Quantum Matter Seminar

FINDING BETTER MATERIALS FASTER: THE EXAMPLE OF MAGNETOCALORICS

Prof. Ram Seshadri, University of California, Santa Barbara.

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

Friday 22 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Understanding diversity in the human immune system"

Hosted by Alice Denton, Speaker: Adrian Liston

Adrian Liston, Univ. of Leuven.

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

Friday 22 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

'Targeting proteostatic mechanisms of resistance in malaria’

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Kasturi Haldar

Kasturi Haldar, University of Notre Dame.

KLUG seminar room, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Friday 22 June 2018, 10:00-11:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Monitoring and Fault-tolerant Control for Large-Scale Interconnected Systems

Francesca Boem, University College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 21 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

‘Fetal tolerance and anti-viral immunity at the maternal-fetal interface in human pregnancy’

Hosted by Francesco Colucci, Speaker: Tamara Tilburgs

Tamara Tilburgs, Harvard University.

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

Thursday 21 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Sensors CDT seminars

R&D in a global science company: How things works

To register for this talk, please visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rd-in-a-global-science-company-how-things-work-by-erik-thiele-phd-tickets-46710179404

Eric Thiele, Chemours.

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

Thursday 21 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyond

Thomas Kipf (Uni of Amsterdam).

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Frontiers in paediatric cancer research

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

Dr Suzanne Turner, Department of Pathology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 21 June 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Actomyosin driven tension at compartment boundaries orients cell divisions independently of cell shape in vivo

Elena Scarpa, PDN, Cambridge.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Investigating the role of mitochondrial metabolism during central nervous system development

Jelle van den Ameele - Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 17:30-19:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

'Friends or Foes? Helminth-microbiota interactions in the equine gastrointestinal tract

Dr Laura Peachey, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Revealing mitochondrial function by reading mtDNA mutation patterns

Dr James Stewart, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany.

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

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Bayesian Deep Learning to Predict Air Pollution & Personalized Air Pollution Monitoring and Health Management

Victor O.K. Li & Jacqueline CK Lam, The University of Hong Kong.

FW11 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 14:15-15:30

British Antarctic Survey

The effect of ice shelf dynamics on marine ice sheet stability

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

Marianne Haseloff, University of Oxford.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Differential responses to cognitive training: insights from a machine learning approach

Mengya Zhang (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU) .

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

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

Making Python Fast: Using Hardware-Software Co-design to Address Inefficiencies in Dynamic Language Runtimes

Note unusual time and venue

Berkin Ilbeyi, Cornell.

SW01, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

Self-Other Processes in ASD - the Case of Empathy

Dr Idalmis Santiesteban, ESRC Future Research Leaders Fellow and Affiliate Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 20 June 2018, 10:30-11:30

AMOP list

Interaction instability of localization in quasiperiodic systems

Prof. Marko Žnidarič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 15:30-16:30

Applied and Computational Analysis

Multi-parameter regularisation for solving inverse problems of unmixing problems: theoretical and practical aspects

Valeriya Naumova (Simula, Norway).

MR 14.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

The direct approach to evaluation order

Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni, INRIA.

FW26.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Event Triggered Monitoring of Traffic Clusters

Gianni Antichi.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 13:15-13:45

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

DiCE: The Infinitely Differentiable Monte-Carlo Estimator

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

Jakob Foerster, University of Oxford.

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

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Regulators of Muscle Stem Cell Fate and Function

Hosted by: John Gurdon & Meritxell Huch

Helen Blau, Baxter Laboratory for Stem Cell Biology, Stanford University, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 19 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

Statistics

Sketchy decisions: Low-rank convex matrix optimization with optimal storage

Joel Tropp (Caltech).

MR12.

Monday 18 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Polar Oceans PhD Student talks

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

David Bett and Rachael Sanders, BAS.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

Monday 18 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Herding Nulls – and other C# stories from the future

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

Mads Torgersen, Microsoft Research Redmond.

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

Monday 18 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Yield stress fluids at an interface: coating and slipping

Elise Lorenceau (University of Grenoble).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Flavored Axion Models

Robert Ziegler.

MR13, CMS (Pav. E, reach from downstairs Central Core).

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Machine Learning: What Is It, and What Is It Good For?

Beacon Salon # 11

Dr Eric Rees.

Lecture Theatre 3, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Friday 15 June 2018, 15:45-16:45

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Smart structures using Shape Memory Alloys

Professor Kamal Bajoria.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

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

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Compositional Compiler Verification for a Multi-Language World

Amal Ahmed, Northeastern University.

FW26.

Friday 15 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Psychological Medicine in Global Health : research for impact

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Dr Melanie Abas, Kings College London.

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

Friday 15 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Understanding the dynamics of host-pathogen interaction"

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Amit Singhal

Amit Singhal, A. Star Singapore.

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

Friday 15 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Gravitational Waves from Axion Stars

Thomas Helfer (King's College London).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 15 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

BPI Seminar Series

Suppression of marine ice sheet instability

Dr Sam Pegler, Applied Maths, University of Leeds.

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

Friday 15 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Nuclear Mechanopathology & Early Cancer Diagnostics’

Host: Ashok Venkitaraman ((Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar) Contact:pa-venkitaraman@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk

Professor GS Shivashankar, Deputy Director, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore.

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

Friday 15 June 2018, 10:30-11:30

Foster Talks

Foster Talk - "Integrating structural and functional approaches to decipher AMPA receptor signaling in synaptic transmission and plasticity"

Dr Ingo Greger, MRC-Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Concept learning as compression

Bradley Love (UCL).

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

Thursday 14 June 2018, 15:30-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Geometric Structure of graph Laplacian embeddings

Nicolas Garcia Trillos, Brown University.

MR 14.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Mechanics of Hydrogen diffusion and embrittlement

Professor Norman Fleck, CUED.

CUED, LR6.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Biomarker discovery through statistical signal processing and Bayesian modelling on large-scale quantitative proteomics data”

Professor Andrew Dowsey, University of Bristol.

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

Thursday 14 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Nonextensivity in classical inertial XY and Heisenberg models

Dr Antonio Rodríguez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 14:15-15:15

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Angels, Entrepreneurship, and Employment Dynamics: Evidence from Investor Accreditation Rules

Luke Stein, Assistant Professor, Finance, Arizona State University..

Room W4.03 Judge Business School.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

The role of percieved coparenting quality for parent & child adjustment

Dr Rachel Latham, King’s College London.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

BREAKING THE SILENCE – Where you draw the line?

Dr Miriam Lynn, Equality and Diversity Section and Tracy Brooks, School of Technology Human Resources Business Manager.

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

Thursday 14 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Cell-Autonomous Mechanisms of HIV Suppression

Michael Malim, King's College London.

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

Thursday 14 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

NO SEMINAR

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Thursday 14 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Preventing Fairness Gerrymandering: Auditing and Learning for Subgroup Fairness

Prof. Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

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

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Paediatric malignancies: an overview

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

Dr Amos Burke, Department of Paediatric Haematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 14 June 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 9 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 16:30-18:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Who gave that to me? Carriage and transmission of Staphylococcus aureus in schools.

Citizen Scientists from Cottenham Village College and St Bedes Inter-Church School and Dr Andrew Conlan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

The cosmological constant problem and its sequester

Antonio Padilla, University of Nottingham.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey

Understanding uncertainty via statistical analysis of a global aerosol model

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

Lindsay Lee, University of Leeds.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Development of SAW-driven photon detectors and sources in an undoped GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well structure

Antonio Rubino, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK.

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

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The dynamics of functional brain networks: Examining the role of noradrenaline

James Mac Shine (U. of Sydney).

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

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Dynamics of heat transfer and exchanges across the Antarctic Slope Front

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

Andrew Stewart, UCLA.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Perceptual Display: Apparent Enhancement of Scene Detail and Depth

Karol Myszkowski, Max-Planck-Institute for Computer Science.

SS03 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 16:15-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Xizi Li (CBL).

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

On determinations of the strong coupling constant from hadronic data

Dr. Zahari Kassabov (University of Cambridge).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Averages of Characteristic Polynomials from Classical Groups and L-functions

Alexander Gamburd (The Graduate Center, CUNY).

MR11.

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Polluted Bootstrap Percolation

Alexander E Holroyd.

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

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

How can Trustzone help with securing microservice-oriented apps?

