Electronic Structure Discussion Group

Electron doping of samarium nickelate from first principles

Michele Kotiuga (Rutgers University).

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 22 August 2017, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Cyclic Peptides: Building Blocks for Supramolecular Designs

Professor Juan R. Granja - University of Santiago de Compostela .

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

Tuesday 22 August 2017, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Understanding Urban Events with CrowdSourced Data

Kasthuri Jayarajah (Singapore Management University).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 17 August 2017, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

The ‘Easy’ and ‘Hard’ Problems of Consciousness

This is an informal summer seminar on a topic of general interest

Dr Eric Rees.

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

Thursday 17 August 2017, 15:00-16:00

Parasitology Seminars

Understanding mechanisms and targets of malaria immunity to advance vaccine development

Host: Peter Bull

Prof James Beeson, Burnet Institute, Austrailia.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

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

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Networks, resilience and complexity

Professor Gabriel Cwilich, Yeshiva University, New York, USA.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 15 August 2017, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Coding and non-coding cancer mutations

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

Prof. Dr Núria López-Bigas, ICREA Research Professor, IRB Barcelona.

CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 14 August 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Security Group meeting presentations

SECURE project

embecosm.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 11 August 2017, 16:00-16:30

Category Theory Seminar

Ultrafilters, ultraproducts and ultracategories

Richard Garner, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 10 August 2017, 14:15-15:15

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series

How Can NLP Help Cure Cancer?

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

Regina Barzilay Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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

Thursday 10 August 2017, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Bio and Micromechanics Seminars

Defect tolerance and design principles for bio-inspired fibrillar dry-adhesives

Mattia Bacca, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of British Colombia, Vancouver.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 04 August 2017, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Common Sense Reduced to Mathematics

This is an informal summer seminar on a topic of general interest

Dr Eric Rees.

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

Thursday 03 August 2017, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Disk|Crypt|Net: rethinking the stack for high-performance video streaming

Ilias Marinos (Computer Lab).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 27 July 2017, 15:00-16:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of limb and fin regeneration

Associate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dr David Tscharke: Vaccinia virus presents: A proteome-wide view of antigen presentation during virus infection

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

Dr David Tscharke, Australian National University, Canberra .

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 26 July 2017, 12:30-13:30

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Lock-freeness for Reagents

Nicolas Assouad ENS/OCL.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FN05.

Tuesday 25 July 2017, 13:15-13:45

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

Redundancy in Deep Neural Networks and Its Impacts to Hardware Accelerator Design

Jiang Su, Imperial College London.

SW01, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 24 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Railway induced ground vibrations: hybrid predictions combining experimental measurements and numerical models

Dr Kirsty Kuo, .

Trinity College - room B2 Great Court.

Friday 21 July 2017, 16:30-17:30

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Semantics of Full Ground References

Paul Blain Levy (University of Birmingham).

FW26.

Friday 21 July 2017, 14:00-15:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

PET for pet

Professor Res-Shyan Liu, National Yang-Ming University Medical School.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 21 July 2017, 08:45-10:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

A deep dive into Multicore OCaml garbage collector

KC Sivaramakrishnan (Computer Lab).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 20 July 2017, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Understanding Black-box Predictions via Influence Functions

Pang Wei Koh, Stanford University.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Targeted optimization of functional materials utilizing 3D structure analysis.

Arved Reising, University of Marburg.

Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Thursday 20 July 2017, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Ice-ocean interaction at the Totten Glacier

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

Alessandro Silvano, University of Tasmania.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Wednesday 19 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Bio and Micromechanics Seminars

3D Bioprinting of Vascularized Tissues

Mark Skyler-Scott, Harvard University.

LR5, CUED.

Monday 17 July 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Quantification of Kelvin wave-induced subsurface warming along the West Antarctic Peninsula

David Webb, Climate Change Research Centre (CCRC), UNSW, Australia.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Monday 17 July 2017, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Leukocytes in action - watching them at work in zebrafish fungal infection models"

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Graham Lieschke

Graham Lieschke, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute.

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

Friday 14 July 2017, 16:00-17:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Rational Metallodrug Development: Novel Pharmacophores and Mode of Action Investigations

Christian G Hartinger, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 14 July 2017, 14:00-16:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“New mechanisms of inflammasome activation and autoinflammatory disease”

Hosted by Ken Smith, Speaker: Seth Masters

Seth Masters, WEHI.

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

Friday 14 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-RNA quality control and the nuclear RNA exosome

Chris Lima.

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

Friday 14 July 2017, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Classification of Twitter Accounts into Automated Agents and Human Users

Zafar Gilani (Computer Lab).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 13 July 2017, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Optimization and risk assessment of tall reinforced concrete buildings

Prof M T R Jayasinghe (Thishan Jayasinghe), Department of Civil Engineering of University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Dyson Building Teaching Room.

Thursday 13 July 2017, 14:00-15:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Sulfur Chemistry for Biology and the Environment

Dr Justin Chalker.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 13 July 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2017 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 12 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 July 2017, 16:30-18:00

ARClub Talks

Weighing the past against the present: computational approaches to understand learning and uncertainty autism

Dr Rebecca Lawson, Research Associate, Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London.

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

Wednesday 12 July 2017, 10:30-11:30

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Timothy O'Leary (Control Group).

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

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

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Automerge: Concurrently Editable Data Structures in JavaScript

Martin Kleppmann.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 11 July 2017, 13:15-13:45

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Applications of the (4+3) cycloaddition of Epoxy Enolsilanes to the synthesis of cortistatin A and himandrine

Professor Pauline Chiu, Hong Kong University.

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

Monday 10 July 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

'IgG4 disease and Erdheim-Chester'

Hosted by David Jayne; speaker: Augusto Vaglio

Augusto Vaglio, Parma Italy.

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

Monday 10 July 2017, 14:00-15:00

Plant Sciences Talks

P1/HC-ProR-suppressed HEN1 activity affects in vivo miRNA-AGO1 loading and triggering autophagic AGO1 degradation

Prof. Shih-Shun Lin, Inst. of Biotechnology, National Taiwan University.

Tom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

Friday 07 July 2017, 14:00-15:00

Electron Microscopy Group Seminars

Topological defects in mesoscopic and complex crystals

Jian-Min Zuo, University of Illinois.

Goldsmiths 1, Lecture room, Dept. of Materials Science and Metallurgy.

Friday 07 July 2017, 11:30-12:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Fibre based laser technology - taking basic research into application and forming a multi million pound business

Prof Grudinin, founder and CEO of Fianium.

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

Friday 07 July 2017, 11:30-12:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Emu: Rapid Prototyping of Networking Services

Noa Zilberman.

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 15:00-16:00

Optoelectronics Group

The roles of exciton and molecular diffusion in real-time sensing

Dr. Paul Shaw, University of Queensland.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

A simple neural network module for relational reasoning

David Barrett, DeepMind.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

British Antarctic Survey

Soundscape ecology: what sound can tell us about ecological functioning

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

Rachel Buxton, Colorado State University.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 10:00-11:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Model based system configuration and tasteful hardware

Reto Achermann (ETH Zurich).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 06 July 2017, 10:00-11:00

Parasitology Seminars

Quadruplexes, helicases and DNA replication dynamics in the genome of Plasmodium falciparum: "It's life, Jim, but not as we do it"

Dr Catherine Merrick, Keele University.

Dixon Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Localist models are compatible with information measures, sparseness indices and complementary learning systems in the brain

Dr Mike Page, University of Hertfordshire.

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

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 12:30-13:30

BRC Seminar Series

“Innate Immunity in Injury and Disease in the Nervous System”

Professor Shlomo Rotshenker,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 12:00-13:00

ARClub Talks

Insights from oxytocin administration and fMRI studies in high functioning youth with ASD

Ilanit Gordon, Senior Lecturer at Bar Ilan University, Department of Psychology and Gonda Brain Research Center.

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

Wednesday 05 July 2017, 10:30-11:30

Probability

The Laplacian on some finitely ramified self-conformal circle packing fractals and Weyl's asymptotics for its eigenvalues

Naotaka Kajino (Kobe University, Japan).

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

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 16:15-17:15

Optoelectronics Group

TBD

Professor Frank Wuerthner, University of Wurzburg.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 04 July 2017, 14:30-15:30

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series- Title to follow

Andreas Matouschek, Northwestern University, USA.

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

Monday 03 July 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

HypOxyResp Network Research in Progress Meeting

Jenna Stephen, Charaka Hadinnapola, Arlette Vassallo.

