Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR)

The DNA Revolution Has Arrived in the Behavioural Sciences

Prof. Robert Plomin, King's College, London.

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

Monday 16 October 2017, 19:30-21:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Human cognitive neuroscience and how it is taught

Olaf Hauk (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit).

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences, 15 Chaucer Road, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.

Monday 16 October 2017, 16:00-17:30

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Shedding some Light on the Dark Matter of the Genomic Universe: Ribozymes, Telomerase and Regulating Epigenetics

2017 Herchel Smith Lecture given by Nobel Laureate Professor Tom Cech

Professor Tom Cech, University of Colorado Boulder.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre at the Department of Chemistry (off the SPRI car park).

Monday 16 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

AMOP list

Hanbury Brown-Twiss, Hong-Ou-Mandel, and other landmarks in quantum optics: from photons to atoms

Prof. Alain Aspect.

Ryle Seminar Room (930) .

Monday 16 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

GRAKN.AI: The hyper-relational database for knowledge-oriented systems

Haikal Pribadi, Founder and CEO of GRAKN.AI.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 16 October 2017, 13:05-14:00

Cabinet of Natural History

'The motion of the blood is in fact a sort of living barometer': altitude sickness, poisonous plants and instrumentalised bodies in the Himalaya, 1800–1850

Lachlan Fleetwood (Faculty of History).

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

Monday 16 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

Wind work on ocean eddies and the decadal-mean impact of relative wind stress on the ocean

Xiaoming Zhai (UEA).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 16 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zangwill Club

The Social Neuroendocrinology of Status

Dr Pranjal Mehta, University College London.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 13 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

Pembroke College Corporate Partnership Talks

The Productivity Paradox: are we too busy to get anything done?

Various: see full details in abstract.

McGrath Theatre, St Catharine's College and Pembroke College.

Friday 13 October 2017, 16:00-22:00

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Isospin Breaking Corrections to the Hadronic Vacuum Polarisation on the Lattice

Vera Guelpers (University of Southampton).

MR19 (Potter Room, Pavilion B), CMS.

Friday 13 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Active control of automotive road noise

Luis Andrade Acosta and Matt de Brett, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

A contemporary chronicle of ocean wave / sea ice interaction research: context, models, delusions and impacts

Vernon Squire (University of Otago).

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

Friday 13 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

C++ (part 2 of 4)

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Friday 13 October 2017, 15:00-16:00

Junior Algebra/Logic/Number Theory seminar

p'-branching for symmetric groups

Stacey Law, University of Cambridge.

CMS, MR14.

Friday 13 October 2017, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Extraordinary possibilities for concrete structures

Professor Tim Ibell, Engineering Department, Cambridge University .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Friday 13 October 2017, 15:00-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Transfer Learning for NLP

Sebastian Ruder, INSIGHT Centre.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 13 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

Self-assembly of Si- and SiGe-based dielectric Mie resonators via templated solid-state dewetting

Marco Abbarchi, Aix-Marseille Université.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 13 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Bio- and Micromechanics group – An Introduction

Prof Norman Fleck and Prof Michael Sutcliffe, CUED.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 13 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“Inflammation-driven Disruption of Iron Homeostasis In Parkinson’s Disease”

Hosted by Lalita Ramakrishnan, speaker; Raffaella Gozzelino

Raffaella Gozzelino, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

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

Friday 13 October 2017, 13:30-14:30

Developmental Biology Seminar Series

Cell polarity and local condensation of biomolecular condensates

Anthony A. Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden (Germany).

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Genetics, Department of.

Friday 13 October 2017, 13:15-13:55

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Break into a Hacker’s Mind

Morgan Stanley.

FW11, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 13 October 2017, 13:05-14:00

DAMTP Friday GR Seminar

On the well-posedness of Lovelock and Horndeski theories of gravity

Giuseppe Papallo (University of Cambridge).

Pavilion B Potter Room (B1.19).

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

NLIP Seminar Series

Neural Models for Information Retrieval

Bhaskar Mitra, Microsoft Research Cambridge.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

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

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

'An ‘eye’ on the importance of communication between clinicians and veterinary pathologists'

Ana Ortiz, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 13 October 2017, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Cross-species investigation of the inflammasome

Zsofia Digby, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 13 October 2017, 08:45-10:00

Cambridge Natural History Society

Britain's Hidden Marine Life

Dr. Frances Dipper.

