Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

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Andy Lin.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning curve prediction for AutoML

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Andy Lin.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Relating the diversity of firing rates to the dimension of variability in recurrent networks

Brent Doiron, University of Chicago.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 03 December 2024, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Elementary Introduction to Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers

Xianda Sun (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

State space models (as alternatives to Transformers)

Yashar Ahmadian; Qingyun Chen.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 26 November 2024, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Sampling Using Annealed Algorithms

Saifuddin Syed (University of Oxford).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Are we making progress in unlearning? 

Eleni Triantafillou (Google DeepMind).

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Geometry of neural representations

Carl Ashworth; Ishan Kalburge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 12 November 2024, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Natural Experiments in NLP and Where to Find Them

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Pietro Lesci, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Linear Attention for Efficient Transformers

Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Sensory prediction errors in thalamocortical circuits

Daniel Kornai; Máté Lengyel.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 29 October 2024, 13:30-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Geometry of population coding in large and transcriptomically-identified cortical populations

Ken Harris, University College London.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Friday 11 October 2024, 17:00-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Task Alignment

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Vihari Piratla, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Causal inference during motion perception, and its neural basis

Ralf Haefner, Department for Brain & Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Monday 24 June 2024, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Learning Bayesian inference models of cortical visual processing

Rodrigo Echeveste, sinc(i), Santa Fe, Argentina.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 18 June 2024, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Hugues Van Assel; École Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Speaker to be confirmed.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 05 June 2024, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Light Introduction to Topological Data Analysis

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Tim Hargreaves, Tor Fjelde, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Circuit for memory-based action selection

Marta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Friday 24 May 2024, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Integrated Spin model with global inhibition for decision making

Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute of Science.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Monday 20 May 2024, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Unifying the mechanisms of the hippocampal and prefrontal cognitive maps

James Whittington, Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University & Oxford University.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 08 May 2024, 12:15-13:15

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia, Youjing Yu.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 01 May 2024, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Mean Field Theory of NNs

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Adrian Goldwaser, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 01 May 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.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Neurotransmitter receptor gradients: gateways for subcortical routing of cortex-wide dynamics during cognition

Seán Froudist-Walsh, U Bristol.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning

Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and Postdoc the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Behavioral, Neuropsychological, and Computational Perspectives on Sensorimotor Learning

Jonathan Tsay - Incoming faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology and currently postdoc at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 10:00-11:00

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to Transformer Neural Processes

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Matt Ashman and Cristiana Diaconu.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Title to be confirmed

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 15:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 15:00-17:00

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Symmetries in Neural Networks

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James Allingham and Bruno Mlodozeniec .

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

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Changmin Yu ( Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK).

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian coresets

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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

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

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Flow matching, stochastic interpolants and everything in between

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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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Challenges of Regulating Increasingly Complicated Human-AI Collaborative Systems

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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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr Theoklitos Amvrosiadis, Puria Radmard.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A Poisson Process Model for Monte Carlo

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Greg Flamich, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Speaker to be confirmed.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Speaker to be confirmed.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) With Continuous Optimization

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Dr Pingfan Song, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Learning for Medium-Range Global Weather Prediction

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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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning linear models in-context with transformers

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Spencer Frei, UC Davis.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia, Edward Young.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

A new look at eye design

Simon Laughlin, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Structured recognition for generative models with explaining away

Changmin Yu, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, London, UK.

CBL Seminar Room, Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Monday 02 October 2023, 13:30-14:30

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Compositional mathematics and automatic gradient descent

Jeremy Bernstein, MIT.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deciphering Batch Effects in Single-cell Transcriptomics with Concept Bottlenecks

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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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yashar Ahmadian and Puria Radmard.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 20 June 2023, 14:00-16:00

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia and David Lui.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 06 June 2023, 14:00-16:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Will Greedy, University of Bristol.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reward Modelling

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Usman Anwar, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Sam Power, University of Bristol.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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Miri Zilka, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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Burigede Liu.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Alejandro Tabas and Theoklitos Amvrosiadis.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 14:00-16:00

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

No-regret Dynamics for Multi-agent Learning

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Alexander Terenin (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Approaches to Self-Supervised Learning using Spectral Analysis

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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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Physics-informed machine learning

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Pingfang Song (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Marine Schimel (CBL), Guillaume Hennequin (CBL), Alfonso Renart (Champalimaud).

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 28 March 2023, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Machine Learning

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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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

User Manipulation in Recommender Systems

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Micah Carroll (UC Berkeley).

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

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Random Features for Kernel Approximation

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Isaac Reid (University of Cambridge).

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

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

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

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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

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Luke Johnston, Wayne Soo.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-16:00

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Puria Radmard and David Liu.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-16:00

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

The unbreakable lightness of single neuron non-linearities in learning

Yasser Roudi, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience.

CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 13:30-14:30

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

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

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Edward Young, Zahara Girones.

CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 06 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Understanding the emergence of neural population dynamics underlying behaviour

Juan Alvaro Gallego.

CBL Seminar Room (in person), Engineering Department, 4th floor Baker building.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Vedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland .

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

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

Andy Lin, MLG.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rui Xia and Mate Lengyel.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes, spectral analysis kernels and optimal transport

Felipe Tobar, Universidad de Chile.