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

Monday 03 July 2017, 16:00-17:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The bottom-intensification of mixing causes large, almost cancelling, abyssal upwelling and downwelling

If external to BAS, please email Dr Andrew Meijers (andmei@bas.ac.uk) in advance to gain access to the building

Trevor McDougall, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Conference Theatre.

Monday 03 July 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

Exploring complexity in seabird foraging behaviour

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

Xavier Meyer, BAS .

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks

Francesco Caravelli (LANL).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Machine Learning @ CUED

Future technology: machine learning using memristors networks

Francesco Caravelli (LANL).

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

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

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Lung epithelia under attack: influenza, interferons and pollutants”

Hosted by Leo James, Speaker: Andreas Wack

Andreas Wack, Crick Institute.

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

Friday 30 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Junior Clinical Training Scholar Presentations

various.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 30 June 2017, 08:45-10:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Correlation between reflected and transmitted light in scattering media

Dr. Jacopo Bertolotti, University of Exeter.

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

Thursday 29 June 2017, 15:30-16:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Modified starch polymers and blends for packaging, industrial and biomedical applications

Professor Pete Halley - Head of the Chemical Engineering Dept, Queensland University, Australia.

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

Thursday 29 June 2017, 15:30-16:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Picosecond scale measurement for nanosecond scale networks

Matthew Grosvenor (Exablaze).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 29 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Rainbow Group Seminars

Mixed reality games for powered wheelchair users' entertainment and well-being

Katie Seaborn, UCL.

SS03 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 29 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

OSQP: An Operator Splitting Solver for Quadratic Programs

Bartolomeo Stellato, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Thursday 29 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

A year in the life of the minutiae in a changing Arctic Ocean

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

Bryan Wilson, University of Bergen.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 28 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Dhruva Raman (Control Group).

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

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

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

MSSM: muon g-2, dark matter and cosmology

Matthew Talia (University of Sydney).

B1.19, DAMTP.

Tuesday 27 June 2017, 15:00-16:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

abraCARDabra: understanding carding forums

Jeremiah Onaolapo, University College London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 27 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Optical Networking for Australian research & the SKA

Tim Rayner, AARNet.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 27 June 2017, 13:15-13:45

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

Satellite RNAs, Heterochromatin and Cancer: A Novel Mechanism of Induction of Breast Cancer by Loss of BRCA1?

Host: Professor Ashok Venkitaraman

Professor Inder Verma, Salk Institute, San Diego, USA .

Clifford Albutt Lecture theatre, Clinical School.

Monday 26 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Alternative Approaches to Chemical Risk Assessment: Assays, Databases, Models

Dr Richard Judson is a research chemist at the US EPA's National Center for Computational Toxicology. His research involves the development of databases and computer models to predict toxicological effects across a wide variety of chemicals.

Dr Richard Judson, EPA National Centre for Computational Toxicology.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

Monday 26 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Craik Club

Investigating the residual visual pathways following damage to primary visual cortex

Dr Holly Bridge (FMRIB Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford).

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

Monday 26 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Ecology and diversity of Southern Ocean pelagic amphipods

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

Charlotte Havermans, University of Bremen.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Monday 26 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

How the tubercle bacillus reprograms host immunity to cause tuberculosis

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; David Tobin

David Tobin, Duke University.

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

Monday 26 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Southern Ocean coccolithophore biogeography – controlling factors and implications for global biogeochemical cycles

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

Cara Nissen, ETH Zurich .

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Monday 26 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Engineering Department Bio and Micromechanics Seminars

4-bar mechanisms in nature: their function and potential for biomimicry

Prof Stuart Burgess, University of Bristol.

Teaching Room JDB, Department of Engineering.

Friday 23 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Using single-cell transcriptomics to examine T helper cell fate decisions in vivo

Hosted by Sarah Teichmann, speaker; Ashraful Haque

Ashraful Haque, QIMR, Brisbane.

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

Friday 23 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical Chemistry Informal Seminars

Unlocking new potentials: Incorporating atomic-level anisotropy and improved radial dependencies into simple intermolecular force fields

Mary Van Vleet, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 23 June 2017, 12:00-12:40

SCI Cambridge Science Talks

Building Stones of Cambridge: Geology walking tour.

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

Dr Nigel Woodcock, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Meet in front of the Round Church, Bridge Street, Cambridge, CB2 1UB.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 18:30-21:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Title to be confirmed

Benita Turner-Bridge, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Title to be confirmed

Xiaofei Yang, John Innes Centre, Norwich.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 18:00-20:00

Foster Talks

Cerebellar evolution and function: a neuroethological perspective

Professor John Montgomery (University of Auckland).

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Building a sense of direction – from perception to cognition

Kate Jeffrey (UCL).

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

Thursday 22 June 2017, 15:30-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Accelerating vaccine and immunotherapy development for cancer, infectious diseases and type 1 diabetes

CRUK CI seminar

Prof Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD (Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School).

Martin Cohen Lecture Theatre, Li Ka Shing Centre, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Perspectives in Chemistry: From Supramolecular Chemistry towards Adaptive Chemistry

Professor Jean-Marie Lehn.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 22 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Biological Systems as Communication Networks

Prof. Urbashi Mitra, University of Southern California.

Engineering Department - Lecture Room - LR6.

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

The euphausiid exception in the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ)

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

Dr. Jaime Farber-Lorda (Centro de Investigación Cientifica, Ensenada, Mexico) .

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

How does recent linguistic experience result in a retuning of lexical-semantic representations?

Becky Gilbert (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Time series forecasting touching on evolutionary numerical optimization

Prof Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam Suganthan, Nanyang Technological University.

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

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

The impact of personal relevance and person perception on social cognition

Dr Paola Ricciardelli, 1) Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy; 2) Milan Centre for Neuroscience, Italy.

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

Wednesday 21 June 2017, 10:30-11:30

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

Characters in Comics: Some Medium-Specific Qualities

Dr Kai Mikkonen (University of Helsinki).

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

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 17:00-18:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Conformal and projective compactifications in GR

Rod Gover (Auckland NZ).

MR11.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

LHCb: a general purpose detector in the forward region

Xabier Cid Vidal (Santiago).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

“Joint variational inference for genetic association studies with multiple outcomes”

Hélène Ruffieux, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences.

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

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Anti-surveillance: Can Applied Cryptography, Law Enforcement, and Formal Methods be Friends?

Dr. Markulf Kohlweiss, Microsoft Research, Cambridge.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

Antarctic krill: Life is all about balance in a high CO2 world

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

Jessica Ericson, University of Tasmania.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 13:30-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

'Jessica Lynn's transgender journey'

Jessica Lynn, President of Your True Gender .

Seminar room, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Using fisheries samples to investigate seasonal and regional variation in Antarctic krill lipids

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

Nicole Hellessey, University of Tasmania.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 13:00-13:30

BRC Seminar Series

"In Vivo Glia-to-Neuron Conversion For Brain Repair"

If you would like to meeti with Professor Chen please contact Nicole on nh481@cam.ac.uk to arrange a time before or after the seminar

Gong Chen,Professor and Verne M. Willaman Chair in Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University.

Brain Repair Centre, Forvie Site, Robinson Way.

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series-DNA Methylation: From stem cell differentiation to chromatin organisation

Margaret Goodell.

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

Tuesday 20 June 2017, 11:15-12:15

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Mutational processes in the human genome

Dr Serena Nik-Zainal, Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellow & CDF Group Leader, Cancer Genome Project, Sanger Institute. .

Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 19 June 2017, 19:30-21:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Seeing is Believing: A state-based formalization of database isolation

Natacha Crooks (University of Texas at Austin and Cornell University).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 19 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

British Antarctic Survey

The 2016 K-axis Voyage: A Salpa thompsoni goldmine

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

Paige Kelly, Australian Antarctic Division.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Monday 19 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!

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Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Saturday 17 June 2017, 10:00-17:00

Statistics

Decoding from Pooled Data: Information-Theoretic bounds and a Message-Passing Algorithm

Ahmed El Alaoui (UC Berkeley).

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

Friday 16 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

How to read and write mechanical information in DNA molecules

prof. dr. Helmut Schiessel, University of Leiden.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Z’ physics at the LHC

Elena Accomando (University of Southampton).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 16 June 2017, 16:00-17:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Learning from bamboo: Plant-mimetic design toward less-material & high-stiffness structure

Dr Motohiro Sato, Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley meeting room 1.

Friday 16 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor David Thorburn, Murdochs Childrens Research Institute, Victoria, Australia.

