Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

How Science Really Works, and Why It Matters

Prof. Jeremy Baumberg, University of Cambridge.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 21 January 2019, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Mapping Health: Why, How, Considering what ...

Sylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit @ University of Cambridge.

MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Monday 21 January 2019, 19:15-21:30

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Probing the neural processes that underlie biased perceptual decisions by humans and monkeys

Kristine Krug, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

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

Monday 21 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (Please bring a calculator)

Bob Carlyon (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 21 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

AMOP list

Nanosatellites for Quantum Science and Profit

Dr Daniel Oi, University of Strathclyde.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 21 January 2019, 15:30-16:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Wegner estimate for the random breather model

Matthias Taeufer, Queen Mary University (London).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 21 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Designing Electronics for low-latency Trading Systems

Food provided

Robin Bruce, current Head of the Infrastructure & Data team and former FPGA Systems Tech Lead, Optiver .

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 21 January 2019, 13:15-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Tour of the recently re-opened University Museum of Zoology and an insider's guide to natural history museums

Meet outside the Whale Hall (main entrance of the Museum of Zoology) by 1pm

Jack Ashby (Museum of Zoology, Cambridge).

University Museum of Zoology.

Monday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Coupled ice-ocean interactions for the Amundsen Sea glaciers, Antarctica

Jan De Rydt - Northumbria University.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 21 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Darwin College Lecture Series

Visions

Professor Paul Fletcher, Cambridge Neuroscience.

LMH, Lady Mitchell Hall.

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

Zangwill Club

Cross-language speech perception: how listening to foreign speech changes over life

Prof. Nuria Sebastian-Galles Center of Brain and Cognition Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An 'Ashby map' for selecting musical strings

Professor Jim Woodhouse, CUED Emeritus.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

On the hypocoercivity of some PDMP-Monte Carlo algorithms

Christophe Andrieu, University of Bristol.

MR12.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Revisiting Jeffery orbits: the importance of shape for micro-organism transport

Rachel Bearon, University of Liverpool.

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

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Enriched simulations in computational mechanics

John Trevelyan, University of Durham.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 18 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Black-hole binaries in scalar Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Helvi Witek (King's College London).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 18 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Understanding cell fate decisions in early development using single cell genomics"

Hosted by Paul Lyons, Speaker John Marioni

John Marioni, EBI.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 18 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

What makes psychotherapy work? Using deep learning to quantify the relationship between therapy content and outcomes

Ronan Cummins & Michael Ewbank, Ieso Digital Health.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 January 2019, 12:00-13:00

Computational Neuroscience

Local and global synaptic credit assignment

Dr Rui Ponte Costa (University of Bristol).

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

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

‘Cluster headache: novel approaches to phylogenetic clustering’

Edyth Parker, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 18 January 2019, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Rapid in-house CSF analysis utilising sedimentation direct from the spinal needle’

Cassia Hare, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 18 January 2019, 08:45-10:00

Wellcome Lecture in the History of Medicine

Heaven and Earth are within one's grasp: the healer's body-as-technology in classical Chinese medicine

Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University).

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

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

Foster Talks

Neural progenitors and neural tube defects.

Andy Copp, University College, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Factorisation and Subtraction beyond NLO

Lorenzo Magnea (Torino).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:30

Chaucer Club

The Cambridge NeuralNET”: Investigating origins of brain and mental health

David Rowitch (Dept of Paediatrics, University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 17 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Explorative 3D imaging

Joost Batenburg (CWI, Amsterdam).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Management of mitochondrial proteins: sort or destroy

Professor Agnieszka Chacinska.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Phonon assisted luminescence in hexagonal Boron Nitride

Dr Elena Cannuccia, University of Rome "Tor Vergata".

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Genetics Seminar

Unearthing structure and complexity in human and great ape evolution

Host: Chris Illingworth

Dr Aylwyn Scally from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Stochastic modeling and control of power grids under uncertainty

Alessandro Zocca, California Institute of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Oil palm: what’s true and what’s to do?

Amelia Hood (Zoology Department, University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

REC8-cohesin and chromatin state orchestrate Arabidopsis meiotic recombination

Andy Tock, Henderson Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-13:30

Craik Club

Visual categorization of simple stimuli

Professor Joshua Solomon, Centre for Applied Vision Research, City University.

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

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Decolonising the history of science curriculum

Mary Brazelton, Simon Schaffer, Charu Singh and Richard Staley (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

women@CL Speaker Lunch Series

Machine Arguing: From Data and Rules to Argumentation Frameworks

Francesca Toni, Professor in Computational Logic in the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

BPI Seminar Series

Adjoint-based data assimilation for compressible and reactive flows

Professor Joern Sesterhenn, Technische Universitat Berlin.

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

Thursday 17 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Fairness for Sequential Decision Making Algorithms

Hoda Heidari.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Systemic Anticancer Therapy

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Bristi Basu, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Usability Group

Design for 21st century organisations, services and products

Ben Holliday.

Bradfield Centre, Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 0GF.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 19:00-21:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

New materials and devices for interfacing with the nervous system

Prof George Malliaras, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Physical and Chemical Aspects of Surface Chirality

Professor Stephen Jenkins, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Testing General Relativity with Cosmological Observations

Ruth Durrer, Geneva.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey

Analysis of snow and aerosols deposition variability over High Mountain Asia and other major high mountain ranges

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

Hoi Ga “Veronica” Chan, Princeton University.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series

What Can Fair ML Learn from Economic Theories of Distributive Justice?

Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

Hoda Heidari, ETH Zurich .

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

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Looking with different eyes: exploring visual systems diversity with the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis

Dr Patricia Ramos, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Anterior cingulate cortex signals the need to control intrusive thoughts during motivated forgetting

Maite Crespo-Garcia (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

Exploring self-injury in autism spectrum conditions

Rachel Moseley, Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University.

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

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 10:30-11:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Jets for the LHC and beyond

Simone Marzani (Università di Genova and INFN Genova).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Trustworthy and Accountable Function-as-a-Service using Intel SGX

Andrew Paverd, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

In-Network Computing

Noa Zilberman.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Post-Arab Spring Tunis: Materialising Revolution in the City

Dena Qaddumi, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

THIS SEMIAR IS NOW CANCELLED - 'Cell Plasticity in Colon Carcinogenesis'

Host: Graduate Student Society (Sujath Abbas)

Professor Florian Greten, Institute for Tumor Biology and Experimental Therapy, Frankfurt.

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

Tuesday 15 January 2019, 11:30-12:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

WOMBL: Number fields with prescribed norms

Christopher Frei (Manchester).

MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 14 January 2019, 16:15-16:55

Discrete Analysis Seminar

WOMBL: The maximum of the Riemann zeta function on the 1-line

Winston Heap (UCL).

MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 14 January 2019, 15:30-16:10

Discrete Analysis Seminar

WOMBL: Partial Associativity in Latin Squares

Jason Long (Cambridge).

MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 14 January 2019, 14:15-14:55

Discrete Analysis Seminar

WOMBL: The minimum number of additive tuples in groups of prime order

Katherine Staden (Oxford).

MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 14 January 2019, 13:30-14:10

Discrete Analysis Seminar

WOMBL: Dimension of planar self-affine sets and measures

Ariel Rapaport (Cambridge).

MR3, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 14 January 2019, 11:15-11:55

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Flavivirus assembly and maturation process

Shee-Mei Lok, Duke – NUS Medical School, Singapore.

LMB MRC.

Friday 11 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - "To TEG or not to TEG - That was the question?"