Zahra Tarkhani.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 13:15-13:45

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Grenfell Tower - One Year On

Dr Jonathan Evans, Chairman and CEO at Ash and Lacy.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Climate of 79N glacier (Greenland)

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

Jenny Turton, Friedrich-Alexander Universität.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 10:00-11:00

AMOP list

Anomalous momentum diffusion of strongly interacting bosons in optical lattices

Dr. Fabrice Gerbier, Ecole Normale Supeerieure Paris, France.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 11 June 2018, 15:30-16:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Processes controlling the flux of Circumpolar Deep Water onto Antarctic Shelves.

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

Andy Hogg, Australian National University.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Monday 11 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

A Lagrangian analysis of the seasonal and interannual variability in Greenland precipitation sources

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

Johannes de Leeuw, Utrecht University.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

Monday 11 June 2018, 11:15-12:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Functionalization and Heteroleptic Assembly of Coordination Cages

Prof. Dr. Guido Clever (Anorganische Chemie, Technische Universität Dortmund).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 11 June 2018, 10:00-11:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Droplets and vortices, and their complicated relationship

Rama Govindarajan (Tata Institute, Bangalore).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 08 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Half-Composite Higgs: a UV completion to the SM?

Alessandro Agugliaro (University of Florence).

MR13, CMS (Pav. E, reach from downstairs Central Core).

Friday 08 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Tea Time Talk Poster Session

CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 08 June 2018, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Cancelled

Cancelled: Dr Nikolaos Nikitas.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 08 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Breathing Solids: from Human Hair to Designer Nanoporous Materials

Dr Alex Neimark, Rutgers, Rutgers University, USA.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Iron at the interface of immunity and infection"

Hosted by Arthur Kaser, Speaker: Günter Weiss

Günter Weiss, Medical University of Innsbruck.

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

Friday 08 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The linear stability of the Schwarzschild solution to gravitational perturbations in a generalised wave gauge

Thomas Johnson (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 08 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Functional Distributional Semantics: Learning Linguistically Informed Representations from a Precisely Annotated Corpus

Guy Emerson, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 08 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

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

Production Processes Group Seminar - "Battery recycling and sustainability"

Nikolas Trifunovic and Claire Barlow.

Seminar Room 1 at the Institute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 08 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Characterising Embryonic Stem Cell Derived Tenocytes and Determining the Changing Role of Scleraxis During Tendon Development

Yasmin Paterson, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 08 June 2018, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

The microbiome of sheep following administration of a recombinant anti-helminth vaccine – implications for parasite control

Xiaopei Su, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 08 June 2018, 08:45-10:00

Statistics

What is the dimension of a stochastic process?

Victor Panaretos (EPFL).

MR11.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Hydro-environmental processes of Poyang Lake subject to engineering control

Jonathan Ho, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 16:00-16:45

Chaucer Club

The neural bases of declarative memory and primary using studies of brain damaged patients

Daniela Montaldi (U. of Manchester) .

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

Thursday 07 June 2018, 15:30-17:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Mass spectrometry-based proteomics: challenges and opportunities"

Dr Laurent Gatto, University of Cambridge .

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

Thursday 07 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Effective Edge State Dynamics in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Prof. Steve Simon, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 14:15-15:15

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Developing and Funding a Global System for the Conservation of Crop Diversity in Genebanks

Luigi Guarino, Crop Trust.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

‘Infertility in History: Approaches, Perspectives, Experiences’

Dr Gayle Davis, University of Edinburgh.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

BPI Seminar Series

Self-sculpting of a dissolvable body due to gravitational convection

Megan Davies Wykes (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 07 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Statistics and Machine Learning in (Bio) Chemical Engineering - An Open Workshop

Prof Alexei Lapkin et al.

Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE. Small Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 09:30-17:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

*09.00 START TIME* Brain tumours - demographics, presentation, diagnosis, patient pathways

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

Mr Thomas Santarius, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 09:00-10:00

Children's Literature

Autism in Children's Fiction

Dr Shalini Vohra, Sheffield Hallam University.

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

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 17:00-18:30

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

A quantum light-emitting diode for the standard telecom window around 1,550 nm

Ginny Shooter, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK.

Small Lecture Theatre (Bragg Building), Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Immunology in Pathology

Challenges in human respiratory viral infection

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Christopher Chiu, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Why are patients with Parkinson’s disease and Dementia impulsive – and what can we do about it?

Prof James Rowe (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU & Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience).

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

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 12:30-13:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Commercialisation with Cambridge Enterprise

Cambridge Enterprise.

Large Meeting Room (4th floor), Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Wednesday 06 June 2018, 12:30-14:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Whole genome sequencing for diagnosis and discovery of mitochondrial diseases

Professor Anna Wedell, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

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

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Semisimplicity of certain Galois representations occurring in etale cohomology of unitary Shimura varieties

Jan Nekovář (Sorbonne Université).

MR13.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Future Cities Research

Ian Lewis.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 13:15-13:45

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Regulatory principles in human development and evolution

Hosted by: Julie Ahringer & Emma Rawlins

Joanna Wysocka, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Cellular Plasticity in Cancer: driving force and therapeutic target’

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (SV358@MRC-CU.cam.ac.uk) Hutchison/MRC Seminar

Professor Thomas Brabletz, Department of Experimental Medicine, University Erlangen-Nuernberg.

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

Tuesday 05 June 2018, 11:00-12:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Designing a strategy for merging atmospheric chemistry models and measurements: Going after what matters

Please note, venue and time.

Prof. Michael Prather, Earth system Science Dept, UC Irvine.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 04 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

AMOP list

Cavity-mediated interaction in a quantum gas - From supersolids to spin textures

Dr. Tobias Donner, ETH Zurich Switzerland .

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 04 June 2018, 15:30-16:30

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Electron Hydrodynamics in Graphene: Fundamentals and Application

Denis Bandurin, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom.

Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 04 June 2018, 14:15-15:15

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Windows Insider Program

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

Dona Sarkar and Jeremiah Marble, Microsoft Research Redmond.

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

Monday 04 June 2018, 14:15-15:00

Zangwill Club

Selectivity and dynamics of human face representations

Professor Rafael Malach, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 01 June 2018, 16:30-17:30

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Brake actuated steering of heavy good vehicles

Francesco Amoruso, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 June 2018, 16:30-17:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Sabyasachi Chatterjee (UIUC).

MR12.

Friday 01 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Autonomous reversing of articulated vehicles

Albert Liu, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 01 June 2018, 16:00-16:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Precise QCD predictions for Higgs boson pair production

Javier Mazzitelli (Zurich University).

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

Friday 01 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Brunelleschi and more: Domes in Florence

Dr Gianni Bartoli, University of Florence.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 01 June 2018, 15:00-16:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

From global to local state in game semantics via the sequoid

James Laird, University of Bath.

FW26.

Friday 01 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Bioengineering human liver organoids using induced-pluripotent stem cells in 3D hydrogel

Dr Soon Seng Ng, King’s College London.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 01 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Interactive talk for students and Postdocs as part of the "Alternative careers in science" series

Katherine Kahn from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Friday 01 June 2018, 14:00-16:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

2nd-Year Student Talks - NB: 1.30pm prompt start time

Various speakers.

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

Friday 01 June 2018, 13:30-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Building and Breaking Epithelial tubes: an Optogenetic approach

Clare Buckley, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 01 June 2018, 13:15-13:55

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Regulation of natural killer cell responses in the tumor microenvironment"

Hosted by Maike De La Roche, speaker: Andreas Lundqvist

Andreas Lundqvist, Karolinska Institute.

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

Friday 01 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Stellar core collapse in scalar-tensor theory with massive fields

Roxana Rosca (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 01 June 2018, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Learning hierarchical structure: strong learning of PCFGs

Alexander Clark, King's College London.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 01 June 2018, 12:00-13:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS - Choroid plexus carcinoma? Needed like a hole in the head!

Jonathan Hughes, Oliver Greville-Heygate, David Williams, Victoria Argent, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 01 June 2018, 08:45-10:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Molecular Imaging of Disease

Bruno Oliveira, Chemistry Dept, Cambridge.

Todd Hamied, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The structure and function of visual working memory

Paul Bays (U. of Cambridge, Dept of Psychology).

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

Thursday 31 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Edge Computing through Distributed Trust and Programmable Privacy

Ioannis Psaras (UCL).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

The Junta Method for Hypergraphs

Noam Lifschitz (Bar-Ilan University).