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

Thursday 12 October 2017, 18:45-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

Visualize gene expression and genetic variants in the central and peripheral nervous systems with the RNAscope technology

Courtney Anderson, ACDBio.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 18:00-20:00

Cambridge RNA Club

piRNA-mediated regulation of transposon alternative splicing in soma and germline

Felipe Karam Teixeira, University of Cambridge.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 18:00-20:00

Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars

Recent Developments in Centrifuge Modelling at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

Marcio S. S. Almeida, Graduate School of Engineering, COPPE-UFRJ and Maria Cascão F. Almeida, Polytechnic School of Engineering, Poli-UFRJ.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 16:00-16:45

Foster Talks

Foster Talks: Professor Bill Harris "Promises of a polychrome retina redux: partial fulfilment with spectrum of fates"

Professor Bill Harris, PDN, Cambridge University.

Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Physiology Building, Downing Site.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Perspective taking during communication

Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer (U. of York).

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

Thursday 12 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Undecidability in geometry and topology

Henry Wilton (University of Cambridge).

MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 15:00-16:00

Combinatorics Seminar

The Multicolour Ramsey Number of a Long Odd Cycle

Jozef Skokan (LSE).

MR12.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Scaling laws for spreading the quantum information

Dr Adam Nahum, University of Oxford.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

CUED Control Group Seminars

Frequency domain tools for the analysis of Lur'e feedback dominant systems

Felix Miranda-Villatoro, University of Cambridge.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Sciences Group

Graphene for ultrafast lasers

Giancarlo Soavi (Cambridge Graphene Centre).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 13:10-14:00

Cambridge Finance Workshop Series

Misreporting and Feedback Effect

Professor Hui Chen, University of Zurich.

Room W4.03 Cambridge Judge Business School.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

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

Biomolecular condensates and their implications for neurodegenerative disease

Tony Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

The surprising evolution of TTG1-WDR proteins

Chiara Airoldi, Glover Lab.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 13:00-13:30

BPI Seminar Series

Effects of Submesoscale Turbulence on Reactive Tracers in the Upper Ocean

Dr Kat Smith (DAMTP).

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

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

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Simple and multiple linear regression

Peter Watson (MRC CBU).

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

Thursday 12 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge University Physics Society

The Novel Worldview Suggested by Quantum Gravity

Maxwell Lecture - Free entry

Professor Carlo Rovelli, Centre de Physique Theorique.

Bristol-Meyers Squibb lecture theatre, Chemistry Department, Lensfield Road.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Computer Laboratory Wednesday Seminars

Wireless community mesh networks: fresh connectivity for 7 billion people

Prof Leandro Navarro - Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 16:15-17:30

Differential Geometry and Topology Seminar

Ultralimits of maximal representations

Beatrice Pozzetti, Heidelberg.

MR13.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

Could pluripotent stem cells ever be used for equine tendon regeneration?

Dr Debbie Guest, Centre for Preventive Medicine, Animal Health Trust, Newmarket, UK.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish Physical Society

No Physicist is an Island: Looking for TeV Physics in a peV Transition

Professor Eric Cornell, University of Colorado, Boulder.

Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Computing Seminars

C++ (part 1 of 4)

Tim Love (University of Cambridge).

LR3, Engineering, Department of.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 15:00-16:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Holomorphic Hartree-Fock Theory: Exploiting Multiple SCF Solutions for Non-Orthogonal Configuration Interaction

1st Year PhD Report

Hugh Burton.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 14:40-15:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

Mean-Fielding in Path-Integral Simulations of Quantum Condensed Matter Systems

1st Year PhD Report

George Trenins.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 14:15-14:35

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

Loop Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli, Marseille, CPT.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

Balanced embedding of degenerating Abelian varieties

Yuguang Zhang, Imperial College.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Semiconductor Physics Group Seminars

Electrical control of magnetism and orbital reconstruction in oxide bilayers

Dr. Cheng Song, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China.