Charlie Pittaway, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 11 January 2019, 08:45-10:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

A scientists guide to the art of radiation therapy & Neurosurgery for the Oncologist

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Raj Jena, Department of Onocology and Mr Adel Helmy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience CUH NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 10 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Tracking performance of time-varying nonconvex optimization with application to OPF

Steven Low, Caltech.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Wednesday 09 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The present: CryoSat-2 (and other altimeters) for enhanced ocean observation in the polar oceans. The future: SKIM (Sea surface KInematics Multiscale monitoring satellite mission), a candidate satellite mission exploring global ocean currents and waves.

Michel Tsamados (UCL).

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 09 January 2019, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The integrated approach to the diagnosis of haematological malignancies

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Mike Scott, Department of Haematology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 03 January 2019, 09:30-10:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

High pressure Fermiology studies of YBCO

Audrey Grockowiak, NHMFL Tallahassee.

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

Friday 21 December 2018, 11:15-12:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

The thaw in the Pole: Cold War science and showcasing at the Siberian science-city and Antarctic expeditions (1955–1964)

Ksenia Tatarchenko (University of Geneva).

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

Thursday 20 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Multicatalytic Transformations with and without Light

Professor Kirsten Zeitler, Institut für Organische Chemie, Universitat Leipzig..

Unilever Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 19 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multicatalytic Transformations with and without Light

Professor Kirstin Zeitler.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Wednesday 19 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Gaussian processes for inferring latent functions in complex data models

Martin Tegner.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

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

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cell-of-origin of prostate cancer and clinical heterogeneity

Dr Esther Baena from CRUK Manchester Institute .

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 17 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Diary of a Diabetic cat

Prof Clare Bryant, Prof Mike Herrtage, Dr Tim Williams.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 14 December 2018, 08:45-10:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Dr Spin, or the Tao of Threes

Jon Crowcroft (Computer Lab).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control across scales by positive and negative feedback

Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

DNA repair: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic applications in cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Steve Jackson, The Gurdon Institute.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - Christmas Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 16:30-18:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Phasevarions of bacterial pathogens: shedding new light on old enemies

Dr John M. Atack, Research Fellow, Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University .

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The biogeochemical fingerprint of melting ice

**If external to BAS, please notify organiser in advance**

Kate Hendry, University of Bristol.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Craik Club

"Mosaic Stimuli in Research on Luminance and Color Vision"

Professor Givago Souza, Federal University of Para, Brazil.

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

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Alarm calls and interspecific eavesdropping

Robert Magrath (Australian National University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Sensors CDT seminars

Bridging the gap in innovation and tech transfer in developing countries: Camnexus - a personal journey from Biotech to IoT

To register to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/preview?eid=53091689673/

Dr Jessica Ocampos, CEO of Camnexus.

Johnson Matthey Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Non-proximal linear random walks on the torus

Weikun He, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 10 December 2018, 15:15-16:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Title to be confirmed

Dr Scott Yiu, Cambridge University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 10 December 2018, 14:15-15:15

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Bounds for sets lacking x,x+y,x+y^2

Sarah Peluse, Stanford University.

MR4, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 10 December 2018, 13:45-14:45

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Macrophage reprogramming in mycobacterial granuloma formation”

Mark Cronan, Duke University.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 07 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

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

"Ultrafast Machining of High Temperature Superconductor Nanostructures for Novel Mesoscale Physics"

Lily Delimata.

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

Friday 07 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

FairWild: collecting and trading wild-collected products sustainably

CNHS talk & social - tickets £10

Anastasiya Timoshyna/TRAFFIC International.

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

Thursday 06 December 2018, 18:45-21:30

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Cavity expansion in locked sand

Stephan Van Eeden, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 16:00-16:45

Foster Talks

Mapping human pluripotency during pre- and peri-implantation development using single cell transcriptional analysis.

Fredrik Lanner, Karolinska Institute.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Ergodic Stochastic Differential Equations and Sampling: A numerical analysis perspective

Kostas Zygalakis, University of Edinburgh.

MR 14.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

The nitty gritty of doing a PhD

Jon Crowcroft (Computer Lab).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Robustness and model reduction of dominant systems

Alberto Padoan, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Latent variable models: factor analysis and all that

Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 06 December 2018, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer stem cells, evolution and heterogeneity

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Professor Brian Huntly, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 09:30-10:30

Parasitology Seminars

Ubiquitination, membrane-trafficking and the anti-trypanosomal action of apolipoprotein-L1

Dr Sam Alsford, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Sensory Reactivity in Autism Spectrum Conditions

Dr Teresa Tavassoli, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Reading.

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

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Quantum fluctuations in a two-component dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate

Mr. Shanglong Ning, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex

Dr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Function-Based Access Control

Yvo G. Desmedt, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Dallas.

FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey

Constraining the representation of the atmospheric hydrological cycle in General Circulation Models using water isotopes and what would be needed to directly compare ice core water isotope records with model simulations

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

Hans Christian, University of Bergen.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 14:30-15:30

British Antarctic Survey

The ExoMars mission: exploring the martian atmosphere and the search for life

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

James Holmes, The Open University.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 13:30-14:30

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Cambridge Digital Communications Model: Live software demonstration

Edward Oughton (Oxford).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 13:15-13:45

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Executable Disease Networks: Reconstruction, Topology, Dynamics’

Host: Ben Hall

Anna Niarakis, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France.

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

Tuesday 04 December 2018, 11:30-12:30

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

New arylation strategies in synthesis’

Professor Michael Greaney, University of Manchester.

Unileaver Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Monday 03 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

Children's Literature

Literacies, Literature and Learning: reading classrooms differently

Professor Karin Murris, University of Cape Town.

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

Monday 03 December 2018, 16:00-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Direct measurements of urban pollutant emissions

Eiko Nemitz, CEH.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 03 December 2018, 14:15-15:15

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Radial excitations of superconducting (Witten) vortices

Note: MONDAY lunchtime

Patrick Peter (DAMTP, and Inst. Astrophys. Paris).

Potter Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 03 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Solving a 3D jigsaw with 1000 pieces - Structure and assembly of the nuclear pore complex

Martin Beck.

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

Monday 03 December 2018, 11:00-12:00

Computational Neuroscience

Understanding sensorimotor circuits implementing zebrafish behavior

James Fitzgerald, HHMI Janelia Research Campus.

Department of Engineering - James Dyson Building Seminar Room.

Monday 03 December 2018, 11:00-12:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

High-Energy Limit of Mass-Suppressed Amplitudes in Gauge Theories

Alexander Penin (University of Alberta).

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

Friday 30 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Dripping down the rivulet

François Gallaire Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne.

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

Friday 30 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

SCC formwork pressure - myths and facts

Michal Drewniok, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3A.

Friday 30 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Project Everest: towards a verified TLS ecosystem

Jonathan Protzenko, MSR Redmond.

FW26.

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

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Solid Adiabatic Modes and Soft Theorems

Sadra Jazayeri (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 30 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

‘Dissecting the fibrotic niche of human liver cirrhosis using single cell transcriptomics’

Hosted by Menna Clatworthy, Speaker: Neil Henderson

Neil Henderson, University of Edinburgh.

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

Friday 30 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Graph Neural Networks for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Room changed

Daniil Sorokin, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 30 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sea Ice-Ocean Feedbacks in the Antarctic Shelf Seas

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

Rebecca Frew, University of Reading.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Friday 30 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Electrolysis: What Textbooks Don’t Tell Us

FREE EVENT

Dr Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 19:00-20:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Perutz Lecture- How synapses work: Architecture and mechanism of neurotransmitter receptors and transporters

Eric Gouaux.