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

Friday 16 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Easter Term Poster Session

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Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Friday 16 June 2017, 15:00-17:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Deep NLP in language tutoring

Francis Bond, Associate Professor at the Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 16 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

New studies on the g-factors of 1D holes on GaAs quantum point contacts

Karina Hudson, University of New South Wales.

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

Friday 16 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

Engineering Department Mechanics Colloquia Research Seminars

Engineered growth factor microenvironments for regenerative medicine

Prof Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Glasgow University.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 16 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Applications of Finite Model Theory in Graph Isomorphism Testing and Propositional Proof Complexity

Wied Pakusa, University of Oxford.

FW26.

Friday 16 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Annual Conversazione: Cambridge’s oldest celebration of citizen science!

..

Conservation Science Lab, 1st Floor, Zoology Department, New Museums Site, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 16 June 2017, 13:00-18:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Nucleation, Heritability and Dynamics of Specialized Chromatin Domains

Hosted by Paul Lehner, speaker Robin Allshire

Robin Allshire, University of Edinburgh.

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

Friday 16 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Woolly Owl (Oxford/Cambridge)

18th Oxford/Cambridge Applied Mathematics Meeting.

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

Friday 16 June 2017, 11:00-17:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Student Presentations

various.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 16 June 2017, 08:45-10:00

Foster Talks

The emergence of pluripotency and germline specification in non-rodent mammals

Professor Ramiro Alberio (University of Nottingham).

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 15 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

The typical and atypical development of the human social brain

Mark Johnson (UoC).

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

Thursday 15 June 2017, 15:30-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Computer-assisted proofs for dynamical systems

Maxime Breden (ENS Paris-Saclay & Université Laval).

MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 15 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

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

****CANCELLED***Mammalian SWI/SNF (BAF) complex structure and function in human cancer

Please note that this seminar is cancelled because the speaker is unwell. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Cigall Kadoch, Ph.D, Dana- Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 15 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Macro Risks and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Geert Bekaert, Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School, Leon G. Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics..

Room W4.03 Judge Business School.

Thursday 15 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

TBC.

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

Thursday 15 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

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

The influence of fairy tale on contemporary Australian fantasy fiction for young people

Sophie Masson.

MAB 104, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 17:00-18:30

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Action of automorphisms on irreducible characters of symplectic groups

Jay Taylor (Arizona).

MR12.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 16:30-17:30

Parasitology Seminars

Molecular characterization of the Flagellar Pocket Collar cytoskeletal of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei

Prof Derrick Robinson, CNRS, University of Bordeaux, France.

Greaves Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Linking Mammary Development and Breast Cancer

Professor Pamela Cowin, NYU School of Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

On a recent proof of the instability of AdS for the Einstein-null dust system

Mihalis Dafermos (DAMTP).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Time and space in insect segmentation

Erik Clark (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Healthy neurocognitive aging with big data: A multivariate dive into Biobank (N=500,000)

Rogier Kievit (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

Immunology in Pathology

Prof Robyn Slattery: The Songlines between Scientific and Social Silos: A nomadic approach to Immunology teaching, learning and research

Host: Dr Nick Holmes (nh106@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Robyn Slattery, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Greaves Room, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

Computational Neuroscience

motifNet: Deep learning for system identification of regulatory networks

Vincent Fortuin (ETH).

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Neural network models of free recall and spatial navigation

Stefano Recanatesi (Weizmann Institute).

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Inferring decision rules from evidence, choice, and reaction times

Yul Kang (Columbia University).

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

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Matthew Kerr (CBL).

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Short Baseline Neutrino (SBN) program at Fermilab

Wesley Ketchum (FNAL and University of Bern) .

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Excitable behaviors

Rodolphe Sepulchre (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Predicting Rich Linguistic Structure with Neural Networks

Jan Buys, University of Oxford.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

What could we actually do about radicalisation, both online and offline?

Lydia Wilson, University of Oxford.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

rdm34's list

The Biomaker Challenge: an introduction

Jenny Molloy, Department of Plant Sciences.

Computer Laboratory, room SS03.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 12:00-12:30

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Theory RIG Informal Symposium

Fredrik Svensson, Laura Mitchell & Brian Ng.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Monday 12 June 2017, 16:00-19:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Non-Newtonian fluids: applications of Orlicz spaces in the theory of nonlinear PDE

Aneta Wroblewska.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 12 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Moments estimates for the discrete coagulation-fragmentation equations with diffusion

Maxime Breden, ENS Paris-Saclay & Université Laval.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 12 June 2017, 15:10-16:10

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

What has the Antarctic ozone hole to do with biological evolution?

Prof Michael Edgeworth McIntyre (University of Cambridge).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Bose-Einstein condensation of semiconductor excitons: 50 years later, at last!

Prof. Francois Dubin, Institut des NanoSciences de Paris.

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

Monday 12 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Variational constructions of minimal surfaces

Daniel Ketover (Princeton).

CMS, MR14.

Monday 12 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Riemann problems for nonlinear dispersive PDE

Michael Shearer (North Carolina State University).

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

Friday 09 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Vibration performance of London's Millennium footbridge

Professor David Newland and Dr James Talbot, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

Friday 09 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Security Group meeting presentations

Building a secure bank from the ground up

Priyesh Patel, Daniel Chatfield, Monzo.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 09 June 2017, 16:00-16:45

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Stellar cooling bounds on new light particles: including plasma effects

Edward Hardy (ICTP Trieste).

B1.19, DAMTP.

Friday 09 June 2017, 16:00-17:30

Statistics

Variable clustering: optimal bounds and a convex approach

Nicolas Verzelen (INRA).

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

Friday 09 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

The development of design standards for the construction sector: Why do they matter and why should you care about them?

Steve Denton.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 09 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Interleaved scope for games and automata

Murdoch Gabbay, Heriot-Watt University.

FW26.

Friday 09 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Bio and Micromechanics Seminars

Cellulose Photonics: from nature to applications

Dr Silvia Vignolini, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 09 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

A battle for mitochondrial DNA transmission

Hansong Ma, The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 09 June 2017, 13:15-13:55

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Human fetal immunology: New insights on fetal mononuclear phagocytes and their contribution to prenatal immune suppression

Hosted by Ashley Moffett, Speaker: Naomi McGovern

Naomi McGovern, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 09 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

The Conformal BMS Group

Sasha Haco.

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 09 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Functional Distributional Semantics

Guy Edward Toh Emerson (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

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

"Laser surface processing of anodes for vacuum electronics".

Daniel Gortat.

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

Friday 09 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

The healing power of hyaluronan!

David Williams, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 09 June 2017, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Within-host spatiotemporal dynamics of systemic Salmonella infection during and after antibiotic treatment

Dr Omar Rossi, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 09 June 2017, 08:45-10:00

Mordell Lectures

Complex dynamics and elliptic curves

Laura DeMarco (Northwestern University).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 17:00-18:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

How children break into language and become interesting talkers within 3 years.

Danielle Matthews (University of Sheffield).

Room B3, Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Site.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 16:30-18:30

Chaucer Club

Neuroimaging of the emergence of cognition in infants and its clinical applications

Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College, Dublin).

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

Thursday 08 June 2017, 15:30-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magnetic moments in superconductors: From Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states, to topological superconductors and frustrated magnetism

Prof. Jens Paaske, University of Copenhagen.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 08 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

3D printed Porous Media - Disrupting the Packed Bed Paradigm

Prof. Conan Fee, Head of School of Product Design, University of Canterbury, NZ).

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

Thursday 08 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Hepatitis B virus cccDNA regulation and spatial nuclear organization

Dr Christine Neuveut, Institut Pasteur, France.

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

Thursday 08 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Dynamics of thin liquid sheets: Theory and Experiments

Mahesh Tirumkudulu (IIT Bombay, INDIA).

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

Thursday 08 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

AI and Healthcare Open Evening at Microsoft Research

Christopher Bishop.

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

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 14 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 16:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Amenability, cellular automata and group-graded rings

Peter Kropholler (Southampton).

MR12.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 16:30-17:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Selection and diseases in structured populations

Dr. Andrea Manica ( Dept. of Zoology, Cambridge University).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

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

caterina.doglioni@hep.lu.se.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Plant Sciences Talks

The Biomaker Challenge: an introduction for biologists

Prof Jim Haseloff and Dr Jenny Molloy.

Tom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

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

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Holography and quantum info: from novel probes of bulk matter to complexity of quantum fields

Michal P. Heller (Albert Einstein Institute / National Centre for Nuclear Research).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

CCIMI Seminars

On the long time stability of travelling wave for the discrete nonlinear Schroedinger equations

Erwan Faou (Inria).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dr Maike de la Roche: Hedgehog Signalling in T cells

Host: Dr Louise Boyle (lhb22@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Maike de la Roche, Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Developmental unilateral neglect/ Mechanisms of working memory updating

Laura Forde and Shraddha Kaur (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 12:30-13:30

NLIP Seminar Series

NLP, the perfect social (media) science?

