Cambridge Natural History Society

500 Years of Exhibiting Biodiversity: from cabinets of curiosity to interpreting today´s extinction crisis

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

Mike Maunder, Director of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

Via Zoom, and in-person: Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 18:45-20:30

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

The Liquid Tensor Experiment

Professor Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College London).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 17:00-18:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Electrophilic Amination Strategies for N-Heterocycle Synthesis

Prof. John Bower, University of Liverpool.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

Thursday 02 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

What can Covid modelling during the pandemic teach us about public participation in science?

Eric Winsberg (University of South Florida).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 15:30-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Gaussian Wave Packet Dynamics in Quantum Dynamics

Paul Bergold (University of Surrey).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

K_r-saturated graphs with large minimum degree

Dr A. Calbert Ripodas (QMUL).

MR12.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

K_r-saturated graphs with large minimum degree

Dr A. Calbert Ripodas (QMUL).

MR12.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 14:30-15:30

Chaucer Club

Towards a recipe for physical reasoning in humans and machines

Kelsey Allen (Deep Mind).

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

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Popper meets machine learning - How falsificationism can guide the design of AI solutions

Patrik Reizinger.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 13:10-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Soil microbiomes and one Health

Professor Marcel van der Heijden, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Online only.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 12:15-13:45

Cambridge Virology Seminars

The interplay between cell cycle and immunity in the setting of viral infection

Dr Petra Mlcochova. Department of Medicine/Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 12:00-13:00

Seminars for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (formerly BP Institute)

Development and application of environmental flow software

Jenny Stocker, Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer virology

Professor John Doorbar, Department of Pathology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 02 February 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 II

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

The cyclic open-closed map, u-connections and R-matrices

Kai Hugtenburg (Edinburgh).

MR13.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

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

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

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Applying Matsubara Dynamics to Study Rates in Thermally Dissipative Systems

First Year PhD Report

William Moore, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

First Year PhD Report

Flaviano Della Pia, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

A new spin on GW theory

Danilo Lewański, Università di Trieste and Université de Genève.

CMS MR13.

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Does computational biology explain Fibonacci numbers in plants?

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

Jonathan Swinton.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plants

Dr Laura Moody (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Early Science and Medicine

Boiling it down: Chinese tea in the first Dutch medical journal, 1680–1688

Trude Dijkstra (University of Amsterdam).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Can Earables Revolutionise Continuous Vital Sign Monitoring?

Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92219689343?pwd=Q1p1eUt4V3NORWVGM3hGUEZNV1JqQT09

Fahim Kawsar, University of Glasgow and Nokia Bell Labs.

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building and Online.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Influence Policing: Mapping the Rise of Strategic Communications and Digital Behaviour Change within UK Law Enforcement and Security Services

Note unusual time

Ben Collier, University Of Edinburgh.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Jeremy Wulff: Universal Polymer Crosslinkers: Synthesis, Structure–Function Relationships, and Applications in Materials Science

Jeremy Wulff .

Dept. of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 15:30-16:30

Number Theory Seminar

Decompositions of the category of l-modular representations of SL_n(F).

Peiyi Cui (University of East Anglia).

MR13.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Phases of research for statistical methods’

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtd--hrzItHtTIezm0p763Lsc95VI0Q254

Dr Tim Morris, MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Zooming in on Micro-Methods: Archaeometry and the Interpretation of Ancient Ceramics

Christopher Kotkin (Archeological Science).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Huawei: Pangloss+: a novel Markov chain adaptive prefetcher

Philippos Papaphilippou, Senior CPU Architect at Huawei UK R&D.

FW11, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 13:05-13:55

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Seeing through the noise: how fish use visual information to navigate in challenging conditions

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Cait Newport, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

When Vision Transformers Meet Cooperative Perception

Runsheng Xu, UCLA (USA).

Online (Zoom).

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Heavy quark fragmentation: why, how, and where to?

Chris Pollard (Warwick).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 31 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

Professor Dominic Vella, Department of Mathematics, Oxford.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Of odour plumes and synchrotrons - structure and function in neural circuits

Andreas Schaefer, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 30 January 2023, 16:15-18:00

Topology talk

Topics in Rational Homotopy Theory

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Monday 30 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

A Scattering Theory for Linearised Gravity on the Exterior of the Schwarzschild Black Hole

Hamed Masaood (Imperial College London).

CMS, MR13.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chlorine activation and enhanced ozone depletion induced by wildfire aerosol

Prof. Susan Solomon (Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88479554336.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Picturing the world, fashioning the self: Marcus zum Lamm collects naturalia in Calvinist Heidelberg

Frederick Crofts (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen).

Zoom.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Modelling the response of ice to subglacial flooding

Sophie Tobin, DAMTP.

MR5, CMS.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Roger Taylor, former Chair of Ofqual.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

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

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

Zangwill Club

Nudge+: how to incorporate reflection into behavioural public policy

The host for this talk is Lee De-Wit

Peter John (King's College London).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Why is the clarinet like a violin?

Emeritus Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Theory of bubble tips in strong viscous flows

Jens Eggers, U. Bristol.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Using Architected Materials to Enable Novel Properties

Professor Yunlan Zhang, University of Texas .

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 27 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

When Concurrency Strikes

Matthew Parkinson, Microsoft Research.

SS03.

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

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

Prof Hector Basoalto, Sheffield University.

Meeting ID: 898 8054 7075 .

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

Statistics

Variational Bayesian inference for PDE based inverse problems

Ieva Kazlauskaite (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Human fetal cortex tissue models to understand human brain development and injury

Katie Long, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, Kings College London.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 27 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Machine Learning in Climate Action

David Rolnick, McGill University.

FW 11, Willam Gates Hall. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 27 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Dynamical Black Hole Entropy in Effective Field Theory

Iain Davies, University of Cambridge.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 27 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

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

Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

Virtual (Zoom).

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Towards the development of a pan-betacoronavirus vaccine: evaluating cross-reactive embecovirus antigens in vivo

Charlotte George, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 27 January 2023, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Outcome and Complications Associated with Cholecystoenterostomy Surgery in Dogs and Cats

Sebastian Prior, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 27 January 2023, 08:45-10:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

How Hilbert met Isabelle: Proof Between Generations

Hybrid talk (please see abstract for link)

Marco David (École Normale Supérieure de Paris).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 17:00-18:00

Milner Seminar Series

Milner Seminar Series - January 2023

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

Hybrid event - in person at the Lecture Theatre, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre and online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Live, and let live: medical recipes and technique of the socialized self across the Ming-Qing transition

He Bian (Princeton University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 16:00-17:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Convergence analysis of non-stationary and deep Gaussian process regression

Aretha Teckentrup (University of Edinburgh).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Quantum tunnelling effects in the guanine-thymine wobble misincorporation via tautomerism

Louie Slocombe, Quantum Biology Doctoral Training Centre, University of Surrey.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Generating random regular graphs quickly.

Prof Oliver Riordan (Oxford).

MR12.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Mitochondrial vesicles in immunology and evolution

Host - Hansong Ma

Professor Heidi McBride from McGill University, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montreal, Quebec .

Zoom meeting.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Prof. Konrad Teifenbacher, University of Basel.

Dept of Chemistry, Wolfson Lecture Theatre .

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

Chaucer Club

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

Miriam Klein-Flugge (U. of Oxford).

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

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

A Modern Conjecture on Absolute Stability

Joaquin Carrasco, University of Manchester.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Unlocking the power of cell therapy to reverse disease

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

Sandra Petrus-Reurer.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 13:10-14:00

CERF and CF Events

Research Unbundling and Market Liquidity: Evidence from MiFID II

Ru Xie (University of Bath).

CJBS, room W201.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 13:00-14:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Alternative meristems: mapping the expression landscape of transcription factor in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha

Dr Facundo Romani, Haseloff Group, Department of Plant Sciences.

