British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Life in the freezer: how do you mix biology and ice ages?

Peter Convey (British Antarctic Survey).

British Antarctic Survey, conference room.

Friday 25 July 2014, 13:00-13:30

AMOP list

The Hong-Ou-Mandel effect with massive particles

Raphael Lopes (Institut Optique, France).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 25 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Consistency and Reliability in Cloud-backed Storage Systems

Alysson Bessani (University of Lisbon) .

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 24 July 2014, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Spin Hall Effect

Guang-Yu Guo, National Taiwan University,.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 July 2014, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Immunology

HIV Control & Cure

Professor Philip Goulder, University of Oxford. Hosted by Professor Patrick Maxwell

Professor Philip Goulder, Professor of Immunology, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room 2, Clinical School, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge..

Thursday 24 July 2014, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

The Role of Stratospheric Polar Vortex Breakdown in Southern Hemisphere Climate Trends

Gang Chen, Cornell University, NY, United States.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

Thursday 24 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

A Verified Compiler for Probability Density Functions

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Tobias Nipkow, Institute of Informatics Technical Institute of Munich.

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

Thursday 24 July 2014, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Network events

Breakfast Networking: How SMEs can get accustomed to customs

Speaker to be confirmed.

Hauser Forum, 3 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0GT.

Thursday 24 July 2014, 08:00-10:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic - Summer I

Room changed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 9 (Ground floor, Pavillion B).

Wednesday 23 July 2014, 16:30-18:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

The Consequences of Whole Genome Duplications

Prof David Pellman, Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 22 July 2014, 16:15-18:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Using parallel computing methods at CERN

Diana Andreea Popescu .

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 22 July 2014, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'Scottish Collaboration On Translational Research into Renal Cell Cancer (SCOTRRCC): a springboard for renal cancer biomarker development’.

Host: Professor Tim Eisen

Mr Grant Stewart, Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in Urological Surgery, University of Edinburgh .

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 22 July 2014, 12:00-13:00

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

Atmospheric bromine: its natural sources and effects on atmospheric chemsitry

All welcome. If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

Dr. Xin Yang, British Antarctic Survey.

room 307, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

Tuesday 22 July 2014, 10:15-11:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Byte Night Cambridge

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Michelle Lamprecht, MathWorks.

Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Monday 21 July 2014, 10:00-11:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Lior Weizman, Technion--Israel Institute of Technology.

BE4-38 (CBL Meeting Room).

Saturday 19 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Context-dependent Semantic Parsing for Time Expressions

Jesse Dodge, CMU.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 July 2014, 12:00-13:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Final IfM Buns Talk of this Term: Zhaohui Wu on Cultural Embeddedness in Supply Network

Zhaohui Wu.

Seminar Room 3, IfM, Alan Reece Building, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 18 July 2014, 10:00-10:45

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Ecology, Cross-Species Emergence and Control of Vampire Bat Rabies

This is a Special Guest Speaker filling the usual Departmental slot.

Dr Daniel Streicker, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine & MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 18 July 2014, 08:45-10:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Better Strategies for Data Collection in Sensor Networks

Michael Segal (Ben-Gurion University of The Negev).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 17 July 2014, 15:00-16:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Two talks on visual analytics

Advait Sarkar, Rainbow Group.

Rainbow Seminar Room (SS03), Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 17 July 2014, 11:15-12:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Southern Ocean phytoplankton: mapping iron stressed communities from space and strong responses to volcanic ash supply

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

Dr. Tom Browning, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

Wednesday 16 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian process regression on graphs

Peter Sollich (King's College London).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 16 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Environmental challenges to the implementation of ceramic composites in gas turbines

Carlos G. Levi, Materials Department, University of California Santa Barbara.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Wednesday 16 July 2014, 10:00-11:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Boosting stop searches with boosted di-boson

Diptimoy Ghosh (INFN and Univeristy of Rome).

MR11 (B1.39), CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 15 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Cheat! Stopping receivers from subverting TCP congestion control

Toby Moncaster.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 15 July 2014, 13:15-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Extrinsic regulation of haematopoietic stem cell self

Sean J. Morrison Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Tuesday 15 July 2014, 11:45-13:30

Cambridge Haematopoiesis Seminars

Targeting survival pathways in CML stem cell persistence and TKI-resistance

Prof. Tessa Holyoake, University of Glasgow.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Monday 14 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Programming Research Group Seminar

Programming Robotic Agents: A Multi-tasking Teleo-Reactive Approach

Professor Keith Clark, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London.

SS03.

Monday 14 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Network-Design Sensitivity Analysis

Matthew Roughan (University of Adelaide).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Monday 14 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory Security Group meeting presentations

Orchestrated crime: the high yield investment fraud ecosystem

Jens Neisius, TU Munich.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 11 July 2014, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Mechanical properties of highly particle-filled composites

Prof Pengwan Chen, Head of School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Friday 11 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Growing Enterprises Through a Technology Upgrading Strategy – The Case of Singapore's GET-UP Program as an Alternative Mode of Technology Transfer

Annie Ruan.

Seminar Room 3, IfM, Alan Reece Building, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 11 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Experiments on a mixture of bosonic and fermionic superfluids

Igor Ferrier-Barbut (Ecole normale Superieure, Paris).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Friday 11 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Sustainable Economical Development: A Long-term Perspective in the Automotive Industry

Joachim Kuhn.

Seminar Room 3, IfM, Alan Reece Building, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 11 July 2014, 10:00-10:45

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Image representation for synthesis and recognition using multilinear algebra

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Demetri Terzopoulos, Computer Graphics & Vision Laboratory, University of California.

Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Friday 11 July 2014, 10:00-11:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

'Surface states and topology in Kondo insulating SmB6 and superconducting Tl5Te3'

Tyrel McQueen, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA..

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

Friday 11 July 2014, 02:15-03:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Reinventing Energy Storage in 2D: Nanosheets and Exfoliated Materials

Professor Bruce Dunn, UCLA.

Todd-Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 10 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Daily Habits of Happy People: Accelerometers

Neal Lathia (University of Cambridge).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 10 July 2014, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

The density is not enough

Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 July 2014, 14:15-15:15

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Seminars in Cancer

Whole-exome sequencing identifies recurrent functional mutations in melanoma

Yardena Samuels, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 July 2014, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Water pathways in the Southern Ocean from Lagrangian particles

If you are external to BAS, please email the seminar organiser to arrange access

Dr. Erik van Sebille, University of New South Wales.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

Thursday 10 July 2014, 13:00-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The Brave New World of Next-Generation NoSQL Data Stores

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Emin Gun Sirer, Cornell University.

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

Thursday 10 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Steps toward usable verification

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Francesco Logozzo, MSR Redmond.

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

Thursday 10 July 2014, 10:00-11:00

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Interacting with Protein Interactions

"Special Event" Cambridge Cheminformatics Network Meetings

Professor Arthur J Olson, Departmen of Interactive Structure & Computational BIology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla CA.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre Department of Chemistry Lensfield Road Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 3RA.

Wednesday 09 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Haematopoiesis Seminars

Dnmt3a in Normal and Malignant Hematopoiesis

Please note the different location of this seminar

Prof Margaret Goodell, Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Center, Baylor College of Medicine.

Clifford Allbutt Lecture Theatre, Clifford Allbutt Building (former LMB building).

Wednesday 09 July 2014, 13:00-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Practical Techniques for Auto-Active Verification

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Nadia Polikarpova, ETH Zurich.

Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Wednesday 09 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

CANCELED: Natural Killer cells, Innate Lymphoid cells and Innate Immunity

CANCELED

Eric Vivier, Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Tuesday 08 July 2014, 15:00-16:00

Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series

Bionanoscience for Innovative Global Healthcare Research & Technology (BIGHEART)

Everyone is welcome

Prof. Luke P. Lee, Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center, California Institute of Quantitative Biosciences, UC Berkeley.

Kapitza Building Seminar Room 16, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 08 July 2014, 14:30-15:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Robust Model Predictive Control with Waysets

Rohan Shekhar, University of Melbourne.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Tuesday 08 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

FSCL: homogeneous programming and execution for heterogeneous platforms

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Gabriele Cocco, Biobeats.

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

Tuesday 08 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Programming Research Group Seminar

Points-To and Alias Analysis -- the precision vs efficiency dilemma

Professor Uday Khedker, Department of Computer Science & Engg. IIT Bombay, India. .

SS03.

Tuesday 08 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Q&A with Graham Titmus

Graham Titmus.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 08 July 2014, 13:15-14:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Critical Casimir Forces in a Magnetic System: An Experimental Protocol

Prof. Peter Holdsworth, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 July 2014, 14:15-15:15

Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series

Mass Fabrication of Micro/Nano Dual-scale Structures and its Applications in Energy Harvesting

Everyone is welcome

Prof. Haixia (Alice) Zhang, Institute of Microelectronics, Peking University, China.

Kapitza Building Seminar Room 16, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Friday 04 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Yang-Mills on a hyperbolic space

Piotr Bizon (Cracow) .