Dirk Hovy, University of Copenhagen.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Examining mechanisms for submesoscale eddy generation using observations in the North Atlantic

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

Dr Christian Buckingham (British Antarctic Survey).

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 11:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

The story of the infinity principles: a link between autism and a person's potential

Rhys Jenkins.

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

Wednesday 07 June 2017, 10:30-11:30

Probability

The Structure of Extreme Level Sets in Branching Brownian Motion

Lisa Hartung (NYU).

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

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 16:15-17:15

Physical Chemistry Research Interest Group

Disorder by Design

Prof. Andrew Goodwin, University of Oxford.

Pfizer LT.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The LHCb Upgrade and Flavour Physics Prospects

Johannes Albrecht (Technical University of Dortmund).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Aleksandra Filipovska, University of Western Australia.

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

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Inflammation control by Inflammasomes”

LMB seminar hosted by Leo James

Kate Schroder, University of Queensland, Australia.

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

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Optoelectronics Group

Vibrational coherence spectroscopy applied to biomimetic molecular photoswitches

Dr. Jeremie Leonard, University of Strasbourg.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

Number Theory Seminar

Reduction of dynatomic curves

Holly Krieger (University of Cambridge).

MR13.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Engineering a CDN: The Challenges of Building and Scaling to 100 Million Monthly Requests

Murali Srirangam-Ramanujam.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 13:15-13:45

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Group living – causes and consequences: lessons from the biology of social spiders

Prof Leticia Aviles (University of British Columbia).

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

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Exploring and exploiting aberrant self-fate programs in leukemia’

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (Hutchison/MRC talk)

Dr Johannes Zuber, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna, Austria.

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

Tuesday 06 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

"The world in 2050" - Human extinction risks

Lord Martin Rees OM FRS FREng FMedSci, Trinity College and Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge. Astronomer Royal..

Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 05 June 2017, 19:30-21:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Fractional diffusion limit of a linear kinetic transport equation in a bounded domain

Pedro Aceves Sanchez, Imperial College.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 05 June 2017, 15:10-16:10

Cabinet of Natural History

Ten things you always wanted to know about Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum... but were afraid to ask

James Delbourgo (Rutgers University).

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

Monday 05 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The role of sensory dynamics in driver sterring control

Chris Nash, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

Friday 02 June 2017, 16:30-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Drops: A tool to structure materials

Prof. Esther Amstad, EPFL. Soft Materials Laboratory.

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Contact-line motion with mass transfer

Matt Saxton (DAMTP).

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

Friday 02 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Marginal gains for Tokyo 2020: Modelling, simulating and optimising track cyclists

Sam Brockie, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

Friday 02 June 2017, 16:00-16:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Jet Production at High Energy Colliders

Jennifer Smillie (University of Edinburgh).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 02 June 2017, 16:00-17:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Upscaling Building Semantics to Address Urban Sustainability and Resilience Scenarios

Professor Yacine Rezgui, Director BRE Institute in Sustainable Engineering, Cardiff University School of Engineering .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 02 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Many-body localization: How quantum dynamics wins against thermodynamics

Ulrich Schneider (Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge).

MR 14, CMS.

Friday 02 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Syntax and Handlers for Operations with Scopes

Maciej Piróg.

FW26.

Friday 02 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Ascl1 control of neural stem cell homeostasis in the developing and adult brain

Noelia Urban, The Francis Crick Institute, London.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 02 June 2017, 13:15-13:55

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Cell stress at the edge of inflammation and tumorigenesis – the microbial twist

Hosted by Arthur Kaser, Speaker: Dirk Haller

Dirk Haller, ZIEL – Institute for Food & Health.

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

Friday 02 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Sentence-level Topic Models

Kris Cao (University of Cambridge).

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 02 June 2017, 12:00-13:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds: 'Believe nothing that you hear and only half what you see - an interesting ear lesion'

Marie-Aude Genain and team.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 02 June 2017, 08:45-10:00

Foster Talks

Interplay between cellular senescence and reprogramming during tissue repair

Professor Manuel Serrano, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 16:00-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Stabilizing unstable flows by coarse mesh observables and actuators - a pavement to data assimilation

Edriss Titi (Weizmann Institite & Texas A&M University).

MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Elusive problems in extremal graph theory

Daniel Kráľ (University of Warwick).

MR12.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

On signatures of Majorana fermions

Dr Benjamin Béri (University of Birmingham) .

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

Rainbow Group Seminars

The true story of the group now known as Pixar

Note venue

Alvy Ray Smith, Lucasfilm, Pixar, Altamira, Microsoft....

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Low-Rank Inducing Norms with Optimality Interpretations

Christian Grussler, University of Lund.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Disjoint Semirings for Fractional Permissions

**NOTE NON-STANDARD DAY AND ROOM BOOKING**

Aquinas Hobor, National University of Singapore.

FW11.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 13:30-14:15

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

“Learning Through Crowdfunding”

Katrin Tinn, Imperial College London.

Room W4.03 Judge Business School.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

A synthetic biology approach to harness the regulatory potential of miRNAs in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Francisco J. Navarro, Baulcombe group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 13:00-13:30

BPI Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

TBC.

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

Thursday 01 June 2017, 11:30-12:30

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Expanders, Beauville surfaces and buildings

Alina Vdovina (Newcastle).

MR12.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Reigniting Innovation in the Hardware Industry

Krste Asanovic - UC Berkeley.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 16:15-17:15

Parasitology Seminars

Helminth-induced suppression of inflammation – a role for the gut microbiota?

Dr Cinzia Cantacessi, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Dixon Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Compensatory lameness in dogs: kinematic description and inertial sensors detection

Dr Constanza B. Gómez Álvarez, Lecturer in Musculoskeletal Biomechhanics, Head of Veterinary Biomechanics Laboratory, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Oxidative stress, ROS and free radicals - using nitroxide antioxidants for detection and protection

Professor Steve Bottle, University of Queensland, Australia.

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

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Tests of strong gravity and new physics with gravitational waves

Emanuele Berti (Mississippi & IST Lisbon).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The Modularity/Automorphy of Calabi–Yau Varieties of CM type

Noriko Yui, Queens University..

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Hidden Order of Cooper Pairs in a Striped Cuprate at High Magnetic Fields (SP and QM)

Dragana Popović, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University.

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

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo of vertebrate cartilage and oropharyngeal skeleton

Dr David Jandzik (University of Colorado Boulder).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Joost Reek, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Dr Becca Asquith: KIRs, CD8 T cell dynamics and control of chronic viral infection

Dr Becca Asquith, Imperial College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

A network analysis approach for characterising the spatiotemporal dynamics of semantic networks in the brain

Rezvan Farahibozorg (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Superfluid density, universal scaling of critical current and the quest for room-temperature superconductivity

Jeffery Tallon, Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington and MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials & Nanotechnology, New Zealand..

Small Lecture Theatre (Bragg Building), Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 11:15-12:15

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

Book Launch: From Tongue To Text

Dr Debbie Pullinger.

Macauley Room, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 17:30-19:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Reflection Positivity: Something Old and Something New

Arthur Jaffe (Harvard, visiting INI).

MR11.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Greg Sotiropoulos (CBL).

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

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

Number Theory Seminar

A class number formula for Picard modular surfaces

Shrenik Shah (Columbia University).

MR13.

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 15:30-16:30

Cavendish HEP Seminars

CANCELLED (Searches for exotic physics with photons in ATLAS)

Miguel Villaplana (University of Milan) .

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

“The xyz algorithm for fast interaction search in high-dimensional data”

Dr Rajen Shah, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Magnitude homology

Tom Leinster (University of Edinburgh).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Number Theory Seminar

Pseudorepresentations and the Eisenstein ideal

Carl Wang Erickson (Imperial College).

MR13.

Tuesday 30 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Light sheet fluorescence microscopy for fast volumetric imaging of bio-samples

Pablo Loza-Alvarez. Staff Scientist SLN Chief at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences. Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain .

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 26 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Computationally Efficient Nonparametric Testing

Guang Cheng (Purdue).

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

Friday 26 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Mean flows and large-scale vortices in rotating convection

Céline Guervilly (Newcastle University).

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

Friday 26 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Low vibration design for science facilities

Lynden Spencer-Allen, Ramboll UK Ltd.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

Friday 26 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Searches for light BSM higgs bosons and constraints on BSM models

Claire Shepherd (Rutherford Lab.).