MR13.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 14:30-15:30

CUED Control Group Seminars

Control theory of switches and clocks

Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

The Dark Side of Circuit Breakers

Cambridge Finance Workshop - Hui Chen (MIT) .

Room W4.03 Judge Business School.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A Ser/Thr receptor-like kinase, Ark1, is required to maintain arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice

Ronelle Roth, Paszkowski Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

BPI Seminar Series

Kinetic barriers in surfactant adsorption and desorption

Dr Chris Breward, University of Oxford.

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

Thursday 31 May 2018, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

5 selfish reasons to work reproducibly

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

Dr Florian Markowetz, Group Leader, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 09:30-10:30

Children's Literature

The Childist Turn in Children’s Literature Studies

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Anglia Ruskin University and University of Wroclaw .

Mary Allan Building room 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Before Trump: the neoliberal–illiberal alliance of the IMF and WTO with the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Note unusual day and time

Sonja Amadae (MIT).

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

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 21 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Milnor fiber complexes and some representations

Alexander Miller (Vienna).

MR12.

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

The Wheeler Lectures in Computer Science

The Wheeler Lecture In Computer Science: Language, Learning, and Creativity

Professor Stephen Pulman - Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 16:15-18:00

Cavendish Physical Society

A physicist's spin on data science

Deborah Berebichez, Chief Data Scientist at Metis.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre,.

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

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Organelle-specific subcellular delivery using miothcondria-penetrating peptides

Professor Shana Kelly, University of Toronto.

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

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Atomistic graph partitioning across scales: from molecules to precision healthcare

Professor Sophia Yaliraki, Imperial College London.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

CFT from EFT at large charge

Riccardo Rattazzi.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Pseudolattices, del Pezzo surfaces, and fibrations over discs.

Alan Thompson, Cambridge.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Sir Martin Wood Prize Lecture "Measurement and Control of the Phase of an Electron Wave"

Dr Michihisa Yamamoto, Associate Professor, Quantum-Phase Electronics Centre, The University of Yokyo.

Cavendish Laboratory, Pippard Lecture Theatre.

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

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Constructing the organism in the age of abstraction

Mazviita D. Chirimuuta (University of Pittsburgh).

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

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

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Life in the dark: can deep sea fishes see colours?

Zuzana Musilova (Charles University, Prague).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

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

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Re-thinking cognitive training research

Joe Rennie (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

Adaptive immunesurveillance by human γδ T cells

Host: Dr David Rhodes (dar32@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Martin Davey, University of Birmingham.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Wave propagation in complex media: Branching, chimeras and machine learning predictions

Professor G. P. Tsironis - Department of Physics, University of Crete, Greece.

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

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

BSS Formal Seminars

An overview of protein phase behavior

Prof Neer Asherie, Yeshiva University, New York, USA.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Michael Hall.

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Adrianna Loback (Control Group).

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

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Aqueous Catalysis: From Fundamental Water Oxidation to the Commercialisation of Hydrothermal Biomass Upgrading

Prof. Thomas Maschmeyer, Australian Institute of Nanoscale Science and Technology, Sydney, Australia.

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

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 15:30-16:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The XYZ-files: Exotic states in the heavy quarkonium spectrum

Pablo Ortega, University of Salamanca .

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: "Optimal bootstrapping with dependent data"

Prof Alastair Young, Imperial College London.

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

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 14:30-15:30

Probability

High-density hard-core configurations on a triangular lattice

Yuri Suhov (Penn State and Statslab).

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

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of color vision in Heliconius butterflies.

PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT VENUE

Adriana Briscoe (University of California at Irvine).

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Development of a chemical retinal prosthesis

John B. Troy, Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, U.S.A..

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

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Fighting Plagues in Southwest China: A case study in the history of science

Dr Mary Brazelton, Dept of History & Philosophy of Science.

Small Lecture Theatre (Bragg Building), Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Zangwill Club

Metacognition of internally-generated processes

Dr Elisa Filevich, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 25 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Heavy vehicle tyre wear: Measurement and Improvement

Dr Julien Lepine, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 25 May 2018, 16:30-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Soil-structure interaction and the added-building effect in ground-borne vibration

Guiseppe Sanitate, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 25 May 2018, 16:00-16:30

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Double-diffusive fingering at low Prandtl number

Pascale Garaud (University of California, Santa Cruz).

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

Friday 25 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Cosmic Archaeology with Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Strings

Marek Lewicki (King's College London).

MR13, CMS (Pav. E, reach from downstairs Central Core).

Friday 25 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

X-discontinuity and mantle transition zone structure beneath the Hawaiian hotspot using P-to-s conversions

Matthew Kemp.

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 25 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Materials and Devices for Interfacing with the Brain

Prof. George Malliaras, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 25 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Mixed-Integer Fractional Programming: Models, Algorithms, and Applications in Process Operations, Energy Systems, and Sustainability

Prof Fengqi You, Cornell University.

Large Meeting Room (4th floor), Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Friday 25 May 2018, 14:00-15:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Hedgehog signalling in immune cells

Maike de la Roche, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 25 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Novel signalling pathways controlling T cell adhesion and migration”

Hosted by Gillian Griffiths, speaker; Victor Tybulewicz

Victor Tybulewicz, Francis Crick Institute.

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

Friday 25 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

women@CL Speaker Lunch Series

Women@CL Talklet Event

Sandra Servia, Catalina Cangea, Angeliki Koutsoukou-Argyraki.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Friday 25 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

NAACL practice talks

Simon Baker (LTL) & Marek Rei (NLIP), University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 25 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Junior Clinical Training Scholars Presentations

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 25 May 2018, 08:45-10:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

TALK POSTPONED: Structural Fire Resiliance - How we’re getting it wrong, and why

Professor Luke Bisby, University of Edinburgh.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 25 May 2018, 00:00-00:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Grammatical innovations in Multicultural London English

David Hall (Queen Mary, University of London).

Room B4, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 16:30-18:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Chiral modification of surfaces

David Madden, The BP Institute, Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Why are we so bad at face recognition?

Mike Burton (U. of York).

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

Thursday 24 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Complete Graphs with No Rainbow Tree

Peter Wagner (University of Rostock).

MR13.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Computationally Driven Design of New and Improved Transparent Conducting Oxides

Dr David Scanlon, University College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Quantitative equational reasoning

Prakash Panangaden, McGill University.

FW26.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 13:45-14:45

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Plant Metabolic Clusters – From Genetics to Genomics

Third "Enid MacRobbie Women in Science" lecture

Anne Osbourne, John Innes Centre.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Role of RNA chaperons in segment assortment and RNA packaging of dsRNA viruses

Roman Tuma, Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds.

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

Thursday 24 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Ed Hinton -Injection of a fluid into a confined aquifer with a vertical gradient of permeability. Alex Gutai - Formation and eruption of silicic magmas by crustal melting.

Edward Hinton, BP Institute and Alex Gutai, BP Institute.

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

Thursday 24 May 2018, 11:30-12:30

Sensors CDT seminars

IoT is passé – what next?

Andrew Cowen, FutureCare UK Ltd.

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

Thursday 24 May 2018, 11:30-12:15

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The clinical and biological basis of prostate cancer - from diagnosis to personalised therapy

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

Mr Vincent Gnanapragasam, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 24 May 2018, 09:30-10:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Rule Control Of Teleo-Reactive, Multi-Tasking, Communicating Robotic Agents

Keith Clark - Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Unlocking medical questions with a developmental biology key

Dr Laura Hardwick, Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Stable diffeomorphisms of 4-manifolds

Mark Powell, Durham.

MR13.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

A simple proof with effective bounds for the Kobayashi conjecture on generic hyperbolicity.

Jean-Pierre Demailly (Grenoble).

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

From kB to kB: Universal and Efficient Entropy Estimation using a Compression Algorithm

Professor Roy Beck-Barkai, Tel-Aviv University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Microscopic Origins of the Weak Scale and the Power Spectrum of the LHC

Matthew McCullough (CERN).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

A Semiconductor Photon Sorter

Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What can scientific realists think about scientific method(s)?

Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan University; Durham University).

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

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Immunology in Pathology

Regulation of resistance and tolerance at the intestinal barrier

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Virginia Pedicord, Sanger Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Cortical and subcortical organisation of the multiple demand system

Moataz Assem (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

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

Julius von Kugelgen.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-Title to follow

Titia De Lange Rockefeller.

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

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

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Pathways of boundary mixing in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current revealed by a tracer release experiment.