Online / Plant Sciences LLT for Department members only.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 12:15-13:45

Seminars for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (formerly BP Institute)

Modelling electrode heterogeneity in lithium-ion batteries

Dr Toby Kirk, Imperial College London.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 11:30-12:30

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Electron Correlation and Coupling with Phonon in the Rhombohedral Stacked Graphene

Prof. Long Ju, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

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

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

Milstein Lecture 2023: Understanding the Hox timer by Using mammalian Pseudo-Embryos

Denis Duboule, Collège de France, Paris France, Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) .

Thursday 26 January 2023, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The development of cancer risk prediction models and their applications to prevention and early detection

Prof Antonis Antoniou, Dept of Public Health and Primary Care.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 26 January 2023, 09:30-10:30

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

On frame flow ergodicity

Thibault Lefeuvre (Sorbonne).

MR13.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ocean Warming and Accelerating Southern Ocean Zonal Flow

Jia-Rui Shi (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute).

BAS Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Recent developments with the Transcorrelated method

Professor Ali Alavi, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Computational image analysis for coeliac disease diagnosis

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Ben Schreiber, Image Analysis Team, Dept of Pathology.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Linguistic discrimination, processing fluency, and the foreign language effect in science

Uwe Peters (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 25 January 2023, 13:00-14:30

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Finding women's 'everyday health': testimonies and experiences

Tracey Loughran (University of Essex).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 17:00-18:30

Number Theory Seminar

Automorphy Lifting with Ĝ-adequate image

Dmitri Whitmore (Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Detecting National, Regional and Global Changes in Terror Activity'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtf-iqrjoiGd3egbADJAIx6u477THr4Et9

Dr Sam Tickle, University of Bristol.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Can we use network analysis to predict violence?

Dr Paolo Campana, Associate Professor in Criminology and Complex Networks, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Entrust: Leighton-Micali Signatures

Richard Kettlewell, Senior Principle Software Architect.

FW11, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 13:05-13:55

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Heads and shoulders: progress on the origin of the modern vertebrate body plan

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Dr Martin D Brazeau, Imperial College London.

Main Zoology Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

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

Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Taking it up a Notch, building the body plan

Professor Kim Dale, University of Dundee.

In Person.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Custom Orthogonal Weight functions (COWs) - an improved event weighting procedure for removing background from signal.

Matt Kenzie (University of Warwick).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

AI in Medical Imaging Research Seminar

Short cuts make long delays: Machine Learning for COVID-19 and Medical Imaging

Dr. Ian Selby, Department of Radiology, University of Cambridge.

School of Clinical Medicine, Room 19, 4th floor.

Tuesday 24 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Feeding Britain: should this rich country feed itself more or rely on others’ land and labour?

Professor Timothy Lang, Centre for Food Policy, City University London.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 23 January 2023, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The paths to compulsion: new insights into the factors that shape the vulnerability to develop compulsive disorders

David Belin, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 23 January 2023, 16:15-18:00

Topology talk

Topics in Rational Homotopy Theory

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR13.

Monday 23 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Closed Ricci Flows with Singularities Modeled on Asymptotically Conical Shrinkers

Maxwell Stolarski (University of Warwick).

CMS, MR13.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Natural gains or capital down the drain? The debate over the draining of the Haarlemmermeer

Anna-Luna Post (HPS, University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 23 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Filling in the Map: Understanding Arctic Ocean mixing rates, mechanisms and space-time geography from ocean observations

Stephanie Waterman, Department of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia.

MR5, CMS.

Monday 23 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

Ageing on the Autism Spectrum

Prof Francesca Happe.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Monday 23 January 2023, 11:30-12:30

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

Zangwill Club

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

Dr Amy Milton (Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

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

Professor Lizzy Cross, University of Sheffield.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Algal Phototaxis and the Evolution of Multicellularity

Ray Goldstein, DAMTP.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Design, Analysis and Applications of Well-behaved Non-linear Structures

Dr Mark Schenk, University of Bristol.

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 20 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

A hyperplasticity framework for efficient modelling of cyclic loading ratcheting

Dr Christelle Abadie, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Statistics

Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference

Alastair Young (Imperial College, London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Influence of antidepressants on craniofacial development

Marcia Gaete, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Zoom talk - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 20 January 2023, 13:15-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Quantifying changes in Above Ground Biomass in degraded and restored forests: Challenges & opportunities

Charlotte Wheeler is a post-doc in Plant Sciences and 4C.

Seminar time is 1pm BST in Room FW 11, Willam Gates Hall. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 20 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Retiring the third law of black hole thermodynamics

Ryan Unger, Princeton.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 20 January 2023, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

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

Paul Röttger (Oxford University).

Computer Lab, SS03.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Mechanisms of intervertebral disc calcification and its clinical implications in dogs

Viviana Rojas, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 20 January 2023, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

A novel approach to producing a Universal Influenza Vaccine

Ian Mickleburgh, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 20 January 2023, 08:45-10:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Formalised Mathematics: Obstacles and Achievements

Professor Lawrence C. Paulson FRS (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 17:00-18:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Against presence empiricism

Sabina Leonelli (University of Exeter).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Systematic discovery of ORFs in ~700 human viruses using massively parallel ribosome profiling

Dr Shira Weingarten-Gabbay. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, USA.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

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

Chaucer Club

Neuronal signals for multi-component choice options in orbitofrontal cortex

Wolfram Schultz (PDN, U. of Cambridge).

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

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Smarter materials for simpler robotics

Andrew Conn.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

Rapid decarbonisation of the NHS

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

James Smith.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 13:10-14:00

Seminars for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (formerly BP Institute)

Leidenfrost temperature(s)

Pierre Chantelot, Universite of Twente.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

In vivo functional screens for modelling cancer initiation and progression

Dr Eric Rahrmann, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 19 January 2023, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 I

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 16:30-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Bigger Picture Talk with Prof. Alvaro Mata

Alvaro Mata, Professor in Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials, University of Nottingham.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Bioinformatic analysis of T-cell antigen receptors as a novel diagnostic test for coeliac disease/ gluten sensitivity

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Dr Elizabeth Soilleux, University Senior Lecturer/ Honorary Consultant in Pathology.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Causal aspects of quantum information in quantum gravity

Alex May, Stanford University.

Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Worms and Bugs

The importance of vaccinated individuals to population-level evolution of pathogens

Maria A. Gutierrez - University of Cambridge.

Zoom.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 12:00-13:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Mexican Waves: The Adaptive Value of Collective Behaviour

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Jens Krause, IGB Berlin.

Main Zoology Lecture Theatre and online via Zoom - contact organiser for details.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Rare neutral current decays of b quarks at LHCb

Lakshan Mohan (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Engineering a bacteria for lung therapy

Prof. Luis Serrano.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99349389275?pwd=ZHI3em1DQTA0VTlVLzkvUTN6ZGkxdz09.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:00

Early Science and Medicine

'Description, figure and colour combined': in search of perfection in zoological representation, c. 1820–1850

Joyce Dixon (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 17 January 2023, 11:00-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Parameterising melt at the base of Antarctic ice shelves with a feedforward neural network

Clara Burgard, University of Grenoble Alpes.

BAS Seminar Room 1;https://ukri.zoom.us/j/95564564065.

Monday 16 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Netan Dogra (King's College London).

MR13.

Sunday 15 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Yu Min (Imperial College London).

MR13.

Sunday 15 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

Number Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Jack Sempliner (Imperial College London).

MR13.

Sunday 15 January 2023, 14:30-15:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Monitoring of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and reasons for vaccine acceptance in Finland between 2020 and 2021

Charlotte Hammer, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 13 January 2023, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Using genomics to diagnose helminths in poo

Marina Papaiakovou, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 13 January 2023, 08:45-10:00

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

Rivos Founder's Talk: Why RIsc-V? Why Open Source? Why is Architecture back?

Note unusual time and location

Dr Mark Hayter.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Computer Science & Technology, 15 JJ Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FD.

Thursday 12 January 2023, 15:00-16:00

Genetics Seminar

Genetic studies of epigenetic clocks in different species

Host - Richard Durbin

Professor Steve Horvath from Department of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA .

Biffen Lecture theatre and Zoom.