B1.19, DAMTP.

Friday 26 May 2017, 16:00-17:30

Computer Laboratory Security Group meeting presentations

no meeting today due to SHB 2017

–.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Friday 26 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Concurrent Kleene Algebras and Pomset Languages

Georg Struth, University of Sheffield.

FW26.

Friday 26 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Assembly of embryonic and extra-embryonic stem cells to mimic embryogenesis in vitro

Sarah Harrison, PDN, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 26 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

NLIP Seminar Series

Text Simplification: Where are we now, and where are we headed?

Gustavo Henrique Paetzold, University of Sheffield.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 26 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

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

A general introduction to ropes of engineering applications

Dr Pengzhu Wang and Bridon Bekaert.

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

Friday 26 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Evolutionary analysis on barcode NGS swine influenza virus data

Dr Fei Xiang, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 26 May 2017, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Genetic Investigations of Progressive Retinal Atrophy in Multiple Breeds of Dog

Rebekkah Hitti, Animal Health Trust & Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 26 May 2017, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Title to be confirmed

Lia Chappell, Sanger Institute.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Title to be confirmed

Ananthanarayanan Kumar, MRC-LMB.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Learning Syntax with Deep Neural Networks

Shalom Lappin (University of Gothenburg, King's College London and Queen Mary University of London).

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

Thursday 25 May 2017, 16:30-18:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Dynamics of carbon and hydrogen on Ru(001)

Peter Townsend, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Multisensory integration in the cortical hierarchy

Uta Noppeney (University of Birmingham).

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

Thursday 25 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Frogs in space: physiological research into metric relationships and laws of nature

Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech).

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

Thursday 25 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

'Analyses for Rule-Based Models of Cellular Signalling'

SPECIAL COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY SEMINAR - Host by: Dr Ben Hall

Dr Jean Yang, Assistant Professor,Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh USA .

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

Thursday 25 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Correlated electronic structure: What can physicists and chemists learn from each other?

Dr George Booth.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Distributed schemes for stability and optimality in power networks

Andreas Kasis, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Characterization of Internet Censorship from Multiple Perspectives

Shehar Bano, University College London.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 13:10-14:00

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

MYC and Metabolic Vulnerabilities of Cancer

Chi Van Dang, MD, PhD, Professor and Director, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

women@CL Speaker Lunch Series

Crossing the Architectural Barrier: Evaluating Representative Regions of Parallel HPC Applications

Roxana Rusitoru, ARM.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Cryomicroscopy of viruses, from atomic-resolution structure to in situ 3D imaging

Dr David Bhella, University of Glasgow, UK.

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

Thursday 25 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Drop splashing at smooth dry surfaces

Professor Jose Gordillo, University of Seville.

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

Thursday 25 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

On Different Distances Between Distributions and Generative Adversarial Networks

Martin Arjovsky.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

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

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Generalizations of self-reciprocal polynomials

Sandro Mattarei (Lincoln).

MR12.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Can we make people value IT security?

Wheeler Lecture – Please register for this session on separate web page.

M. Angela Sasse - UCL London..

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:15-17:30

Probability

How to replace random walk representations in models that don't have one?

Erwin Bolthausen (Zurich).

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

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:15-17:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Statistical Mechanics of Self-Propelled Colloids: Phase Separation and Directed Assembly

Prof. Michael Cates FRS, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, DAMTP, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

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

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Symmetries in monotone Lagrangian Floer theory

Jack Smith, Cambridge.

MR13.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

THERE IS NO TALK ON WEDNESDAY 24TH May

Cancelled.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Generalized global symmetries and dissipative magnetohydrodynamics

Nabil Iqbal (Durham).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Birational geometry of exceptional sets in Manin's conjecture

Sho Tanimoto (Copenhagen).

CMS MR4.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

First Year Student Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 14:00-16:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Listening to the chirps: how do the LIGO results test general relativity?

Lydia Patton (Virginia Tech).

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

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 13:00-14:30

Immunology in Pathology

Dr Sarah Teichmann: Understanding Cellular Heterogeneity

Host: Dr Nick Holmes (nh106@cam.ac.uk)

Dr Sarah Teichmann, Sanger Institute.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Does entrained tACS modulate speech-specific BOLD responses? Evidence from combined tACS-fMRI

Benedikt Zoefel (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

BRC Seminar Series

"Polymerase Chain Reaction: Methods, Principles and Application"

Dr Romina Vuono, John Van Geest Centre For Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge.

Herchel Smith Building Lecture Theatre.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Seasonal changes in Circumpolar Deep Water in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica, using seal-borne tags

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

Helen Mallet, University of East Anglia.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

ARClub Talks

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 24 May 2017, 10:30-11:30

Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lectures

Exploring the Universe with Gravitational Waves: LIGO and Beyond

Professor Kip Thorne.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Integrable systems associated to submanifolds in Grassmanians

Boris Kruglikov (Tromso, visiting DAMTP).

MR11.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Dark Matter Searches at CMS

Nicholas Wardle (Imperial College London).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Tuning charge transfer in low-dimensional nano carbons

Prof. Dirk Guldi, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Optoelectronics Group

Probing morphology, electronic structure, and triplet routes: the case for time-resolved EPR in organic electronics

Dr. Till Biskup, University of Freiburg.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Number Theory Seminar

The Weak Leopoldt Conjecture for adjoint representations

Patrick Allen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).

MR13.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

“Identifying and evaluating personalised treatment recommendations”

Prof Richard Emsley, Centre for Biostatistics, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre.

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

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

List objects with algebraic structure

Philip Saville (University of Cambridge).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Improving the Impact of Smartphone Apps

Vincent Taylor, University of Oxford.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

SO-AntEco: Contributing information and scientific advice to the CCAMLR South Orkney Islands MPA review

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

Madeleine Brasier, University of Liverpool and Natural History Museum, London .

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Overview of ARM TrustZone

Poonam Hiwal.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Brazilian Food-Energy-Water Nexus: policy integration challenges in a complex system

Pablo Salas (University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 13:10-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Sibling Interaction: Cause or Consequence

Dr Alison Pike, University of Sussex.

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Approaches to our two greatest challenges in AIDS research - Making effective vaccines and understanding then eliminating HIV reservoirs

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Jim Mullins

Jim Mullins, University of Washington.

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

Tuesday 23 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Debate: "This house believes that Artificial Intelligence/Robotics will make us happy"

Speaker to be confirmed.

Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 22 May 2017, 19:30-21:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Statistical Bioinformatics at Scale

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

Prof. Alexander Schliep.

CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 22 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

AMOP list

Quantum metrology with Bose Einstein condensates

Markus Oberthaler (Universitat Heidelberg).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 22 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Stratospheric ozone in the Earth system

Fernando Iglesias Suarez, Lancaster University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

ECCO version 4: an ocean data analysis and parameter estimation framework

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

Gael Forget, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 330B.

Monday 22 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Exploring John Woodward's scientific writing in his catalogues of fossils (1728, 1729)

Ken McNamara (Sedgwick Museum).

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

Monday 22 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

Cognitive coding in the hippocampal-entorhinal system

Dr Christian Doeller, Kavli Institute, NTNU Trondheim, Norway & Donders Institute, RU Nijmegen, the Netherlands).

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 19 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

The extreme values of random frequency response functions

Professor Robin Langley, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

Friday 19 May 2017, 16:30-17:00

Statistics

Robust ranking, constrained ranking and rank aggregation via eigenvector and semidefinite programming synchronization

Mihai Cucuringu (Oxford).

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

Friday 19 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Dynamic comfort of road cyclist

Dr Julien Lepine, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

Friday 19 May 2017, 16:00-16:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Fractal based observables to probe jet substructure of quarks and gluons

Joseph Davighi, DAMTP, Cambridge.

B1.19, DAMTP.

Friday 19 May 2017, 16:00-17:30

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

What does the Future of Programming Look Like?

David Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

FW26.

Friday 19 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

2nd year PhD student talks

TBC.

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

Friday 19 May 2017, 13:30-17:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Bridging Crumb-mediated polarity and Hippo-mediated growth by Spectrin-bound PP2A

Graham Thomas, Center for Celluar Dynamics, PennState.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 19 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

DataSHIELD: taking the analysis to the data not the data to the analysis

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Professor Paul Burton, Professor of Data Science for Health, Newcastle University.

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

Friday 19 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Molecular epidemiology studies of a major TB outbreak

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Marcel Behr

Marcel Behr, McGill University.