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Brain mechanisms of flexible cognitive control

Alexandra Woolgar (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Cross-modality Inference in Ubiquitous Human Identification

Chris Lu (Oxford).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

On optimal sampling in off-the-grid sparse regularisation.

Dr Clarice Poon, DAMTP & Peterhouse.

LR12, Baker Building, CUED.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Low-regularity Fourier integrators for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

Katharina Schratz (KIT).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

The number of symbols that forces a transversal

Liana Yepremyan (University of Oxford).

MR12.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum many-body scars

Dr. Zlatko Papić, University of Leeds.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed price-based control of flexible electrical loads

Antonio De Paola, University of Bath.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Hybrid molecular materials for water splitting applications

Antoni Llobet, Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Estimation in two-stage adaptive threshold enrichment clinical trials”

Dr Peter Kimani, University of Warwick.

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:30-14:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

A tale of Terror and Erebus: international collaboration and competition in the search for Franklin’s lost expedition

Dr Nanna Kaalund (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED-Genetic regulation of tomato fruit ripening

Apologies, due to flight cancellation this talk will be rescheduled

Jim Giovannoni, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University .

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Representing Same-Sex Parents: non-traditional families?

Dr Mark McGlashan: Birmingham City University.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Emerging virus spillover - overcoming the entry-barrier

Jonathan Ball, University of Nottingham.

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Multiphase Aspects of Ice Sheet Dynamics

Professor Ian Hewitt, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Power analysis

Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 29 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Introduction to the biology of metastasis

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Sakari Vanharanta, MRC Cancer Unit .

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

Harnessing the quantum world — can lab experiments become practical technologies?

Professor Simon Benjamin, University of Oxford.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

A Beilinson-Bernstein Theorem for p-adic analytic quantum groups

Nicolas Dupré.

MR12.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

From molecules to recurrent visual hallucinations: multimodal imaging and computational modelling of Dementia with Lewy bodies

Dr Li Su - Alzheimer’s Research UK Senior Research Fellow.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:15-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Challenges in Veterinary Forensic Pathology

Dr Lorenzo Ressel, Head of Department of Veterinary Pathology and Public Health, University of Liverpool.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Stabilization distance bounds from link Floer homology

Andras Juhasz, Oxford.

MR13.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Origin of Native Americans: a paradigmatic case in human population studies

Antonio Torroni, University of Pavia.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using the Force with Quantum Monte Carlo

Professor Claudia Filippi, University of Twente.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Detecting light dark matter with atomic clocks and magnetometers

Diego Blas, KCL.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Optimal design of catalytic reactors and structured catalysts

Professor Prof Hanssjörg Freund, CRT Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT2.

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

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematics for mechanistic biology and drug discovery

Dr Rahuman Sheriff (EMBL-EBI).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

Eric T Nalisnick (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Higher-rank Bohr sets and multiplicative diophantine approximation

Niclas Technau, University of York.

MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 13:45-14:45

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The C theory of time

Matt Farr (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Craik Club

Optimising the design of text using simple algorithms

Professor Arnold J. Wilkins, Department of Psychology, University of Essex.

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Mitochondria as inflammatory killers

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

Professor Stephen Tait, University of Glasgow.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

CANCELLED Epigenetics, inheritance and adaptation within the family environment

Rahia Mashoodh (Dept of Zoology, University of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Northern Antarctic Peninsula: a marine climate hotspot of rapid changes on ecosystems and ocean dynamics

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

Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Kerr, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande .

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

Atypical neurogenesis and E/I precursor imbalance in autism iPSCs

Dr Dwaipayan Adhya, Postdoctoral Research Scientist Autism Research Centre, University of Cambridge, Visiting Scientist, Department of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, King's College, London .

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

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 10:30-11:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Understanding cellular heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer

Axel Behrens.

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

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

Early Science and Medicine

Missing friars: rethinking late medieval medicine

Peter Jones (King's College, Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Children's Literature

FEAST: Consuming Children - A roundtable discussion on food in children's literature

FEAST journal contributors.

Mary Allan Building room G10, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Marcelo Mattar (CBL).

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

3-body B decays

Keri Vos (Siegen University).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Singular moduli for real quadratic fields and p-adic mock modular forms

Jan Vonk (Oxford).

MR13.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Univalent Universes of Sets

Andrew Pitts (University of Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

The ideal versus the real: A brief history of secure isolation in virtual machines and containers

Allison Randal, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

AMOP list

Quantum gas microscopy of the doped Fermi-Hubbard model

Max-Planck-Institut fur Quantenoptik (MPQ), Garching, Germany.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Kazhdan groups have cost 1

Tom Hutchcroft (Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

CHERI: a step change in security at the hardware/software interface

Simon Moore (University of Cambridge).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

“From Your Sister’s Things…” Clothing Pins and Women’s Economic Agency across Early Second Millennium Anatolia and Assyria

Dr Nancy Highcock, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution on the wing

Owen McMillan, STRI.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Towards in vivo structural biology: solving protein structures using deep mutagenesis

Hosted by: Eric Miska & Julie Ahringer

Ben Lehner, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Barcelona, Spain.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Idris 2: Type Driven Development of Idris

 Please note, this event may be recorded. Microsoft will own the copyright of any recording and reserves the right to distribute it as required.

Edwin Brady, St Andrews University .

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

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Talk: The Science of Conversation

Prof. Elizabeth Stokoe, Loughborough University.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 26 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Epigenetic modifications

Dr Magdalena J Koziol, Wellcome Trust Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Monday 26 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London.

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

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

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Turbulent solutions of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation : a link between the scattering theory and the Arnold diffusion

Nikolai Tzvetkov, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 26 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Connecting behavioural and neural levels of analysis

Rogier Kievit (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 26 November 2018, 16:00-17:30

AMOP list

Recent results in 87Rb box trap

Dr Jinyi Zhang , University of Cambridge .

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 26 November 2018, 15:30-16:30

AMOP list

Linear-and-quadratic reservoir engineering of non-Gaussian states in cavity optomechanics

Dr Matteo Brunelli , University of Cambridge .

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 26 November 2018, 15:30-16:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Bubbling analysis for closed and free boundary minimal hypersurfaces

Reto Buzano (Müller), Queen Mary University of London.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 26 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Verifying Concurrent Search Structure Templates

Siddharth Krishna, NYU.

SS03.

Monday 26 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Chemical Ionisation Mass Spectrometry: ground and airborne measurements

Dr Thomas Bannan University of Manchester.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 26 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

What can the Rust Programming Language do for Embedded Systems development?

Jonathan Pallant, Cambridge Consultants.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 26 November 2018, 13:30-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Plant protection in France and Germany from the 1930s to the 1950s: the case of the Colorado potato beetle

Margot Lyautey (EHESS, Paris/Tübingen).

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

Monday 26 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Turbulent leakage in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Laura Cimoli, Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, University of Oxford.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 26 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Academic Internships event!

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Winstanley Lecture Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Saturday 24 November 2018, 13:00-19:30

Zangwill Club

Studying the functions of consciousness: what we know and what we want to know

Dr Liad Mudrik, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Pyomechanics: Biomechanical modelling and optimising human movements

Sam Brockie, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:30-17:00

Statistics

Posterior concentration for Bayesian regression trees and their ensembles

Stephanie van der Pas, University of Leiden.

MR12.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Hunting light dark sectors at colliders and fixed target experiments

Luc Darmé (NCBJ, Warsaw).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Probing planetary interiors with long period free oscillations

Matthew Maitra.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An experimental exploration of the properties of random frequency response functions

Arnau Clot, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:00-16:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Acoustics and vibration of everyday things

Anurag Agarwal CUED.

