Model

A joint Lennard-Jones Centre talk

Professor Erin Johnson, Dalhousie University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 15:30-16:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Upper bounds on superfluid stiffness and superconducting critical temperature - applications to flat bands, FeSe/STO, cold atoms and connections to quantum geometry

Dr. Tamaghna Hazra, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 11:15-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian coresets

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

Tor Fjelde and Will Tebbutt, University of Cambridge.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Structural Biology, Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery: Learning from Targeting Cancer to Combat Mycobacterial Infections

Professor Sir Tom Blundell.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 05 February 2024, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Neural functional theory for inhomogeneous (non-)equilibrium fluids

Florian Sammüller, University of Bayreuth.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 05 February 2024, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

ML-guided Materials Discovery

Janosh Riebesell, University of California, Berkeley.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 05 February 2024, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Mechanics, Materials and Design (Div C) - talks and events

Climate change and road infrastructure

Dr. Yaning Qiao, China University of Mining and Technology.

Lecture Room 6, Cambridge Engineering Department.

Monday 05 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are Revolutions Justified?

Professor Lea Ypi, London School of Economics.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 02 February 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Railway Decarbonisation Technologies: Energy-efficient Train Operation and Renewable Traction Power Networks

Dr Zhongbei Tian, University of Birmingham.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Nanovoid Irradiation Hardening in Metals: A Mesoscale Perspective".

Dr Ashley Roach.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Role of Phase Transformation on Shock Compression Behavior of Iron

Dr Vatsa Gandhi, Ashby Fellow.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:00-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

State engineering of a mesoscopic spin system (in a quantum dot)

Dorian Gangloff, University of Cambridge.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

Web Applications for Research: How to navigate tech stacks, dev-ops and UI/UX

Mark Turner - Head of RSE, Newcastle University.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 01 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermodynamic Integration, fermion sign problem, and real-space renormalization

Werner Krauth, ENS Paris, Oxford .

Mott Seminar Room (531).

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE - The influence of GI Taylor: granular collapses, viscous gravity currents, explosive eruptions and chemical gardens

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Herbert Huppert FRS FRSN, Professor of Theoretical Geophysics, Faculty of Mathematics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

[CANCELLED] Birds of a Feather: the Deep History of Dinosaur Skin

Prof Paul Barrett.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 29 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Identifying informative distance measures in high-dimensional feature spaces

Professor Alessandro Laio, International School for Advanced Studies.

Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre..

Monday 29 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Genetic Revolutions

Professor Matthew Cobb, University of Manchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 26 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Energy-conserving equivariant GNN predictions of stiffness for lattice materials

Ivan Grega, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 26 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Dynamic rupture behavior and friction evolution revealed by laboratory experiments using ultra high-speed digital image correlation

Prof Vito Rubino École Centrale de Nantes, France.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

The statistical properties of eigenstates in chaotic many-body quantum systems

John Chalker (Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

Software architecture: between rigid process and ´somehow I manage´ approach

Jasmin Jahić - Computer Lab, University of Cambridge.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 25 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

All-atom simulations of DNA in complex 3D arrangements

Dr Agnes Noy, University of York.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 14:30-15:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Mysteries in the superconductivity of Sr2RuO4

Dr. Clifford Hicks, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 January 2024, 11:15-12:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Of Odour Plumes and Synchrotrons: Structure and Function of Neural Circuits

Andreas Schaefer.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 22 January 2024, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Exploring the Intersection Seam: Insights into Photochemical Properties

Prof. Elisa Pieri, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 22 January 2024, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Microscopic Mechanism of Thermally Induced Ordered-Disordered Phase transitions in Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks Revealed via Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning Techniques

Prof. Rocio Semino, Sorbonne University.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 22 January 2024, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

On the Disappointment of Revolutions

Professor Sir Simon Schama, Columbia University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 19 January 2024, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Design methodologies for performance improvement of smart structures

Dr Najib Kacem, femto-st Institute.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 19 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

In-Silico Experiments to Unravel the Complexity of Engineering Interfaces

Professor Daniele Dini, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Atomic scale modelling of magnetic materials

Joseph Barker (Leeds).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

Debugging HPC applications

Tom Meltzer - ICCS University of Cambridge.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 18 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Artificial chemistries: From designing matter to mimicking life



Dr Zorana Zeravcic, ESPCI Paris PSL Research University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 14:30-15:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Hosts: From Energy Intensive Separations to Sensors and Soft Robotics

Prof. Nivine Khashab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Computational Roadmap of Emerging Materials: Implications of Piezochromism and Rashba Phenomena

Dr Sudip Chakraborty, Harish-Chandra Research Institute Allahabad.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 12 December 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

“IT FROM BIT” How does information shape the structures in the universe?

Saeid Davatolhagh (Shiraz University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Tuesday 05 December 2023, 11:00-12:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vehicle-bridge interaction in railways: forward and inverse applications

Dr Charikleia Stoura, ETH.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 December 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Data-driven ML-enhanced approaches to support accelerated materials design for extreme conditions

Prof. Lori Graham-Brady, Johns Hopkins University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 December 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Computational Chemistry Event

Dr Kadi Liis Sar, Dr Emma King-Smith, Dr Sam Niblett and Professor Angelos Michaelides.

Dept of Chemistry, BMS Lecture Theatre .

Friday 01 December 2023, 14:00-16:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Deep learning, Monte Carlo and Quantum Mechanics

Alex Matthews, DeepMind.

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 30 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Magnetism in 2D materials

Professor Biplab Sanyal, Uppsala University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

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

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

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Modern Bayesian Experimental Design

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

When the Quantum World Breaks Through and Resistance Becomes Quantized

Sir Michael Pepper FREng FRS - Emeritus Professor of Physics, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 27 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Embedding with auxiliary particles for strongly correlated materials

Carlos Mejuto-Zaera, International School for Advanced Studies, SISSA.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 27 November 2023, 14:30-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Synthesis planning, mechanistic analysis and discovery of new reaction classes in the age of computers

Prof. Bartosz Grzybowski, UNIST, Republic of Korea.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 27 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Quantum Simulations and Topology in out-of-equilibrium Floquet Systems

F. Nur Ünal, University of Cambridge.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 27 November 2023, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Control-based Continuation – A new paradigm for testing nonlinear systems

Dr Ludovic Renson, Imperial College London.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 24 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Innovations in Multifunctional Materials and Composites through Additive Manufacturing and Nanoengineering

Prof Kumar Shanmugam, Professor of Composite Materials and Advanced Manufacturing, University of Glasgow.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

GPUs in Atomistic Modelling

Please register to allow better planning: https://forms.gle/KG4dQdmPWhVFiP3z8

Dr. Phil Hasnip, Arjen Tamerus, Dávid Kovács, and Ilyes Batatia.