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

Friday 19 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Astrophysics with the first gravitational-wave events: from supernova asymmetries to multiple black-hole generations

Davide Gerosa.

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 19 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Architectures for Sequence Labelling

Marek Rei, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 19 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Hepatic Leptospiral Infections without Prominent Renal Involvement

Katie McCallum, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 19 May 2017, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

A metagenomic approach for identifying the host of AMR genes in a fecal microbiome

Dr Michael Batemen, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 19 May 2017, 08:45-10:00

IET Cambridge Network - Lectures

ENERGY GENERATION AND STORAGE SYSTEMS

Oliver Burstall (CTO / COO) - Origami Energy.

Lecture Theatre 0, University of Cambridge Engineering Department, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 18:30-20:00

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

Enhanced structural evolution in the dynamic plasticity of fcc metals

Lewis Lea, SMF Group, Cavendish Laboratory.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Imaging and stimulating adaptive brain plasticity

Heidi Johansen-Berg (Oxford).

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

Thursday 18 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

Scientific habits circa 1900

Henry Cowles (Yale University).

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

Thursday 18 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Combinatorics Seminar

Minimising the Number of Triangles

Katherine Staden (University of Warwick).

MR12.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Rainbow Group Seminars

Building an Intelligent Transportation System: Unveiling the Challenges (without the Hype!)

Glenford Mapp, Middlesex University.

SS03 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Coordination Self-Assembly: From the Origins to the Latest Advances

Prof. Makoto Fujita, University of Tokyo.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Magnetic Moment Fragmentation in Spin Ice and Artificial Spin Ice

Prof. Peter Holdsworth, ENS Lyon.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Quantum Matter Seminar

Strain-tuning of the magnetic compounds Sr3Ru2O7, CeAuSb2, and PdCrO2

Clifford Hicks. Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, Germany.

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

Thursday 18 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

A Spatial Modeling Approach for Linguistic Object Data: Analysing dialect sound variations across Great-Britain

Shahin Tavakoli.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Sequential Credit Markets

Ulf Axelson, Abraaj Group Professor in Finance and Private Equity London School of Economics and Political Science..

Room W4.03 Judge Business School.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Towards a General Theory of Lorenz Ordering Applied to Ecological Domiance and Earth Observation Systems of Forest Ecosystems

Ruben Valbuena, Coomes group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 18 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

BPI Seminar Series

'Mixing in Gravity Currents' and 'Gravity Driven Flow in a Horizontal Annulus'

Diana Sher and Marcus Horsley - BP Institute.

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

Thursday 18 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Composition and Inheritance in Declarative Configuration Languages

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

Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh.

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

Thursday 18 May 2017, 10:00-11:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Composition and Inheritance in Declarative Configuration Languages

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

Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh.

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

Thursday 18 May 2017, 10:00-11:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

RoCK blocks

Michael Livesey (Manchester).

MR12.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Ubiquitous Sensing with Light

Xia Zhou - Dept of Computer Science Dartmouth College .

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 16:15-17:15

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Recent advances in the molecular diagnosis of canine and feline lymphoma

Dr Sabine Hammer (Molecular Geneticist), and Dr Barbara Rütgen (Clinical Pathologist) Dept of Pathobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Homological Stability of Moduli Spaces of High Dimensional Manifolds

Nina Friedrich, Cambridge.

MR13.

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

Scott Lectures

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

Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Optoelectronics Group

Role of Morphology in Organic Thermoelectric Materials

Professor Michael Chabinyc.

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

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Orbital degeneracy loci and applications

Sara Filippini (Cambridge).

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

The multiple facets of symmetry in Einstein gravity

Geoffrey Compere (ULB).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

British Antarctic Survey

The Southern Ocean carbon cycle: Insights from a recently installed atmospheric O2 and CO2 measurement system at the Halley Research Station, Antarctica

Thomas Barningham , UEA, School of Environmental Sciences.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 307.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

First Year Student Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 14:00-16:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

The Theory Theory 2.0: Bayesian models, causal inference and cognitive development

Alison Gopnik (University of California, Berkeley).

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

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 13:00-14:30

Immunology in Pathology

Dr Tony Jackson: Protein neighbours and proximity proteomics

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

Dr Tony Jackson, Department of Biochemistry, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Working memory training and transcranial electrical stimulation

Elizabeth Byrne (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Quantum Matter Seminar

Scattering, Fermi surface reconstruction and the gap above Tc in cuprate superconductors

James G. Storey. Robinson Research Institute & MacDiarmid Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

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

Wednesday 17 May 2017, 11:15-12:15

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Early Career Immunology Journal Club

Michael Harris, MRC-LMB.

Brenner Seminar Room, MRC-LMB, Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, CB2 0QH.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 19:00-20:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

The geometry of the space of BPS vortex-antivortex pairs

Martin Speight (Leeds).

MR11.

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

Scott Lectures

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

Prof Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Brian Trippe (CBL).

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

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

Cavendish HEP Seminars

PRaVDA project for Proton Computed Tomography

Dr. Tony Price (University of Birmingham).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Iterating the algebraic étale-Brauer set

Francesca Balestrieri (University of Oxford).

MR13.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Embedding theorems for (regular) Mal'tsev categories

Pierre-Alain Jacqmin (Université catholique de Louvain).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Change In China's Banking Sector as an Evolution of Institutions

Guy Williams (University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 13:10-14:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Sperm Donation and Motherhood: British and French perspectives

This is a joint seminar, featuring talks by Dr Sophie Zadeh and her collaborators. Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Dr Sophie Zadeh, University of Cambridge, Prof Nikos Kalampalikis, Université Lumiere Lyon 2 (France), & Marjolaine Doumergue, Université Lumiere Lyon 2 (France).

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

Tuesday 16 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

"Circular Inference in schizophrenia...and all of us"

Sophie Deneve, Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Paris.

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

Monday 15 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

To be confirmed

All people external to CRUK CI needs to be booked as visitors. Please contact Kamila at least 24 hours prior the talk.Thank you.

Dr Paz Polak.

CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 15 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

AMOP list

Spin-wave quantum memories for single photon storage and generation

Hugues de Riedmatten (ICFO).

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 15 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

The De Giorgi conjecture for the half-Laplacian in dimension 4

Alessio Figalli, ETH Zurich.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 15 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Cooling Nano-electronic Devices to Ultra-Low Temperatures

Dr Lev Levitin, Royal Holloway University of London.

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

Monday 15 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Tropospheric ozone: Short-lived climate forcer

Dr Richard Derwent, rdscientific.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 15 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Performance Verification and Optimal Synthesis of Embedded Optimization-Based Controllers

Colin Jones, EPFL, Switzerland.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Monday 15 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Clas Fredrik Hornstedt, the 'last Linnaean' in the East Indies, 1783–4

Christina Skott (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 15 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Charting the response to DNA damage

Dan Durocher, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine.

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

Monday 15 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

The biological basis and perceptual impact of categorisation: the case of colour.

Professor Anna Franklin, The Sussex Colour Group, School of Psychology, University of Sussex.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 12 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Mathematical prediction of a driver's subjective assessment of vehicle dynamics

Dr David Cole, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

Friday 12 May 2017, 16:30-17:00

Statistics

Constrained low-rank matrix estimation

Lenka Zdeborova (IPhT).

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

Friday 12 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Driving upwelling by heating the lower stratosphere

Alison Ming (DAMTP).

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

Friday 12 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Observation of phononic frequency combs in micromechanical resonator

Adarsh Ganesan, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

Friday 12 May 2017, 16:00-16:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Opening loops into trees: the loop-tree duality at work

German Sborlini (IFIC, Valencia).

Seminar Room B, Rutherford Building, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 12 May 2017, 16:00-17:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Equilibrium: fact or fiction?

Edward Maunder MA, DIC, PhD, CEng, FIStructE, University of Exeter.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 12 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Bio and Micromechanics Seminars

Engineering with uncertain load regimes and strange materials – the story of aerospace and nuclear safety critical components

Prof Dave Rugg, Senior Fellow, Rolls Royce.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 12 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Higher Categorical Structures, Type-Theoretically

Nicolai Kraus, University of Nottingham.

FW26.

Friday 12 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Dissecting the functional heterogeneity of human hematopoietic stem cells

Elisa Laurenti, Dept. of Haematology, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 12 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Atypical heterochromatin controls telomere maintenance

Hosted by Paul Lehner, speaker Jerome Dejardin

Jerome Dejardin, Montpellier, France.

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

Friday 12 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

CEB Career Talks

Starting Companies can be bad for your Health but good for Animals

Free talk but advanced registration is required on http://www.ceb.cam.ac.uk/alumni/events/talks

Malcolm Wilkinson. Kirkstall CEO.