CBL Seminar Room.

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

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

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

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Samuel Eckmann and Yashar Ahmadian.

In Person (CBL Seminar Room) and Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-16:00

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud and David Liu.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 14:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Random walks, self-reinforcement and neurons

Daniel Han, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE-438 .

Monday 24 October 2022, 10:30-11:30

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

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The role of meta-learning for few-shot classification

Eleni Triantafillou, Google Brain.

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

Wednesday 29 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Noise-Aware Differentially Private Synthetic Data

Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki.

Hybrid, CBL Seminar room, Department of Engineering, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89002493651?pwd=B_2gKl7va_h0CQ9yoMPSbn2ifYLGi4.1.

Tuesday 28 June 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Benefits and Shortcomings of Assistance

Dmitrii Krasheninnikov and Lauro Langosco, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 22 June 2022, 11:00-12:30

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jakub Onysk and Yul Kang.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 15:00-16:30

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Jensen and Wayne Soo.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Discussion: Bayesian Model Selection, the Marginal Likelihood, and Generalization

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

How a recurrent circuit of Poisson spiking neurons is able to implement sampling-based inference

Wen-Hao Zhang.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Beyond Conformal Prediction: Distribution-Free Uncertainty Quantification for Complex Machine Learning Tasks

Anastasios Angelopoulos, PhD student at UC Berkeley.

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84829493214?pwd=HI3JJJ8nrt6O8AELEzbXvT8ZoBj51t.1.

Friday 13 May 2022, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

How close are these distributions? A brief introduction to statistical distances and divergences.

David Burt, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bests of ICLR

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 11:00-12:30

Cavendish Physical Society

The physics of how humans build models of the world

Prof Dani Bassett, Dept of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania.

Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Thursday 28 April 2022, 16:30-17:30

Cavendish Physical Society

To see a world in a grain of sand

A wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture

Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Graph neural network approach for decentralized multi-robot coordination

University of Cambridge.

Hybrid meeting, CBL seminar room, and Zoom https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/87988930234?pwd=eHRGTHFtUE9UL0pJOWNtdDF2VDN2UT09.

Thursday 21 April 2022, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning with Quantum Computers

Amira Abbas and Maria Schuld.

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

Wednesday 20 April 2022, 11:00-12:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Topological pumping in new territory

A wine and nibbles reception will follow the lecture

Prof Tilman Esslinger, ETH Zurich.

Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Tuesday 19 April 2022, 17:00-18:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

David Liu and Edward Young.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 05 April 2022, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Autoregressive Diffusion Models

Emiel Hoogeboom.

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

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of AI Alignment

Neel Alex, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc

Prof Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University.

Teams Livestream.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Cavendish Physical Society Lecture - title tbc

Prof Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University.

Teams Livestream.

Wednesday 16 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Bayesian Learning Rule for Adaptive AI

Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

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

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

Cavendish Physical Society

New Physics in Driven Quantum Materials

Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg GERMANY and Department of Physics, University of Oxford.

Pippard lecture theatre and Teams Livestream.

Monday 14 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Political Economy of Conservation and Food Security

Professor Bhaskar Vira, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 11 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Introduction to differential privacy

Talay Cheema & Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Flavia Mancini and Finn Ashley.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeology and Discovering the Food of the Past

Professor Martin Jones, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 04 March 2022, 17:30-18:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Neutron scattering studies of quantum magnets’"

This will be a hybrid lecture link to mtg https://tinyurl.com/3fpmjscv

Prof Bella Lake, Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin.

Pippard lecture theatre and https://tinyurl.com/3fpmjscv .

Wednesday 02 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

: "Topological Solitons for Quantum Operations"

A wine reception will follow the lecture

Prof Christos Panagopoulos, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Pippard lecture theatre and Zoom.

Monday 28 February 2022, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Cultural History

Dr Melissa Calaresu, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 25 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Retrieval Augmented NLP

Jiri Hron and Nitarshan Rajkumar (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food as Expression

Mr Alex Rushmer, Chef.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 18 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Circuits and Interpretability

Lauro Langosco, Elre Oldewage and Juyeon Heo(University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

X-rays and Food Safety

Dr Richard Parmee, University of Cambridge.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 11 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Optimal Transport Metrics

Shreyas Padhy, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud and Michal Wojcik.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food, Power and Society

Ms Sarah Mukherjee, IEMA.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 04 February 2022, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learned Compression

Gergely Flamich and Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 02 February 2022, 11:00-12:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Should Cats and Dogs go Vegan?

Professor Andrew Knight, University of Winchester.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 28 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Jensen and Marine Schimel.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 25 January 2022, 13:30-15:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Food and Climate Change

Professor Sarah Bridle, University of York.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue.

Friday 21 January 2022, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Diffusion and Score-based Generative Models

Vincent Dutordoir, Wenlin Chen, Tor Fjelde (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Wednesday 19 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

AI Safety

Neel Alex.

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

Wednesday 12 January 2022, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

[Cancelled] Best of Neurips

Speaker to be confirmed.

Online-only.