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

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Computational and Systems Biology

Personal Genomics

Professor Julian Gough, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

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

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Microstructure Engineering Cluster Seminar

Designing with defects in metal-organic frameworks

Dr Matthew Cliffe, Department of Chemistry.

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

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Seeing with Sunscreens: How mantis shrimp build and utilize nature’s most elaborate ultraviolet receptor array

Michael Bok (University of Bristol).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Neural architectures for feature binding and retro-cue effects in visual working memory

Sebastian Scheegans (U. of Cambridge).

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

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar

What is quantum theory actually telling us about the world? The 'relational' interpretation

Please note earlier time

Carlo Rovelli (Aix-Marseille University).

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

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 12:00-13:30

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

Bloomberg Engineering: Terminal Showcase & Cup Cake Challenge

Bloomberg engineers.

Student Hangout area, 1st Floor, Computer Laboratory.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 10:00-16:00

SciSoc – Cambridge University Scientific Society

The Origin of the Laws of Nature

Professor Peter Atkins.

Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 20:00-21:00

Cambridge University Biological Society

Stories about life

Dr Tim Weil.

Lecture Theatre - Department of Plant Sciences.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 19:00-20:00

Early Science and Medicine

Joachim Wtewael and the human body

James Clifton (MFA, Houston).

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

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Probability

Haldane relation for interacting dimers

Alessandro Giuliani (Rome 3).

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

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 16:15-17:15

Synthetic Chemistry Research Interest Group

Deciphering the human microbiota with chemistry

Professor Emily Balskus, Harvard University.

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

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Exact Gravitational Wave Signatures from Colliding Extreme Black Holes

Joan Camps (UCL).

MR11.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Physics with photons in ATLAS: Standard Model and beyond

Dr Miguel Villaplana, University of Milan .

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 15:00-16:00

Number Theory Seminar

Finite subgroups of special linear groups, with arithmetic applications

Yuval Flicker (Ohio State University).

MR13.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 14:30-15:30

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Analysis and Classification of Android Malware

Lorenzo Cavallaro, Information Security Group (ISG), Royal Holloway, University of London.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Darwin College Humanities and Social Sciences Group

The Western just war tradition, the ethics of collateral damage, and Thomas Aquinas's opposition to killing the innocent

Daniel H. Weiss, Polonsky-Coexist Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Divinity.

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:10-14:00

Social and Developmental Psychology (SDP) Seminar Series

Sex-typed preferences are not universal: An experimental test of children's toy and colour preferences in Peruvian Amazon Basin and Vanuatu kastom villages

Jac Davis, University of Cambridge.

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

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

You are what you eat? Gut bacteria and mating preferences in Drosophila

Zenobia Lewis (University of Liverpool).

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

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Immunometabolism taught by patients"

Hosted by Ken Smith, Speaker: Christoph Hess

Christoph Hess, University of Basel.

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

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Centre for Family Research Seminar Series

Engaging Fathers in Perinatal Mental Health Research: Why and How

Dr. Jill Domoney Clinical Psychology, King’s College London.

Seminar room 606, Old Cavendish Laboratory.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

The Anne McLaren Lecture: Epigenetic regulation by histone acetylation

Hosted by: Tony Kouzarides & Eric Miska

Asifa Akhtar, Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology & Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany.

Scott Polar Research Institute Lecture Theatre, Lensfield Road.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 11:30-12:30

Cambridge Philosophical Society

LARMOR LECTURE - Exoplanets, on the hunt of Universal life

Professor Didier Queloz, Battcock Centre for Experimental Astrophysics, Cavendish Laboratory .

Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 October 2017, 18:00-19:00

Adrian Seminars in Neuroscience

TODAY Adrian Seminar - "Brain dynamics in a firefly catching task"

Dora Angelaki, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.

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

Monday 09 October 2017, 16:30-18:00

Graduate Programme in Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Functional magnetic resonance imaging in cognitive neuroscience

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

Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences, 15 Chaucer Road, Unviersity of Cambridge, Cambridge.

Monday 09 October 2017, 16:00-17:30

Centre for Atmospheric Science seminars, Chemistry Dept.

CPGS Seminars

Andrea di Antonio and Anika Krause, Cambridge University.