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

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

Revision control with git

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 23 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Sheaves on Buildings, Homological Induction and Complexes of Groups

Mark Butler, University of Birmingham.

CMS, MR14.

Friday 23 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Deformation of Creased Thin Sheets

Dr Martin Walker, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 23 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Multiscale physics-based strategies to address parameter uncertainty in crystal plasticity

Dr Gustavo M Castelluccio, School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 23 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Sensors CDT seminars

Open Data Sharing - A Practical Guide

To register to attend: https://goo.gl/CDwS3H

Leonie Mueck, PLOS.

Johnson Matthey Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS.

Friday 23 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line: what have we learnt?

Petra Hajkova, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The Aretakis instability as a critical phenomenon

Peter Zimmerman (AEI-Potsdam/Golm).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Macrophages, type 2 immunity and tissue repair: Learning from helminths

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Judith Allen

Judith Allen, University of Manchester.

Patrick Sissons seminar room (Purple seminar room), Dept Medicine, Level 5, Addenbrookes hospital.

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

women@CL Speaker Lunch Series

Women@CL Talklet Event

Mohibi, Mahwish Arif, Aida Miralaei.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 23 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS - ‘The curious case of Trixie Reay’

Georgina Harris, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 23 November 2018, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Discovering lichens

Mark Powell.

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

Thursday 22 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

The Structure of Poly(A) Determines Deadenylation Specificity

Terence Tang, LMB.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Single cell full length cDNA library protocol with error correction

Rebecca Berrens, EMBL-EBI.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Early maternal-fetal interactions

Dr Roser Vento-Tormo, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Getting In Early - the Challenge of Effective Early Intervention

Prof. Paul ramchandani: LEGO Professor of Play In Education Development and Learning, Honorary Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Sociology Seminar Room, 1st floor, Free School Lane, New Museum Site.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 17:00-18:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Borates as electrodes for lithium and magnesium-ion batteries

Siân Dutton, Quantum Matter Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

The emotional brain and the neurobiology of uniqueness

Tara L. White, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Brown University, USA.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Colouring the real numbers and sum-sets with repetitions

Daniel Soukup (Universioty of Vienna).

MR12.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

A Bayesian approach to internal models

Mate Lengyel (Dept of Engineering, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 22 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Creating citizen history of science: science, fiction and the future of the 20th century

Amanda Rees (University of York).

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

Thursday 22 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Chromebooks, USB-C and Google PI/SI Research

Mark Hayter (Google).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Norm-Resolvent Convergence in Perforated Domains

Frank Roesler (Cardiff University).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Families of permutations with a forbidden intersection

David Ellis (Queen Mary UL).

MR12.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dissipative transition in synthetic matter

Prof. Rosario Fazio, ICTP.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Genetics Seminar

Cell cycle controls enforcing asymmetric spindle pole fate in budding yeast

Host: Helene Rangone-Briatte

Dr Marisa Segal from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Neurons, Fake News, DNA and your iPhone: The Mathematics of Information

IOANNIS KONTOYIANNIS.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

'The American soldier' in Jerusalem: on measurement, travel and translation

CANCELLED

Tal Arbel (Tel Aviv University/University of Edinburgh).

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

Thursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

How do betalains evolved? Consequences of a de-regulated enzyme in Caryophyllales

Samuel Lopez, Brockington group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 13:00-13:30

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Crisis, contagion and containment policies in financial networks : A dynamic approach

Professor Hubert Kempf (Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan), CESifo Research Network Fellow..

Room W4.05 Cambridge Judge Business School.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

BPI Seminar Series

Carbon capture and storage: it has a cost, but does it have any value?

Professor Niall Mac Dowell, Imperial College London.

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

Thursday 22 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Post-hoc tests, multiple comparisons, contrasts and handling interactions

Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 22 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Cancer metabolism, a hallmark of cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Christian Frezza, MRC Cancer Unit.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 22 November 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

The scientific legacy of Stephen Hawking

Professor David Tong, DAMTP.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

Children's Literature

North American Girls' Literature

Dawn Sardella-Ayres, Truman State University.

Mary Allan Building room G10, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Computational Imaging for Realistic Appearance Modelling

Abhijeet Ghosh, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:15-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Tropical Lagrangians and mirror symmetry

Jeff Hicks, Berkeley & ETH.

MR13.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Parasitology Seminars

On malaria, mitochondria, membrane proteins & mice - Developing and employing advanced experimental genetic approaches to study Plasmodium host switching

Dr Taco Kooij, Radboud University, The Netherlands.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Brachycephalic dogs: There is plenty of bad news. So is there any good news?

Dr David Sargan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Mito-nuclear interactions and mitochondrial replacement therapy: an evolutionary perspective

Professor Adam Eyre-Walker, University of Sussex.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials

Professor Nicola Marzari, EPFL.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Hyperbolicity of moduli spaces and Hodge theory

Yohan Brunebarbe, Université de Bordeaux.

CMS MR13.

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

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Generating new physics models from machine learning

Sven Krippendorf, LMU.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Metal-containing organic cages and macrocycles with open/close feature

Prof Shigehisa Akine (Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology, Kanazawa University).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre.

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

Computational and Systems Biology

Mathematical modelling of rapid evolutionary processes

Dr Chris Illingworth ( Department of Genetics, Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Development of a lateral pn junction

Mr. Shak Fernandes, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge .

Ryle Seminar Room (930), Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Natural gradient in deep neural networks

Alberto Bernacchia (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Uniform Spectral Gaps and Paradoxical Decompositions: the Affine Plane

Lam Pham, Yale University.

MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 13:45-14:45

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

The effect of Viscosity, Yield Stress, and Surface Tension on the deformation and breakup profiles of fluid filaments stretched at very high velocities

Prof Malcolm Mackley.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Time-asymmetry in thermal physics

Katie Robertson (Faculty of Philosophy, Cambridge/University of Birmingham).

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

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Immunology in Pathology

T cell intrinsic role of Arginase 2 in modulating anti-tumor immunity

Host: Professor Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Walter Reith, University of Geneva .

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Fractionating the human frontoparietal cortex: Combining meta-analytic and real-time optimization approaches

Romy Lorenz (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, MRC CBU).

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

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Ballistic electrons on the hexagonal Fermi surface of PdCoO2

Maja Bachmann, Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden.

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

Wednesday 21 November 2018, 11:15-12:30

Computational Neuroscience

A brain-machine interface for locomotion driven by subspace dynamics

Karen E. Schroeder, Columbia University.

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

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

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Bayesian and structural integration of background evidence in the design, analysis and interpretation of clinical trial data

Fabio Rigat (GSK) & Nicky Best (Imperial College).

Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 19:15-21:30

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Non coding RNA and normal botany

David Baulcombe.

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

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

From pustulent penises to death by celibacy: thinking about sexual health in medieval Europe

CANCELLED

Katherine Harvey (Birkbeck, University of London).

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

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Topological Terms in Sigma Models on Homogeneous Spaces

Joe Davighi (DAMTP).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

nuCSI: Neutrinos Leave No Shadows

Xianguo Lu (Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Iwahori-Hecke algebras and measures for split Kac-Moody groups

Ramla Abdellatif (Université de Picardie Jules Verne).

MR13.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Optoelectronics Group

Strong induced chiroptical effects in light emitting polymer blends

Dr Jess Wade, Imperial College London.

Kapitza Seminar Room, Kapitza, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Probability

On gradient estimates for random walks in time-dependent random environments

Martin Slowik (Berlin).

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

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

PP is not a monad

Bartek Klin, Warsaw University.

FW26.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Bounding data races in space and time

Stephen Dolan.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Economics of Right-Wing Populism

Valentina Ausserladscheider, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Social learning? So what! Looking for evolutionary consequences of social information use.