Wednesday 15 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Daniel Turner-Evans and Hannah Haberkern.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 07 December 2021, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Energy-Based Models

Stratis Markou and James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Connectivity inference in visual cortex and characterization of contrast-suppressed cells

Simon Renner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

Online on Zoom.

Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Georgia Turner and Falvia Mancini.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 13:30-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Kernels

Sebastian Ober and Austin Tripp (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Mean Field Theory of NN (postponed to March 2022)

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yashar Ahmadian and Gido van de Ven.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Representation Learning: A Causal Perspective

Yixin Wang.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86187336902?pwd=eUtxZGsvandXQ1dXKzJkWXdlTFpqQT09.

Thursday 04 November 2021, 15:30-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Ethics, Integrity and Good Practice in ML

Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Implicit Regularization in Deep Learning

Jezabel Garcia, Alberto Bernacchia (MediaTek Research).

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 27 October 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang and Wayne Soo.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Planning Meeting + PI Presentations

CBL and Computer Lab PIs.

Cambridge University Engineering Department ,LR3A.

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin and Kris Jensen.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 14:00-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Marine Schimel and David Liu.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 28 September 2021, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Towards Neuro-Causality: Relating Graph Neural Networks to Structural Causal Models

Matej Zecevic, TU Darmstadt.

https://cuhk-edu-cn.zoom.us/j/91529611509?pwd=WFBqeFdVc3J1cE9rV2NaMXJtM2RQQT09.

Friday 24 September 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk - Task-specific routing of information in neural circuits via structured noise by Cristina Savin

Cristina Savin, New York University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/85184505624?pwd=WnhWZWR1SjhxUXFDOWtPT2c2cG90Zz09.

Friday 09 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Nonlinear filtering as a unifying principle in neuroscience by Jean-Pascal Pfister

Jean-Pascal Pfister, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84626937837?pwd=RC95RTdybkRlNHhOcThjclQzYUxkdz09.

Friday 02 July 2021, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Jensen and Georgia Turner.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 29 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yashar Ahmadian and Wayne Soo.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 15 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Finale Doshi-Velez

Finale Doshi-Velez, Harvard University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/89542469691?pwd=bVJjdXJGd3BkaDk1SHk3a1dLZzlZUT09.

Friday 11 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Pseudo-Points and State-Space Gaussian Processes

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Latent Stochastic Differential Equations: An Unexplored Model Class.

David Duvenaud, University of Toronto.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84495932262?pwd=MlFJL3Z3c1JmenFOY2xJQTNPSzdsQT09.

Friday 04 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Capacity and errors in classification of object manifolds

Uri Cohen (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Online on Zoom.

Thursday 03 June 2021, 10:00-11:15

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

The Statistical Finite Element Method

Mark Girolami (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 02 June 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Mate Lengyel and Jasmine Stone.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jean-Pascal Pfister and Xizi Li.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk - Our Power as Technical Designers

Shakir Mohamed, Deepmind.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/84960287802?pwd=N1pTZGpKMjhhMTVVV1RNSS9Gc3Jqdz09.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of ICLR

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 11:00-12:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Physical models to predict the evolution of viruses and bacteria

This lecture is a Livestream Event

Dr Diana Fusco, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory.

tinyurl.com/y7ajn97h.

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Zahara Girones and Ivan Tomic.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Accurate Gaussian Processes and how they can help Deep Learning

Mark van der Wilk, Imperial College London.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

Friday 30 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Introduction to PAC-Bayes

Andrew Foong, David Burt and Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 21 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Automated Augmented Conjugate Inference for Gaussian Processes

Théo Galy-Fajou (TU Berlin).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/81961210430?pwd=cUZGbzU4NzJickd5THlsYzJ4cmlndz09.

Tuesday 20 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

CBL Alumni Talk: Examining Critiques in Bayesian Deep Learning

Andrew Gordon Wilson.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82969702755?pwd=L0dIVnlwSHJHV2NGbUQ1cmxpYjIyUT09.

Friday 16 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Online Learning and Online Convex Optimisation

Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 14 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Monte Carlo Gradient Estimation in Machine Learning

James Allingham (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 07 April 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang and Jonathan So.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 06 April 2021, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Secondmind's research activities to make Gaussian Processes industry proof

Nicolas Durrande, Director of Research at Secondmind.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/82019956685?pwd=WUNSVVcrdC9IZGxQOHFhSThjUjd2dz09.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Failure Modes of Variational Autoencoders and Their Effects on Downstream Tasks

Yaniv Yacoby, Harvard University.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 24 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud and Marine Schimel.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 23 March 2021, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gaussian Processes I have Known

Anthony O'Hagan, University of Sheffield.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 17 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood Sculptures

Mr Marc Quinn, Artist.

Online.

Friday 12 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Representation Learning

Chaochao Lu, University of Cambridge.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jascha Achterberg and Kris Jensen.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Cold Blood

Professor Stuart Egginton, University of Leeds.

Online.

Friday 05 March 2021, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Long-Range Transformers

Valerii Likhosherstov, University of Cambridge.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 03 March 2021, 11:00-12:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood villains and heros

Ms Rose George, Journalist.

Online.