Maxwell Centre.

Friday 24 November 2023, 10:30-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bulk-boundary correspondence in quantum chains

Nick Jones, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

How not to write a convection parameterisation code?

Mike Whitall - UK Meteorological Office.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 23 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Making Sense of Electrical Noise by Simulating Electrolyte Solutions

Professor Benjamin Rotenberg, Sorbonne University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

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

Dr Miri Zilka and Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Unlocking safe reprogamming with deep learning

Dr Brendan Swain.

Bristol-Myers-Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 17:30-18:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Short Cuts

Prof Ian Fleming.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The quiet AI revolution in weather forecasting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Richard Turner, Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Saxena Group List

Exploring Superconductivity under High Pressure

Prof Katsuya Shimizu, Osaka University.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 20 November 2023, 16:00-17:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Adding functionality to machine-learning potentials: going beyond accuracy and speed

Miguel Caro, Aalto University.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 20 November 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Bilayer nickelate La3Ni2O7: interlayer electronic correlations and high-Tc superconductivity

Siheon Ryee, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Hamburg, Germany.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 20 November 2023, 14:00-14:30

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Towards Operando Modelling of Zeolites

Dr. Christopher Heard, Charles University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Challenges in Bayesian inference and reliability with large numbers of uncertain parameters

Jan Koune, TU Delft.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 17 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The rational design of sociotechnical systems in healthcare

Tom Bashford,CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum reaction-diffusion dynamics

Gabriele Perfetto, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen.

TCM Seminar Room.

Friday 17 November 2023, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Melting of Spin 'Solids' in 2D

Andriy Nevidomskyy (Rice University).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

Teaching RSE for Digital Humanities

Mary Chester-Kadwell.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 16 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Climate Repair

Refreezing the Arctic

Please register on our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/autumn-seminar-series-2023-tickets-681067811157

Shaun Fitzgerald & Hugh Hunt, Dept of Engineering & Centre for Climate Repair.

LR2, Dept of Engineering .

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 16:00-18:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Uncovering Molecular Transport Mechanisms by Counting with Colloids

Professor Alice Thorneywork, University of Oxford.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Kinetic magnetism of fermions in triangular lattices

Eugene Demler, ETH Zurich.

Mott Seminar Room (531).

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

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

Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Cybergenetics: Theory and Implementation of genetic control systems

Prof Mustafa Khammash, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Prof. Julio Lloret

Prof. Julio Lloret, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Large Hadron Collider, a marvel of technology

Dr Lyn Evans CBE, CERN.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Ion migration in halide perovskites

Bo Cai, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 13 November 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

A different perspective on charge disproportionation/order probed by resonant X-ray scattering experiments: Insights from dynamical mean field theory

G. Lucian Pascut, Stefan Cel Mare University (USV), Suceava, Romania.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 13 November 2023, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Resource Efficiency: delivering future energy and material services with less environmental impact.

Prof Jonathan Cullen, CUED.

Department of Engineering - LR5.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Diversity, tolerance, and maturation of the adaptive immune response

Please note a different venue than the usual

Mehran Kardar (MIT).

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Avenue.

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

RSE Seminars

Sustainability at The Netherlands eScience Center

Niels Drost - Netherlands eScience Centre and NL-RSE.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Solvation Across Length Scales: A Classical Density Functional Theory

1st Year PhD Report

Anna Bui, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Path Integral Approaches to Spin-Phonon Coupled Systems

1st Year PhD Report

Ilija Srpak, University of Cambridge and Max Planck Institute.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 14:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

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

Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V Hill LECTURE - Recent controversies in evolutionary theory

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Dr John Welch, Department of Genetics .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Motor Augmentation: The Brain's Journey Beyond Biological Boundaries

Dr Tamar Makin.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 06 November 2023, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Machine learning for molecular design of plasmonic nanosystems

Zsuzsanna Koczor-Benda, University of Warwick.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 06 November 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Modelling Solution Chemistry

Prof. Maren Podewitz, Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien, Austria..

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 06 November 2023, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Friday 3 November - no seminar today

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Friday 03 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Friday 3 November - no seminar today

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Venue to be confirmed.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nonlinear breathers with crystalline symmetries

Frank Schindler, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

Widening Participation in the R Project

Heather Turner - Warwick University and R.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 02 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Fifty Years Simulating Water and Electrolyte Solutions : Where Are We?

Professor Carlos Vega de las Heras, University Complutense of Madrid.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:30-15:30

Saxena Group List

Seminar on Superconductivity enhancement in polar metals

Isao H. Inoue from National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Japan.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:15-15:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Moving in a dynamically changing free energy landscape: strain, heterostructure and optical control of the correlation-driven metal-insulator transition

Prof. Andrew Millis, Columbia University; co-Director, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, The Flatiron Institute.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 11:15-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

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

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

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

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

MD Simulations with Chemical Accuracy – Alkane Reactivity in Acidic Zeolites

Dr Fabian Berger, University of Cambridge.

Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre; Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 30 October 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Introducing ACEpotentials.jl

In person

Dr Chuck Witt, University of Cambridge.

Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theatre; Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 30 October 2023, 14:00-14:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Development of Solid-State Solar Thermal Fuels

Dr. John Griffin, Lancaster University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Soft elasticity by domain formation in reinforced and magneto-active composites

Pedro Ponte Castañeda, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics and Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania,.

Department of Engineering - LR5.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theoretical minimum

David Khmelnitskii.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

Fortran 77: It's really C with none of the safeguards

Simon Clifford - RSE, University of Cambridge.

West 1, West Hub.

Thursday 26 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

From Computational Chemistry to Computational Microbiology: A Few Successes and Many Challenges

Professor Syma Khalid, University of Oxford.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

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

Spencer Frei, UC Davis.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Maths versus pandemics: the COVID-19 story

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor of Mathematical Biology, at DAMTP, Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and the David N. Moore Fellow in mathematics at Queens’ College Cambridge. .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Autophagy, a guardian against neurodegeneration

Prof David Rubinsztein.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 23 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Advances in realistic materials modeling with the DFT+DMFT approach

Sophie Beck, Flatiron institute, USA.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 23 October 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Two for One: Diffusion Models and Force Fields for Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics

Marloes Arts, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 23 October 2023, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Active noise control: what's the best you can do?