Dept Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Philippa Fawcett Drive CB3 OAS (Lecture Theatre 1).

Friday 12 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

Isotropising anisotropic cyclic cosmologies

Chandrima Ganguly.

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

Friday 12 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Belief Tracker: Data-Driven Dialogue State Tracking using Semantically Specialised Vector Spaces

Nikola Mrskic, University of Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 12 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Helminth-associated changes in composition of the faecal microbiota of a Sri Lankan community

Tim Jenkins, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 12 May 2017, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

CT assessment of block recession trochleoplasty and partial patellectomy in cats

Valentina Brioschi, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 12 May 2017, 08:45-10:00

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

The 5th Annual Sir John Walker Lecture, "The mitochondrial calcium uniporter: molecular identity and physiological role"

Professor Rosario Rizzuto, University of Padova, Italy.

Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

Rausing Lecture

The history of failure: a chronicle of losers or key to success?

Twenty-Second Annual Hans Rausing Lecture

Lissa Roberts (University of Twente).

McCrum Lecture Theatre, Bene't Street.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Recent Forays in Methods Development and Complex Molecule Synthesis

Professor Neil Garg, University of California, Los Angeles.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

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

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

The performance of circular shafts and ground movements due to construction - centrifuge testing and field observations.

Njemile Faustin (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 16:00-16:45

Cavendish Physical Society

Photo-induced superconductivity and other stories

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

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Chaucer Club

CANCELLED: The problem of working memory: How does the brain keep information in mind?

Mark Stokes (Oxford).

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

Thursday 11 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Theory of Condensed Matter

Transformation optics, surface plasmons, and metasurfaces

Professor Sir John Pendry, Imperial College, London.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Verification of Control Laws Using Formal Methods

Kestutis Siaulys, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey

Snow cover variability in Western Himalayas and its implications on socio-economic status and livelihood of local communities

Dr Shresth Tayal, The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Can we predict the course of Crohn's disease?

Daniele Biasci.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 13:10-14:00

women@CL Speaker Lunch Series

Women@CL talklet event

Olesya Razuvayevskaya; Diana Popescu.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW26.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CambPlants Industrial Talks

This is a CPPS sponsored seminar

Dr Vitor Verdelo Viera, A4F and Professor Alison Smith, Plant Sciences.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Listening to scientists' stories: using the British Library's 'An Oral History of British Science' archive

Ruth Wainman (University of Kent).

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

Thursday 11 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

The role of the host and co-infections in Ebola virus disease and its outcome

Prof. Julian Hiscox, University of Liverpool, UK.

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

Thursday 11 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Measuring Ocean Mixing

Greg Ivey, UWA Oceans Institute, University of Western Australia.

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

Thursday 11 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter Term 2017 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Pervasive Sensing for Lifestyle Monitoring and Urban Applications

Prof Archan Misra - SMU Singapore.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 16:15-17:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

Microfluidics, biomimetic channels, networks and self assembly

Prof. Dr. Andreas Manz, KIST Europe Forschungsgesellschaft mbH.

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

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Can we exploit companion dogs to advance therapies for spinal cord injury?

Dr Nicolas Granger, Research Fellow, School of Veterinary Sciences, University of Bristol.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

The Calderon problem for connections

Mihajlo Cekic, Cambridge.

MR13.

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

Zangwill Club

A common model of representational and connectivity spaces in human cortex

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS AN SPECIAL EXTRA TALK AND WILL TAKE PLACE AT 4.00PM

Professor James V. Haxby, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College and the Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the University of Trento.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

“Topology in materials science”

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

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Igusa quartic and and Wiman-Edge sextics

Ivan Cheltsov (Edinburgh).

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

First Year Student Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 14:00-16:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

How can we homologize holobionts, and whose lineage matters?

Catherine Kendig (Michigan State University).

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

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 13:00-14:30

British Antarctic Survey

Molecular biomarkers for seabird age estimation

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

Ricardo De Paoli-Iseppi, Australian Antarctic Division.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 1.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Professor Alain Vanderplasschen: Conserved fever pathways across vertebrates: a herpesvirus delays fish behavioural fever through expression of a decoy Tnfα receptor

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

Professor Alain Vanderplasschen, University of Liege.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

The Multiple Demand System and its subnetworks/ Exploring temporal dynamics of preparatory attention

Sneha Shashidhara and Tanya Wen (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 10 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Observations of turbulent dissipation in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, Antarctica

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

Yvonne Firing, NOC, Southampton.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

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

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

Was the Cat in the Hat Black?: The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books

Philip Nel, Kansas State University.

Boulind Room 6/7, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PH.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 17:00-18:30

Probability

Probabilizing Parking Functions

Persi Diaconis (Stanford).

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

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 16:15-17:15

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Tests of lepton universality in B decays

Patrick Owen (University of Zurich).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Plant Sciences Talks

The genetics of genetics: chromosome interactions and recombination during meiosis

Professor Wojtek Pawlowski.

Tom ap Rees, Department of Plant Sciences.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Optoelectronics Group

Revealing the charge carrier dynamics in metal halide perovskites using time-resolved microwave conductivity

Professor Tom Savenije, Delft University of Technology.

Rayleigh seminar room, 2nd floor, Maxwell Building, Cavendish laboratory.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Number Theory Seminar

Higher Hida theory

Vincent Pilloni (ENS Lyon).

MR13.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Dirac Lecture

Antimatter: Dirac's incredible prediction and its consequences

All are welcome to attend.

Professor Helen Quinn (Harvard).

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

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:30-16:00

Category Theory Seminar

Homology of monoids with coefficients in group completion

Nigel Burke (University of Cambridge).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

Energy-Quality Scalable Adaptive VLSI Circuits and Systems – The Way towards the Next 10X Energy Reduction

Note unusual time

Prof. Massimo Alioto, National University of Singapore.

SS03, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Eurosys 2017 Trip Report

Jianxin Zhao.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 13:15-13:45

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Values in science and classifying the chemical elements

Karoliina Pulkkinen.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 13:10-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Research outside of academia: How to be an asset in policy-related work

Dr Amanda Aldercotte, Quantitative Researcher at the Equality Challenge Unit.

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

A solid state conceptualization of information transfer from gene to message to protein

Hosts: John Gurdon & Meritxell Huch

Steven McKnight, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA.

Biochemistry Lecture Theatre, Sanger Building, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 09 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

Architecture for Resilience - surviving earthquakes, tornadoes, fire and floods.

Dr Emily So MEng CEng MICE, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, Director of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd..

Churchill College, Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Storeys Way, CB3 0DS .

Monday 08 May 2017, 19:30-21:00

CMS Colloquia

Bose in Boxes

Persi Diaconis (Stanford).

CMS, MR2.

Monday 08 May 2017, 17:00-18:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

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

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

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

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

MRC LMB Seminar list

Mulitispectral imaging to uncover the organelle interactome

Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, National Institute of Health, Maryland, USA.

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

Monday 08 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Cambridge HypOxyResp Network Meeting

Cambridge HypOxyResp Network Meeting

Jo Pocock and Stefan Graf; University of Cambridge.

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

Monday 08 May 2017, 16:00-17:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Merck, Sharp & Dohme Lecture

Professor Stephen Buchwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Dr Richard Tillyer, Merck.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:30-16:30

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Enumerative Geometry via Homological Algebra

(Note: Special Day and Seminar Room)

David Favero (University of Alberta, KIAS).

CMS MR4.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

Prebiotic Chemistry on Other Worlds

Paul B. Rimmer (University of Cambridge).

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Statistics

Statistical challenges posed by the analyses of the human microbiome

Susan Holmes (Stanford).

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

Monday 08 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cabinet of Natural History

Poetic electrons: Ted Hughes and the mayfly

Mark Wormald (Pembroke College).

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

Monday 08 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey

Krill feeding in fjords of the West Antarctic Peninsula (and a few penguins & seals)

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

Alison Cleary, Norwegian Polar Institute.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 307.

Monday 08 May 2017, 11:00-12:00

Zangwill Club

Do we control language or does language control us?

Professor Guillaume Thierry, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Wales..

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:30-18:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Controlling the Climate: can we refreeze the Arctic?

Dr Hugh Hunt, CUED.

LR4, Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:30-17:00

Bullard Laboratories Tea Time Talks

Partial megathrust ruptures and high frequency radiation, the Gorkha earthquake example

Sylvain Michel (University of Cambridge).

Tea Room, Old House.

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

The Bouncy Particle Sampler

Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (UBC).