Rose Thorogood (University of Cambridge and University of Helsinki).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Does minority stress still matter? Stigma, intimacy, and the health of same-sex couples

Dr David Frost: University College London, Department of Social Science and Thomas Coram Research Unit.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Sensors CDT seminars

Changing research culture: Why we need to speak up for under-represented groups in science

To register to attend: https://tinyurl.com/yat7bdsp

Jessica Wade (IMPERIAL COLLEGE).

Johnson Matthey Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive, Cambridge CB3 0AS.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Carrie Partch.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Neural mechanisms of model-based planning in the rat

Kevin Miller, University College London.

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

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

Cambridge Philosophical Society

The combinatorics of spaghetti hoops

Professor Simon Tavaré FRS FMedSci, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 19 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adrian Seminar - "Circuit principles of memory-based behaviour choice".

Marta Zlatic, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 19 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Non invasive detection of tissue specific cell death via methylation patterns of circulating DNA

Prof Yuval Dor from The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre (Room 001).

Monday 19 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

How to give good talks

Tom Manly (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room, Department of Psychology, Downing Site, Cambridge.

Monday 19 November 2018, 16:00-17:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Uniqueness of the solution to the 2D Vlasov-Navier-Stokes system

Ayman Moussa, Sorbonne Université (Paris).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 19 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

How search uses Machine Learning

Food provided

Fabrizio Silvestri, Facebook.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 19 November 2018, 13:05-14:30

Cabinet of Natural History

Isaac Van Amburgh the lion tamer: spectacle, education and natural history in Britain, 1825–1872

Oscar Kent-Egan (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Monday 19 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Making sense of time in the Human mind

Professor Virginie van Wassenhove, Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/Joliot, INSERM, Université Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, NeuroSpin center, 91191 Gif/Yvette, France .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Sterring torque feedback for drivers in conventional and automated vehicles

Tenghao Niu, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:30-17:00

Statistics

Concentration of tempered posteriors and of their variational approximations

Pierre Alquier, ENSAE.

MR12.

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Nonlinear plasma waves as sources of axion-like particles

Adam Noble (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow).

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

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Seismic anisotropy in the Northern Volcanic Zone, Iceland

Conor Bacon.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The dynamics of a cylindrical roller on a rough surface

James McBride, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

LaTeX for report-writing

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 16 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Towards an upper bound for the number of composition factors of Specht modules.

Diego Millan Berdasco, Queen Mary University of London.

CMS, MR14.

Friday 16 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Engineering biomaterials: Innovation with wood, hemp and silk

Dr Darshil Shah, Centre for Natural Material Innovation, Cambridge University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 16 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Lower bound for arithmetic circuits via Hankel matrix

Pierre Ohlmann, IRIF, Université Paris 7.

SS03.

Friday 16 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Internet of Everything – From Molecules to the Universe

Dr Ozgur B. Akan, IEEE Fellow, University of Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Escape from pluripotency

Austin Smith, Stem Cell Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 16 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Bradford Hill Seminar with Dr Richard Pebody - The puzzle of influenza – what can we do?

Dr Richard Pebody, Head of Respiratory Diseases, Public Health England.

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

Friday 16 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Extracting non-Gaussian information from the Large-Scale Structure

Oliver Leicht (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 16 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Harnessing Natural Killer cells against cancer”

Hosted by Maike De La Roche, speaker: Adelheid Cerwenka

Adelheid Cerwenka, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg.

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

Friday 16 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The Ethics of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology

Room changed

Marcus Tomalin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 16 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Computer Laboratory Recruitment Fair

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Street, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 16 November 2018, 11:30-16:00

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Emergence of topological phases in lithium under pressure

Stephanie Mack, University of California, Berkeley.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Stress, Neophobia and Learning in Captive Dolphins

Critina Acasuso Rivero, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 16 November 2018, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Colibactin-producing Escherichia coli in experimental neonatal infection

Emilie Cloup, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 16 November 2018, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Wildlife photography

Joshua Harris, CU Nature Society.

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

Thursday 15 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing

Professor Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Timing in dyslexia: Language, reading and writing

Professor Maria Teresa Guasti (University of Milano-Bicocca).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 15 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Some applications of DFT in surface dynamics

Marco Sacchi, Department of Chemistry, University of Surrey.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

The effects of multi-directional loading on soil liquefaction

Mengchen Sun, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 16:00-16:45

Chaucer Club

Dynamic network reconstruction of human decision making and learning via EEG-fMRI fusion

Marios Philiastides (University of Glasgow).

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

Thursday 15 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Being human, being Homo sapiens

Denis Walsh (University of Toronto).

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

Thursday 15 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Estimating low-rank matrices via approximate message passing

Ramji Venkataramanan, CUED.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Theory of photon- and electron-stimulated surface chemistry

Dr Reinhard Maurer, University of Warwick.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Genetics Seminar

Ancient genomic history and adaptation of human populations in Africa

Host: Aylwyn Scally

Dr Pontus Skoglund from The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control Design Using Differential Games – From Centralised to Decentralised Control

Thulasi Mylvaganam, Imperial College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Mechanism of transformation of neural stem cells by fusion onco-proteins.

Robert Kupp (CRUK Cambridge Institute / Oncology).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

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

Bridging DNA methylation dynamics and electronic health records to understand the non-coding genome

Emily Hodges, Vanderbilt Genetics Institute, USA.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

BPI Seminar Series

Nanocarbon and Metal Aerogels as Multifunctional, Porous Support Materials in Adsorption and Catalysis

Dr Robert Menzel, Department of Chemistry, University of Leeds.

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

Thursday 15 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Computer Laboratory Recruitment Fair

Speaker to be confirmed.

The Street, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 11:30-16:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Reconstructing Tissue Architecture by Single Cell Genomics

Sarah Teichmann.

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

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

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Repeated Measures and Mixed Model ANOVA

Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Generating human kidney tissue from pluripotent stem cells

Hosted by: Meritxell Huch & Ben Simons

Melissa Little, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Victoria, Australia.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 10:00-11:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The mutations that drive cancer

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

From deep learning to the dark universe

Professor Ofer Lahav, University College London.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

On groups of finite upper rank

Dan Segal (Oxford).

MR12.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)5.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Failing with Style: Why and How we Should Encourage Humans to Fail with Highly Capable Systems

Professor Steve Benford, Mixed Reality Laboratory, School of Computer Science, The University of Nottingham.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:15-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Detecting exotic smooth structures in diffeomorphism groups

Manuel Krannich, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Comparative glucocorticoid metabolism; lessons from horses, humans and mice

Dr Ruth Morgan, University of Edinburgh.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Visualizing Electrostatics of a Single Biomolecule in the Fluid Phase

Professor Madhavi Krishnan, University of Oxford.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Conformal Higher-Spin Gravity

Xavier Bekaert, Federation Denis Poisson.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

A class of singularity of arbitrary pairs and log canonicalizations

Kenta Hashizume (Kyoto).

CMS MR13.

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

Computational and Systems Biology

How space constrains evolution: lessons from bacteria and bacteriophage

Dr Diana Fusco.

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Graph Neural Networks

Matej Balog (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Matrix coefficients of finite groups

Ben Green, University of Oxford.

MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:45-14:45

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Embracing the Volatility of AWS Spot Fleet

Food provided

Matthew Mead-Briggs, Yelp.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:05-14:30

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

In vitro 3D model for bone tissue: a bioelectronics approach

Dr. Donata Iandolo.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Memory: what is it good for?