Joe Massingham, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Measurement, Assessment and Modelling of Heavy Goods Vehicle Energy Consumption

Dr Xiaoxiang Na, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Waves topology in geophysical flows

Antoine Venaille (ENS de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire de Physique).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

Code Execution during peer review with CODECHECK

Daniel Nüst, ifgi, TU Dresden.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 19 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Relativistic QED developments for atomic and molecular bound state computations

Dr Edit Mátyus, ELTE Faculty of Science, Budapest.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

Isaac Reid, University of Cambridge.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular oxygen sensing mechanisms: adventures of a physician in discovery science.

Sir Peter Ratcliffe.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 16 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Different charge density waves in emergent kagome materials

Hengxin Tan, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 16 October 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

New 'low-cost' electronic structure methods for large systems

Prof. Stefan Grimme, University of Bonn.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 16 October 2023, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Mathematical driver model with a Gaussian Process internal model to represent learning behaviour

Harry Fieldhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Chemicals and fuels from CO2 via thermo and electrochemical routes: Insights from quantum chemistry

Prof. Felix Studt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 13 October 2023, 11:00-12:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Schrödinger in Oxford (and Cambridge)

Professor Sir David Clary FRS (Oxford & Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Little Solutions to Big Problems: How we use nanoporous materials to address sustainability challenges

Prof. Camille Petit,Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

RSE Seminars

A random walk through Julia

Valentin Churavy - julialab, MIT.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 12 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Learning from molecular dynamics trajectory ensembles

Professor Peter Bolhuis, University of Amsterdam.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

How Best to Explore Chemical Space for Bioactive Molecular Discovery

Prof Adam Nelson.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE From superconductors to giant planets: a computational window on materials

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Chris Pickard, Sir Alan Cottrell Professor of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 October 2023, 18:00-19:00

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Welcome - introduction to the Group

Professor David Cebon.

JDB Teaching room, CUED.

Friday 06 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Non-reciprocal active matter across the scales

Ramin Golestanian (MPI & Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

Facing the MUSIC: towards a robust and flexible research code for stellar hydrodynamics

Thomas Guillet, Physics and Astronomy, University of Exeter.

West 1, West Hub.

Thursday 05 October 2023, 13:00-14:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Fracture and fatigue in additively manufactured alloys

Prof. Upadrasta Ramamurty, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Toward Better Bone Regeneration: Innovation in Metallic and Ceramic Scaffolds

Prof. Donghui Zhu,.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 29 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Multiscale design strategies for the progressive failure of architected materials and structures – Focus on interface cracking

Dr Federica Daghia, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire de Mécanique Paris-Saclay .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 21 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Diastereoselective self-assembly of low-symmetry metal-organic cages

Dr Jamie Lewis, University of Birmingham.

Dept. of Chemistry, Pfizer Lecture Theater.

Wednesday 20 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Jay McClelland, Stanford University .

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Eigenstate thermalization, quantum designs and free probability

Jorge Kurchan (Ecole Normale Superieure, lpens, Paris, France).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Illuminating the Quantum Dynamics in Photoelectrochemistry

Special Lennard-Jones Centre seminar

Dr Thomas Sayer, University of Colorado Boulder.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Searching for Quantum Spin Liquids in Cerium-based Pyrochlores

Benedikt Placke, Max Planck Institute.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Journey of Droplet through various spatio-temporal scales

Prof Saptarshi Basu.

LR3B, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 31 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Control: Strategic Uses of Carbon Nanohoops, Fluorinated Cyclohexanes and Organophosphates

Prof. Max von Delius, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Ulm University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 24 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Bulk-interface correspondence from quantum distance in flat band systems

Chang-geun Oh (University of Tokyo).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 23 August 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Imparting the generalised Toric Code with hopping dynamics

Siddarth Vadnerkar (UC Davis).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

The quantum Mpemba effect

Pasquale Calabrese (SISSA).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The elastic stability and transitions between the unusual equilibrium states of a special hexagram ring

John W. Hutchinson, Harvard University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 21 July 2023, 10:00-11:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Calibrate Weak Intermolecular Ligand Interactions on Nanoparticles via the Dynamic Volume of Chain Segments

Prof. Xueqian Kong, Institute of Translational Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University .

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 20 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descent

Jeremy Bernstein, MIT.

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Hydrovoltaics: from energy to Intelligence

Prof. Wanlin Guo, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

LR3A, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 05 July 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Intelligentsia of Nano-Architected Hierarchical Materials

Professor J.R. Greer, California Institute of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Wednesday 05 July 2023, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum anomalous Hall effect in intrinsic magnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4 (a joint Winton seminar)

Prof Yuanbo Zhang (Fudan University).

Small Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 28 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

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

Hanchen Wang, Stanford CS and Genentech gRED.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Schrödinger bridges, diffusion and SDEs

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Stratis Markou and Shreyas Padhy.

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Colloidal nanocrystals to advance catalysis and energy technologies

Prof. Raffaella Buonsanti, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne .

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Leapfrog in Fracture and Damage Mechanics inspired by Gap Test and Curvature-Resisting Sprain Energy

Prof Zdenek Bazant .

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Friday 16 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Saxena Group List

Quantum materials in and beyond equilibrium

Prof Christian Rüegg, Director, Paul Scherrer Institute.

Small Lecture Theatre (Bragg Building), Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 June 2023, 10:30-12:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

WISE(Wearable Intelligent Sensors & Electronics) Research and Applications

Prof. Xueji Zhang, Shenzhen University.

LR6.

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

RSE Seminars

Fpm and Stdlib: Recent developments in the Fortran Ecosystem

Laurence Kedward, RSE, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Bristol.

West Hub, South Room.

Thursday 15 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The LLM Tidal Wave

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Katie Collins, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

A Straightforward and Efficient Approach for Enhancing Energetics within the Framework of Density-Corrected Density Functional Theory

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Daniel Graf, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, Todd-Hamied Room.

Monday 12 June 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Transferable Machine Learning Interatomic Potential for Bond Dissociation Energy Prediction of Drug-like Molecules

Elena Gelzinyte, University of Cambridge.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 12 June 2023, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tea Time Talks - Poster Session

Group poster presentation.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 09 June 2023, 15:30-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theoretical magneto-optical spectroscopy for solid state defect quantum bits

Adam Gali (Wigner Research Centre for Physics & Budapest University of Technology and Economics).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

Benchmarking with ReFrame

Tuomas Koskela - RSE, University College London.

West Hub, West 1.

Thursday 08 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Game theory, distributional reinforcement learning, control and verification

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

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

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Excited states properties of materials from many-body perturbation theory

Myrta Grüning, Queen's University Belfast.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 05 June 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Real-time Subspace Methods for Hamiltonian Eigenvalue Estimation on Quantum Hardware

Katie Klymko, NERSC .