DAMTP, room MR11.

Friday 04 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

The role of adipose tissue innate lymphocytes in regulation of metabolism and weight

Lydia Lynch, hosted by Francesco Colucci

Lydia Lynch Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 04 July 2014, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Sampling Theory of Large Graphs

John C.S. Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Friday 04 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Enhancing the impact of the Department's Research - so how does the Department's Fourth Theme work

Charles Boulton, Department of Engineering.

Seminar Room 3, IfM, Alan Reece Building, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 04 July 2014, 10:00-10:45

Mordell Lectures

The SL(2,R) action on Moduli space

Professor Alex Eskin (University of Chicago).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 03 July 2014, 17:00-18:00

MRC Human Nutrition Research

From Science to Supermarket - Where does all the knowledge go?

Dr Simon Poole, Family Physician, Firs House Surgery Histon, Cambridge.

Seminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

Thursday 03 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

How to Give a Great Research Talk

Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

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

Thursday 03 July 2014, 15:30-16:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

Modeling Crowdsourcing Systems: Design and Analysis of Incentive and Reputation Systems

John C.S. Lui (The Chinese University of Hong Kong).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 03 July 2014, 15:00-16:00

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminars

The Hippo Tumor Suppressor Network: Identifying New Therapeutic Targets

Host: Dr Anna Philpott

Professor Cathie Pfleger, Department of Oncological Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA.

L1 Meeting Rooms, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Addenbrooke's Campus.

Thursday 03 July 2014, 15:00-16:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

The Once and Future Internet

Jon Crowcroft, Computer Lab.

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

Thursday 03 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Enriching Electronic Textbooks

Krishnaram Kenthapadi (MSR SVC).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 03 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Haematopoiesis Seminars

Normal and leukaemic (AML) human stem/progenitor cells

Prof. Paresh Vyas, WIMM, Oxford University.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Wednesday 02 July 2014, 16:15-17:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Implicit Representation Networks

David Barber (University College London).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Wednesday 02 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Nervous system variability and robustness from cellular feedback control

Tim O'Leary, Brandeis University.

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

Tuesday 01 July 2014, 16:00-17:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Why Isn’t Verification Standard Practice?

Steve Crocker, ICANN.

Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 01 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Palirria: Accurate On-line Parallelism Estimation for Adaptive Work-Stealing

Georgios Varisteas (KTH).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 01 July 2014, 13:15-14:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Scalable Deep Gaussian Processes

James Hensman (University of Sheffield).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 01 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

How to Write a Great Research Paper

Simon Peyton-Jones, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 01 July 2014, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Network events

Cambridge Network Event: Dr Keith McNeil, CEO Addenbrooke's

Dr Keith McNeil, CEO, Addenbrooke's.

Emmanuel College, St Andrew's St, Cambridge CB2 3AP.

Monday 30 June 2014, 18:00-20:30

Parasitology Seminars

Macromolecular trafficking pathways in trypanosomes: Roles in virulence, drug sensitivity and evolutionary insights

Professor Mark Field, University of Dundee.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Monday 30 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Milstein Lecture 2014: Unfolded Protein Response in Health and Disease

Peter Walter, University of California, San Francisco .

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Monday 30 June 2014, 16:15-18:00

AMOP list

Towards single-site-resolved detction of fermions in an optical lattice

Proessor Stefan Kuhr (University of Strathclyde).

Rutherford building, Seminar Room B.

Monday 30 June 2014, 15:30-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Inclusion of mountain wave-induced cooling for the formation of polar stratospheric clouds in a chemistry climate model

Andrew Orr (BAS).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 30 June 2014, 14:15-15:30

Computer Laboratory Digital Technology Group (DTG) Meetings

Title to be confirmed

Tom Bytheway, Nikilesh Balakrishnan, Sherif Akoush.

SS03, William Gates Building.

Monday 30 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Tracking the odd: Meter inference in musical audio using particle filters

Dr Andre Holzapfel, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul.

BE4-38 (CBL Meeting Room).

Monday 30 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

The function and execution of RTEL1 activities at vertebrate telomeres

Dr Simon Boulton, DNA damage Response Laboratory, London Research Institute.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Friday 27 June 2014, 16:15-18:00

Worms and Bugs

How to measure social mixing?

Timo Smieszek, Public Health England and Imperial College.

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

Friday 27 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Reducing uncertainties in Antarctic ice sheet mass loss projections.

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

Frank Pattyn, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Friday 27 June 2014, 15:30-16:00

British Antarctic Survey

The role of pinning-points, marine ice and subglacial channeling in defining the buttressing strength of the Roi Baudouin Ice Shelf, Antarctica

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

Reinhard Drews, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Friday 27 June 2014, 15:00-15:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Noninvasive cancer genomics

CRUK CI seminar

Nitzan Rosenfeld, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Friday 27 June 2014, 13:45-14:45

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Do Volatiles Emitted by Virus–Infected Tomato Plants Attract Bumblebees and Enhance Host Reproductive Fitness?

Sanjie Jiang.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 27 June 2014, 13:30-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Seeing forests from new heights: Applying recently developed satellite imagery analysis technologies to monitor tropical forest protected areas

Gillian Lui.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 27 June 2014, 13:00-13:25

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

PI3K in Immunity, Infection and Cancer

Klaus Okkenhaug

Klaus Okkenhaug, Babraham Institute.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 27 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Development of an advanced scanning transmission electron microscope for material science research

The Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture sponsored by Oxford Instruments

Dr Naoya Shibata, Institute of Engineering Innovation, University of Tokio.

LT Goldsmith 1 Materials Science and Metallurgy, Department of.

Friday 27 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Local Temporal Reasoning

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Eric Koskinen, New York University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Friday 27 June 2014, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Exploiting the crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) pathway for sustainable bioenergy production in a changing climate

Nicholas Owen.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 June 2014, 16:30-17:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Exploring the final events in eukaryotic cell division

Juan Martin-Serrano, Kings College London.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 26 June 2014, 16:15-18:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

TBC

Juan Martin-Serrano.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, Medical Research Council (MRC) (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biol.

Thursday 26 June 2014, 16:15-18:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Characterisation of Arabidopsis and Rice Homologues of Purine Nucleoside Phosphorylases

Farhat Nazir.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 June 2014, 16:00-16:25

British Antarctic Survey

The Little Ice Age in sea-level records across the North Atlantic

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

Dr Leanne Wake (Northumbria University).

British Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

Thursday 26 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute Seminars in Cancer

*New speaker - replaces previously advertised seminar*

Ravid Straussman, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Epigenetics and microRNA

This talk has been rescheduled from earlier in the year

Eric Miska, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

CRUK-CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Network events

Cambridge Network Event: Breakfast Networking - HR

Ian Davidson, Janet Henson-Webb, Katherine Duff,.

Hauser Forum, 3 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0GT.

Thursday 26 June 2014, 08:00-10:00

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Estimating a directional trend from noisy directional data

Rudy Beran, University of California Davis.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 15:45-16:15

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Empirical risk minimization for heavy-tailed losses

Gábor Lugosi, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 15:15-15:45

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

On tensor completion via nuclear norm minimization

Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University, USA.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 14:45-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

(SP Wednesday Workshop) - Probe for Cryostat with RF Input and Optical Scanning Function

Mr Tzu-Kan Hsiao, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Empirical entropy, minimax regret and minimax risk

Alexandre (Sasha) Tsybakov, Laboratoire de Statistique, CREST and Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires CNRS.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 14:15-14:45

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

General Strassen type results for partial sum processes in Euclidean space

Uwe Einmahl, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 12:00-12:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Moment estimates implied by modified log-Sobolev inequalities

Radoslaw Adamczak, Institute of Mathematics, University of Warsaw.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 11:30-12:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Thermodynamics and critical current density in HTS superconductors and beyond

Jeff Tallon, Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University, New Zealand..

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

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 11:15-12:15

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Precise moment and tail estimates for Rademacher series in terms of weak parameters

Krzysztof Oleszkiewicz, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics, University of Warsaw.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 11:00-11:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Adaptive estimation of the copula correlation matrix for semiparametic elliptical copulas

Marten H. Wegkamp, Cornell University.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 10:00-10:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

The Hurst Phenomenon and the Rescaled Range Statistic

David M. Mason, University of Delaware.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 25 June 2014, 09:30-10:00

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Some historical remarks on the Giné-Zinn work on empirical processes

Richard Dudley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 16:45-17:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

A multi-function approach to passivity-based control: The linear case.

Dr Fernando Castanos, Cinvestav Mexico.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Functional depth and quantiles

Joel Zinn, Texas A&M University.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 16:15-16:45

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Gaussian Approximations and Bootstrap with p >> n.