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 09 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Tech Talks

How Machine Learning and Auction Theory Power Facebook Advertising

Ovidiu Popa, Facebook.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Monday 09 October 2017, 13:05-14:15

Cabinet of Natural History

On Tupaia Street: the travels of artefacts from Cook's first voyage

Nicholas Thomas (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology).

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

Monday 09 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Geophysical and Environmental Processes (DAMTP/BPI)

The evolution of ice rheology in glacier shear margins: Crystallographic fabric and thermoviscous feedbacks

Brent Minchew (BAS).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 09 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School

Cambridge Judge Experience Day: Entrepreneurship session

Dr Chris Coleridge, Senior Faculty in Management Practice at Cambridge Judge Business School.

Cambridge Judge Business School.

Saturday 07 October 2017, 10:00-15:45

Entrepreneurship Centre at Cambridge Judge Business School

Cambridge Judge Experience Day: Entrepreneurship session

Dr Chris Coleridge, Senior Faculty in Management Practice at Cambridge Judge Business School.

Cambridge Judge Business School.

Saturday 07 October 2017, 10:00-15:45

Zangwill Club

Brain mechanisms underlying the subjective experience of remembering

Dr Jon Simons, Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 06 October 2017, 16:30-17:30

HEP phenomenology joint Cavendish-DAMTP seminar

Precision in EFT studies for top quark and Higgs physics

Eleni Vryonidou (CERN).

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

Friday 06 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)

Insect flight: from Newton's to Neurons

Jane Wang (Cornell University).

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

Friday 06 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

BSS Formal Seminars

Using DNA to Program Nanostructure Assembly and Molecular Machinery

Professor Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, Clarendon Laboratory..

Small Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

Friday 06 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Engineering Department Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

An Introduction to the Dynamics and Vibration Research Group

Professor Robin Langley.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 06 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Understanding Bridge Condition – Remote Monitoring and Visual Inspection

Graham Webb, WSP.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Friday 06 October 2017, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Bio- and Micromechanics Seminars

Cracking of thin films

Professor Michael Thouless, University of Michigan.

Oatley Seminar Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 06 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

The Janus-face nature of MmpL transporters in Mycobacterium abscessus

Hosted by Andres Floto, Speaker: Laurent Kremer

Laurent Kremer, Université de Montpellier.

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

Friday 06 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Bradford Hill seminars at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health

Genetics and genomics: focus on value

BRADFORD HILL SEMINAR

Professor Martina Cornel, Clinical Genetics & Amsterdam Public Health research institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam .

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

Friday 06 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Text-to-text Generation Beyond Machine Translation

Shashi Narayan, University of Edinburgh.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 06 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Genetic Investigations into Progressive Retinal Atrophy in the Lhasa Apso dog

Rebekkah Hitti, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 06 October 2017, 08:45-10:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

Prevalence of Meningococcal Carriage by Age in the African Meningitis Belt

Laura Cooper, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 06 October 2017, 08:45-10:00

Combinatorics Seminar

On the chromatic number of a sparse random hypergraph

Dmitry Shabanov (Moscow).

MR12.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Chaucer Club

Differentiation, compensation and cognitive reserve in ageing

Rik Henson (MRC CBU).

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

Thursday 05 October 2017, 15:30-17:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Stable Gabor Phase Retrieval and Spectral Clustering

Philipp Grohs (University of Vienna).

MR 14, CMS.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Extended multivariate generalised linear and non-linear mixed effect models

Dr Michael Crowther, University of Leicester.

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

Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:30-15:30

Theory of Condensed Matter

Topological electronic properties of silicon

Prof. Claudio Chamon, Boston University.

TCM Seminar Room, Cavendish Laboratory.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Genetics Seminar

Cheating in Pseudomnas aeruginosa drives switch to privatisation of an essential function

Host: Chris Illingworth

Professor Ashleigh Griffin, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford .

Biffen Lecture Theatre, Department of Genetics, Downing Site.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Smooth Operators Enhance Robustness

Keith Glover, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR11.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:00-14:30

Darwin College Sciences Group

WikiFactMine: Scientific Knowledge for Everyone

Dr. Peter Murray-Rust (Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry, University of Cambridge).