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

Seminars for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (formerly BP Institute)

Reprogramming and Printing DNA Nanostructures

Hanadi Sleiman, McGill University.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 12 January 2023, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The role of transcription factors in cancer.

Prof Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 12 January 2023, 09:30-10:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Spillover Surveillance and One Health Response: Understanding Emerging Zoonotic Threats in Real Time

Professor Emily Gurley, Johns Hopkins University.

LT1.

Tuesday 10 January 2023, 16:00-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Statistical approaches for differential analyses on transcriptomics data"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkfuivpj0jEta0t6wA4iKlz8YOaojvNwdt

Dr Simone Tiberi, Universita di Bologna.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Mapping somatic evolution with single-cell multi-omics

Dan Landau, New York Genome Center | Weill Cornell Medicine.

CRUK CI.

Monday 09 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Medicine - The Textbook Addisonian?

Larissa Gardner and Oliver Russell, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 06 January 2023, 08:45-10:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Functional Programming with an Incremental Datalog

Sebastian Erdweg, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 19 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Functional Programming with an Incremental Datalog

Sebastian Erdweg, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 19 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: 'Double soft-thresholded model for multi-group scalar on vector-valued image regression'

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIucOmvrj4pHd3vnOm5ReIZ1wmXR9x-xC1z

Prof Arkaprava Roy, University of Florida.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Friday 16 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scalable simulation and inference in non-Gaussian stochastic PDEs

David Duvenaud (University of Toronto).

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Role of cellular senescence in cancer and ageing: therapeutic opportunities

Dr Daniel Muñoz-Espin; Department of Oncology / Early Cancer Institute.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 15 December 2022, 09:30-10:30

Parasitology Seminars

Schistosoma-gut microbiome interactions: Implications for the pathophysiology of the infection (and more?)

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

Alba Cortéz Carbonell (Universitat de València, Spain) .

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 14 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

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

Professor Michael Klein, Temple University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

A Sociotechnical Audit: Assessing Police use of Facial Recognition

Note unusual time

Evani Radiya-Dixit, Minderoo Centre for Tech & Democracy.

Webinar - link on talks.cam page after 12 noon Tuesday.

Tuesday 13 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Vector Boson Scattering to Unravel EWSB and probe BSM physics

Karolos Potamianos (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 13 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Interpretable Neural Networks for Computer Vision: Clinical Decisions that are Computer-Aided, not Automated

Cynthia Rudin, Duke University.

Zoom.

Monday 12 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

CD4+ T cell memory during type 1 immune response

Professor Marc Jenkins, University of Minnesota. Hosted by Dr Antonio Pagan-Velez.

Professor Marc Jenkins, University of Minnesota. Hosted by Dr Antonio Pagan-Velez..

This talk will happen virtually via Zoom (due to speaker location).

Friday 09 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Instabilities in kirigami structures

Dr Marcelo Dias, University of Edinburgh.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 09 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Challenges in Designing Control Strategies for Buildings

Omid Ardakanian, University of Alberta.

Seminar time is 1pm BST in Room FW 11, Willam Gates Hall. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 09 December 2022, 13:00-14:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

In Focus seminar with Sahika Inal: Organic Electronics for Disease Diagnostics

Sahika Inal, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Friday 09 December 2022, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

CNHS Seasonal Social

Social Gathering 🍾.

David Attenborough Building, New Museums Site, Pembroke St., Cambridge, CB2 3QZ.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 18:30-20:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Bigger Picture Talks with Professor Chihaya Adachi: The past, present and future prospects of OLEDs

Professor Chihaya Adachi, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research, Kyushu University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

Title to be confirmed

**This seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled in 2023**

Serena Nik-Zainal, MRC Cancer Unit.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Structural basis of how the BIRC6/SMAC complex regulates apoptosis and autophagy

Tim Clausen, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP).

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94050407947?pwd=ZFZZYkxhd0JsbGJuMFNHQnlzOSsydz09.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 10:00-11:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: translating mechanistic insights towards new cancer therapies.

Prof Steve Jackson; The Gurdon Institute .

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 08 December 2022, 09:30-10:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Patterns underlying the mitochondrial life cycle

Professor Sulina Manley, Laboratory of Experimental Biophysics - EPFL .

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Invisible Ship Tracks: What can we learn about the aerosol effect on clouds and climate from previously unseen ship-polluted clouds?

Peter Manshausen (University of Oxford).

Unilever Lecture Hall (and zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86500676542?pwd=NTFuNnpJQ1orMzZtem10cFNySjJiZz09 )).

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Learning About Long COVID from Patients: The Power of Narrative Evidence

Speaker to be confirmed.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Learning About Long COVID from Patients: The Power of Narrative Evidence

Speaker to be confirmed.

Webinar (via Zoom online).

Wednesday 07 December 2022, 13:00-14:00

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Evidence is all you need: Nested Sampling for particle physics

David Yallup (Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 06 December 2022, 11:00-12:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Neuroscience in artistic cartoons

Paul Apicella, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Marseille, France .

St John's College.

Monday 05 December 2022, 18:30-00:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Multimedia lecture with director Davor Rostuhar

David Rostuhar, director.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Monday 05 December 2022, 17:30-18:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The 18.6-year lunar nodal cycle and its modelled effect on the oceans

Prof. Manoj Joshi.

Unilever Lecture Hall (and zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84313398848?pwd=b1RaNGV5cm1jQ1hIOXBLd1hQRzdGQT09 ).

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Living Droplets Get to Work

Eric Dufresne, ETH Zurich.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Investigating 660km Discontinuity Topography at the Regional Scale using P’P’ Precursors

George Pindar.

Tea Room, Old House.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Background and uses of guided ultrasonics

Dr David Alleyne, CEO, Guided Ultrasonics Ltd.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Junior Algebra and Number Theory seminar

The SL(2,K) action on a tree, its decomposition and higher dimensional generalisations

Vincenzo Di Bartolo, University of Cambridge.

CMS MR13.

Friday 02 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

String diagrams for semistrict n-categories

Manuel Araujo, University of Cambridge.

SS03.

Friday 02 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic resetting during human germline development

Wolfram Gruhn, Gurdon Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 02 December 2022, 13:15-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Large gauge symmetries of gravity in 6 dimensions

Bilyana Tomova, DAMTP.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 02 December 2022, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

A framework for measuring biodiversity impacts of land use change

Alison Eyres, University of Cambridge, Zoology.

Seminar time is 1pm BST in Room FW 11, Willam Gates Hall. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 02 December 2022, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Rethinking the role of tokenization in the NLP pipeline

Kris Cao (DeepMind).

Computer Lab, FW26.

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

Cambridge Natural History Society

Insects in Flight

John Brackenbury.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 18:45-20:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

The 8th Annual Sir John Walker Lecture

Nikolaus Pfanner - Professor and Chair of Biochemistry Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Freiburg, Germany.

The Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0QH.

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

Chaucer Club

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

Tamar Makin (MRC CBU).

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

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Mean field limits for weakly interacting diffusions: phase transitions, multiscale analysis, metastability and inference

Greg Pavliotis - Imperial College.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Consumer IoT devices Identification at the Edge

Roman Kolcun, University of Cambridge.

FW11 and https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97216272378?pwd=M2diTFhMTnppckJtNWhFVTBKK0REZz09.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 15:00-16:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

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

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

Yuanhong Jiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?

Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Generalisable 3D printing error detection and correction via neural networks

Sebastian Pattinson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

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

Dynamic Nature: a Better Basis for Physics?

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

Brian Josephson (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Breaking the red limit: photosynthesis in far-red light

Professor Roberta Croce, Free University, Netherlands.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 12:15-13:45

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Infecting under the radar: lentiviral evasion of DNA sensing

Dr Rebecca Sumner (University of Surrey, UK).

CIMR (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research), Sackler Lecture Theater on level 7.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 12:00-13:00

Seminars for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (formerly BP Institute)

Amphiphilic surfactants as model additives for engine friction reduction and Michael Sargent - Battery Thermal Management Fluids and Systems

Beatrice Boggio Robutti and Michael Sargent, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

Modelling the impact of social behaviour on infectious disease transmission: what we do and don't know!