Victor Chernozhukov, MIT.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 15:15-15:45

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Estimation of the Lévy measure: statistical inverse problem and Donsker Theorem

Markus Reiß, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 14:45-15:15

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Regularity of Gaussian processes in a geometric framework

Gerard Kerkyacharian, Université Paris VII.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 14:15-14:45

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

OCaml-TLS-0.1: Design and Future

Hannes Mehnert.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Precision Cancer Prevention: Trying to use Genomics to Save Lives

Host: Dr Marc Tischkowitz

John Hopper, Professor & Director (Research), Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic (MEGA) Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Australia.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Confidence bands for distribution functions: A new look at the law of the iterated logarithm

Lutz Dümbgen, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 12:00-12:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Exponential inequalities and local independence graphs to unravel functional neuronal connectivity

Patricia Reynaud-Bouret, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 11:30-12:00

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Estimator selection: methods and calibration

Pascal Massart, Université de Paris-Sud,.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 11:00-11:30

BAS Chemistry & Past Climate Seminars

High latitude temperature evolution across the Last Interglacial

All welcome. If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building.

Dr Emilie Capron, British Antarctic Survey.

room 330B, British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Cambridge, CB3 0ET.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 10:15-11:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

A Modular Integration of SAT/SMT Solvers to Coq through Proof Witnesses

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Chantal Keller.

Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 10:00-11:00

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

A robust and adaptive estimator for regression II

Yannick Baraud, Laboratoire J.A. Dieudonné, Nice.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 10:00-10:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

A robust and adaptive estimator for regression I

Lucien Birgé, Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, Paris.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 09:30-10:00

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Adaptation in some shape-constrained regression problems

Adityanand Guntuboyina, University of California, Berkeley,.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 16:45-17:15

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

On the structure of random coordinate projections

Shahar Mendelson, The Australian National Univeristy and Technion, Israel .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 16:15-16:45

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Improving nutrition care processes in hospitals: the Canadian experience.

Dr Heather Keller University of Waterloo, Canada.

Seminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

Monday 23 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Symbiotic Relations: Control Theory and Practice

Professor Keith Glover, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Monday 23 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Title to be confirmed

Victor de la Pena, Columbia University .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 15:15-15:45

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

On the nonparametric Bernstein-von Mises phenomenon

Ismaël Castillo, Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, Paris.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 14:45-15:15

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Adaptive nonparametric credible balls

Aad van der Vaart, Leiden Univeristy .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 14:15-14:45

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Cauchy-Schwarz Principles for uniform entropy

Ramon van Handel, Princeton University .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 12:00-12:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Sequential complexities and uniform martingale LLN

Alexander Rakhlin, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 11:30-12:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Incoming.tv - Improving User Experience of Mobile Video through predictive prefetching

Max Ott (NICTA).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Monday 23 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Asymptotic expansions for entropy distances in limit theorems

Friedrich Götze, Bielefeld University, Germany.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 11:00-11:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Suprema of Bernoulli processes

Rafal Latala, University of Warsaw.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 10:00-10:30

Probability Theory and Statistics in High and Infinite Dimensions

Stein's method, logarithmic Sobolev and transport inequalities

Michel Ledoux, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Monday 23 June 2014, 09:30-10:00

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Nature, culture and philosophy

Inaugural Lecture by Professor Tim Lewens

Tim Lewens (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

Peterhouse Lecture Theatre, Trumpington Street.

Friday 20 June 2014, 16:30-18:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

What controls liverwort size and shape?

Jeremy Solly.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 June 2014, 13:30-13:55

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

myb gene determinants of air chamber formation in Marchantia polymorpha

Bernardo Pollak.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 June 2014, 13:00-13:25

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Fate mapping reveals Origin and Dynamics of lymph node Follicular Dendritic Cells

Marc Bajenoff, hosted by the postdocs

Marc Bajenoff, Marseille.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 20 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Genetic analysis of the effect of circadian clock genes on yield components in wheat (T. aestivum)

Lukas Wittern.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 20 June 2014, 12:30-12:55

Department of Engineering, Production Processes Group Seminars, Institute for Manufacturing

Production Processes Group Seminar - The cement industry and its carbon footprint

Daniel Summerbell .

Seminar Room 3 at the Institute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 20 June 2014, 11:30-12:30

Manufacturing Research Forum

Open Access: HEFCE announcement and implications for the next REF

Niamh Tumelty, Dapartment of Engineering.

Seminar Room 3, IfM, Alan Reece Building, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 20 June 2014, 10:00-10:45

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Games, Learning and Markets Workshop

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Friday 20 June 2014, 09:00-17:30

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book.

Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Meet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: A walking tour around the historic city centre

Tickets £5. Limited numbers. Please contact John O’Toole to book.

Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Meet at steps of Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 18:30-21:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Forward and reverse genetic identification of mutants linking [Ca2+]cyt to the Arabidopsis thaliana circadian clock

Timothy Hearn.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Impact of logging in a Bornean peat swamp forest

Beatrice Wedeux.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 16:00-16:25

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

AWARE: Human & Social Context For Wellbeing

Denzil Ferreira (University of Oulu).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

Synergism between Theory and Experiments in Asymmetric Catalysis: Transition State Modeling for Rationalizations and Catalyst Design

Professor Raghavan B. Sunoj, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 14:15-15:45

Theory of Condensed Matter

First-principles Materials Applications and Design to Nonlinear Optical Crystals

Prof. Zheshuai Lin, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Plant Sciences Talks

Drought-Induced Abscisic Acid Signaling Specificity and Atmospheric CO2 Sensing in Plants

Prof. Julian Schroeder (University of California at San Diego).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Integrated processes of induced cellular migration and immune mediated effects in herpesvirus cell-to-cell transmission

Prof. Peter O'Hare, Imperial College London, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Faculty of Mathematics Lectures

Rouse Ball Lecture

Professor Richard Taylor, Institute of Advanced Study.

Room 3, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, 8 Mill Lane, Cambridge.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 11:30-12:30

BPI Seminar Series

Experimental modelling of the Fluid Dynamics of Magma Chambers / Buoyancy induced Taylor dispersion

Andrew Gilbert, BP Institute / Tiras Lin, BP Institute.

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

Thursday 19 June 2014, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Epidemiology

Paul Pharoah, Department of Public Health and Primary Care.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

HPS History Workshop

Imagining ill bodies: the Basel Mission doctors and images from the Gold Coast, 1885–1914

Linda Ratschiller (University of Fribourg, Switzerland).

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

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Regulators of inflammatory responses

Dr. Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, USA.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 16:15-17:15

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

CheckMATE: Confronting your Favourite New Physics Model with LHC Data

Jong Soo Kim (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid).

MR19, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Inpainting, Segmentation and Free Discontinuity

Franco Tomarelli (Politecnico di Milano - Dipartimento di Matematica).

MR 14, CMS.

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey

Inclusion of mountain wave-induced cooling for the formation of polar stratospheric clouds over the Antarctic Peninsula in a chemistry climate model

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

Dr Andrew Orr (British Antarctic Survey).

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Nanotopographical (and other nano stuff) control of mesenchymal stem cell mechanotransduction and fate

Dr Matthew Dalby, University of Glasgow.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Nonlocal gradients and fractional PDE

Daniel Spector (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology).

MR 14, CMS.

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

The Fitzwilliam Museum

Making sense of the Whipple Museum’s Muggletonian astronomical prints

Dr Joshua Nall, Assistant Curator, Whipple Museum of the History of Science.

Fitzwilliam Museum, Education Seminar Room (35).

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 13:15-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Remote geological mapping in Antarctica - time to hang up the hammer?

Teal Riley (British Antarctic Survey).

British Antarctic Survey, conference room.

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 13:00-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Two puzzles posed by the Zapiola anticyclone

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

Antoine Venaille (CNRS, Laboratoire de physique, ENS-Lyon).

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Wednesday 18 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Johannes Friedrich ( CBL, Cambridge University, Engineering Dept.).

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

Tuesday 17 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (CfEL)

Seminar: Back to Boom? Building sustainable business wealth in an upturn

John Rosling, CEO of Shirlaws.

Lecture Theatre 3, Judge Business School, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG.

Tuesday 17 June 2014, 14:30-17:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Making decisions under uncertainty: a solution for engineers

Valentin Dalibard (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 17 June 2014, 13:15-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Noise in audio and electronics

Dr Chris Hicks, Engineering Director of CEDAR Audio, Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 16 June 2014, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Assessment of Positive Emotional States in Companion-Owned Dogs

Emma Buckland, Royal Veterinary College.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Veterinary Medicine, Department of.

Monday 16 June 2014, 16:30-18:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Global existence and convergence of smooth solutions to Yang-Mills gradient flow over compact four-manifolds

Paul Feehan.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 16 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Set Theory Seminar

The Axiom of Choice

Thomas Forster, University of Cambridge.

CMS, MR2.

Monday 16 June 2014, 15:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Our current understanding of solar irradiance and its effect on stratospheric ozone

Dr William Ball (Imperial).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 June 2014, 14:15-15:30

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Optically driven domain wall motion in dilute magnetic semiconductor

Dr Andrew Ramsey, Hitachi Cambridge Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 16 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Geo-replicated storage with scalable deferred update replication

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano.

Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Monday 16 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Talks

4 years in C4: Unravelling C4 photosynthesis using microgenomics

Dr Sylvain Aubry (Molecular Physiology Group).

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Monday 16 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Tips and Tools for Scientific Research Success

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Speaker to be Confirmed .

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

Monday 16 June 2014, 09:00-16:30

ARClub Talks

Switching between affect and ratio: The basolateral amygdala

Dr David Terburg, Department of Psychology, Utrecht University .

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 13 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Understanding Uncertainties: an extensive survey of theoretical uncertainty estimates for perturbative observables

Alberto Guffanti (Bohr Institute, Copenaghen).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Why bouncing droplets are a pretty good model of quantum mechanics

Robert Brady, Computer Laboratory.

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

Friday 13 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Dynamics & Vibration and MEMS group Poster Session

Speaker to be confirmed.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 13 June 2014, 15:00-17:00

Chemical Engineering occasional seminars

GRASPING COMPLEXITY OF CHEMICAL KINETICS

Gregory S. Yablonsky, Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology, Dept of Chem., Saint Louis Univ., St. Louis, МО 63103, USA .

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, New Museums Site.

Friday 13 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Biomedical photoacoustic imaging for the clinical and life sciences

Professor Paul Beard,Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering, University College London.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 13 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Flexible Metal Forming: A Mathematical Perspective

Dr Chris Cawthorn, DAMTP.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 13 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Signal Processing via Sampled-Data Control - A Challenge to Go Beyond Shannon

Professor Yutaka Yamamoto, Kyoto University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Friday 13 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Helping 10% of the people to read and write better

Luz Rello, University Pompeu Fabra.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 13 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Genetic variation of symbiosis-associated phosphate transporter (PHT1) genes in maize

Clement Quan.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 June 2014, 13:30-13:55

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Diversity of mouse B cell memory subsets

Claude-Agnès Reynaud, hosted by Cristina Rada

Claude-Agnès Reynaud, INSERM.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 13 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Investigating the diversification of RNA silencing pathways in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Claire Agius.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 13 June 2014, 13:00-13:25

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Frequency domain reduced order models for gravitational waves from aligned-spin black-hole binaries

Michael Puerrer (University of Cardiff).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 13 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Molecular origins of "internal friction" in protein folding

Dr. David de Sancho, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 13 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

The Cancer Genome Atlas: oncogenic signature classes and the design of combinatorial therapy

Chris Sander (MSKCC).

CRUK CI Room 215.

Friday 13 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Representationalism and pragmatism

Piotr Szalek (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland).

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

Friday 13 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Changeable Production Systems in Global Networks

Steven Peters.

Seminar Room 3, IfM, Alan Reece Building, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 13 June 2014, 10:00-10:45

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Sustainability Assessment and Sustainable Behaviour in Contaminated Site Remediation

Deyi Hou.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Identification of ADP-ribosyl cyclase in Arabidopsis thaliana

S M Abdul-Awal.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 16:00-16:25

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Characterisation and Performance of reactive MgO-based cements

Fei Jin, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The Reward Prediction Error of Dopamine Neurons: What information does it convey and how is it generated?

Dr. Christopher D. Fiorillo - Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, KAIST - Daejeon, Korea.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Probability

What happens to a random walk of chained particles when the chain forms a loop or is very long?

Professor Serge Cohen, Institut Mathematique de Toulouse.

MR13, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 15:30-16:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Fast algorithms for matrix completion and compressed sensing

Jared Tanner (University of Oxford).

MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Engineering a Market: Concepts and Research on the HAT

Irene Ng (University of Warwick).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Unsupervised Representation Learning

Amar Shah (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 15:00-16:30

Genetics Seminar

The impact of viral IκB-like ANK proteins on host-parasitoid interactions.

Host: Boris Adryan

Professor Giuseppe Gargiulo from Dipartimento di Farmacia e Biotecnologie, University of Bologna .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Many-body state preparation and quantum simulation with cold atoms

Prof. Andrew Daley, University of Strathclyde.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Combinatorics Seminar

Embedding spanning structures in random and pseudorandom graphs

Asaf Ferber (ETH, Zurich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR13.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Craik Club

A binocular contribution to perceived speed of self-motion perception.

Prof Albert van den Berg (Donders Institute, Nijmegen) .

Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Internal BPI Speakers.

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

Thursday 12 June 2014, 11:30-12:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Intermetallic compound for demagnetisation refrigeration just below 0.2K

Thomas Gruner, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden.

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

Thursday 12 June 2014, 11:15-12:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Sonocytology: Manipulation and Sensing Particles

Dr Anne Bernassau, University of Glasgow.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology

MRI and MRS in cancer research and treatment

John Griffiths, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 16:30-18:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Uniformly rational varieties

Ilya Karzhemanov (New York).

MR 3, CMS.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Dynamic topography, true polar wander and their potential role in the onset of northern hemisphere glaciations

Dr Bernhard Steinberger, GFZ Potsdam.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Vehicular App Development: Opportunities and Challenges

Sid Chi-Kin Chau (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 15:30-16:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Bounded groups of birational automorphisms

Costya Shramov (Steklov).

MR 3, CMS.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Yangian Symmetry in the AdS/CFT Correspondence

Niklas Beisert (ETH Zurich).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Renormalization of myoglobin–ligand binding energetics by quantum many-body effects

Dr. Cedric Weber (Kings' College, London).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

(SP Wednesday Workshop) - TBC

Mr Hangtian Hou, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Metrics with conic singularities and applications

Mihai Paun (KIAS).

MR 3, CMS.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 13:30-14:30

Immunology in Pathology

Regulation of virally-induced lung inflammation by interferons

Host: Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Cecilia Johansson, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Talk cancelled - please accept our apologies

tbc (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) .

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

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 12:30-13:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

"Power to the People?" – Community Energy Initiatives and the new "Middle Ground" in the UK Energy System

Sarah Inge Parker, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.

CRASSH Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 12:00-14:00

BRC Seminar Series

"Hypoxia inducible factor hydroxylases in pain and epilepsy"

Matt Ramer, The Blusson Spinal Cord Centre, The University of British Columbia, International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), Vancouver, Canada .

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Graphene electronics and optoelectronics

Antonio Lombardo.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 11:40-12:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Exploring quantum magnetism using molecules, magnetic fields and pressure.

Paul Goddard, University of Warwick..

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

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 11:15-12:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Bathymetric controls on deep water flow and modification on the western Antarctic Peninsula shelf, as measured by ocean gliders

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

Hugh Venables (British Antarctic Survey).

British Antarctic Survey, conference room.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Molecular dynamics with linear scaling density functional theory: the CONQUEST code

David Bowler (UCL).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 11:00-11:40

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Compressible priors for high-dimensional statistics

Prof. Volkan Cevher, EPFL.

LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Wednesday 11 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Growing supermassive black holes with a little help from their friends

John Silverman (Kavli IPMU, Japan).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 10 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Modeling GBA1-associated Parkinson's disease using engineered pluripotent stem cells

Michela Deleidi, University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 10 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Optoelectronics Group

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Koen Vandewal.

Kapitza Building Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Tuesday 10 June 2014, 14:30-15:30

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The World Comes to Syria: the Globalisation of a Civil Conflict

Mike Clark (Darwin College, University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 10 June 2014, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Beyond Duty-Cycled Smartphone Sensing: Exploring Co-Processor Computation for Truly Continuous Sensing

Petko Georgiev (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 10 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Droplet splashing

Note unusual day

Michael Brenner, Harvard University.

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

Tuesday 10 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Breast Imaging research in Cambridge

Host: Dr Richard Baird

Professor Fiona Gilbert, Head of Department of Radiology, Cambridge.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 10 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Active Learning of Linear Embeddings for Gaussian Processes

Roman Garnett, University of Bonn.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 10 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

The Diversity of Disease: From Sheep to Bacterial Genotypes, and Their Travels

Ed Smith, University of Warwick.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Veterinary Medicine, Department of.

Monday 09 June 2014, 16:30-18:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Functional Conjugated Polymers: Towards New Materials for Biomedical Applications

NZIC Easterfield Prize Lecture

Professor Jadranka Travas-Sejdic, .

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Linear Stability of the Schwarzschild solution under gravitational perturbations

Gustav Holzegel (Imperial college London).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 09 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The Influence of Anthropogenic Aerosol on Multi-Decadal Variations of Climate

Dr Laura Wilcox (Reading).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 June 2014, 14:15-15:30

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Growth mechanisms and electronic properties of epitaxial graphene

Dr Graham Creeth, University College London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 09 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory talks

The Complexity of finite-valued CSPs

Stanislav Zivny, Department of Computer Science University of Oxford.