The Richard King Room, Darwin College.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 13:10-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

CANCELLED: Phenotypic changes induced by stress and developmental reprogramming in plants

THIS TALK IS CANCELLED

Jose Gutierrez-Marcos, Warwick University.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Twentieth Century Think Tank

German émigré scientists and engineers and aeronautics in India

Jahnavi Phalkey (King's College London).

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

Thursday 05 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Studying the structure and assembly of HIV-1 and other enveloped viruses using cryo-electron tomography

Dr John Briggs, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

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

Thursday 05 October 2017, 12:00-13:00

BPI Seminar Series

Taking control of flowing dense suspensions

Dr Chris Ness (University of Cambridge).

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

Thursday 05 October 2017, 11:30-12:30

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

The Rise of Augmented Intelligence in Edge Networks

Chenren Xu (Peking University).

FW11, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Statistical Methods for Cognitive Psychologists

Exploratory Data Analysis

Peter Watson (MRC CBU).

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

Thursday 05 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

The artificial leaf for efficient generation of solar fuels: involved elementary steps and material's design

Prof. Wolfram Jaegermann, TU Darmstadt.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Fly Meetings

Mechanical control of Hippo signalling in Drosophila and mammals

Barry Thompson, Crick Institute.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Fly Meetings

What’s new in FlyBase

Steven Marygold, Flybase.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 17:30-19:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2017 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 17:00-18:30

Departmental Seminar Programme, Department of Veterinary Medicine

A transmissible RNA pathway in honeybees

Dr Eyal Moari, Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute.

Lecture Theatre 2, Department of Veterinary Medicine.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

CCIMI Seminar: Kernel-based Methods for Bandit Convex Optimization

Sébastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research Redmond).

MR12.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday HEP-GR Colloquium

The Quest for the Axion

Andreas Ringwald, DESY.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Conditional Linear Cryptanalysis

Eli Biham, Computer Science Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Immunology in Pathology

Death receptors and ubiquitin in cell death, inflammation and immunity

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

Professor Henning Walczak, University College London.

Lecture Theatre, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Wednesday Lunch Time Seminar Series

Knowledge is power: how prior knowledge aids memory for congruent and incongruent events

Andrea Greve (MRC CBU).

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

Wednesday 04 October 2017, 12:30-13:30

Cambridge Business Lectures

Cambridge Network Business Lecture: Medical Robotics

Martin Frost, CEO; Oliver Armitage, Co-Founder.

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

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 18:00-20:30

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Genome-wide epistasis in bacteria, new statistical tools and fresh biological insight

Prof Jukka Corander, University of Oslo.

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

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 16:00-17:00

Cavendish HEP Seminars

Strongly-Interacting Dark Matter and Neutrino Astronomy

Dr Jonathan Davis (Kings College, London).

Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) .

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 15:00-16:00

Computational Neuroscience

Computational Neuroscience Journal Club

Rodrigo Echeveste (CBL).

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

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 15:00-16:00

Materials Chemistry Research Interest Group

BP KEYNOTE LECTURE: Importance of C-O Bond Activation for CO2/COUtilization - An Approach to Energy Conversion and Storage

Yuhan Sun, CAS Key Lab of Low-Carbon Conversion Science and Engineering, Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai..

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

Tuesday 03 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar

Global strong solution and decay of Vlasov-Poisson-Boltzmann in bounded domains

Donghyun Lee, Univ. Wisconsin-Madison.

CMS, MR13.

Monday 02 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

The response of ice sheets to climate variability

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

Kate Snow, University of Edinburgh.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 307.

Monday 02 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Craik Club

Retinal mechanisms of non-image-forming vision

Dr Manuel Spitschan, Oxford University.

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

Monday 02 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series- Stories from the first year of the Central Oxford Structural Microscopy and Imaging Centre - closing in on bacterial protein secretion systems.

Susan Lea.

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

Monday 02 October 2017, 11:00-12:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Lightweight verification of separate compilation

NB: rescheduled from 2017/09/22

Chung-Kil Hur, Seoul National University.

FW26.

Friday 29 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

CUED Control Group Seminars

Attasi ND systems, polynomial system solving and algebraic optimization

Bernard Hanzon (University College Cork).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Friday 29 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Navigating the ILC Transcriptional Landscape

Hosted by Sarah Teichmann, Speaker: Gabrielle Belz

Gabrielle Belz, WEHI.