Alison Hale, University of Lancaster.

Zoom.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer

Prof Christian Frezza, CECAD Research Center, University Hospital Cologne.

Online via Zoom.

Thursday 01 December 2022, 09:30-10:30

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Approximate Equivariance SO(3) Needlet Convolution

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

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

Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 V

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Defining genetic and environmental determinants of malaria transmission

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

Prof Matthew Marti. University of Glasgow..

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Active Rheology and Stiffening Control of cementitious materials

Professor Geert De Schutter, Ghent University.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Parameterised moduli spaces of surfaces as infinite loop spaces

Andrea Bianchi (Copenhagen).

MR13.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Using Everyday Routines as a Resource for Understanding Behaviors and Making Recommendations

Professor Anind Dey - Dean and Professor of the Information School at the University of Washington.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 15:30-16:20

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The eleventh cohomology of moduli spaces of stable curves

Samir Canning, ETH.

CMS MR13.

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

Information Theory Seminar

Uniform entropic continuity bounds via majorization flow

Prof. Nilanjana Datta, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Deep reinforced active learning

Emma Slade - GSK.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR4.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Motile behaviour and evolution of bacteria in antibiotic landscapes

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

Nuno Miguel Oliveira, DPhil, BBSRC Discovery Fellow & Teaching Bye-Fellow in Zoology (Christ's College).

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

From rocks to RNA: Reconstructiong pathways in animal ontogeny and evolution

Prof Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna).

Online.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Overcoming childlessness: (in)fertility in early modern North India

Sonia Wigh.

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar: Mechanism and regulation P element transposition in Drosophila

Donald Rio, Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94108711681?pwd=cXN4VGlQVHBZYkpMUVJ0SXV3emtaUT09.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

Professor Anatole von Lilienfeld, University of Toronto.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

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

Number Theory Seminar

Multiplicity one and Breuil--Kisin cohomology of Shimura curves.

Andrea Dotto (University of Chicago).

Zoom link: https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93515008077?pwd=NkZ5UGk2MTNueFhrb2c1RG96cFNPQT09.

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

Probability

On the number of level sets of smooth Gaussian fields

Dmitry Belyaev (Oxford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

The Security of Post-Quantum Telco Networks, or changing 10 billion door-locks in 197 countries

Zygmunt A Lozinski, IBM.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 29 November 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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Why is the international tax system problematic for low-income countries?

Kui Li (Law Faculty).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Nethermind: Zero-knowledge proofs. From theory to practice in less than 40 years

Michal Zajac - Head of Research at Nethermind.

Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 13:05-13:55

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Olfactory cues in a changing world

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Jorg Hardege, University of Hull.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Applications of Timepix technology for Beam Instrumentation at CERN

James Storey (CERN).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

An Overview of Rolls-Royce SMR.

Tom Peacock, Component Lead, Steam Generator & Heat Exchangers, Rolls-Royce SMR..

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 28 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

The enigmatic and integrative claustrum

Adam Packer, Dept of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, Oxford.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 28 November 2022, 16:15-18:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Collective dynamics in the social and data sciences

Marie-Therese Wolfram (Warwick).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR10.

Monday 28 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

On the Evolutionary History of Metastatic Cancer

Kamila Naxerova, PhD, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Centre.

Zoom.

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

Partial Differential Equations seminar

The role of boundary conditions on scaling laws in the Rayleigh-Bénard convection problem

Camilla Nobili (University of Surrey).

CMS, MR13.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Domestic frontispieces and the knowledge of the early modern home, 1600–1750

Lucy Havard (Faculty of History).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 28 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Physical oceanography of a sub-Antarctic island fjord from observations and modelling

Joanna Zanker, British Antarctic Survey.

MR5, CMS.

Monday 28 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Global Explainability of GNNs via Logic Combination of Learned Concepts

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

Steve Azzolin.

Online (Zoom).

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

Zangwill Club

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

Professor Dame Lesely Fallowfield (Sussex University).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Zangwill Club

Brain charts for the human lifespan.

Dr Richard Bethlehem (Department of Psychology, Cambridge).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

How Salmonella reprogrammes a host kinase to drive macrophage polarisation

Dr Teresa Thurston, Imperial College London. Hosted by Professor Felix Randow

Dr Teresa Thurston, Imperial College London. Hosted by Professor Felix Randow.

Meeting in person, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre .

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Christoph Hanhart - TOWARDS A NEW PARADIGM FOR HEAVY-LIGHT MESON SPECTROSCOPY

Christoph Hanhart (FZ Julich, IKP).

Potter Room (B1.19).

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Motile bacteria in giant unilamellar vesicles: A cautionary tale

Wilson Poon, U. Edinburgh.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Probabilistic sensitivity using Fisher information and its symplectic eigenvalue decomposition

Dr Jiannan Yang, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Statistics

Biostatistics: successes, challenges and opportunities

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

John Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

A Swiss Structures seminar from FlexLab

Luna Lin, Fani Derveni, and Michael Gomez, EPFL Lausanne.

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

The Interpretability of Graph Neural Networks

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

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

FW11 + zoom.

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

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

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

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

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

The linear operator semantics of probabilistic programs

Fredrik Dahlqvist, UCL.

SS03.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Extreme Black Holes: Anabasis and Accidental Symmetry

Achilleas Porfyriadis (University of Crete).

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 25 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Measuring emissions by satellite to support the Paris Agreement

Stephen Briggs, University of Cambridge.

Seminar time is noon BST in Room FW 11, Willam Gates Hall. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

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

NLIP Seminar Series

CANCELLED

Dieuwke Hupkes (Facebook AI Research, ELLIS).

Computer Lab, TBD.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS PRESENTATIONS

Laura Weston, Cleo Price and Alex Chan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 25 November 2022, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Launch of the 3rd online Nat Hist Fest

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

Speaker to be confirmed.

via zoom .

Thursday 24 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Feynman Diagrams using Graph Neural Networks

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

Harrison Mitchell, dept of Physics Cambridge.

lecture theatre 2 dept of computer science and zoom.

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

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Identifying future-proof science

CANCELLED

Peter Vickers (Durham University).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Scene understanding in emergency response scenarios

Niki Trigoni, Oxford.

https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97216272378?pwd=M2diTFhMTnppckJtNWhFVTBKK0REZz09.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Additive manufacturing of energetic materials

Mike O’Donnell, Fracture & Shock Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

How is mtDNA transcription regulated?

Professor Nils-Göran Larsson, Karolinska Institute .

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Odd distances in colourings of the plane

James Davies (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Connecting Sensory Perception to Longevity in C. elegans

Host – Ritwick Sawarkar

Dr Rebecca Taylor, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Zoom meeting.

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

Chaucer Club

The neurobehavioural basis of compulsivity

Trevor Robbins (Psychology Dept, UoC).

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

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

School-based health promotion: what went wrong and where to next?

Mairead Ryan.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 13:10-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The ins and outs of root meristem shape and function

Professor Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Technion Institute of Technology, Israel.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Seminars for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (formerly BP Institute)

The dynamics of deep-submarine explosive eruptions

Eric Newland (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Vedant Nanda, MPI-SWS + University of Maryland .

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum thermodynamics in open quantum systems

Géraldine Haack (Université de Genève).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Worms and Bugs

Modelling informing COVID policy in a highly vaccinated Singapore

Hannah Clapham (NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health).

Zoom.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 24 November 2022, 09:30-10:30

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Chemical Physics of Correlated Materials

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

Professor Garnet Chan, Caltech.

via zoom .

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

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Reciprocal geodesics and dihedral subgroups of lattices in PSL(2, R)

Viveka Erlandsson (Bristol).