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Monday 09 June 2014, 10:00-11:00

The Cambridge University Energy Network (CUEN)

Gas - An (Un)Conventional Pathway towards our Energy Future? - CUEN Annual Energy Conference

Please register: www.cuen.org.uk (coffee breaks, lunch and wine reception included)

14 speakers from academia, policy and industry.

Jesus College Cambridge.

Monday 09 June 2014, 08:30-18:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Modelling the shock induced failure of printed circuit boards

Dr Alice Cicirello, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 06 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Multilepton and multiphoton signatures of supersymmetry at the LHC

Christoffer Petersson (ULB).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Instability of a two-layer density front in a rotating stratified fluid

Jan-Bert Flor, LEGI-CNRS Grenoble.

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

Friday 06 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Haematopoiesis Seminars

Regulation of Akt by the Sin1-mTOR complex in lymphocytes

Prof. Bing Su (Department of Immunobiology at Yale, and Shanghai Institute of Immunology at Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine).

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 06 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Achievable Geometries in Flexible Near to Net Shape Ring Rolling

Christopher Cleaver - PhD Student.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Friday 06 June 2014, 15:30-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Simple Structural Models to Control Sheet Metal Spinning

James Polyblank - PhD Student.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Friday 06 June 2014, 15:00-15:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Novel energetic materials based on intermetallic reactions

Dr Chris Braithwaite, Cavendish Laboratory.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 06 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Programming Research Group Seminar

Formally Verified Security Micro Policies

Arthur Azevedo de Amorim (Upenn).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 06 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Detecting asymptomatic infection is necessary for real-time forecasting of major outbreaks of disease

Robin Thompson.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 06 June 2014, 13:30-13:55

ARClub Talks

Autism: what the genes tell us

Varun Warrier, MPhil Student at the ARC, University of Cambridge.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 06 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Analysis of the C. reinhardtii THI4 riboswitch expression platform

Devinn Lambert.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Friday 06 June 2014, 13:00-13:25

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Towards an Effective Field Theory of Structure Formation

Valentin Assassi (DAMTP/ University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 06 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

T cell exclusion: pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma escapes immune surveillance

Doug Fearon, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

MPLT, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 06 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual Models for Distributed Semantics

Karl Moritz Hermann, Oxford University.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Chaperone-guided protein folding at the single-molecule level

Prof. Sander Tans, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 06 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

Task-indexed belief

Jack Marley-Payne (MIT).

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

Friday 06 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Chemistry Departmental Colloquia

RSC Easterfield Award Winner Lecture

Dr Bridget Stocker - RSC Easterfield Award Winner.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 06 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Manufacturing Research Forum

Light-Weighting Innovation Strategy: A Roadmap-Portfolio Toolkit

Clare Farrukh, Nikoletta Athanassopoulou,Michèle Routley .

Seminar Room 3, IfM, Alan Reece Building, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 06 June 2014, 10:00-10:45

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Incomplete resection of primary site anal sac adenocarcinoma - is Radiotherapy helpful?

Rachel Rayner.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 06 June 2014, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

The role of sympatric fruit bats from Ghana in the persistence and zoonotic emergence of henipaviruses and filoviruses

Silke Riesle.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 06 June 2014, 08:45-10:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Private evening tour of Cambridge University Botanic Garden

Meet at the Brookside Gate entrance, 1 Brookside / Bateman Street, Cambridge, CB2 1JE.

Guides from the Friends of the Botanic Garden.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Title to be confirmed

Anton Enright EMBL-EBI.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Title to be confirmed

Sébastien Pfeffer IBMC, Strasbourg, France.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 18:00-20:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Tunnelling effects on bored piles in clay

Michael Williamson, CUED.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room 3B.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Conserved and recurrent Cis elements regulate decarboxylation related genes in C4 photosynthesis

Ivan Reyna-Llorens.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 16:30-17:00

Plant Sciences Research Seminars

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, mycoheterotrophic plants, and long-term fertilisation in a tropical forest

Merlin Sheldrake.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 16:00-16:25

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Some free boundary problems arising from segregation

Luis Caffarelli .

CMS, MR13.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The first heart beat: initiation of cardiac contractile activity

Dr. Shankar Srinivas - Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics - University of Oxford.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Working Memory: Mechanisms of training and development during childhood

Torkel Klingberg (Karolinksa Insitute, Sweden).

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

Thursday 05 June 2014, 15:30-16:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Large Deviation Theory for Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: Modeling and Computational Aspects

Eric Vanden-Eijnden (Courant Institute, NYU).

MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

The CHERI capability model: Revisiting RISC in an age of risk

Jonathan Woodruff (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

How and why do reproductive cheats like cuckoo finches lay such diverse eggs?

Dr Wenfei Tong.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 13:10-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Shift-Reduce CCG Parsing with a Dependency Model

Wenduan Xu, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 13:00-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

Looking for hyponyms in vector space

Marek Rei, SwiftKey .

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 12:30-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Grammatical error correction using hybrid systems and type filtering

Mariano Felice, Computer Laboratory, Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 12:00-12:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Human Papillomavirus Life-Cycle Regulation and Association with Cancer

Dr John Doorbar, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Synovial Fluid Lubrication of Artificial Joints

Phillipa Cann, Tribology Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London.

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

Thursday 05 June 2014, 11:30-12:30

Rainbow Group Seminars

Authoring in the Fluidic group of projects

Antranig Basman, University of Colorado at Boulder.

Rainbow Seminar Room (SS03), Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 11:15-12:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Radiotherapy

Neil Burnet, Department of Oncology.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 June 2014, 09:30-10:30

What is Life? Science and Society evening

Astrobiology: the search for life on other worlds

Lewis Dartnell, University College London.

The Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 19:20-19:50

What is Life? Science and Society evening

Why the origin of life had to be inorganic

Lee Cronin, University of Glasgow.

The Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 18:50-19:20

What is Life? Science and Society evening

What is Life? A philosophical perspective

Samir Okasha, University of Bristol.

The Cambridge Union Society, 9a Bridge Street, Cambridge CB2 1UB.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 18:20-18:50

HPS History Workshop

The unknowable, the new reformation, and the rationale for religious freedom: the place of religion in Spencer's philosophy

Federico Morganti (Sapienza University of Rome).

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

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 17:00-18:00

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

A Cathedral of Trees: Investigating Christianity and Spirituality in Anne of Green Gables

Ashley Wilson.

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

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 17:00-19:00

Algebra Seminar

Orbit-coherence in permutation groups

John Britnell, Imperial College.

MR12.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Molecular subclasses in canine osteosarcoma and mammary cancer

Geoffrey Wood, Associate Professor, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph, Canada.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 16:15-17:15

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Global seismic tomography based on 3D wave simulations and adjoint methods

Dr Ebru Bozdag, University of Nice.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Variability in upwelling in the tropical lower stratosphere: effects on tracers and dynamical forcing

Marta Abalos (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (CNRS/IPSL)).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 15:30-16:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Translational bioenergetics in diabetes; from the beta cell to chronic kidney disease

Victor M Darley-Usmar, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

The cosmological constant problem (and its sequester)

Tony Padilla (Nottingham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

(SP Wednesday Workshop) - Contacting low numbers of nano-crystals using graphene

Mr Joel Fruhman, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

A canonical global positioning system for Calabi Yau manifolds

Sean Keel (University of Texas Austin).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Social Cognition in adolescent social networks

Dr Stephanie Burnett Heyes (University of Oxford).

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Nudges, Norms, and Comfort Food: Tiny interventions to get kids to eat vegetables and astronauts to eat anything

Professor Traci Mann, University of Minnesota.

PPSIS Seminar Room (Free School Lane).

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Amphioxus: A laboratory surrogate of the ancestral chordate giving insights into vertebrate head origins

Elia Benito Gutierrez (EMBL).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Sensing and signalling in innate immunity: Role of PYHIN proteins

Host: Brian Ferguson (bf234@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Andrew Bowie, Trinity College Dublin.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Factors influencing children’s ability to follow spoken instructions

Agnieszka Jaroslawska (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 12:30-13:30

BRC Seminar Series

"A new generation of iNeurons waiting in translation"

Dr Vania Broccoli, Stem Cells & Neurogenesis Unit, Division of Neuroscience, San Raffaele Scientific Inst. Milan, Italy.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Spin-orbit coupled quantum magnets

Giniyat Khaliullin, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany..

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

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 11:15-12:15

Cambridge Network events

Cambridge Network Event: Breakfast Networking - Sales @ Alconbury

Kate Atkin, Matthew Jolly, Jon Torrens.

Alconbury Enterprise Campus, Alconbury, Huntingdon, PE28 4WX.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 08:30-10:30

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

The CAMbridge Emission Line Surveyor (CAMELS)

Chris Thomas & Stafford Withington (Quantum Sensors, Cavendish Laboratory).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Cohen-Lenstra heuristic revisited

Alex Bartel (Warwick).

MR13.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 16:15-17:15

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dr. David Barrett (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Computing with Fourier series approximations on general domains

Daan Huybrechs (KU Leuven).