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

Friday 29 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Network events

Cambridge Network Recruitment Event

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Friday 29 September 2017, 12:00-16:00

Friday Morning Seminars, Dept of Veterinary Medicine

GRAND ROUNDS - An interesting case of jaundice in a cow - comparative pathology

Ian McCrone and Fernando Constantino-Casas, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 29 September 2017, 08:45-10:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

DataFlow SuperComputing for BigData

Veljko Milutinovic.

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 28 September 2017, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Security Seminar

Protecting Analog Sensor Security

Kevin Fu, Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan.

LT2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 28 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Thermodynamic balance at ice-ocean interface in theory, models and maybe real life

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

Alena Malyarenko, NIWA, New Zealand.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Thursday 28 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Network events

Breakfast Networking: Funding for Innovative SMEs

David Clark, High Growth Manager, Barclays; Andy Bentham, Partner, Patent Attorney, JA Kemp; Joe Watson, Signpost 2 Grow Navigator, Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough Enterprise Partnership (LEP); Sandy Findlay, Partner Manager, Jumpstart.

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

Thursday 28 September 2017, 08:00-10:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Open Evening for Women in Engineering

Chris Bishop.

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

Wednesday 27 September 2017, 17:30-21:00

Parasitology Seminars

Parasite infection dynamics and the pathogenesis of Chagas disease and visceral leishmaniasis

Host: Mark Carrington

Michael Lewis, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology.

Wednesday 27 September 2017, 16:00-17:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

A Bayesian Treatment for Uncertainty -- and its application in health care

Dr Cheng Zhang.

CBL Seminar Room.

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 15:00-16:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Complex Homology and the Neuromolecular Evolution of Social Behavior

NOTE SPECIAL TIME

Hans Hoffmann (University of Texas at Austin).

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

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series

Probabilistic and Deep Models for 3D Reconstruction

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

Andreas Geiger, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems.

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

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Immunology in Pathology

Immunorecognition and disease therapy

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

Dr Alexander Barrow, Washington University, St Louis.

Seminar Room, Department of Pathology, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 12:30-13:30

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Protecting Immortality: Germ line Development in Drosophila

Hosts: Daniel St Johnston & Julie Ahringer

Ruth Lehmann, Skirball Institute, NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Department of Pharmacology, Tennis Court Road.

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 11:30-12:30

British Antarctic Survey - Polar Oceans seminar series

Measuring pH variability using an experimental sensor on an underwater glider

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

Michael Hemming, University of East Anglia/LOCEAN, UPMC, Paris.

British Antarctic Survey, Innovation Centre, Seminar Room 2.

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

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.

Prof. Tomas Marques Bonet.

CRUK CI Room 009/009A.

Monday 25 September 2017, 16:00-17:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

First Principles Monte Carlo Simulations of Phase, Sorption, and Reaction Equilibria

Professor Ilja Siepmann (University of Minnesota).

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Friday 22 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

"Novel mechanisms that induce or control IL-1-driven inflammation and immune dysfunction"

Hosted by Clare Bryant, speaker: Murray CH Clarke

Murray CH Clarke, University of Cambridge.

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

Friday 22 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Finite-State Transducers as a Theory of Dependency Structured Natural Language

Anssi Yli-Jyrä, University of Helsinki.

FW26, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 22 September 2017, 12:00-13:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Network Time Series

Prof Guy Nason, University of Bristol.

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

Thursday 21 September 2017, 14:30-15:30

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

***PLEASE NOTE THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED***

Liz Jaffee, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, USA.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 21 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2017 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 20 September 2017, 16:30-18:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Using inaudible high-frequency sound to verify device proximity

John Moore.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 19 September 2017, 13:15-13:45

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Using inaudible high-frequency sound to verify device proximity

John Moore.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Tuesday 19 September 2017, 13:15-13:45

MRC LMB Seminar list

LMB Seminar Series- How T cells control secretion to optimise target cell killing

Gillian Griffiths.