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 05 June 2023, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The Transfer Matrix Method revisited: computations and applications to dynamics

Professor Atanas Popov, University of Nottingham.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 June 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Strong Correlation and Unconventional Superconductivity in Bulk and Trilayer Alkali-Doped Fullerides

Changming Yue (University of Fribourg).

Zoom.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Lowering the barrier to entry for GPU acceleration in complex systems simulation

Paul Richmond, Institute of Computing for Climate Science.

Virtual Only.

Thursday 01 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

In Search of Coulson's Lost Theorem

Professor Patrick Fowler, University of Sheffield.

Todd Hamied Room, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

On choosing the mass matrix for Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

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Tor Fjelde and Tim Hargreaves, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

CANCELLED - Nonlinear damping measurement in rotating fan and compressor disks

Dr Matt De Brett, Imperial College London.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 26 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Mechanosensing in cancer fuels agressiveness

Prof Laura M. Machesky, department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Physically Intelligent Robots at the Milli/Microscale

Prof Dr Metin Sitti, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magnetic excitations from TDDFT: the case of the CrI3 2D magnet

Tommaso Gorni (CINECA).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

Automated and Semi-Automated bug finding for Fortran

Dominic Orchard - ICCS, Universities of Cambridge and Kent.

West Hub, East 2.

Thursday 25 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Developing Hybrid Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithms for Low Quantum Overheads and Improved Noise Resilience

Dr Maria-Andreea Filip, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reward Modelling

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

Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Lennard-Jones Centre

Localisation and transport in many-body two-dimensional quasiperiodic systems

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Antonio Strkalj, University of Cambridge.

Cavendish Laboratory, Small Lecture Theatre.

Monday 22 May 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Exploring amorphous graphene with machine-learned atomic energies

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Zakariya El-Machachi, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, .

Cavendish Laboratory, Small Lecture Theatre.

Monday 22 May 2023, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Blood pressure measurement: the mystery of inferring arterial pressure from outside of the body

Kate Bassil, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 19 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Measurement automation for additive manufacturing using computer vision

Prof William P. King, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, UIUC .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum computers challenged by many-body chaos

Alexander Altland (University of Cologne).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

Packaging and Publishing your Python code

Liam Pattinson, RSE, York Plasma Institute.

West Hub, West 1.

Thursday 18 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Transcorrelated method for periodic systems

https://zoom.us/j/98420964527?pwd=K2NzWXBWZjZLd2MzaktMOXcxV3pDUT09 Meeting ID: 984 2096 4527 Passcode: 933217

Professor Masayuki Ochi, Osaka University Japan.

Zoom.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Tackling Topology with TopoStats

Dr Alice Pyne, University of Sheffield.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Solvated electron from first principles and machine learning

Dr Jinggang Lan, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 15 May 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

A quantum computing algorithm to speed up Metropolis sampling

Prof. Guglielmo Mazzola, Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 15 May 2023, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Brightening clouds for regional cooling

Edmund Reardon, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Pseudo-Goldstone modes and order-by-disorder

Jeffrey G. Rau (University of Windsor).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Sam Power, University of Bristol.

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

A novel framework for electron and phonon transport predictions from first-principles

Jenny Coulter (Harvard).

TCM Seminar Room.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum Theory of Imperfect Crystals

Professor Aron Walsh, Imperial College London.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Strategies for international electrification of heavy goods vehicles

Parth Deshpande, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 05 May 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Coiled Muscle + Snapping Beams: From Nonlinear Mechanics to Miniature Robotic Design

Dr Sam Tawfick, University of Illinois .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Molecular design approaches to organic semiconductors

Prof. Iain McCulloch, University of Oxford.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Planckian dissipation in metals

Sean Hartnoll (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Towards the development of neural network potentials for describing chemistry under challenging conditions

First Year PhD Report

Samuel Brookes, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Non-unitary Trotter circuits for imaginary time evolution

First Year PhD Report

Chiara Leadbeater, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 14:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

Burigede Liu.

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

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Bogie Damage: Train or Track?

Dr Stuart Grassie, Railmeasurement Ltd.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 28 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Trying to catch up with Gibbs: How simulators run into problems that Gibbs had already solved

Lennard-Jones Centre Plenary Talk, Hybrid access: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Prof. Daan Frenkel, Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Friday 28 April 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Cavity Magnonics

Silvia Viola Kusminskiy (RWTH Aachen/MPL Erlangen).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Quantum theory of electronic friction

Professor Rocco Martinazzo, University of Milan.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 14:30-15:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

From theoretical chemistry to integrated drug discover platforms. Methods and applications

Prof. Artem Cherkasov, University of British Columbia.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Magneto-optical probes shed light on the unconventional transport and magnetism of Eu – based semi-metals

Dr. Veronika Sunko, Department of Physics, UC Berkeley.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 11:15-12:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The shape of things to come

Professor Nicola Marzari, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI).

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 20 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

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Adrian Goldwaser and Lauro Langosco (University of Cambridge) .

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

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Machine-learning-enabled discovery of extreme chemistry

Prof. Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 17 April 2023, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning

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

Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Weakly Bound Molecular Materials: Competing Energy Scales, Quantum Effects and More

Dr Mariana Rossi, MPI.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 06 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Liouville conformal blocks and Stokes Phenomena

Babak Haghighat (Tsinghua University).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 06 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

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Ross Viljoen and Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Advanced Tissue Biofabrication

Prof Y. Shrike Zhang, Harvard Medical School.

Room LR6, Cambridge University Engineering Department, CB2 1PZ.

Friday 31 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The mechanics of nature-inspired heterogeneous architected materials (HAMs)

Prof Bosco Yu, University of Victoria.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 31 March 2023, 11:00-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Modernist Materials Synthesis: Finding Thermodynamic Shortcuts with Hyperdimensional Chemistry

Professor Jamie Neilson, Colorado State University .

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Activity induced phase separation and ordering in various model soft matter systems

Theoretical Chemistry/Lennard-Jones Centre Seminar https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Professor Prabal Maiti, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry & Zoom.

Wednesday 29 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Physics-informed machine learning

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

Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Exploring chemical reactivity in the age of automation and ML

Professor Fernanda Duarte, University of Oxford.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 28 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The Joy of Discovery - A Lecture in Memory of Alex Hopkins

Professor Ben Feringa.

BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 24 March 2023, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Machine Learning

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

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

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

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

‘Machine-learning in chemistry from the bottom up’

Professor Michele Ceriotti, Institute of Materials, EPFL.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 21 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One Day Meeting

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Organisers: Professor Adrian Kent, Dr Boris Groisman, Dr Sergii Strelchuk and Professor Ron Horgan.

Cambridge University Engineering Department. Constance Tipper Lecture Theatre.