MR13.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Bigger Picture Talks at CEB with Constantin Coussios: Engineering Tomorrow's Cancer Therapies

Professor Constantin Coussios, Director of the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Formalised Mathematics: Obstacles and Achievements

Professor Lawrence Paulson - Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 15:05-15:55

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Rescuing mitochondria in peril under oxidative stress

Professor Kostas Tokatlidis | University of Glasgow.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

A wall-crossing formula for universal Brill-Noether classes

Nicola Pagani, University of Liverpool.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 14:15-15:15

Information Theory Seminar

How the strength of the inductive bias affects the generalization performance of interpolators

Dr Fanny Yang, ETH Zurich.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Quantum information and many-body physics

Frank Verstraete (DAMTP).

Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

Professor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill Seminars

Bradford Hill Seminar – Designing efficient clinical trials during a pandemic

Speaker to be confirmed.

MRC Biostatistics Unit, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Imagination and mathematics in economic modelling

Fiora Salis (University of York).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

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

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

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Information Geometry — Natural Gradient Descent

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

Andy Lin, MLG.

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

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Humanising genetics: changing practices, emotions and identities of clinical genetics in the late 20th century

Jenny Bangham (QMUL).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Statistical Mechanics of Abelian Higgs Vortices.

Nick Manton (DAMTP).

MR11.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Probability

The contact process over a dynamical d-regular graph

Daniel Valesin (Warwick).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 15:30-16:30

Number Theory Seminar

Density of rational points on del Pezzo surfaces of degree 1

Rosa Winter (King's College London).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR13.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Bad men, good men, and loving women: Gender Constructions in the UK’s Online Action Counters Terrorism (ACT) Campaign

Harmonie Toros, University of Kent.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

You get a methylation, and you get a methylation, everybody gets a methylation

Host: GIPA, Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association

Dr Pedro J Batista, NIH, Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, MC, USA.

Virtual.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Using Electronic Health Records for Scientific Research: Promises and Perils”

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctduyqrjgsEtYxJkz-fTWdzMmjL7qFrnAC

Professor Bhramar Mukherjee, John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Michigan.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Automating the Archive: From Card Catalogues to Computer Bots

Dr Siddharth Soni (Cambridge Digital Humanities).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Utterberry: Data and Data Sustainability

Heba Bevan - Utterberry CEO.

Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 13:05-13:55

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The hidden depths of avian genomes

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Alex Suh, UEA.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Learning Multi-Scene Absolute Pose Regression with Transformers

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

Zoom.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Exploring the Unknown with Higgs Boson Pairs

Bill Balunas (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

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

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

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

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Sustainable seafood for human health

Dr David Willer.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

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

Probability

Expander graphs are globally synchronising

Victor Souza, Cambridge.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 21 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Oscillations vs. relaxation in galactic dynamics

Mahir Hadžić (University College London).

CMS, MR13.

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

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Assessment of Major Air Pollutants in the Tropical Urban Environment of Kuala Lumpur

Prof. Mohd Talib Latif (University Kebangsaan Malaysia).

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88446733633?pwd=UVZDWjZJaVg1UHZwS2tlRFpyTm5IZz09.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

Rebuilding collections and reconstructing science: using materiality of the du Bois Herbarium to understand early modern botany

Madeline White (University of Oxford).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Monday 21 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Disruption of Information in Working Memory

The host for this talk is Deborah Talmi

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Rudi Rahn - The azimuthal decorrelation in V+jet production and the Winner-Takes-All axis

Rudi Rahn (Amsterdam U).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 18 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

APS DFD - no seminar

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 18 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Tracking melt movement through the Icelandic crust using microearthquakes

Esme Southern.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 18 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Concrete Canvas – from university project to global company

Peter Brewin, Conrete Canvas.

CivEng Conference Room (2-54) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 18 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department - Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Micromechanical Modelling at High Temperature - A Personal Perspective

Prof Alan Cocks, Oxford.

Department of Engineering - LT2.

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

Statistics

Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds

Annika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Linear Logic and the Semantics of Concurrent Computation

Alex Kavvos, University of Bristol.

SS03.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Fit for this world - cellular properties are set during critical periods of development

Matthias Landgraf, Department of Zoology.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 18 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Superrotations, asymptotic structure and holography

Federico Capone (Friedrich Schiller University Jena).

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 18 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Upcoming BIOMASS Earth Explorer 7 mission: concept and validation challenges

Jerome Chave.

Seminar time is 1pm BST in Room FW 11, Willam Gates Hall. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 18 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Towards Trustworthy Natural Language Processing

Jasmijn Bastings (Google Brain).

Virtual (Zoom).

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

JCTS PRESENTATIONS

Alice Prodger, Giulia Cattaneo, Freddie Maginnis, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 18 November 2022, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Operation Turtle Dove

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

Bethany Kiamil, RSPB Conservation Officer.

via zoom .

Thursday 17 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Knowledge in science and beyond: historiographical challenges and the case of colour history

Friedrich Steinle (Technische Universitaet Berlin).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Fundamentals of thermodynamics (and a bit of quantum mechanics)

John Ellis, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Forcing quasirandomness in graphs

Nikola Spasic (Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Patterns of purifying selection and adaptive evolution in SARS-CoV-2

Host – Henrik Salje

Professor Richard Neher, Biozentrum, University of Basel.

Zoom meeting.

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

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Supramolecular Peptide Assemblies For Functional Systems

Javier Montenegro, Santiago de Compostela University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Chaucer Club

Talk title tbc

Ida Momennejad (Microsoft Research).

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

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

A constructive approach to dualities in quantum spin systems

Frank Verstraete (DAMTP and Ghent University).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

On motor intelligence for soft robots

Cosimo Della Santina, Assistant Professor at TU Delft, The Netherland.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

On the (actual) origin of species through the lens of hybridization.

Hilde Schneeman.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 13:10-14:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute (CRUK CI) Seminars in Cancer

This seminar has been cancelled - we apologise for any inconvenience caused. Thank you

**This seminar is cancelled and will be rescheduled in 2023**

Louis Chesler, ICR.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

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

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The molecular basis of sexual deception in Gorteria diffusa (Asteraceae)

Dr Roman Kellenberger, Evolution and Development, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Seminars for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (formerly BP Institute)

New approaches to coupling the thermodynamics and geodynamics of mantle melting

Lucy Tweed (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

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

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Simulating medicine: testing- speculations about medical science and clinical practice

Prof Jacob Stagenga, Department of History and Philosophy of Science: .

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 17 November 2022, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 IV

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The journey of XDR typhoid in Pakistan

Dr. Farah Naz Qamar, Department of Paediatrics & Child Health Medical College, The Aga Khan University, Pakistan.

LT2.

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

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

String topology and the configuration space of two points

Florian Naef (Trinity College Dublin).

MR13.

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

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Financing Forests: A Credible Approach towards Halting Tropical Deforestation

Professor Anil Madhavapeddy - Department of Computer Science and Technology.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 15:05-15:55

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Dual transport function of mitochondrial uncoupling proteins

Professor Elena Pohl | University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna .

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

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

1st Year PhD Report https://zoom.us/j/97189750171?pwd=RlppL21lSFJnVkwwSG4xeTE3a0NWQT09 Meeting ID: 971 8975 0171 Passcode: 320880

Kieran Russell, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 15:00-15:30

ARClub Talks

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in Autism Research: State of the Field and Future Directions

Zachary J. Williams, Vanderbilt University .

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Designing multiphase biomolecular condensates

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

Pin Yu Chew, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:30-15:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Functional transcendence and equidistribution

Harry Schmidt, University of Basel.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Knowledge Graphs for Precision Oncology

Meetings are planned to take place in person. Seminars are principally for MPhil students. Please email the adminstrator should you wish to attend as a guest

Krishna C Bulusu Director, Early Data Science Oncology Data Science, Oncology R&D AstraZeneca.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Typical error exponents

Dr Albert Guillén i Fàbregas, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Symmetric product orbifolds: how to engineer quantum gravity in AdS/CFT

Alejandra Castro (DAMTP).

Both in-person (at MR2, DAMTP) and online (details to be sent by email).