Ali Boyle (Trinity Hall, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Regulation of Cell-Type Specific Regulatory Programs in the Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis

Dr Heather Marlow, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Focused attention in the frontal and parietal cortex: Task episodes, variable binding and cognitive load

John Duncan (MRC CBU) .

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

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Re-thinking controls on the East Australian Current's eddy shedding and mean poleward extent

*If external to BAS, please notify seminar organiser in advance and arrive 5-10 minutes before start time to ensure access to building*

Christopher Bull.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

History of Modern Medicine and Biology

Living archives and dying wards: ethical records preservation at the Uganda Cancer Institute

Marissa Mika (University College London).

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

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Michael Rule (Control Group).

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

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

2018 Merck Lectureship

Professor Sarah Reisman- Caltech.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 15:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Status and Prospects for Vub measurements

William Sutcliffe (Karhslruhe).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

2018 Merck Lectureship

Professor Sarah Reisman, Caltech and Dr. Caroline McGregor, Merck.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 15:00-17:00

Number Theory Seminar

Variation of Iwasawa invariants in residually reducible Hida families

Preston Wake (IAS).

MR13.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Univalent Completion

Ieke Moerdijk (University of Utrecht).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Probability

The smoothed KPZ equation in dimension three and higher: Edwards-Wilkinson regime of its fluctuations and its localization properties

Chiranjib Mukherjee (Munster).

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

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Displacing big data: How cybercriminals cheat the system

Alice Hutchings, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Rust for Systems Development

Marco Caballero Gutierrez.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Degree of the Corporate-Level Re-Allocation of Resources in the Multi-Business Firm: Dynamism vs. Persistence

Niklas Lindlbauer, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sexual conflict in ecological context

Jen Perry (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Sensors CDT seminars

An entrepreneurial journey into precision medicine

To register to attend: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-entrepreneurial-journey-into-precision-medicine-tickets-52084631535

Ruchi Sharma, Stemnovate.

Rayleigh Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, J J Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0HE.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Climate Change, Storms, Floods, Uncertainty and Humans?

Prof. Ian Cluckie, Swansea University.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 12 November 2018, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adrian Seminar - "The neuromodulatory connectome: wired and wireless networks".

William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Using Microwell Array Technology to Probe Chemistry and Biology at Their Fundamental Limits

Professor David R Walt, Harvard Medical School.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Functional MRI: physics and physiology

Marta Correia & Daniel Mitchell (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 16:00-17:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Diffusion and mixing in incompressible flows

Michele Coti-Zelati, Imperial College London.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 12 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Satellite Observations, Earth System Models and Public Engagement Synergies: from Oil and Natural Gas Operations, Enhanced Weathering to Ozone Gardens

Maria Val Martin, University of Sheffield.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Mountains, rivers and forests: the colonial mapping of southeast Asia, between observation and vernacular cartography in the 19th century

Marie de Rugy (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 12 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

On the dynamics of phytoplankton blooms in experiments and the real world

Aleksandra Lewandowska, Tvärminne Zoological Station, University of Helsinki.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 12 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Cancer Genome Evolution and Immune Escape

You must email Anna.Toporska@cruk.cam.ac.uk prior to the talk if you are not based in CRUK CI and you wish to attend.

Dr Nicholas McGranahan from Francis Crick Institute in London.

Room 215, CRUK Cambridge Research Institute.

Monday 12 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Social timing in autism spectrum disorders

Dr Christine Falter-Wagner, Department of Psychiatry, LMU Munich.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

Should we expect attack rates for infectious disease to vary across small spatial scales?

David Haw (Imperial).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Phase transitions on community detectability for various types of stochastic block models

Laurent Massoulié, INRIA.

MR12.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Particle production during Axion Inflation

Valerie Domcke (DESY Hamburg).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

CO2 dissolution driven by flow in heterogeneous media

Kieran Gilmore.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Bose Waveguide Technology

Dr Ole Nielsen, Bose/CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-16:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

The suppression of marine ice sheet instability

Sam Pegler U. Leeds.

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

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Security Group meeting presentations

Bribery, cryptocurrencies and smart contracts

Joseph Bonneau, New York University.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-16:30

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

Python - Supplementary info for beginners

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 09 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

Cohomology of PSL(2,q)

Jack Saunders, University of Birmingham.

CMS, MR14.

Friday 09 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Connecting the dots: the power of using distributed sensors to monitor structural behaviour

Andre Brault, Research Associate, CUED..

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 09 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Anomalous dynamics of snap-through instabilities

Dr Michael Gomez, DAMPT, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 09 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Polarized endosome dynamics during asymmetric cell division

Emmanuel Derivery, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

How to Break the Internet

Food and drinks provided

Simon Chatterjee, Ensoft Ltd .

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 November 2018, 13:05-14:05

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Scattering of three impulsive gravitational waves and other low regularity problems

Maxime Van De Moortel (DPMMS and Stanford).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 09 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Knowledge Representation and Extraction at Scale

Christos Christodoulopoulos, Amazon.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Sea level rise and the implications for coastal flooding

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

Ivan Haigh, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Friday 09 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Mathematical Modelling of Salmonella Within-Host Dynamics

Myrto Vlazaki, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 09 November 2018, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Epidemiology of canine lymphoma in first opinion practice

Charles Pittaway, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 09 November 2018, 08:45-10:00

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Spectacular Chemistry of Coal

Dr Andrew Szydlo, Highgate School, London.

Bristol Myers-Squibb lecture theatre Dept of Chemistry, Lensfield Rd, Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 19:00-20:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

Getting to know British reptiles

Terry Moore.

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

The push to pool: Testing the effects of matched and mismatched reference populations in forensic voice comparison

Dr Dominic Watt (The University of York).

GR06/07, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 08 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Analytical descriptions of atomic-scale surface dynamics

Peter Townsend, SMF Surface Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Foster Talks

Neuronal connectivity and functional output in cerebral organoids.

Madeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

'The architecture of the semantic network' and 'From pixels to semantics - machine learning as a key to understanding the dynamic computations along the human ventral stream'

Becky Jackson and Tim Kietzmann (MRC CBU, U. of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Probabilistic actual causation

Luke Fenton-Glynn (University College London).

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

The Elusive Internet Flatening: 10 Years of IXP Growth

Ignacio Castro (Queen Mary).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Stability results for graphs containing a critical edge

Alexander Roberts (University of Oxford).

MR12.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

First Year Talks

Various.

Lecture Theatre 1, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Dynamical quantum phase transitions

Dr Markus Heyl, Max-Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

MAGNETIC BLOCKING AND LARGE COERCIVITY IN LANTHANIDE-BASED SINGLE-MOLECULE MAGNETS

Selvan Demir - University of Göttingen, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Unsupervised substructure discovery in mass spectrometry metabolomics data”

Dr Simon Rogers, University of Glasgow.

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Less meat, less heat: how can cafeterias increase vegetarian sales and reduce meat consumption?

Emma Garnett.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Activation of T cells is under mechanical control"

Hosted by Gillian Griffith, speaker; Marco Fritzsche

Marco Fritzsche, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine University of Oxford.

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Anticipations of the ocean: technological futures of the Cold War ocean

Sam Robinson (University of York).

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Coordinated approaches to assess the effects of interacting global change drivers on forest composition and function

Kris Verheyen, University of Ghent.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Competition and Voting Premium

Oğuzhan Karakaş University Senior Lecturer in Finance, Cambridge Judge Business School, CERF Fellow..

North 10 (lower ground), Trumpington Street.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Vaccines for Notorious Zoonotic Viruses

Jonathan Heeney, University of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

The Benefits of Bayesian Machine Learning

Stanley Lazic, Cantab.