Saturday 18 March 2023, 10:15-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Seeing opportunity in failure: can common issues in metal Additive Manufacture help deliver innovative material solutions?

Prof. Iain Todd from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield .

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Reinforcement learning to manipulate many-body quantum systems

Marin Bukov (PKS Dresden).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Engineering - Mechanics, Materials and Design (Div C) - talks and events

CUED Bioengineering Conference 2023

Programme and registration details at link.

The McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge .

Thursday 16 March 2023, 08:45-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Crumbling Crystals

First Year PhD Report

Niamh O'Neill, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Exploring and implementing molecular counterfactuals for chemical toxicology prediction

First Year PhD Report

Katie Beckwith, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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

Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Nanowires: Small but mighty building blocks for efficient electronics

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Hannah Joyce, Department of Engineering.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

An Old Story: What happens to tissues when we age

Prof. Melinda Duer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 March 2023, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Excited states, symmetry breaking, and multiple solutions in electronic structure theory

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Dr Hugh Burton, Oxford.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Monday 13 March 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Ab initio calculations of phonon-phonon and electron-phonon interactions: application to transport

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Laurent Chaput, Université de Lorraine, Institut Universitaire de France.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

Monday 13 March 2023, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation of atomic mechanisms – the choreographer at play

Professor Sir Harry Bhadeshia, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Automatic customization of transparency mode and audio equalization in ear buds

Dr Ole Nielsen, BOSE.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Physics-enhancing machine learning strategies for friction force evaluation

Alice Cicrello, TU Delft.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Honorary Fellows Lecture - Cosmic extinction - the far future of our Universe

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Carlos Frenk, Ogden Professor of Fundamental Physics, Durham.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 18:00-19:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Topology, Molecular Simulation, and Machine Learning as Routes to Exploring Structure, Dynamics, and Phase Behavior in Atomic and Molecular Crystals

Professor Mark Tuckerman, New York University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

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

Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Engineering Design Centre Seminars

Product realization: Scaling a prototype to a million devices

Dr. Anna Thornton is a Professor of the Practice in Mechanical Engineering and is the Director of the Engineering Product Innovation Center at BU.

Sir Arthur Marshalls, CUED.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Machine learning aided fast and accurate quantum chemistry for solvated molecules

Prof Fang Liu, Emory University.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 06 March 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Structures and Quantum Effects of Short Hydrogen Bonds in Proteins

Prof. Lu Wang, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 06 March 2023, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Self-Imposed Isolation of North Korea

Professor Heonik Kwon, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 March 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Acoustics by the sea with BBC Coast

Professor David Sharp, The Open University.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 03 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

The chase for fluid-structure interaction effects – An obsession or something important?

Dr Vegard Aune, NTNU, Norway.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Laboratory for Scientific Computing

The Richtmyer-Meshkov instability in the multi-fluid plasma regime with transport effects

Kyriakos Tapinou, University of Queensland.

Zoom.

Friday 03 March 2023, 10:00-11:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Molecular simulations of high-efficiency perovskite solar cells

Paramvir Ahlawat (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Photosynthesis on an electrode

Dr Jenny Zhang, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Spin dynamics in radical pairs

Professor David Manolopoulos, University of Oxford.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Mitigating mitochondrial mutational meltdown: can we save the species?

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Patrick Chinnery, Department of Clinical Neurosciences .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Going small to tackle big challenges – using microalgae to develop sustainable solutions

Prof. Alison Smith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 27 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Thermal properties of MOF5: a comparison of molecular dynamics and Wigner transport approaches

Raffaela Cabriolu, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) .

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 27 February 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Probing Realistic Water-2D Material Interfaces via Combined Quantum and Classical Simulations

Ananth Govind Rajan, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 27 February 2023, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Are we alone in the Universe?

Dr Arik Kershenbaum, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 24 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Human perception of transient longitudinal vehicle motion

Samer Abdelmoeti, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 24 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Strength prediction of polymer composite laminates under uncertainties using theory-guided machine learning

Prof Pedro Camanho, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Porto.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Solving Continuum Physics Equations with OpenFOAM

Hrvoje Jasak (Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The structure of the carbon/electrolyte interface from molecular dynamics simulations

Professor Paola Carbone, University of Manchester.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Neural Networks

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

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

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Chemical Biology in Antibiotic and Anticancer Drug Discovery

Thomas Lanyon-Hogg.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 20 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Machine learning to predict protein function from sequence with therapeutic applications

Hybrid Meeting | In-person venue to be confirmed | Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Dr Lucy J. Colwell, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 February 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Information scrambling: a path-integral perspective

Hybrid Meeting | In-person venue to be confirmed | Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Vijay Ganesh Sadhasivam, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 20 February 2023, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Isolation and Trapping using Optical Tweezers

Professor Philip Jones, University College London.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 17 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Modeling of Fibrous Tissues Considering the Microstructure

Prof Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Graz University of Technology, Institute of Biomechanics, Austria.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Thermalization bounds and a universal collapse of the viscosities of glass forming liquids

Zohar Nussinov (Oxford, Sorbonne, Washington U).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Discovering New Materials By Combining Computation And Intelligent Mobile Robotic Chemists

Andrew I. Cooper, University of Liverpool.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Leveraging vibrations, nonlinear dynamics, and wave phenomena in emerging fields and across disciplines

Prof Alper Erturk, Carl Ring Family Chair & Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology .

Department of Engineering - LR6.

Thursday 16 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

T-Shaped Transition Metal Complexes and their Metalloradical Nature

Prof. Lutz Gade, Heidelberg University.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Unravelling adsorption interactions and establishing benchmark accuracy: The case of hydrogen adsorption on low-dimensional materials

Dr Yasmine Al-Hamdani, UCL.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Offline Reinforcement Learning

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

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

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Building your life-support system; a new paradigm for human placental development

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Graham Burton, Department of Physiology Development & Neuroscience .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and the Reign of the Mammals

Prof. Steve Brusatte.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 13 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Mechanistic design, understanding, and multicatalysis in the development of catalytic chemical processes

Dr Pawel Dydio, University of Strasbourg.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 13 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Machine learning for nanoporous materials design

Prof. Mohamad Moosavi, Chemical Engineering, The University of Toronto.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 13 February 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Machine learning methods for heterogeneous catalysis

Prof Mie Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 13 February 2023, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Antarctica:Isolated Continent

Professor Dame Jane Francis, British Antarctic Survey.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 10 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Complexity in Vibrations and Dynamics – Phenomena and Methods

Professor Norbert Hoffmann, Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH).