External Visitors - Please contact organiser in advance to gain access

Marie-Jose Messias, University of Exeter.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

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

ARClub Talks

Understanding the genetics of autism from the genetics of related traits

Varun Warrier, Research Associate, Autism Research Centre, Univeristy of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 10:30-11:30

Plant Sciences Talks

Younger isn’t always better: Why juvenile spermatocytes frequently mis-segregate their chromosomes

Francesca Cole, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 10:00-11:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Multicomponent Reactions in Peptide and Protein Chemistry

Prof Daniel García Rivera from the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Havana (Cuba).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Pixels detectors in particle physics and beyond

Enrico Junior Schioppa.

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

On the uniqueness of graphical mean curvature flow

Mariel Sáez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

CMS, MR21.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

On the automorphy of 2-dimensional potentially semistable deformation rings of $G_{Q_p}$

Shen-Ning Tung (Universität Duisburg-Essen).

MR13.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 14:30-15:30

Probability

A particle model for Wasserstein type diffusion

Vitalii Konarovskyi.

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

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Detecting Spies in Sensor-Rich Environments using Cyber-Physical Correlation

Brent Lagesse, University of Washington Bothell (visiting Cambridge as a Fulbright Scholar).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Databox Storage

John Moore.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Capitalism, Debt and Inequality

Dr Anthony Hotson (Centre for Financial History and Darwin College).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sexual selection and trait investment in a dynamic world

PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT VENUE

Christine Miller (University of Florida).

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Early Detection Forum

Population based genetic testing strategy for cancer prevention

Refreshments provided. Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seminar-population-based-genetic-testing-strategy-for-cancer-prevention-tickets-45055563403

Dr Ranjit Manchanda, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of Longon.

Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 21 May 2018, 17:30-19:00

Statistics

On momentum methods and acceleration in stochastic optimization

Praneeth Netrapalli (Microsoft Research India).

MR14.

Monday 21 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

A TALE OF TWO METALS: CONTRASTING CRITICALITIES IN THE CUPRATES AND PNICTIDES

Prof. Nigel Hussey, Director of the Nijmegen High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

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

Monday 21 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Then initial value problem for the Euler equations of fluids viewed as a convex optimisation problem

Yann Brenier, CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 21 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Atmospheric research from the molecular to city scale

Dr Francis Pope, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 21 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Performance optimization of 2.0-2.6 mm metamorphic InGaAs photodetectors

Xingyou Chen, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 21 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Applied and Computational Analysis

Uncertainty quantification in kinetic equations

Shi Jin (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 21 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Inventorying the Rhone: the scientific travels of Claude Jourdan collecting for the Natural History Museum of Lyon, 1834–1869

Déborah Dubald (European University Institute, Florence).

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

Monday 21 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Understanding (some of) the Arctic Ocean: The Pacific Inflow via the Bering Strait - change, implications and using GRACE data to solve the 60-yr old riddle of what drives it.

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

Rebecca Woodgate, University of Washington.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Monday 21 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Developing memory interference strategies as treatments for addiction and trauma-related symptoms

Dr Sunjeev Kamboj, Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Statistics

Bayesian estimation of the mean response in a missing data model

Kolyan Ray (King's College London).

MR12.

Friday 18 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Acoustics in 'real life'

Angela Lamacraft, ACCON.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 18 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

High-frequency self-excited oscillations in flow through elastic-walled tubes

Robert Whittaker (University of East Anglia).

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

Friday 18 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Structural Engineering Teaching - Changing Demands

Prof Martin Gillie, University of Warwick.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 18 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

Dirac Lecture

Symmetries, Duality, and the Unity of Physics

All are welcome to attend.

Professor Nathan Seiberg (Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton)..

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

Friday 18 May 2018, 14:30-16:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Scheduling Tasks for Reconfigurable Architecture

Amlan Chakrabarti, University of Calcutta.

FW26.

Friday 18 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

On the length scale, robustness and manufacturability in topology optimization

Dr Boyan Stefanov Lazarov, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 18 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Signals regulating cell fates and cell movements in the vertebrate embryo

Sergei Sokol, Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, New York.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 18 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

The power of parenting support

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Professor Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Leiden University.

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

Friday 18 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Local environmental cues in the specification of red pulp macrophages"

Ziad Mallat, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 18 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant

Dr Jonathan Gair (University of Edinburgh).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 18 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Design techniques for sparse regression codes

Adam Greig, CUED.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Friday 18 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

The potential of synthetic data for more informative evaluation in Visual Question Answering

Alexander Kuhnle, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 18 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

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

Production Processes Group Seminar - "Development of a nano-Newton impulse balance

Nadeem Gabbani.

Seminar Room 1 at the Institute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 18 May 2018, 11:30-12:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Intercity dynamics of Influenza in Australia

Edward Lam, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 18 May 2018, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Evaluation of a pre-tied ligature loop for canine total lung lobectomy

Anna Cronin, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 18 May 2018, 08:45-10:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS AND INSTRUMENTATION IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY

Dr. Wes Maru, R & D Manager, OGM Ltd.

Lecture Room 0, Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 18:30-20:00

Rausing Lecture

Steamroll all the brutes: coal, steam and British Imperialism in mid-nineteenth century Levant and West Africa

Twenty-Third Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Andreas Malm (Lund University).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

Foster Talks

TODAY Foster Talk - Localised RNA-based mechanisms underlie neuronal wiring

Professor Christine Holt.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Understanding and manipulating monolayers of 1D and 2D conjugated polymers

Hugo Bronstein, Department of Chemistry, The University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Remembering complex events

Chris Bird (U. of Sussex).

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

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

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Research Challenges and Solutions for IOT/CPS

John A. Stankovic (University of Virginia).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Combinatorics Seminar

Sets of integers with many solutions to a linear equation

James Aaronson (University of Oxford).

MR13.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 14:30-15:30

Rainbow Group Seminars

Psychometric Scaling of TID2013 Dataset

Aliaksei Mikhailiuk (University of Cambridge).

SS03 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 14:15-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Gaussian distributions in symmetric spaces: novel tools for statistical learning with covariance matrices

Salem Said, CNRS, IMS Laboratory, Bordeaux.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

From Goethe to Macaques: What auctions can teach us about decision making

Mr Robert Hickman, Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience, Univesity of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

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

Clonal evolution of cancer: lessons from the mouse

Allan Balmain, UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Family Cancer Centre.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Multiple macroevolutionary routes to becoming a biodiversity hotspot

Javier Igea, Tanentzap Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Science, scientific method and rationality: Nehru's engagement with Ayurveda

Renny Thomas (University of Delhi).

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

Thursday 17 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Dynamic Liquidity-Based Security Design

Professor Kathy Yuan, LSE.

W2.01.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

BPI Seminar Series

Bob Groves - I'm Glovin' It and Alex Routh - How do LEA proteins operate?

Alexander F. Routh, BP Institute and Bob Groves, BP Institute visitor.

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

Thursday 17 May 2018, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Kidney cancer: the most lethal urological malignancy

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

Dr Grant Stewart, Department of Surgery, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Usability Group

Beyond rocket surgery: Building a culture of user engagement

Please sign up at https://www.meetup.com/Cambridge-Usability-Group/events/250167903/

Andy Morris, OnShape and Steve Krug.

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

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 18:30-21:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

A New Era of Open-Source System-on-Chip Design

Prof Christopher Batten - Cornell University.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 16:15-17:15

Parasitology Seminars

Chemical genetic approaches to accelerate antimalarial target discovery

Host: Ross Waller

Marcus Lee, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Vaccines for notorious Zoonotic Viruses

Prof. Jonathan Heeney, Department of Veterinary Medicine, (University of Cambridge).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

An analogue of the curve complex for Garside groups

Bertold Wiest (Université de Rennes 1).

MR13.

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

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Selected CI and Jastrow-free QMC methods for Chemistry

Dr Pierre-Francois Loos, Université de Toulouse.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Birational boundedness of rationally connected Calabi--Yau 3-folds

Jingjun Han (Peking).

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

The Conformal Standard Model

Hermann Nicolai, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Potsdam.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

How physical and chemical forces shape flows on Earth: from submarine hydrothermal vents to the Fukushima nuclear cloud

Professor Silvana Cardoso, Chemical Engineering & Biotechnology.

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Mapping a non-linear Luttinger Liquid using 1D-2D magnetotunelling spectroscopy

Pedro Vianez, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge 
.

Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Giant Power: energy technology and the long history of post-truth

CANCELLED

Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University).

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

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene re-usages constrained the evolvability of the animal body plan?