MR 14, CMS.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Trust, Religion, and Tribalism: Reflections on the Sociological Data from the Balkans

Gorazd Andrejč, Junior Research Fellow, Woolf Institute, Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics

"CADD & ENAC - A bad hand at Scrabble..?"

Please note that the date of this seminar has been changed

Dr Peter Hunt, Optibrium Ltd.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 14:15-15:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Separating useful signals from distracting noise in the climate discussion

Dr Dan Jones (British Antarctic Survey).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 13:10-14:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

DIOS: a new operating system for data centres (with demo)

Malte Schwarzkopf (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Undermining Myc: Mitochondria Hold the Key

Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar

Dr Daniel Murphy, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Glasgow.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian monitoring for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

Professor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

Tuesday 03 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Should We Engineer The Climate? The SPICE Project

The listed speaker is not available; Dr Hunt has very kindly agreed to deliver this lecture in his place

Dr Hugh Hunt, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 02 June 2014, 19:30-21:00

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Is Canine Tail-Chasing Really That Funny? Insights from YouTube

Charlotte Burn, Royal Veterinary College.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Veterinary Medicine, Department of.

Monday 02 June 2014, 16:30-18:00

Algebra Seminar

Title to be confirmed

John Britnell, Imperial College.

MR12.

Monday 02 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Unsynchronized Visual Communication

Wenjun Hu (Yale University).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Monday 02 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

The tangential Kohn Laplacian via conformal equivalence

Po Iam Yung (Oxford).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 02 June 2014, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Ammonia emissions from seabirds

Dr Stuart Riddick (Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 02 June 2014, 14:15-15:30

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Electrostatic manipulation of self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) and interface fluctuation GaAs/AlAs QDs (IF-QDs) by focused laser assisted diffusion of Manganese interstitial ions in GaAs/AlAs/GaMnAs resonant tunnelling diode (RTD) structures

Dr Ateeq Nasir, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 02 June 2014, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Digital Technology Group (DTG) Meetings

A computational science agenda for programming language research

Dominic Orchard (University of Cambridge).

SS03, William Gates Building.

Monday 02 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Industrial pollution and politics in France: the great shift, 1750–1830

Thomas le Roux (Maison Française d'Oxford).

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

Monday 02 June 2014, 13:00-14:15

Machine Learning @ CUED

Unifying logic and probability: A "New Dawn" for Artificial Intelligence?

NOTE THE SPECIAL VENUE (Microsoft Research)

Professor Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley).

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

Monday 02 June 2014, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

HGV-Cyclist collision avoidance

Yanbo Jia, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 30 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Microfluidics-based acoustic microbubble biosensor

Ying Zhou, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 30 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Heterogeneity in lahars and debris flows

Chris Johnson, University of Bristol.

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

Friday 30 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Adaptive Piecewise Polynomial Estimation via Trend Filtering

Ryan J. Tibshirani, Carnegie Mellon University.

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

Friday 30 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Reward Inference by Prefrontal and Striatal neurons and their interaction

Prof. Masamichi Sakagami - Tamagawa University Brain Science Institute.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Friday 30 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Security Group meeting presentations

Oakland 2014 summary

Room changed

Steven Murdoch.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Friday 30 May 2014, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Seeking Finite Mechanisms in a geometric shape - polyhedra

Iila Jingjiao Li - Structures PhD Student.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Friday 30 May 2014, 15:30-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

How symmetries influence the flexibility of frameworks

Xin Liang - Structures PhD Student.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Friday 30 May 2014, 15:00-15:30

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Reverse Engineering the Forces that Drive Embryogenesis

Professor G. Wayne Brodland, University of Waterloo.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 30 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Tuning Protein Aggregation Pathways by Charges

Prof. Dr. Frank Schreiber, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tuebingen, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 30 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Good night and good luck: the role of sleep in dementia

Damian Crowther, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 30 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

HIV-1 Infection, Type-1 Interferon and Viral Restriction

Michael Malim, King's College London, hosted by Andrew Lever

Michael Malim, King's College London.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 30 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill seminar

Global Burden of Disease: from Global to Local

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR: Adrian is Public Health England's Director of Population Health Science

Professor Adrian Davis.

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

Friday 30 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBA

Masashi Kimura (DAMTP / University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 30 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Robust multilingual syntactic parsing

Ryan McDonald, Google.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 30 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Thermodynamics of Dissipative Self-Assembly

Dr. ing. Ger J. M. Koper, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 30 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

The influence of neo-Kantian structural realism on the modernist aesthetics of TS Eliot and James Joyce

Maddie Geddes-Barton (Faculty of English).

Whipple Museum, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

Friday 30 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Department of Engineering, Production Processes Group Seminars, Institute for Manufacturing

Production Processes Group Seminar - The use of ultrafast laser annealing to drive the removal of ion beam implanted gallium

Matt Bannister.

Seminar Room 3 at the Institute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 30 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

Manufacturing Research Forum

ISMM International Manufacturing Study Tours

ISMM Students, IfM.

Lecture Room 2, IfM, Alan Reece Building, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 30 May 2014, 10:00-11:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Tracking Disease Transmission in Western Uganda - A tale of data mining and electronic syndromic surveillance

James Lester.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 30 May 2014, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Recurrence of a thymoma in a cat with metastatic spread

Lizzie Reeve.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 30 May 2014, 08:45-10:00

Parasitology Seminars

Parasites in Past Civilisations

Please note change of venue

Piers Mitchell, Biological Anthropology.

Greaves Room, Department of Pathology.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Foster Talks

GL Brown Lecture: Calcium in the heart: from physiology to disease

Professor David Eisner - Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Manchester.

Main Lecture Theatre, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Categorizing facial expressions of emotion with and without conscious awareness

Cancelled - please accept our apologies

Marie Smith (Birkbeck).

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

Thursday 29 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

I'm the repro man: a rant and some incremental improvements on reproducibility in systems research

Tristan Henderson (University of St Andrews).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

​​Time-varying dynamic Bayesian network reconstruction with information sharing​

Frank Dondelinger .

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 15:00-16:30

Combinatorics Seminar

A problem of Erdos and Sos on 3-graphs

Roman Glebov (ETH, Zurich).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR13.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Calculation of NMR parameters in the solid-state: the importance of special relativity

Dr Jonathan Yates, Department of Materials, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

SCATTERING CONVOLUTION NETWORKS and DUAL-TREE WAVELETS

Prof. Nick Kingsbury, Signal Processing and Communications Group, CUED.

LR11, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Mapping Methane in the Arctic

Michelle Cain, Centre for Atmospheric Science, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Director's Choice

Adaptation to Antarctic marine environments: impact on ability to respond to change and potential use to society

Lloyd S. Peck (British Antarctic Survey).

British Antarctic Survey, conference room.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 13:00-13:30

BPI Seminar Series

TBA

Pietro Cicuta, Physics, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 29 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Metabolism, oxygen and cancer

John Griffiths, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 May 2014, 09:30-10:30

Wolfson Press Fellowship

Press Seminar: In the Name of the People

Lara Pawson, Wolfson College.

Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 17:30-19:00

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

Faction and Blood: Silencing the 'Inner' City in Veronica Roth's Divergent

Susan Tan.

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

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Cambridge Statistics Clinic 2013 - 2014 Easter III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 2.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Knot Floer homologies

Andras Stipsicz, Budapest.

MR13.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Terrane stations: intra-oceanic subduction assembled Cordilleran North America

Dr Karin Sigloch, University of Oxford.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

Back to the Beginning in Cosmology and Experimental Radio Astronomy

Fifth Hewish Lecture

Professor Tony Readhead, CALTECH, USA.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Methyl halide emissions from tropical plants in Southeast Asia

Dr Takuya Saito (National Institute for Environmental Studies) .

Todd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Derived categories, noncommutative motives and commutative theorems

Marcello Bernardara (Toulouse).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Black Hole Hair

Ruth Gregory (Durham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

(SP Wednesday Workshop) - Proximity-Induced Superconductivity in Graphene

Mr Kai Yuan Huang, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

No Fixed Abode: Avoiding IP Address Blocking to Circumvent Censorship

Professor Nikita Borisov - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Irregular seminars in TCM

Probing many-body physics with cold atoms: The Higgs boson and quantum hexatic order.

Georg Bruun, Aarhus University.

Ryle Seminar Room no. 930, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Immunology in Pathology

C-type lectins in homeostasis and immunity

Host: Paola Zaccone (pz206@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Gordon Brown, University of Aberdeen.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mental imagery in bipolar disorder: experimental psychopathology and early treatment development

Martina Di Simplicio (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Sustainability in the Built Environment (GreenBRIDGE)

The Comfort Controversy

Professor Fergus Nicol, Professor Michael Humphreys.