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

ANOVA of balanced multi-factorial designs: between subject designs, and single subject studies

Peter Watson (MRC-CBU).

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

Thursday 08 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Overview of the core ideas in cancer research

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 08 November 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge University Physics Society

From brain descriptions to brain explanations

Professor Robert Turner, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Cryo-EM heats up

Dr Doryen Bubeck, Imperial College, London.

Main Lecture Theatre, St John's College Divinity School.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

A Proper Mapping Theorem for coadmissible D-cap-modules

Andreas Bode (Oxford).

MR12.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Scalable Intelligent Systems by 2025

Carl Hewitt - Emeritus Professor at MIT.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:15-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Quantum cohomology and DAHA actions

Catharina Stroppel, Bonn.

MR13.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

AGE IMMUNE: do bats hold the secret of extended longevity?

Professor Emma C Teeling, School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

New Avenues in Synthesis Enabled by Organic Photoredox Catalysis

Professor David Nicewicz, UNC Chapel Hill .

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry, Lensfield Road, University of Cambridge, CB2 1EW.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Parasitology Seminars

Cellular Mechanisms of Immunopathology vs. Protection in Human Cutaneous Leishmaniasis

Dr Ken Gollob, Translational Immuno-oncology Group, International Center for Research, Brazil.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Simulation of Reversible Transitions in Multifunctional Biomolecules: the Energy Landscape Perspective

First Year PhD Report

Daniel Sharpe, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:40-15:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Structural Parametrisation of Lanthanide-Based Single-Molecule Magnets for Room Temperature Quantum Computing

First Year PhD Report

David Izuogu, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:15-14:35

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

A Ringel-Hall type construction of vertex algebras

Dominic Joyce, Oxford.

CMS MR13.

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

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Decoding the "DNA" of prediction, from the smallest to largest scales in nature

John Joseph Carrasco, Northwestern University & IPhT.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Computational and Systems Biology

Discovering the gene networks that regulate hunger

Dr Katherine Lawler (MRC Institute of Metabolic Science).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Defending Against Adversarial Attacks

Ross Clarke (University of Cambridge).

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Selective Contact and Patterning of Topological Surface States by Interfacing with Trivial and Ferromagnetic Insulators

Ms. Ankita S Anirban, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Discrete Analysis Seminar

Correlations of multiplicative functions at almost all scales

Joni Teräväinen, University of Oxford.

MR5, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 13:45-14:45

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

The King ecosystem beyond games; a deep dive into solutions that scale

Food provided

Richard Palmer, Principal Engineer, King.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 13:05-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Temporal binding and the idea of a 'sense of agency': a critical examination

Christoph Hoerl (University of Warwick).

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

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 13:00-14:30

Immunology in Pathology

Host MHC and genomic diversity retards experimental evolution of viral virulence

Host: Professor Jim Kaufman (jfk31@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Wayne Potts, University of Utah.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Improving speech perception with cochlear implants by optimizing the electrode-to-neuron interface and by using machine learning to reduce background noise

Tobias Goehring (MRC CBU) .

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

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 12:30-13:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Chemical-physics properties, complexity and chirality measures for the amino acids of the isoleucine series from Antarctic meteorites

Fabiana Da Pieve.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Crystal structure prediction for low cost battery anodes

Angela Harper (University of Cambridge).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Cross-Species Genetic Mapping of Targets in Mitochondria, Metabolism and Aging

Professor Johan Auwerx, EPFL, Lausanne.

Sackler Lecture Theatre (Level 7) Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 11:00-12:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Particle Physics & CERN

Professor Daniela Bortoletto.

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

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

Early Science and Medicine

From angel food to vegetable diets: medicalizing the feminine appetite in the British 18th century

Jessica Hamel-Akré (Department of History and Philosophy of Science).

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

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 17:00-18:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Loop Correlations in Random Wire Models

Costanza Benassi (Northumbria).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Searches for invisible decays of the Higgs Boson with ATLAS

Ben Carlson (Pittsburgh).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Level raising for automorphic representations of GL(2n)

Christos Anastassiades (Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Probability

The TAP-Plefka variational principle for mean field spin glasses

David Belius (Basel).

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

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

You think you're not a target? A tale of three developers

Chris Lamb, Debian Project Leader.

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Q&A session

Chris Lamb, Debian Project Leader.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Recognising books made in Cambridge: a University Library bookbindings project

Dr David Pearson, Senior Member, Darwin College.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The tension between generality and diversity: what makes biology so cool

Hanna Kokko (University of Zurich).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

ARClub Talks

Sensory processing in autism – Core phenotypic status?

Dr. Caroline Robertson, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth University, Director of the Dartmouth Autism Research Initiative.

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

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Lecture has been cancelled - This Antibiotics from Darwin’s chemistry set

This lecture has been cancelled

Professor Peter Leadlay FRS, Emeritus Herchel Smith Professor of Biochemistry, Department of Biochemistry .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 05 November 2018, 18:00-19:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Emotion

Caitlin Hitchcock (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 05 November 2018, 16:00-17:30

Optoelectronics Group

Road to ultra-low switching energy Memories for artificial neurons

Professor Thirumalai Venkatesan.

Kapitza Seminar Room, Kapitza, Cavendish laboratory.

Monday 05 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Synchrotron Adventures with Criegee Intermediates: Studies of Tropospheric Chemistry in the Lab

Rebecca Caravan, Sandia National Labs.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 05 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Declarative Software Design in Python

Lunch provided

Elmer Landaverde, Bloomberg Team Leader of Engineering Core Workflows .

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 05 November 2018, 13:05-14:05

Cabinet of Natural History

The Curious Martin Folkes (1690–1754): sociability and collecting in the mid-18th century

Martha Homfray-Cooper (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 05 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Dynamics of volcanic outgassing and plume transport revealed by proximal Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) measurements

Emma Liu, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 05 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Rejuvenation biotechnology: why age may soon cease to mean aging

Aubrey de Grey.

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

Saturday 03 November 2018, 18:00-20:00

Zangwill Club

Sleep for Systems Consolidation

Dr Lisa Genzel, Assistant Professor, The Branco Weiss Fellowship – Society in Science Donders Centre for Neuroscience, The Netherlands.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:30-17:30

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

On the accuracy of numerically computed vibration models

Professor Garth Wells, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:30-17:00

Worms and Bugs

Modelling social structure and infectious disease: transmission, control and equity

James Munday (LSHTM).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Towards a better understanding of early stopping for boosting algorithms

Yuting Wei, Stanford University.

MR12.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Integration-by-parts reductions from algebraic geometry

Kasper Larsen (University of Southampton).

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

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Seismic Diffraction near the Core-Mantle Boundary

Zhi Li.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Geometry and analysis models for generative design

Dr Fehmi Cirak, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-16:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Buoyancy-driven flows and mixing: an energetics perspective

Graham Hughes Imperial College.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

C++ (part 3) - All the rest!

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 02 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

'Which one is the engineer – 25 years in construction’

Simon Smith, Smith & Wallwork.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 02 November 2018, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

7 tesla magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy

Prof Chris Rodgers, Neuroscience, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 02 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Time to wake up: Regulation of Neural Stem Cell Quiescence and Reactivation

Andrea Brand, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 November 2018, 13:15-13:55

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Goldman Sachs: Banking with Bots – Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

Food provided

Niccolo Lamanna, Goldman Sachs.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 02 November 2018, 13:05-14:30

CEB Postdocs Lunchtime Seminar Series

A Multi-Scale Approach for Reverse Engineering Chemical Looping Combustion

Dr Matthias Schnellmann.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 3, Level 3 ).