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

hybrid

Renske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The division of cognitive labor and the structure of interdisciplinary problems

Jaakko Kuorikoski (University of Helsinki).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

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

Early Science and Medicine

From indigenous panaceas to global drugs, or, how the Philippine plant igasud became the St Ignatius bean (c.1670–1750)

Sebestian Kroupa (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Superconformal quantum mechanics and Black Holes

Nick Dorey (DAMTP).

MR11.

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

Number Theory Seminar

Duality for p-adic proétale cohomology of analytic varieties.

Sally Gilles (University of Bonn).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93515008077?pwd=NkZ5UGk2MTNueFhrb2c1RG96cFNPQT09.

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

Probability

Gaussian multiplicative chaos measures, Painlevé equations, and conformal blocks

Harini Desiraju (Newton Institute).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Towards Meaningful Stochastic Defences in Machine Learning

Ilia Shumailov, University of Oxford.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "The HealthGap study: Using linked administrative data to understand cardiovascular health of Indigenous people living in Victoria, Australia"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpc-qtqD4iHtMcJUj5fiD4uVwRqMWP4XkI

Dr Karen Lamb, University of Melbourne.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

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

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Gearset: Lessons from life as a junior software engineer

Julian Wreford.

Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 13:05-13:55

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

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

Albert Qiaochu Jiang (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2 and Zoom.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Semileptonic B decays at LHCb

Mark Smith (Imperial).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Hydrogen-Electric Propulsion for a Clean Aviation Future

Dr. Sergey Kiselev, Zeroavia.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 14 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Nanoscale Engineering of Plasmonic Materials for Biosensing and Bioimaging

Prof Fang Xie.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 14 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Advances in the theory of multi-dimensional shock waves

Jared Speck (Vanderbilt University).

CMS, MR13.

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

Cabinet of Natural History

From Gilead to Peru: balsam in late Renaissance medicine and alchemy

Elisabeth Moreau (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

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

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Experimental insights on the coupling between oceanic internal tides and lee waves

Yvan Dossmann, Université de Lorraine, Nancy.

MR5, CMS.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Lachan Thorpe, Hawk-Eye Innovations.

Lecture Theatre 6 (LT6), Department of Engineering.

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

Zangwill Club

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

Dr Ione Fine (University of Washington).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Graham van Goffrier - The future of nuclear matrix elements for 0νββ decay

Graham van Goffrier (UCL).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The precessing vortex core instability in swirled jets

Santosh Hemchandra, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Picking on locks: early security, cybersecurity, and the sophisticated criminal trope.

Yanna Papadodimitraki, University of Cambridge.

Webinar & FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building..

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Development and validation of a user-friendly hybrid prediction tool for railway induced vibration

Professor Geert Degrande, KU Leuven.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Unveiling the lithospheric cradle of the Antarctic ice sheet and dynamic topography effects

Aisling Dunn.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"BYOB – Organising Appropriate Gatherings in the Lymph Node"

Dr Ed Roberts, CRUK Beatson Institute. Hosted by: Dr Maike De La Roche.

Meeting in person, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre .

Friday 11 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Junior Algebra and Number Theory seminar

A survey on enveloping algebras of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras

Lucas Buzaglo, University of Edinburgh.

CMS MR13.

Friday 11 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Snap through Dynamics and some strategies for morphing

Professor Dominic Vella, University of Oxford.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 11 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Microstructure control in metal additive manufacturing: a LEGO analogy

Dr Matteo Seita, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Statistics

Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference

Jelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

On bilinearity of Whitehead products in Homotopy Type Theory

Ulrik Buchholtz, University of Nottingham.

SS03.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Protein synthesis regulation and metabolic switches during stem cell differentiation in Drosophila

Felipe Karam Teixeira, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 11 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Gravitational Waves in Cosmology and Astrophysics

Freija Beirnaert.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 11 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Investigating forest dynamics and functioning in response to disturbances through individual-based modeling

E-Ping Rau, University of Cambridge.

Room FW 11, Willam Gates Hall. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 11 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Women@CL Events

Women@CL Talkets

Bianca Schor, Minja Axelsson, Anna Hudig.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, GN06.

Friday 11 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Decoding is deciding under uncertainty — the case of NMT

Bryan Eikema (University of Amsterdam).

Virtual (Zoom).

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Clinical presentation of squamous cell carcinoma of the frontal sinus and response to radiation therapy

Pietro Loddo, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 11 November 2022, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Uncovering the role of the vertebrate gut microbiota in the pathophysiology of schistosomiasis mansoni

Klara Stark, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 11 November 2022, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

The Nature of Cambridge

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

Contributing Authors.

via zoom .

Thursday 10 November 2022, 19:30-21:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

A view of technological change through the magic lantern in Japan

Lewis Bremner (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

The Challenges of Controlling a Quantum Computer

Kenton Barnes, Riverlane.

FW11 or https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97216272378?pwd=M2diTFhMTnppckJtNWhFVTBKK0REZz09.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

A day in the life of an adsorbate: Observing dynamics in an open quantum system

Bill Allison, Surface Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Fluid-boundary interaction: confinement effects, stratification and transport

Roberto Camassa - The University of North Carolina.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Induced subgraphs of induced subgraphs of large chromatic number

Alexander Scott (Oxford).

MR12.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Single Cell Technologies : A Bioinformatician’s perspective

Host – Bianca De Sanctis

Dr Abigail Edwards, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Zoom meeting.

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

Theory of Condensed Matter

Ferroelectricity and topological polarization in twisted bilayers

Danny Bennett (University of Liège).

TCM Seminar Room.

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

Chaucer Club

Neural and cognitive architectures for human metacognition

Steve Fleming (UCL).

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

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

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Derivative-Based Neural Modelling of Cumulative Distribution Functions for Survival Analysis"

This will be a free online seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdu6gpjgrHd1yp38Mi3xQxgCg_5BOQThO

Prof Christopher Yau, University of Oxford .

Virtual Seminar .

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

CUED Control Group Seminars

Physics-based modeling of deformable robots for real-time simulation and control

Christian Duriez, Research Director at Inria Lille, France.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

The awakening of the genome –modelling embryonic genome activation programs in vitro

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

Jasmin Taubenschmid-Stowers.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 13:10-14:00

ARClub Talks

What have we learned about autism from infants?

Tony Charman, King's College London.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85130861934?pwd=c1l1czdNSFVaUzdtRDRPSlU3Q0VmZz09.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 12:30-13:30

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing platforms for the production of diterpenoids

Dr Edith Forestier, Synthetic Biology for Engineering Plant Growth, Department of Plant Sciences.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Seminars for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (formerly BP Institute)

NO SEMINAR

Speaker to be confirmed.

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 10 November 2022, 09:30-10:30

Parasitology Seminars

Taming your inner parasite: novel tools to study cryptosporidiosis

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details.

Dr Adam Sateriale (Francis Crick Institute).

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

On not the rational dualizing module for Aut(F_n)

Zachary Himes (Cambridge).

MR13.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

CANCELLED: Turning the metaverse from myth to reality

Herman Narula - CEO of Improbable.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 15:05-15:55

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Asymmetry in the seasonal cycle of Antarctic sea ice

Lettie Roach, Columbia University.

BAS Seminar Room 1; https://ukri.zoom.us/j/92279923623.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The role played by interactions in the assembly of active colloids: Discovering dynamic laws from observations.

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

Dr Chantal Valeriani, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Motivic integration for Artin stacks

Jeremy Usatine, Brown University.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents?

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

Elizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Transmissible cancers: when cancer cells become infectious agents?

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator.

Elizabeth Murchison, The Transmissible Cancer Group, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Communication in the presence of adversarial jamming: The curious case of the erasure channel

Dr Sidharth Jaggi, University of Bristol.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Reconstructing Southern Hemisphere hydroclimate over the Common Era from paleoclimate records and climate models using data assimilation

Quentin Dalaiden, UCLouvain.

BAS Seminar Room 1; https://ukri.zoom.us/j/97859929989.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact

hybrid

Dr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Perceptual wronging and perceptual injustice

Tom McClelland (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

New Frontiers in PKA Signaling

Susan Taylor, Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and a Professor of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99725572898?pwd=NG82MzVpQmczczAvdkZzN2lJNkt1UT09.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

A tutorial on diffusion models

Emile, Sasha from CBL.