Friday 26 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Inference in Stochastic Processes

Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge), Matthew Ashman (University of Cambridge), Stratis Markou (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

David Liu and Jeroen Olieslagers.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 15:00-16:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Bloodlines of the British

Professor Sir Walter Bodmer, University of Oxford.

Online.

Friday 19 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Fairness in AI

Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 17 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dracula, Vampires and the New Woman

Professor Carol Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Online.

Friday 12 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Variational Bayes as Surrogate Regression

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 11:00-12:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Blood in Motion: The Physics of Blood Flow

Professor Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge.

Online.

Friday 05 February 2021, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Transitional Bleeding in Early Modern England

Dr Sara Read, Loughborough University.

Online.

Friday 29 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Battle Blood

Dr Claire Roddie, UCL.

Online.

Friday 22 January 2021, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian optimization / Gaussian Process Bandits

Sattar Vakili (MediaTek Research).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 20 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Meta-reinforcement learning

Kris Jensen and Calvin Kao (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 13 January 2021, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

A theory for Hebbian Learning in recurrent E-I networks

Samuel Eckmann (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

Online on Zoom (recorded).

Friday 18 December 2020, 09:00-10:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of NeurIPS

Speaker to be confirmed.

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Calvin Kao and Marine Schimel.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 15 December 2020, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

The covariance perceptron: Theory and application to reservoir computing

Matthieu Gilson, Sofia Lawrie (Universitat Pompeu Fabra).

Online on Zoom.

Wednesday 09 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Processes

Andrew Foong, Stratis Markou and Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Gido van de Jen.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Large-scale sequential experimentation

Wessel Bruinsma and Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 25 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Looking for signatures of quantum entanglement: spin liquids at finite temperature

Prof Claudio Castelnovo, Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory.

Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning

Robert Pinsler and Adria Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jasmine Stone (University of Cambridge).

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 17 November 2020, 15:00-16:30

Cavendish Physical Society

’Seeing early cancer in a new light’

Prof Sarah Bohndiek, BSS, Cavendish Laboratory and CRUK Cambridge Laboratory.

https://tinyurl.com/y4og7frr.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Gradient-based Hyperparameter Optimisation

Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/86068703738?pwd=YnFleXFQOE1qR1h6Vmtwbno0LzFHdz09.

Wednesday 11 November 2020, 11:05-12:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Title to be confirmed

Dr Oleg Brandt, High Energy Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best Papers from ICML 2020

Reading group participants.

https://meet.google.com/wdk-qnzb-iet.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 11:00-12:30

Cavendish Physical Society

Hidden structures in a model of many-body quantum chaos

Dr Benjamin Beri, Cavendish Laboratory & DAMTP.

Teams Livestream.

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Space photovoltaics challenges: fundamental to applied

Join the talk here:- https://tinyurl.com/y2kfo6ra

Dr Louise Hirst, Semiconductor Physics, Cavendish Laboratory & Department of Materials Science, Cambridge.

Teams Livestream & Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang and Wayne Soo.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Cognitive switches and functional reprogramming of sensory cortex

Abhishek Banerjee, Newcastle University.

Online on google meets.

Friday 16 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Cavendish Physical Society

'Exactly what is Computational Multiphysics?'

Prof Nikos Nikiforakis, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Cavendish Laboratory.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

Wednesday 14 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Jensen and David Liu.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficient and Structured Uncertainty: Challenges and Opportunities

Andrey Malinin, Yandex Research.

Virtual (see abstract for Zoom link).

Wednesday 22 July 2020, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yashar Ahmadian.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 30 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Active Learning

Austin Tripp and Erik Daxberger (University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/xom-namz-rzv.

Wednesday 24 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Recent advances in the theory and applications of VAEs

Gergely Flamich and Alexandru Cioba.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Mate Lengyel (Engineering Department).

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 02 June 2020, 15:00-16:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin (University of Cambridge).

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 19 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Best of ICLR 2020

(University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/eqr-irxn-irx.

Wednesday 06 May 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud (University of Cambridge).

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 05 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differentiable Planning

Will Tebbutt, Robert Pinsler.

https://meet.google.com/zza-agyt-koa.

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Why do neurons spike spontaneously?

Tim Vogels (University of Oxford).

Online on Zoom.

Monday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30

Computational Neuroscience

Why do neurons spike spontaneously?

Tim Vogels (University of Oxford).

Online on Zoom.

Monday 27 April 2020, 16:30-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Recent Developments in Bayesian Deep Learning

Andrew Foong, Siddharth Swaroop.

https://meet.google.com/hhq-zqtq-siq.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang (University of Cambridge).

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 21 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Strategic Classification

Jiri Hron (University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/hmo-aaio-agh.

Wednesday 15 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning on Sets

(University of Cambridge).

https://meet.google.com/qvg-knkr-nrg.

Wednesday 08 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Jensen and Marine Schimel.

Online on Zoom.

Tuesday 07 April 2020, 15:00-16:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Boltzmann Generators and Stochastic Normalizing Flows

Vincent Stimper, Michael Bromberg.

Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

World Models

Dr Gregor Simm (University of Cambridge).

Hangouts Meet (Link provided via e-mail).