CRASSH Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 12:00-14:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Pseudoψence

Gareth Conduit (TCM).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 May 2014, 11:00-11:45

CUED Control Group Seminars

Gradient methods for huge-scale optimization problems

Prof Yurii Nesterov, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 17:30-18:30

Probability

Phase transition in loop percolation

Dr Artem Sapozhnikov, Max-Planck Institut fur Mathematik, Leipzig.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Astrophysics Joint Colloquia

The Antikythera Mechanism and the Mechanical Universe

Michael Edmunds (University of Cardiff).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, IoA (tea at 4.00 pm).

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Equines in Developing Countries – What are Their Welfare Issues and How Can They Be Addressed?

Melissa Upjohn, The Brooke.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Veterinary Medicine, Department of.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Number Theory Seminar

Regularized theta lifts and currents on products of Shimura curves

Luis Garcia (Imperial).

MR13.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish HEP Seminars

MiNLO: Multiscale improved NLO

Keith Hamilton, UCL.

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Category Theory Seminar

Lax orthogonal factorisation systems

Dr Ignacio Lopez Franco (University of Cambridge).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Iron in the Bowels of Cancer

Dr Chris Tselepis, Senior Lecturer, School of Cancer Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.

Seminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Trans-Sahara Project. State Formation, Migration and Trade in the Central Sahara (1000 BC – AD 1500)

Dr. Ronika Power.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

Craik Club

Perception, Plasticity and Prediction: how the brain learns from experience

Professor Zoë Kourtzi, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

The HAT Project

Helen Oliver (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Invariant Gibbs measures for the defocusing NLS on the real line

Tadahiro Oh (Edinburgh).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 26 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

The sources of Charles Darwin's work on animal reasoning

Francis Neary (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 26 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Are linearised models good enough for modelling floating offshore wind turbines

Rick Lupton, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 23 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vision based articulation angle sensing for heavy goods vehicle

Christopher de Saxe, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 23 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Simple geometries and unusual (multiphase) flow phenomena

Batchelor Lecture

Howard Stone, Princeton University.

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

Friday 23 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

The discrete convex least-squares estimator of a probability mass function

Cécile Durot, Université Paris-Sud.

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

Friday 23 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Modeling a Practical Combination of Delimited Continuations, Exceptions, Dynamic-Wind Guards, Dynamic Binding, and Stack Inspection

Matthew Flatt, University of Utah.

Room FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 23 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Resummation for Squark and Gluino production

Eric Laenen.

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Bandaging beams

Rob Foster - PhD Student CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 23 May 2014, 15:30-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Reinforced Concrete Crack Analysis

Taheer Fayyad - PhD Student CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 23 May 2014, 15:00-15:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Biomolecular machines on and of DNA

Professor Dr Ralf Seidel, Institute for Molecular Cell Biology, University of Münster, Germany.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 23 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Atomistic studies of interfacial failure in optical multilayer coatings

Dr Paul Bristowe, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 23 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Centre for Neuroscience in Education (CNE)

Math anxiety: who has it, why it develops, and how to guard against it

Open talk

Sian Beilock, PhD. Professor of Psychology. The University of Chicago.

Department of Psychology, 2nd Floor Seminar Room, Main Building, Downing Site.

Friday 23 May 2014, 14:00-15:30

Computer Laboratory Programming Research Group Seminar

Higher-kinded programming in ML

Jeremy Yallop, University of Cambridge.

SS03.

Friday 23 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Mechanisms controlling primary germ layers specification in human

Ludovic Vallier, Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

ARClub Talks

Influence of facial expressions on attention to gaze in autism: Neural correlates and development

Dr Amandine Lassale, Autism Research Centre.

Large Meeting Room (groundfloor), Douglas House, 18 B, Trumpington Road.

Friday 23 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Models of the germinal centre reaction

Michael Meyer-Hermann, hosted by Michelle Linterman. Note change of venue!

Michael Meyer-Hermann, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 23 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

An effective microscopic description of black brane thermodynamics

Benjamin Withers (University of Southampton).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 23 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Advanced Graph-based and Transition-based Dependency Parsing Approaches and Recent Trends towards Joint Syntactic and Morphologic Disambiguation

Bernd Bohnet, University of Birmingham.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 23 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Chemical applications of Density Matrix Renormalization Group

Dr. Sandeep Sharma, Princeton University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 23 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Algebra of Parameterised Graphs

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Andrey Mokhov, Newcastle University.

Small Lecture Theatre, Microsoft Research Ltd, 21 Station Road, Cambridge, CB1 2FB.

Friday 23 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

IL-22 and NRROS in host defense and inflammation

Wenjun Ouyang, hosted by Arthur Kaser

Wenjun Ouyang, Genentech.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 23 May 2014, 10:30-11:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Computer Vision for Movie Making and Infographics

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Chris Bregler, NYU & ILM.

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

Friday 23 May 2014, 10:00-11:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS: Ventricular tachycardia in the dog. To treat or not to treat?

Presented by Julia Riggs, Sarah Boveri and Sean Langton.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 23 May 2014, 08:45-10:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Correcting Coulomb's Soil Mechanics

Emeritus Professor Andrew Schofield, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Shock-induced cavity collapse in liquid nitromethane

Louisa Michael, Laboratory for Scientific Computing, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Mechanisms and Evolution of Transcriptional Control in Mammals

Dr. Duncan Odom - Cancer Research UK - Cambridge Institute at University of Cambridge..

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Antisocial behaviour in young people: Identifying risk pathways

Stephanie Van Goozen.

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

Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Branch Consistency or how to design a version controlled database

Thomas Gazagnaire (University of Cambridge).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

On designing robust cost functions – applications to pattern analysis

Dr. Rozenn Dahyot, Assistant Professor in Statistics, Trinity College Dublin.

LR5, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

A Collapsible Approach to Higher Order Verification

This event may be recorded and made available internally or externally via http://research.microsoft.com. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recordings made. If you do not wish to have your image/voice recorded please consider this before attending

Matthew Hague, Royal Holloway University of London.

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

Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Advanced Gaussian Process approximation methods

Dr. Richard Turner, Thang Bui.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 15:00-16:30

Genetics Seminar

(At least) 3 ways to publish a pigeon genome.

Host: Frank Jiggins

Professor Tom Gilbert from the Centre for GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen .

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

The Existence of Designs

Peter Keevash (University of Oxford).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR12.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Active nematics and topological defects

Prof. Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

A scalable approach to the design of large networks

Richard Pates, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Junior Category Theory Seminar

Sequential Path Objects

Sori Lee (University of Cambridge).

CMS, MR3.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Gene expression divergence in mammalian speciation

Angela Filimon Goncalves.

1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

CEB Career Talks

'From Bench to Bedside: Communications in Bringing Innovation in Healthcare Technology to the World'

free talk - those attending need to register on http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/alumni/events/talks/career-talks

Dr David Kane (European Managing Director, Public Relations at Inventiv Health Communications) and and Dr Elizabeth Wright.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Pembroke St, New Museums Site, Shell Building, Lecture Theatre 1.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Identification of novel cellular factors regulating Vaccinia virus replication

Dr Pip Beard, The Roslin Institute and Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Level 7, CIMR, Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Coarsening and grain boundary dynamics in a two-dimensional colloidal hard sphere system

Roel Dullens, Chemistry, Oxford.

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

Thursday 22 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

Adaptation, coding and Bayesian computations in single neurons and neural populations

Alessandro Ticchi, Imperial College London.

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

Thursday 22 May 2014, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology

Drug discovery

Grahame McKenzie, MRC Cancer Unit.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 09:30-10:30

HPS History Workshop

Pastoral modernism: the flying machine's arrival over the English countryside

Caitlin Doherty (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 17:00-18:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Working internationally and locally; rolling out the Global Foot-and-Mouth Disease Control Strategy, one step at a time

Keith Sumption, Executive Secretary, European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EUFMD) Animal Health Service, Food-and-Agriculture Organization of the United Nations .

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 16:15-17:15

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Classifying 3-dimensional TQFTs via generators and relations.

Chris Schommer-Pries, MPI Bonn.

MR13.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Estimates of elastic thickness from GOCE data

Prof Dan McKenzie, University of Cambridge.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

MRC Human Nutrition Research

Mechanisms by which broccoli can potentiate endogenous protection against stroke

Dr Paul Fraser, Cardiovascular Division, King’s College London, London.

Seminar Room, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, 120 Fulbourn Road, Cambridge CB1 9NL.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Faceting of multicomponent elastic vesicles

Dr Rastko Sknepnek (University of Dundee).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

The Entropic Origin of Gravity, Dark Energy and Dark Matter

Erik Verlinde (Amsterdam).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

(SP Wednesday Workshop) - Charge Locking Quantum Multiplexer and Triple Addressing Gate System

Mr Chi Han Chong, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

On the Chow group and the motive of a commutative algebraic group

Giuseppe Ancona (Duisburg-Essen).

MR 13, CMS.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Theory into Practice: the story of Incremental

Yaron Minsky - Jane Street.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements

This talk is kindly sponsored by eLife Sciences

Hannah Long (University of Oxford).