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

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

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Eating with animals, eating animals, and eating like animals: scientific nutrition and cross-species methods in the 20th century

Alma Igra (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Number Theory Seminar

The Gauss problem for central leaves

Valentijn Karemaker (Utrecht University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR13.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Probability

The scaling limit theory of critical planar fuzzy Potts models

Matthis Lehmkuehler (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

CANCELLED - TO BE RE-SCHEDULED - Border town: Tharros and the Roman Frontier in Sardinia

Patrick Hayes (Classics Faculty).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Avos: Looking back 15 years: the technological changes leading to the Zoom Cat Lawyer

Sam Jansen.

Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 13:05-13:55

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution and assembly of a complex weapon system

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

Christine W Miller, University of Florida.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

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

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

Graph Neural Networks for Geometric Graphs

Chaitanya K. Joshi, Simon V. Mathis.

Lecture Theatre 2 and Zoom.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Properties of the Higgs boson: A decade of Higgs measurements with the ATLAS detector

Ashley Mcdougall (Nikhef).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

A V HILL Lecture – The Protected Brain: Neurogenesis Under Stress

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

Professor Alex Gould, Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College, London.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 07 November 2022, 18:30-19:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Bioelectronic tools to study the gut-brain axis

Prof Roisin Owens.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 07 November 2022, 18:00-19:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Reconsolidation-based approaches for the treatment of mental health disorders

Amy Milton, Dept of Psychology, Cambridge.

Hodgkin-Huxley Seminar Room + Zoom.

Monday 07 November 2022, 16:15-18:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Asymmetry in the seasonal cycle of Antarctic sea ice

Lettie Roach, Columbia University.

BAS Seminar Room 1; https://ukri.zoom.us/j/97859929989.

Monday 07 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Boundary hypoelliptic regularization in kinetic equations

Yuzhe Zhu (University of Cambridge).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 07 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Descartes's history of nature: method and experiments in the study of particular bodies

Fabrizio Baldassarri (Ca' Foscari University in Venice).

Zoom.

Monday 07 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

The influence of submesoscale instabilities on the equilibration of ocean fronts

Aaron Wienkers, DAMTP.

MR5, CMS.

Monday 07 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NLP for Science: Advances and Challenges

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

Computer Lab, FW11.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Merck Lecture day 7th November 2022

Speaker to be confirmed.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, multiple rooms throughout the day.

Monday 07 November 2022, 09:00-18:00

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

"Black Holes, Thermodynamics and Information Loss"

Professor Robert Wald (University of Chicago).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 04 November 2022, 17:00-18:30

Zangwill Club

Quality and Location: a view from somatosensation

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

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tyre wear modelling of multi-axle trucks

Chen Liu, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 04 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Machine Learning for Scientific Discovery, with Examples in Fluid Mechanics

Steve Brunton, U. Washington.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 04 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Subir Sarkar - A challenge to the standard cosmological model

Subir Sarkar (Oxford).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 04 November 2022, 15:30-16:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Theory and the Creation of Structures; Using the concepts of Airy, Maxwell, Michell, Heyman, Calladine, Pellegrino, Guest and McRobie to create structures

Bill Baker, SOM & University of Cambridge.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 04 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Junior Algebra and Number Theory seminar

Realising The Smooth Representations of GL(2,Zp)

Tom Adams, University of Cambridge.

CMS MR13.

Friday 04 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Cut it out - residual stresses in dynamic cell sheets

Dr Stephanie Hoehn, DAMTP, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

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

Statistics

Local Independence Graphs

Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Subcubic certificates for CFL reachability

Dmitry Chistikov, University of Warwick.

SS03.

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

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Spatio-temporal control of microtubule mechanics during epithelial morphogenesis

Maja Matis, University of Muenster, Germany.

Zoom talk - Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 04 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The propagation of gravitational waves through matter

Nigel Bishop, Rhodes University.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 04 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Assessing indirect business risk from climate change

Daoping Wang, University of Cambridge.

Seminar time is 1pm BST in Room FW 11, Willam Gates Hall. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 04 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - Soft Tissue

Laura Owen, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 04 November 2022, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Mosquitoes in the Cambridgeshire Fens: past, present and future

Mark Welch, Natural History Museum.

Department of Geography, Downing Site.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 18:45-20:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Bigger Picture Talks with Professor Roland Clift: The role of chemical engineering in sustainable development

Professor Roland Clift, Centre for Environment and Sustainability, University of Surrey.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Population biology and the implicit scientific backing of the 'Human Biodiversity' movement

Michael Diamond-Hunter (London School of Economics).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 15:30-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Cleaning up the nuclear legacy: Vitrified wasteform development and durability

Russell Hand, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Sheffield.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

The total domination game and the 3/4 Conjecture

Julien Portier (Cambridge) .

MR12.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Active Matter: a new approach to mechanobiology?

Julia Yeomans (University of Oxford).

Details of video conferencing will be distributed nearer the time..

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

Genetics Seminar

Chromosome Architecture: Lifting the Lid on Loop Extrusion

Host - Marco Geymonat

Dr Frank Uhlmann, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Zoom meeting.

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

Chaucer Club

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

Charlie Demene (ESPCI Paris).

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

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

Darwin College Science Seminars

New approaches for understanding macroscale brain network development

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

Sofia Orellana.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 13:10-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The second generation of meta-learning methods

Massimiliano (Max) Patacchiola, University of Cambridge.

Small lecture room, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing Parasite-Resistant Systems in Tomatoes to Control Infestations of Cuscuta campestris

Dr Min-Yao Jhu, Sustainable Crop Nutrition Group, Crop Science Centre.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 12:15-13:45

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Zika virus emergence: the African exception

Dr Louis Lambrechts (Institut Pasteur, France).

CIMR (Cambridge Institute for Medical Research), Sackler Lecture Theater on level 7.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 12:00-13:00

Seminars for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (formerly BP Institute)

Infection dispersal in buildings

Dan Toy (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

Seminars for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (formerly BP Institute)

Dan Toy - Infection dispersal in buildings

Dan Toy (University of Cambridge).

Open Plan Area, BP Institute, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 11:30-12:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

Crick Lecture 2022: Neurobiology of Social and Sickness Behaviors

Catherine Dulac, Higgins Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University.

In person in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre (CB2 0QH) and via Zoom, link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91021060396?pwd=c1o1TWVTSTNHTWM1dW5lcm54cURKQT09.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Worms and Bugs

Data-driven approaches to surveillance of Covid-19 in the UK.

Ben Swallow University of St Andrews.

Zoom.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Core ideas in cancer research 2: cell biology

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 03 November 2022, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 III

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Some Partial Diagram Algebras and their Schur-Weyl Dualities

Anthony Giaquinto (Loyola University Chicago).

MR12.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 16:30-17:30

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

The role of stability conditions in understanding Artin groups

Edmund Heng (IHES).

MR13.

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

Applied and Computational Analysis

Nonlinear localization and regularity of solutions of Brinkman-Forchheimer type equations

Sergey Zelik - University of Surrey.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR4.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Programmable Folding of Droplet Colloidomers

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

Professor Jasna Brujic, NYU.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry and Zoom.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Relationships in Gromov-Witten Theory using Givental's Formalism

Qaasim Shafi, University of Birmingham.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Observing the Southern Ocean carbon cycle with autonomous floats

Channing Prend, Scripps Institution of Oceanography/University of Washington.

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/91769463955; BAS seminar room 1.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Computational and Systems Biology Seminar Series 2022 - 23

Principles of Protein Structural Ensembles Determination

Our intention is to deliver all Seminars in person. Seminars are aimed mainly at MPhil CompBio students, but are open to anyone who wishes to attend by pre-booking with the Administrator

Michele Vendruscolo, Co-Director, Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry.