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

Tuesday 19 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Oncology Seminar Series

‘The role of Mre11 in DNA double strand break repair - myth and facts’

Host: Ashok Venkitaraman

Professor Shunichi Takeda, Department of Radiation Genetics, Kyoto University.

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

Monday 18 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Event Correlation with Algebraic Effects

Oliver Bracevac, University of Darmstadt.

FW26.

Friday 15 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“The impact and outcomes of fluoroquinolone usage”

Hosted by Arthur Kaser, Speaker: Stephen Baker

Stephen Baker, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam / University of Cambridge (Dept of Medicine).

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

Friday 15 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Enzian: A Research Computer for Rack-Scale and Datacenter Computing

Timothy Roscoe (ETH).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 15 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

GAON: General-purpose Application Offload to Near-Network Processors

Mark Silberstein (Technion).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 14 September 2017, 15:00-16:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

A Bayesian model-based approach to finding cell-type level associations in heterogeneous methylation samples

Daniel Kennedy, Queensland University of Technology.

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

Thursday 14 September 2017, 14:30-15:30

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Learning and Applying Nature's Biosynthetic Logic

Prof. Bradley S. Moore, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry.

Thursday 14 September 2017, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Business Lectures

Cambridge Network: Is blockchain the future of business?

Hazem Danny Al-Nakib, Samuel King, Paweł Kuskowski, Lex Sokolin.

The Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, CB3 0HE.

Thursday 14 September 2017, 13:30-16:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Unbiased Estimation of the Eigenvalues of Large Implicit Matrices

Professor Ryan Adams, Princeton.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 14 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

New understanding of collective modes and thermodynamics of the liquid state

Dr Kostya Trachenko (Queen Mary University of London).

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

Thursday 14 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Computer Laboratory NetOS Group Talklets

Functional Programming in a Stateful World

Manuel Chakravarty, Tweag.io.

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11.

Thursday 14 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Photosynthetic water oxidation - the substrates view

For more information, please contact Dr. Erwin Reisner (reisner@ch.cam.ac.uk)

Prof. Johannes Messinger, Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Sweden.

Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

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

Cambridge RNA Club

MicroRNAs and other regulatory RNAs

David Bartel, Whitehead Institute, MIT.

Gurdon Institute Tea Room.

Tuesday 12 September 2017, 18:00-20:00

MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars

Dirichlet Process Mixtures of Multivariate Skew t-distributions for Unsupervised Clustering of Cell Populations from Flow-Cytometry Data

Dr Boris Hejblum, University of Bordeaux.

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

Tuesday 12 September 2017, 14:30-15:30

Machine Learning @ CUED

The Grammar Variational Autoencoder & Counterfactual Fairness

Dr Matt Kusner.

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Tuesday 12 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Theoretical, Modelling and Informatics - Chemistry Research Interest Group

First Principles Monte Carlo Simulations of Phase, Sorption, and Reaction Equilibria

Professor Ilja Siepmann, University of Minnesota.

Department of Chemistry, Cambridge, Unilever lecture theatre.

Monday 11 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Big Data Meets Geo-Computation: Combining Research Reproducibility and Processing Efficiency in High-performance Computing

PLEASE NOTE SPECIAL DAY, TIME, AND LOCATION

Giuseppe Amatulli (Yale University).

Rayleigh room, Maxwell Centre, JJ Thomson Ave, Cambridge CB3 0HE.

Friday 08 September 2017, 15:00-16:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

A promising semantics for relaxed-memory concurrency

Chung-Kil Hur, Seoul National University.

FW26.

Friday 08 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

Skin-resident memory T cells in melanoma surveillance

Hosted by Alice Denton, Speaker: Thomas Gebhardt

Thomas Gebhardt, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection & Immunity.

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

Friday 08 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

What is the Difference between Emulation and Virtualization?

Christoph Kirsch (University of Salzburg).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Microsoft Research Cambridge, public talks

Manifest Sharing with Session Types

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

Stephanie Balzer, Carnegie Mellon University.

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

Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Accelerating computation of SVM and DNN by binary approximation

Hironobu Fujiyoshi (Chubu University) .

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Towards User-Friendly Image Inpainting: Learning-to-Rank based Image Quality Assessment for Image Inpainting

Mariko Isogawa (NTT Media Intelligence Laboratories) .