Friday 02 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Cancer immune cellular therapy

Hosted by Ankur Mutreja, Speaker: Peng Li

Peng Li, Tsinghua University.

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

Friday 02 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Black Holes for Massive Gravitons

Rachel A Rosen (Columbia).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 02 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS - 'To control reproduction is to control the future'

Ian McCrone, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 02 November 2018, 08:45-10:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of host cells in time and space

Max Gutierrez.

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

Thursday 01 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Material substitutions in historical perspective: the cases of the British Substitutes and Vegetable Drugs Committees during World War Two

Mat Paskins (London School of Economics).

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

Thursday 01 November 2018, 15:30-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

The largest K_s-free induced subgraph in a K_t-free graph

Oliver Janzer (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Second-Principles DFT methods and current applications

Dr Pablo García Fernández, University of Cantabria.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:15-15:15

Genetics Seminar

Organoids and clonal analysis to study cell community interactions during pancreas development

Host: Alfonso Martinez-Arias

Professor Anne Grapin-Botton from DanStem, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany.

Part II Room, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

King's Occasional Lectures

Language Evolution in Spatial Domains, and Statistical Physics

James Burridge, University of Portsmouth.

Audit Room, King's College.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Biomimetic surface engineering: manufacturing functional surfaces using digital processing technologies

James Macdonald.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 13:10-14:00

Finance - Centre for Financial Research

Volatility and arbitrage: short- and long-term relative arbitrage in stochastic portfolio theory

Johannes Ruf, LSE.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Influenza virus-host cell interactions

Nadia Naffakh, Institut Patsur, Paris, France.

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

Thursday 01 November 2018, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

A high-order and conservative particle-mesh algorithm for advection-dominated flows

Jakob Maljaars and Robert Jan Labeur, Delft University of Technology.

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

Thursday 01 November 2018, 11:30-12:30

AMOP list

New Phenomena in Driven Quantum Systems

Shankari Rajagopal, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Thursday 01 November 2018, 10:00-11:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Tumour structure and nomenclature

These talks are aimed at first year PhD students but all are welcome to attend.

Dr Paul Edwards, Emeritus Reader in Cancer Biology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 09:30-10:30

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Partition algebras and Deligne's category Rep(S_t)

Stuart Martin.

MR12.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)5.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Stylus input and the benefits of a standard

Mark Hayter - Sr Engineering Director in the Chrome OS Hardware team at Google, and is currently a visitor from industry with the Computer Architecture team in the Computer Lab .

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:15-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Algebraic K-theory and exact Lagrangians in cotangent bundles

Thomas Kragh, Uppsala.

MR13.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Programming Hierarchical Self-Assembly for Colloidal Open Crystals

Dr Dwaipayan Chakrabarti, University of Birmingham.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

On Mori fibre spaces of dimension 4 and their automorphism group

Enrica Floris, Université de Poitiers.

CMS MR13.

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

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Local measurement schemes for quantum field theory in curved spacetimes

Chris Fewster, York.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Healthy eating: Emulsion microstructure engineering for salt or sugar reduction

Professor Bettina Wolf, University of Birmingham, UK.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

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

Computational and Systems Biology

Personal Genomics

Dr Julian Gough (MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

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

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Active THz Polarization Modulators

Stephen Kindness, University of Cambridge.

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

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

Machine Learning Reading Group @ CUED

Reinforcement Learning and Control as Probabilistic Inference

Robert Pinsler, Calvin Kao.

Engineering Department, CBL Room 438.

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Transforming Retail with Machine Learning

Food provided

Martin Gee, Principal Head of Software Engineering, Argos.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:05-14:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Reconciling the opposing effects of neurobiological evidence on criminal sentencing judgments

Karina Vold (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mouse Hox gene enhancers analysed in cell culture; and some proposals on the significance of Hox gene collinearity

Dr Stephen Gaunt, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Mechanisms of object recognition in humans, primates and deep neuronal networks

Kamila Jozwik (Dept of Psychology, University of Cambridge) .

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

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Linking Glacial-Interglacial States to Multiple Equilibria of Climate

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

David Ferreira, University of Reading.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 11:00-12:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

Influenza pandemics: past and future

Wendy Barclay.

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

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 18:00-20:00

Generation to Reproduction Seminars

Psychedelic birth: bodies, boundaries and consciousness in the 1970s

Wendy Kline (Purdue University / University of Strathclyde).

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

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 17:00-18:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Newton-Cartan Gravity with Unconstrained Torsion: a Galilean General Theory of Gravity

Marco Cariglia (U. Fed. Ouro Preto, Brazil).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

A particle physicist's experience at the NASA Frontier Development Lab

Will Fawcett (Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Where are the zeroes of a random p-adic polynomial?

Xavier Caruso (CNRS).

MR13.

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

Category Theory Seminar

A Model Invariance Problem in Homotopy Type Theory

Anthony Bordg (University of Cambridge).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Probability

Nonpositive curvature is not coarsely universal

Alexandros Eskenazis (Princeton).

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

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

The Guardian Council: Using many-core architectures to support programmable hardware security

Sam Ainsworth, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Adriana Perez-Rotondo (Control group).

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

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

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Creating a Real Time data & ML pipeline for Smart Cities, Mobility & Infrastructure

Lunch provided

Pankaj Daga, Alchera Technologies.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 13:15-14:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Environment of the Elizabethan House – Hardwick Hall

Professor Dean Hawkes, Emeritus Fellow, Darwin College.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 13:10-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony. How culture made the human mind

Zoology Graduate Student's Invited Speaker

Kevin Laland (University of St. Andrews).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Energy and matter at the origin of life – and why it matters

Prof. Nick Lane, UCL.

The Wolfson Hall, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge, CB3 0DS.

Monday 29 October 2018, 19:30-21:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

Adrian Seminar - "Probing the molecular basis of extreme physiology using African mole-rats"

Gary Lewin, Max Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine, Berlin.

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

Monday 29 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Mechanisms of forgetting

Michael Anderson (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Monday 29 October 2018, 16:00-17:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Linear systems of wave equations on cosmological backgrounds with convergent asymptotics

Hans Ringström, KTH Stockholm Sweden.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 29 October 2018, 15:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Elite paternalism and exotic drug demand in early modern France: the case of the Marquis de Louvois and quinquina, circa 1685

Justin Rivest (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 29 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Primary Antibody Defects: Insights and Surprises”

Hosted by Andres Floto, Speaker: Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles

Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Sanger Seminar Room, MRC LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, CBC.

Monday 29 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Precessing flows: from geophysics to bioreactors

Patrice Meunier, IRPHÉ, CNRS, Marseille.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 29 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Cortical tracking of natural and artificial sequences

Professor Lucia Melloni, Department of Neurology, NYU School of Medicine, US; Department of Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:30-17:30

Worms and Bugs

BBC Pandemic, National Edition

Petra Klepac (DAMTP and LSHTM).

Meeting room 15, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Statistics

Bayesian regression models for complex spatially or serially correlated functional data

Jeffrey Morris, MD Anderson Cancer Center.

MR12.

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Quantum gravity as an EFT, black hole thermodynamics and an excursion into the UV

Basem El-Menoufi (University of Sussex).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

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

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Tomography of the Post Subduction Setting in North Borneo and the Icelandic Rift System

Omry Volk.

Tea Room, Old House.

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

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Some dynamics of bolted interfaces

Dr Hugh Goyder, Cranfield University.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Interaction of turbulent flow with complex roughness topographies

Angela Busse U. Glasgow.

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

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

Scott Lectures

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

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

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

C++ (part 2) - Object-oriented C++

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 26 October 2018, 15:00-16:00