Naoki Irie (University of Tokyo).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

A new way to defend the value free ideal for science

Mike Stuart (LSE).

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

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Immunology in Pathology

Red Queen drives selection on MHC genes

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

Professor Jacek Radwan, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Understanding apathy: what happens when the Rev. Bayes plays Angry Birds

Frank Hezemans (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Oceanography to fish population genetics: multidisciplinary studies with numerical models

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

Emma Young, British Antarctic Survey.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 330b.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Computational and Systems Biology

CCBI Annual Symposium

REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

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

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 09:00-17:25

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Andrey Stoychev (Control Group).

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The MMHT view of the proton

Dr. Lucian Harland-Lang (University of Oxford).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

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

Number Theory Seminar

Vanishing theorems for Siegel modular varieties of infinite Gamma_1-level

Christian Johansson (University of Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Uniform Kan fibrations from scratch

Eric Faber (DPMMS).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Probability

The criticality of a randomly-driven front

Amir Dembo (Stanford).

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

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Ethical Issues in Network Measurement

Shehar Bano, Dept. of Computer Science, University College London (UCL).

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

A mobile approach to IoT spectrum monitoring in Smart Cambridge

Andrés Arcia-Moret .

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

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

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Continental Drift: Is the Euro’s fixed exchange rate regime undermining cohesion policy?

Christopher Day (Dept. of Land Economy).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Beyond crazy: Rationality, irrationality, and conspiracy theory

Professor Robbie Sutton, University of Kent.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

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

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Illuminating the start of complex life: Spatial analysis of Ediacaran ecosystems

Dr Emily Mitchell, Earth Sciences (University of Cambridge).

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

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Epigenetics: One Genome, Multiple Phenotypes

Hosted by: Tony Kouzarides & Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

Danny Reinberg, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, NYU Langone School of Medicine at Smilow Research Center, New York, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Modified small RNA regulate chromosome dosage and segregation

Hosted by: Tony Kouzarides

Rob Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Nanoscience Centre Seminar Series

Nanomechanics with graphene drums

Prof. Mandar M. Deshmukh.

Electrical Engineering, Department of Engineering - Seminar Room - 9 JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FA.

Monday 14 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Cell-Material interface investigated via SEM/focused ion beam

Dr. Francesca Santoro.

Lecture Theatre 3, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Monday 14 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

CANCELLED - Semiclassical analysis and kinetic equations

Frédéric Hérau, Université de Nantes .

CMS, MR13.

Monday 14 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Fractons

Prof. Rahul Nandkishore, Boulder.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Monday 14 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

The search for signs of ozone recovery

Dr James Keeble, Cambridge University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 14 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Cabinet of Natural History

Earthquakes, the end of the world, and perspectives on the Last Judgment (1686–1756)

László Kontler (Central European University, Budapest).

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

Monday 14 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking

Professor Cecilia Heyes, All Souls College and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Advances in Phononic Frequency Combs

Adarsh Ganesan, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:30-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Cell morphogenesis across scales, from molecular processes to cell surface mechanics

Prof. Ewa Paluch, MRC LMCB, University College London and Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge..

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Multiple change point estimation based on moving sum statistics

Claudia Kirch (Magdeburg).

MR12.

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Dynamics of a tethered balloon

Marianna Sykopetritou, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Large deviation theory applied to climate physics, a new frontier of statistical physics and applied mathematics

Freddy Bouchet (ENS, Lyon).

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

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Shedding light on new physics with Effective Field Theories

Iliaria Brivio (Copenhagen).

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

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Concrete strains under transient thermal conditions

Dr Giacomo Torelli,Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 11 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Correlative Imaging of Electrochemical Devices Over Multiple Time and Length Scales

Dr Paul Shearing, Reader in Chemical Engineering & Materials, UCL.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 11 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Self-organization and patterning of sensory organs in Drosophila

François Schweisguth, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 11 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"The ZFP36-family of RNA Binding Proteins are regulators of lymphocyte activation and differentiation''

Hosted by Andrew McKenzie, Speaker: Martin Turner

Martin Turner, Babraham Institute.

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

Friday 11 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Scattering of linear waves in the interior of Reissner–Nordström black holes

Christoph Kehle (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 11 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

Regularity of interfaces in phase transitions via obstacle problems

Alessio Figalli (ETH).

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

Friday 11 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Emergent Communication through Negotiation

Kris Cao, NLIP, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 11 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS: ‘The horse which shed tears of blood'

Vikki Scott, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 11 May 2018, 08:45-10:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

An exploration of grain growth & deformation in zirconium

Ben Britton, Department of Materials, Imperial College, London.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Parasitology Seminars

Using immunoregulatory networks to instruct therapeutic interventions in human Chagas disease and leishmaniasis in Brazil

Host: Pete Bull

Prof Walderez Dutra, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Creatures of Cain: the hunt for human nature in Cold War America

Erika Milam (Princeton University).

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

Thursday 10 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

Title TBC

Speaker TBC.

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

Thursday 10 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Don't go with the Flow - A new tensor algebra for Neural Networks

Lior Horesh (IBM, Columbia University).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Cox-process representation and inference for stochastic reaction-diffusion processes”

Dr Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh.

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

Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:30-15:30

Genetics Seminar

Centriole Duplication: from body coordination in flies to skin cell biology and cancer

Host: Alexis Braun

Professor David Glover, Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Input-to-State Stability for complex dynamics: From global to almost global… and back

David Angeli, Imperial College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Echo mapping the gravitational potential well of black holes

Dr William Alston, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Explosive seed dispersal

Angela Hay, Max Planck.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

In pursuit of a broad spectrum antiviral: High resolution structures of antiviral targets in the calnexin cycle

Nicole Zitzmann, University of Oxford.

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

Thursday 10 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Non-equilibrium turbulence scalings and self-similarity in turbulent planar jets

Giaccchino Cafiero, BP Institute.

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

Thursday 10 May 2018, 11:30-12:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Ovarian cancer - frontiers in research

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

Dr James Brenton, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Professor Paul Pharoah, Centre for Cancer Genetic Epidemiology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Latent Variable Model, Matrix Estimation and Collaborative Filtering

Prof Devavrat Shah - MIT.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Optimisation of a recombinant vaccine to control parasitic nematodes

Dr Alasdair Nisbet, Moredun Research Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Detecting splittings of hyperbolic groups

Benjamin Barrett (Cambridge).

MR13.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Using Sequence Data to Probe the Determinants of Higher Order Structure in Fibrallar Collagens

First Year PhD Report

Anna Puszkarska, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:40-15:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Examples of tropical-to-Lagrangian correspondence

Grigory Mikhalkin, University of Geneva.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

How can we understand Quantum Rate Theory with the help of Matsubara Dynamics?

First Year PhD Report

Eszter Pós, University of Cambridge.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:15-14:35

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Inflation and Post-Inflation in String Cosmology

Fernando Quevedo, DAMTP and ICTP, Trieste.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Taming the complexity of solution processing methods for metal hydride perovskites, the wunderkind of solar cell materials

Professor Paulette Clancy, Samuel W. and M. Diane Bodman Professor in Chemical Engineering, Cornell University .

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site, LT1.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

2D device engineering of van der Waals heterostructures using dry transfer techniques

Dr. Luke W. Smith, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Understanding protein function through multiple models of structure: barriers to integration

Agnes Bolinska (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) and Julie-Anne Gandier (University of Toronto).

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

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Craik Club

You don't have to use 'motion energy' to compute velocity: a biologically inspired and implemented motion model

Dr Linda Bowns, Cambridge Computational Biology Institute.

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

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Can you live to see a better day? Lifestyle engagement predicts healthy cognitive development in old age (a Cam-CAN study)

Sophia Borgeest (U. of Cambridge, MRC CBU).

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

Wednesday 09 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

Ana Stoica, Columbia University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

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

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Superconformal quantum mechanics and integrability

Nick Dorey (DAMTP).

MR11.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The rich structure of the Underlying Event: what we learnt from the Large Hadron Collider Run I and II?

Dr Paolo Bartalini, CERN and CCNU (China).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Representations of p-adic groups

Jessica Fintzen (Cambridge / IAS / Michigan).

MR13.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 14:30-15:30

Probability

First passage percolation in hostile environment (on hyperbolic graphs)

Elisabetta Candellero (Warwick).