Wednesday 18 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Federated Learning

Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Xizi Li (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Archaeological Mysteries

Dr Albert Yu-Min Lin, Explorer, Scientist.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 06 March 2020, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Game Playing Meets Game Theory: Strategic Learning from Simulated Play

wellman@umich.edu.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 05 March 2020, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Eruptions, Emissions and Enigmas: from fuming volcanic vents to mass extinction events

Professor Tamsin Mather, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 28 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Self-Supervised Representation Learning

Javier Antoran (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Marine Schimel.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Marine Schimel.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigmatic Premodern Book

Professor Erik Kwakkel, University of British Columbia.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 21 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Mean Embeddings

Elre Oldewage (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Enigma of Emotion

Dr Tiffany Watt Smith, Queen Mary, University of London.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 14 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Tangent Kernel

Adria Garriga Alonso, Sebastian Ober.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 11:00-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Wayne Soo (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Alan Turing and the Enigma Machine

Dr James Grime, Mathematician, Lecturer.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 07 February 2020, 17:30-18:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Decoding the Heavens: The Antikythera Mechanism

Dr Jo Marchant, Journalist, Author.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 31 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Simon Schug (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Simon Schug (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Mysteries of Modern Physics

Professor Sean Carroll, Caltech.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift

Zack Lipton, CMU.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 24 January 2020, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Human Origins

Dr Adam Rutherford, Author, Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 17 January 2020, 17:30-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Kris Torp Jensen.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable Gaussian Processes

David Burt, Andrew Foong.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Adriana Perez Rotondo (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All Welcome

Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Programming

Hong Ge and John Bronskill.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Exoplanets, Copernicus’ revolution on the move

All welcome

Professor Didier Queloz, Cavendish Laboratory.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 16:00-17:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Attention

Elre Oldewage, George Hron.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang (University of Cambridge).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Structure in the randomness of trained recurrent neural networks

Omri Barak (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 14 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Equivariance and Symmetries in CNNs

James Allingham, Omer Sella.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Models and inference for temporal Gaussian processes

William Wilkinson, Aalto University, Finland.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hyperparameter Optimisation

Ross Clarke, Erik Daxberger, Austin Tripp.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:00-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational neuroscience journal club

Monika Jozsa.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Neural information processing during behavior and sleep

Mayank Mehta (UCLA).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Meta-Learning or "Learning To Learn"

John Bronskill, Marton Havasi.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Reinforcement Learning at Huawei: Robustness, Safety, and Efficiency

Haitham Ammar, Huawei.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Constructing temporal latent spaces: Representation learning for clustering and imputation on time series

Vincent Fortuin, ETH Zurich.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Monday 28 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Explaining Neural Networks: Post-hoc and Natural Language Explanations

Oana Camburu, University of Oxford.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 25 October 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Hierarchical Models

Vidhi Lalchand.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 14:00-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Michael Rule.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Dopamine as prediction error in active inference

Rafal Bogacz (Oxford).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 10 October 2019, 11:30-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Neurotransmitter spillover modulates neuronal information transmission

Mehrdad Salmasi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich).

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Calvin Kao.

CBL Seminar Room (BE4-38, http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 08 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning-Algorithms from Bayesian Principles

Emti Khan, RIKEN center for Advanced Intelligence Project.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 24 September 2019, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Wearable non-invasive human neural interface with action potential resolution

Dan Wetmore, PhD, Director of Clinical and Research partnerships, CTRL-labs.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 10 September 2019, 10:00-11:00

Computational Neuroscience

Wearable non-invasive human neural interface with action potential resolution

Patrick Kaifosh, PhD, Chief Science Officer, CTRL-labs.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 10 September 2019, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Rotation Invariant Householder Parameterization for Bayesian PCA

Rajbir Nirwan, Goethe University, Frankfurt.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 04 September 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Two Approximate Sampling Methods for Bayesian Deep Learning

Wesley Maddox (New York University).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 23 August 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Semi-Unsupervised Learning with Deep Generative Models / Disentangling Improves VAEs' Robustness to Adversarial Attacks

Matthew Willetts and Alexander Camuto, University of Oxford / Alan Turing Institute.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 17 July 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Efficiency and Transferability of Neural Networks

Amos Storkey, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 12 July 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning via Data Compression: Bayesian Coresets and Sparse Variational Inference

Trevor Campbell, University of British Columbia.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 26 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep Neural Networks: A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach with Local Competition

Konstantinos P. Panousis.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 20 June 2019, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dhruva Raman (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Information Consumption on Social Media: Efficiency, Trust, and Divisiveness

Reza Babaei.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 15:00-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Thomas Burger (Control Group).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

How perception informs urgent saccadic choices: halting, acceleration, and deceleration

Emilio Salinas (Wake Forest School of Medicine).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Why Do We Need New Hardware & Software for Machine Intelligence?