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Inclusive fitness, group selection and human sociality

Jonathan Birch (Christ's College, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Some problems concerning the dynamics of interfaces: (i) Marangoni motions of soluble surfactants and (ii) Bubble bursting at a compound interface

Note unusual room and time

Howard Stone, Princeton University.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Killer T Cells: staying on target

Host: Ashley Moffett (am485@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Gillian Griffiths, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

tbc (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 12:30-13:30

BRC Seminar Series

Genome wide characterization of Foxa1/2 binding sites reveals multiple mechanisms for regulating neuronal specification and differentiation in midbrain dopamine cells.

Dr Emmanouil Metzakopian, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Atmospheric & Oceanic Applications of Eulerian and Lagrangian Transport Modelling

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

Joakim Kjellsson (British Antarctic Survey).

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Network events

Cambridge Network event: Paul Jackson, MD Forward Composites

Paul Jackson, MD Forward Composites.

Hauser Forum, 3 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0GT.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 18:00-20:30

Cavendish Astrophysics Seminars

The Submillimetre Properties of Lyman Break Galaxies

Kristen Coppin (University of Hertfordshire).

Sackler Lecture Theatre, Institute of Astronomy.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Rounding Markov Chains and Iterative Load-Balancing Schemes

Dr Thomas Sauerwald, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge .

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 16:30-17:30

Number Theory Seminar

Selmer groups of elliptic curves in degree p extensions

Julio Brau (Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 16:15-17:15

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dylan Festa (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Progress on long-distance singularities in gauge theory scattering amplitudes

Einan Gardi, University of Edinburgh.

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Metabolite damage and its repair or pre-emption

Professor Andrew Hanson, University fo Florida, USA.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Addenbrooke's Site.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Polymer pinning with sparse disorder

Professor Ken Alexander, University of Southern California.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Networks of curves evolving by curvature in the plane

F. Shulze.

CMS, MR14.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Arthur-Selberg Trace Formula and Endoscopy

Jean-Pierre Labesse (Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy).

MR13.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 14:30-15:30

Optimization and Incentives Seminar

The BRAVO Effect in Queues

Yoni Nazarathy (University of Queensland).

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

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Mesoscale variability in the Weddell Sea:  gliders, drifters and models

If external to BAS, please email the organiser in advance to gain access to the building

Andrew Thompson (Caltech).

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

A Force for Bad: U.S. military aid, isomorphism and military power in Egypt, Jordan and Bahrain

Omar El-Nahry.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 13:10-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Provision of effective mental health services to sexual and gender minorities – Results from a systematic review of the literature (1980 – 2013

Dr Daragh McDermott (Anglia Ruskin University).

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Ray (uJamjar).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Personalised Cancer Medicine. How do we get there?

Host: Dr Jean Abraham

Dr Helena Earl, Dept. of Oncology, University of Cambridge.

CRI Lecture Theatre, Cambridge Research Institute.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Practical Machine Learning at Facebook. Examples and Lessons Learnt.

Room changed to LR4

Joaquin Quinonero Candela (Facebook).

Engineering Department - ***LR4***.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

Business Studies Seminars

Raspberry Pi, the story so far

Jack Lang and Dr Robert Mulllins.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Lecture Theatre 2.

Tuesday 20 May 2014, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Molecular Gastronomy, The Science of Taste and Flavour

Professor Peter Barham, School of Physics, University of Bristol.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

Monday 19 May 2014, 19:30-21:00

Rausing Lecture

Waste, value and radioactive excess in Africa

Nineteenth Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

Monday 19 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminars

Facial Expressions as a Welfare Measure in Laboratory Primates

Sarah-Jane Vick, University of Stirling.

Centre for Animal Welfare & Anthrozoology Seminar Room, Veterinary Medicine, Department of.

Monday 19 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Werner Complexes: A New Class of Chiral Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalysts for Enantioselective Organic Reactions"

RSC Organometallic Award 2013 Lecture

Professor John Gladysz, Texas A&M.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Chemistry Departmental Colloquia

“Development of new antibiotics by targeting essential enzymes in bacteria: structure-based design and simulation studies”

Dr Concepción González-Bello , Associate Professor, Center for Research in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Materials (CIQUS), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Stability results for the semisum of sets in R^n

Alessio Figalli.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 19 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Middle infrared tunable laser spectroscopy for molecular sensing: from space to terrestrial applications

Dr Damien Weidmann (STFC).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 May 2014, 14:15-15:30

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Quantum transport in mesoscopic graphene/superconductor hybrid devices

Miss Carly Richardson, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

Monday 19 May 2014, 14:15-15:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Apollonian vision and polar projections: some reflections on cosmography, instruments and empire

Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Research Institute).

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

Monday 19 May 2014, 13:00-14:15

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of behavior through niche construction: architect crabs, cultured monkeys, and gossipy humans

Mark Laidre (Dartmouth College).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Monday 19 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

From Source to Screen - Auditing the STEM to Improve Quantitative HAADF Precision

Lewys Jones, University of Oxford.

Goldsmiths' 1 Lecture Theatre (0_017), Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, 27 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge. CB3 0FS.

Monday 19 May 2014, 11:30-12:30

Zangwill Club

A day at the races: some common 'illusions' in gambling behaviour

Dr Luke Clark, Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Icequakes! Microseismic investigation of basal dynamics in Rutford Ice Stream, West Antarctica

Emma Smith (University of Cambridge and British Antarctic Survey).

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 16 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Higgs inflation vs BICEP

Fedor Bezrukov (CERN).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 16 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Automatic operational modal analysis: Challenges and applications to historical structures and infrastructures

Dr Alessandro Cabboi, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley Room 1.

Friday 16 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Flight of the fruit fly

Itai Cohen, Cornell University.

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

Friday 16 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Histograms, Graph Limits, and the Asymptotic Behavior of Large Networks

Sofia Olhede, University College London.

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

Friday 16 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The discipline called 'The history and philosophy of science' is over a century old. 'The history and philosophy of [structural] engineering' is still an infant.

Dr Bill Addis .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 16 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Watching single molecules

Professor David Klenerman FRS, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Micromechanics Seminars

Cellular models for Tissue Engineering: potential and limitations

Professor C. James Kirkpatrick, Johannes Gutenberg University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Bullard Laboratories Wednesday Colloquia

Mantle Dynamics, Isostasy, and Surface Topography

Prof Peter Molnar.

Marine/Wolfson Building lecture hall.

Friday 16 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A bistable transcriptional switch modulated by signalling drives the choice between embryonic and extraembryonic cell fate

Christian Schroeter, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 16 May 2014, 13:15-13:55

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Targeting host endomembrane integrity during cellular invasion by bacterial pathogens and its impact on the immune response

Jost Enninga, hosted by Felix Randow

Jost Enninga, Institut Pasteur.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7), Cambridge Institute for Medical Research.

Friday 16 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

TBA

Emir Gumrukcuoglu (University of Nottingham and University of Tokyo).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 16 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

HPS Philosophy Workshop

What is empathy? A genealogical account

Riana Betzler (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Friday 16 May 2014, 12:00-13:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

From Big Data to banality of evil : toward an epistemological approach to ethics in Internet Era

Kavé Salamatian (University of Savoie).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Friday 16 May 2014, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Bayesian inference for integer-valued Lévy processes with Non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck volatility modelling

short talk (30 mins) - NOTE TIME CHANGE

Andrea Cremaschi (Kent).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438.

Friday 16 May 2014, 10:30-11:30

Manufacturing Research Forum

Creating New Business Opportunities with Radically Disruptive Technologies

Jim Keri Li.

Seminar Room 3, Alan Reece Building Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge CB3 0FS.

Friday 16 May 2014, 10:00-10:45

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Evaluation of the tumour bed biopsy technique in canine and feline oncologic surgery

Karen Harris.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 16 May 2014, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Triceps tendon rupture in dogs and cats: A retrospective study of 14 cases

Naomi Earley.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 16 May 2014, 08:45-10:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

2050: Sustainable UK?

Dr John Emsley.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 19:00-20:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

The ARM Cortex A-Class Microarchitecture

Tea is served from 6pm - All welcome

Peter Greenhalgh - ARM.

Lecture Theatre 1, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, J J Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 18:30-20:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

There are mechanisms – and then there are mechanisms

Nancy Cartwright (Durham University and UCSD).

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

Thursday 15 May 2014, 16:30-18:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

The properties of silicate glass relevant to their use in ballistics applications

Stephen Walley, SMF Group, The Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Health economic evaluation: what can it do for me?

Sarah Byford.

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

Thursday 15 May 2014, 15:30-16:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Examining Region-Specific Third-Party Web Tracking Services

Hamed Haddadi (Queen Mary University of London).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Builiding.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Statistical model criticism

James Lloyd (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 15:00-16:30

Genetics Seminar

Shaping and reshaping regulatory loops in Drosophila morphogen signaling.

Host: Boris Adryan

Dr. Giorgos Pyrowolakis from BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies & Institute for Biology, University of Freiburg.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 14:30-15:30