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Geometric compatibility: from simple mathematics to complex materials, structures and mechanics

Dr Fen Fang, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 February 2023, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Stress-unsupervised learning of material models using experimental data

Dr Akshay Joshi, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 10 February 2023, 14:00-14:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Iron catalysed cyclotrimerisation: Reactions of alkynes and phosphaalkynes

Dr Ruth Webster, University of Bath.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Understanding Metallic Bonding

Volker Heine.

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Energy landscapes of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks (ZIFs)

First Year PhD Report

Arun Kumar Rajasekaran, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Found In Translation: Using Language Models To Predict C–H Borylation Regioselectivity

First Year PhD Report

Ruslan Kotlyarov, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 14:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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

Jixiang Qing, SUMO lab, Ghent University,.

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

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Simplified Earth-abundant metal catalysis, C–H activation and transborylation

Dr Jamie Docherty, The University of Manchester.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

From cells to continents: Understanding how bacteria evolve and transmit

Dr. Josephine Bryant.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 06 February 2023, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Moving beyond screening via generative machine learning models

Prof Taylor D. Sparks, Materials Science & Engineering, University of Utah.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 06 February 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Fully Quantum (Bio)Molecular Simulations: Dream or Reality?

Prof Alexandre Tkatchenko, University of Luxembourg.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 06 February 2023, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Closeting of Secrets

Professor Adrian Kent, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 03 February 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Phononics: Structural dynamics of materials and implications to fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and beyond

Prof Mahmoud I. Hussein, Alvah and Harriet Hovlid Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder.

Department of Engineering - LR4.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multiscale Simulation of DNA

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminar

Dr Modesto Orozco, IRB Barcelona.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Friday 03 February 2023, 11:00-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

The importance of fundamental hydrocarbons and their use in step economic total synthesis

Dr Madison Sowden, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany (formerly at Australian National University, Canberra).

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Applying Matsubara Dynamics to Study Rates in Thermally Dissipative Systems

First Year PhD Report

William Moore, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

DMC-ICE13: ambient and high pressure polymorphs of ice from Diffusion Monte Carlo and Density Functional Theory

First Year PhD Report

Flaviano Della Pia, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 14:30-15:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

G I TAYLOR LECTURE – Some wrinkles in Gauss’ Theorem: Mathematics of everyday objects from Pizza to Umbrellas and Parachutes

Please note change to start time of 18.00. Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Space: The Final Front-queer

Dr. Alfredo Carpineti.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 30 January 2023, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Efficient calculation of the absolute molecular entropy with DFT and extended tight-binding methods

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Dr Philipp Pracht, Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room 531, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 30 January 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Coherent error threshold for surface codes from Majorana delocalization

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Dr Jan Behrends, University of Cambridge (TCM).

Mott Seminar Room 531, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 30 January 2023, 14:00-14:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Roger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Isolation of Asylum Seekers: immigration detention in Australia

Dr Amy Nethery, Deakin University.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 27 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Why is the clarinet like a violin?

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 27 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Computationally derived correlations between segregation, microstructure variations and process-induced cracks in AM

Prof Hector Basoalto, Sheffield University.

Meeting ID: 898 8054 7075 .

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

The unusual reactivity inside the supramolecular resorcinarene capsule catalyst – from terpene cyclizations to glycosylations

Prof. Konrad Teifenbacher, University of Basel.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Recent developments with the Transcorrelated method

Professor Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

High-performance predictions of electron and phonon transport from first-principles

Jennifer Coulter, Harvard.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 23 January 2023, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Ab initio charge transport of ionic fluids: invariance principles and topological invariants

Federico Grasselli, EPFL.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 23 January 2023, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

On Escaping or Not Escaping Solitude. Persian Tales of Turtles and Pearls

Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 20 January 2023, 17:30-18:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

A spectrum of physics-informed machine learning approaches for problems in structural dynamics

Professor Lizzy Cross, University of Sheffield.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 20 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

A hyperplasticity framework for efficient modelling of cyclic loading ratcheting

Dr Christelle Abadie, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

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

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

Extra Theoretical Chemistry Seminars

Some new perspectives on old problems: From water to materials and back again.

Professor Michael Klein, Temple University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 14:30-15:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Sparse Gaussian Process Potentials and Simulations of Solid Electrolytes

Dr Amir Hajibabaei, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Bragg Building, Cavendish .

Monday 05 December 2022, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Simulating the binding of the pioneer transcription factor Oct4 to the nucleosome

Dr Jan Huertas, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 05 December 2022, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Background and uses of guided ultrasonics

Dr David Alleyne, CEO, Guided Ultrasonics Ltd.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?

Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Mind-matter Unification Project (TCM Group, Cavendish Laboratory)

Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?

Recording now available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kZjee3EwGU

Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Go EAST, young scientist - First principles view on chemical compound space

Professor Anatole von Lilienfeld, University of Toronto.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

A weak convergence viewpoint on invertible coarse-graining

Prof. Grant M. Rotskoff, Stanford.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 28 November 2022, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Exploring chemical reactions through automation and machine learning

Prof. Fernanda Duarte, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 28 November 2022, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Probabilistic sensitivity using Fisher information and its symplectic eigenvalue decomposition

Dr Jiannan Yang, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 25 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

What machine learning can do for (meta)materials-by-design

Dr Sid Kumar, Materials Science and Engineering at TU Delft.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 25 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Vedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland .

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum thermodynamics in open quantum systems

Géraldine Haack (Université de Genève).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:15-12:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Chemical Physics of Correlated Materials

https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

Professor Garnet Chan, Caltech.

via zoom .

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 17:00-18:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Magnetotransport of pyrochlore spin ice Sm2Ir2O7 across the pressure-induced quantum-critical phase boundary

Dr. Matthew Coak, London Centre for Nanotechnology, University College London.

Mott Seminar Room (531), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 11:15-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

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

Andy Lin, MLG.

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport

Felipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile.

CBL Seminar Room.

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture - Eureka! How the history of science became a story of discovery

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Jim Secord, Department of History & Philosophy of Science.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sustainable seafood for human health

Dr David Willer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 21 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Neural network sampling of the free energy landscapes for quantum defect formation in silicon carbide

Prof Elizabeth M. Y. Lee, University of California, Irvine.

Zoom.

Monday 21 November 2022, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Clustering and learning reaction coordinates directly using atomic positions

Prof Glen Hocky, New York University.

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 21 November 2022, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Micromechanical Modelling at High Temperature - A Personal Perspective

Prof Alan Cocks, Oxford.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

A constructive approach to dualities in quantum spin systems

Frank Verstraete (DAMTP and Ghent University).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

Rust: first impressions and rough guide

Matthew Scroggs, UCL.

West Hub, South Room.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent Interaction

Stefano Albrecht, Edinburgh.