Victoria Rege, Scott Griffiths.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Friday 17 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Particle MCMC

Will Tebbutt (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 14:00-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Xizi Li (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stochastic Differential Equations

David Burt.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Nonparametric Generative Modeling via Optimal Transport and Diffusions with Provable Guarantees

Umut Şimşekli, Télécom Paristech.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Generalisation in neural networks

Marton Havasi.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:00-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Gido van de Ven.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

An Overview of Normalizing Flows

Robert Pinsler.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 24 April 2019, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

NeVAE: A Deep Generative Model for Molecular Graphs

Abir De, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Monday 08 April 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Global model explainability via aggregation

Umang Bhatt, CMU.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 04 April 2019, 16:00-16:45

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 04 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Jake Stroud.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 04 April 2019, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Sampling as Optimization

Eric Nalisnick, University of Cambridge.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 03 April 2019, 13:45-15:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Robust machine learning for causal inference in health care

David Sontag, MIT.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Ta-Chu (Calvin) Kao -- CBL.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

The K-FAC method for neural network optimization

James Martens, Google Deep Mind.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 14 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Implicit Variational Inference

Andrew Foong (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 13:45-15:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Perception of Visual Space

Professor Sir Colin Blakemore, School of Advanced Study.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Continual Learning: Definitions, Benchmarks, and Approaches

Siddharth Swaroop (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:45-15:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Computer Vision

Professor Andrew Blake, Samsung AI Research Centre.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 March 2019, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Causal Inference and Causal Reinforcement Learning

Chaochao Lu (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

Computational Neuroscience

Stimulus complexity shapes response correlations in primary visual cortex

Gergő Orbán (HAS Wigner Research Centre for Physics).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Viewing the Universe

Dr Carolin Crawford, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 22 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Generative models for few-shot prediction tasks

Marta Garnelo (Google DeepMind).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Flavia Mancini (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Appearance and Physical Reality

Professor Carlo Rovelli, International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 15 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

Neural circuit mechanisms of learning and attentional task-switching during visually-guided behaviour in mice

Dr Jasper Poort ( Department of Psychology, Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Friday 15 February 2019, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Online Meta-Learning

Massimiliano Pontil, University College London.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 14 February 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Logical Uncertainty

Adrià Garriga Alonso (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:45-15:15

Darwin College Lecture Series

Vision of Future Technology

Ms Sophie Hackford, Futurist, co-founder 1715Labs.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 08 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Laurence Aitchison (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Evolution of the Eye

Professor Dan-Eric Nilsson, Lund University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 01 February 2019, 17:30-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

High-dimensional dynamics of generalization error in neural networks: implications for experience replay

Dr. Andrew Saxe, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Friday 01 February 2019, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gauge Equivariant Convolutional Networks on Manifolds

Taco Cohen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:30-14:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Stein Discrepancy

Sebastian Ober (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Monday 28 January 2019, 14:00-15:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Colour and Vision

Professor Anya Hurlbert, Newcastle University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 25 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Observation and Intervention Incentives in Causal Influence Diagrams: Towards an Understanding of Powerful Machine Learning Systems

Tom Everitt (DeepMind).

Engineering Department, LR5 (in front of library, 1st floor).

Friday 25 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Daniel Acosta-Kane (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 18 January 2019, 17:30-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

Local and global synaptic credit assignment

Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Bristol).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Friday 18 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Fairness for Sequential Decision Making Algorithms

Hoda Heidari.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Thursday 17 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes for inferring latent functions in complex data models

Martin Tegner.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 18 December 2018, 10:30-11:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

Eric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Marcelo Mattar (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adrian Seminar - "Computational model of rapid learning in hippocampus".

Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 26 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Natural gradient in deep neural networks

Alberto Bernacchia (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

A brain-machine interface for locomotion driven by subspace dynamics

Karen E. Schroeder, Columbia University.

Cambridge University Engineering Dept., CBL Seminar Room (4th floor).

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Neural mechanisms of model-based planning in the rat

Kevin Miller, University College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Graph Neural Networks

Matej Balog (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Michael Rule (Control Group).

Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building).

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Defending Against Adversarial Attacks

Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reinforcement Learning and Control as Probabilistic Inference

Robert Pinsler, Calvin Kao.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-15:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Adriana Perez-Rotondo (Control group).

Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building).

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture III : Beyond Statistical Mechanics - Probing Quantum Matter out of Equilibrium

Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II : Realizing and Probing Topological Matter using Ultracold Quantum Gases

Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I : Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter using Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

Professor Immanuel Bloch, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 22 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building).

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Causal Inference for Treatment Effects: A Theory and Associated Learning Algorithms

Mihaela van der Schaar .

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Alberto Bernacchia (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building).

Tuesday 02 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Reactivation in biological and artificial neural networks

Gido van de Ven, PhD; Baylor College of Medicine.

Cambridge University Engineering Dept., Board Room (2nd floor, Baker building).

Tuesday 11 September 2018, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Interpretability - the myth, questions, and some answers

Been Kim, Google Brain.

Engineering Department, Board Room on the 2nd Floor.

Monday 10 September 2018, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Constraint-based causal Discovery from NOnstationary/heterogeneous Data (CD-NOD)

Biwei Huang, CMU.

dyson teaching room (TBC).