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

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Data science approaches to understanding key actors on online hacking forums

Sergio Pastrana/Andrew Caines, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Databox

Richard Mortier.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

A Journey through Time: Revisiting the Landfalls of Darwin's Voyage of the Beagle

Prof David Catling (University of Washington).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Fuxianhuiids and their exceptional contribution to the early evolution of Cambrian euarthropods

Javier Ortega Hernandez (Dept of Zoology, Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

High-latitude Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by seasonal sea-ice feedbacks during the Antarctic Cold Reversal

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

Chris Fogwill, Keele University.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 307.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Watering plants, drying specimens: the Calcutta Botanical Garden and its fraught relationship with moisture (c.1864–c.1900)

Marine Bellégo (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris).

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

Monday 07 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Simulating word learning, semantic grounding, and oscillatory responses to linguistic items in a neurobiologically constrained model of the cortex

Dr Max Garagnani, Lecturer in Computer Science, Co-Director of the MSc in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 04 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

BSS Formal Seminars

Linking mechanochemistry with protein folding with single bond resolution

Prof. Sergi Garcia-Manyes, Department of Physics and and Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 04 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Predicting the response distribution of friction-damped gas turbines

Dr Tore Butlin and Dr Graham Spelman, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 04 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Model reduction in direct statistical simulation of fluids

Steve Tobias (University of Leeds).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 04 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Extracting and constraining scalar-only couplings in generic BSM theories

Mark Goodsell.

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 04 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Experimental Continuation of Nonlinear Structures

Dr Mark Schenk, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 04 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Lecture 3: Logic for Program Development, Verification and Implementation.

Tony Hoare, FRS FREng.

FW26.

Friday 04 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Biological and bio-inspired motility at microscopic scales: locomotion by shape control

Professor Antonio De Simone, SISSA, Trieste, Italy.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 04 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Tracing the Transitions from Pluripotency to Germ Cell Fate with CRISPR Screening

Ufuk Günesdogan, University of Göttingen, Germany.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 04 May 2018, 13:15-13:55

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Is Primary Care Research important, and can it be led by primary care?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Professor Richard Hobbs, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford .

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

Friday 04 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Gut microbiota in IBD: from description to intervention"

Hosted by Arthur Kaser, Speaker: Harry Sokol

Harry Sokol, Paris, France.

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

Friday 04 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Predictive Uncertainty in Deep Learning

Andrey Malinin, CUED, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 04 May 2018, 12:00-13:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Urinary Sphincter Mechanism Incompetence (USMI) treated with Static Hydraulic Urethral Sphincter (SHUS), complications and long-term outcome in female dogs

Cesar Gomes, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 04 May 2018, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Flying Around Cambridge

Alana Thackray, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 04 May 2018, 08:45-10:00

Mordell Lectures

Cohomology of the moduli space of curves

Rahul Pandharipande (ETH).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Singing in tone: text-setting constraints in tone languages

Dr James Kirby (University of Edinburgh).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 03 May 2018, 16:30-18:30

Foster Talks

Foster Talk - CANCELLED - Redox Oscillations in the Circadian Clockwork

Professor Akhilesh Reddy, Frances Crick Institute, London.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Minimum saturated families of sets

Matija Bucic (ETH Zurich).

MR12.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Explaining the recent 'hiatus' in global warming: models, measurement and media

Wendy S. Parker (Durham University).

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

Thursday 03 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Chaucer Club

What is sleep’s contribution to the language system?

Gareth Gaskell (U. of York).

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

Thursday 03 May 2018, 15:30-17:00

Computational Neuroscience

Information Efficacy of a Dynamic Synapse

Mehrdad Salmasi (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich).

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

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

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Quantifying Privacy Loss of Human Mobility Graph Topology

Dionysis Manousakas (Computer Lab).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Cross-intersecting families

Peter Borg (University of Malta).

MR12.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magnetism and topology in strongly correlated metals

Prof. Qimiao Si, Rice University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Finding Complex Structure in Biological Data

Ioannis Kontoyiannis, University of Cambridge and Athens University of Economics & Business.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Regulatory RNA

Host: Martyna Popis

Professor Eric Miska from Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Design of novel hybrid foam materials for impact applications

Mr. Adam Boyce, Centre for Micromechanics, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Short-Sales Constraints and Aftermarket IPO Pricing

Richard G. Sloan, Professor, Emile R. Niemela Chair in Accounting and International Business Haas Accounting Group.

Room W4.03 Cambridge Judge Business School.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Open tools in Marchantia for plant bioengineering work and as a platform for elucidating morphogenesis

Susana Sauret-Gueto, Haseloff Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-13:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Number, probability and community: the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern data model, Monte Carlo simulations and counterfactual futures in cricket

Siva Arumugam (Cambridge).

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

Thursday 03 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

BPI Seminar Series

On the origin of the hydraulic jump in a thin liquid film

Rajat Bhagat, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Uni of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 03 May 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Accelerating the translation of mutational signatures'

Host: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman (Hutchison/MRC Research Centre Seminar) Contact:pa-venkitaraman@mrc-cu.cam.ac.uk

Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Sanger Institute.

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

Thursday 03 May 2018, 11:00-12:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Translational Science: using biomarkers to guide clinical development in oncology

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

Dr Andy Pierce, AstraZeneca.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 09:30-10:30

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

On a theory of Dirac operators for rational Cherednik algebras

Marcelo De Martino (Oxford).

MR12.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

No Seminar Today

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

The Power of Non-invasive Approaches to Conservation Science

Professor Samuel K Wasser, Department of Biology, University of Washington on sabbatical, Department of Zoology, Cambridge University.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Stress-induced dynamic regulation of mitochondrial STAT3 and its association with cyclophilin D reduce mitochondrial ROS production

Professor Andrew Larner, Virginia Commonwealth University.

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

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

What are Extrasolar planets made of? Molecular line lists for hot atmospheres.

Professor Jonathan Tennyson, University College London.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Vanishing theorems on globally F-regular varieties

Shunsuke Takagi (Tokyo).

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

THz Near-Field Nanoscopy: Improving Stability

Nikita Almond.

Mott Seminar Room (Mott Building Room 531), Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Science & Music

‘City Rhythm’ Workshop

Caroline Nevejan, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research.

Faculty of Music, Centre for Music & Science, Computer Room.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 14:00-18:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Infinite-dimensional linear algebra and spectral problems

Imperial College.

MR 5.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Guard against temptation: team reasoning and the role of intentions in exercising willpower

Natalie Gold (King's College London).

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

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:00-14:30

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mechanics and Evolution of Cell Sheet Folding – Embryonic Inversion in the micro-alga Volvox

Stephanie Höhn (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

A novel aspect of Macrophage biology: learning from the great opportunist HIV-1

Host: Dr Naomi McGovern (nm390@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Petra Mlcochova, University College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

No WLTS on 2 May - Talk has been postponed until 20 June

Talk has been postponed until 20 June.

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

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 12:30-13:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Magnetic-field Induced Pair Density Wave State in the Cuprate Vortex Halo

Dr. Stephen Edkins, Stanford.

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

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 11:00-12:30

ARClub Talks

Altered responses to social chemosignals in autism spectrum disorder

Dr Yaara Shapira, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

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

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 10:30-11:30

Children's Literature

The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh

Kathryn Aalto.

Mary Allan Building room 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PQ.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 17:00-18:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

On the Topic of Jets

note unusual day and time of this talk

Jesse Thaler (MIT).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 16:30-17:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

 Quantum geometry from the quantisation of gravitational boundary modes on a null surface

Wolfgang Wieland (Perimeter).

MR11.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Neutrino Interferometry for High-Precision New Physics Search with IceCube

Teppei Katori, Queen Mary University of London.

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Arithmetic of rational points and zero-cycles on Kummer varieties

Rachel Newton (University of Reading).

MR13.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Asymptotics for 2D critical and near-critical first-passage percolation

Changlong Yao (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences).

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

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

Polar low formation: ambient environments and the role of moisture

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

Annick Terpstra, University of East Anglia.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Owl: Zoo System

Jianxin Zhao.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Language Games in the Periphery of European Chemistry

Karoliina Pulkkinen (HPS).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:10-14:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Social Representations of Women who Live as Men in Northern Albania

Ellen Robertson, Department of Psychology, Univeristy of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology, Downing Site.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Neuroethology of a striking crustacean, the mantis shrimp

Dr Kate Feller, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (University of Cambridge).

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

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

'The ethics of in vitro derived gametes: privacy and genetic ties’

Dr John Appleby, Lancaster University.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Understanding Dementia - Master of St John's College

Professor Chris Dobson.