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

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Development of a sequence-dependent coarse-grained model for probing protein aggregation

1st Year PhD Report https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

Kieran Russell, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 15:00-15:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Designing multiphase biomolecular condensates

First Year PhD Report https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

Pin Yu Chew, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Predicting generalization of ML models.

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

Vihari Piratla and Shreyas Padhy.

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

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nanoscale Engineering of Plasmonic Materials for Biosensing and Bioimaging

Prof Fang Xie.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 14 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Antibody binding regulates the dynamics of the cellular prion protein

Dr Ioana Ilie, University of Amsterdam.

Zoom.

Monday 14 November 2022, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Using sequence data to predict the self-assembly of supramolecular collagen structures

Dr Anna Puszkarska, AstraZeneca.

Zoom.

Monday 14 November 2022, 14:00-14:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Lachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations.

Lecture Theatre 6 (LT6), Department of Engineering.

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

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Development and validation of a user-friendly hybrid prediction tool for railway induced vibration

Professor Geert Degrande, KU Leuven.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Microstructure control in metal additive manufacturing: a LEGO analogy

Dr Matteo Seita, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Ferroelectricity and topological polarization in twisted bilayers

Danny Bennett (University of Liège).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

RSE Seminars

Using SYCL kernels for Finite Element assembly

Igor Baratta.

West Hub, South Room.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The role played by interactions in the assembly of active colloids: Discovering dynamic laws from observations.

https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

Dr Chantal Valeriani, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A tutorial on diffusion models

Emile, Sasha from CBL.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL Lecture – The Protected Brain: Neurogenesis Under Stress

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Alex Gould, Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College, London.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 07 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Bioelectronic tools to study the gut-brain axis

Prof Roisin Owens.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 07 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Molecular simulations of crystallization of halide perovskites

Paramvir Ahlawat, University of Cambridge.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 07 November 2022, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Small-molecule binding to intrinsically disordered proteins

Dr Gabi Heller, Newnham College, Cambridge.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Monday 07 November 2022, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tyre wear modelling of multi-axle trucks

Chen Liu, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 04 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Cut it out - residual stresses in dynamic cell sheets

Dr Stephanie Hoehn, DAMTP, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Active Matter: a new approach to mechanobiology?

Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

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

RSE Seminars

Using the LIKWID tool suite

Thomas Gruber.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 03 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Programmable Folding of Droplet Colloidomers

https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

Professor Jasna Brujic, NYU.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Spin fluctuations and Wigner thermal transport in thermoelectric skutterudites

Enrico di Lucente, EPFL.

TCM Seminar Room (530), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Reimagining Museum Collecting & Collections in Natural History: A Decolonial Perspective

Ms Miranda Lowe.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Darwins in Conversation

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Paula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow.

Murray Edwards College, Buckingham House Conference Centre.

Monday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Understanding carbonate mineral crystallisation from atomistic simulations of ion association, surface adsorption and impurity incorporation processes

Julie Aufort, IMPMC, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, MNHN, IRD, 4 place Jussieu, Paris, France.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 31 October 2022, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Wavepacket studies of the water-dimer: insights from exact quantum dynamics

Steve Ndengué, Senior Lecturer, ICTP-EAIFR. .

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 31 October 2022, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Identifying performance limits for active noise reduction in nonlinear systems

Joe Massingham, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Simulating the Tumor Microenvironment for Immune Cell Interactions via Deployable Extrusion

Corrado Mazzaglia, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:30-15:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Smart micro-textiles: from bioinspired sensing to bioelectronic interface

Andy Wang CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:00-14:30

RSE Seminars

A summary of the reproducibility initiative for SC21

Kiril Dichev (University of Cambridge).

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Thursday 27 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Gender Equity in Academia: Why and How

Prof. Paul Walton, University of York.

BMS Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 15:30-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The many phases of Filinov filtration: mixed-limit semiclassical dynamics

https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

Dr Nandini Ananth, Cornell University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benchmarking and evaluation in contemporary machine learning

Austin Tripp and Shoaib Siddiqui, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Protection against self-oxidation by copper oxygenases

Prof. Paul Walton, University of York.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Banks, Bunkers, and Backup: Securing Crop Diversity from the Cold War through the Internet Age

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Helen Anne Curry, Kranzberg Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 24 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Controlling the cell cycle: A new model

Sir Paul Nurse.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 24 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Phonon traces and quasilocalized vibrations in vitreous silica

Dr Nikita Shcheblanov, Université Gustave Eiffel and LIGO-Virgo collaboration.

Zoom.

Monday 24 October 2022, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Crystallinity characterization of white matter in the human brain

Prof. Erin Teich, Department of Physics, Wellesley College, USA.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 24 October 2022, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Prediction and mitigation of railway induced vibration in the built environment

Prof Geert Degrand, KU Leuven.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

Friday 21 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum measurement protocol for many-body systems through projective measurements on ancillary sites

Elmer Doggen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

In-situ visualization of AMR datasets with ParaView Catalyst and Intel OSPRay

(University of Cambridge).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre.

Thursday 20 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

UNICORN (UNIted COarse gRaiNed) Force Field

https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

Dr Adam Sieradzan, University of Gdańsk.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 14:30-15:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Why We Aren't Just Great Apes

Prof Robin Dunbar.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 17 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Specific ion effects in aqueous electrolyte solutions from first-principles derived neural network potentials

Virtual

Dr Shuwen Yue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 17 October 2022, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Dynamical disorder and carrier localization in halide perovskites

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Julia Wiktor, Chalmers University of Technology.

Zoom.

Monday 17 October 2022, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

A linearised hybrid FE-SEA method for built-up structures with nonlinear joints under random loading

Henry Allen, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 14 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

A Spiral Twist to the "Normal" State of Magic-Angle Bilayer Graphene

Siddharth Parameswaran (University of Oxford).

TCM Seminar Room.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

RSE Seminars

Latest RSE developments in RCS

Christopher Edsall (University of Cambridge).

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, and on Zoom.

Thursday 13 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced artificial agents intervene in the provision of reward

Michael Cohen, University of Oxford.

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

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 11:00-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Larmor Lecture - The Milky Way Galaxy - from beginning to end

Check website for latest updates and booking information http://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org

Professor Gerry Gilmore, Institute of Astronomy.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 October 2022, 18:30-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Climate Change and Planet Earth: A View from the Poles

Prof Michael Meredith.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 10 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Quantitative modelling of magnetic materials at the atomic scale

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Dr Joseph Barker, University of Leeds.

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 10 October 2022, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Ab initio chemical potentials

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Prof Bingqing Cheng, ISTA, Austria.