Friday 24 August 2018, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Guillaume Hennequin (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 17 July 2018, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Fast yet Simple Natural-Gradient Variational Inference in Complex Models

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

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variance in Policy Gradient methods and Learning Sequential Latent Variable Models

George Tucker, Google Brain.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Yul Kang (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Winton Discussions

The impact of policy on the low-carbon transition: opening the black box of energy technologies

Professor Laura Diaz Anadon, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Tuesday 26 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyond

Thomas Kipf (Uni of Amsterdam).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

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

Winton Discussions

Hidden problems in the global wind industry

Dr Jim Platts, Institute of Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Friday 15 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Xizi Li (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

A physicist's spin on data science

Deborah Berebichez, Chief Data Scientist at Metis.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Adrianna Loback (Control Group).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Julius von Kugelgen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Andrey Stoychev (Control Group).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

Ana Stoica, Columbia University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Information Efficacy of a Dynamic Synapse

Mehrdad Salmasi (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 03 May 2018, 15:30-16:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and SGD

Dr. Samuel L. Smith, Google Brain.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

Ana Stoica, Columbia University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Sunday 15 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Animal Migration

Professor Iain Couzin, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing

Matej Balog (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

John P. Cunningham.

CBL Seminar Room.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Migration in Science

Dr Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, PRS.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 March 2018, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Theory, Codes, and Compression

Christian Steinruecken (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

The Partition of India and Migration

Ms Kavita Puri, BBC.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 23 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Robert Taylor (Bays Lab).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Disease Migration

Professor Eva Harris, University of California, Berkeley.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Lipschitz Global Optimization

Professor Yaroslav D Sergeyev, Universita della Calabria.

CBL Seminar Room.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Statistical Learning Theory

Maria Lomeli.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Interfacing with the brain using organic electronics

George Malliaras (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge,).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Refugees and Migration

Mr Filippo Grandi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 09 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Calvin Kao (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Art and Migration

Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, University of Birmingham.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 02 February 2018, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Generative Models

Jonathan Gordon; Alexander Matthews.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Immigration and Freedom

Professor Chandran Kukathas, LSE.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 26 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Minimum Description Length

Carl E. Rasmussen; Niki Kilbertus.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Greg Sotiropoulos (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Black and British Migration

Mr David Olusoga, Historian & Broadcaster.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 19 January 2018, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Machine Learning for Sounds

Akisato Kimura.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS 2017 Highlights

Speaker to be confirmed.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Manfred Opper, TU Berlin.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian Generative Adversarial Networks

Professor Andrew Wilson, Cornell University.

CBL Seminar Room.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dhruva Raman (Control Group).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 12 December 2017, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

AI for Inclusive Finance

Alan Qi and Le Song.

CBL Seminar Room.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Hardware Efficient Machine Learning

Robert Peharz; Marton Havasi.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

A physicists perspective on osteoarthritis: From hydration lubrication to gene regulation

Jacob Klein, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel .

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Laurence Aitchison (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Geoff Roeder (University of Toronto).

CBL Seminar Room.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning to Learn without Gradient Descent by Gradient Descent

Yutian Chen, DeepMind.

CBL Seminar Room.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Learning to Learn

Siddharth Swaroop; Will Tebbutt.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Towards true end-to-end learning & optimization

Dr Frank Hutter.

CBL Seminar Room.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

WGAN and Optimal Transport

Mark Rowland; Wenbo Gong.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Mahdieh Sadabadi (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

How much to gain: Controlling space and time via gain modulation in cortical networks

Jake Stroud (Tim Vogels Lab. University of Oxford).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Monday 13 November 2017, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Interpretability in Machine Learning

Adrian Weller; Tameem Adel Hesham.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Deep Structured Prediction for Handwriting Recognition

Juan Murillo Fuentes.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Joshua Kroll.

CBL Seminar Room.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Alberto Bernacchia (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Somatosensory cortex is essential for adaptive motor control in mice

Mackenzie Mathis, The Rowland Institute, Harvard University.

Hodgkin-Huxley Lecture Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Thursday 26 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Cooperative Inverse RL

Robert Pinsler; Adria Garriga Alonso.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

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

Computational Neuroscience

From the olfactory cocktail party to markerless tracking

Alexander Mathis, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Thursday 26 October 2017, 10:00-11:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Infer.NET

John F. Bronskill.

Engineering Department, CBL Seminar Room 4-38.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Prof. Aapo Hyvarinen.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Mohsen Sadeghi (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Spike timing in motor control

Ilya Nemenman (Emory University).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Transfer Learning for NLP

Sebastian Ruder, INSIGHT Centre.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

No Physicist is an Island: Looking for TeV Physics in a peV Transition

Professor Eric Cornell, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Pippard Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL, BE4-38 (http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/Public/Directions).

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Dr Cheng Zhang.

CBL Seminar Room.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Unbiased Estimation of the Eigenvalues of Large Implicit Matrices

Professor Ryan Adams, Princeton.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

The Grammar Variational Autoencoder & Counterfactual Fairness

Dr Matt Kusner.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Accelerating computation of SVM and DNN by binary approximation

Hironobu Fujiyoshi (Chubu University) .

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Mariko Isogawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories) .

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep learning for autonomous driving

Takayoshi Yamashita (Chubu University) .

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Understanding Black-box Predictions via Influence Functions

Pang Wei Koh, Stanford University.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Timothy O'Leary (Control Group).

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

Tuesday 11 July 2017, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A simple neural network module for relational reasoning

David Barrett, DeepMind.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks

Francesco Caravelli (LANL).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks

Francesco Caravelli (LANL).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dhruva Raman (Control Group).