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Machine Learning @ CUED

Deep learning for autonomous driving

Takayoshi Yamashita (Chubu University) .

CBL Room BE-438, Department of Engineering.

Friday 08 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Crick Lecture-The Surprising Chemistry of Non-enzymatic RNA Replication

Jack Szostack, Harvard, USA .

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

Thursday 07 September 2017, 16:00-17:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

PTPmesh: Data Center Network Latency Measurements Using PTP

Diana Popescu (Computer Lab).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Thursday 07 September 2017, 15:00-16:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Methane Leakage and the Greenhouse Gas Footprint of Natural Gas

Prof. David Mays, University of Colorado, Denver.

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

Thursday 07 September 2017, 14:30-15:30

MRC Mitochondrial Biology Unit Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Professor Jean Claude Martinou, University of Geneva.

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

Wednesday 06 September 2017, 15:00-16:00

Chemistry Departmental-wide lectures

Manufacturing of designed nanomaterials

If you would like more information regarding Dr. Torrente's talk, please contact Dr. Erwin Reisner (reisner@ch.cam.ac.uk)

Dr. Laura Torrente Murciano, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge.

Todd-Hamied meeting room, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

Emergent Many-body Interactions in Amorphous Solids

Yoav Pollack, The Weizmann Institute of Science.

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

Wednesday 06 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

MRC LMB Seminar list

Integrated structural biology of gene transcription

Patrick Cramer, Max Planck Institute.

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

Tuesday 05 September 2017, 16:00-12:00

Immunology and Medicine Seminars

“BACH 2 basics : from transcription factor to T cell biology”

Hosted by Ken Smith, Speaker: Ben Afzali

Ben Afzali, (NIH/NIAMS).

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

Tuesday 05 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Bringing Partula up to date: from Captain Cook to the 2017 search for lost snails.

Dr. Justin Gerlach.

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

Tuesday 05 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium

Registration essential: £110 (3-5 Sept) http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/pfei/registration

Keynote Speakers: Professor Sir Alan Fersht and Professor Dame Carol Robinson.

McGrath Centre.

Tuesday 05 September 2017, 09:00-18:00

Craik Club

Towards a whole brain model of perceptual learning

The host for this talk is Professor Zoë Kourtzi, Department of Psychology

Dr Aaron Seitz, University of California, Riverside.

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

Monday 04 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Virology Seminars

Novel insights into HIV assembly and maturation

Dr Eric O. Freed, National Cancer Institute, NIH - Frederick, MD, USA.

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

Monday 04 September 2017, 12:00-13:00

BRC Seminar Series

“Translational control of axonal mRNAs can accelerate regeneration”

Jeff Twiss, Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina.

Clifford Allbutt Building Lecture Theatre.

Monday 04 September 2017, 12:00-13:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium

Registration essential: £110 (3-5 Sept) http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/pfei/registration

Keynote Speakers: Professor Sir Alan Fersht and Professor Dame Carol Robinson.

McGrath Centre.

Monday 04 September 2017, 09:00-18:00

Biological Chemistry Research Interest Group

Protein Folding, Evolution and Interactions Symposium

Registration essential: £110 (3-5 Sept) http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/pfei/registration

Keynote Speakers: Professor Sir Alan Fersht and Professor Dame Carol Robinson.

McGrath Centre.

Sunday 03 September 2017, 16:00-18:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Bringing the Web up to Speed with WebAssembly

Andreas Rossberg (Google).

FW26, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Friday 01 September 2017, 11:00-12:00

Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology occasional seminars

The Global Warming Sceptic

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 31 August 2017, 15:00-16:00

Gurdon Institute Seminar Series

Liver Regeneration in the Damaged Liver

Hosted by: Meritxell Huch

Stuart J Forbes, MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh.

Pharmacology Lecture Theatre, Tennis Court Road.

Friday 25 August 2017, 10:45-11:45

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Series

Coin Betting for Backprop without Learning Rates and More

 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.

Francesco Orabona, Stony Brook University.

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

Thursday 24 August 2017, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2017 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

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

Wednesday 23 August 2017, 16:30-18:00

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!

..

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

.

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

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