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

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Optimal stirring for maximal mixing (NB: Batchelor Lecture)

Charlie Doering (University of Michigan).

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

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Microfabricated acoustic sensors for biosensing

Nikki Weckman, CUED.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar room.

Friday 05 May 2017, 16:00-16:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Variable epigenetic silencing of the repeat genome: implications for non-genetic inheritance

Anne Ferguson-Smith, Dept. of Genetics, University of Cambridge.

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 05 May 2017, 13:15-13:55

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Can perinatal mental health care prevent mental health problems in children?

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Professor Louise Howard, Kings College London.

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

Friday 05 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

‘Allorecognition – only relevant for transplantation?’

Hosted by Paul Lyons, speaker; Gavin Pettigrew

Gavin Pettigrew, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 05 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Production Processes Group Seminar - Photonic sorting of aligned crystalline carbon nanotube textiles.

John Bulmer.

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

Friday 05 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Impact of a high SUSY scale in the MSSM and beyond

Florian Staub (CERN).

B1.19, DAMTP.

Friday 05 May 2017, 11:30-13:00

Computer Laboratory Computer Architecture Group Meeting

Processors for the Data Center and Cloud of the Future

David Wentzalff, Princeton University.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 05 May 2017, 10:00-11:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Grand Rounds - ‘A tale of TCC’

Sarah Mason and Laura Owen.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 05 May 2017, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge University Linguistic Society

Using smartphones to collect big data on English dialects

Adrian Leemann (Lancaster University).

GR06/7, English Faculty, 9 West Road (Sidgwick Site).

Thursday 04 May 2017, 16:30-18:30

Surfaces, Microstructure and Fracture Group

High strain rate deformation response of titanium for aerospace gas turbines

Steven Lainé, Department of Materials Science, The University of Cambridge.

Mott Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL).

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

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

Chaucer Club

I think, therefore I am: A combined cognitive-learning approach to adolescent anxiety, aches and pains.

Jennifer Lau (KCL).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science

The materials for trust-building in expertise

Heather Douglas (University of Waterloo).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 15:30-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Routing the Future: Bootstrapping Internet Innovation

Marco Chiesa (University of Louvain).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

List colourings and preference orders

Andrew Thomason (University of Cambridge).

MR12.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Rainbow Group Seminars

MR360: Mixed Reality Rendering for a 360° Panoramic Videos

Neil Dodgson.

SS03 Meeting Room, Computer Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Theory of Condensed Matter

Emergent phenomena in classical spin liquids

Ludovic Jaubert, University of Bordeaux.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Nuclear norm methods for frequency domain system identification

Roy Smith, ETH Zurich.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Genetics Seminar

Coordination of spindle positioning and cell cycle progression in yeast

Host: Marco Geymonat

Dr. Gislene Pereira, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Product Market Competition and Option Prices

Morellec, Erwan (SFI).

Room W4.03 Judge Business School.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Switching Genes on and off in Erythropoiesis

Doug Higgs, University of Oxford.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

Evaluating ex-situ conservation of threatened plants in the botanic garden network

Ross Mounce, Brockington group.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-13:30

Twentieth Century Think Tank

Shifting formats, changing priorities in the modern Chinese materia medica genre: from Zhao Yuhuang's single items to drugs in acupuncture channels

Lena Springer (Needham Research Institute).

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

BPI Seminar Series

Modelling entrainment and surface processes in atmospheric flows over rural and urban boundary layers.

Maarten van Reeuwijk, Imperial College London.

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

Thursday 04 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Molecular logic behind Satellite cells specification in Drosophila

Hadi Boukhatmi (Bray lab, PDN).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Polarized endosome dynamics by spindle asymmetry during asymmetric cell division

Emmanuel Derivery (MRC-LMB).

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 17:30-19:30

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Dualizing Complexes in the Noncommutative Arithmetic Context

Rishi Vyas (Ben-Gurion).

MR12.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 16:30-17:30

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Morphologically Computing Soft Robots toward Self-Organizing Machines

Dr Fumiya Iida - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 16:15-17:15

Parasitology Seminars

Wild Immunology

Dr Simon Babayan, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

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

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

On the existence of Lagrangians with special properties

Yng-Ing Lee, Taiwan and Oxford.

MR13.

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

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Molecular dissection approaches to study diseased tissues

Dr Walker Jackson, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE).

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

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

Cavendish Physical Society

Tipping Points & Crises From statistical physics to social sciences

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

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Quark-gluon plasma phenomenology from lattice QCD

Sinead Ryan (TCD).

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Departmental Seminars

First Year Student Talks

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 14:00-16:00

Craik Club

Explorations in computing motion and their implications for motion processing in monkey and man.

The host for this talk is Andrew Welchman (aew69@cam.ac.uk)

Professor Alan Johnston, University of Nottingham.

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

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series

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

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

Aapo Hyvarinen (University College London.

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

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Applications of optimization and optimal control to some fundamental problems in mathematical fluid dynamics

Charlie Doering (University of Michigan).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolving a big brain: developmental evolution of the vertebrate cerebellum

Dr Thomas Butts (University of Liverpool).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

Affine balance: algebraic spacetime functionalism as a guide to identifying spacetime

Tushar Menon (University of Oxford).

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

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:30

Immunology in Pathology

Dr David Komander: Studying non-existent ubiquitin chains

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

Dr David Komander, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Do changes in Subjective Probability Distributions reflect a Prediction Error driven learning process?

Jiri Cevora (Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

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

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 12:30-13:30

Probability

Sharpness of the phase transition for random-cluster and Potts model via decision trees

Aran Raoufi (Geneva).

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

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 16:15-17:15

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Spacetime near an extreme horizon

James Lucietti (Edinburgh).

MR11.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

The SHIP Experiment

Mitesh Patel (Imperial College London).

Rutherford Seminar Room B.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Variational principles for discrete maps

Martin Tassy (UCLA).

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

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Rational Structures on Automorphic Representations and an Automorphic Analogue of Deligne's Conjecture

Fabian Januszweski (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

MR13.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 14:30-15:30

Category Theory Seminar

Lie's Third Theorem in Synthetic Differential Geometry

Matthew Burke (MathSpire Ltd).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

How can you trust formally verified software?

Alastair Reid, ARM.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 13:15-14:15

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

Artificial Happiness and Machine Unintelligence

Professor John Rust (University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 13:10-14:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Ritual, Community, and Conflict

Tea and coffee will be served from 12.30 onwards at the Nick Macintosh Seminar Room for attendees only.

Prof Harvey Whitehouse, University of Oxford.

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

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Family Estrangement: what do we know about the breakdown of relationships between family members?

Dr Lucy Blake, Edge Hill University.

Room 606, Centre for Family Research.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The Southern Ocean in climate models

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

Erik Behrens National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.

British Antarctic Survey, Room 187.

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Rouse Ball Lectures

Heat Rises: 100 Years of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection (Rouse Ball Lecture)

Professor Charles Doering (University of Michigan).

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

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 12:00-13:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘Alterations of the Polycomb machinery in cancers’

Host: Sakari Vanharanta (Hutchison/MRC talk)

Raphaël Margueron, Curie Institute, Paris.

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

Tuesday 02 May 2017, 11:30-12:30

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Ground States for Diffusion Dominated Free Energies with Logarithmic Interaction

Daniele Castorina (Università di Roma Tor Vergata).

CMS, MR13.

Monday 01 May 2017, 15:00-16:00

Cabinet of Natural History

When a stone is not a stone: doing alchemy with plants and animals

Jennifer M. Rampling (Princeton University).

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

Monday 01 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

The Entropy Production Paradox: The Mysterious World Between Diffusion and Waves.

Professor Christopher Essex, University of Western Ontario.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Todd Hamied Room.

Monday 01 May 2017, 10:00-11:00

Zangwill Club

Empathy – from shared affect to self-other distinction

Professor Claus Lamm, Full Professor (Biological Psychology) Head of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit Department of Basic Psychological Research and Research Methods Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:30-18:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Lattice QCD and Flavor-Changing Neutral Currents

Andreas S Kronfeld (Fermilab & IAS TU München).

B1.19, DAMTP.

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Earthquake Induced Soil Liquefaction: Symptoms and Cures

Andrew Brennan, Senior Lecturer at Civil Engineering, University of Dundee.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:00-17:30

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

2017 Lord Lewis Lecture (II) Plasmonics for sustainability: harvesting light energy for new solar applications

Professor Naomi Halas, RICE University.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Geometric aspects of Statistical Learning Theory

Shahar Mendelson (ANU).

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

Friday 28 April 2017, 16:00-17:00