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

Tuesday 27 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

motifNet: Deep learning for system identification of regulatory networks

Vincent Fortuin (ETH).

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

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 11:30-12:15

Computational Neuroscience

Neural network models of free recall and spatial navigation

Stefano Recanatesi (Weizmann Institute).

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

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 10:45-11:30

Computational Neuroscience

Inferring decision rules from evidence, choice, and reaction times

Yul Kang (Columbia University).

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

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 10:00-10:45

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Matthew Kerr (CBL).

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

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

"Dark Matter (at the LHC and other experiments)"

caterina.doglioni@hep.lu.se.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Greg Sotiropoulos (CBL).

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

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

On Different Distances Between Distributions and Generative Adversarial Networks

Martin Arjovsky.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture II: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 2 - Future Electronics

Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Scott Lectures

Scott Lecture I: Making of Sustainable Smart Society by Transformative Electronics 1 - Blue LED Story

Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Brian Trippe (CBL).

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

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Photo-induced superconductivity and other stories

Prof Andrea Cavalleri, MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Munich.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

“Topology in materials science”

Prof Claudia Felser, MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Winton Discussions

The Status of Mini-Grids: Are they the 'next' big thing, or an un-economic diversion?

Daniel Kammen, Professor of Energy, UC Berkeley.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Decoding the population activity of grid cells for spatial localization and goal-directed navigation

Andreas V.M. Herz, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Munich and Faculty of Biology, LMU Muenchen.

The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience.

Monday 08 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

Tipping Points & Crises From statistical physics to social sciences

Professor Jean-Philippe BOUCHAUD, Ecole Polytechnic and Capital Fund Management plc.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

James Heald (CBL).

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

Tuesday 18 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 9 - Representation Learning

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Hannah Sheahan (CBL).

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

Tuesday 04 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 8 - Autoencoders

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

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

Machine Learning Study Group

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

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

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

Winton Discussions

Thinking of becoming an Entrepreneur: What questions will you be asked?

Paul Mantle, Frontier IP Group.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Kernel Mean Embeddings

Jiri Hron; Adam Scibior.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Information Engineering Division seminar list

Bayesian Optimization for Probabilistic Programs

Tom Rainforth, University of Oxford.

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

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

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 6 - Recurrent Neural Networks

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Differentially Private Bayesian Learning

Dr Antti Honkela, University of Helsinki.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Reporting from Extreme Environments

Lyse Doucet, BBC.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 10 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Computational and Biological Learning Seminar Series

Control, inference and learning

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

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Differential Privacy

John Bradshaw; Alex Matthews.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Differential Privacy Tutorial

Alex Matthews and John Bradshaw, University of Cambridge.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Sebastian Schneegans (Bays Lab).

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

Tuesday 07 March 2017, 16:00-17:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Ageing

Professor Sarah Harper, University of Oxford.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 03 March 2017, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 5 - ResNets and DenseNets

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Politics

Professor Matthew Goodwin, University of Kent.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 24 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Cooperative Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Dylan Hadfield-Menell, UC Berkeley.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 4 - Convolutional Networks

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Laurence Aitchison (CBL).

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Dynamic reorganization of neuronal activity patterns in parietal cortex

Laura Driscoll (Harvard University).

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

Monday 20 February 2017, 10:00-10:30

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extremes of the Universe

Professor Andy Fabian, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Probabilistic Numerics

Alessandro Davide Ialongo (MLG - University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 3 - Optimization

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Rowing

Roz Savage MBE, Ocean Rower, Yale University.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 10 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian optimisation in many dimensions with bespoke probabilistic programs

Valentin Dalibart.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Winton Discussions

Greening up the Cavendish and the University: the Maxwell Centre as a test case

Ottavio Croze.

Maxwell Centre, Rayleigh Seminar Room.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Alberto Bernacchia (CBL).

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

Tuesday 07 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 2 - Regularization

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Dealing with Extremism

Professor David Runciman, University of Cambridge.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 03 February 2017, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Study Group

Deep Learning Book - Meeting 1 - Deep Feedforward NNs

Group Discussion.

CBL Room BE-438.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Events and How to Live with Them

Professor Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 27 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational Bayes In Private Settings

Mijung Park, University of Amsterdam.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Mohsen Sadeghi (CBL).

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

Tuesday 24 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Julia: Introduction and new developments

Dr Simon Byrne (Julia Computing).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Darwin College Lecture Series

Extreme Weather

Dr Emily Shuckburgh, BAS.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

Friday 20 January 2017, 17:30-18:30

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

NIPS 2016 papers in 5mins

MLG members.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Matthew Kerr (CBL).

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

Thursday 15 December 2016, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian optimality and frequentist extended admissibility are equivalent in saturated models

Daniel Roy (University of Toronto).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Elena Corina Grigore (Yale University).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Variational autoencoders with latent graphical models

Prof David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Symmetry in Statistical Models

Mark Rowland; Maria Lomeli.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Learning with limited supervision

Stefano Ermon, Stanford.

CBL Room BE-438.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Bayesian Optimization

Pawel Budzianowiski; Brian Trippe.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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