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 10 October 2022, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An Introduction to the DVRG

Prof Hugh Hunt, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Welcome to term and to new PhD students

Prof Michael Sutcliffe, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 07 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Modelling QM-accurate physical phenomena in alloys and polymers using Atomic Cluster Expansion (ACE) & Hyperactive Learning (HAL)

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Cas van der Oord, University of Cambridge.

Goldsmiths 1, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Monday 03 October 2022, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Multitask Machine Learning of Collective Variables for Enhanced Sampling of Rare Events

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09

Dr Lixin Sun, Microsoft Research, UK.

Goldsmiths 1, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Monday 03 October 2022, 14:00-14:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Understanding and tuning the surface chemistry of perovskite oxides to activate oxygen exchange and water splitting

Prof Bilge Yildiz, MIT.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LR6.

Thursday 29 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Theory and Practice of Infinitely Wide Neural Networks - Guest Talk

Roman Novak, Google Brain.

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

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Kinking in Atomically Layered Solids

Dr Ankit Srivastava, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University.

LR6.

Friday 09 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Conjugated organic and carbon nitride photocatalysts for solar driven hydrogen synthesis: insights from time resolved spectroscopies

Prof James Durrant, ICL.

Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Protein phase transitions in health and disease

Prof Tuomas Knowles, University of Cambridge.

Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 31 August 2022, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Single-Atom Alloy Catalysts: Born in a Vacuum, Tested in Reactors, and Understood In Silico

Prof Charlie Sykes, Tufts.

Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre.

Friday 12 August 2022, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Zentropy

Zi-Kui Liu, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University.

Goldsmiths 1, Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy.

Wednesday 03 August 2022, 11:00-12:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Fostering accuracy in modelling materials and molecular complexes with quantum Monte Carlo

Speical date seminar

Andrea Zen, Universita' di Napoli Federico II.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theater 2.

Wednesday 20 July 2022, 11:30-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Insights from Physical Chemistry into the Aerosol Route for Respiratory Disease Transmission

Prof Jonathan Reid, University of Bristol.

Cambridge University Engineering Department LR6.

Wednesday 20 July 2022, 11:00-12:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Optimizing liquid-solid slip in nanofluidic systems

Speical date seminar

Laurent Joly, Univ Lyon, Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, Institut Lumière Matière.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theater 2.

Wednesday 20 July 2022, 11:00-11:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Electrons in novel materials, water, and their interplay

Prof Mischa Bonn, MPI .

Cambridge University Engineering Department LR6.

Thursday 14 July 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in large scale deep learning

Greg Yang, Microsoft Research.

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

Wednesday 06 July 2022, 11:00-12:30

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Architected Materials Beyond the Laboratory: harnessing self-architecture and exploring extreme conditions

Carlos M Portela, MIT.

LR5.

Friday 01 July 2022, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The role of meta-learning for few-shot classification

Eleni Triantafillou, Google Brain.

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

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic Data

Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89002493651?pwd=B_2gKl7va_h0CQ9yoMPSbn2ifYLGi4.1.

Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Machine-Learning a Transferable Coarse-grained Protein Force Field

Venue to be confirmed

Felix Musil, Free University Berlin, Germany.

see in special message.

Monday 27 June 2022, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Pre-training Molecular Graph Representation with 3D Geometry

Hanchen Wang, Cambridge.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 27 June 2022, 14:00-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Measurement-induced transitions with symmetries

Sarang Gopalakrishnan, Penn State University .

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Toward discovering novel physics with a NISQ processor

Pedram Roushan (Google).

TCM Seminar Room.

Tuesday 21 June 2022, 13:00-14:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Simulating Thousands of Atoms using Linear Scaling BigDFT

Laura Ratcliff, University of Bristol.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 20 June 2022, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

A touch of non-linearity: mesoscale swimmers and active matter in fluids

Prof. Daphne Klotsa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 20 June 2022, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

CVDC Truck Demo

Dr Francesco Amoruso, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 17 June 2022, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Estimating RSV seasonality from pandemic disruptions: a modelling study

Fabienne Krauer, The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84968458381?pwd=TWM5ZkF2bjdBM09jaVlJZHRUTFlFUT09.

Thursday 16 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish Physical Society

In Search for the Next Magic Stone

Prof Z X Shen, Stanford.

Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Pre-Train Your Loss: Easy Bayesian Transfer Learning with Informative Priors

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Rules of Formation of H-C-N-O Compounds at High Pressure, the Fates of Planetary Ices

Lewis Conway.

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:30-14:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological skyrmion phases of matter

Ashley Cook (MPI PKS Dresden).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Tunneling and Zero-Point Energy Effects in Multidimensional Hydrogen Transfer Reactions

Dr Yair Litman, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Dyson Meeting Room (Engineering) and zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 13 June 2022, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Poster Session

Speaker to be confirmed.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 10 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Learning PAC-Bayes Priors for Probabilistic Neural Networks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Enhancing local fluctuations to study rare event transitions

Venue to be confirmed

Jayashrita Debnath, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany.

see in special message.

Monday 06 June 2022, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Programming phase behavior in multicomponent biopolymer solutions

Prof. William Jacobs, Princeton.

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 06 June 2022, 14:00-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Rethinking evaluation for machine learning models

Adrian Goldwaser & Shoaib Siddiqui.

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

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Lennard-Jones Centre

Identifying degradation patterns of lithium ion batteries from impedance spectroscopy using machine learning

Yunwei Zhang, Sun Yat-sen University.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 30 May 2022, 14:30-15:00

Lennard-Jones Centre

Equivariant N-centered representations for atomistic machine learning

Jigyasa Nigam, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.

https://zoom.us/j/92447982065?pwd=RkhaYkM5VTZPZ3pYSHptUXlRSkppQT09.

Monday 30 May 2022, 14:00-14:30

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Lagrange and Hamilton for damped systems with an unexpected link to quantum mechanics

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 27 May 2022, 16:00-17:00

Information Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series

Fundamental Limits of Learning with Feedforward and Recurrent Neural Networks

Prof. Helmut Bolcskei, ETH Zurich.

Department of Engineering - LT1.

Friday 27 May 2022, 12:00-13:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Photon-Instanton Collider Implemented by a Superconducting Circuit: Splitting a Single Photon

Moshe Goldstein (Tel Aviv University).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Bringing Quantum Mechanics for Electrons and Nuclei to Larger Scales

https://zoom.us/j/97412460697?pwd=SkZzdjZGNFUyakg2RkpwMnRCWkZ3dz09 Meeting ID: 974 1246 0697 Passcode: 804768

Dr Mariana Rossi, Max Planck Institute .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 14:30-15:30