CMS, Meeting Room 15.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Energy-Optimal Signaling using the Example of Optical Communication

Dr Stefan Moser, ETH Zurich.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Perceived inequality and the strive for standardization

Alessandra Basso (University of Cambridge).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 13:00-14:30

Early Science and Medicine

Thinking with sea monsters: re-thinking early modern maps and epistemic images

Surekha Davies (Utrecht University).

Seminar Room 1, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 17:30-19:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The Memory Effect and Infrared Divergences in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Gravity

Bob Wald (University of Chicago).

MR11.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Prof Huw Davies talk 1st November 2022

Speaker to be confirmed.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, multiple rooms throughout the day.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 15:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

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Speaker to be confirmed.

FW11 and https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97216272378?pwd=M2diTFhMTnppckJtNWhFVTBKK0REZz09.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Formalising modular forms, Eisenstein series and the modularity conjecture in Lean

Chris Birkbeck (University College London).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR13.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Regularity of SLE: Precise variation and modulus of continuity

Yizheng Yuan (Statslab).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

HF radar remote sensing of the marginal ice zone and other interesting places

Stuart Anderson, University of Adelaide.

https://ukri.zoom.us/j/91008981392;BAS Seminar Room 330b.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Making all pairwise comparisons in multi-arm clinical trials without control treatment"

This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend virtually, please click here:https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlc-Grrj0vHNCSqPPY92EKkTJG5Xjm5yhY

Dr Thomas Burnett, University of Bath.

Large Seminar Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Seminars

Locating the Reversals: Adapting EMMA for the screen

Eleanor Catton (novelist & screenwriter).

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 13:15-14:00

Technical Talks - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Monumo: Engineering Simulation and Design: New Opportunities for Computer Science

Chris Doran.

Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 13:05-13:55

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Microbial Communities in an Ever-Changing World

Hybrid talk - email for a zoom link

Alex Dumbrell, University of Essex.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoolgy.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory)

AI for Science: An Oral Report from a Recent Dagstuhl Workshop

Neil Lawrence.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tree islands enhance biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in oil palm landscapes

Clara Zemp.

Zoom only - contact organiser for link.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Machine Learning - the future of particle physics?

Nadya Chernyavskaya (CERN).

Ryle Seminar Room.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 11:00-12:00

AMOP list

Ultracold RbCs Molecules: Robust Storage Qubits and Rotationally Magic Traps

Prof Simon L. Cornish, Department of Physics, Durham University.

Rutherford Seminar Room B (Room 980).

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 11:00-12:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: Embryonic and adult neural stem cells- what underlies their difference

Hosted by: Iva Tchasovnikarova and Sumru Bayin

Dr Yukiko Gotoh, University of Tokyo, Japan.

Virtual.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 09:00-10:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Dyslexia, Rhythm, Language and the Developing Brain

Prof. Usha Goswami, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Location: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, and Zoom.

Monday 31 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Reimagining Museum Collecting & Collections in Natural History: A Decolonial Perspective

Ms Miranda Lowe.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Cambridge Darwins in Conversation

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

Paula Darwin, Professor Roger Keynes and Dr Claire Barlow.

Murray Edwards College, Buckingham House Conference Centre.

Monday 31 October 2022, 18:00-19:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

The Parkinson’s disease protein LRRK2 regulates the transition from innate to adaptive immunity by modulating the unfolded protein response

Professor Michel Desjardins, University of Montreal.

MRC MBU, Level 7 Lecture Theatre, The Keith Peters Building, CB2 0XY.

Monday 31 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

End-time regularity theorem for Brakke flow

Yoshihiro Tonegawa (Tokyo Institute of Technology).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 31 October 2022, 14:45-15:45

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Stability of the Kolmogorov-Zakharov spectrum of weak turbulence

Charles Collot, University of Cergy Pontoise.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 31 October 2022, 13:30-14:30

Geophysical and Environmental Processes

Towards machine learning in operational weather forecasting

Matthew Chantry, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

MR5, CMS.

Monday 31 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Force sensing across different length scales - from cell biology to orthopaedic surgery

Prof. Sohini Kar-Narayan, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Sunday 30 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

Lessons from genetic studies of Major Depressive Disorder

Dr Na Cai (Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Mapping the SMEFT to UV models for four-fermion operators

Fabian Esser (Valencia).

Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Team with Microbes: Lessons from the Zebrafish Digestive Tract

Professor Karen Guillemin, University of Oregon. Hosted by Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan.

Professor Karen Guillemin, University of Oregon. Hosted by Professor Lalita Ramakrishnan..

In person meetings, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre Lecture Theatre .

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Identifying performance limits for active noise reduction in nonlinear systems

Joe Massingham, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

From Olympic rowing to gunwale bobbing: Wave drag and wave thrust phenomena

Graham Benham, U. Oxford.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Understanding Tensegrity with an Energy Function

Professor Simon Guest.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 28 October 2022, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Simulating the Tumor Microenvironment for Immune Cell Interactions via Deployable Extrusion

Corrado Mazzaglia, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:30-15:00

Statistics

Latent space models for multiplex networks with shared structure

Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Smart micro-textiles: from bioinspired sensing to bioelectronic interface

Andy Wang CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:00-14:30

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Coherent differentiation makes the differential lambda-calculus deterministic

Thomas Ehrhard, University of Paris.

SS03.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Timescales in development: the tempo across and within species

Teresa Rayon, Babraham Institute.

Biffen Theater- Please subscribe to mailing list for link.

Friday 28 October 2022, 13:15-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Gravitational collapse of quantum fields

Benjamin Berczi, University of Nottingham.

Potter room/Zoom.

Friday 28 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Optimization-in-the-loop AI for energy and climate

Priya Donti, Climate Change AI, MIT.

Seminar time is 1pm BST in Room FW 11, Willam Gates Hall. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 28 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Efficient Structured Prediction on Long Texts

Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH Zurich).

Virtual (Zoom).

Friday 28 October 2022, 12:00-13:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Mr Wobbles

Sara Formoso Prado, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

LT2.

Friday 28 October 2022, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Modelling the implementation of routine varicella vaccination in the UK

Lauren Adams, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

LT2.

Friday 28 October 2022, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Natural History from Above

To be added to the mailing list to receive the login for Zoom events, email webmaster [at] cnhs.org.uk

Harriet Allen, President CNHS.

via zoom .

Thursday 27 October 2022, 19:30-21:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Resampling methods for networks

Liza Levina (Michigan).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The philosophical significance of the Representational Theory of Measurement: RTM as semantic foundations

Jo Wolff (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 15:30-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Multivariable Control in 40 Minutes

Prof. Jan Maciejowski, Emeritus Professor of Control Engineering, Cambridge University.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 27 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Science Seminars

Dementia and ageing brains: what can population studies tell us?

Grab some lunch from the Darwin servery and enjoy an interesting science talk and discussion over lunch (talk starts 13.10, so make sure you're seated by then). Looking forward to seeing you there.

Carol Brayne.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 13:10-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A climate risk analysis for Earth's forests in the 21st century

Professor William Anderegg, University of Utah, USA.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 12:15-13:45

Seminars for the Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows (formerly BP Institute)

Upper limit of wind farm power generation and wind extractability

Dr Takafumi Nishino, Dept of Engineering Science, University of Oxford.

Open Plan Area, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows, Madingley Rise CB3 0EZ.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 11:30-12:30

Worms and Bugs

Prediction Models For COVID-19 – lessons learnt

Glen Martin (University of Manchester).

Zoom.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Core ideas in cancer research 1: genes and genetic instability

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Theo Chalmers Lecture Theatre (LT2) School of Clinical Medicine.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 09:30-10:30

Parasitology Seminars

Evidence for pervasive transcription in trypanosomes

This is a hybrid talk. You can attend in person or via zoom. See abstract for details

Dr Antonio Estevez (Instituto de Parasitología y Biomedicina 'López-Neyra’, IPBLN-CSIC, Granada, Spain).

Seminar Room, Tennis Court Road, Dept of Pathology..

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Topological Langlands duality for 3-manifolds

David Jordan (Edinburgh).

MR13.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 16:00-17:00