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

Monday 30 April 2018, 19:00-20:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Beetles in a haystack: collecting insects via the eighteenth‐century British slave trade

Kathleen Murphy (California Polytechnic State University).

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

Monday 30 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

ChemSoc - Cambridge Chemistry Society

Sunlight-driven Synthesis of Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals

Dr Erwin Reisner from the Cambridge Chemistry Department.

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

Friday 27 April 2018, 18:15-19:15

BSS Formal Seminars

Phoretic Transport: a challenge for microscopic simulations

Prof. Daan Frenkel, Chemistry Department, Universtiy of Cambridge.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Volcano monitoring using cross-correlation of continuous seismic data

Clare Donaldson (University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Orbit recovery from invariants

Jonathan Weed (MIT).

MR12.

Friday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Predicting the shock of complex systems

Dr David Hawes, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Monte Carlo Integration and Generation with Neural Nets

Matthew Klimek (Cornell University).

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

Friday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Beyond effective diffusivity -- dispersion in the large deviation regime

Peter Haynes (DAMTP).

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

Friday 27 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Advancing Construction: Pursuing Integrated Teams through Procurement, Organization, and Technology

Dr Robert Leicht, Pennsylvania State University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT6.

Friday 27 April 2018, 15:00-16:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

One Hierarchy Spawns Another: Graph Deconstructions and the Complexity Classification of Conjunctive Queries

Hubert Chen, Birkbeck University of London.

FW26.

Friday 27 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Polyaromatic Nanocapsules: from Strategic Synthesis to Host Functions

Professor Michito Yoshizawa, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 27 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Intestinal epithelial cells integrate cues from the microbiota to modulate pathogen resistance"

Hosted by Paul Lyons, Speaker Virginia Pedicord

Virginia Pedicord, Dept Medicine & Sanger Institute.

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

Friday 27 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Multilingual NLP via Cross-Lingual Word Embeddings

Ivan Vulic, LTL, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 27 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

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

Production Processes Group Seminar - "Modelling and simulation of mechanochemistry in fluid flows."

Etienne Rognin.

Seminar Room 1 at the Institute for Manufacturing, 17 Charles Babbage Road.

Friday 27 April 2018, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Rapid laundering of deep-ocean waters in an abyssal boundary current

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

Prof. Alberto Naveira Garabato (NOC, Southampton).

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Friday 27 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Novel Calcium Phosphate Nano-Probes for the Intestinal Immune System

Will Thom, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 27 April 2018, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Ethical Dilemmas in Veterinary Anaesthesia

Kristina Lehnus, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 27 April 2018, 08:45-10:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Kendrew Lecture-Electron cryo-microscopy

Jacques Dubochet.

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

Thursday 26 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Statistical biases in peer review

Remco Heesen (Faculty of Philosophy).

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

Thursday 26 April 2018, 15:30-17:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Geometric MCMC for infinite-dimensional inverse problems

Dr Alexandros Beskos, UCL.

LT6, Baker Building, CUED.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 15:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Exchangeable Random Measures for Sparse and Modular Graphs with Overlapping Communities”

Prof. François Caron, University of Oxford.

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

Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Quantum Thermalization Dynamics

Prof. Dr. Frank Pollmann, Technische Universität München.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Genetics Seminar

Versatility and dynamics of transcriptional responses to Notch

Host: Anne Ferguson-Smith

Professor Sarah Bray from Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

On a Model for the Growth of Tree Stems and Vines

Michele Palladino, Penn State University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR10.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

Green Cache

Erik Hagersten, Uppsala University.

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Engineering mitochondrial DNA in the mouse germline using designer nuclease technology

Ms Beverly McCann, MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit, University of Cambridge.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 13:10-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Unlocking the secrets of medicinal crops: from artemisinin to morphine, why are plants still better than bugs at making these drugs?

Ian Graham, University of York.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Mechanisms of influenza A virus modulation of host membrane trafficking

Maria Amorim, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, Portugal.

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

Thursday 26 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Plasma Spray and Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation Coatings

Professor Bill Clyne, Dept of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Uni of Cambridge.

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

Thursday 26 April 2018, 11:30-12:30

ARClub Talks

Double talk on Autism genetics

Dr Gokul Ramaswami and Dr Hyejung Won, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

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

Thursday 26 April 2018, 10:30-11:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Transcription factors as drivers and drug targets in cancer

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

Dr Jason Carroll, CRUK Cambridge Institute and Dr Walid Khaled, Department of Pharmacology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 09:30-10:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

APC/C-Vihar regulates centrosome activity and stability in the Drosophila germline

Alexis Braun (Kimata lab, Dept of Genetics, Cambridge).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Radially-polarised cell behaviours drive tube budding from an epithelium

Yara Sanchez-Corrales (Roper lab, MRC-LMB, Cambridge).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 16:30-18:00

Parasitology Seminars

New approaches to old problems: controlling pathogenic protozoan parasites of poultry

Host: Ross Waller

Fiona Tomley, The Royal Veterinary College.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Insect-based biomass valorisation: using Hermetia illucens to convert waste into food & medicine

Miha Pipan, Entomics, Chief Scientific Officer, Entomics.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Theory - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Symmetry, Degeneracy, and Strong Correlation

Professor Gustavo E. Scuseria, Rice University.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Quantum black holes: a macroscopic window into quantum gravity

Sameer Murthy, King's College London.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Dorsal closure in dipterans: epithelial rupture, contraction and seaming in embryos of the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita

Juan Fraire-Zamora (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Novel kinases controlling T cell development, trafficking and immune responses

Host: Professor Klaus Okkenhaug (ko256@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Robert Koechl, King's College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Personality Neuroscience: looking for the neurological roots of individual differences in behavioural traits

Dr Luca Passamonti (U. of Cambridge, Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience).

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

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 12:30-13:30

ARClub Talks

fNIRS shines a light on early atypical brain responses in autism

Dr Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Co-Investigator and Lead Psychologist on the Brain Imaging for Global Health Study (BRIGHT); Head of NIRS Lab, Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck, University of London.

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

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 10:30-11:30

British Antarctic Survey

Information Extraction from Airborne Radio-Echo Sounding: Basal Properties and Crystal Orientation Fabric of the Greenland Ice Sheet

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

Tom Jordan, University of Bristol and Stanford University.

British Antarctic Survey, Seminar Room 187.

Tuesday 24 April 2018, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

New methods for left exact localizations of topoi

Mathieu Anel (Université Paris Diderot).

MR4, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 24 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

Directed Speculation in Multi-core Memory Systems to Improve Performance and Efficiency

Dr. Paul V. Gratz.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 24 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

On the origin of human sociality: Ape minds and the evolution of Homo sapiens

Christopher Krupenye (University of St. Andrews).

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

Tuesday 24 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Craik Club

Flexible mental computations through regulation of cortical dynamics

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology

Mehrdad Jazayeri.

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

Tuesday 24 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Dynamics, dispersion and control of Schrödinger equations

Fabricio Macià, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 23 April 2018, 15:00-16:00

Plant Sciences Talks

Science editing for fun and profit

Chris Surridge, Nature Plants Chief Editor.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Friday 20 April 2018, 15:00-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Semimetals Unlimited: Unbounded electrical and thermal transport properties in three-dimensional nodal semimetals

Dr Brian Skinner, MIT.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 20 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Plant Sciences Talks

What's the point of yet another journal?

Chris Surridge, Nature Plants Chief Editor.

Large Lecture Theatre, Department of Plant Sciences.

Friday 20 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

THE MATHEMATICAL MAGIC OF MIXED REALITY

Dr. Andrew Fitzgibbon, Partner Scientist at Microsoft HoloLens.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Trumpington Street Cambridge, CB2 1PZ.

Thursday 19 April 2018, 18:30-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Characterisation of primary RNA methylations and their role in cancer

Isaia Barbieri.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 19 April 2018, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Deciphering new aspects of G-quadruplex mediated post-transcriptional control

Barbara Herdy, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 19 April 2018, 18:00-20:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Characteristics and mechanisms of atrazine sorption to biochar for the remediation of contaminated land

Oliver McMillan, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 0.

Thursday 19 April 2018, 16:00-16:45

Applied and Computational Analysis

Numerical solution of the radiative transfer equation with a posteriori error bounds

Olga Mula (CEREMADE, Université Paris-Dauphine).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 19 April 2018, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Multi-scale dynamic disorder in halide perovskite solar cells

Prof. Aron Walsh, Imperial College London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 19 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

Intra-Core Loop-Task Accelerators for Task-Based Parallel Programs

Note unusual time

Dr . Christopher Batten, ECE, Cornell University (visiting scholar in Cambridge).

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 19 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

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

Epigenomic Signatures of Neuronal Diversity in the Mammalian Brain

Joseph R Ecker PhD, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

A Universal Approach to Optimise the Folding and stability of Pre-fusion-Closed Viral Enveloped Trimers

Johannes Langedijk, Janssen Vaccines & Prevention, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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

Thursday 19 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Demographics, presentation, diagnosis and patient pathway of haematological malignancies

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 19 April 2018, 09:30-10:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Thomas Meier, Imperial College London.

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

Wednesday 18 April 2018, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The ice-covered Ross Gyre: variability and drivers

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

Tiago Dotto, National Oceanography Centre.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 18 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

(Epi)genomic Diversity and the Regulatory DNA Landscape

Special Seminar

Joe Ecker, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, The Salk Institute for Biological studies.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 18 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

A role for actin in mitochondrial division: effects across two membranes

Professor Henry Higgs, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, NH.

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

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and SGD

Dr. Samuel L. Smith, Google Brain.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11.

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

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

"Artificial Metalloenzymes: Challenges and Opportunities"

Professor Thomas Ward, University of Basel.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 16 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Instability of infinitely many stationary solutions of the su(2) Yang-Mills fields on the exterior of the Schwarzschild black holes

Cécile Huneau , Université Grenoble-Alpes.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 16 April 2018, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Algorithmic Glass Ceiling in Social Networks

Ana Stoica, Columbia University.

Engineering Department, CBL Room BE-438..

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

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

The St Petersburg Paradox and other Puzzles From The Past

Beacon Seminar Series 2017-18

Dr Eric Rees.

Lecture Theatre 3, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, West Cambridge Site.

Friday 13 April 2018, 15:30-16:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

What is really extraordinary in superconducting cuprates?

Professor Ivan Bozovic, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Applied Physics Department, Yale University.

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

Friday 13 April 2018, 14:15-15:15

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

David Chandler Linnett Memorial Symposium

Dr Céline Merlet, Prof. Christoph Dellago, Prof. Iris Antes, Prof. Juan P. Garrahan, Dr Lester Hedges, Prof. Pieter Rein ten Wolde, Prof. Berend Smit, Dr Benjamin Rotenberg, Prof. Tuomas Knowles, Dr Ulf Pedersen.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 13 April 2018, 11:00-18:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Customising the system stack for data processing on modern hardware

Jana Giceva (Imperial College London).

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 12 April 2018, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

An adaptive backtracking strategy for non-smooth composite optimisation problems

Luca Calatroni (Ecole Polytechnique).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 12 April 2018, 15:00-16:00

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

RNA Genomics in Health and Disease

Robert B Darnell, MD PhD, The Rockefeller University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

Breast cancer - demographics, presentation, diagnosis and patient pathway

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

Dr Charlotte Coles, Department of Oncology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 12 April 2018, 09:30-10:30

Parasitology Seminars

Development of a Broadly-Neutralising Vaccine against Blood-Stage P. falciparum Malaria

Host: Peter Bull

Simon Draper, University of Oxford.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 11 April 2018, 16:00-17:00

ARClub Talks

Repetitive Behavior and Restricted Interests: Developmental, Genetic, and Neural Correlates

Professor David Evans, Professor of Psychology at Bucknell University and Visiting Researcher at the Autism Research Centre.

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

Wednesday 11 April 2018, 10:30-11:30

Rainbow Group Seminars

Towards reconstructing the visual world

Christian Richardt, University of Bath.

SS03 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory.

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

BPI Seminar Series

On the origin of the hydraulic jump in a thin liquid film

Rajat Bhagat, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Uni of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 10 April 2018, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.

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Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Saturday 07 April 2018, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

NatHistFest: the 99th Conversazione and exhibition on the wonders of the natural world.

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Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 06 April 2018, 13:00-18:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Graphons and Graphexes as Limits of Sparse Graphs: Part II

Christian Borgs (Microsoft Research New England).

MR12.

Thursday 05 April 2018, 15:30-16:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

BSU Seminar: “Bayesian adaptive designs for Phase III trials”

Dr. Liz Ryan, University of Warwick.

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

Thursday 05 April 2018, 14:30-15:30

Combinatorics Seminar

Graphons and Graphexes as Limits of Sparse Graphs: Part I

Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft Research New England).

MR12.

Thursday 05 April 2018, 14:30-15:30

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Alternative Cell Death Pathways in Antiviral Host Defense

Edward Mocarski, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA.

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

Thursday 05 April 2018, 12:00-13:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

On the function of PRDM15, a member of the PRDM family of transcriptional regulators, in development and lymphomagenesis

Hosted by: Meritxell Huch

Ernesto Guccione, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Hess Center for Science and Medicine, New York, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Thursday 05 April 2018, 11:30-12:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

INFRARED TRANSMITTING SILVER HALIDE FIBERS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS

Prof. Abraham Katzir, School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 03 April 2018, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Spatially resolved transcriptomics to probe 3D RNA organization

Jorg Morf (Babraham Institute).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 29 March 2018, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Control of gene expression and cell cycle progression by mRNA nuclear sequestration

Weibing Yang (Sainsbury laboratory).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 29 March 2018, 18:00-20:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Improving Generative Adversarial Networks using Game Theory and Statistics

Joint CCIMI-ACA seminar

Constantinos Daskalakis (MIT).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The cellular phase of Alzheimer’s Disease

Hosted by: Gurdon Institute Postdoc Association (GIPA)

Bart De Strooper, Director UK Dementia Research Institute, Professor at UCL, University of Leuven and VIB.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 9 (back building, ground floor).

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

Parasitology Seminars

Malaria’s Time Keeping

Host: Peter Bull

Arnab Pain, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

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

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Wireless Physical-layer Security: Fundamentals and Jamming with Coding for Secrecy

João P. Vilela, Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Compliant and Accountable Systems - Seminars

Emotional cripple: Tech-legal considerations of emotion detection

Damian Clifford, Sandra Servia-Rodriguez.

FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

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

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Owl - Project Summary and Future Plans

Liang Wang.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

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

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Auction Design via Optimal Transportation

Constantinos Daskalakis (MIT).

CMS, MR13.

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

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Gibbs measures of nonlinear Schrodinger equations as limits of many-body quantum states in dimension d <= 3

Vedran Sohinger, University of Warwick.

CMS, MR13.

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

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cycloadditions via TMM-Pd Intermediates: New Strategies for Asymmetric Induction and Total Synthesis

Professor Barry Trost, Stanford University.

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

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

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“How leukocytes adapt their function to changes in local inflammation”

Hosted by Menna Clatworthy, Speaker: Dietmar Zaiss

Dietmar Zaiss, University of Edinburgh.

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

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

NLIP Seminar Series

** cancelled **

Julian Perez, Naver Labs Europe.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 23 March 2018, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Philosophical Society

What we don’t know about the Universe from the very small to the very big : ONE DAY MEETING

ONE DAY MEETING FREE ENTRY NO BOOKING REQUIRED

Organisers Professor Ron Horgan and Dr Matt Wingate.

Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site Sidgwick Avenue, CB3 9DA.

Friday 23 March 2018, 09:00-17:15

Cambridge Natural History Society

Land of Eagles - Albania: from closed nation to wildlife paradise - where next?

Preceded by the AGM, 18:00 to 18:30.

Kevin Hand.

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

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

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

CANCELLED - Diversity of Expression in Utterance and the Idea of Language

This talk has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

Prof Adam Kendon (University of Cambridge).

GR-06/7, Faculty of English, 9 West Rd (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 22 March 2018, 16:30-18:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Commercializing sensor ideas - A bootstrapping model

CDT seminar

Dr. Martin Peacock, Director and Founder of Zimmer and Peacock.

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

Thursday 22 March 2018, 14:00-15:30

Lectures in Cancer Biology and Medicine

The microenvironment in the myeloid malignancies

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

Dr Simon Mendez-Ferrer, Department of Haematology.

Clinical School Lecture Theatre 2.

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

Parasitology Seminars

Development of a Broadly-Neutralising Vaccine against Blood-Stage P. falciparum Malaria

Host: Ross Waller

Sue Vaughan, Oxford Brookes University.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

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